Unclear where to take the organization?  Not achieving great results? 

Need a compelling vision and powerful strategies to get you there?

Have a business or market opportunity to explore and develop?

Need revenue, financial guidance or funding? 

Not growing or innovating?  Need your team achieve more?

Talk to us!  We build organizations.  We can help you achieve more.

We have helped many organizations find greater success by tackling strategic, management, marketing and other challenges and opportunities like these.

Who are we?

Forrest Consulting, a high-level management consulting firm founded in 1988, serves for-profit and non-profit organizations seeking growth and greater impact. We counsel senior management and help tackle management, strategic planning, business planning, marketing and branding, customer creation, revenue generation, communications, content development, financial, organizational and other issues and opportunities.

How are we different?  Why should you care?

When we counsel you and propose solutions, we start from a strategic perspective to add greatest value.  We assure the strategies we help you develop and implement are aimed at moving your organization to your shared vision of future success. We focus your and our time and resources for the greatest impact.

The wealth of senior management and specialist talent available today enables us to offer you a depth of varied expertise on a very affordable basis. We have recruited and continue to build a team of expert independent consultants - Forrest Consulting associates - whom we source and manage as needed on a "per assignment" basis to meet clients' critical needs.

What do we do?

Our services build for-profit and non-profit organizations in three phases:

• Planning and implementation
• Capacity and revenue development
• High performance and transition

Because of the importance of taking a holistic approach to organizational effectiveness, strategic planning and implementation, and "getting it right" for start-up organizations, we have tailored services to target these needs.

Our Qualifying Run™ service taps a cross-functional team of expert management consultants to assess your organization on key metrics and give you insight and recommendations on how to move to higher performance and greater achievement.  Think of it like "track day" when race teams get their cars ready to race and then qualify to compete.  This is an immediate, high-value, low-cost way to employ our deep expertise for great gain.   We use a disciplined approach to:

• Assess your strategies and implementation.

• Engage and gain insight from your key team members and stakeholders.

• Examine your customer facing and operational aspects

• Identify critical issues to address and/or high-gain opportunities to pursue.

• Deliver a concise report, dashboard and one-on-one guidance on specific steps to take so your organization will achieve more now and in the future.

• Expert planning facilitation and implementation guidance
• Our proven Fast Track Strategic Planning System™
• Other effective planning approaches, resources and assistance
• Support and training for planning service providers

We make effective strategic planning accessible for any organization.

We focus on what's important: Vision, Gaps, Strategies and Action Steps to close the Gaps, implementation, staying on track, re-planning.  Our tested three-session process uses your team's knowledge and insights to create your plan and assure successful implementation. It's simple, efficient: No time wasted.

The best way to plan is to get one-on-one, face-to-face facilitation from a Strategic Business Leader expert consultant.  Tailored sessions using our tested systems and tools will assure an inspiring Vision, actionable plan and more, and follow-up sessions will assure your organization improves dramatically.

• Entrepreneurial counseling and coaching
• Strategy development and implementation
• Business, marketing and financial planning
• Products/services development
• Identifying funding resources
• Presentation development
• Organization and team development
• Operational guidance and expertise sourcing
• Branding and marketing
• Interim management

At the core of our services to help entrepreneurs succeed is a high value assessment.  The result is a set of recommendations that deliver insight and follow-up guidance and assistance aimed at achieving a successful launch, growth and long-term value.

Let's get started 

Contact us for a one-on-one consultation.  We'll listen to your situation and explore your needs, obvious and hidden, to see how our highly qualified consultants can help you achieve more.   

Office 725 Kenilworth Avenue, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 USA

Phone 630-469-8088, Cell 630-730-9619
Email leec@strategicbusinessleader.com

Web sites www.forrestconsult.com, www.strategicbusinessleader.com

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