Consulting and Coaching Services
Can a Coach or a Consultant help your business? The statistics are pretty convincing that a business coach or consultant can produce a positive ROI.
- 689 percent return (or $3.3 million) was the gain on an investment of $414,310 to coach 45 managers (Source: Joyce, A. (August 8, 2004)
- 529 percent increase to significant financial and intangible benefits for a Fortune 500 company as a result of executive coaching; a return of more than $5 for every $1 spent. (Source: A 2001 MetrixGlobal study.)
- 516 percent increase in measurable gains in productivity to a financial services company’s’ sales personnel as a result of business coaching. (Source: Fisher, A. (May 13, 2002).
- 5.7 times the initial investment was the outcome of a study of 100 executives from Fortune 1000 companies who received coaching from six months to one-year. (Source: Wasylyshyn, K.M. (2003). Executive coaching: An outcome study. Consulting Psychology Journal, 55, 2, 94-106.)
Coaching can make a significant difference to your business and we have several options for you.
Chris Frederiksen, Chairman on the 2020 Group Worldwide, has been Practicing CPA and a consultant to the accounting industry for more than 30 years. He provides consulting services in the areas of Practice Management, Strategic Development, partner retreats and coaching. Please contact us to arrange we work with two great firms that provide Strategic Services and Coaching to Accountants. If you'd like to speak with Chris, please contact him at the 2020 Group USA website
We had the pleasure of meeting Gale Crosley at the Management Summit in Las Vegas last year where she was one of the main speakers. Gale is recognized as one of the top consultants, authors and speakers in North America to Acccounting Firms of all sizes. Gale agredd to do a series of 6 webinars for 2020 Canada which will be made available to firms across North America. To find out more about Gale, her firm, and her consulting services, please go to her website, www.crosleycompany.com.
We have two terrific Canadian firms that work with several of our 2020 Canada members.
When Bob Simpson started Synchronicity in 1998, he had recently experienced a major change in his professional life. Bob was Senior Vice President National Sales of Midland Walwyn Capital Inc., Canada′s largest independent financial services firm. His firm had recently been sold to Merrill Lynch and Bob, tired of working in a high pressure, political environment was ready for a change. He created Synchronicity Business Coaching Inc. The Growth Programs for Accountants helps practices to achieve their objectives by encouraging them to stick with a planning process. Planning for what you want is not a ‘one-off' experience.
Bob also provides all 2020 Canada Members with a free Business Energizer Meeting - please contact Bob by e-mail to arrange this and let him know you're a 2020 Canada Member or call him at 905-502-0100.
Hilary Lochead is an Executive Coach, Consultant and a Public Speaker. She is the founder of Transition Matters, a business responding to the needs of organizations and people within those organizations facing change. The focus is change management and incorporates internal consulting, in addition to the development and delivery of change-related workshops. Her 20 years of practical international leadership experience enable Hilary to combine the strategic with the tactical. As a senior leader in financial services, she led multiple teams in various functions in North America and Europe. As a transitional leader, she was instrumental in the success of multiple change activities, including mergers, acquisitions, process re-engineering, strategic re-direction technology conversions and divestitures.
Hilary is passionate about development and combines coaching and consulting in a way that inspires business leaders to greater personal and professional success and fulfillment. In times of change, business leaders benfit from having a trusted advisor, a listening partner. Hilary understands the pressures of organization life. Her depth of experience has helped executives reach their own and their organization's full potential.
She is a creative and strategic thinker who is passionate about change. Her approach is focused on integrity and affiliation. She is an excellent implementer, mentor and motivator. Please contact her by e-mail at hilary@transitionmatters.ca or by phone at 905-271-8760
Marketing Consulting
If you are looking for Marketing Consulting, developing communications plans, advertising, niche work, target list development, Peggy Tyers and Richard Latimer both have extensive experience in Marketing and Advertising. Contact us at the 2020 Canada office at 905-891-8546.
