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“Bart’s ability to listen deeply, suspend judgement, and care deeply for people make him an excellent mentor. I’ve depended on him when it came to making my key career decisions.”
-CTO, Financial Services Company

Bart Bolton
Bart has been developing and facilitating leadership development programs, with over 400 graduates, from various clients for the past ten years.  He is a multi-faceted information systems executive with more than 35 years experience in the field of information technology management having performed various functions from managing small and large IT departments to consulting, educating, marketing, and selling to the IT function.

Drive Business Value Strategic Communications


"With Walt’s coaching, our IT organization has not only established itself as our business’s technology partner, IT frequently facilitates business change before the need for our involvement is even apparent."
- CIO, Manufacturing Company

Walt DuLaney
Over 25 years of experience in the planning, design and management of strategic business and technology initiatives.  He consults extensively on strategy alignment, project management and performance measurement methods to assure that strategic initiatives are delivered successfully and operating results are verifiably improved.  He has extensive experience applying these techniques to enterprise systems, supply chain and large-scale technology projects, and has also integrated these techniques into enterprise governance and performance measurement models.  He frequently facilitates executive management decision-making and alignment sessions.


"Doug cuts through conventional cliches and business rhetoric, and offers practical advice to using measurements as a tool for better decision making."
- VP IT, Major Telecom Equipment Manufacturer

Doug Hubbard
Over 20 years experience in IT management consulting including 12 years experience in teaching organizations to use his Applied Information Economics (AIE) method.  He invented AIE to quantify the value and risk of IT in a mathematically and scientifically sound manner and this methodology has been used in a variety of Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies (civilian and military).  He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of IT value and is a popular speaker at numerous conferences.  Doug is the author of How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business.  He was formerly with Coopers & Lybrand, and has an MBA in Management Information Systems from his home state at the University of South Dakota.



"David’s depth of knowledge and experience in a number of IT, human resources, business, and organizational areas makes him an unusual resource.  His ability to see the big picture but also drill down has helped us tremendously."
-CEO, Global Sevices Company

David Foote
Over 20 years of experience in technology including 13 years as an analyst and consultant at Gartner, Meta Group, and Foote Partners, where he is co-founder, president and chief research officer.  His specialties include a wide range of private and public sector IT management practices and workforce trends and issues; offshore sourcing and strategic resource management; enterprise project delivery; organizational transition and transformation; and IT compensation.  His editorial opinion columns, articles and contributions appear regularly in a wide variety of business, IT, and HR publications, and in appearances on radio, television, and global webcasts.
Hot Technology Negotiations


"Beth delivered just the advice and service that we needed to get us out of our technology mess.  We were able to rationalize our IT portfolio and set clear direction for a tight alignment with our business goals."
- CFO, Engineering Services Company

Beth Cohen
Beth has over 20 years of experience building strong IT delivery organizations from both the user and vendor perspectives.  Having worked as a technologist for BBN the company that literally invented the Internet, she not only knows where technology is today but where it is heading in the future.  Information Technology is the new heart of business.  Let her help you can take advantage of promising emerging technologies, while avoiding dead-end or immature systems.



“Highly recommend Sanjay for all levels of strategic and operational planning and implementation.”
- IT Director, Global Publishing Company

Sanjay Anand
Over 20 years of information technology and business process management experience as a strategic advisor, certified consultant, professional speaker and published author.  Over 100 personal clients, both large and small, have included companies from a diverse array of industries and geographies, spanning from academia to technology and from Asia to the Americas.  Often referred to as a "consultant’s consultant" for training and mentoring skills.  Author of books The Sarbanes-Oxley Guide for Finance and Information Technology Professionals and J.D. Edwards OneWorld: A Beginner's Guide.  Currently Executive Vice-President at CLA Solutions and Chairperson of the Board of the Sarbanes Oxley Group.

Maximize Technology Portfolio Strategic Leadership


“Peter’s experience and practical approach to enabling business opportunities using our existing investments in IT assets and on-going and new IT projects proved invaluable to our short and long term success.”
- CIO, Financial Services Company

Peter Sorrentino
Over 20 years experience in consulting and software development with extensive experience in the high technology and financial industries: trading, cash management and risk management.  Peter’s specialties include development of business differentiating software systems and providing consulting to IT organizations with an emphasis on applications.  Consulting expertise includes joint business/IT evaluation of software vendor offerings and business-service platforms, application architecture and development best practices in support of real-time business opportunities, application portfolio analysis in support of business/IT alignment and IT costs reduction, and business derived IT capability enhancement/CMM: principles, BPM, organization, roles, measures, standards and technologies linked directly to business objectives.



“Hunter delivered precisely what we needed, a global IT vision aligned to the business, organization strategy and internal leadership program.”
- President, Global Management Consulting Company

Hunter Muller
Hunter is a respected global expert on IT business strategy, leadership and organization development.  His expertise in improving executive performance and enhancing collaboration will help you elevate the role of IT in your business and your role as well.  “Technology remains the single most potent driving force in business innovation.  World-class leaders are champions of continuous change and improvement across the business/technology enterprise.”

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