“As facilitators, Strategic Offsites has no peers. They listen, elicit all points of view, make sure the discussion is solidly grounded in fact, and, when necessary, challenge participants to genuinely confront the issues.”
Tom Wilson
Chairman, CEO & President
Allstate Corporation
“One of the things they excel at is dramatically changing the behavior of the management team, getting them to be collaborative in ways that management teams otherwise would not.”
Ellyn McColgan
Retired President
Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management
“If you really want to understand the perspective of your team on the issues that you (and they) care most about, and you would like to structure your formal interactions with that team better, then you absolutely have to sit down with Strategic Offsites.”
Sean Moriarty
Former CEO
Ticketmaster
“For a growth company, Board-level strategy discussions are critical. The planning, approach, format and tone Strategic Offsites helps create are world class!”
Andy Hall
CEO
Stage Stores
“The result is real, executable initiatives, not pie-in-the-sky, which the team can follow through on.”
Ed Ojdana
Retired President
Experian Interactive
“The decisions we made in these strategic offsites were a major factor in setting a course that doubled our customer base and quadrupled our share price.”
Don Nelson
Retired CEO
U.S. Cellular
“As a CEO, I recognize the importance of having great trusted advisors, especially when making tough decisions. The partners at SOG are an invaluable resource to me and my executive team as we seek to transform the specialty of pathology and to secure the future of our members.”
Charles Roussel
CEO
College of American Pathologists
“The ability to organize and structure a meeting, to create a proper and relevant agenda, provide the data and process, and the ability to keep the discussion focus and on point is a huge value. During our meeting, the conversation didn't wander off to the wilderness—we stayed on point. Post-meeting, SOG put together in a concise, clear form what we'd talked about, the goals, next steps. I would tell anybody that I would hire Strategic Offsites in a heartbeat.”
Bill Montgoris
Chairman, Stage Stores
Retired CFO and COO, Bear Stearns
“The offsites they managed for us resulted in decisions that we really owned as a Senior Management Team. This is in contrast to prior offsites we had held, where the outcomes were tainted and lacked participant buy-in because the facilitators showed up with their own agendas or an inappropriate bias.”
Ken Meyers
Former CFO
U.S. Cellular
“Because of the high-quality pre-meeting work, when we arrived at the meetings we were ready to engage. Through a mutual process of discovery we aligned around five or six highly focused strategic initiatives to take the company forward.”
Doug Stotz
Former SVP Strategy
Monster.com