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Succeed in Business
We help startups, corporations, and departments create their strategy, balanced scorecards, action plans, objectives, KPIs,
key results, and dynamic dashboards
I’ve had the opportunity to work with many consultants and facilitators in my career, and Ron Person goes right to the top of my list of the most effective. In fact, it’s not fair to Ron to refer to him as a facilitator, as he’s really more of a learned guide, humble educator, process cop and teammate. Most importantly, he added true value to our project. It’s an understatement to say that we never would have attained the results we did had it not been for Ron. I’ve referred him to colleagues at other companies and look forward to working with him again.
Peter Cohen, VP Marketing and Retail Strategy
West Coast Retail Construction Firm
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Your guidance helped us through the sometimes difficult process of developing a strategic plan. Not only did we capture the widely diverse needs of our stakeholders, but we produced an executable plan in record time. We have a clear vision of what we will become and we know exactly what we must do to get there.
Some strategic planning processes are little more than pointless exercises that end up on a shelf. This plan is one we know how to execute.
One of California, USA’s Largest Performing Arts Centers
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A clear, defensible strategy focused on customer needs,
with teams aligned and focused, and concise executable plans are critical to any organization's success.
Ron Person
Ron Person accelerates business performance.
For the seven years prior to founding Critical to Success, Ron was Sr. Consultant for
Strategic Business Optimization at the third-largest internet marketing software company. During that time the company grew more than 50% per year.
Ron began his career as an Air Force pilot, then went on to earn an MS in Physics and MBA in marketing and finance with highest honors. He started his consulting as one of Microsoft’s first twelve independent consultants.
Ron has built his 30+ year consulting career around strategic performance and professional productivity. His clients have included companies in the Global 100, major corporations such as Carnival Cruise Lines and Mary Kay, as well as regional businesses and non-profits. Ron has also founded or co-founded four businesses.
Ron has taught thousands of business professionals as well as teaching as an adjunct professor at U.C. Berkeley. He has written 27 books published by J Wiley and Macmillan that include four international best-sellers with more than three million copies sold in 18 countries. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and certified Balanced Scorecard consultant and has served on the Board of Examiners for the California Awards for Performance Excellence.