Business Growth and Development Consulting
We'll help you get from where you are to where you want to be.
Why PowerStart Group?
Because we don't spin wheels, neither will you. Our "PowerStart" Executive Consulting services have been applied with clients in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe, and elsewhere on over 850 initiatives, large and small.
We have the skills and knowledge to help you succeed with the most demanding and challenging projects. We bring those skills to your organization when you want, and where you want.
Your business deserves to succeed in any environment. Results matter.
We know business. We think systems.
Strategy | Value | Results
Agile Business Advisory and Strategy Services
The PowerStart Group is a national consortium that provides forward-looking business growth and development consulting to mature and emerging businesses, focused on industrial ecosystem consulting, ESG, HSE, and transitional energy strategies, cleantech, and business analysis. Established in 2003, clients have included scores of private and public organizations.
We'll help you get from where you are to where you want to be to achieve your business goals. To define those goals as part of your ESG Initiatives, and to measure progress, we'll work with you using our proprietary Corporate Value Assessment Model (CVAM).
Focused, agile, results-based business advisory and strategy services. No abstractions. Just results.
We don't spin wheels, and neither will you.
Connect with us to discuss your challenges.
Strategy | Value | Results
Our Consulting Team
Trond Frantzen
Trond Frantzen
Trond Frantzen
Managing Partner
Business Development Group
Trond is a business leader, an analyst, and an author. He has led business development consulting with scores of major clients across Canada, the U.S., and elsewhere.
In addition to developing the PowerStart Business Analysis methodology, he has delivered consulting services with scores of clients. He specializes in business development strategy, project rescue, and business system requirements analysis.
He is also the author of several books on business requirements analysis.
Trond will work with your IT or business analyst team to implement a highly advanced method of business requirements analysis on your next project, or as a corporate methodology.
Chris Tesarski
Trond Frantzen
Trond Frantzen
Senior Partner
ESG Advisory Group
Chris is an executive consultant specializing in transitional energy strategies, industrial ecosystems, cleantech, and forward-looking business management strategies and development.
Chris was the Founder of an international provisioner of a patented clean water technology serving clients around the world.
Chris has proven knowledge of the international energy industry, and the industrial ecosystem, particularly as needed in making sensible transitions to the new economy while respecting corporate values.
Chris will work with you to bring ESG strategy and implementation to your organization successfully, using our proprietary Corporate Value Assessment Model (CVAM).
Shawn Hubbard
Trond Frantzen
Shawn Hubbard
Senior Consultant
Hubbard HSE Consulting
Shawn is a senior consultant specializing in HSE initiatives (Health, Safety & Environment). He has extensive experience with industrial ecosystems, including many years of experience in upstream and midstream oil and gas as a logistics coordinator, field supervisor, and operator.
He has been responsible for plant flow, safety regulations and analysis, hazard assessment, permits, equipment inspections, and incident assessment and reporting.
Based on his depth of experience and extensive certifications, Shawn’s expertise is in the advancement of all aspects of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) in an industrial setting, and mitigation of any issues related to compliance which may arise.
Shawn will audit your HSE environment, or design and implement specific HSE initiatives. He can also work with you to develop corporate ESG strategy.
Linda Ganton
Gordon Kargus
Shawn Hubbard
Senior Management Consultant
Retail Consulting Group
Linda is a veteran of Operations Management. In addition to retail management and execution, she specializes in developing highly cohesive teams to deliver on corporate objectives.
Her corporate experience comes from several years in a senior role with a major retailer (Blush Lane), as well as with investment banker ScotiaMcLeod in Toronto and Calgary, and in a senior management role with the Calgary accounting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Linda has also been the co-owner of two café-style restaurants and a 3-store kitchenware-giftware retail business.
Gordon Kargus
Gordon Kargus
Gordon Kargus
Senior Management Consultant
Business Analysis Group
Gord has spearheaded over 100 projects. He is a recognized expert in many government service organizations, specializing in project rescue, project management, security, process reengineering and architecture, and organizational transformation.
Gord has led strategic project development assignments with scores of clients, primarily in Ottawa, including Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Shared Services Canada, Elections Canada, Department of National Defence, and many more.
