PowerStart Consulting Services
Business Growth & Development
Business Growth & Development
Business Growth & Development
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Business Development Group
Led by Trond Frantzen, this team provides clients with highly effective Business Development consulting and strategies in key strategic business areas.
We help clients focus on organizational transformation, process reengineering and architecture, diversification, scalability, and profit increase.
We will help you get from where you are now to where you want to be. We'll work with you to ...
- Develop a stronger, more agile, more focused and profitable business.
- Strengthen core business functions.
- Manage business growth effectively, with less risk.
Let's talk. We'll work with you to plan and execute your organization's successful future.
Strategy | Value | Results
ESG Advisory & Strategies
Business Growth & Development
Business Growth & Development
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ESG Advisory Group
Chris Tesarski is Senior Consulting Partner with the PowerStart Group, leading its ESG Strategies & Implementation division. He specializes in the industrial ecosystem, cleantech, transitional energy, and ESG Strategies & Implementation.
Chris has advised a wide range of clients to develop strategic energy systems, providing leadership to organizations in the Cleantech and industrial Wastewater Management sectors. Chris will work with you to bring ESG strategy and implementation to your organization successfully, using our proprietary Corporate Value Assessment Model (CVAM).
During the time he lived in Texas, he was appointed Guest Lecturer at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth), teaching a course in Energy Industry Sustainable Practices.
to discuss your initiative, and your options, please connect with Chris. He will be happy to discuss it with you, confidentially.
Strategy | Value | Results
HSE Advisory & Implementation
Business Growth & Development
HSE Advisory & Implementation
Hubbard HSE Consulting
Shawn Hubbard specializes in HSE initiatives (Health, Safety & Environment) and implementation. His extensive experience with industrial ecosystems, upstream and midstream oil and gas as a logistics coordinator, field supervisor, an operator, plant flow, safety regulations and analysis, hazard assessment, permits, equipment inspections, and incident assessment and reporting ... and extensive certifications ... can help your organization implement your HSE initiatives successfully.
Shawn is also a certificated OHS and HSE auditor, and is qualified to design and implement specific HSE initiatives. You can learn more about Hubbard HSE services here.
To discuss your HSE requirements and plans, please connect with Shawn. He'll be happy to discuss your way forward, in confidence.
Strategy | Value | Results
Business Systems Analysis
Retail Management & Consulting
HSE Advisory & Implementation
Business Analysis Group
Gordon Kargus is a respected analyst who has worked with many clients in the Canadian federal government, primarily in the National Capital Region.
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.
To discuss your challenging project (even if it's "in the impossible region"), or your business analyst training objectives, please connect with us. You'll never look back.
Strategy | Value | Results
Retail Management & Consulting
Retail Management & Consulting
Retail Management & Consulting
Retail Consulting Group
Linda Ganton 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.
To discuss your challenging project (even if it's "in the impossible region"), or to discuss what we can do to help improve your retail operations, please connect with us. You'll never look back.
Strategy | Value | Results
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“I am still incredulous in terms of what this powerful approach to business development and strategies delivers and the impact it can have on any organization. We've used the PowerStart approach on several initiatives with outstanding results.”
- Steve Romaine: Senior VP | NationsBank (Bank of America)
“Trond has a magical quality. He is an exceptional individual who can provide any organization with insights they would otherwise not discover about themselves. I have seen his work take very complex organizations and using the PowerStart methodology, create a forward-looking plan that has everyone nodding yes to. We all tend to complicate the heck out of everything and Trond has a knack of getting to what is needed vs wanted. This makes for a happy CEO.”
- John Nesbitt: Senior VP, Business Development | Pathway Comms
“Thank you for your great piloting skills. As always, it was a pleasure to watch you work so comfortably with us. It has really helped us move forward with clear business-based development requirements.”
- Grace Hawkins: Senior Director | Health Claims Services, Yukon Gov't
“Gord has always provided a good return on JFA's investment in his services, and consistently met or exceeded expectations. I recommend his professional approach to understanding and addressing the needs of an organization.”
- Suzanne Labbe: Deputy Chief Administrator | Judicial Services, Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs
“The business requirements sessions were a great success. I am grateful I had the opportunity to participate in many of the sessions, and must tell you it was a pleasure working together to define our business requirements. It has created an air of excitement in the office.”
- Sherry Wright: Director | Insured Health Services (Government)
“I can certainly attest to the quality of the PowerStart Business Analysis approach.”
- Ron Kitchen: Manager, Applications Support - Business Systems & Risk Management | Saskatchewan Advanced Education
“This approach not only works on the type of project we did, but it can be used across the board on any type of project. It showed us what to look for. I would recommend it to anyone.”
- Dan Honore: IS Director | Kenosha Unified School District # 1
Some Clients We Have Served
We don’t try to be everything to everyone. We understand that each client is unique. Our distinct approach and methodology get fast results, without the usual pain and chaos.
Here are some of our clients:
- Alcohol & Gaming Commission of Ontario
- American Airlines
- Aon Corporation
- Arrow Energy Ltd.
- Bell Business Markets
- Bell Canada
- BP Canada/Talisman
- City of Austin
- Chancellor Energy
- Canadian Grain Commission
- Canadian Occidental (now Nexen)
- Canadian Pioneer Energy/Cimarron
- City of Kingston
- Cobb County
- Encana
- Enerplus
- Farm Mutual Reinsurance
- Franklin County
- General Reef Corp.
- Global Hyatt Corp.
- Habitat for Humanity
- Health Canada
- Husky Oil
- Intrawest Resorts (Whistler-Blackcomb)
- Interstate Hotels & Resorts
- Manitoba Education & Youth
- Manitoba Transportation
- Mecklenburg County
- Newfoundland Government
- Okanagan College
- Ontario Health
- Ontario Northern Development
- Pratt & Whitney Aerospace (Longueuil)
- Prudential Assurance (Kitchener)
- PwC Slovakia
- Sabre Corporation
- Saskatchewan Advanced Education
- Saskatchewan Environment
- Simon Fraser University
- SunLife Financial
- Sunshine Oilsands Ltd.
- Yukon Environment
- Yukon Health
- Yukon Justice
- Yukon Transportation
- Yukon WCB
- Veterans Affairs Canada
If you want to discuss how we can successfully work together to meet your needs, please connect with us.
