Stromberg Consulting

Stromberg Consulting is a management consultancy that’s been in business over 30 years. Our people have an eclectic background of consulting and business experience with advanced degrees in HR management, business administration, organizational psychology, instructional design, creative design and interactive communications.

We have a global reach with offices in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and London. As a division of Ketchum, we are able to deliver integrated internal and external communications to meet the needs of the world’s largest organizations on a global basis.

We are in the business of behavior change. We focus on a single over-arching mission: To help companies achieve their business objectives by engaging the workforce to deliver results.

We believe that the key to executing effectively lies with influencing how people behave every single day on the job. By managing the key levers that drive organizational behavior, companies ensure that the workforce at every level makes choices and takes actions that deliver on the strategic intent of the business.

We measure our success through the degree to which we engage the workforce to think, act and behave in ways that drive an organization’s performance.

Companies achieve sustainable success when they consistently make smart strategic choices and execute effectively against them. While the right strategic choice is important, many companies achieve less then full success because of breakdowns in execution. Success belongs to companies with the ability to flexibly shift strategic direction, communicate the change, and inspire the workforce to behave in new ways.

When Clients Call

Companies call on us when something is changing or when something needs to change to improve performance. This includes when they need to...

• Reorganize a function to deliver more value
• Change a culture to become more innovative and competitive
• Achieve operational improvements to drive financial performance
• Internalize the brand to deliver a better customer experience
• Build higher levels of employee engagement to increase retention.

What We Do

We focus our work in the areas of communication, engagement, talent and change:

• Communication - We leverage the power of communication as a strategic business tool to drive performance. From channel assessments to the creation of overarching communication strategies, we create plans that support the implementation of large, complex organizational change. We know the power of creativity is as important as strategy. To that end, we create collateral for internal campaigns and design interactive tools based on emerging new media.
• Engagement - We unleash the spirit of human potential to go above and beyond the requirements of a specific job or role. We collect and analyze data to determine the highest leverage opportunities for an organization to increase employee engagement and identify the barriers that limit full commitment. We understand human behavior and design targeted approaches to increase the number of employees who intellectually understand where the company is going and emotionally buy in to helping achieve that vision.
• Talent - We recognize that organizational success is, to a large extent, a result of having the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time. As the demographics of the workforce change and the war for talent intensifies, we design talent management systems across the length of the employment life cycle. From recruiting, selection, and orientation, to goal setting, development, evaluation, and reward, we create novel solutions to attract, develop and retain talent.
• Change - We appreciate that change is disruptive but necessary, and requires integrated solutions that work in symphony across the organization. We work with business and initiative leaders to put into place a program management process to design and oversee the multiple work streams that are required to truly manage complex change. From leadership alignment to workforce involvement, from communication cascades to new skill development, from the initial benchmark of the current state to the measurement of goal achievement, we help organizations successfully manage change.

 How We Do It

Our consultants craft the right solution drawn from a toolkit of five core capabilities:

• Research and Measurement - A fact-based understanding of an organization’s current performance and strategies for assessing performance improvement over time.
• Leadership Alignment - Leadership teams organized around a strategy and committed to individual and collective action to accomplish business objectives.
• Communications - Communications that are relevant, timely, and credible, and communications that engage the workforce to change behavior and drive business performance.
• Structure and Process Design - Business processes built for efficiency and effectiveness and organizational structures designed for role clarity and accountability.
• Workforce Development - Competency-based approaches targeted at continuous learning and the application of new knowledge and skills to on the job performance.

To find out more about these capabilities and services, visit the Stromberg Consulting Web site at www.strombergconsulting.com.