We help you transform your investments in strategy, measurement, and communications into realized strategic value - wherever you and your teams are in the world

Ron Benton & Associates Inc. focuses on clients, particularly CEOs, CFOs, and CSOs, who must increase the value of their investments in strategy planning and execution, performance measurement, and leadership effectiveness.  We bring practical expertise to accelerate the critical conversations, decisions, and processes essential to creating strategic business value. Ron has guided businesses and sales organizations around the globe in identifying and aligning to achieve billions of dollars in revenue opportunities, over $1B in cost reductions, and to measurably improve critical performance.

Our network of experienced industry consultants provides broad set of strategic planning, organizational alignment and governance, supply chain, operations, business transformation, systems dynamics, and customer experience strategy services. We have also created and led organizations and initiatives like yours, and been accountable for their success. We understand your work and appreciate your challenges. 

New Services for 2010: 

With Kathleen Hosfeld of Hosfeld & Associates Inc., we now offer a unique suite of strategy services for Thriving in the Sustainability Economy.  They are specifically designed to help organizations accelerate the return on investment from their commitments to sustainability, stakeholder partnerships and trust-based business practices.  We offer resources to companies who have proven to themselves the business case for waste and energy management, and are now looking toward innovation and embedding sustainability more deeply into the business model, products and services.  Click on Strategy Development for details.

Ron has partnered with executives from one of the world’s premier financial institutions to redesign and deliver an action planning workshop aimed at measurably improving the performance of its finance function world-wide.  Since then, he has trained over 500 of its finance executives and professionals in advanced methods for understanding internal customer needs, identifying financial analysis that make a difference, and delivering financial communications that drive effective action.  To date he has worked in a dozen countries from Malaysia to Romania with 120 intact teams representing 19 nationalities - to very positive reviews.  Click on the Financial Communications Workshop to learn more – and learn how your firm could benefit from customized delivery.

We now offer Conversant’s world-class workshop, The Execution Catalyst™.  The EC trains executives, managers, and teams confronting important organizational challenges to rapidly and measurably improve their impact.  Intact teams work on their business problem while learning how to get the most out of their work with others.  Our clients already benefit from the use of Conversant methods in all of our consulting.  Find out how your organization can create greater value through improved communication and strategy execution capabilities by clicking on The Execution Catalyst™.

With associates, Ron has recently delivered well-received conference workshops that combine systems thinking, organizational engagement, strategy development and performance measurement concepts to improve organizational capabilities and effectiveness.  

New Website Updates

Check out our Resources sections for fully updated Readings and Website citations in response to client and reader requests.  We've added sections referencing the broader array of research and information we use including Global Thinking, Global Data, Working Globally, Sustainability Practices, and Strategy Analysis.