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, CSOs, and CFOs, who must increase the value of their investments in strategic 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, product generation, supply chain, operations, business transformation, systems dynamics, and customer experience strategy services. We have created and led organizations and initiatives like yours, and been accountable for their success. We understand your work and appreciate your challenges.  We enjoy what we do, and bring expertise, creativity, and yes, even fun to our work together.

2011 Highlights

Happy 2012!  We enjoyed a solid and creative 2011.  Thank you to our clients for investing your people, time, and trust with us.

• We continued to deliver the Financial Communications Workshop in Europe.
• We delivered a major examination of the R&D quality practices for a global computing business, resulting in actionable recommendations for driving greater performance.
• Ron continued to coach leaders in creating more organizational value through effective integration of their strategic thinking and communications skills.
• We delivered performance measurement Knowledge Broker sessions to European clients who required quick, high-impact guidance on how to create practical, valuable measurement systems.
• Our Associates continued to deliver high-value engagements to enterprise and medium-sized firms, governments, and NGOs around the world.

In between engagements, Ron guest-lectured in MBA programs in California and Washington states (on topics as varied as strategic thinking, the Balanced Scorecard, and measurement and incentive systems), He also volunteered with a variety of community service progams and projects.

New Associate!

Ron is delighted to welcome long-time colleague Bob Mueller as another Associate. Bob is an established industry expert in product development processes, product quality, and warranty management. We’ve worked together on several R&D quality and warranty projects, and recently partnered on the R&D quality practices project.

New Services for 2012

Lynda Davis and Ron have partnered to deliver the COMPASS Team Leadership Coaching Program.  This program bridges the gap between team-centered performance interventions and individual team member coaching by combining both into a customized format.  We address the interlocked root causes of team and individual performance breakdowns to create sustainable performance and results.  

Major Services Continued for 2012

Ron continues to partner with executives from one of the world’s premier financial institutions to deliver an action planning workshop aimed at measurably improving the performance of its finance function world-wide.  Since then, he has trained over 600 of its finance executives and professionals in advanced methods for understanding internal executive customer needs, identifying financial analysis that make a difference, and delivering financial communications that drive effective action.  Click on the Financial Communications Workshop to learn more – and learn how your firm could benefit from customized delivery.

We created Customer LEAP (Loyalty / Experience Action Planning) in response to the needs of small and medium-sized professional services organizations for a systematic approach to improving customer loyalty.  In a matter of hours or a few days, we work with your leadership team or entire staff to create an action plan that can measurably improve customer loyalty and business results.

We continue to 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 Kathleen Hosfeld of Hosfeld & Associates Inc., we 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 Sustainability Strategy for details.

New Website Updates

Our Strategy Development and Sustainability Practices readings and website citations are updated as of February 3, 2012.  More are being added frequently in response to evolving client, colleague, and reader requests.  Please look for additions that reflect proven learning you can put to use now.