Ron Benton brings practical expertise to accelerate the critical conversations, decisions, and processes essential to creating strategic business value. Ron has guided high technology businesses and sales organizations in identifying and aligning to achieve billions of dollars in revenue opportunities and over $1B in cost reductions.

Ron is President of Ron Benton & Associates, Inc., and has two decades of experience consulting to leaders of global businesses and their functional leaders. He and his network of experienced industry consultants deliver a broad spectrum of services, including strategy development, business performance measurement, strategic decision acceleration, organizational alignment and governance, business transformation, and customer experience strategy consulting.

Since launching his own firm in 2006, Ron has worked extensively with a variety of firms, primarily in Europe and Asia. Clients include many insurance, commercial banking, and retail banking units of a global financial services firm, a Norwegian manufacturer, and a UK utility.  He also serves as a knowledge expert in performance measurement for Partner Programs at the Institute for Management Development.

Previously, Ron directed Hewlett-Packard’s business strategy, organizational acceleration, and performance measurement  internal consulting practices.  He led the definition and implementation efforts for three company-wide HP performance measures.  Ron personally oversaw consulting engagements with many enterprise and consumer product groups and divisions from $50M to over $5B in revenue, as well as with emerging country and region leadership teams.  

Ron is an innovator who shares a patent pending for a framework that assesses an organization’s capability in delivering customer value.  During the HP-Compaq merger, he co-designed the new company’s Quality / Total Customer Experience management system and strategy.  Earlier, he led the team that created and implemented HP’s global competitive customer measurement system.  He also served as a product division R&D productivity manager and consulted to R&D managers throughout the company on R&D management practices.  Ron holds a Masters in Management from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Pacific Lutheran University.

His career and consulting practice benefit from significant executive development experiences from the Institute for Management Development In Lausanne, Switzerland; Conversant in Boulder, Colorado; Strategic Decisions Group in Menlo Park, California; the National Technological University in Fort Collins, Colorado; and HP’s Advanced Development Program for executives in both Asia and North America.

Away from work, Ron has served as a City Council President, Health District Vice-Chair, and Board Chair of both a Senior Center and an organization serving developmentally disabled infants and adults.  Beyond family, service, and work his passions include climbing, skiing, ski mountaineering, and working across cultures.