Fieldstone Consulting provides a broad array of services aimed at assisting company leaders in building their businesses in a profitable and sustainable way.  Through professional leadership of key initiatives, principal Brian Degen works closely with employees at all levels of an organization to design and implement new capacity to plan for business growth, acquire and delight customers, deliver high quality products and services, and nurture skillful employees.

Interim executive leadership and coaching.  Providing visionary, focused, and pragmatic leadership while you build your management team.  Coaching key managers in effective leadership, planning, decision-making, delegation, staff development, and operating methods.

Project management.  Collaborating with and leading key managers and staff in defining objectives, envisioning key outcomes, and successfully managing execution of key initiatives.

Strategic/business planning.  Assessing your opportunities, evaluating your position, defining your aspirations, defining your sustainable advantage, aligning and focusing your efforts, allocating your scarce resources, articulating your plans, and following through on achieving results.

Financial planning and management.  Aligning your business structure, designing your performance metrics, setting your financial and performance targets, focusing your investments (budgeting), and monitoring and controlling results.

Market planning and business development.  Defining your markets, understanding your customers, clarifying your value proposition, differentiating your offerings, choosing your channels, developing your products, establishing your partners, and communicating your message.

Organizational development.  Clarifying company culture, defining business requirements, assessing skills and capabilities, balancing roles, recruiting talented staff, ensuring organizational alignment, building effective teams, and managing ongoing focus, decision-making, and communication.

Performance management.  Establishing staff roles and responsibilities, agreeing on goals and priorities, providing resources and training, empowering leaders, unleashing innovation and creativity, and following through with compensation, rewards and recognition.  Managing a dialog and a productive performance review process that results in individual growth and company success.

Operations development.  Clarifying your value proposition, defining your operating model, understanding customer requirements, nurturing a culture of discipline, developing formalized processes and operating procedures, supporting your staff, and managing results.

Technology planning and implementation.  Leveraging information technology and Web-based services to better reach your customers, streamline your business processes, support your employees, and manage your business.