Testimonials
We provide a rigorous planning framework and process that yields a clear, executable plan for the future. Organizations that execute well on their plans enjoy results that often exceed expectations.
HERE ARE SOME CLIENT RESULTS:
"Peter has been instrumental in helping me assess the market opportunity, competitive landscape, and company strengths/capabilities to identify proper competitive positioning."
"Peter played a valuable role as part of our extended team when I was President/COO of Viewpoint and CEO of HealthCo. I utilized Peter’s expertise for companywide initiatives like strategic planning as well as individual projects that focused more on a particular functional area. Peter draws on both his operational experience in product development, marketing and manufacturing as well as his consulting experience with a multitude of companies across a diverse set of industries.
He has been instrumental in helping me assess the market opportunity, competitive landscape, and company strengths/capabilities to identify proper competitive positioning. Peter’s success stems from his cross-functional knowledge, unassuming style, adeptness at building trust with all constituents, listening skills, and ability to “heard the cats” when working with senior leaders with strong opinions.
Peter has a proven strategic planning framework, and ability to help leaders identify (and resource) the key initiatives that will have the most impact. "
He has been instrumental in helping me assess the market opportunity, competitive landscape, and company strengths/capabilities to identify proper competitive positioning. Peter’s success stems from his cross-functional knowledge, unassuming style, adeptness at building trust with all constituents, listening skills, and ability to “heard the cats” when working with senior leaders with strong opinions.
Peter has a proven strategic planning framework, and ability to help leaders identify (and resource) the key initiatives that will have the most impact. "
Jim Paulson - Portland, OR
President, Viewpoint Software CEO, HealthCo Information Systems
"Strategic Planning with Arezzini Consulting was an absolute game-changer for us"
Strategic Planning with Arezzini Consulting was an absolute game-changer for us. Instead of running our business on a tactical/reactive basis, we were able to look out three to five years, research our market trends, review our current and proposed future market position and decide strategically, how we wanted to be positioned. We then allocated our current resources including talent, facilities and equipment accordingly and executed successfully to our rolling three year strategic plan.
Our plans became “dog-eared” from use, and were great tools to communicate with our employees and allowed for constant refinement, and measurement of actions. The result was sustainable superior performance in revenue growth, net profit growth, and increased customer satisfaction.
Jay Culbertson
CEO TCM Corporation EVP Southland Industries Garden Grove, CA
"Peter has a low key, subtle-yet-confident approach that results in effective communication and engagement with a leadership team."
Several years ago, our business environment and customer landscape changed in an abrupt manner and we found ourselves with a very narrow market/customer concentration. We knew that we needed a new strategic direction and that we must do so quickly. At this critical juncture, we asked Arezzini Consulting to come in and help us navigate through this transitional period. With his strategic planning process, he empowered us to expand our strategic thinking and envision strategic alternatives for growth.
After several sessions of planning, it became apparent to us that we needed to refocus our efforts on new, emerging growth markets, reset our product development priorities and establish a new Go-To-Market strategy. This turned out to be a highly successful course of action and market acceptance was significant.
Peter has a low key, subtle-yet-confident approach that results in effective communication and engagement with a leadership team. His experience as both a consultant as well as an executive come through in his process.
Ali A. Saalabian
Chief Operating Officer Silver Eagle Manufacturing Portland, OR
"His advice and mentoring has provided significant value in the areas of strategic planning, organizational structure and organizational development."
I appreciate Peter’s ability to bring his years as an executive running businesses, coupled with the knowledge he has added by advising so many world-class companies--- creating “best-in-class” consulting.
His advice and mentoring has provided significant value in the areas of strategic planning, organizational structure, organizational development, and sales planning. Peter understands how to ask the right questions that will help you bring your own ideas and plans forward. He then helps simplify/clarify the ideas so that they can be understood and shared across the organization.
Today, I appreciate the fact that when I call Peter he is simply an extension of our executive leadership team. He provides thoughts and perspectives that one would obtain from a board member.
Chris Sarles
CEO Oregon Fruit Products Salem, OR
"Our business has doubled in size since our first strategic planning session and is now part of our regular business cycle."
The strategic planning process with Arezzini Consulting puts your team at ease allowing them to think freely, honestly, creatively and, at the same time, addresses the fundamentals of running (and growing) your business. Peter knows how to communicate and engage with everyone in the room from top to bottom.
Our business has benefited from our strategic planning in virtually all functional areas. Each leader now understands the role they must play to be in alignment with our overall business strategy. Most importantly, the strategic planning process brought our team closer together and put us all on the same path. Our business has doubled in size since our first strategic planning session and is now part of our regular business cycle.
Edwin Martinis
CEO Mitchell Wine Group Portland, OR
"Peter has been a reliable and proven asset to me and our business for over a decade."
Peter has an uncanny ability to listen to our challenges and then apply his years of successful leadership to offer advice and guidance that is just right for our business. From Strategic Planning to executive coaching, and from organizational planning to accountability around our initiatives, he helps our teams solve our own problems. Peter has been a reliable and proven asset to me and our business for over a decade.
Dan Heichelbech
President/Division Leader TCM/Southland Portland, OR
"It’s rare to find someone with an equally strong background in Operations as well as Sales / Marketing / Business Development."
Peter has been a strategic planning resource for Keri Systems for over 15 years and has helped guide our electronic security manufacturing company through growth, economic crisis, technology and market shifts. It’s rare to find someone with an equally strong background in Operations as well as Sales/Marketing/Business Development but he manages to bridge both worlds with ease. If you are looking for assistance, particularly with respect to business planning and expansion, Arezzini Consulting is a proven resource. Most recently, he worked with our senior management staff on strategic initiatives that are driving business expansion, even in a tough business environment.
Ken Geiszler
CEO Keri Systems San Jose, CA
"My executive team, with a global public high-tech manufacturing company, ultimately transformed and sold our business with a significant positive return for investors."
Arezzini Consulting does a very effective job of helping develop/present an overall strategic playbook in a very comprehensive, thorough, concise, and clear manner. My executive team, with a global public high-tech manufacturing company, ultimately transformed and sold our business with a significant positive return for investors – and the strategic playbook that we developed with Peter’s leadership (through multiple strategic sessions in NA and Europe ) and our execution of the developed plan, played a very important role in our ability to obtain/realize the true value of the business.
Peter really takes the time to learn/understand the business, industry, market conditions and the critical business decisions that need to be made – so that he can provide real unique value in helping facilitate discussions that ensure important directional areas are effectively addressed with strategic plans for execution.
Peter is not merely a consultant that helps facilitate a strategic session/agenda – he immediately becomes an integral member of the team and plays a valuable role in deriving and driving the right overall solutions, priorities, actions and future direction for the company going forward.
Peter is a “true partner” for all members of the strategic team. He works well with experienced executives as well as mentoring less developed leaders. Peter listens to what everyone has to say, helps articulate/communicate/summarize the real value of each message/thought process, and then helps develop/formulate a concise/cohesive plan forward leveraging all relevant information.
Peter’s approach/method works with all company sizes and industries. Peter has worked successfully with me in very complex international public company strategies with sales in over 80 countries, as well as smaller privately held company strategies. In each situation there is significant passion and emotion, many diverse perspectives/ideas, and critical directional opportunities/topics that need to be analyzed/debated – Peter is excellent at keeping the strategic sessions moving in an effective, efficient, thorough and organized manner with the ultimate goal and critical decision points always the top priority.
Peter really takes the time to learn/understand the business, industry, market conditions and the critical business decisions that need to be made – so that he can provide real unique value in helping facilitate discussions that ensure important directional areas are effectively addressed with strategic plans for execution.
Peter is not merely a consultant that helps facilitate a strategic session/agenda – he immediately becomes an integral member of the team and plays a valuable role in deriving and driving the right overall solutions, priorities, actions and future direction for the company going forward.
Peter is a “true partner” for all members of the strategic team. He works well with experienced executives as well as mentoring less developed leaders. Peter listens to what everyone has to say, helps articulate/communicate/summarize the real value of each message/thought process, and then helps develop/formulate a concise/cohesive plan forward leveraging all relevant information.
Peter’s approach/method works with all company sizes and industries. Peter has worked successfully with me in very complex international public company strategies with sales in over 80 countries, as well as smaller privately held company strategies. In each situation there is significant passion and emotion, many diverse perspectives/ideas, and critical directional opportunities/topics that need to be analyzed/debated – Peter is excellent at keeping the strategic sessions moving in an effective, efficient, thorough and organized manner with the ultimate goal and critical decision points always the top priority.
Jack Ehren
CEO Key Technologies—Walla Walla, WA CEO Portland Bottling—Portland, OR
"Peter is really one of the few consultants who really delivers on his promise and more."
Our company has used Arezzini Consulting for the past three years. Peter quickly assessed the state of the company, culture, issues and opportunities of the business and helped us develop a three-year revolving strategic planning process that we update each year. It has been and will continue to be one of the most important tools that we have.
We have developed a great working relationship and Peter has become an invaluable partner to our company. Not only is he a great partner he has become a trusted advisor and has made us a better company. He has great insights into all aspects of a business and I would recommend him for any type of business consulting. He is really one of the few consultants who really delivers on his promise and more.
John Ward
CEO R&H Construction Portland, OR
"Peter's contribution has stood the test of time."
I have worked with Arezzini Consulting and have known Peter for more than 15 years. Initially, he helped the organization I was working in truly understand the value of strategic thinking, developing an effective plan, and working the plan. To this day and still a member of that group, those fundamentals are the bedrock of what our organization is today. His contribution has stood the test of time.
Beyond the direct support for our own organization, over the years I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Peter on a number of projects with shared clients. Through the shared experiences, we have provided a meaningful benefit to those organizations. Those projects have been some of the most rewarding experiences in my career. On a personal level, Peter has helped me to continue to appreciate the gift of the client experience…and the importance of a true friend.
Beyond the direct support for our own organization, over the years I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Peter on a number of projects with shared clients. Through the shared experiences, we have provided a meaningful benefit to those organizations. Those projects have been some of the most rewarding experiences in my career. On a personal level, Peter has helped me to continue to appreciate the gift of the client experience…and the importance of a true friend.
John Valachovic
Director Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership Portland, OR
"Peter has been excellent resource to help me navigate through the myriad of issues CEOs face on a daily basis."
Bates Group has been working with Peter for over four years. He helped us create our first strategic plan and has helped us refine and revise it each year as our business has changed and grown. Peter has a talent for asking relevant questions, facilitating strategy discussions with many diverse personalities and perspectives, and synthesizing complex information into a final, well-crafted document.
Additionally, I have personally found Peter to be an excellent resource to help me navigate through the myriad of issues CEOs face on a daily basis. His knowledge of business and strategy development has helped me and Bates Group tremendously.
Jennifer Stout
CEO Bates Group Lake Oswego, OR
"Peter's facilitation makes the strategic strategy journey educational, challenging, enlightening and fun!"
Since 2016 Arezzini Consulting has been leading Sun Valley Rice on a comprehensive journey developing short and long-term strategic plans, as well as sales/marketing plans while making us aware that we must be nimble in reacting market dynamics. He engages each member of the group ensuring that each individual's perspective is included in the issue at hand. This strengthens the overall commitment to the strategy and ultimately the accomplishment of our company goals and results. Peter's facilitation makes the journey educational, challenging, enlightening and fun!
Jennifer Kalfsbeek
SVP, Chief Operating Officer Sun Valley Rice Sacramento, CA
"With his active participation, we’ve been able to carve out a strategic position that not only has stood the test of time, but also has positioned us with a playbook year after year that is actionable, measurable and impactful."
Peter is a strategic thinker. His business acumen, ability to dissect complex issues, and approach in facilitating meetings and the strategic planning process makes him an indisputable asset to the organization. With his active participation, we’ve been able to carve out a strategic position that not only has stood the test of time, but also has positioned us with a playbook year after year that is actionable, measurable and impactful.
Additionally, Peter excels at leadership principals, organizational strategy, cultural development and many other issues and topics facing today’s executive. But his main strength lies in his deep caring of people, which transcends your typical strategy consultant. His ability to develop trust through compassion and empathy while maintaining clear and concise thoughts and ideas is truly unique. Peter has become emotionally invested into our business, which has created a relationship with aligned interest and values. In short, Peter is as real as it gets, is truly interested in our success and allows business concepts to be simple and effective.
Additionally, Peter excels at leadership principals, organizational strategy, cultural development and many other issues and topics facing today’s executive. But his main strength lies in his deep caring of people, which transcends your typical strategy consultant. His ability to develop trust through compassion and empathy while maintaining clear and concise thoughts and ideas is truly unique. Peter has become emotionally invested into our business, which has created a relationship with aligned interest and values. In short, Peter is as real as it gets, is truly interested in our success and allows business concepts to be simple and effective.
David Brown
CEO Mitchell Lewis & Staver Wilsonville, OR
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