Strategic Consulting The Way You Need It
Simple. OnCourse is a research-driven management consulting firm. We help executives see through their day-to-day complexities to discover how to get their companies on the right path to success. Our visualization tools, workbooks, and guidance allow businesses to focus on serving their customers better. In turn, this helps them streamline their operations for stronger short-term and long-term profits.
Focused. Every engagement we do starts with research, and we do it at a fixed price. We know you have questions that need answers. Maybe they’re about your position in the marketplace. Perhaps you want to know what your customers really think of you. Or, maybe you want to acquire your competitors’ dissatisfied customers. When we build you a custom research report, it answers your questions to the best or our abilities and gives you a path to implement it yourselves or with our help, if absolutely necessary.
Quick. Answers aren’t good to you next year. Your industry changes too quickly for that. Our QuickBearings™ rapid research gives you research-driven advice within weeks, not years. This kind of speed gives you a strategic advantage over competitors in the marketplace.
Cost-Effective. We are a virtual consultancy and conduct most of our engagements by phone, email, and Skype video conference. This gives you access to seasoned experts, not junior consultants, at reasonable prices. As a client, you have access to all your files online on our secure servers 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week. This minimizes the inconvenience to you, and helps us keep the fees we charge clients as low as possible.
Guaranteed. Our custom research investigates how your company really works, uncovers your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses, details your customers unmet needs, and highlights how you can move your business forward. Based on facts, our reports are custom-built to succeed. However, if you don’t find value in our work, we will refund your money. It’s just that simple.
Experts At The Helm
OnCourse Business Advisory brings together top operational experts and consultants from around the United States. Each team member has tried-and-true experience in helping companies of all sizes refocus and make businesses stronger. Read more about our leadership:
Joseph Berwanger, Managing Partner
Joe is an expert at uncovering hidden value. For the past 20 years, Joe has counseled some of the most well-known corporations and fast-paced startup companies in the world. He has provided key insights on corporate positioning, product brand strategy, and marketing communications for more than 90 campaigns.
At OnCourse, Joe has developed the simple yet powerful business OnCourse Map™ to give entrepreneurs, small businesses, and mid-sized corporations the tools to keep their companies focused on meeting their short and long-term goals. By using qualitative and quantitative research, he advises about how to lead strategy with facts and generate ongoing, quantifiable results.
Previously Joe co-founded Think Nocturnal (a strategic brand agency) and Environments, Inc (a New York City technology consultancy). In these firms, Joe led integrated strategy and implementation teams on marketing, business development, venture capital fundraising, sales lead generation, and corporate communications projects. Previously, Joe was an Account Director at Boston-based strategic marketing firm Cone, Inc., where he provided corporate branding and media counsel for more than a dozen healthcare and technology companies.
Joe holds an undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire (Durham) and an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurial studies from Babson College.
Robert Sama, Managing Partner
Rob Sama has worked in a variety of strategy and finance positions during his 17-year career. Rob has previously worked in the Information, Communications and Entertainment practice of KPMG and also spent two years at LoJack. He also was the Director of Strategic Financial Analysis for The Mentor Network, a $1 billion human services company in Boston.
Previously, Rob ran a development stage software company, worked as a strategy consultant to emerging companies during the dot com era with Joe Berwanger at Environments, Inc., and is a patent holder. Rob holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, and graduate degrees from Bentley University and Babson College.
