About Us
We are …
Highly experienced executive-level consulting leaders who have been serving business and technology clients for decades to drive success. Our approach is focused on people, processes, and technology to solve problems.
Leading engagements and filling the gap in the consulting marketplace between pure-play strategy and commodity delivery services at a cost significantly lower than Big 4 services with similar skill sets and solutions.
Driving value-building sponsorship and alignment at the highest levels within organizations, to drive accountability and success, from developing and measuring benefits to delivering quality improvements and cost savings in your organization's effectiveness and efficiency.
Delivering services to our clients with a model that focuses on quality and value, on listening to our clients, and on developing long-term mutually beneficial relationships.
Dave Garrett, Founder
Steve Brooks, Founder
Natasha Humphrey,
Operations • Customer Success Advocate
Paul Raknes, Strategic Change Leader
Manuel Bargiela, Operational Leader • Architect
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Founder
With more than 30+ years of extensive leadership experience and roles with major consulting firms, medical device manufacturers, creative media agencies and high tech software providers, Dave's skills encompass business development and organizational planning on a regional, national, and international level.
Dave's record of developing teams, driving revenue opportunities in new markets, and quickly building relationships of trust, defines his approach and integrity. His achievements of consistently performing @ 150-200%+ of revenue targets are his legacy. As a sales and market leader, his results speak volumes as he developed consulting practices upward from $8 million to excess of $150 million during his 12 year tenure with a Big4 consultancy on the West Coast. His expertise lies in developing and launching Go-To-Market campaigns, organizing sales operations, aligning win-themes, driving and exceeding revenue targets and building lasting relationships with his clients. Dave has led multiple high-revenue, multi-year engagements. He is respected by his clients and his consultants.
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Founder
With more than 30 years of business and technology consulting leadership and delivery experience, Steve has driven client business value through the engagement of skilled teams and proven methods. Steve has an extensive background in program leadership, risk management, and value-driven delivery in Finance, Supply Chain, Analytics, and Technology.
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Natasha brings over 5 years of operations management experience within the staffing industry. With a career dedicated to account management, her journey has been all about delivering results. Natasha’s expertise lies in identifying key decision-makers, enhancing efficiency, and ensuring customer satisfaction. She is passionate about nurturing and expanding business relationships and ensures that every interaction with clients is smooth and well-coordinated.
The dynamic nature of account management fuels her enthusiasm, as every day brings new challenges and opportunities to drive growth and create value for clients, consultants, and the organization, fostering an enhanced relationship with all stakeholders. Natasha has developed a deep love for horticulture and in her free time enjoys visiting her local nurseries adding to her ongoing diverse plant collection. She is a hummingbird enthusiast with an ardent love for nature.
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Strategic Change Leader.
Paul has 20+ years of external and internal consulting experience leading strategic change initiatives. Paul excels in deep executive coaching and strategic advisory experience, driving leadership and executive alignment around strategic initiatives. Paul has very strong organizational, business and operational strategy consulting skills with significant large scale portfolio and program management experience. Paul has successfully led numerous executive level strategic leadership alignment, organization effectiveness, and change leadership programs with Fortune 500 companies.
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Operational Leader • Architect.
Strategic leader with 20+ years of experience in technology management in consulting and in the industry. Focused on the alignment of business strategy with technology strategy and operational execution.
Passionate team builder and mentor, led with confidence, high energy and method diverse teams in global environments with competing priorities and complex architectures. Extensive experience managing enterprise wide programs in planning, design, development, delivery and support across ERP, BI, CRM and cloud platforms, delivering business and customer value.
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Jon brings almost a decade of military leadership experience and a longer tenure of client focused service across various industries. He spent 6 years as a health and wellness coach helping clients from diverse backgrounds achieve a better way of living, overcoming unique barriers and challenges. He simultaneously developed and implemented a leadership training course to advance the education and careers of his colleagues.
Then shifting from consumer to business clients, he served as an Integrated Marketing Consultant for the Sacramento Business Journal, where he forged hundreds of new connections and partnerships. His ability to understand the needs of his clients and create unique and tailored offerings led to the success of his clients marketing campaigns and tremendous growth in his department.
In his new role as VP of Business Development at The Saros Group, his objective remains the same; create the most possible value for the client.
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With over 20 years in learning and development, Alysha specializes in crafting impactful training programs that drive growth and enhance performance. As a PROSCI-certified Change Management Practitioner, she leads instructional teams to design solutions that empower employees at scale.
Notably, she’s steering a training initiative for 35,000 users in a major Workforce Management rollout across a university and healthcare system. Her experience spans industry giants like Forever 21, BCBGMaxAzria, and UKG, with skills in instructional design, change management, and program evaluation.
Jon Foster, VP Business Development
Alysha Brown, Program Manager, Training
A Meaningful Way to Engage
Are you different than your competition?
Of course, you are. Most of our competition doesn’t believe that. Through our engagement model, we honor your culture, values, and people. Our Goal: Raise the bar of success within your industry segment.
Are you paying too much for too little?
Most likely, you are. While most consulting companies have migrated to offshore models and high-margin profit-taking, they continue to deliver the same low-quality, service, and performance levels. Through our consulting model, we focus on quality, not quantity. We are often 20%-30% less than our competition for Quality Talent.
Are you getting the results you expect and deserve?
Of course, you’re not. There is a clear gap in the marketplace for consulting services. That gap primarily lies between, clients’ needs, emphasizing business strategy - and the vanilla commodity technology services. Our focus is on developing and implementing the right solutions for our clients’ organizations.
What People are Saying
“Steve has proven to be a trustworthy partner delivering high value to us. Sometimes that comes in the form of a service or project and other times it can be sharp insight or expertise on a subject of high interest or value. I appreciate the total package that Steve brings to us. Steve goes the extra mile.”
CIO Leader of a Major Medical Device Manufacturer
"Manuel has been the catalyst for good advise for a number of our initiatives. We look at him as a true trusted advisor, in the most literal sense, in helping our organization navigate changes in the industry.”
Jessie Brown, SVP Operations, Large International High Tech Manufacturer
“Working with Dave is truly a delight. His professionalism, attention to detail, and ability to establish trusted relationships with senior executives is outstanding. His industry experience and understanding of the fabric of a complex global business process is unique. Dave is one of the very best!"
