Blue Ocean Strategy

Rethinking Women

Culture Change

Leadership

Human Development

Seeking Transformation

At Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC), we help our clients adapt to fast-changing times.

As corporate anthropologists, SAMC applies anthropology’s concepts, methods, and tools to help clients “see, feel, and think” in new ways. We have developed methods to successfully transform business models, develop growth strategies, and build better corporate cultures.

Offering a full array of idea generation, innovation, and change support, we show companies and their teams how to respond to new economic situations, shifting customer demands, and innovative ways to sustain their growth. Often, companies stall out trying to stay true to their mission and models only to find that they are losing relevance. This is where we come in, helping them get off the brink, adapt to new realities, and soar.

Let us help you see a new future, one that is all around you.

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Blue Ocean Strategy®

Blue Ocean Strategy shows you how to find unmet customer needs and uncontested market space you can own.

SAMC executives are trained practitioners in Blue Ocean Strategy and utilize these concepts and techniques to develop new strategies, open new markets, and create demand. In this revolutionary business model, companies do not compete for a small, highly competitive pool of existing customers (red ocean) but create a blue ocean of new customers.

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Rethinking Women

We work with organizations and individuals to help transform their talent, improve their diversity and parity, and coach and train women to become the best they can be.

As trained executive coaches, we understand women’s challenges in searching for personal growth and professional achievement. We are helping to recraft the narrative about what women can do in our society. Our programs help women have role models, support women as they venture into their entrepreneurial businesses or corporate positions, encourage women to achieve C-suite positions, and help create companies with purpose. Now is the time to live diversity, equity, and inclusion for women to gain the respect, position, pay, and power they deserve.

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Culture Change

Business is all about Cultural Habits: the values, beliefs, and behaviors that are called our “culture.”

In today’s business environment, long-held certainties about how to organize your business are being re-evaluated, if not wholly revamped. Corporate cultures are ready for a reboot. Companies want to change their culture. As experts in using the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), we help them assess today’s culture and transform it for the future.

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Leadership

Transformation in an organization requires great leadership.

The need to develop the next generation of leaders is a pervasive concern for companies of all sizes and industries. Companies have eliminated their training programs and left their future leaders struggling to find their pathways. We offer several Leadership Academies designed for specific organizational challenges. Specializing in developing young leaders and particularly women leaders, we understand the different leadership styles relevant to particular cultures and corporate requirements.

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Human Development

Delving deeper into the obstacles of change has helped us look at human development challenges.

As certified coaches, we have developed both synchronous and asynchronous programs offered on a group and individual basis. Individuals are more isolated today. Remote work has created systemic changes requiring human development to support the new ways of working, with the freedom and opportunity for the hybrid workforce. Well-being is a critical concern, as is belonging. At SAMC, we focus on “self-care,” career choices, and “rethinking” professional development.

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When working with our clients, we have watched their mindsets shift from what they don’t do to what they can do.

The SAMC Book Collection

We can share with you so many of our stories. Our books are designed to help you re-think your story for today and imagine what it could be for the future.

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Latest Blogs

What Can Women Do To Challenge Gender Stereotypes In The C-Suite?

As I coach women currently in the workplace and lecture to IT women entering the workplace, I realize it’s a good time to write a blog about it to share. [...]

10 Qualities To Drive Your Success As A Female Entrepreneur

As a female entrepreneur, actually just as an entrepreneur, and married to an entrepreneur, I’ve learned a lot of things about how to take an idea and turn it into [...]

How Can Women Overcome The Roadblocks To Building Their Businesses?

Year over year, women-owned businesses are exponentially growing in both numbers and scale. Real progress is being made but women still lag behind men in many significant areas, like access [...]

Podcasts

359: From Fear to Fulfillment: Nathan Richter’s Journey With Medical Marijuana

Hear how changing your perspective can lead to a great idea For today’s podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Nathan Richter, CEO of Nature’s Key, his medical marijuana company. [...]

358: Aviva Ajmera—First Get That Great Strategy. Then Tackle How To Get It Done!

Hear how planning for the future means loving change I worked with Jennifer Kluge several years ago on a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop. Her organization, the National Association for Business Resources, [...]

357: Elizabeth Rosenberg—Can An Extraordinary Coach Bring Out The Unseen Beauty In Your Strengths?

Hear how planning for the future means loving change I worked with Jennifer Kluge several years ago on a Blue Ocean Strategy workshop. Her organization, the National Association for Business Resources, [...]