Chattanooga Area

Cathy Boettner | Chattanooga Business Consultant

Is your Chattanooga based business growing rapidly and leaving you feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of decisions you are being asked to make on a daily basis? Or is your organization headed in the wrong direction and you are not sure how to slow and stop the slide and begin the process of rebuilding? A qualified business consultant can help you organize your thoughts and develop a plan to move you in a positive direction. I am a management consultant who has owned, managed, and sold 2 businesses and has faced many of the issues that you are facing in your own organization. Let’s talk about where your organization is today and how I might be able to help get you where you want to go.

“I highly recommend Cathy. I found her to be well-organized, honest
and clarifying while having a generous spirit that is most helpful.”
Tom Montague – Former Chair of Harvested Here Food Hub, Chattanooga TN

Strategic Planning

If you believe (like I do) that there is always room for improvement, and that good is the enemy of great, and great is the enemy of what’s possible, you should engage a strategic planning business consultant. I will work with you and your team to face the brutal facts about your organization and its current environment and develop a plan to make the most of what you have to work with. People may tell you that strategic planning is an esoteric exercise that doesn’t add value to your organization. I have experienced it from both sides—as the client, and the business consultant—and I would tell you that it is shocking how much an organization can move in a short period of time by providing a clear focus for everyone within your organization. If you want to move forward faster and further, let’s get started.

Succession Planning

You have worked your whole lifetime, and now you want to retire and realize that you must do something with your business in order to make a happy and fulfilled retirement a reality, but you don’t know where to start. A qualified management consultant can help you identify your key priorities and develop a plan to either pass on your business to employees, or the next generation, or prepare the business to sell. I have sold two businesses, and have worked with other businesses through the development of the plan and the sale of their businesses. My best advice to you is to get started—you want to put time on your side. Give me a call, and let’s do just that.

Meeting Facilitation

You have important topics to discuss and only a limited amount of time with your entire team while they are in Chattanooga. How can you get it all done? A management consultant can help you develop an agenda to meet your meeting objectives; facilitate the meeting (so you don’t have to); and provide you with written notes with action items to keep the process moving. Clients consistently tell me at the end of a facilitated meeting that they have never had such a productive meeting. If you think about the amount of money sitting in that room, don’t you want to maximize the group’s productivity? I’d love to help you do just that—let’s talk.

Family Ownership Matters

You have a family-owned business that you have operated in Chattanooga for years and you want all of the shareholders and heirs to be more involved, but you don’t know where to start. There are a number of ways to get them involved and engaged in the business. As a business consultant, I have helped families write a Family Constitution, and have facilitated Family Council meetings. This is a good first step if you are planning to pass the business on to future generations. I can help you get the process started

Organizational Assessment

Your organization isn’t firing on all cylinders and you don’t know why. This isn’t at all uncommon—many business owners and managers have difficulty diagnosing issues within their own organization because they are too close to it. An objective management consultant can work with you and your team to determine where things are going off the rails and develop a prioritized list of actions to help you address the issues and get back on track. I have worked with multiple organizations in and around Chattanooga, and they were all relieved to know what was happening within the firm and to learn that the solutions were relatively simple. They only needed an objective third party to help them see it. Don’t live with the uncertainty and anxiety—give me a call.

Executive Coach/Mentor

You want to improve as a leader within your organization, or prepare yourself for the next opportunity, or sometimes simply need an opportunity to talk through a situation with an objective third party, but you don’t want to talk with someone within your organization, or can’t. What do you do? An experienced business consultant can listen and provide you with objective feedback and help you think through various alternatives to an issue. As a former business owner, I could have saved myself so much anxiety and stress if I had engaged someone to mentor/coach me—especially as a I started my career. If you feel like I did, let’s have a conversation about where you want to go as a leader and the challenges you face.