Gillett Associates - Whom We Serve


	Whom We Serve Senior executives Business Owners Professional Service Firms & their Leaders Project Teams & their Leaders Click on each item above for more information. Click here for a list of clients.		Clients for our keynotes and seminars include companies and organizations such as Corporations and professional service firms Professional and industry associations University executive education centers Personal development centers Social responsibility and community organizations

	Senior Executives Senior executives who seek to expand business performance face challenges of stretched organizations, business strategies quickly copied by competitors and management methods no longer powerful enough to generate success in an age driven by Human Energy Capital. We provide a resource to these executives through the methods we have developed over twenty years of assisting leading multi-national corporations on their business strategies, organizational and business process methods, and their leadership of knowledge worker organizations. Return to Top		"For the first time, we specifically addressed the critical questions in our business. Other consultants come in with a process they force the client to go through. You, however, worked with us to facilitate the process of developing our own plan – the company's first Strategic Plan." Jim Broadhead, formerly President, St. Joe Minerals Co (now part of Fluor) "What you do is make organizations work!" Bob Moore, Controller, Union Camp (now part of International Paper)

	Business Owners Business owners seeking to grow their businesses profitably face challenges of attracting, retaining and emergizing their people, positioning their product and their company for success in the market place, and innovating to reach the next level in their development. We provide guidance and support to business owners as they develop their strategies, shape relationships in the marketplace and lead their company. With our expertise in melding both the traditional business aspects and the people aspects, and with Dar Gillett's prior experience as a business owner himself, we help business owners improve both the financial and human dimensions of their companies. Return to Top		A high-technology company "You bring to the table a whole set of experiences outside of the company - so I don't just rely on the management around me. You have no political agenda. You synthesize, because you're looking at this from a fresh perspective and you have special organizational skills. When we come to the tough issues, I have more confidence, because I've done a thorough job analyzing the situation. What you have to offer is unique." Barbara Williams, CEO, Image Content Technology

	Professional Service Firms & their Leaders In an age when Human Capital drives the wealth creation process, the leaders of professional service firms seek to create and sustain competitive advantage through how they attract and utilize human capital. With knowledge and professional skills becoming commoditized and increasingly priced that way in the market place, service firm leaders must find ways to create new competitive advantage through an expanded impact of the full range of human capital. We provide the guidance and methods to go just that. We help firms create sustainable competitive advantage not just through the knowledge the firm possesses, but also through how human relationships are formed within the firm and with clients, drawing on human spirit as well as human talent. Services for professional services firms include Executive Mentoring Consulting Peer Advisory Groups With our experience in the leadership of human energy capital and Dar Gillett's experience in senior management of a mid-sized law firm, we provide professional service firm leaders with a valuable resource to draw on. Return to Top		An Architectural Firm serving large institutions "...our recent growth – 350% over the prior year, with an increase of only 140$ in people costs – is a direct result of what has come out of this (peer advisory) group.” Ken Boroson, president Kenneth Boroson Architects Winner of 2003 Connecticut Inner City Entrepreneurship Award A Project Management Firm for high-end residences and institutions "Darwin Gillett has been an invaluable advisor to me and my firm since 1997. We were experiencing rapid growth with the addition of nine professionals and supporting staff members within a year and had established a satellite office. Our assignments were difficult and demanding. We called in Dar to assess our situation. He designed a program of consultations with each of us individually using non obtrusive forms for confidential feedback. He evaluated the responses and then both mentored and coached each of us as individuals and in groups at both office locations and in collective sessions. Dar led us to finding the answers that lay within each of us with individual responsibility and then as a team with a common set of values and a mission of serving our clients." Steve Hall, President, Chandler LLC

	Project Teams & their Leaders Corporations are increasingly calling on project teams to solve tough business problems, chart new approaches to more effective business, and to draw together in collaboration experts from different parts of the company. While these project teams have great promise, they also face big challenges in learning how to work in new ways. We help these teams clarify their project purpose and goals and organize their work in ways that draw forth the best of the group and its members. We also provide guidance and support to the project leader. Return to Top		A cross-functional business systems team "When you came into the project, it was a mess. In a relatively short time, you helped us regroup and reorganize to address our problems - we just came from so far behind to so far up front. Without you, we would never have gotten as far as fast as we did." Domenick Kauffman, Team Project Leader, Container Division, Union Camp (now part of International Paper)

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