Change Partnerships
Fractional CFO: A Creative Solution to Managed Business Growth
A fractional CFO is an experienced CFO who is under contract to provide financial management services for an organization on a part-time, retainer, or contract basis.
Our impact on the companies we serve is undeniable
Client success stories just feel so good - the best measurement of a job well done.
Recent Insights: Free Expertise for your Business Success
Change Partnerships
Change Consultants
Change consultants have the knowledge and tools necessary to facilitate an organization’s smooth transition across changes.
Growth Partnerships
Networking for Business Partnerships
Part Two of a Two-Part Series on B2B Partnerships and Why Networking Doesn’t have to Suck!
When Startup Consulting Can Benefit Your Business
The challenges to startups are many, and insights into how to overcome them can feel distant. Hiring a qualified startup consultant is one way to sidestep pitfalls, accelerate growth, and invest in sustainability.
Growth Partnerships
Business Startup Consulting: Benefits
NO ONE KNOWS EVERYTHING, and everyone can get overwhelmed.
Growth Partnerships
B2B Partnerships
Part One of a Two-Part Series on B2B Partnerships and Why Networking Doesn’t Have to Suck!
Operations
Influencers, Tech, and Beyond: Types of Startups
Just as there are many types of startups, there are many types of consultants & contractors who support startups.
Change Partnerships
Social Impact Consulting: Here to Stay?
Organizations make a positive social impact when they take thoughtful, intentional action that addresses social challenges through their business operations.
Consulting 101: All You Need to Know
Find a few of our core learnings about when to hire a consultant, and what you need to be looking for when you do.
Consulting 101
When to Hire a Consultant
Marketplace conditions can change quickly, calling business leaders to action, but what action do they need to take, and how? And when? While there are situations in which business leaders are able to overcome obstacles with the resources they have on staff, at other times they need help.
Consulting 101
Core Values
Core values are inherent to your company’s mission. Uncovering and talking about your core values is essential to your success.
Consulting 101
Traditional Consultancy Model
What is the Traditional Consultancy Model and Why Does it So Often Fail?
Consulting 101
Qualities of a Good Consultant
A good consultant is drawn to this line of work because they love helping clients succeed. The qualities covered in this article support them, as they aim to serve their clients well.
Consulting 101
Target Audience
Promoting your brand, your services, and your products to the world at large, will never be economically viable for your marketing budget, or effectively deliver news about what you offer to the right people.
Consulting 101
An Introduction To Open Eye
We help small businesses and non-profit leaders make greater impact in the world, using current data, insights, and great people, to craft achievable change strategies together.
Consulting 101
Target Audience
Promoting your brand, your services, and your products to the world at large, will never be economically viable for your marketing budget, or effectively deliver news about what you offer to the right people.
Consulting 101
Business Startup Consulting: Benefits
NO ONE KNOWS EVERYTHING, and everyone can get overwhelmed.
Leadership Coaching
Our leadership coaching programs are designed to harness your power to work better, lead better, and maximize your positive impact.
Leadership Coaching
What Is Conscious Leadership And Why It Matters
Conscious leadership is self-awareness, relational awareness, and behaviors that promote healthy interpersonal relationships and team collaboration.
Leadership Coaching
How to Recharge After a Full Day of Zoom Calls
We’ve gathered the best ways to avoid fatigue and recharge at the end of the day, so if you’re tired of virtual meetings, this article is for you!
Leadership Coaching
How to Navigate Transformational Change at Your Organization
Transformational change is often met with a groan, but it doesn’t have to be. When carried out successfully, the company and employees alike stand to benefit; when botched, the experience can be vexingly unforgettable for all involved.
Leadership Coaching
The Importance of Healthy Boundaries at Work
If healthy boundaries at work are essential to employee satisfaction and engagement, how do they deliver a return on investment?
Leadership Coaching
Human Centric Marketing
To most accurately position and market your brand, remember that your brand is not the most important part of the equation—the individual ultimately encountering your brand is.
Leadership Coaching
Wellness Leading Up to the Holidays and Throughout the Year
Highlighting the importance of prioritizing wellness and self-care over the holidays.
Growth Partnerships
Tips and free insights on how to make your purpose-driven organization grow.
Growth Partnerships
Growing with a Fractional COO
You’ve successfully launched your business and you’re growing, you’ve grown. But despite the exciting growth, you’re noticing snags. Congratulations! You’ve hit a milestone and you’re aware enough to know that you need to make some adjustments. It might be time to bring in a Chief Operating Officer.
Growth Partnerships
B2B Business Models: An Exploration
The B2B business model is quite different from the B2C business model, in ways that require careful examination from anyone considering making the leap to B2B.
Growth Partnerships
When Startup Consulting Can Benefit Your Business
The challenges to startups are many, and insights into how to overcome them can feel distant. Hiring a qualified startup consultant is one way to sidestep pitfalls, accelerate growth, and invest in sustainability.
Growth Partnerships
Converting Strategy into Action, a Client Success Story
Remember that Strategy Plan? The best time to use it is NOW!
Growth Partnerships
How Long does it Take to Write a Business Plan? Get started in one hour. (Part 1 of 3)
One of the most exciting things you’ll ever do is start a new company. Developing your Big Idea into a profitable business makes you incredibly proud and gives you the kind of freedom most people only dream about.
Partner Q&As
Open Eye presents a Q&A series with our human partner experts. Inspiring work is WHAT we do, but WHO we are is so much more than that!
Operations
Meet Madison
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts. This Q&A will help you get to know the experiences Madison brings to our collective.
Operations
Meet Christian
“I’ve said many times that we built our consultancy out of bad experiences with other consultants, who cared more about extending their own contracts rather than solving problems for the client and completing the job. I’m proud that we put the client needs first, and are willing to get our hands dirty to help them achieve their goals.”
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Meet Hilary
“We love when clients want to take an active role in any project we undertake with them, to bounce ideas off of and to challenge ours.”
Operations
Meet Laura
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Laura Esterly brings to Open Eye.
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Meet Paitra
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Paitra Walker brings to Open Eye.
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Meet Katrin
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts, whose experience and capabilities span the globe and a variety of industries. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Katrin Sawatzky brings to Open Eye.
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Meet Kiran
I really enjoy projects where I can empower clients, employees, and customers, to learn more about the “why” behind the “what”.
Operations
Meet Brandon
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts, whose experience and capabilities span the globe and a variety of industries. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Brandon J. Roy brings to Open Eye.
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Meet Taylor
Our Managing Partner and One of Our Original Employees is Leading Open Eye’s Expansion
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Meet Brooke
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts, whose experience and capabilities span the globe and a variety of industries. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Brooke Edge brings to Open Eye.
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Meet Sarah
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts, whose experience and capabilities span the globe and a variety of industries. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Sarah McIntee brings to Open Eye.
Operations
Meet EITR
Anyone can see how determined Cherena and co-founder, Keionna Baker, are to change the world with their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) services. And with such an ambitious mission, we at Open Eye are certain that this incredible company will help broaden the positive impact we can have on our clients.
Operations
Meet Alan
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Alan Busse brings to Open Eye.
Operations
Meet Anne
Open Eye relies on the amazing talent of our Experts. This Q&A will help you get to know what experiences Anne Shoemaker brings to Open Eye.
Case Studies
Read the Stories of our Star Clients
Case Studies
Case Study: The MHz Foundation
Overseeing daily operations, while implementing change management and strategy for the future.
Case Studies
Case Study: CloudFest
Case Studies
Case Study: Story Louisville
From a One-Woman Show to 13 Employees in Seven Months, Company Culture Included
Case Studies
Case Study: Dawson
Since 1946, Dawson had been servicing world-class clients with premier metal fabrication and craftsmanship — it was time to craft a sales and marketing strategy that would launch them into a future of continued success.
Case Studies
Case Study: i2Coalition
Open Eye was brought on to facilitate the seamless merger of i2Coalition and the DNA organization, forming the largest internet infrastructure advocacy group
Case Studies
Case Study: Plesk
Open Eye helped Plesk chart a path to growth by identifying trends in their own customer base.
Case Studies
Case Study: The Social Practice Lab
This impressive nonprofit, The Social Practice Lab, creates a measurable impact on the health outcomes of underserved communities across the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Case Studies
Case Study: One.com
One.com required the clarity to understand its next best moves, and wanted OE to make those strategic “go” or “no-go” recommendations for each market.
Case Studies
Case Study: Level Up
Leaders Who Inspire Us Through Change
Case Studies
Case Study: OVH
OVH is one of the largest, most well-known brands of web hosting in Europe engaged Open Eye to understand the U.S. buyer, pre-launch of their new North America based subsidiary.
Open Eye News & Updates
What’s new in our world?
Updates
Open Eye Partners with Onecore Ventures to Prioritize People and Passion
Open Eye, a consulting firm specializing in crafting achievable change strategies with small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit leaders to make a more significant impact in the world, today announced the addition of onecore ventures partner, Eric Seto, to their leadership team.
Updates
WBENC-Certified
Certified Women’s Business Enterprise: What The Certification Is and Why Your Woman-Owned Business Needs It
Updates
Strategy Sessions
From setting budgets to creating operational blueprints, your business plans for the next year need to be grounded in a strategy. Open Eye’s Strategy Sessions are an efficient way to get an individual or a team aligned around their goals for the next year and map those goals to objectives and metrics of success.
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