What We Do

Three engagements. Nine practice areas.

Every engagement starts the same way — understand the real state of your organization, then build the systems to improve it. Three headline tracks sit on top of the full capability stack Consulting Collaborative has built across 25+ years.

01The Foundation

Strategic Assessment. See your company through your employees' eyes.

Over 60 confidential questions. Every employee. On-site, in person.

Our proprietary Strategic Assessment Interview is the foundation of everything we do. Richard and his Managing Principals conduct the interviews personally — one-on-one, confidential, from the C-suite to the front line. Your people tell them what they've been waiting to say.

Every answer is tabulated, cross-referenced, and analyzed. Where does your team agree? Where do they diverge? What do they see as your greatest strength — and your most serious weakness? The result: a comprehensive findings report drafted by your engagement principal, reviewed by Richard, with prioritized action items your leadership will actually act on.

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Senior Consulting Collaborative consultant in an open-collar shirt conducting a confidential one-on-one Strategic Assessment interview with a mid-market plant manager across a meeting table, with the printed questionnaire and a coffee mug in front of them.
A Strategic Assessment interview in progress.
02The Engagement

Management by Accountability. From assessment to sustained profitability.

We stay. We measure. We hold your leadership to the plan.

Management by Accountability is the bridge between knowing what's wrong and actually fixing it. Your engagement principal works alongside your leadership to set clear goals, define measurable milestones, and build the accountability structures your team needs to execute. Richard stays in the conversation — reviewing progress, pressure-testing decisions, and making sure the method stays true.

This isn't theory. Every single MbA engagement has produced a profitability increase — every one. Happy customers, empowered employees, satisfied owners. Those are the three pillars of a business that works, and they're what we measure.

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Four mid-market business leaders in open-collar shirts and casual attire standing around a wall-mounted dashboard, with a senior woman gesturing at a rising performance line, reviewing accountability metrics in a working conference room.
Quarterly accountability review during an MbA engagement.
03The Modern Edge

Digital Presence & AI Integration. Where your customers — and your operations — meet the future.

Website, social, SEO, marketing automation, and AI — built as one system on both sides of the business.

Your digital presence is where buyers form an opinion before they ever speak with you. We rebuild it as one integrated system — a site that converts, social that sounds like your leadership, SEO tuned for the questions your best prospects are actually asking, AI-assisted content and outreach that scales what works, and automation that closes the loop between interest and pipeline.

On the operations side, we find the highest-impact AI opportunities inside your team's actual workflows — repetitive reporting, data analysis, customer communications, document processing, internal knowledge. We build and integrate tools that fit how you already work, so the ROI shows up in months, not quarters.

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Mid-market marketing strategist in an open-collar shirt working at a desk reviewing a multi-channel analytics dashboard on a curved widescreen monitor — website traffic, social engagement, SEO rankings, and an AI-assisted content pipeline visible side by side, with a coffee mug and exposed brick wall in frame.
Reviewing the integrated digital + AI dashboard mid-engagement.
The Record

Over twenty-five years of outcomes we can point to.

No theory. No decks that get filed. What Richard and his bench have actually delivered for companies that asked them to take the wheel.

0+YearsRichard's method, refined across every economic cycle since 2000.
0%MbA profitability liftEvery single engagement. Every one.
0StatesActive and past clients across the U.S., plus Europe and the Gulf.
$0BClient revenue ceilingClient revenues range from $2M to $20B. The process scales both ways.
Portfolio

From $2 million to $20 billion in revenue.

A full spectrum of domestic and international clients across manufacturing, building products, distribution, services, and the arts. A selection from over 25 years on the road with Richard and his bench.

Sherwin-Williams — Consulting Collaborative client
TBS — Consulting Collaborative client
Valpak — Consulting Collaborative client
Architectural Glass & Metal — Consulting Collaborative client
EFCO — Consulting Collaborative client
YKK AP — Consulting Collaborative client
Aluminum Extruders Council — Consulting Collaborative client
FCA International — Consulting Collaborative client
Sherwin-Williams — Consulting Collaborative client
TBS — Consulting Collaborative client
Valpak — Consulting Collaborative client
Architectural Glass & Metal — Consulting Collaborative client
EFCO — Consulting Collaborative client
YKK AP — Consulting Collaborative client
Aluminum Extruders Council — Consulting Collaborative client
FCA International — Consulting Collaborative client
CMD — Consulting Collaborative client
Automated Door & Access — Consulting Collaborative client
Dallas Symphony Orchestra — Consulting Collaborative client
Avanti Systems — Consulting Collaborative client
ASSA ABLOY — Consulting Collaborative client
A&M Fabricators — Consulting Collaborative client
King of Texas Roofing — Consulting Collaborative client
TrueView — Consulting Collaborative client
Quaker Windows & Doors — Consulting Collaborative client
Murphy Industrial Coatings — Consulting Collaborative client
CMD — Consulting Collaborative client
Automated Door & Access — Consulting Collaborative client
Dallas Symphony Orchestra — Consulting Collaborative client
Avanti Systems — Consulting Collaborative client
ASSA ABLOY — Consulting Collaborative client
A&M Fabricators — Consulting Collaborative client
King of Texas Roofing — Consulting Collaborative client
TrueView — Consulting Collaborative client
Quaker Windows & Doors — Consulting Collaborative client
Murphy Industrial Coatings — Consulting Collaborative client

Logos and names used with permission. Active and past clients — not all engagements public.

The Full Practice Set

Nine practice areas every engagement draws from.

Richard and his bench pull from the capability stack Consulting Collaborative has built across over 25 years. The mix is tuned to your business — not sold as a fixed package.

Strategic Planning

Multi-year roadmaps grounded in Strategic Assessment findings, tuned to your industry and stage — not templates.

Research & Reports

Industry, competitor, and customer research when leadership needs objective data behind a major decision.

Business Development

We work alongside your own team to open doors, pressure-test deals, and accelerate pipeline based on real customer research.

Research & Development

R&D-based strategy sessions grounded in two decades of successfully advising on product and innovation programs.

Human Resources

Organizational design, executive coaching, succession planning, and M&A transaction support when the team is the bottleneck.

Management Consulting

A wide portfolio of consulting tools matched to the size of the company and the size of the problem, with Managing Principals and Consulting Advisors running the work.

Marketing Communications

Positioning, messaging, and go-to-market work that helps clients articulate a clear brand strategy the way their buyers hear it.

Branding & Digital Presence

Website development, SEO, social media, marketing automation, and AI integration delivered as one unified customer-facing system.

Strategic Forums

Facilitated peer forums for internal leadership teams and cross-industry groups — structured conversations that surface what's really in the way.

Where We Work

Seven offices. Three continents.

Dallas headquarters with a principal consulting network across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Nationally and internationally, we understand where you actually do business.

The Promise

Every service drives toward three measurable outcomes.

What gets measured, gets done.

Richard VoreisFounder & CEO, Consulting Collaborative

Happy customers

Systems that deliver consistently. Customers who come back and refer others.

Empowered employees

Clear roles. Measurable goals. A voice in the organization's direction.

Satisfied owners

Profitability, growth, and confidence the business runs without constant intervention.

Not sure which fits?

Every engagement starts with a conversation.

Tell us where your business is today and where you want it to be — we'll recommend the right path forward.

Serving companies $2M–$20B across 36 states · Dallas · Boston · Toulouse · Dubai