Kobe Bogaert - Consulting & Service - Management - ERM - Business Coach

Profession	Consulting & Service

Specialty	Management - ERM - Business Coach

Group	UTC [GLIT - EC]

Business Name	Strategic Momentum Inc.

Title	Principal

Address	3833 Ruette San Raphael San Diego, CA 92130-8611

Work Phone	(858)433-9758

Fax

Web Site	www.strategic-momentum.com

Member Since	1/2010

We work with our clients to help them change behaviors and processes that positively impact their results. This means we are typically involved with strategic and operational issues, including building high-performance teams.

The top 7 high-level issues our clients deal with typically are:
1. The revenue and/or profit growth is below the CEO�s expectation.

2. The company has difficulty to get products to market quickly.

3. The company suffers from ineffective coordination of action resulting in poor execution & poor customer satisfaction.

4. The executive team is not performing at the level the CEO wants to see their team perform in terms of the overall team effectiveness. Or, some executives need help building their team.

5. For companies that are growing quickly, they realize the business will get more challenging & the team will have to stretch to keep up. As a result, they want to improve the leadership capabilities of everyone & of the overall team consistent with their growth objectives.

6. Some team members do not have mutual respect & trust for other team members. Consequently, the team is not debating the real issues.

7. Even when the team comes to a decision and agrees on a general course of action, there is a gap in strong cross-functional planning, execution & follow-through. The team has difficulty getting on the same page.

When these issues are not handled well, the people tend to become blame-focused rather than action-focused, with gossip and backbiting contaminating the environment. Add to that, a lack of empowerment to make decisions, poor relationships and distrust, and you get a mood of apathy, cynicism, which turns into a mood of resignation and resentment.

When a CEO or other C-Level executive talks to us, they do so because one or more of the issues above are in their face, and they can no longer ignore the issues. They realize they have to resolve these issues if they want to accelerate revenue and profit growth.

We focus on helping clients change behaviors and processes to dramatically improve business results.

Our service offerings include:
- PROFIT AUDIT: a quick operational audit to identify areas for improvement with immediate impact on profits. This will create an immediate action plan for operational improvement.

- ERM AUDIT: a strategic, operational and team audit to identify the ERM quotient of the company including Relationship and Trust, Strategic review and Operational review. This will create an action plan for immediate improvement and long-term success.

- STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSIONS incl. strategic objectives and action plan

- BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT, DOCUMENTATION and KEY METRICS

- LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT focused on removing dysfunctionalities , change and implementation.

- HIGH-PERFORMING TEAM DEVELOPMENT with high degree of collaboration, cooperation and coordination of action

Our client typically has been between $10 million to $150 million in revenues. With about 10% of our clients smaller, and 10% of our clients significantly larger.

Most often our conversations start for one of the reasons listed under business overview with the CEO, President, COO, CFO, GM, or other independent leader. Their buy-in is important for the overall success of the program.

Recently, we have also been approached by HR executives who see ERM as a strategic initiative that they can lead in the organization. They will bring us in the conversation with the executive team. In the end, we still need to talk to the decision maker as they will lead by example.

Although we are in general industry agnostic, the industries we have worked in include:
- Software/IT
- Telecom
- Electronics
- Manufacturing
- Health Care
- Biotech/Pharma
- Transportation
- Semi-government
- Construction

We are headquartered out of San Diego, have an office in Austin, TX, and have a presence in Orange County.

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Social Clubs	Rotary Club 33, Downtown San Diego


Charities	Charity work through Rotary Club.


Graduate Degrees	MBA, Strategic Management, USIU, San Diego


College Degrees	BS, Finance, KHLeuven, Belgium


Speaking/Teaching Experience	- UCSD Extension - Trade associations - 10/20 engagements/year


Organizations	- CommNexus, Marketlink - TechAmerica - CRT - CDF

San Diego - Consulting & Service

Specialties: Management - ERM - Business Coach