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"After 25 years in business, I invested in Jonathan Jones to facilitate and implement a strategic plan for my Architecture and Engineering firm in 2006.
Jonathan engaged intimately as an organization mentor and leadership coach for our current and future executives and managers. Jonathan was a catalyst to help us transform our culture, methods, and processes toward becoming a leader in the design and build industry, while preserving our emphasis on design leadership within our culture.
Jonathan guided us with a framework that has that defined our economic engine that funded our growth and defined us as a leader in the market segments we are best able to and desire to serve. Jonathan connected the details to create a performance culture. To date, we are a year ahead of many objectives set and have grown in the markets where we desired our growth to be.
Our people, who are our greatest asset, are a better team who collaborate extremely well with our partners and clients. I feel that I have already received a significant return on my investment in Jonathan. Our work accelerated my ability to confidently promote my son to president with a strong team around him, with a firm knowledge he is prepared to lead KAI Design & Build for the next 30 years. I am pleased to recommend Jonathan Jones Consulting. Michael Kennedy Sr., Chairman & CEO (KAI Design & Build).
Michael Kennedy Reference Leter (pdf file)
http://www.kai-db.com
Success with the help of Quilogy (pdf file)
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"I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your passion and energy that you brought to organization over the past several months.
In a time where many are struggling with identity issues, you helped guide us in defining our core values, harnessing the strengths of our team members and leveraging them to help build upon great foundation.
Our process improvement group is making real progress thanks to the systems and procedures you brought to the table. They are now tackling this initiative with a clear and identifiable purpose.
My core group is established with folks I can trust and build upon for future development. They are the future of this organization and your engagement helped me identify the values and skills needed in this very important role.
Overall, your "culture of trust" training has changed the vibe throughout the organization. On behalf of the entire organization, thank you."
Pat Kozeny, President - Kozeny-Wagner, Inc.
Pat Kozeny Referral Letter (pdf file)
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The National Biodiesel Board, the Industry Association for Biodiesel, had grown rapidly with the interest in Biodiesel?s benefit to the environment, national security , and the rural economy. Our team of professionals were used to accomplishing incredible results for our members with an attitude of addressing any challenge with a lot of hard work and determination. However, we recognized due to the increased funding we were responsible for and the growth of our industry, we need a more structured environment and a method to demonstrate performance to our members, our funders, and or board. We engaged Jonathan to establish a performance management methodology which included better project management methodologies, and automated tools to manage our organization. He worked with our team while we were involved with our day to day practices using an organization coaching approach. Leveraging our strategic plan as a guide, he helped us align our objectives and daily practices to the plan.
As a result, we have:
- Increased our ability to meet the aligned objectives of NBB, our members, and our funders.
- Better positioned the organization to meet the increasing project demands from the industry and the federal and state government.
- Increased our billability ratio to maximize revenue to the organization.
- Established a process that has fully funded the organization?s efforts before the 2010 fiscal year started, compared to approximately 70% in the past.
Jonathan helped us to:
- Establish a performance management program to include a formal performance review process.
- Establish a process to communicate the performance of the staff to the membership in a way that the diverse membership understands the value that the staff provides to the industry.
- Identify objectives to meet the mission of the NBB.
- Align the objectives of the NBB with the staff and committees.
- Identify performance roadblocks existing in the organization.
- Improve communication and teamwork within the staff to improve performance.
- Increased the controls needed to manage a growing organization from a fiscal and project management perspective.
- Established an integrated online time and project management tool.
We highly recommend Jonathan Jones Consulting.
Donnell Rehagan, Chief Operating Officer, National Biodiesel Board
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"We are pleased with our association with Jonathan. He used his services to perform a gap analysis of our MIS organization and during his engagement demonstrated its strong ability to support our company's business areas, plants, and distribution channels. We extended his engagement so that he could create a plan of action to reorganize the MIS department, and assist in the development of our MIS staff at multiple locations. Jonathan quickly gained the respect of the executive management team and the entire organization at Milnot/Beech-Nut.
Jonathan brought in-depth project management concepts to the team, along with day to day customer support practices. He helped increase the stability of our infrastructure through outsourcing and identified many cost savings projects, particularly in our EDI and supply chain area. We have made significant progress from last year and Jonathan played a major role in elevating our group to higher standards with increased performance.
I will not hesitate to recommend his service to any other organization seeking a consultant that is at first an entrepreneur, honest and fair, and capable to compete with any other consulting firm."
Alain Souligny, Chief Financial Officer Milnot Holding Corporation.
Read the May, 2004 Article in CFO Magazine about Milnot/Beech-Nut's use of technology to improve their order to cash cycle!
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"Jonathan understood our complex organizational objectives and coordinated
the high and low level tasks to realize them. Change is seldom well received
and Mpower was no exception. Jonathan was called upon to drive these changes
within organizational groups and structures that resisted change. His
easy demeanor was well suited for the challenge. This ability to blend
skill sets to bridge organizational boundaries was a great benefit to
us and played a large part in our project successes."
Joel Hendershot - Vice President Business Support Systems, Mpower Communications
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We enlisted Jonathan's assistance as a moderator for our corporate strategic
planning sessions. Understanding our corporate culture, he enabled our
group to accurately pinpoint and maintain our focus. Jonathan's guidance
and leadership in these sessions served as a driving force for maximizing
our potential.
Demonstrating top-notch organizational skills via concise group exercises
and follow-up, he helped us create a long-term vision for our company.
Working with Jonathan proved to be a most rewarding and pleasant experience.
Bill Green, Founder and Chairman, SCI Engineering, Inc.
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Over the past 2-years, Jonathan Jones has worked on several consultative
engagements for Mpower Communications. Jonathan's project involvement
with Mpower Communications has spanned both functional and technical projects
and project management roles. Jonathan is a dedicated and hardworking
individual who can work independently, as a team member or a team leader.
He possesses excellent communication, organizational, planning and people
skills. Jonathan has an understanding of business and technologies and
their associated challenges. He has the capability of seamlessly blending
into your organization. Jonathan is a versatile individual who worked
tirelessly on several major projects that included billing systems implementation
and conversions, user system readiness activities, systems and acceptance
testing, data migration coordination and data cleanup activities, turning-up
of new market services as well as market closures and decommissioning
of services. Throughout the duration of these projects Jonathan exhibited
an outstanding level of professionalism, dedication and fortitude to bring
these projects to a successful closure.
Tony Marion, Vice President of Operational Support Systems, Mpower Communications
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"Jonathan's energy and enthusiasm permeated our Dale Carnegie Leadership
Training for Managers class. The clarity of his teaching increased our
organization's effectiveness and helped us to achieve common goals. His
dynamic and thought provoking leadership skills have led us to retain
him for strategic planning activities."
Mark Harms, President, SCI Engineering
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