a general management consulting firm specializing in energy and environment
The American Hazard Consultant Group integrates technology, business strategy, and public expectations to support environmental, energy and critical materials decisions for leading firms across North America. We now work on assignments from Africa to Canada and throughout the United States, with a range of Corporate Affiliates listed at www.ahcgroup.com
Keywords: corporate consulting, leadership training, near future trends work, advisories on business to business alliances like our work with COSIA in Canada and with ASDA in a food security project in Sub Sahara Africa
Interview Q&A
How long have you been in business?
We have been in business for 32 years as a S corporation, serving now 48 of the Fortune 500 from Toyota and Suncor Energy to Warren Buffett's Shaw Industries.
What is your primary product or service?
We are classic management consultants, based on our books and first hand corporate experiences. You can see our bios in action at www.corporateconsultants.com. Our areas of ongoing expertise can be summed up in our Corporate Affiliates workshops on emerging issues, competing on sustainability, delivering on the bottom line, and risk and risk reduction. More on that at our Affiliates pages at www.ahcgroup.com. In June we bring these Affiliates to Saratoga
How did you first become interested in your line of business? (if owner) - What is your background? (If owner or store manager)
I am the founder and owner, after buying out my partners in the 1980s and 1990s. You can read about this in my book for John Wiley and Sons, Doing More with Less. I have always been interested in the changing dynamics between business and social needs for mobility, sustainability, energy reserves. I found that interest set while a student at Cornell, doing a PHD from there in natural resources, cultural history, and related fields. It was fun, now it is fundamental. I would say that my background, since I published, shaped our first set of clients, but now we've grown in the group well beyond my scope of interests.
How do you differentiate yourself from other businesses in your category and area?
We are swift, agile, and relatively inexpensive since we are not interested in dragging out an assignment. All of our Senior Associates ran large functions in companies like Whirlpool, Kimberly Clark, BP, Hess, and DuPont. So our key clients are impatient with process, and strive to achieve meaningful results fast. This is a very different model than our competitors, who have large staffs and extreme overhead and debt.
How many locations do you have and do you have plans to expand?
No plans to expand, except our profit margins. We are firm founded in the principles and the artful discipline of competitive frugality. Our teams are efficient, effective, and lean, and in a way, ever changing. Last year we worked in a team of 7 for Wal-Mart and ASDA in Africa, bringing in the Bank of South Africa and from Israel Netafim to bring drip irrigation to 3000 woman in Zambia. This stuff is exciting, so we take it as it arrives, with no serious plans to expand.
Provide detailed directions to your location
Not available, call us at 518-583-9615. Marti Simmons will arrange a call for me and others in the group, once you express to her the nature of your interest
What type of payments do you accept?
We have web based merchant bank links for enrollments to our Corporate Affiliates workshops. We receive payments by check or credit card as well.
Which areas do you service?
Corporate affairs, public relations, environmental and sustainability and stakeholder issues.
Who owns your company or runs daily operations?
Not relevant to these questionaire
What are your hours of operation?
Normal business hours
What is the best compliment anyone can give you?
That they enjoyed our work results, and that they can see how my books at www.brucepiasecki.com are informative or delightful to read.
What is your favorite quote or Bible verse?
I do like Emily Dickerson's stern and clever warning: Life is short, anguish is absolute, and many are hurt--But what of that?