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Consulting Services

We focus on our client's critical issues and opportunities: purpose, position, strategy, marketing, operations, and transformation.

Sand Hills Advisor

Our Mantra:
  • Purpose drives meaning,
  • Meaning drives passion,
  • Passion creates motivation and persistence,
  • Motivation and Persistence drive success.
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Meet Jim Ratcliff

      Hi!  I’m a business and education consultant, helping entrepreneurs, businesses, and colleges and universities to align their strategies with their purpose, achieve their goals, evaluate their successes, and tell their stories to those they serve.

      My passion is to leave the world a better place. I will bring value to your organization and help you maximize its social and economic impact. My value proposition: help you and your organization do better than proceeding without my help.

      In business, I served as Chairman and CEO of Rowpar Pharmaceuticals for 22 years.  I've built better boards, aligned management teams to vision, and developed programs, processes and products that improved the lives of customers.  Less than 10% of small firms are consistently profitable over 5 years, and even fewer survive for more than 10 years. I’ve done this and can help you do the same.

      Education is often key to change.  Innovations by definition are things, processes, and products that consumers don’t know about until they learn about them.  Making a difference involves engaging and educating the people you serve.  Want to improve getting your message across? I can help. I've led the top ranked research center concerning college outcomes and helped over 600 universities, accrediting bodies, state agencies, and NGOs, sharpen their message and ramp up their effectiveness.

      When not helping others, I hike the great outdoors, swim, enjoy and support live music.   My life is full, and I am grateful to all those along the way who helped me.  Let me do the same for you.

Services Provided

  • Strategy Consulting

    • Aligning to purpose

    • Establishing vision, mission and goals

    • Near-term and long-terms plans

    • Achieving growth grounded on profitability

  • Organizational Consulting

    • Optimizing organization hierarchies

    • Selecting educational and marketing structures

    • Streamlining workflows and operations

  • Financial Consulting

    • Aligning capital raises with purpose

    • Achieving a sound financial model

    • Assessing opportunities and opportunity costs

    • Scaling into new markets

  • Management Consulting

    • Optimizing teams, projects and departments

    • Building team commitment to purpose

    • Building better governing and advisory boards

    • Engaging with social and professional networks

Testimonials

Don’t Take My Word for It

I am a firm believer that when you are faced with a problem you don’t know how to solve, seek out the top experts in the field and learn from their experience...When it came time to set up a board of directors for the nonprofit, we knew that we needed to find some mentorship to give us direction...

Jim was kind enough to provide direction.... His input came at a time where we very much needed the direction.

Craig Cookston DPT, CNIM,
Kaleida In-House Services,
Neuro Alert

Jim has superb organizational skills. He is by far the most generous, hardworking and outstanding person I have meet. 

John Harper Silvestro Hoffman
Worldwide Wess Information Ltd

Jim's vast experience and insights related to strategy, are engaging and enlightening... I also had the opportunity to receive Jim's specific feedback on the development of a hybrid business incubator; comments that helped bring several aspects of the proposed business into a new light.

Kenneth W. Hein, Value Architect @ Hein Sight
 

Let's Talk

Sand Hills Advisor

11405 East Sand Hills Road, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

+1 (719) 406-8350

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