Springboard Consulting Catherine Schirmeier

Providing strategic support for professional services firms and entrepreneurs

Welcome to Springboard Consulting

Springboard is a boutique consulting firm founded by Catherine Schirmeier, who serves as its principal consultant. Springboard clients work directly with Catherine to define and reach their business goals.

Welcome

Whether you want to

start a business,

grow a business or

overcome a business

challenge,

Springboard can help.

Together we will create clarity around your objectives and execute a plan to achieve them.

We will use data to guide strategy development and make decisions. You will become confident that you have an organized plan for your business as well as a partner who will support you through implementation.

Catherine’s strategic insight combined with her keen eye for detail and hyper-organized approach are what drive value for her clients.

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"I hired Catherine Schirmeier as my business consultant because I had no real strategy for taking my business to the next level. I have owned my business for twenty-one years, and I felt stuck. I feared that I would have to stop doing the work I love to do. Hiring Catherine was, hands down, one of the best decisions I have ever made; working with her has changed the trajectory of my business and, quite frankly, my life. Catherine is not only a true genius at what she does, but she is kind, supportive, and non-judgmental. She could immediately see the limitations of my business model and what was holding me back. Catherine could draw the connections between the here and now of my business while also seeing the big picture. We have worked together to devise a strategy that has taken my business to a level I could have never imagined. I have worked with Catherine for a year and more than doubled my revenue - doubled! She is truly brilliant and one of a kind, and as I said before, she changed my life.”

-Annika B.

Consulting For

Springboard works with small to mid-sized professional services firms and solo entrepreneurs. Current and past clients include providers of coaching, mental health services and market research as well as other consulting firms.

Many clients are in business by themselves or with small teams who have focused expertise in a specific area. Springboard fills in expertise gaps and empowers people engaged in professional services to flourish and prosper, punching way above their weight.

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Whether you need coaching, project management or implementation support, Springboard will help you take a leap forward.

Services

Engagements are customized to fit client goals and no two are exactly alike.

Project fees are charged hourly and billed monthly; occasionally, retainer-based client relationships are possible.

Growth Strategy

Client engagements often focus on how to start generating revenue or how to grow existing revenue streams. After analyzing performance to date, growth strategy projects cover several angles: Competitive landscape Voice of the customer Pricing analysis and benchmarking Marketing strategy including website development, email marketing and social media Sales process design and execution
Operations Planning and Implementation

Springboard works with clients to assess their needs for staffing, software, outsourcing, policies and procedures and real estate within the context of their business goals. Operations projects include assessment, planning and implementation support as well as project management as needed.
Business Coaching

Across their engagements and often afterwards, Springboard clients may choose to meet weekly, monthly, quarterly or on an ad hoc basis to review performance, reset goals and priorities, create task lists, troubleshoot issues and discuss ongoing strategy. Coaching provides clients with both accountability and support within the context of a trusted advisor relationship.

Approach

Catherine works collaboratively with clients and can provide as much or as little hands-on work as required depending on clients’ in-house capabilities and skills and their desire for assistance as well as their budget.

Her goal is to empower others as much as possible in the process of working together.

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Levels of Engagement

Strategic advice/coaching:

Some clients benefit most from a strategic advising relationship with Springboard. In regular meetings, we can think through long and short term issues, review performance metrics and create accountability for action steps.

Project management:

For when you need to ensure that a project gets done in the most organized and efficient way possible, Springboard will help you create a project plan and then manage the steps along the way so that nothing falls through the cracks.

Full implementation support:

Springboard can provide full implementation support for certain types of projects. Finding, evaluating and managing outsourced providers; transitioning to new software platforms, creating email marketing or website content; researching and implementing new software; evaluating real estate opportunities.

About

Catherine (Olson) Schirmeier is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Springboard. Her career in consulting has included direct client service and professional services firm management at consultancies such as The Advisory Board Company and CEB (now Gartner).

Catherine’s expertise spans functional areas including human resources (recruiting, compensation, benefits, leadership training and development); finance (managing outsourced accounting partners, budgeting, planning); enterprise software implementation, marketing (market research, RIVA-trained focus group moderator, content development, competitor research, price benchmarking), sales strategy and operations.

Catherine has an MBA from Harvard Business School and earned a BA magna cum laude with honors in philosophy and english from Colgate University.

Contact Catherine to discuss whether your project is a good fit for Springboard.

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