HOW to
Grow
Profit
Sustain

CHARLIE LEICHTWEIS

“The WHY and the WHAT are critical for success…

the HOW validates and aligns those two elements to create sustainable, profitable growth.”

WHY CHOOSE US?

BESIDES OUR AMAZING TEAM…

“Charlie worked with me in two roles while at Blyth. Both involved highly challenging turnaround situations where Charlie played a critical leadership role in the evaluation of the businesses, followed by the development and implementation of strategies that resulted in profitable growth and continuous process improvement to get the businesses on their feet. He is a hands-on leader, and agile thinker, who can be trusted to help with how to create sustainable profitable growth.”

STEVE KOSMALSKI

Chairman of the Board, Precious Moments Family of Companies

“Charlie worked with me in two roles while at Blyth. Both involved highly challenging turnaround situations where Charlie played a critical leadership role in the evaluation of the businesses,...[read more] followed by the development and implementation of strategies that resulted in profitable growth and continuous process improvement to get the businesses on their feet. He is a hands-on leader, and agile thinker, who can be trusted to help with how to create sustainable profitable growth.”[/read]

STEVE KOSMALSKI

Chairman of the Board, Precious Moments Family of Companies

“Charlie is an exceptional leader and manager. I recommend Charlie to anyone whose goal is excellence in performance and concrete results. I have known Charlie for at least fifteen years and have been privileged to work with him in two different environments, education and corporate consulting. He is an exemplary executive, an engaging teacher and facilitator and a man whose integrity is unchallenged. It is with the highest regard that I recommend Charlie to all parties considering him for a role in helping their organization.”

J. Scott Bermingham

Formerly, Associate Dean and Director of faculty, the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

“Charlie is an exceptional leader and manager. I recommend Charlie to anyone whose goal is excellence in performance and concrete results. ...[read more]I have known Charlie for at least fifteen years and have been privileged to work with him in two different environments, education and corporate consulting. He is an exemplary executive, an engaging teacher and facilitator and a man whose integrity is unchallenged. It is with the highest regard that I recommend Charlie to all parties considering him for a role in helping their organization.”[/read]

J. Scott Bermingham

Formerly, Associate Dean and Director of faculty, the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

“Charlie is an ethical manager who provides effective and timely and supportive Leadership. Tactically his daily goal is to exceed consumer and retailer expectations by supporting the group’s positive ideas and initiatives. He believes in personal development and balances employee growth within business development. Charlie understands the best crafted business plan is only as profitable as the execution and problem solving skills of the leadership team.”

John Gardner

Consumer Goods Professional, former Vice President at Blyth Wholesale Group

“Charlie is an ethical manager who provides effective and timely and supportive Leadership. ...[read more]Tactically his daily goal is to exceed consumer and retailer expectations by supporting the group’s positive ideas and initiatives. He believes in personal development and balances employee growth within business development. Charlie understands the best crafted business plan is only as profitable as the execution and problem solving skills of the leadership team.”[/read]

John Gardner

Consumer Goods Professional, former Vice President at Blyth Wholesale Group

“Charlie is the consummate executive, a visionary leader who achieves objectives while mentoring others. Charlie's generation & successful implementation of strategies across multiple business units & locations, financial acumen, knowledge of the marketplace , as well as solid relationships with vendors, customers and employees at all levels of the organization resulted in significant & sustainable impact on the P&L.”

Joe Sova

V.P. Human Resources, Flying Food Group

“Charlie is the consummate executive, a visionary leader who achieves objectives while mentoring others. ...[read more]Charlie's generation & successful implementation of strategies across multiple business units & locations, financial acumen, knowledge of the marketplace, as well as solid relationships with vendors, customers and employees at all levels of the organization resulted in significant & sustainable impact on the P&L.”[/read]

Joe Sova

V.P. Human Resources, Flying Food Group

”I have known Charlie for over 15 years and worked with him most recently on his efforts to turn around The Testor Corporation. My capacity was as consultant and had an inside view of his efforts to restore the trust and brand value in the marketplace.” Charlie provided a strategy of new product development, reducing costs, increasing productivity that demonstrated a leadership style of broad business acumen and a true care for the business, customers and employees. He was able to achieve a profitable growth rate on new products introduced while exiting other unprofitable lines. He will be the first person to tell you that he needed to build trust and credibility in the workforce and he did this through being present, consistent communications and unwavering expectations for superior performance. He was not only liked as a leader, but was respected by all levels of employees.”

John Cassin

Demonstrated thought leader and coach, CEO JDC Solutions

”I have known Charlie for over 15 years and worked with him most recently on his efforts to turn around The Testor Corporation. ...[read more]My capacity was as consultant and had an inside view of his efforts to restore the trust and brand value in the marketplace.” Charlie provided a strategy of new product development, reducing costs, increasing productivity that demonstrated a leadership style of broad business acumen and a true care for the business, customers and employees. He was able to achieve a profitable growth rate on new products introduced while exiting other unprofitable lines. He will be the first person to tell you that he needed to build trust and credibility in the workforce and he did this through being present, consistent communications and unwavering expectations for superior performance. He was not only liked as a leader, but was respected by all levels of employees.”[/read]

John Cassin

Demonstrated thought leader and coach, CEO JDC Solutions

PROFESSIONAL ENDORSEMENTS

Operations/Process Improvement

Strategy

Leadership/Management

Product Development / Marketing

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At the core of everything we do is our belief that we are only successful if, through engaging with us, our clients make a living from the experience and expertise we can provide them.
Sun Tzu, Chinese strategist and author of The Art of War stated that “leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and discipline…” We believe that respect is the linchpin for operating effectively across those traits of leadership.
We believe leadership is an equal emphasis on results and relationships. We take pride in helping our clients achieve success and we greatly value the relationship with our clients.
We believe that leadership exist at all levels of an organization. Leadership does not require designated authority.
We believe that in helping our clients achieve success we will help the families and communities who rely on our clients’ business.

WHAT WE DO

Helping organizations with WHAT we do…

We help our clients with HOW to achieve sustainable, profitable growth through a combination of strategic, organizational, and operational guidance as well as implementation where needed.

Our process is a unique approach to Enterprise assessment and a front line focused identification of gaps in strategic, functional, and process alignment. The results are tailored, actionable solutions that can be executed at all levels of an organization to optimize sustainable profitable growth and maximize cash flow.

OUR TEAM

Our team includes successful C suite leaders who have a unique combination of creating sustainable profitable growth through leadership roles in industry, leading consulting engagements for clients, and fiduciary roles as member of Board of Directors. The list of companies we have worked with in our careers include fortune 100 companies, well known branded consumer companies, as well as family owned and private equity backed companies.

In addition we maintain strategic affiliations with a number of companies that provide expertise to implement successful processes for engineering, category management analytics, digital strategy, customer engagement and IT services, among others.

COMPANIES WE’VE HELPED

The list of companies we have worked with throughout our careers include fortune 100 companies, companies who have the number one brand recognition in their category, large and small family owned businesses, Private Equity backed companies, as well as a combination of B2B and B2C companies.

AFFILIATIONS

Our team at Experts In HOW includes affiliated consultancies that help provide our clients targeted technical expertise that complements the services we provide. We have a number of subject matter experts we can draw upon to maximize value for our clients.