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In the following quotes, references to Ralston Consulting Inc. are abbreviated to RCI.

"Brilliant work. An ability to understand concepts and situations in an instant and feed it back to the people they are working with in a clear and more useful focus.

They help give new life to an organization - a life unto itself. Out of confusion and politics and ego, they help leadership set a focus and direction, and a way of keeping it on track, all in a really short amount of time."

- Joan Jenkinson, Director Programming Operations, VisionTV

"What is RCI's greatest strength? The ability to very effectively question and synthesize information. Question in a way that challenges people's thinking and synthesize in a way that supports their learning.

You’re actually in the work for the results that it will produce. Not just the creation of reports or strategies that will sit on the shelf, you are committed to implementation and creating something that is implementable. 'Here’s what you need to do to be successful'

If you and your organization are truly committed to organizing yourselves around a clearly articulated strategy in a way that provides high probability of success in terms of implementation, then you’ve got to talk to Ralston Consulting Inc."

- Charles Holmes, Simon Fraser University

"You've done an excellent job with the analysis report. Concise, yet thorough, hits on critical points, yet doesn't gloss over the subtleties. I especially like the business report cards - terrific tool."

-Director of Business, A Research Organization

“In order to effectively revise our strategy, we needed to master our situation. Ralston Consulting helped us gather and make sense of the information on a tight timeline. Their work was very thorough, and significant in helping us frame and comprehend the current reality.

Despite an aggressive schedule and a fixed deadline, we could not short-circuit the strategic planning process. Gary provided constant, timely and material support to me and to the team in driving to develop an integrated answer to the challenges we face.

Ralston Consulting’s decision-making process was particularly valuable – executive management and board moved from a range of viewpoints to a true, thoughtful consensus about our strategic direction in the course of two days.”

- Jonathan Wilkinson, President and CEO
Questair Technologies.

"The way we decide what to develop and what to acquire has changed. It has gone from a 'hind brain' or gut feeling of 'yeah, let's run with this one' to a clear and codified decision process that increases our odds of delivering a hit product to our market."

- Greg Dalen, VP Product Development, Power On Software

"Ralston Consulting's digital decision-making process was immensely enlightening. The highly customized exercise does not impose pre-determined answers or philosophies on my decision making process. Gary’s guidance brought increased clarity and action steps based on what truly matters to me, not on my gut instincts or intuition. As a result, I am implementing plans and tools which will save my business thousands of dollars. I highly recommend this process."

- Amy Showalter, President, The Showalter Group, Inc.

"Remarkable interpersonal skills and intuitions in how they deal with people. Able to get what’s going on and assess the relationship. Get in the way of the negative and make it positive.

RCI's approach tends to be less bound up with data. Most other groups have been very much data oriented - creating reams and reams of paper, then manipulating the data. To me, these data-based approaches made it hard to come to meaningful decisions - they overlook the real forces. With RCI, we don’t start and end with data, we start with objectives.

The greatest value to us was in articulating the principal focus of the organization."

- Kealy Wilkinson, Alliance for Children and Television; former Board Chairperson, Women in Film and Television - Toronto

"They have the ability to get me to hone and clarify the vision - to work with me to the point that they too were fluent with the vision. They then create a clear effective business plan with that information.

Regarding other people I’ve approached for help with my business, others took at face value what I presented. RCI smashed right through it… questioning the deeper thinking on the business."

- Dr. Judith Boice, author of "But My Doctor Never Told Me That!"

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