STRIVE
Our Ecosystem

The right expert joining your team.

Each company solves a specific business need. Clients enter through any of them, and there is no single front door. When more than one company can help, they work together, never a hand-off to a stranger.

Be Wise Consulting

Business consulting, leadership, HR, and implementation

Be Wise works inside the business with owners and leadership teams. Consulting, leadership development, HR, recruitment, training, implementation, accountability, and capability building, the work that touches all five drivers.

Problems it solves
  • No clear plan, or a plan nobody executes
  • Hiring, retention, and HR structure
  • Leaders who were promoted but never developed
  • Process, standards, and consistent delivery
  • Profitability and cost discipline
When to consider it
  • You know what needs to change but implementation keeps stalling
  • The business depends on you personally to function
  • You need capability built into your team, not a report
Led by Jenna Raimbault, President, Be Wise Consulting
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Compass Online Marketing

Digital marketing for demand and growth

Compass generates demand. Websites, search, paid campaigns, and the tracking that ties spend to booked work, built for businesses that need pipeline they can rely on.

Problems it solves
  • Not enough qualified enquiries
  • A website that does not convert
  • Invisible in search where it matters
  • Ad spend with no measurable return
When to consider it
  • Growth is capped by lead volume
  • You cannot trace revenue back to marketing
  • Your online presence no longer matches the business you run
Led by Wayne UnRuh, President, STRIVE and Compass Online Marketing
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Look Locale

Traditional marketing and local visibility

Look Locale puts businesses in front of the people who live, shop, and spend nearby, through print, local publishing, and community presence that digital alone cannot reach.

Problems it solves
  • Strong locally but unknown outside a small circle
  • Digital-only marketing missing a big part of the market
  • No presence in the community you actually serve
When to consider it
  • Your customers are local and buy on familiarity
  • You want visibility that lasts longer than a scroll
  • You are entering a new city or region
Led by Ross Petz, President, Look Locale
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Brand and Bloom

Branding, visual content, and recognition

Brand and Bloom builds the identity, visual content, and brand recognition a business carries into every room, higher touch creative for companies whose look no longer matches their ambition.

Problems it solves
  • A brand that undersells the quality of the work
  • Inconsistent look and voice across channels
  • No visual content library to market with
  • A rebrand, launch, or new market entry
When to consider it
  • You are competing on price because the brand is not doing its job
  • The business has grown past its original identity
  • You need creative that holds up next to national competitors
Led by Rhonda Tannahill, President, Brand and Bloom
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Schooley Mitchell

Strategic expense optimization

A specialized financial performance solution delivered through Be Wise Consulting. Schooley Mitchell improves profitability by reviewing and optimizing the operating expenses most businesses never audit.

Problems it solves
  • Vendor and supplier costs that have crept up for years
  • Telecom, merchant services, waste, and shipping spend nobody owns
  • Margin pressure with no obvious place to cut
When to consider it
  • You want profit improvement without cutting people or raising prices
  • Nobody has line-by-line reviewed operating costs recently
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Still growing

These companies are the beginning,not the end.

We add specialists when a real gap exists in a driver of business performance. The ecosystem is built to grow.

Drivers covered today
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Ecosystem introduction

Not sure where to start?

Book an ecosystem introduction with Jenna Raimbault. It is a conversation about your business, not a sales call. We will work out which areas need attention and connect you with the right expert.