From the founder

My journey has been long, and yes, sometimes hard.  It has been full of a great diversity of experiences.  Starting on the industry side of things, I learned how large companies work, and how to get complicated projects delivered in that challenging atmosphere.  As a major consulting services client within an oil company, I developed a set of expectations for consulting work: efficiency, practicality, effectiveness of deliverables, etc.  Then as a consulting company partner, I had the chance to lead the delivery of really large global compliance assurance projects.

It’s been roughly nine years since I founded JBE in 2015.  Way back then I had a vision to learn from all my consulting experiences (some 18 years at that point) and to build a company that was focused on what it takes to have happy employees.  I was pretty sure that if I could do that, all the pieces that lead to business success would just fall naturally in place.

So then what I decided was that if I wanted to do that with my brand-new consulting company, it needed to let staff work on what they wanted to, when they wanted to, and actually where they wanted to.  Was it possible to actually do this?  Well, I wasn’t really sure, but I was determined to try.

What did we do that made that vision come to life?  Well first, we let our employees tell us how many hours per week they wanted to work.  That was only achievable when we decided to pay everyone an hourly wage instead of salary.  The result – they get paid for every hour they work (not pay for 40 and work 60). Next, we all work remotely so no overhead for a client to have to pay, and no limits as to where our employees have to live to go to an office somewhere. 

So, what about the work?  Well, that’s the hard part.  In today’s very competitive world, if your team is not continuing to learn, eventually the competition will leave you behind. So, we’re committed to investing in training for all our practices.  Oh, and did I mention that we just recently allowed our staff to elect which types of practice area training they wanted.  We’ve attracted some true experts and we’re leveraging what they know to meet that need.  Further, in today’s challenging world taking the best consultants in new directions can make that journey much more successful.  We’ve been doing that since day #1, so this is also part of our fabric.  Our experience set is growing each day, so finding ways to share that internally and externally is our next big challenge – we’re working on that!

One more thing that we think is really important. Your consulting personality is the collective experiences of all those people you are able to attract to join the company.  Not just the technical experience, the cultural experience.  If you’ve worked through some adversity in your past, you are much more likely to work actively to limit that adversity.  That’s our corporate personality – treat each other the way we want to be treated (not a new concept of course). But part of that is contributing your fair share – making deliverables that make us all proud, keeping things positive, always be learning, just being what a quality results delivery engine should be.

So, if all this makes sense to you, talk to us about how our team can be helping your company.

Regards,

John