Blue Ocean Strategy

Rethinking Women

Culture Change

Leadership

Human Development

Seeking Transformation

At Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC), we help our clients adapt to fast-changing times.

As corporate anthropologists, SAMC applies anthropology’s concepts, methods, and tools to help clients “see, feel, and think” in new ways. We have developed methods to successfully transform business models, develop growth strategies, and build better corporate cultures.

Offering a full array of idea generation, innovation, and change support, we show companies and their teams how to respond to new economic situations, shifting customer demands, and innovative ways to sustain their growth. Often, companies stall out trying to stay true to their mission and models only to find that they are losing relevance. This is where we come in, helping them get off the brink, adapt to new realities, and soar.

Let us help you see a new future, one that is all around you.

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Blue Ocean Strategy®

Blue Ocean Strategy shows you how to find unmet customer needs and uncontested market space you can own.

SAMC executives are trained practitioners in Blue Ocean Strategy and utilize these concepts and techniques to develop new strategies, open new markets, and create demand. In this revolutionary business model, companies do not compete for a small, highly competitive pool of existing customers (red ocean) but create a blue ocean of new customers.

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Rethinking Women

We work with organizations and individuals to help transform their talent, improve their diversity and parity, and coach and train women to become the best they can be.

As trained executive coaches, we understand women’s challenges in searching for personal growth and professional achievement. We are helping to recraft the narrative about what women can do in our society. Our programs help women have role models, support women as they venture into their entrepreneurial businesses or corporate positions, encourage women to achieve C-suite positions, and help create companies with purpose. Now is the time to live diversity, equity, and inclusion for women to gain the respect, position, pay, and power they deserve.

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Culture Change

Business is all about Cultural Habits: the values, beliefs, and behaviors that are called our “culture.”

In today’s business environment, long-held certainties about how to organize your business are being re-evaluated, if not wholly revamped. Corporate cultures are ready for a reboot. Companies want to change their culture. As experts in using the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI), we help them assess today’s culture and transform it for the future.

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Leadership

Transformation in an organization requires great leadership.

The need to develop the next generation of leaders is a pervasive concern for companies of all sizes and industries. Companies have eliminated their training programs and left their future leaders struggling to find their pathways. We offer several Leadership Academies designed for specific organizational challenges. Specializing in developing young leaders and particularly women leaders, we understand the different leadership styles relevant to particular cultures and corporate requirements.

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Human Development

Delving deeper into the obstacles of change has helped us look at human development challenges.

As certified coaches, we have developed both synchronous and asynchronous programs offered on a group and individual basis. Individuals are more isolated today. Remote work has created systemic changes requiring human development to support the new ways of working, with the freedom and opportunity for the hybrid workforce. Well-being is a critical concern, as is belonging. At SAMC, we focus on “self-care,” career choices, and “rethinking” professional development.

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When working with our clients, we have watched their mindsets shift from what they don’t do to what they can do.

The SAMC Book Collection

We can share with you so many of our stories. Our books are designed to help you re-think your story for today and imagine what it could be for the future.

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Latest Blogs

What Are You Doing to Adapt in Times of Uncomfortable Change

Change is no longer a season—it’s a storm. Everywhere I turn, leaders are telling me the same thing: “It’s just too much, too fast.” New technologies. Evolving customer expectations. Shifting employee [...]

How Corporate Anthropology Helped Telerx Rethink Its Future

When Linda Schellenger became president of Telerx in 2008, the company—then a $90 million contact center division of Merck—was facing a crossroads. After a series of lost RFPs and a [...]

How Corporate Anthropology Can Help Your Business Grow?

When most people hear “anthropology,” they picture Margaret Mead or faraway tribes. But today, anthropology has found a powerful new purpose—inside companies. This approach helps business leaders understand their culture, [...]

Podcasts

433: Organizations Must Embrace Human-Centric Design

In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, the disconnect between people and their work has never been more apparent—or more urgent to address. That’s why I was thrilled to welcome Brent Kedzierski, [...]

432: Gloria Bohan: From School Teacher to Travel Titan

How you might ask, did Gloria Bohan transition from being a Schoolteacher to an amazing Travel Titan. Welcome to a special episode of On the Brink with Andi Simon, where [...]

431: Tammy Cho on Healing, Leadership, and Self-Love

What if your face could reveal your deepest emotional blocks? What if your burnout, self-doubt, or imposter syndrome were not flaws—but signals calling you back to your truest self? In [...]