Consulting to Small Business
ROI Associates
Formed by Ed Riefenstahl in 1991, ROI Associates has provided value-driven professional services to its clients in the areas of:
Planning
- Strategic Visioning and Long Range Planning
- Business Planning
- Marketing Planning
- Sales Planning
Development
- Business Development
- Financial Development
- Human Resource Development
Feasibility & Productivity Studies
- Staff Productivity
- Department Productivity
- New Market Assessment
- New Product Assessment
- Consolidation Studies
Management & Leadership
- Frontline Management Training
- Nonprofit Board Development Training
- Interim Executive Director and CEO Placement
- Team Building Tools
- Building & Instilling Organizational Cultural Change
- Hiring Right
Research
- Employee Opinion or Climate Surveys
- Customer Satisfaction Surveys
- Stakeholder Assessments
Contact eriefenstahl@tabfortworth.com or at e.riefenstahl@tcu.edu
“Ed was part of a small team that designed and implemented a strategic planning and resource allocation system for a $1 billion organization. He is able to make complex issues communicable and understood at all organizational levels. Ed is an outstanding consensus builder who is respected by both nonprofit and commercial executives and national volunteer leaders.”
Richard F. Schubert, President and CEO, Points of Light Foundation
“Coming into a situation where a marketing unit had been leaderless for some time and during a period of great market instability and underlying change, Ed demonstrated superior ability to isolate problems, develop priorities and attack situations with vigorous personal participation that was a most heartening example to his people. His accomplishments were remarkable. His tenure demonstrated a high order of executive skills and personal courage.”
Eugene M. Zuckert, Former Secretary of the Air Force, Co-Founder – Project Hope
“Ed literally turned a marketing group around. Ed is a change agent who possesses the unique ability to quickly assess complex situations, sensitively converting that assessment to provide organizational focus and direction. Ed is a straight shooter who develops professional relationships—either in the commercial or nonprofit arenas—built on forthrightness, trust and high integrity.”
Victor M. Schmitt, Vice President, Business Development and Planning, Baxter Healthcare Corporation
“He is a tireless, skilled professional who combines pragmatism with strategic vision. Ed came into an eight month old entrepreneurial start-up, providing focus, organization and positive change in rapid order. Having the highest standards of integrity, Ed was counted on to objectively and honestly assess difficult business situations, offering creative, realistic solutions that were acted upon. Ed is a true corporate asset.”
Francesca B. McGullam, Former President, Meeting Services Network, AMR Corp., Senior Vice President, Image Matrix, Inc.
“Ed has a global perspective with a good mixture of pragmatism and social consciousness. Thorough in efforts, he is an excellent facilitator and team builder. In his actions, even in the most unique political circumstances, when a choice or decision was needed, Ed always placed the long-term interests of the organization first. Ed is a man who couples high integrity with a good sense of humor.”
Dr. Julian B. Schorr, M.D., Medical Director, Immuno-U.S. Inc.
“Ed helped us to help ourselves. Our health agency had never before done a strategic or long range plan. His leadership laid the foundation for two years of organizational development that helped move us light years ahead. He provided the expertise and encouragement which gave us the courage, and the know-how, to do a solid job of long-range planning. We certainly got our money’s worth.”
Martha Edens, Former Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Executive Director, Andean Rural Healthcare
“He gets the job done right. . .the first time. Culturally and organizationally sensitive, Riefenstahl makes impossible or politically difficult situations work without compromising the quality or integrity of the project. He possesses the highest standards of ethics in his dealings with people. An excellent listener, with a true customer service orientation. A strategic thinker.”
Diana Torres, Director, International Development, United Way International
“Riefenstahl has a track record of results. While working with him on a national fund raising campaign, his organization raised an incredible 730% of quota. While others talked about what to do, he was doing. In the years I have worked with him, I have come to recognize that part of his success stems from his practicing what he preaches regarding values management and win-win negotiating.”
Director of Financial Development, Major International Nonprofit Organization
“The laboratory consolidation feasibility project undertaken by ROI Associates was one of the most professional and thorough studies I have ever seen . . . We definitely got our money’s worth.”
Dr. William V. Miller, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, The Blood Center at Wadley, Dallas, TX
“With their past experience in this area, ROI Associates conducted a blood center-wide employee opinion survey and follow-up facilitation at Wadley. The process and how it was handled was a benefit both to management and individual employees.”
Mr. Michael Fuller, Chief Operating Officer, Sacramento Blood Center
