Aesoph Group

Consultants listen to your customers

Jim Kellar, Patricia Breen, Chris Aesoph, Rob Cahill, Bruce JohnsenAs management consultants, we bring the customer's voice to the forefront within our client companies. With the anxieties and pressures companies face, it's surprisingly easy to think you hear the customer when what is being heard is only an echo. And even when customers are heard, many factors will influence the way your company interprets and responds.

Our programs are unique because customer research is at the center of every program we provide. This is how The Aesoph Group provides long-lasting value to our clients at a surprisingly affordable price.

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Photo: Trane project team: Jim Kellar for the Midwest, Patricia Breen for the East Coast, Chris Aesoph for West Coast, Rob Cahill for East Coast, Bruce Johnsen for West Coast.

Our performance since 1995
Our approach
One critical thing
Company History

Our performance since 1995

Due to the clarity of our guidance, our clients lead their industries as innovators. All of our longstanding clients have established records in profit, productivity, employee or customer retention. Based on customer research, we have designed new approaches, departments, and structures for clients who have gone on to world-class performances in their industries. Over 90 percent of the managers we’ve coached have been promoted, most into executive roles within their home companies. We have identified future presidential candidates within the ranks of our client companies, and assisted in their succession development and transitions.

Our approach

We take a minimalist approach in everything we do as consultants. If we can meet client needs in less time or with less cost, all the better for our clients and for our reputation. Our consulting methods and programs are not allowed to become ends in themselves, but are fitted and trimmed to meet client needs. We don’t use the term “dysfunctional organization.” This label is an excuse used by inexperienced or ineffective consultants who don’t know how to help.

We lack only one critical thing that larger consulting firms have: overhead.

We’re a small agile company that can expand to fit the needs of large projects. This unique structure allows us the freedom to be minimalist in our approach. Project teams expand or contract based on project size and needs of our clients. Our team is not a developing ground for junior consultants. Only senior, C-level, proven consultants are invited to contribute. Along with their specific expertise, in order to qualify as a service provider our team members must also come equipped with a dash of humility and a sense of humour.

Management consulting company history

A management consulting firm, The Aesoph Group was established in 1995 by Christopher Aesoph, MA. His colleagues on projects include veteran management consultants, business process management experts, strategic planners, market researchers, business trainers, facilitators, mediators, sales management experts, interviewers and writers. Their ability to quickly identify and build upon the talents and strengths within individuals and companies makes their work valuable. As principal of the company, Chris provides a unique perspective. His background includes 12 years as a family therapist, where he learned how to help people change and grow quickly and significantly. His work previous to that in media taught him the best communication methods, resulting in awards for "Best Columnist" and "Best Investigative Reporter" from the Minnesota News Association. His work as a fund raiser in the non-profit sector and as a consultant now in the private sector for the past 16 years allowed him to meet people in all stations of life. He has had access to some of the world's most successful executives, and some of the least accepted members of society, and has been inspired and taught by both. If you don't hear a new perspective from Chris within 15 minutes of conversation with him, chances are you don't have his attention, becasue new perspectives are his trademark. Audiences and individuals have been moved by his ability to understand how people will respond to change. Rather than acting as a clinical change manager, Chris is fully engaged in witnessing change, finding meaning within it, and helping people and organizations face reality in a graceful way. He welcomes people who contact him for advice or a simple exchange of perspectives. In this way, Chris continues to learn and stay relevant.