Gary Furr LLC Portland Oregon Business Consulting

Unleashing the Power of Your Business Processes

Learn how we have helped business owners increase efficiency and effectiveness, improving bottom-line results between 15 and 450 percent.

A phone call to us is the first step: 503-312-3145

Expert Advice

Gary Furr, an experienced CEO, COO, and internationally sought after consultant, has helped business owners and executives improve productivity, increase capacity, and reduce waste in their businesses, creating dramatic results of 15 percent to over 450 percent.

Consulting

Our organizational development consulting will help you achieve maximum results from your business, increasing bottom-line revenues, improving performance, and maximizing efficiency and effectiveness. We get your business running on all eight cylinders.

Coaching

We help our clients to clarify their vision, develop a plan for success, create an intense focus on achieving their goals, and cultivate the discipline to keep going to create dramatic results in their business.

We have helped organizations from $1 – $100 million drive their business success to the next level.

How the Gary Furr Difference Supports Your Success

Gary Furr, LLC

With over 40-years of C-Level business experience, we are uniquely qualified to help owners, executives, and managers make dramatic improvements in their business. We are experts at increasing profitability and bottom-line results. By helping clients clarify their vision and achieve their goals, we deliver value well beyond the cost of our services. We consult within the United States, Canada, China, Thailand, and Russia.

Testimonials

"Gary’s vision and strategic mindset provided my company the needed experience to succeed during our start-up years. His encouragement and ability to help me think through some business challenges brought clarity, which produced very profitable results."

Tom Springer, CEO-President/Nursery Source

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Tom Springer, CEO-President/Nursery Source

“Gary has been the largest single driving force for my personal and career development accountability. When Gary arrived to assist our organization he immediately made positive impactful gains with key management personal. The ability Gary possess to bring Clarity of Direction is very rewarding, and for this reason I highly recommend Gary’s services.”

Sean O., Operations Manager

ONT Haining, China

Gary has a genuine interest and strong abilities to develop multi-national businesses as well as family businesses. He can grow a successful business or save a failing business. By evaluating a business at a day-to-day operations productivity level and providing guidance from a long-term strategic view. Not just a planner, Gary can develop effective management skills of individual managers and owners to execute change in any organization.

Jeff Ju/ San Francisco/Bangkok

"Gary helps me step back and take a look at my business with a birds eye view. I am able to see where my weak links are and make plans to work on my weaknesses.

V. Dorosh/Superior Clean

"Gary takes the time to intimately know me and my business to help give me the focus I need to accelerate the growth of my business. I appreciate the discipline and accountability he adds to my experience as a leader."

Matt Gold/Midas Nursery Solutions

"We started working with Gary Furr, LLC in January of 2018 after a complete restructure of the company and showing a loss in our business for 2017. Since working with Gary he identified holes in our operation and helped redirect the company. In 2018 we have experienced a 112.3% increase in gross profit and a 1004.1% increase in net profit. Gary helped us to get our books up to speed and reduce our days to cash. Through his efforts we were able to increase our marketing efforts filling our sales funnel, adding new customers, getting our inventory on our balance sheet and increase throughput. We now have three new machines and two robots reducing payroll and increasing capacity by more than 60%. Gary has been an excellent resource for growing the company and really helped redirect my thinking on cash flow, being profitable and teaching me those skills I can use moving into the future. Gary has been instrumental in our organizational development and growth. Gary is a man with high integrity, I have always felt Gary has my back and I thoroughly trust him in all aspects of my business."

Ted Skipper/S3 Manufacturing

"When we hired Gary in May of 2015 we were on the verge of bankruptcy. Within six-months Gary turned the company around, paid down a significant amount of debt, as well as generating a small profit. By the end of 2016 we had a 335% increase in net profit and we continue to be profitable to this day. We could not have done it without Gary’s experience and knowledge."

Dr. Richard Baer/Baer Management

"When I first met Gary all I had was a business idea that sounded good on paper. Within four years we turned this idea into a nationwide multi-million-dollar business. We wouldn’t be here today without Gary’s wealth of knowledge and persistence for success."

Jonathon WolfeBarron, Rolling Adz / WolfeBarron Media

In October 2018 we had a team-training meeting performed by Gary Furr with Gary Furr, LLC. The topics covered by Mr. Furr were: having a clear direction of where we were going, creating a map on how we could bridge the gap between our current state and our desired future by utilizing 90-day goals, developing intense focus on our goals, the value of time, energy and money being limited resources and the need to use them wisely, the cost of interruptions on productivity and other topics that were pertinent to our needs. I am confidant that due to of Mr. Furr’s training and presentation we were able to meet our goals for 2018.

Amy Schmidt, Retirement Connection

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Book Section

LEADING TRANSFORMATION, the third book from my eldest son Nathan Furr.

New Tools to Overcome the Human Barriers to Change

Leaders know that their job is to transform their organizations to keep pace with technology and an ever-changing business environment. They also know that they are bound to fail in doing so. But this discouraging prospect is not because they won’t be able to solve a technological or strategic problem. Leaders will fail because of intractable human responses associated with change–responses such as fear, ingrained habits, politics, incrementalism, and lack of imagination. These stumbling blocks always arise when we humans are faced with change, but what if we had a way to transcend them?

This book reveals a radical new method for doing just that.

Written by the executive who designed and implemented it, the neuroscientist who helped make it work, and the academic who explains why it works and how to do it, Leading Transformation introduces an innovative yet proven process for creating breakthrough change.

Divided into three steps–envisioning the possible, breaking down resistance, and prototyping the future–this process uses cutting-edge tools such as science fiction, cartoons, rap music, artifact trails, and neuroprototypes to overcome people’s inability to imagine or react to what doesn’t yet exist, override powerful habits and routines that prevent them from changing, and create compelling narratives about the organization’s future and how to get there.

Showing how these tools have been used successfully by companies such as Lowe’s, Walmart, Pepsi, IKEA, Google, Microsoft, and others, the process revealed in this book gives leaders the means to transcend the human barriers that block change and lead their organizations confidently into the future.

Written by Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy; Harvard Business Review Press

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