Kaizen Team

Kaizen Consulting, founded by Michael Walsh, has a team of successful professionals who serve clients across Canada and the US, grow their businesses to higher levels of success.

The Kaizen team prides itself in offering a broad understanding of business and decades of consulting experience. Team members have served in Fortune 500 companies, successful entrepreneurships, municipal leadership and as university faculty.

Kaizen has been helping entrepreneurs achieve greater success since 1995 and its team structure is designed to make strategic business consulting affordable for growing businesses.
 

Michael Walsh

Michael Walsh, founder and president of Kaizen Consulting, has been helping small business owners achieve profit growth and excellence in their fields since 1995. Examples of this include Back in Motion, ranked #1 on the 2007 Best Places to Work in Canada (published by Canadian Business magazine); Colorado-based Platte River Networks, increased from a six-figure business to a multi-million dollar enterprise in three years; and CEI, innovative architecture firm, whose revenues doubled in two years, and more than tripled within four years.

Michael's core belief is that businesses must be designed to achieve their owners' personal goals. With an advanced understanding of business models and structures, he takes the guesswork out of building a high-functioning company. His expertise stretches across business disciplines including: finance, sales & marketing, recruiting & people management, and succession planning, to name a few.

Clients say that Michael has a rare ability to communicate sophisticated business strategies in a simple way, and that his people skills have helped them resolve their trickiest interpersonal problems with customers, employees, and business partners.

His client roster includes business owners across many professions – including architects, engineers, doctors and other health care firms, financial planners, real estate offices and brokers, insurance companies, manufacturers, marketing agencies, and technology companies, as well as a whole host of other service based small businesses.

Michael lives what he teaches. Applying his methods, he's built Kaizen into a company that lets him live his personal dreams. Michael spends 18 weeks traveling every year, a favorite pastime, second only to hockey. Michael holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and economics from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Asia Pacific International University.
 

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Jeff Fisher

Jeff Fisher oversees Kaizen's Reno office. His life as an entrepreneur began during his teens, when he owned his own fish bait supply company. Jeff's many successful ventures have taught him first-hand what it takes to build a profitable business. Most recently Jeff was president and CEO of Reno Lawn & Landscape, which he sold after growing the business to more than $4.5 million.

Now Jeff spends his time helping business owners achieve their dreams, applying his business acumen to devise creative approaches for business growth. Clients report that they value Jeff's candid assessment of issues and his inventive ways of solving business problems. He is a self-proclaimed techno-geek who knows how to apply technology to make life easier for entrepreneurs.

Jeff serves on the Board of Directors for the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce and as past-chair for the Northern Nevada Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is also past-chair of the Chamber's Leadership program. He is a member of EDAWN (Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada) and belongs to WIN. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1988.
 

Chuck Scharenberg

Chuck Scharenberg is the director of Kaizen Consulting Chicago. He has twenty years of experience as an executive coach and business advisor. He's helped hundreds of business owners achieve significant growth. Chuck is known for his systematic approach and his ability to help business owners grow into stronger leaders.

Chuck's clients say that working with him has given them renewed sense of purpose and clarity, as well as deeper awareness into their leadership strengths and challenges. They say he has a rare ability to help business owners create a culture of collaboration.

Chuck has worked with companies across many sectors including technology, financial services, insurance, real estate, telecommunications, manufacturing, and distribution, law and healthcare.

Prior to Kaizen he held several leadership positions. He served as a director, Operations Officer and CEO of a major healthcare corporation.

Chuck provides pro bono services to emerging business leaders. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Management from the University of Iowa and a B.A. from Regis University (Denver, CO). He is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a graduate of the B-Coach Systems business coaching certification program.
 

Stephanie Dmytriw

Stephanie Dmytriw is Senior Success Partner at Kaizen's Reno office, where she helps companies structure for growth and profit. She knows how to design business processes that let entrepreneurs focus on the strategic aspects of their business.

Clients say Stephanie's analytical mind helps them think through every step of long-term growth, carving out a path that is logical and achievable. She's helped clients create procedures in human resources, finance, technology, operations and marketing.

She has held leadership roles in entrepreneurial companies. Most recently she was Director of Corporate Affairs for Reno Lawn & Landscape where she was instrumental in the company's growth to $4.5 million.

Stephanie holds a bachelors degree in business administration (1997) and a master's degree in speech communications (2004) from the University of Nevada, Reno. She earned her Professional in Human Resources designation in 2006 and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

She volunteers with The Northern Nevada Literacy Council, American Red Cross, Junior Achievement , and the Reno-Sparks Chamber ‘Ethical Decision Making' and ‘Youth Leadership' programs.