Manage your business –
Don’t let it manage you.
Gain market share, increase your company’s value and transform your bottom line.
Proven, expert advice to improve and grow your business.
Solving the big issues while juggling all the day-to-day moving parts can be overwhelming.
We’re the solution!
Seasoned Pros + True Collaborators
Most "big box" management consulting firms have young MBAs who’ve never run a business. That’s not us. We are actual operators with 40+ year careers in the trenches. Clients describe our consultations as “seamless – part of the company” and like “a trusted partner.” Our consulting services are done “with you” — not “to you”!
Broad Knowledge + Expertise
As experts in manufacturing, engineering, product marketing, sales and business development, we’ve helped companies ranging from middle-market to multinationals reinvent their processes and grow the top and bottom lines. We have deep knowledge in oil and gas, chemicals, fibers, plastics, electronics, agriculture, staffing and non-profits.
Proven Methods + Measurable Results
We work alongside clients providing custom solutions born from real-life experience. By developing creative project plans founded on proven tools and methods, we deliver measurable, real results. Learn more about our services here.
Tired of struggling with…
Gauging risk-reward?
Feeling stuck?
Predicting the future?
Competitive analysis?
Dysfunctional operations?
Hitting a growth ceiling?
Business shouldn’t be that hard or complicated! You can do this, with our help.
How It Works
Schedule a call and tell us about the challenges facing your company and we’ll share information on the resources we offer.
1. Bring Us Your Problem
We’ll design a detailed project action plan to fit your needs with a fixed timetable, desired outcomes and specific deliverables that will get you there.
2. Get a Custom Plan
Measure results, keep making gains and celebrate the accomplishments. You’ll have an established Control Plan with best practices that ensure continued success.
3. Grow Your Business
“Our specialty is providing strategic planning that comes from real-world experience.”
— James Maxwell, Founder of BearPath Management Consulting
What Our Clients Are Saying
“BearPath came to the rescue, empowering us to turn a 140-year-old family company into a multinational functional enterprise. Jim helped us map our strengths and weaknesses and create a path to success and growth. I recommend BearPath to anyone looking to evaluate any strategic business direction and develop the alignment and execution needed to accomplish its goals.”
— Jose R. Perdomo, Pantaleon Sugar Holdings, Guatemala
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"As a result of working with Ron’s collaborative and effective leadership, we successfully increased our productivity by over 20% in our agricultural business. We improved our tool and screw design as well as our relationship, product quality and margins with our customers while reducing their costs. He helped change our mindsets on how to solve critical problems, achieve our goals and improve worker morale."
— Robert Howell, Wollin Products Injection Molders
I had the privilege of working with Ron Mathos while the Senior Director of Operations for a large private practice cancer center. Ron was brought into the practice as a consultant to help improve processes and tear down silos hindering forward-moving progress. I thought to myself, how is this person with no healthcare experience going to help us? We are a very complex organization with the honor and great responsibility of caring for people with cancer. My concern was quickly removed as Ron embraced the practice and immediately grasped the industry’s nuances like he had worked in healthcare his whole career.
During Ron’s time with the practice, he engaged everyone toward a common goal: to improve patient outcomes. With his leadership, we set up cross-functional Councils at each of our sites, working on improving the care of patients. I could list all of the projects that were accomplished while Ron was with the practice, but the most significant impact he made was the tools and a sustainable process he installed so we could continue on our own. I would recommend working with Ron to give your business a competitive edge and improve your business health and profitability.
– Tricia Schildhouse, Healthcare Operations Leade
Ron brought many innovative concepts to us for new business opportunities. He was also highly knowledgeable and well-connected to the technologists within his network and organization—which is a critical connection in our technology-driven business.
Ron was also very much in tune with strategic activities at DuPont and many Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) who are our customers. I would characterize Ron as a “visionary thinker” and “transformational leader” who drove us to develop mutually beneficial strategies to our respective companies. Ron brought us new mindsets, skills and results. He led DuPont to catch our 25-year strategic supplier, General Electric, on our supplier team.
Ron is an excellent consultant that includes innovative thinking, with a leadership style that enables strong performance improvement within his firm and his clients. Although his knowledge of polymers and the plastics industry is broad and certainly of value, his strategic thinking and methodology could apply to any industry. His tenacity and quest to learn would be a great asset to any organization. Ron’s approach to leadership is to improve the health and profitability of the businesses he touches in a lasting way. He is one of the best leaders I have worked with.
– Peter Bemis, Executive Vice-President
Proven Success
Measurable Results
Helped a global agricultural chemical business team assess its operating performance relating market-back, voice of the customer research into action plans resulting in over a $100MM improvement in global net income.
Designed, developed and implemented a JIT supply chain model in a refinery operation resulting in a reduction in $15MM reduction in operating expenses, reduced staffing and improved refinery materials service.
Directed the development of winning strategies for a global seed Research & Development organization that netted over $20MM in logistics savings and repositioned ~20% of their portfolio toward higher potential projects.
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• Designed and facilitated a regional petroleum distribution consolidation and optimization by employing lean/6σ principles and resulting in a $10MM reduction in operating expenses with maintained customer service.
• Designed and led a successful lean/6σ enterprise project to link manufacturing and a key customer resulting in coordinated manufacturing, improved quality, new branded products and supply chain integration of one of their main production facilities; impact included several million in additional revenue and cost savings.
• Developed market-back winning growth strategies for the Mexican-based business unit of an agricultural chemicals firm to raise SVA and define a plan to double revenues–$80MM - $160MM–by 2010.
• Developed market-back winning strategies and implemented lean/6σ demand and supply methodologies for several market segments within a Mexican automotive coatings business resulting in a return to profitable operation with one and accelerated growth plans for others which should double or triple annual revenues of $200MM.
• Developed strategies used by a chemicals joint venture to increase revenue and net income by 100% over the following three years that included reengineering the entire supply chain which saved 30% in purchasing spend over two years while improving customer satisfaction.
• Led a successful lean/6σ enterprise project to link a fiber manufacturer’s operations and a key customer resulting in coordinated manufacturing, improved quality, new branded products and supply chain integration of one of their main production facilities; results included $5.3MM in additional revenue and 2MM in costs savings.
• Developed market-back winning strategies for the South American division of an agricultural chemicals firm that helped triple their size ($40MM to $120MM revenue) and return them to positive Shareholder Value Added (SVA).
• Led a Rapid Strategy Development project resulting in the development of winning strategies for a newly acquired agricultural chemical joint venture bringing this $40MM business back to profitable operation within ten months.
• Developed a set of strategies for a Crop Protection Brazilian team concentrating on route-to-market improvements that increased revenues by $700MM and resulted in improved SVA in excess of $40MM over a 5-year period.
• Developed market-back winning strategies for several paint market segments within Mexico resulting in a return to profitable operation with one and doubling growth plans for another Refinish business.
• Led an Agricultural distributor team operating out of Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica resulting in an increase in first-year profits of $8MM and developed a set of strategies and tactics to profitable revenue from $40MM to $100MM by 2010.
• Developed and implemented a successful strategy and engagement process for a global oil company in Alaska to adopt a new project prioritization, budgeting, and planning model that resulted in $80MM in efficiency gains over 3 years.
You’ve got the Bear, beginning to end!
Our Pledge
We are driven to be the preferred option to help our clients succeed. We have years of experience, proven processes, methodologies, mindsets and frameworks to help you develop inspiring visions and achievable strategies and tactics. Our collaborative approach in working with clients is aimed at sparking your innovation and creativity.
We work alongside your team while focusing attention on future implementation and offer real-time guidance during the execution phase if desired. We infuse new habits into your team so that they can do much of this on their own going forward. We are committed to making our engagements a memorable time in your company’s history targeting your future success. We welcome an opportunity to work with your business team.
Value Proposition
If you want the best preferred guide taking your business’s health and profitability to the next level, look no further!
As your guide, we aim to be your preferred option to improving your business’s health and profitability by working alongside you to make the difference you want.