PRINCIPALS
Brian Grossman
Consulting Focus – Brian specializes in strategic planning, designing and implementing research and evaluation methodologies, collaborative brand planning, and operational support implementing innovative strategies.
Background – Hailing from a consumer packaged goods background (running the iconic Wheaties brand at General Mills), he has over two decades of experience as an executive in the sports & entertainment industry at Madison Square Garden (SVP Marketing for NY Knicks), XM Radio (VP Content Marketing), and as co-founder and CEO of a data-driven mobile gaming platform. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Andrew Schwartz
Consulting Focus – Andrew specializes in experiential partnerships, programming, and commercial strategy collaborating with CEOs, brand managers, real estate developers, and venue operators to design integrated strategies that align customer needs with physical spaces, leveraging dynamic programming and branded experiences, to create vibrant environments.
Background – With 24 years of experience across professional sports leagues and teams, broadcast rights holders, and real estate development, Schwartz has extensive expertise in operating venues, managing strategic marketing partnerships, creating and executing advertising campaigns, and planning large-scale events. Schwartz’s career has been highlighted with roles at notable organizations such as Major League Baseball, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, SiriusXM, and Howard Hughes Holdings. In his personal time, Schwartz has dedicated the past two decades to youth sports as a USA Hockey CEP Level 4 Coach. Schwartz has coached both able-bodied and disabled youth hockey players ages 7-18 and has had his passion for advancing the agendas for disabled youth hockey players recognized by the National Hockey League.
Karen Doyle Grossman
Consulting Focus – Karen is a strategy, evaluation, and research consultant for organizations. Past clients include the Aspen Institute, Bixal, MaineHealth, the Leadership Development Group, Mercy Corps, Lovevery, Coffective, and Black Fox Philanthropy. Karen designs and conducts Action Learning leadership development programs and is a certified Regenerative Development practitioner. She integrates her skills as an Intercultural Development Inventory qualified administrator, a Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner, and a SOI (adult development assessment) scorer into her work with leaders and teams.
Background – Karen’s two decades as a non-profit executive enables her to understand and empathize with the challenges of leadership in this time of uncertainty. She was executive director of the Garrison Institute and World Teach; global head of operations at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and SIY Global; founding Vice President, Social Innovations at Mercy Corps; and executive director of Young Leadership Initiative at the Aspen Institute. She is a Doctor of Education in Adult Learning and Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University where her dissertation research focused on leaders learning to sustain their ecological action in the context of existential threat.