Schaffer Consulting

What Schaffer Consulting does

Schaffer Consulting is a privately held boutique management consulting firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, founded in 1964 by Robert Schaffer. The firm serves enterprise clients — including financial services and insurance firms (Old Mutual Group, Saga plc, GE Capital) and international organizations (The World Bank) — through three integrated service lines: Strategy (growth-plan development), Transformation (rapid-cycle change projects), and Leadership (CEO/board advisory and coaching). Its proposition is human-centered and methodology-driven: senior consultants engage client teams directly, fully involve them in diagnosing issues, and design rapid-cycle projects that surface hidden organizational capacity, with the explicit goal of transferring ownership so change is sustainable after the engagement ends.

The firm's offerings are professional services delivered through direct senior-led consulting engagements; there is no proprietary technology platform, no AI/ML capability, and no software product. Underlying intellectual property consists of a decades-developed methodology (exemplified by the published "GE WorkOut" approach) and a corpus of Harvard Business Review articles plus authored books that establish thought leadership credentials with senior buyers. Revenue accrues through project-based and retainer consulting fees with quotes tailored to each engagement; pricing is not publicly disclosed.

Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven. The firm markets exclusively via content (HBR articles, case studies, books, website content, and a maintained LinkedIn page) rather than paid advertising, and delivers services through direct client engagements without intermediaries. The lean 11–50 employee footprint is consistent with a boutique partner-led model in which senior practitioners are deployed directly on client work rather than leveraged through a pyramid of junior consultants.

Name

Schaffer Consulting

Legal name

Schaffer Consulting

Website

https://schafferresults.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Schaffer Consulting is a privately held boutique management consulting firm in Stamford, Connecticut, serving enterprise clients in financial services and international organizations through Strategy, Transformation, and Leadership advisory engagements delivered by senior practitioners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting

NAICS

Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Change Management & Transformation Consulting (BPAHAGAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA), Leadership Development & Executive Coaching (BPAHAGAD)

Keywords

• Management consulting
• Organizational transformation
• Strategic planning services
• Executive coaching
• Change management

Headquarters

HQ city

Stamford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting Services: Professional consulting services delivered through direct client engagements. The firm provides strategy development, organizational transformation, and executive leadership advisory services on a project and retainer basis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Schaffer Consulting is a professional management consulting firm that delivers three integrated service lines: Strategy (developing ambitious, rigorous growth plans with leaders), Transformation (driving major organizational change through rapid cycle projects), and Leadership (advising CEOs, leadership teams, and Boards of Directors). The firm has operated for 60 years helping organizations unlock untapped capacity and achieve measurable, sustainable results through client-owned engagement.

Product overview

Schaffer Consulting is a professional consulting firm that offers three integrated service lines: Strategy (developing growth plans with organizations), Transformation (driving major change through rapid cycle projects), and Leadership (advising and coaching executives). The firm has operated for 60 years and also publishes books on organizational change methodologies, including the GE WorkOut approach. The offering is structured as a unified consulting service rather than a software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategy Consulting service that works with leaders and their teams to develop ambitious, rigorous, and actionable plans that drive growth by fully engaging the organization in the planning process.
• Transformation Consulting service that leverages rapid cycle projects to generate immediate impact, tap into hidden capacity, and build momentum to drive major organizational change.
• Leadership Advisory and coaching service for CEOs, leadership teams, and Boards of Directors on navigating organizational challenges and future priorities.
• GE WorkOut Book authored by Schaffer Consulting providing a methodology for implementing GE's approach to busting bureaucracy and attacking organizational problems fast.

Quantifiable outcome

• Step change improvements in results and impact beyond what organizations think is achievable
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Bain & Company: Global strategy consulting firm with a long-standing emphasis on results delivery and transformation outcomes, the closest large-scale analog to Schaffer's 'results firm' positioning. Operates across strategy, organization, and transformation practices that map directly to Schaffer's three service lines.
• McKinsey & Company: The largest global management consultancy with broad practices in strategy, organizational transformation, and leadership — competing for the same enterprise board-level engagements as Schaffer, particularly on large multi-year transformation mandates.
• Boston Consulting Group: Global strategy house with deep transformation and change-management practices and a similar emphasis on measurable results; a frequent competitor for the enterprise clients Schaffer serves.
• Deloitte Consulting: Large professional services firm offering Human Capital, Strategy, and Transformation practices; competes with Schaffer on enterprise-wide change programs where scale and integrated technology implementation are deciding factors.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with deep leadership advisory, executive coaching, and board services practices that directly overlap with Schaffer's Leadership offering.

Direct peers

• Heidrick & Struggles: Executive search and leadership advisory firm with a strong board and CEO advisory practice; directly competes with Schaffer's Leadership service line for board-level and CEO coaching engagements.
• RHR International: Boutique consultancy exclusively focused on CEO and senior executive leadership development and assessment; competes head-to-head with Schaffer's Leadership advisory and executive coaching offerings.
• ghSMART: Boutique leadership advisory firm that helps CEOs and boards navigate high-stakes organizational decisions, comparable in size and positioning to Schaffer's Leadership practice.
• Marakon Associates: Boutique strategy consulting firm advising executives on value-creating strategy and corporate development; closely comparable to Schaffer's Strategy service line in size, client base, and senior-led engagement model.

Emerging players

• Bridgespan Group: Boutique strategy and transformation consultancy focused on ambitious change in mission-driven and complex organizations; adjacent to Schaffer's Transformation practice, particularly for social-sector and capacity-building engagements similar to its World Bank work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/schaffer-consulting
• Xx.com/SchafferResults

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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