Reach Partners

What Reach Partners does

Reach Partners is a privately held project management consulting firm headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota, operating continuously since its 2001 incorporation by Bev Martinson. The firm is currently co-owned by Anita Hoffarth (owner since purchasing the firm in 2005) and Rachel Asleson (co-owner since July 2016), with one additional project manager historically and intermittent interns. It is a small professional services practice, typically two to three core team members, focused on four service lines: Strategic Project Management, Events and Conference Management, Community Engagement and Facilitation, and Research and Reporting.

The firm serves organizations that lack internal project management capacity or need external perspective to execute complex initiatives. Documented clients span healthcare (Sanford Health, Meritcare, Mental Health America of North Dakota, North Dakota Cancer Coalition, Women's Health Conference), government (City of Fargo, Otter Tail County), nonprofit and philanthropy (Dakota Medical Foundation), and corporate (Aldevron, H2M). The underlying deliverable is human labor: facilitation, stakeholder engagement, event production, and structured project execution under PMP-certified methodologies. Technology is not a core component; the firm leverages standard project management tools and an in-house blog and Mailchimp newsletter for content marketing.

Reach Partners generates revenue through custom, quote-based professional services engagements acquired via direct consultative selling, community networking, referrals, and content-driven inbound. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and there are no disclosed funding rounds, investors, subsidiaries, or acquisitions. The firm operates regionally across the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo market with some Midwest extension, and shows no AI/ML capabilities, no proprietary software products, and no platform or ecosystem architecture.

Name

Reach Partners

Legal name

Reach Partners Inc.

Website

https://reachpartnersinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Reach Partners is a Fargo, North Dakota-based project management consulting firm co-owned by two PMP-certified principals, serving healthcare, government, nonprofit, and corporate clients in the Midwest with strategic project management, event management, community engagement, and research services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Project Management Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Organization Design & Operating Model Consulting (BPAHAGAB)

Keywords

• Project management consulting
• Event and conference management
• Community engagement facilitation
• Stakeholder engagement services
• Research and reporting consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Fargo

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

Revenue model

1. Strategic Project Management Consulting: Core revenue stream from providing strategic project management services to organizations. Includes planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects on time and on budget.
2. Events & Conference Management: Revenue from managing and producing events and conferences for clients, including logistics, speaker coordination, and event execution.
3. Community Engagement & Facilitation: Facilitation services for community dialogue, strategic planning sessions, and stakeholder engagement.
4. Research & Reporting: Research and reporting services including post-activity reports, stakeholder analysis, and strategic documentation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Reach Partners is a project management consulting firm that delivers four core services to organizations: Strategic Project Management (planning and delivering projects on time and on budget), Events & Conference Management (end-to-end event planning and on-site execution), Community Engagement & Facilitation (stakeholder dialogue and collaborative design), and Research & Reporting (post-activity reports, stakeholder analysis, and project evaluation). The firm sells these as customized consulting engagements rather than software products, with each assignment scoped and quoted to the client's needs.

Product overview

Reach Partners is a project management consulting firm offering four core services: Strategic Project Management, Events & Conference Management, Community Engagement & Facilitation, and Research & Reporting. These services are delivered as professional consulting engagements rather than software products or modules. The company, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Fargo, ND, specializes in helping leaders accomplish projects from concept to successful completion through structured processes, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Project Management Project management service that helps clients understand needs, creatively solve problems, and deliver successful products on time and on budget; offered to organizations needing structured PM leadership.
• Events & Conference Management End-to-end event and conference planning and execution service that includes show flow documents, speaker coordination, and on-site management for client organizations.
• Community Engagement & Facilitation Facilitation service for community-based design, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative dialogue on topics including health, wellness, leadership development, and land and water management.
• Research & Reporting Research and analysis service that delivers post-activity reports, stakeholder analysis, lessons learned documentation, and project evaluation for client engagements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Fargo Marathon Charities program raised over $200,000 in a successful year
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Black Ink Creative PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Black Ink Creative Partners on the Fargo Water Tower public art project. Reach Partners facilitated the community outreach component while Black Ink Creative Partners was selected to render the design. The partnership combined Reach's community engagement expertise with Black Ink's creative design capabilities.
• OnsharpminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with Onsharp, a digital marketing company, for the Women's Health Conference to develop online engagement strategy, content roadmaps, and measure success. Onsharp provided digital marketing expertise complementing Reach Partners' event management capabilities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Mantis Consulting: Boutique project management consulting firm delivering PMO, strategic project, and event-related services to commercial and public-sector clients. Most directly comparable in size and scope to Reach Partners.
• AchieveForum: Change management and project leadership consulting firm that helps organizations execute strategy through training and advisory. Comparable in facilitation-led, change-and-execution consulting approach.
• Point B: Management and technology consulting firm helping clients execute on strategy through project leadership and organizational change. Comparable in advisory-style engagement, owner-employee culture, and cross-vertical project delivery.
• Resources Connection (RGP): Public professional services firm deploying consultants across project management, transformation, and finance. Comparable project-based consulting model, though at materially larger scale.
• Bishop-McCann: Mid-sized corporate event and meeting management agency offering strategic planning, logistics, and stakeholder coordination. Directly comparable in the events-and-conference-management service line.
• Project Management Solutions (PMSI): Specialist project management consulting and training firm offering strategic PM, PMO setup, and capability development. Highly comparable niche focus and PMP-credentialed consulting model.
• PMAlliance: Project management consulting firm that provides strategic PM, training, and PMO services to mid-market and enterprise clients. Direct comparable in service mix, customer type, and professional-services-only delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• BCD Meetings & Events: Global corporate meetings and events management company. Comparable in event and conference management capabilities that constitute a significant portion of Reach Partners' service mix, though at enterprise scale.
• North Highland: Global management consulting firm with a strong change and project execution practice. Overlaps with Reach Partners on stakeholder engagement and program delivery but operates at a fundamentally different scale and breadth.
• BTS Group: Strategy execution and capability-building consulting firm that designs programs to align people with strategy. Comparable in execution-focused, facilitation-led delivery to leadership teams.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ReachPartnersPM
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/reach-partners-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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