What KM Consulting does

KM Consulting is a solo-practitioner business coaching and consulting firm founded in 2006 by Jim Sandler and headquartered in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. The firm provides business coaching, strategic planning, sales process consulting, leadership development, customer service improvement, and succession planning services primarily to small and medium-sized privately held businesses, with occasional engagements involving Fortune 500 companies and not-for-profit organizations. All client work is delivered personally by the founder; the firm has no additional named delivery or sales staff and operates without resellers or channel partners.

The firm's "technology stack" is a portfolio of licensed third-party assessment and leadership frameworks — the John Maxwell Leadership Development Process (via certified Maxwell Team status), DiSC behavioral profiling, the Topgrading hiring methodology, and the TriMetrix job benchmarking system — wrapped in a proprietary engagement methodology called the Laser Focused Process. There is no software product, platform, or AI/ML capability; the firm's intellectual property is the founder's 25+ years of executive experience combined with the certified methodology stack.

Revenue is generated through custom-quoted professional services engagements (one-on-one coaching, group coaching, workshops, seminars, mastermind groups, and outsourced part-time sales management), with a complimentary initial consultation functioning as the primary lead conversion mechanism. Marketing relies on a founder-authored blog (15+ posts), organic social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, X), an email newsletter, and referral-driven inbound. The firm operates with no public listing, no disclosed funding, and full ownership retained by Jim Sandler.

Name

KM Consulting

Legal name

KM Consulting

Website

https://privatebusinesssolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

KM Consulting is a solo-practitioner business coaching and consulting firm founded in 2006 by Jim Sandler, serving small and medium-sized privately held businesses with strategic planning, talent benchmarking, sales process, and leadership development services delivered through certified John Maxwell, DiSC, Topgrading, and TriMetrix methodologies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Operations & Process Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAB), People Analytics, Assessment & Psychometrics Consulting (BPAHAGAH)

Keywords

• Business coaching services
• Leadership development training
• Talent assessment benchmarking
• Strategic planning consulting
• Organizational development consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Cliffside Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Business Coaching and Consulting Engagements: KM Consulting generates revenue through professional consulting and coaching engagements with privately held businesses. Engagements include business coaching, strategic planning, team development, and sales process improvement. The firm also offers individual and group coaching programs, and retention of KM Consulting to provide the role of sales manager on a part-time/outsourced basis.
2. John Maxwell Leadership Training and Certification Programs: Revenue generated through certified leadership training programs under the John Maxwell Team umbrella, including coaching sessions, workshops, seminars, leadership assessments, and mastermind groups. These are delivered as structured engagement programs with individual or group participation options.
3. Talent Benchmarking and Topgrading Services: Fees charged for job benchmarking, behavioral assessments (DiSC, TriMetrix), and Topgrading hiring process consulting. These are often packaged as part of broader talent management or team-building engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

KM Consulting delivers business coaching, strategic planning, talent benchmarking, and leadership development services to privately held small and mid-sized businesses. Engagements are anchored in certified methodologies including John Maxwell Leadership Development, DiSC behavioral profiling, Topgrading hiring, and TriMetrix job benchmarking. The firm also provides sales process consulting, customer service analysis, and succession planning delivered through individual coaching, workshops, seminars, and mastermind groups.

Product overview

KM Consulting is a business coaching and consulting services firm that does not offer a software product. They provide advisory and consulting services including business coaching, leadership development through the John Maxwell Process, talent benchmarking using DiSC and Topgrading methodologies, strategic planning, sales process consulting, and succession planning. Their service portfolio is delivered through human consulting engagements rather than a technology platform or software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Business Coaching Ongoing accountability coaching engagement that helps privately held business owners activate and manage their business plans, strategic plans, sales processes, and customer service plans after those plans have been completed.
• Business Development Consulting

Quantifiable outcome

• CareerBuilder study cited: average cost of a bad hire was $14,900 per employee in 2017; cost of letting a good worker go was $29,600 per employee.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• The John Maxwell TeamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJim Sandler is an Independent Certified Coach, Teacher, Trainer and Speaker with The John Maxwell Team. This partnership authorizes him to deliver the John Maxwell Process of Leadership Development — including coaching, workshops, seminars, leadership assessments, and masterminding programs — under the Maxwell brand. John C. Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, trainer, coach and author whose philosophy is 'Everything rises and falls on leadership.'
• Zen MarketingminorGTM or Marketing PartnerZen Marketing is credited as the website development and digital marketing agency behind KM Consulting's online presence. The copyright notice reads 'Enlightened Marketing by Zen Marketing.' Zen Marketing also authored several blog entries on the KM Consulting site. The relationship is primarily a vendor/services engagement for website design, SEO, and content production.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sandler Training: Sales process training and consulting franchise that overlaps with KM Consulting's sales process, KPI, and customer service engagement work for SMB clients.
• Gazelles (Verne Harnish): Advisory firm built around Rockefeller Habits and scaling-up methodologies for growth-stage SMBs, directly comparable to KM Consulting's strategic planning and business coaching for scaling privately held companies.
• EOS Worldwide (Entrepreneurial Operating System): Provides a documented operating-system methodology for entrepreneurial SMBs covering vision, traction, and accountability — a near-direct analog to KM Consulting's strategic planning and accountability coaching stack.
• ActionCOACH: Global business coaching franchise targeting SMB owners with growth, sales, and team development services — directly overlapping KM Consulting's SMB coaching, strategic planning, and accountability offering.
• Strategic Coach (Dan Sullivan): Coaching firm serving entrepreneurs and founders with structured growth strategies and team frameworks, closely comparable to KM Consulting's founder-led strategic planning and business evolution services.
• Tony Robbins Business Coaching / Results Coaching: Business and performance coaching programs targeting entrepreneurs and business owners, highly comparable to KM Consulting's business coaching, accountability, and personal leadership development work for SMB founders.
• John Maxwell Company: The certification body that trains and licenses independent Maxwell coaches like Jim Sandler; KM Consulting's leadership development offering is built on Maxwell's curriculum, making it a direct upstream/downstream peer.

Broad incumbents

• Vistage: Large peer-advisory and executive coaching organization serving SMB CEOs — overlaps with KM Consulting's executive coaching, mastermind groups, and accountability offering but at significantly larger scale.
• Dale Carnegie Training: Established leadership, sales, and customer service training firm that competes in the same space as KM Consulting's leadership and customer service offerings, but with global reach and a corporate brand.
• FranklinCovey: Large leadership and organizational development firm selling training, coaching, and assessments — overlaps with KM Consulting's leadership development and behavioral assessment work but at enterprise scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/jsandler3
• Facebookfacebook.com/Business.Consulting.NY.Tri.State
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/james-sandler

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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