Gillwright Group

The GillWright Group has brought real-management experience, market-research skills and strategic-planning disciplines to a wide range of clients for more than 25 years. Long-time retained or repeat clients include: Businesses such as one of New York Citys major family-owned real estate developers -- plus nine other family-owned businesses in a wid... e range of industries, and several minority-owned businesses. Divisions of Fortune 100 companies have used the GillWright Group to help think through strategic initiatives addressing urban economic development, small/mid-size and minority business lending (GE Capital) and the creation of affordable housing (The Equitable), and a broad range of strategic planning services have been provided to two NYC-based community banks (Atlantic Bank and New York National Bank) as well as to a U.S. subsidiary of a Brazilian bank (Banco Económico). A wide range of assignments for several multi-branch YMCA Associations, including Site Pulling-Power and Economic Feasibility Studies leading to more than a dozen new YMCA Community Centers and expansions/upgrades of an even greater number of existing YMCAs. A many-years relationship with Corporate Americas National Minority Supplier Development Council under the chairmanship of four Fortune 100 CEOs, during which the GillWright Group created, installed and monitored a living strategic planning process for the national organization and a benchmarking program that tracked the effectiveness of the more-than 30 Regional Councils. Quite different from some of today's giant consulting firms, where "rainmaker" partners assign work to hordes of well-educated but short-on-experience associates At the GillWright Group, one partner if not both of the partners has hands-on involvement in all aspects of client work.Read More