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>> My name is Chris Gomes [assumed spelling].

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I am a management consultant.

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That very ambiguous term means that I am
basically a guidance counselor for CEOs.

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So my company will come into a
client's situation, generally large,

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Fortune 500 companies or government agencies or
large nonprofits any time they have a problem.

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It could be that their revenues are down,

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or it could be that they just
need a new strategic plan,

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and we act as an outside
perspective on their own business

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and the business that they're a part of.

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So we will analyze some of their documents.

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We will analyze the markets.

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We will do interviews with people in order

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to ultimately provide a recommendation
back to the client.

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Like I said, kind of a guidance counselor.

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For the past six months, I've been
working on the five-year strategy plan

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for an environmental conservation
organization in DC.

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So that's been really fun.

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We basically came into this organization.

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We implant ourselves in the organization.

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So we get a room in their building.

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We interview their staff.

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We get to know them.

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We understand their business.

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We also conduct interviews with external
stakeholders, such as their partners,

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the people who fund their conservation.

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The people who receive the conservation dollars
to actually do the conservation on the ground

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and with all of those inputs, we
basically then made a recommendation

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for how they should organization themselves

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and what markets they should
pursue for the next five years.