Our consulting relationships are data-driven, customer-focused, science and value based.
We have a theoretical grounding with application-based experience working with business owners, CEO's and executives around the world.
Change happens, and we can use it to our advantage. Individuals and organizations can learn to harness the power of change and achieve greater success. We offer several products and tools to assist in your quest. We'd enjoy learning about your challenges, goals or opportunities and explore with you how we might work together.
We have a theoretical grounding with application-based experience working with business owners, CEO's and executives around the world.
Change happens, and we can use it to our advantage. Individuals and organizations can learn to harness the power of change and achieve greater success. We offer several products and tools to assist in your quest. We'd enjoy learning about your challenges, goals or opportunities and explore with you how we might work together.
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Andy. Collaborative. Positive. Results. Trustworthy.
After a 20+ year career as a business executive developing successful global leaders and teams, he now loves helping clients around the world accelerate goals and legacies in their career, business, family, life or community. After exploring your challenges and goals, he typically uses some simple but powerful assessments as a start to partnering with you. He combines business and theoretical expertise. He enjoys human behavior, neuroscience and learning how our brains work. He can provide measurement and documentation of progress - and often - transformation. His values are family, community, optimism, learning and results/progress. He has built engaged, trusting and collaborative cross-functional teams resulting in 5 straight years of double digit sales and profit performance. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an Executive MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. During his 20+ year "in-business" career, he enjoyed a wide variety of roles in engineering, quality, sales, marketing and executive management. He lived & worked in Germany with his family as Managing Director of CPC GmbH and Global Vice President of Sales & Marketing. He worked 20+ years for a successful manufacturing company that made precision products serving many vertical markets including Medical Device, Biotechnology, and various Industrial markets. He spent ~10 years with the entrepreneurial founder and ~10 years as part of a fortune 500 conglomerate with over 30 operating companies. He is certified as a holistic executive/business/life coach. He loves to see clients come alive with new thinking and energy to reach their goals, leading to breakthrough business and personal performance. At various times he's used four executive coaches for various aspects of business and life. This brings broad perspective and techniques for working with you. +1-763-670-6798 Andy@MyBreakthroughPerformance.com
“Andy was thoughtful, smart, & goal-oriented. He valued connections and teamwork. Andy is empathetic, equitable, supportive and understanding of the necessary work in institutional constructs that can be barriers for women’s career success while himself being a model for accountability and caring for female employees’ progress. (Ask him about the tie blanket he made for me.)” – Jane M. D.
“I had the great honor of working with Andy for approximately 8 years. He gave me goals that stretched my abilities and he shored up my confidence as I grew. He is smart, genuinely kind, and never gave me reason to doubt his word. - Dawn B.
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Rich. Proven. Change guru. Trustworthy.
Richard (Rich) Bents, PhD. taught Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and was Director of Graduate Education at Hamline University. He is the founder, and Partner, of Future Systems Consulting with offices in St. Paul, Hamburg, Budapest and Moscow. Rich specializes in leadership development, personal and organizational change and transformation. He is the co-author of several books on personality and learning, and together with Reiner Blank co-authored the first German version of the MBTI. He has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategic and cultural change efforts with large organizations including AT&T, ICI Films Americas, Lawson Software, Lucent Technologies, Nestle, Roche Pharma and Siemens. Relational, concentrated efforts result in leaders mastering skills of ethical service and productivity. His approach centers on the issues of authority, responsibility, and power demonstrating how they can be exercised more fully leading to personal accountability and healthy synergistic change. The result is a leader better equipped to move into the future with clearer customer focus and better understanding of organizational theory and the values they wish to project. Rich loves strengthening the bonds or connections between people and ideas which create new conceptual frameworks. “Dr. Bents was remarkably effective. Identifying specific behaviors in need of changing, designing and implementing interventions, and holding me (and my direct reports) accountable to realistic standards of excellence; he was unsurpassed. Rich’s ability to quickly establish trust is essential to his coaching success.” - Wm. Kastning, AT&T "Dr. Bents has the unique ability to bridge culture, quickly establish working relationships. His ability to hold a global perspective while posing provoking questions specifically for me, always served to hold me accountable to what I knew was right." - Ed Hines, SVP Manufacturing, Lucent Technologies "Dr. Bents has the distinct ability to assist our management team to cut through to the core of what is truly important to our business and to our mutual dealings as an effective team. His organization’s assessment tools were effective and revealing to the interworking of the leadership team. The results of his guidance have been clearer communication, better messaging of strategy and optimization of overall corporate priorities." - Richard Mills, President/CEO Motion Tech Automation |
From our client Groupama Insurance - Hungary, the largest insurance provider in Hungary. The organization faced a difficult future and in less than a year, successfully transformed sales and profitability in a competitive and declining insurance market. The top 86 executives were assessed, then went through a 7 month program using our change process. They exceeded their sales plans. The post-assessments showed statistical significant increases in all levels of trust. The following year showed increased market share and increased profit:
"I am very confident of the next steps. I already know that management skills development is a long road requiring patience, willingness and determination, and of course measurement. People are understanding what is happening now because they started experiencing that behaving differently is possible and can be a source of success.
As a 'rational' leader, we just have to admit that time to time it is worth investing much less in IT tools and process ...and a bit or much more in human potential."
Groupama has instituted our ARPe Character Assessment as an ongoing management assessment and development tool for managers/leaders.
- Yann Menetrier, CEO, Groupama Hungary
"I am very confident of the next steps. I already know that management skills development is a long road requiring patience, willingness and determination, and of course measurement. People are understanding what is happening now because they started experiencing that behaving differently is possible and can be a source of success.
As a 'rational' leader, we just have to admit that time to time it is worth investing much less in IT tools and process ...and a bit or much more in human potential."
Groupama has instituted our ARPe Character Assessment as an ongoing management assessment and development tool for managers/leaders.
- Yann Menetrier, CEO, Groupama Hungary
Breakthrough Performance, LLC is a branded coaching arm of Future Systems Consulting, Inc.