Skyward Consulting Group

About Skyward

  • History is full of examples of companies offering a better product or services – but never made it big.
  • Strategy, Marketing, Business Development, and Sales are more critical to your success than product features.
  • With limited expansion capital, fierce competition, and new technologies – the old methods no longer work.
  • You need a fresh perspective on your sales strategy as well as help in achieving that growth.

Our national team includes over 100 Sales, Marketing, and Business Development Experts. We provide one stop coordinated support for all of your Sales & Marketing needs. And we do this using a Pay-For-Performance model that keeps your risk and capital outlay low. Learn more - meet the Skyward Executive Team

Call us for a free consultation.
(508) 303-6321

We are so sure of the quality of our work, we will put a large portion of our fees at risk, payable only if you are satisfied! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.


The Skyward Process

Analysis

  • What do you sell
  • Who buys
  • Why buy
  • Competitive analysis
  • Messaging
  • Current strategy
  • What’s working
  • What’s not
  • Existing sales & marketing

Strategy

  • Ideal target profiling
  • Best ways to reach buyers
  • Value propositions
  • Marketing strategy
  • Business dev. strategy
  • Sales strategy

Tactics

  • Go To Market steps
  • Lead generation
  • Territory plans
  • Alliances
  • Low hanging fruit
  • Channel development
  • Budget tradeoffs
  • Schedules
  • Measurements

Assistance

How can the Skyward team provide the greatest ROI in the shortest amount of time?

Prospective clients often want to short cut the first three phases and have us go directly into helping them sell or build channels. This is always a mistake.

We get ONE chance to speak to prospective clients, alliances, and channel partners. If we do not approach them with everything well thought out and are able to answer their questions and objections, we will lose and never get another opportunity.

Without developing the right strategy and tactics, almost all of our assistance will be ineffective. We lose – you lose.


The Skyward Executive Team

Rock Griffin, President

Rock has been selling, delivering, and managing at product and service organizations for 23 years. Prior to founding Skyward Consulting Group, Rock was the EVP in charge of the North American Financial Services Division of Logica (now LogicaCMG). Prior to this, he was the VP/GM of Professional Services at Thomson Financial, the Managing Director for North American Professional Services at SSA, and a Practice Director at Coopers & Lybrand Consulting. He also held sales and management positions at Honeywell, McDonnell Douglas, and was a US Army officer. He has an MBA and an MS in Information Systems Management.

Monya Cate Griffin, Executive Vice President

Monya combines her degrees in counseling and psychology with her professional training and coaching skills to oversee our coaching and assessment businesses. Monya has 19 years in private and corporate practice as well as professional coaching, speaking, and training. Besides working with Skyward, Monya also continues to lead several programs focused on marriage and family issues and is a frequent speaker on relational topics.

Kevin Ball, Chief Financial Officer

Kevin brings 15 years of executive level finance and operations experience to Skyward Consulting Group. Prior to joining Skyward, Kevin was VP Operations for the U.S. subsidiary of Getronics NV, a $4.0B provider of software solutions and managed services located in the Netherlands. While at Getronics, he had responsibility for the North American operations of the Financial Services business. Prior to joining Getronics in 2000, Kevin spent ten years with Logica plc, a $2+ B professional services firm, where he held a number of senior level finance positions within Corporate Finance and the Financial Services and Energy & Utility business units. While part of Corporate Finance, Kevin had responsibility for treasury services, risk management and financial planning and analysis. Most recently, Kevin was VP Finance and Operations for Logica s Financial Services line of business. Kevin has an Undergraduate degree in Economics from St. Anselm College and received his MBA with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from Boston College.