Boutique consulting with enterprise-level depth. We've been doing this since 2011.
Hartwell Solutions Group was founded in Chicago in 2011 by a team of former McKinsey and Deloitte alumni who believed that mid-market companies deserved the same quality of strategic thinking as the Fortune 500 — without the bloated timelines and junior-heavy teams.
What started as a three-person strategy boutique has grown into a 47-person firm with a full suite of consulting capabilities, serving clients across the United States and Canada. Our engagements range from focused 90-day strategic sprints to multi-year operational transformation programs.
We've maintained a 92% client retention rate over 14 years by staying true to our founding principle: we're not here to hand you a report and move on. We're here until the work is done and the results are real.
These aren't slogans — they're the standards we hold ourselves to on every engagement.
We tell clients what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. If a strategy isn't working, we say so early. If a plan has a flaw, we'd rather surface it in the planning phase than after implementation.
We measure our success by our clients' results, not by the number of slides we deliver. Every engagement begins with agreement on the metrics that will define success — and we hold ourselves to them.
Generic frameworks applied to specific industries produce generic results. We staff every engagement with consultants who have direct sector experience, not just MBAs learning on the job.
We work alongside client teams, not above them. The best outcomes come from combining our external perspective with your internal knowledge — and building your team's capabilities in the process.
The best strategy is one that can actually be executed. We design solutions with your organization's real constraints — budget, talent, culture, timeline — front of mind from day one.
Many of our clients have been with us through multiple engagements over many years. We invest in understanding your business deeply because we're planning to be part of its evolution long-term.
Senior practitioners with decades of real-world experience across strategy, operations, finance, and technology.
Tell us about your challenge and we'll put together the right team for the engagement.
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