About Us Tim Cooper, founder and principal of the Consulting Garage, is a former senior executive with a wide range of expertise and an impressive management track record. Highly skilled in collaborative management with a focus on strategic planning, Tim is a leader with a successful history of improving day-to-day operations as well as directing enterprise-level initiatives. Tim has helped his employers save millions of dollars, and he will do the same for you. In addition to work experience from the retail floor to the corporate boardroom, Tim has an MA in organizational management and has attended programs on business strategy and supply chain management at Harvard Business School, MIT/Sloan School of Management, Saint Louis University/John Cook School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin. Tim also regularly attends seminars and webinars to keep current on the most interesting and impactful business and technology developments. Tim's vision of the Consulting Garage as a no-nonsense, no frills, highly focused, practical, hands-on consulting service grew from his own experiences (both positive and negative) in dealing with consultants over the years. Having worked with all consulting types, from the corporate megaliths to the boutique specialists, Tim has taken the best approaches and distilled them into the simple essence of listen, learn, and lead. To read more about the vision of the Consulting Garage, please click here to view the Consulting Garage Q&A. For more details about Tim's professional experience, you may click here to see his CV (resume). Recommendations "Tim was a great choice for us, and lent real value and integrity to the assignment. Tim's analytic skills and articulation of the opportunity for savings and improvement was spot on. I'd hire him for another assignment without question and recommend him without hesitation." Michael Jacobs, President and CEO, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. "Tim Cooper has been a key to our success by giving very strategic and precise financial feedback on our business model. His discipline and his focus on developing key objectives has been crucial in the growth and profitability of our business." Phil Alexander, CEO and Founder, Entertainment Marketing Group "Tim Cooper has an uncanny ability to get to the heart of business problems." Fran Toolan, President, Firebrand Technologies "Tim Cooper is a valuable, results-driven performer, a remarkable resource in understanding customer needs and business opportunities." Dan Farley, President and Publisher, Henry Holt & Company

Recommendations (continued) "A fabulous executive. He thinks strategically... I would enthusiastically recommend Tim." Mike Shatzkin, Founder and CEO, The Idea Logical Company, Inc. "Tim is a creative results-oriented professional. He brought many new ideas to improve efficiency and drive synergies in a diverse operating environment." Mike Allsup, former Senior Vice President, Operations and CIO, Harcourt Education Group "Tim Cooper is a brilliant corporate strategist and crystal-clear executive "big picture" thinker." Deborah Warren, Founder and President, East/West Agency "Tim proved to be an ideal business partner during the course of a complex project. In particular, I was impressed with his ability to keep the project on track, respond to opportunities as they came up, and steer the team towards a highly satisfactory end result." Ted Hill, President, THA Consulting "Tim has mastered the art of thinking systemically while simultaneously mining significant data from the detail. He has a big picture mind intrigued by detail - a rare find!" Terry Rossell, former Vice President of Human Resources, Harcourt Trade Publishers "Tim brings leadership, creativity, and the discipline of understanding that new ideas and new processes must have solid profit potential." John Conley, Vice President of Publishing, Xerox Corporation "Tim has an ability to simplify the most complicated concepts. This makes him a great problem solver and exactly the co-worker you would like on your team as you work to fix something, or better yet, create something to take your company to the next level." Jen Haller, Vice President and Associate Publisher, Penguin Books for Young Readers "I can heartily acclaim (Tim's) rare talent for seeing and shaping business goals-and for implementing smart, bold plans to meet or surpass those goals. He works well with... and inspires others to get the job done efficiently." Robin Cruise, Publisher, Juvenile Group at Becker & Mayer Q&A and Links Linked In Blog Q & A