The Trium Group
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The Trium Group is a San Francisco, California
-based boutique management consulting firm. Its stated mission is to help create brilliant organizations.
The firm focuses on strategy execution integrated with organizational leadership and culture development. It partners with senior executives to explore and develop strategies, and then continues to work closely with them to align, equip and mobilize their organizations to successfully implement strategic choices. Many of the firm’s engagements involve corporate transformation and governance, leadership-driven change management and/or post-merger integration.
Trium’s global client base has included Gap, Symantec
, Cisco Systems
, Genentech
, Virgin Atlantic Airways
, 24 Hour Fitness, The World Bank and SAP.
The consultancy was founded in 1998 by Andrew Blum, Jib Ellison, Tom Miller and Jon Rich. Blum runs the firm as Managing Partner; the other founders are no longer involved.
In 2006, Trium generated attention when The Wall Street Journal profiled the firm for its stated policy of letting dissatisfied clients pay as little as half of their contracted services fees and asking delighted clients to pay up to 35% more than their contracted fees. Also that year, Trium Managing Consultant Yul Kwon
leveraged his leadership consulting skills to win Survivor: Cook Islands
.
In 2007, Trium earned recognition from San Jose Magazine as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 50 “Best Place to Work.”
In 2007, the firm also welcomed Academic Partners Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer
of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
and Dr. Jennifer A. Chatman of the Haas School of Business
at The University of California-Berkeley.
In 2010, Trium announced it had promoted Senior Managing Consultants Monica Chi, Shani Harmon and Brad Sutton to Principals. In November 2010, Matthew Le Merle
left the Trium board after he was elected a partner of Booz & Company
. It also named Ori Brafman, co-author of The Starfish and the Spider
: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, and Click: The Magic of Instant Connections, as an academic partner. In 2011, the firm announced Peter Sims, author of Little Bets and co-author of True North (Bill George book)
, as an academic partner.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
-based boutique management consulting firm. Its stated mission is to help create brilliant organizations.
The firm focuses on strategy execution integrated with organizational leadership and culture development. It partners with senior executives to explore and develop strategies, and then continues to work closely with them to align, equip and mobilize their organizations to successfully implement strategic choices. Many of the firm’s engagements involve corporate transformation and governance, leadership-driven change management and/or post-merger integration.
Trium’s global client base has included Gap, Symantec
Symantec
Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...
, Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
, Genentech
Genentech
Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...
, Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited is a British airline owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Singapore Airlines...
, 24 Hour Fitness, The World Bank and SAP.
The consultancy was founded in 1998 by Andrew Blum, Jib Ellison, Tom Miller and Jon Rich. Blum runs the firm as Managing Partner; the other founders are no longer involved.
In 2006, Trium generated attention when The Wall Street Journal profiled the firm for its stated policy of letting dissatisfied clients pay as little as half of their contracted services fees and asking delighted clients to pay up to 35% more than their contracted fees. Also that year, Trium Managing Consultant Yul Kwon
Yul Kwon
Yul Kwon is a television host and former government official, lawyer, and management consultant based in Virginia. He first gained national recognition as the winner of the reality TV show Survivor: Cook Islands...
leveraged his leadership consulting skills to win Survivor: Cook Islands
Survivor: Cook Islands
Survivor: Cook Islands is the thirteenth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor, having premiered on September 14, 2006...
.
In 2007, Trium earned recognition from San Jose Magazine as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 50 “Best Place to Work.”
In 2007, the firm also welcomed Academic Partners Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ph.D., is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and is considered one of today's most influential management thinkers...
of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...
and Dr. Jennifer A. Chatman of the Haas School of Business
Haas School of Business
The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley....
at The University of California-Berkeley.
In 2010, Trium announced it had promoted Senior Managing Consultants Monica Chi, Shani Harmon and Brad Sutton to Principals. In November 2010, Matthew Le Merle
Matthew Le Merle
Matthew Le Merle is a Partner at Booz & Company, a leading global management consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments, and other institutions....
left the Trium board after he was elected a partner of Booz & Company
Booz & Company
Booz & Company is a global management consulting firm established in the United States in 1914. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world and one of the best consulting firms to work for by Consulting Magazine...
. It also named Ori Brafman, co-author of The Starfish and the Spider
The Starfish And the Spider
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is a 2006 book by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom is an exploration of the implications of the recent rise of decentralized organizations such as Wikipedia, Grokster and YouTube...
: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, and Click: The Magic of Instant Connections, as an academic partner. In 2011, the firm announced Peter Sims, author of Little Bets and co-author of True North (Bill George book)
True North (Bill George book)
True North, by Bill George and Peter Sims, is a best-selling 2007 business book and follow-up to George's 2003 bestseller Authentic Leadership...
, as an academic partner.