David Southworth, President, Southworth Company
“Laurie is great at grasping complex business situations and helping put in place appropriate people, resources and systems. She is a superb project manager.

Laurie has helped Southworth Company:

• Define information needs for a sales and marketing unit and evaluate technology solutions

• Analyze our complex work and shift schedule, recommend alternatives and make the transition to a more appropriate staffing model, including revamping our hiring process for hourly workers

• Define, develop and initiate implementation of a comprehensive training program for papermill staff

• Develop company and department business plans by supporting and helping lead our annual 3-year strategic planning process”

Nancy J. Perman, Custom Embroidery
“Working with Laurie makes me believe I can succeed with my business; I am more confident with each step I take. I chose to work with Laurie before investing in advertizing and other business promotions and I’m glad I did. She helped me to develop a solid plan for my business. If I find my self second guessing decisions, I know where to go - I call Laurie. She doesn’t sugar-coat; her straight talk and suggestions help me to stay focused. I recommend her services to owners who want to grow their businesses and be more profitable.”

Kathy Selvia, President, New England Promotional Marketing
“Not only does Laurie know the right questions to ask, she really listens to the answers. She can take all the information I provide and put things into easy to understand, logical order. She helped us to look at all of our systems and procedures and showed us methods to make things easier. I feel that I have a better understanding of the operation of the company as a whole - inside operations and outside sales - because of her work. I highly recommend her services."

Sandy Perron, Co-owner, Boyden & Perron
Laurie is my first call when I encounter business issues with which we have little or no experience or lack confidence to handle properly. I trust that based on her diverse experiences in business and in life, she will give me accurate, no nonsense answers or perspective that I am looking for. I appreciate that if she doesn't know the answer, she has a business associate in her network to contact for the answer and she will get back to me. She has also become a trusted "sounding board" for me when I need to check my perception of and reaction to an issue. She is able to advise and guide me without telling me what to do and I have learned new skills when working with her. I sincerely appreciate our relationship; I can't image trying to navigate all the complex business issues we have encountered without her help. I just can't!

William Stillinger, General Manager, Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics
"Pioneer Valley PhotoVoltaics is a worker-owner cooperative building healthy, sustainable communities by promoting renewable energy systems. Breitner and Associates taught us practical ways to build a sound business foundation, avoid setbacks and focus our efforts to achieve our goals."

D.J. Gardner, Managing Director, Fed Ex Trade Networks
“Laurie has demonstrated her great professionalism and dedication to this challenging project. She played a critical role to bring a successful result within budget and schedule by combining technical competence in XML, business writing catered to a specific audience and an understanding of complicated software. This project benefited from Laurie’s tireless enthusiasm to accommodate changes and endless creativity to find the best solution. We look forward to working with Breitner & Associates in the future.”

Carl Charrette, Sunrise Pastry Shop
“Thanks to Breitner & Associates, Sunrise Pastries, Inc. has become a successful business. Laurie’s ability to pass on her knowledge and skills has helped me to make my operation profitable. I have become a better and smarter business person with the skills needed to keep Sunrise Pastries, Inc on track and moving ahead. I regard Breitner & Associates highly and would recommend Laurie to any business owner needing assistance and have done so many times.”

Robert Bonsall, CEO Disability Management Services
"DMS engaged Laurie at a critical time in our development. She played a key technical role supporting the company in contract negotiations, evaluating business processes and planning and implementing business transitions. Laurie's broad skill set helped enable the company's significant growth from 25 - 225 employees over a three-year period from late 1997 through 2000."

Skip Matthews, President, Louis & Clark Drugs
"Laurie's common sense approach to strategic planning, change management, process improvement and IT analysis has been on target, insightful and a huge benefit for our company. By offering systematic techniques, she has helped us to tackle tough issues. She has allowed us to learn new skills, remember old ones and apply those skills effectively. As we confront the inevitable transitions all businesses face, I feel we are vastly better prepared to conquer and even take advantage of change."

Deb Gilburg, President Growth Dynamics
"Working with Laurie to create a business plan for our company was a great way to understand our business from an organizational and systemic perspective. By doing the assignments she created for us, I learned so much about how to plan and organize our business that I feel much more confident and comfortable leading the company in the years ahead."

Melissa Alosso, VP Operations Relax U
“Laurie is a teacher and mentor; she shares insight, perspective, experience, strategy and real life problem solving skills. She is a comprehensive and highly effective researcher and analyst. Her processes, procedures and forms put us at ease and gave us a path to chart as we work to realize our goals; they are an integral part of her instruction.”