1. What We Do
   
2. Founding Partners
   
3. The First Step To Success
   
4. How We Help You Reach Your Goals
   

Tim Barrett (Principal Consultant and President) is no stranger to success as a business owner, corporate executive, consultant and scholar. With over 30 years of business experience, Tim's time in corporate America includes a tenure as a Vice President with CitiCapital, a division of Citigroup, where he and his 25-member team managed the business technology sector with national account responsibility for Cisco Systems, Oracle, and other technology companies. The technology sector for CitiCapital generated over $200 million in sales volume for Citigroup. 

Tim joined CitiCapital after 16 years as a successful entrepreneur. He created, built and managed a successful commercial banking firm that catered to vendors and manufacturers using equipment financing as a catalyst for driving incremental sales. The business was acquired in 1996 and went through multiple mergers and acquisitions to bring Tim to CitiCapital. His clients included Ericsson, Lucent, Corning Optics, Herman Miller, Haworth and Steelcase. As a business consultant and executive coach, Tim served some 200 companies in more than 60 industries in 15 states over 10 years. Tim specialized in three-fold, start-ups, emerging growth and turnaround and workouts. He retired from corporate America at the end of 2003 and returned to his beloved North Carolina and to consulting. 

Tim focuses two-thirds of his time on regional and national accounts and one-third of his time on assisting local companies on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis. History and theology are Tim's scholarly passions. He is Executive Director of "New Song Mission Nicaragua", a Christian Mission in Nicaragua and sits on the board of several non-profit and educational institutions. Before relocating to North Carolina, Tim was a favorite speaker and instructor throughout Northern California, speaking on 16th Century history and religion. He has an extensive library, which includes many one-of-a-kind books and documents.

Karen J. Townsend, MA, MA, (Vice President) Organizational Psychologist and Executive Coach, brings 30 years of business experience to her consulting and coaching work. She held the position of vice president of marketing and sales for a multi-million dollar project management and facility design firm in the San Francisco Bay area for eight years before entering the world of business ownership. 

Karen's entrepreneurial spirit, ambition, and sound business practices helped her create a multi-million-dollar contract furniture, facility design and project management business serving Fortune 1000 clients throughout the United States. She held the position of President and CEO for 14 years until selling her business. Her corporate clients included DHL Airways, Mitsubishi Electronics, Octel Communications, Novellus Systems, Ecosys/ATMI and Diamond Multimedia. 

As a woman-owned business, she was a contractor for the United States Air Force in Northern California for 15 years, mastering the processes for achieving woman and minority status for city, state and federal contracts. After 24 years as an executive and business owner, Karen transformed her passion for business and people to consulting and coaching, specializing in helping women succeed as entrepreneurs and corporate managers. She has had a successful practice for the past six years. 

She holds a Master's degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, CA. Her advanced degree in Counseling has trained her to design a consulting and coaching method that is unique to each individual. Her advanced degree in Organizational Psychology has trained her to understand all the elements of a business's dynamics and to design and implement long-term, sustainable goals and objectives where each individual within the culture is encouraged to achieve personally and professionally. 

Karen is also a Certified Mediator and facilitates conflict resolution procedures for organizations. Karen believes human beings are the most valuable asset of any organization, and successful organizations enable people to participate in a culture based on teamwork, respect, integrity and shared values with emotional intelligence.

Randy Robinson (Vice President of Marketing Communications) has been successfully creating marketing communications programs for national level clients for over thirty years.  He has been a writer, creative director, owner, and president of several advertising agencies, a senior marketing officer for two major restaurant companies, and serves as President of BluePrints’ sister company, Thoren and Company Creative Services.

He trained to be an advertising agency creative director at the University of North Carolina at Asheville where he received a BA in English and did his post graduate work in Art.

Throughout his career, Randy has written virtually every kind of print, broadcast, and web copy used by industry, and he’s developed marketing communications plans, promotions and event programs for businesses of all sizes - from national corporations to small businesses.  His experience has taught him that that every marketing message must create an emotional connection with its target audience in order to produce results and he insists on creating strategies that focus on this end prior to developing any creative tactic.  His client list reads like who’s who of industry and includes such companies as McDonald’s, Hardee’s, U.S. Cellular, Pepsi, Avada Hearing and Balance, Automatic Bankcard Systems, Harrah’s Casino, Houlihan’s Restaurant Group, Crown Oil, and Diamond Brand. 

When not creating marketing communications solutions for business, he writes both fiction and non-fiction for regional and national publications, and he serves in the Air Force Auxilliary’s Civil Air Patrol as an air crew member and Assistant Administrative Officer.

We draw upon the expertise and skills of highly successful professionals who can bring the resources you need to develop and implement your strategic plan. Our professionals are actively engaged in:

• Finance and Accounting
• Human Resources
• Management Information Systems
• Law
• Sales
• Marketing
• Operations