CFAR: Consulting and Coaching

Consultant

• CFAR helps leaders activate organizations to achieve their highest aspirations—productively, meaningfully, profitably, and with impact.
• We are looking for Senior Consultants who are excited to help build our firm and have the experience to sell, lead, and manage client work, both independently and in teams.
• We are particularly interested in individuals who bring experience generating leads, developing opportunities, leading consulting projects, and making significant contributions to one or more of our primary markets, including healthcare, family enterprises and owner-led businesses, and education.
• Our family enterprises and owner-led businesses practice partners with business founders, owners, leaders, and families to locate and amplify both the will and the skill to make choices that propel themselves toward their chosen futures.
• Our work focuses on transitions that require expert understanding of the systems at play in the business and in the family. Our engagements include succession planning, strategy development, establishing family governance and/or foundations, creating a board of directors, next generation development, readying a business for sale, and partnering where the stakes are high—both personally and professionally.
• **Senior Consultants are seasoned professionals with a passion for helping CFAR make an impact in our markets as we build our growing business. In this role, you will make significant contributions to business development, cultivate client relationships, and work collaboratively with CFAR Principals and other members of the CFAR team to deliver exceptional services.
• The Family Enterprises and Owner-Led Businesses Senior Consultant will bring relevant expertise applicable to the field and can get “up to speed” quickly when working with clients. They will demonstrate the capacity to develop effective and collegial consulting relationships with clients, and work respectfully and productively with people at all levels of the organization. Senior Consultants are comfortable with the complexities and dynamics of business and enterprise performance, including but not limited to general management, financial management, strategy, culture, operations, family dynamics, and/or marketing and communications. Senior Consultants have a track record of developing new business and demonstrate the ability to prospect clients, explore organizational needs, develop tailored project designs, lead sales calls, and write winning proposals.
• Senior Consultants will be active in translating ideas from client work and their own experience into opportunities to write and present, building on CFAR’s foundation of thought leadership.
• This role also holds the potential to “fast-track” to ownership as a Principal owner of the firm.

Senior Consultant, Family Enterprises – Owner-Led Businesses

Manager

• Manage the day-to-day execution of multiple client engagements simultaneously, ensuring quality, timeliness, and attention to detail across all workstreams
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data—including interview findings, financial trends, survey results, and organizational dynamics—and synthesize insights into clear, compelling recommendations
• Lead and facilitate client work sessions, interviews, and presentations, as appropriate to the project and in collaboration with senior team members
• Prepare client-facing materials including reports, slide decks, and memos that translate complex analysis into clear narrative
• Work closely with Principals, Senior Consultants, and Analysts in small, integrated project teams
• Contribute to internal knowledge development, firm-building activities, and the ongoing refinement of CFAR's tools and methods
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through day-to-day project work
• Begin developing familiarity with CFAR's business development approach in preparation for expanded responsibilities over time