Fact Sheet
We bring a fresh perspective to whatever challenge or opportunity you are facing and working together what we discover are far better answers.
Fast Facts
- Founded: 2013, Florida
- Ownership: We are an LLC owned and operated by CEO Sara Hand.
- Global reach: By 2021, Spark Growth has developed experiences, partnerships, and dealings across five contents and over 65 languages and dialects. Today, we provide consulting, training, and development services and have reached over 22,000 satisfied clients with our events. Our Portfolio outlines our work history, including our recent work with major technology and data organizations.
- Headquarters: As a truly global firm, we do not have a ‘headquarters’ in the traditional sense. Our Managing Consultants choose their home offices. Our primary location for on-site work is in Bradenton, Florida, (at Station 2 Innovation), with a New York City site in development (2021).
- C-Level Suite: Sara Hand (CEO), Stan Schultes (CIO), Norm Dempsey (CTO), Cassandra Decker (CRDO)
Overview
Spark Growth is a global consulting firm committed to helping organizations grow by driving significant and sustained change. With our data-driven approach to problem-solving, we connect available assets to then leverage returns on our clients’ time, effort, and resources. We empower our clients to have greater impact across sectors, and our consultants and subject matter experts work together to engage with and grow people, businesses, and communities.
Spark Growth’s expert consultants are game changers for organizations that recognize the urgent need for transformation but do not know where or how to begin the processes. Our team has proven success in helping clients thrive in the following ways:
- Navigate the transformation process from start to finish,
- Identify and map customer needs and opportunities for innovation,
- (Re)skill for workplace and industry success,
- Integrate existing systems and processes with optimized technologies, and
- Develop actionable, agile approaches that bring long-term success.
Our Clients
The fundamental value of our firm is a unique commitment to our clients and the impact we jointly bring about through the collaborative growth process. Our global firm works with an integrated approach across regions, sectors, and disciplines to ensure our clients experience an immediate improvement in performance and build long-term organizational health. Our clients have full access to all the knowledge we have built through decades of experience consulting, researching, and developing expertise in a wide range of subject matters.
Our People
The quality of our people determines how well we serve our clients, and we focus tremendous resources on identifying, hiring, and developing them. See our Sociocultural Commitments for more information on our diversity standing.
Sociocultural Commitments
We recognize and embrace the power of diverse experiences and peoples. At Spark Growth, we believe diverse positions are vital to vibrant ecosystems as individualism elevates teams, communities, and our day-to-day work.
Diversity is not always celebrated in workplaces and communities. At Spark Growth, we know that diversity is the material that builds intelligent and creative ecosystems where people love to live and play. We seek to elevate diverse voices and reject any hatred and divisiveness against the celebration of diversity.
Business, Economic and Entrepreneur Development
Business Development is about sustainable, strategic growth. In today’s world, development is a blend of already identified goals and objectives that trend toward sustained improvement. Defined goals and objectives are combined with understanding the current position, identifying new opportunities, and mapping a plan to get from today to tomorrow. During this process, monitoring and feedback provide opportunities for course adjustments, keeping the business on track in a rapidly changing marketplace.
Economic Development fosters the creation of wealth by connecting together people, ideas, and capital to create value in the marketplace. There are a variety of ways to measure this value including number of startup businesses, increased jobs, return on investment through attracting business expansions, and other metrics.
Numerous activities can be implemented to accomplish Economic Development objectives. Fostering entrepreneurial activities (such as startups and business incubation) are powerful ways to execute economic growth at the local level. Another way is to attract business expansions from other places – both domestic and international (soft landings).
Although economic development activity is typically tied to a particular geographic area such as a metropolitan region, that geography may be further defined by the Scope of Work that an entity may choose to work within. On a smaller scale than the entire metro area, Innovation Districts development is a way of focusing on providing a more localized economic impact.
Innovation Districts are unique developments that provide better places to live, work, and play. There may be multiple Innovation Districts within a given metro area, and each Innovation District in turn focuses on economic development activity in a place-specific way by creating community-authentic solutions. See our “Innovation Districts Development Services” for more information on how creating these live-work-play spaces can have a positive impact on your region.
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