Strategy Insight

David Blumenthal has more than twenty years of experience as a founder, builder, harvester, mentor and entrepreneur with a strong history of successful, measurable, results-oriented leadership in:

• Building profitable growth organizations
• Crafting strategy and executing operational plans
• Creating organizations in which people grow and learn
• Developing committed and knowledgeable professional staff
• Reengineering and optimizing business processes
• Deploying appropriate technologies and automation
• Implementing efficient operations, and
• Designing consultative sales and business building approaches

David currently is president of Forward Looking Management where he collaborates with leadership teams to create strategic and operational plans, provides high level project management and sales consulting.

He typically produces dramatic results such as these:

• A software company in the healthcare space utilized David’s sales strategies and his implementation expertise to more than quadruple its division’s annual sales goals. Presently, David is implementing an e-commerce and government strategy to further revitalize sales and create new business opportunities by leveraging the company’s market position.
• A large regional banking corporation achieved seven figure sales from new accounts once it implemented the strategic sales seminar program developed by David.
• A consulting practice utilized David’s project management expertise to manage software development and complex activities for its clients and to redirect and realign its own software development efforts for an internal project that had fallen significantly behind schedule. Within five weeks, the project was once again on schedule for delivery.

He founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Flash Creative Management, a business technology company focused on assisting companies to identify their strategic objectives and tactical plans and build the processes and technologies to support them. His clients have included American Express, 3M Health Information Systems, Reinauer Transportation Corporation, Johnson and Johnson, DaimlerChrysler, Deloitte and Touche, City of North Charleston, University of California and Microsoft Corporation.

David’s company earned recognition as an Inc. 500 Company for three years and an Upside Magazine “Emerging Star” company in the field of technology. Flash has also been recognized as a Deloitte Touche Tomatsu New Jersey Fast 50 Technology company and was listed among the nation’s Fast 500 firms. He was a finalist in Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year program.

David has been a featured speaker on business management at Inc. Magazine’s Growing Your Company Conference, Borland’s Developers Conference, Microsoft’s Developers Conference, the Professional Association of Database Developers and at numerous user groups. He has been a frequent contributor to Data Based Advisor and has appeared on Bloomberg Television.

His educational background includes a Masters of Business Administration from New York University with a concentration on Organizational Development and Personnel Training and Management as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications from New York University.