Most any business is a candidate to improve its operations and profits by
resolving its entrenched inefficiencies. But the abundant opportunities to
accomplish more with less are often overlooked in the frantic pace to meet
immediate demands. Cost overruns, mistakes, missed deadlines, and poor
quality work are common symptoms. Employee morale, teamwork, and profits
suffer. Work seems a struggle – a grind with unsatisfactory rewards.
I am Byron Callas, President of CALLAS CONSULTING.
An executive business consultant with over 30 years experience, I have
consistently helped my clients eliminate inefficiencies and improve their
operations.
My mission is to make the lives of you and your employees easier, to make
work simpler, to measurably increase productivity, and to realize greater returns
on your investment in money and human energy.
My focus is solving business-enterprise problems that impede progress and
productivity.
My results are improved operations, increased returns on investment, and a
better work environment.
My experience: over 30 years executive and managerial engagement problem-
solving programs and systems to integrate and improve operations across
disparate functional departments.
"Byron is one of the most savvy business leaders I have ever worked with. He has the uncanny ability
to dive deep into problem areas, analyze and vet opportunities while offering concrete solutions that
deliver efficiency and process to the most chaotic situations. He has been instrumental on various
projects, bringing clarity to both the macro and micro view, making him an invaluable resource time
and time again." - Monika Rose, Director, Creative Services, LeapFrog Enterprises
“Byron worked for me when I was Senior Vice President of Marketing at both Showtime/The Movie
Channel and MasterCard International. He is the most accomplished person I have ever worked with.
There was never an assignment that he didn't complete on time and on budget above and beyond
the call of duty. He is the most competent and accountable executive I know” - Joanne Black, Senior
Vice President, Marketing Services, MasterCard International
"I have known Byron for about three decades and he is one of the most creative thinkers I have ever
known. When we have worked together, Byron has been a constant source of innovation. When a
problem has no possible solution, Byron is the one to step back into a broader context within which
the needed solutions exist." - Earl Babbie, Professor, Chapman University
“Byron Callas is a multi-talented professional with a great background in business and process
management. I had the opportunity to hire him for a two-week consulting assignment that turned into
a two-year stay because of the usefulness of his many skills and abilities. His overall contribution
was enormous.” - Cliff West, Former Director Creative Services, LeapFrog Enterprises
“Byron came aboard at MasterCard and swiftly identified sources of disconnected brand building
efforts worldwide. I watched him interact with senior executives and secretaries with equal ease and
respect and saw firsthand that he is a professional, action-oriented person who gets tangible results
where others have failed. Byron is smart, insightful, positive, endearing, a leader & true team player.”
- Patrick Ohlin, Director Brand Management, MasterCard International
“Byron's clarity, intelligence and tremendous passion are extraordinary assets. Our team greatly
benefited from Byron's help. I have learned something new that benefited my business in every
single meeting we had with Byron.” - Bennett Johnston, President, Gingko Games
“Byron always manages to see through the thicket of detail to the important things, and is an
extremely creative, knowledgeable, strategic thinker. He's helped me think through many difficult
problems, and has consistently recommended approaches that actually worked, without ever
straying from his high standards of integrity.” - Chris Dworin, VP Bis-Dev, Golightly.com
Endorsements
CALLAS CONSULTING
Helping Businesses Run Better
© 2009 Byron Callas, All rights reserved.
Examples include:
- MasterCard International: For the Year-2000 anomaly, developed and
implemented a successful bank-auditing program to ensure that when the clock
strikes twelve, the credit cards of hundreds of millions of customers will work when
swiped at any of 20,000,000 merchants in any one of 144 countries around the world.
- LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc: Instrumental collaboration to improve cross-
departmental packaging-development operations to reduce costs and schedules, and
improve retail-packaging print quality for several hundred SKU annually.
- ShowTime/The Movie Channel: Analysed systems leading to improvements
reducing costs and production schedules for time-sensitive, direct-mail promotions
distributed monthly to millions of customers.
- United States Treasury Department: Conducted comprehensive study and
documentation for facilities requirements and operations costs for building and
operating plastic-card production facilities independent of commercial plants.
Since 1989 Callas Consulting has helped its clients save money, manage complex
projects, solve problems, improve business operations and improve productivity.
Services include:
- Research, analysis & findings
- Alternatives vetting
- Recommendations
- Implementation facilitation
- Planning: Stakeholder alignments for
mission, goals, scope, approach,
activity phasing, resource
requirements, task-holder roles &
responsibilities, budgets, milestones,
schedules, tasks & dependences,
reporting protocols, risk assessments
- Execution: Task-holder integration
and management, dependencies
management, budgets & schedules,
phase & milestone achievement,
status reporting, risk mitigation,
documentation, postmortem
- Process Management
Solutions
- Research & interviews
- Analysis & assessments
- Human resources/systems
breakdown & redundancies
assessments
- Recommendations
- Cross-functional integrations
- Implementation facilitation
- Documentation
- Operations & Project
Outsourcing
- Goals & benefits analysis
- RFP development
- Candidate vetting
- Contract negotiations
- Implementation facilitation
Collaboration and Services