The Valen Group is a strategy an innovation consulting firm that helps busy executives with projects to realize top-line growth. Their methods uniquely combine experience working for well-known organizations with experience in entrepreneurship.

The Valen Group was founded by Gus Valen with a mission to help leaders tackle growth challenges and identify innovation opportunities. Mr. Valen provides strong firm leadership with his broad viewpoint of how to profitably manage topline growth. His experience stems from working in fast, growing small business, Fortune 500, strategy consulting and entrepreneurial organziations.

Our People
Our firm is comprised of individuals who are passionate about planning, identifying and executing growth and innovation. We are equally comfortable working with well-known companies as well as smaller, entrepreneurial organizations. We train our staff on our proprietary problem-solving methods, rooted in fact-based analysis, critical insight and the right amount of creative thinking necessary to quickly and systematically solve complex problems enabling clients to capitalize on market opportunities.


Crafting an Engagement
We begin every engagement with an understanding of the business issues at hand. We customize each approach to a client issue and draw from a variety of sources (our proprietary strategy methodologies, knowledge bases, industry and consulting experiences, and thought leadership sources) to develop the final engagement proposal.

Ensuring Success Through Team Integration
Our philosophy on longevity in the consulting business is to deliver one successful engagement at a time. That success hinges on identifying each client’s unique organizational structure, team skills, attitudes and beliefs, risks and perceptions of what they need from a strategy consultant. We craft a team structure that fits the needs of the client for that engagement.