As a consulting and training boutique, The Bison Group is an organization that teaches clients to expect more from themselves, the leadership they pursue, and the dynamic teams they build. The organization focuses its offerings on process improvement strategies within the implementation of business solutions, best practices, social solutions, and change management strategies using our strategies from the U.S. Marine Corps to execute with precision.
The Bison Group represents a truly unique breed of leadership training, so it seems only appropriate that its story is unique as well. The Group's founders actually met years before it was founded, in the United States Marine Corps. While serving in the Corps together, they developed not only the strong bond of trust that typifies a combat unit, but the effective tactical and psychological insights which must be forged in life-or-death situations. That knowledge proved equally useful to them – as individuals – following their return to civilian life. The Bison Group was born from their desire to share the strategic lessons learned with others; a mission which continues today.
A training company steeped in excellence, who is better to train future leaders than the leaders of today? The Bison Group has a long history of tradition and rigor, innovation, courage, and discipline of excellence. Made up of U.S. Marines turned business professionals and industry specialists, the team’s commitment to discovery has translated from the battlefields into enduring contributions to the marketplace. A leader in its field, Bison focuses its programs on organizational behavior, transformational leadership, and team building. Bison’s close ties with university Presidents, today’s business and political leaders, and its grounding in the real world has positioned the company to maintain its reputation as one of the world’s leading minority-owned training and consultancy organizations in business, executive education, and industry research.
With its commitment to excellence, performance management initiatives, and a high quality faculty, The Bison Group carries a prestige that few can match. Learn more about the core values of The Bison Group below:
- The Bison Distinction
- Transformational Thinking Paradigm
- Commitment to the World of Academia
- Community Involvement
- Bison’s Leadership Ventures
- Women’s Initiatives
The organization's new focus allows the approach to be one that engages global business markets with a leaner team of associates and partners, growing at a significant rate each year with a large and increasing client base across the world. Bison's philosophy lies deep in principle and within the organizations approach to encourage a complete openness and rigid adherence to academic freedom and integrity. There is only room for transformative, unrestricted thinking from its clients and students. Bison understands the criticality for soliciting a diverse perspective that influences a significant paradigm shift within various points of view. Mistakes have been made in business, organizations, and community leadership over the years because people fail to understand – or seek to understand – the differences between leadership and management in dealing with cultural differences. Bison is committed to the “flexibility and openness” needed to make its offerings thrive across the global economies.
Under Bison’s new leadership direction, the organization continues to find parallels from the military’s approach of achieving peak performance and the business communities winning attitude at competing on greater scales of economy. In a recent speech to university presidents in Washington, DC, Defense Secretary and former President of Texas A&M University, Robert M. Gates stated; “In the last few years, we have learned that the challenges facing the world require a much broader conception and application of national power than just military prowess.” Having a complete understanding and belief in these words, the Bison Group’s commitment to providing a broader application to leadership and organizational behavior remains at the forefront of its passion – developing the extraordinary from the ordinary!
From the Founder:
“We’ve come to understand that leadership across organizations and governments know the magnitude of the challenges they face. They are looking for successful execution that in turn, requires foresight. In the rapidly changing marketplace, organizations are finding it more and more difficult to distinguish the important long-term trends than ever before. They need competent advisory teams that offer significant levels of courage who will not only help to direct the path to navigate organizational politics, but also to help to improve global enterprise – even it means learning to synthesize contradictory perspectives from multiple places.
Our own mission has taught us similar lessons, and for that reason, have positioned us to serve the senior agenda at the world’s major institutions, whether they are businesses, governments, educational institutions, or not-for-profit and faith-based organizations. We maintain no head office; instead, Bison is creating an organization where people can create advantage for clients and set their own destiny wherever the work calls them.
Maintaining a diverse group of colleagues who are capable and respectful of one another, and who, above all, are people of the world, Bison’s values run deep. With our backgrounds stemming from the United States Marine Corps, our refreshed perspective to training and consulting makes our new focus all the more exciting. We look forward to the opportunities and challenges ahead as we glean insight from the business looking glass of the future.
Bison’s initiatives are designed to encourage and inspire a journey from effectiveness to greatness, while assisting people in finding their voice and unlocking their potential. In doing so, they can facilitate a pragmatic approach for others to find their voice for delivering greater opportunities for growth to family, organization, business, and social relationships. Our team, even when faced with adverse conditions, will win; our passion is to teach others how to do the same!”
The Bison Group - Setting the standard.
At Bison and within its divisional segments, the responsibility for ethical behavior is taken seriously — by everyone, at every level.
Conducting business honorably and with the utmost professionalism is the absolute most important feature as an entire unit. This concept is the greatest value that each associate within the team prides themselves on.
