Olitzky Consulting Group (November 2023)
What is Olitzky Consulting Group?
In a nutshell, we help organizations and companies that are stuck get unstuck. And most of them don’t even realize how or why they’re stuck in the first place. In consulting speak, that translates to strategic planning, facilitation, board training and retreats, coaching, alternative revenue modelling, conflict resolution, and so much more.
What is your business’ story?
I am formerly a congregational rabbi. I became a rabbi because I felt it was the last dying profession of the renaissance man. After spending nearly 20 years in the congregational setting, I realized that I had been consulting for nonprofits, for-profits, houses of worship, community leaders—all over the country. It was at that point that I decided I could do more by launching my own firm, leaving the world in a better place than I found it.
What is one obstacle you’ve overcome and what did you learn from it?
Consultants always talk about feast or famine. It’s a challenging cycle to navigate – and central to that is believing in oneself, and as cliché as it sounds, staying the course. The best advice, in that light, that I can give someone is to stop always trying to “close.” Instead, focus on doing good and helping others. Once you truly, and intentionally, commit to that, then the business and work will follow.
What advice do you have for other small businesses or someone wanting to start one?
Stop thinking about it and do it. The more time you spend waiting to launch the more likely you will miss the runway.
*Republished from direct communications.