Strategic support to build strong, lean organizations that enable entrepreneurs to focus on creating real change

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It’s about execution.

Many emerging companies have incredible energy and strong products but have trouble executing consistently. Many startup founders are hampered by weak, inefficient, or bloated business processes, or feel like they are constantly putting out fires rather than growing their business.

Lassen Consulting provides strategic and operational support to emerging purpose-driven organizations. Lassen can build lean, replicable processes or streamline existing ones, and can focus strategy and operations to enable entrepreneurs to concentrate on what matters most.

Lassen Consulting’s Principal is Dan Luscher, who has held executive roles at BSR, Water.org, ADAP Capital, and Equal Access International and has provided strategic advisory support to numerous startup social enterprises.

 
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Success through simplicity.

Simplicity is at the center of Dan’s operating philosophy; a company’s structure and operations should be as simple as possible to free up everyone to do their most productive work. Dan integrates Lean Startup and other battle-tested frameworks into his work with companies.

 
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Services

  • Interim COO/CFO

  • Fractional or virtual COO/CFO

  • Strategic and operational planning

  • Organizational and process “audit"

  • Structuring and building a finance function

  • Creating or streamlining existing finance and operational processes

  • Assessing and restructuring finance and operations teams

 

Experience

Dan Luscher’s decades of experience working with a wide range of enterprises means that he’s seen almost everything and can quickly identify and solve a wide range of organizational challenges.

Dan has worked within and consulted to a wide variety of purpose-driven organizations:

  • CFO at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility)

  • COO at Water.org

  • Interim COO at Equal Access International

  • Board Chair at TransForm

  • Managing Director at ADAP Capital

  • General Manager at ALM Media

  • Strategic and financial consulting to numerous social enterprises, including Neopenda, Good Nature Agro, Drinkwell, M-Shule, FarmDrive, AgUnity, Shyft Power Solutions, and Vega Coffee

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Sona Shah

“Neoopenda has benefited from Dan’s strategic insights as well as his operational expertise. I feel like he is truly in my corner as an entrepreneur.”

Sona Shah, CEO and co-founder of Neopenda

 
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“Dan is first and foremost a strategic thinker. He has the ability to size up situations in organizations and understand how to set and drive towards high-level goals.”

Gary White, CEO and co-founder of Water.org

Let’s talk.

dan@lassen.li