Jeff Harbaugh & Associates are consultants to action sports companies dealing with issues of transition. At the most fundamental level, they work with owners and senior managers to focus them on reaching their business goals. They utilize industry knowledge, and broad business experience to identify and efficiently zero in on the handful of critical business issues and opportunities that make a fundamental difference to the bottom line. They align those issues with identified goals.

Jeff has an MBA in finance from The Wharton School and 20 plus years experience working with and for smaller and middle market companies that:

  Are growing quickly

  Need to respond to dramatically new market conditions

  Face new competitive challenges

  Find that what they have always done successfully isn't working

  Are outgrowing the skills of its management team

  Have issues of financial adequacy

  Aren't helping the owners meet their personal goal

Since 1991, he's focused exclusively on the action sports market.

Use this site to see everything he's written over twelve years as author of the Market Watch column in TransWorld Business publications, SAM, Boardsport Source, and elsewhere. Sort his articles according to your areas of interest.

Check out some free management tools he's made available and uses in his practice.

See if anything on his admittedly kind of eclectic reading list is worth getting hold of.

Find out how he works as a consultant and figure out if it's worth sending him an email to discuss your particular issue or just to tell him what he should be writing about.

And get his take on the latest industry trends.  You may agree with him- or not- but he's guaranteed to make you think.