The Trium Group

New article name is The Trium Group

The Trium Group is a San Francisco, CA-based boutique management consulting firm. Its stated mission is to help create brilliant organizations.

The firm focuses on strategy execution integrated with organizational leadership and culture development. It partners with senior executives to explore and develop strategies, and then continues to work closely with them to align, equip and mobilize their organizations to successfully implement strategic choices. Many of the firm’s engagements involve corporate transformation and governance, leadership-driven change management and/or post-merger integration.

Trium’s global client base has included Gap, Symantec, Cisco Systems, Genentech, Virgin Atlantic Airways, 24 Hour Fitness, The World Bank and SAP.

The consultancy was founded in 1998 by Andrew Blum, Jib Ellison, Tom Miller and Jon Rich. Blum runs the firm as Managing Partner; the other founders are no longer involved. Trium’s leadership also includes board members Matthew Le Merle and Doug Mackenzie, two former West Coast practice leaders from strategy consulting firm Monitor Group. The two also work on select client engagements as Associate Partners.

In 2006, Trium generated attention when The Wall Street Journal profiled the firm for its stated policy of letting dissatisfied clients pay as little as half of their contracted services fees and asking delighted clients to pay up to 35% more than their contracted fees. Also that year, Trium Managing Consultant Yul Kwon leveraged his leadership consulting skills to win Survivor: Cook Islands.

In 2007, Trium earned recognition from San Jose Magazine as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 50 “Best Place to Work.”

In 2007, the firm also welcomed Academic Partners Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Dr. Jennifer A. Chatman of the Haas School of Business at The University of California-Berkeley.

In 2010, Trium announced it had promoted Senior Managing Consultants Monica Chi, Shani Harmon and Brad Sutton to Principals.