The Guinn Consultancy Group, Inc. is an award-winning orchestration consultancy, based in Bristol, TN, and founded in 2000 by Alan Guinn, the current CEO and Managing Director. With clients resident around the world on every continent but Antarctica, the Consultancy was incorporated in the State of Tennessee in June, 2003.
GCG Worldwide is both Dun & Bradstreet and Asian CIS Credit-Rated. Alan Guinn is also a partner in Blue Moose Holdings, LLC, and AD&G DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC.
GCG clients rate the services the Consultancy offers as Excellent.
Guinn was the first worldwide #1 Rated Guru in Marketing Communications and Planning at www.guru.com. A prolific writer, he wrote the self-help book Psyched for Life, mentioned by the New York Times; has co-authored three separate books on Management, all written in the Czech language: Management, Strategic Management and Uvod do Ucitelstvi, and over 50 published articles, white papers and quotes in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese, offered on behalf of his Consultancy, and his clients.
He is listed on Linked In, Maven, Guru.com, Google+, as a GLG Consultant to Bloomberg Business, and is the Correspondent Reporter for the weekly radio show “It’s Your Business” on SuperTalk 92.7, WFHG.
With over 40 total years of business experience, Guinn was a corporate employee for 25, rising to two CEO positions and two Managing Director roles prior to establishing the Consultancy.
His Linked-In Profile helps to define his self-view of the Consultancy’s role in management and life:
We help our clients make more money. Period. Along the way, we always over deliver. I consult on and help fund a variety of project-driven and partner-focused projects. I have both developed and delivered Seminars and Webinars on a variety of topics in Leadership, Management and RE and Business Development. People seem to like them.
I serve on several different Boards to offer innovative and creative solutions to challenges. People seek me out for ideas and suggestions. Clearly put, I help build profit for businesses. I believe that the advice we can offer is critical to the long-term success of my clients. I have a reputation for innovative ideas–”off-the-wall ideas” my clients might be afraid to attempt to execute on their own.
I’m not afraid to get into the trenches with my clients and prove or disprove their theories of success. I don’t believe anything is ever really gained by staying “safe” or “fitting in.” Of course, if that is your thing, feel free. I’ll take chances that others sometimes won’t take. I see leaders in life as those not afraid to take chances–do something different– as opposed to being a member of a herd. I visualize, then demonstrate to clients how they can realize their visions.
I listen, win awards; teach, learn, and create. Few client visions are too large, no opportunity ever seems too remote or too difficult. I convert small dreams to large opportunities. I explore alternatives and options, often developing sites and concepts for them, and then help them navigate raging rivers of lost dreams, tide pools of rip currents and resistance, help them to recognize heretofore unrealized ambition, and seize their best successes from the spirit-crushing jaws of defeat.
