Anthony Gable, MBA, Principal/Owner of Echelon Associates, is a Strategic Planning Specialist. He has been advising individual owners, executives, and profit-center (SBU) heads and their teams on the strategic planning process since 1983. Prior to that, he gained management experience from years of wide-reaching exposure in the corporate sector as a manager and executive.

Mr. Gable simplifies strategic planning through a unified process which analyzes the competitive environment, relative maturity of the industry, markets, products involved, and company objectives. [read more] Strategic options are then distilled out, clarified, and made tangible.

Mr. Gable has held executive positions with major organizations, including roles as a Corporate and Divisional Vice President, Director of Sales and Marketing, National Sales Manager, and profit-center (SBU) positions as a Product and Business Manager. Additionally, he has extensive successful executive involvement in both corporate turnarounds and trustee appointed work-out scenarios, with management and operational exposure throughout the US, Canada, and Europe in a wide variety of markets and end-use product applications. His consultative repertoire has included management Strategic Planning leadership development, coaching and team building with associated presentation and facilitation to small and mid-size companies as well as to executives and department heads in large, internationally recognized organizations.