Dick Albu

RAlbu@albuconsulting.com

Recently, I’ve entered a new chapter in my career as an author. My new book, “Mastering Strategy Management: Turn Vision into Action to Drive Exceptional Results,” is now Available on Amazon at www.tinyurl.com/masteringstrategymanagement. My book brings together 30 years of strategic experience in a format that leaders can use as both a guide and a reference to the strategy management framework. Looking ahead, my mission hasn’t changed: to help business leaders align vision with action and challenge themselves to achieve results that truly matter.

Readers have described my book as “fast-turning, informative, and filled with insights,” and “a tool I will keep close to me.” Others have gone further, saying “this book could become the bible of strategy management.” Even academics have embraced it: “This book is a wonderfully useful collection of articles on strategy management, and a must-read for all business students, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.” For me, that feedback is deeply rewarding—it tells me the principles I practiced in boardrooms and conference rooms for decades are still relevant, practical, and helping leaders make better decisions.

Throughout my three-decade consulting career, I have had the privilege of working with business owners, CEOs, and leadership teams of middle-market companies. I was allowed to help them strengthen their companies through the art and discipline of strategy management. My mission has been simple but powerful: to improve the lives of leaders, their families, and employees by turning strategy into action and achieving exceptional results.

I built long-term relationships with clients who came to see me not as an outside consultant, but as an extension of their management team. Leadership teams appreciated my “personal hands-on approach,” which fit perfectly with their culture. One leader put it best: “Dick’s strategy management approach was our defining moment. It helped us make critical business decisions, and his framework became an integral part of our everyday operating philosophy.” Others described my approach as straightforward and calming yet challenging in all the right ways: “He transformed our planning into a meaningful, measurable, and achievable platform, and enhanced our skillsets as executives.”

I’ve always tried to bring to my work honesty, clarity, and a genuine commitment to helping business leaders succeed. Seeing clients energized by strategy management has always been the most satisfying part of my career.

BIOGRAPHY

Dick’s career spans forty years of corporate and consulting experience in a wide range of business development initiatives.  Dick founded Albu Consulting in 1994, a strategy management consulting firm dedicated to helping its clients realize their growth goals through the development of robust strategic plans and strong implementation processes.

Dick’s clients benefit from his corporate background, coupled with his diverse consulting experiences working in a variety of industries, and a range of companies, from middle market privately held businesses to Fortune 500 corporations.  His principle skill is in developing and executing pragmatic strategies.

Prior to forming Albu Consulting, Dick worked seven years as Vice President with a New York City based international business development consulting group where he gained valuable experience across a broad range of industries.  During his sixteen years at Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, Dick held senior management positions both in the US and Switzerland, Nestlé’s worldwide headquarters. 

Dick graduated from Central Connecticut State University and is a graduate of the Institute of Management Development (IMD), Program for Executive Development, in Lausanne, Switzerland.   Dick’s Board seats included the Board of Advisor of David S. Lapine Inc., a national family owned brand development agency, the Center for Family Business at the at the University of New Haven, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Center at the University of New Haven and, the Exit Planning Exchange CT Chapter.  Dick was an associate member of FENG (Financial Executives Networking Group), and Vistage (an international organization of CEOs).  He has been a speaker at associations and CEO organizations throughout the tri-state and written over 100 articles on the topic of strategy management.