Richard Kolsky

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Richard Kolsky is a renowned consultant, public speaker and lecturer at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Richard Kolsky has spent the past twenty-eight years helping clients take marketing to the bottom line. Kolsky’s clients have used action-learning to convert many of today's fads, such as strategy innovation, market-focus, channel management, brand synergy, value-pricing, e-transformation, and relationship selling, from simple buzzwords to bottom-line reality in markets as diverse as accounting, infant formula, life insurance, cream cheese, hip-hop, and earth moving equipment. 

Among Richard Kolsky’s clients are AAA, Aetna, Allstate, American Express, Aon, BAE Systems, BP, Bristol Myers, Caterpillar, Cemex, CIGNA, Ernst & Young, Genentech, Griffin Communications, Hartford, Heller Ehrman, IBM, ICICI, ING, International Paper, J&J, Jefferson Pilot, Jefferson Wells, Kraft, Lincoln Financial, Marsh, MassMutual, MasterCard, McGuire Woods, Motorola, National Australia Bank, O’Melveney and Meyers, Philips, Prudential, Qualcomm, Roche, Time Warner, Selective Insurance, and Smuckers.

In addition to his consulting engagements, Richard Kolsky is a Lecturer at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches in and is academic director for a number of executive education programs. Kolsky has also published numerous articles and been keynote speaker for multiple conferences.

Prior to starting Kolsky & Co., Richard Kolsky worked in the White House, was a consulting partner for Strategos, The MAC Group and KPMG Peat Marwick, and taught economics and consulted at Yale. Kolsky holds a Ph.D. from Yale in Economics and a BA-MA in Engineering and Economics from Brown.

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