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Our Mission

To provide powerfully tailored solutions for the needs of small to medium-sized businesses. Our integrated business consulting expertise helps improve performance through organizational structuring and profit engineering designed to guarantee a 2:1 ROI. We strive to manage and influence change by analyzing, guiding, and supporting the people and systems within an organization. The wellbeing of stake holders and their employees increases when the path to success is well defined and supported.

Our Philosophy

To be trusted partners for businesses looking to elevate their impact on their families, communities, and industries. When partnering with our clients whether it is to scale, navigate difficulties, succession planning, or find innovative solutions; we believe that improving your business improves your wellbeing. We believe that businesses are part of the foundations of community, so whether your organization is a small family owned and operated business or medium to large business with multiple partners, investing in support ensures success and meaningful change. 

What We Do

We help you shift from an expert in your field to a leader in your industry by helping you build the mindset, skills, structure and culture to transform your organization.

  • We help you foster the mindset, skills, and structure to enhance your company’s culture. Partnering with owners is the first step, helping owners identify goals and values to enhance their leadership and develop the essential pillars within the organization is imperative to achieving your vision. We come alongside you to provide guidance on how to systematically manage your business and support your team.

  • At Elevar, our mission is to put owners in control of their destiny. We train leaders of an organization to utilize the systems and processes we establish as a platform for the organization’s success. We continue to support you by helping you define roles and responsibilities, develop a framework of accountability, and develop current and future leaders/managers within your organization. A main focus will be integrating your intuition with your leadership skills for the purpose of growing a robust work culture that fulfills your mission.

  • Most businesses realize their profit at the end of the year once they have determined the difference between revenue and costs. At Elevar, we believe that profit should be defined. We do this by establishing the revenue strategy and costs to support that profit. This means we will determine the activities that must take place in your organization in order to reach a certain profitability. In other words, profit is not something that may or may not happen. Profit is the goal of any business and as such we establish that goal and define the activities around it to achieve it. This is profit engineering.

  • Elevar helps you Define and Refine your process and systems for the purpose of profit engineering. Elevar’s first step is defining your actions that create the process that is your business. Once this process is determined systematically, we refine this by setting metrics to manage and measure how well the system is performing. We then monitor the metrics alongside you, and support you continuously along the way, ensuring that optimal performance is achieved.

Our Process

Through our ElevarCycle, we guarantee a 2:1 return on investment. Our years of experience in business consulting spans across a multitude of markets such as manufacturing, construction, business services, wholesale distribution, professional services, healthcare, transportation, contracting and more.

Discover

The first step in the ElevarCycle is to collect information with the goal of  identifying opportunities within your organization.

Analyze

Our strategies are developed based on the state of your business at present, what’s immediately needed, and where you ultimately want to be. Our analysis of your business and the market will help shape our strategies and play a pivotal role in developing smart goals to ensure success.

Implement

Through the development of deliverables, we create a process of execution and controls around  strategic objectives.

Train & Support

After establishing the process, we support you by training you and your team with  how to utilize the process consistently. With our continued support, your organization will be able to use the tools we develop to efficiently and consistently execute. 

Evaluate

By establishing metrics, we are able to monitor and measure performance to ensure the process is working to meet the organization’s goals. This leads to the final step of establishing standard operating procedures that are aligned with the established strategic objectives.

Meet the Team

It all begins with who is on your team…


  • - Director of Consulting

    Paul Batista has provided business consulting services for more than 20 years for new and established entrepreneurs, small business owners, and C-Suite executives of globally recognized brands like Chick-Fil-A, Do It Best Corp, Ace Hardware, Orgil Inc, and more. Throughout his career, Paul has consulted within 54 countries and even lead a multi billion dollar business. He spent 15 years as global business development officer for building materials and hardware coop, a $6 billion consulting firm, serving over 500 clients from one-off business sites to franchises with 200 locations or worth $2 billion in revenue.

    Paul’s expertise in profit engineering, sales, business development, operations, supply chain management and leadership development brings a competitive advantage to decision makers that is required for sustainable growth and long term success. Through his talent and passion for helping business owners achieve their goals, Paul’s insight and consulting has played pivotal roles in his clients profit increase, optimization of business operations in both process and cost efficiency, leadership style, and inter-organizational relationships. Part of Paul’s success is due to his commitment to playing as hard as he works, specifically by spending time outdoors with his family and as an avid soccer player where he plays in multiple recreational leagues.


  • - Director of Relational Consulting

    As an actively practicing licensed marriage and family therapist and business owner of a group practice for nearly 14 years and counting, Erin Rayburn utilizes her lived experience coupled with her dual-certified counseling and consulting expertise to elevate entrepreneurs and C-suite executives' leadership acumen. From small to medium sized businesses, and business leaders of global brands, Erin has worked with countless experts, thought leaders, and business executives through therapeutic counseling and business consulting. She has found the two are often intertwined. Her expertise in family systems, executive coaching, team building, and intellectual development has helped her clients grow from boss to mentor, from siloed, individual departments to integrated teams that function as one entity. Her vast expertise in psychology has been featured in Forbes Health, Men’s Health, New York Post, and more.

    Under her guidance, high-performing individuals and leaders have grown their abilities to communicate more effectively with their management and field teams, hone the art of negotiation, and develop emotional awareness. All of these elements have helped her clients analyze business strengths and weaknesses quicker, recognize potential in others and foster it more effectively, and understand the tools she provides them with that enable them to balance home and work life better, ultimately fostering a better life holistically. Her licenses and certifications include LMFT, LPC-MHSP, NCC, AAMFT Clinical Fellow, HOFSTEDE International, and Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy.

    In her spare time, she’s often found giving back to herself through hiking, rock climbing, horseback riding, and connecting with her dog Woodford. Having grown up within a military family, Erin’s appreciation for discipline, motivation, and patriotism has informed her focus within business. Erin’s experience riding, training, and competing horses all her life has added to her competitive drive and enjoyment of living life to the fullest.