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Focus Consulting Group

Focus Consulting Group helps investment leaders understand, articulate and shape their firm's culture so it can be leveraged for investment success.

NEW: Read the latest issue of Jim Ware’s CFA newsletter, Firm Success, an online, quarterly series dedicated to exploring leadership, culture, decision making, change management, and behavioral finance − topics related to the management of the investment firm. The current issue features The Black Swan and High-Performing Investment Teams.

READ Berkshire Hathaway: Case Study of a High Performing Investment Team.


"The Focus team helped us in some important ways: decision making (clarity and speed), enhancing trust and team dynamics, defining our culture more precisely, and thinking through our strategic direction and business model. They are very skilled in their work.”

Rob Arnott, CEO
Research Affiliates, LLC


"Culture is our only competitive advantage."

David Fisher, Chairman
Capital Group