Andy is very talented at optimizing workflow to improve business results! He brings strategic foresight and operational expertise, works collaboratively with leadership and sales teams, and he genuinely cares about making a positive difference.
Brian Camastral, Former Global President of Mars Food, Mars Incorporated
Andrew is a strong confidant leader that any entrepreneur would want to be connected to…He is a wealth of knowledge. If you are thinking of any assistance in disaster relief, procurement, construction? Or any creative idea? He’s that guy!!! Continued Blessings my friend!
Anthony Blaylock, Founder & CEO at the Blaylock Group, Former Professional Cornerback, NFL
Having known Andy for three years, both personally and professionally, I say, with great confidence, that he is an invaluable asset to any team or project. Andy’s strategic thinking and exceptional project management skills have consistently propelled initiatives forward, even in the face of unforeseen challenges like those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. His ability to navigate complex processes and problem-solve with efficiency and precision is truly remarkable. Whether it’s managing large-scale projects or providing insightful guidance and coaching to his peers, Andy’s warm demeanor and approachable nature make collaboration with him not only productive but enjoyable. Andy’s capacity to listen, innovate, and inspire both individuals and teams is unparalleled, making him a trusted advisor and an indispensable member of any organization fortunate enough to work with him.
Justin Cheen, Global Account Executive @ Density
It’s rare to have the opportunity to work with an extraordinary talent like Andy. I had the privilege to work with Andy for 3 years in the UCSF PMO. We collaborated on a number of projects throughout the years, and I have consistently been impressed with his knowledge and innovative nature. One time in particular he provided me with exceptional guidance and materials when I encountered a new project very similar to one he had accomplished in the past. I was in awe of his ability to navigate a complex process and problem to achieve a very positive outcome. Andy is quick on his feet and very logical in his thinking process. As a team member or a leader, Andy would be an asset to any team.
Samantha Heath, Manager at Deloitte
Andy has the amazing ability to see through the chaos and uncertainty that can plague any organisation and to find the key area to tackle that can put them in the right direction. Andy has an engaging and enthusiastic spirit that is contagious with not only his clients but his colleagues and business partners as well. I’ve had the pleasure to work with Andy on a number of recent initiatives — from bringing star leaders together in Lugano, Switzerland, to driving strategic and communication projects for an educational institution, to helping leaders identify improvement intiatives to reach their goals. It is of no suprise to me that companies and leaders consider Andy as their Trusted Advisor. As a business partner, I feel the same. I would highly recommend anyone to seek out Andy Kruger’s help to reach the aspirations of their organisation.
Melissa Rancourt, Founder, Greenlight for Girls; Senior Director, Parsons Executive Masters; Owner, Serendip Spa; Named in Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise 2024
Andy is an exceptional person and I would highly recommend him. As a Consultant he brings what any company would wish to have from an employee: integrity, ability to understand the clients’ needs, flexibility, proficient project management skills and ability to quickly add value. Not only he is a team player, but a great leader well respected among the client and peers.
Monica Portal Lindholm, Manager, Corporate Operations, Accenture
ASN Natural Stone greatly values our relationship with Outrider and we consider Andy an indispensable member of our team. Andy has made many valuable contributions to our company’s bottom line both indirectly through his good advice and directly through his integration of our accounting and inventory systems ‘in the cloud’ – several years ago – when most other people and companies were just flying through them. I always look forward to seeing Andy as it is always exciting to see the fresh ideas he keeps bringing to the table!
Alex Sakjovic, Owner, ASN Natural Stone Inc.
The Leadership Workshop at the Lugano Leadership Academy has been one of the most professionally and personally enriching experience I have ever had. There, we had the privilege of training with a team of great coaches and Andy was one of finest. I was most thrilled by his insightful analysis of the topics of discussions. I found Andy’s comments and suggestions triggering further reflection and frequently turning into an affluent source of inspiration. Also, I interacted with Andy at Boston University-Brussels where I am a student of the Master in Leadership. I had the opportunity to appreciate his talent as a gifted instructor and influential role model. Above all, Andy is a gentle character, empathetic and genuinely interested in mentoring and assisting to bring about the best of anyone. Andy is that outstanding professional and leader. Unquestionably, I proudly recommend him.
Nancy E. Caceres, Development Intelligence for late GSK Assets
It has been an honor to work with Andy. He has not only motivated me in group and individual work but has also acted as a coach in some sorts. His ability to coach is second nature. He has helped me overcome lack of confidence in my work and bring out my skills, something that I believe he is capable to achieve with anyone. His warm and approachable character makes working with Andy very enjoyable. He is very knowledgeable yet patient and he possesses incredible communication skills. Andy is undoubtedly a very gifted individual!
Dasha Ivanova, Project Manager at GSK
I have worked with Andy for the past three years on a variety of projects and he has done a great job on all of them. Andy is resilient, calm and optimistic. He is an excellent team player and is very good at navigating the grey that is always present in complex projects. He has a great ability to adjust and change course when necessary. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Andy.
Jill Goldsmith, Facilitation Consultant
It is my pleasure to recommend Andy, one of these very rare persons I encountered in my professional life. His bright personal and professional qualities are immediately apparent. Andy has a unique capacity both to listen to the individual and to manage a team. He helps each team member to develop and streamline his or her thoughts and findings with his or her peers. By doing so, he swiftly pushes away the snags and helps the team to find and render viable a hidden solution. This unique and visionary quality makes me recommend Andy to his future clients and business partners; on top of his already convinced clients!
Robert Jacquet, PMP, Founder of 1 on 1 Executive Search
Andrew and I worked on the Hyperion Planning project implementation for 6 months until to go live. He helped our team think strategically about communication, timing, and informed us about how the other campus teams were impacting ours. Andrew is an extremely bright, capable project manager with a good sense of humor, understands the human factor, and has laser focus on the end goal. It doesn’t get better; I highly recommend him.
Daniel Beaman, Business Systems Manager at University of California, San Francisco
It’s rare to come across a thought leader that can weave organizational development concepts, enterprise change planning, and technical project management with such expertise and equanimity. I had the pleasure of working closely with Andy on a enterprise system integration (Epic) at UCSF. Andy was the difference-maker. (The same exact project had failed twice before at UCSF in previous years.) Andy’s ability understand the strategic landscape, manage-up to leadership, while also being able to roll-up his sleeves and execute was the critical difference. Seek Andy out if you want cogent thinking around organizational development, project management, and/or advice on buying motorcycles!
Patrick Oh, Chief Architect, UCSF School of Dentistry
Andy was absolutely pivotal over the last several years in moving forward our School of Dentistry initiatives forward, many of which were unplanned and critical due to COVID. He has superior skills for managing both the big picture as well as small details to move a project forward, diving in to understand all the pertinent aspects and potential obstacles. He is able to juggle multiple timelines and lead major projects (like Dentistry’s current Epic implementation) and is an essential complement to the team. Andy has a great mind for structuring a process and has been kind enough to recommend monitoring tools for me to use on my projects.
Holly Ames, Finance Director at University of California
I had the pleasure of working with Andy for multiple years. He is an experienced project manager who, like any good PM, has the organization skills to keep projects moving forward. What distinguishes Andy is that he thinks about the strategy while driving to completion, always considering the best way to time, position and package projects and project milestones to maximize success. As a communications professional, I appreciate that he understands the importance of communications in change processes and works collaboratively to get the messaging right. I recommend Andy to any organization needing a strong business partner to manage complex projects and change efforts.
Melissa Telli, Healthcare and Higher Education Marketing Communications Leader
How does someone enter a place of business for the first time and within 6 hours identify deficiencies and define a new management format? Well, that is exactly what Andy did for Smith Office Solutions. By mid-day on the second day, he had buy-in from the entire staff and we had a new course of success plotted out for us. I am amazed, grateful and full of hope for the first time in years. We look forward to continuing to work with Andy to implement his wonderful plan. It is so unusual to find such a diverse set of characteristics in one individual – personable, analytical, communicative, intuitive – Andy can successfully use his personal traits and business tools to provide solutions in a thoughtful and professional manner. I highly recommend him to any business that has lost their way, or wants to have their management, leadership and financial roles clearly defined. Great consultant with great analytic tools!
Lynn Smith, Tax Practitioner
I’ve worked with Andy for years, I can tell you that I would highly recommend him. Our company is a ship without a captain and Andy is showing how to navigate. He is helping us recognize the holes in our company and helping us to create solutions to plug them. Andy is very adaptive to circumstances and seems to be able to jump in to help solve whatever problem is arising. Beyond his vast knowledge of business, he is very personable and has a calming presence, he seems to excel under pressure without adding any additional stress. I look forward to a long professional relationship with Andy.
Kristen Meiswinkel, RFJ Meiswinkel Company
Working with Andy Kruger has been enjoyment throughout the process of reaching our goal. Not only has he provided us with expertise to achieve success in our project. He has brought in a spirit of enthusiasm, leading to a buy-in from the entire Cleverland team. And he has left behind new management knowledge which benefits our business every day.
Claudia De Decker-Ritter, Executive Leadership Coach and Consultant
It is clear that Andy is a natural leader, as he is capable to go straight into the essential of issues, can communicate extremely well and is always to first to contribute and help his colleagues. He will be an asset for any company and an invaluable partner to work with. Trust, integrity and an overall wonderful character are his main assets.
Mihaela Ionasc, International Director, People and Culture
Recommendations sometimes contain exaggerated accolades on how nice someone is or references to leaping tall buildings in a single bound. For Andy this is not necessary.
Having known Andy Kruger for about 8 years and having worked together as colleagues, have come to know a few of the qualities with him that make a desired confidant, a good coach, a trusted business associate. Andy has an empathetic ability to listen and absorb. Intelligent; has the focus to comprehend the complex, the abstract, while maintaining a balance of the whole; I’ve seen it. Its been said that an analytic mind is a faithful servant, an intuitive mind is a gift, and while I’m not wanting to overcook this Andy seems to have a mindset for both. He’s able to channel thought, energy on the issue at hand and not be derailed by detail volume. There’s also something to be said for approach; intent. There’s no substitute for personal influence; his can inspire.
Andy is a kind of realist with a positive bend who manages to accept what is, assess what he sees, what can be – does so with an openness, clarity, integrity I’ve seldom seen. He puts people at ease with an affable style, not by guile or showmanship but with a sense of humility. When you meet him you sense this instantly.
Above all there is character beyond reproach. I’ve witnessed it in business as a colleague, and since through friendship.
A few words recommending Andy may be inadequate to the task. More than outlined above may be too much to elaborate here, but I believe anyone who comes to know Andy will observe the same qualities I’ve known. Should anyone require further information or perspective feel free to contact me – would be my pleasure to provide.Tom Harbison, Director, Bombardier Capital
I can recommend Andy on both professional and personal levels. Andy has worked with my environmental consulting firm on and off for years. He is highly intelligent and motivated. He has a strong vision of what a successful business can be and he has helped our company in many ways by giving good advice and directions, and by helping a group of scientists understand how to succeed in business. Personally Andy is a good friend. He is honest and knows how to balance the demands of business with ethical behavior. He has a fine vision of the broader world and how business should fit into it. I recommend him highly.
John Day, Scientist at Comite Resources and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences
Liking and recommending Andy is easy – and it is my pleasure as well as an honor to do so: Andy is a bright, dedicated, and conscientious business partner, professional, and close personal friend. Over the course of the last seven years, Andy and I continually collaborated successfully on a multitude of different projects, in graduate school and in a variety of professional settings.
That Andy now started his own consulting firm does not come as a surprise. Although I am sure that his former employers have nothing but the highest praise for his diligent work and loyalty, it is not surprising that Andy’s ambition, natural leadership ability, and brilliantly insightful perspective have finally driven him to create something of his own; a firm that will enable him to create easily far more value than any of his prior engagements – for him and his clients.
It also appears to be one of the only logical consequences that Andy would chose the consulting profession; not only because of his well established experience in this field and the broad array of skill sets he has to offer, but also because he has a wonderfully suitable set of capabilities that make him a natural consultant: Andy is analytically strong, emotionally intelligent, and has an empathetic mindset. He has an outstanding ability to focus on details while retaining the view of the critical elements of the big picture. And his excellent ability to listen attentively, to process information immediately, and to apply intelligently concepts to solving problems make him a great, and more important, effective consultant.
Again, liking and recommending Andy is easy. Working with him is, too. I look forward to many more years of working with Andy and building an even stronger personal friendship.Alex Forst, Senior Market Research & Analytics Leader
Andy is uncompromising in business assessments and will provide a complete analysis without fail. He is a joy to work with and has a natural self confidence and high energy that and rubs off on everyone involved with any project he is a part of. I highly recommend him and hope to work with him again.
David Carambat, Director at Industrial Object
Over the past months, Andy has served as Board Member and trusted consultant to Live Oak Fine Wines, LLC. As General Manager, I have worked closely with him restructuring our business following a period of major change in operations. What strikes me most about Andy is his shrewd sense of business combined with resonant personal integrity. He is energetic nature and sharp intuition, are both qualities that contribute to his genuine and thorough understanding of change within the realm of business. I would recommend Andy without reservation to those in need of a sharp visionary who is able to move with a purpose.
Lanie Bornstein, General Manager at Live Oak Fine Wines
I was fortunate enough to collaborate with Andy on a strategic research project for the company president. Andy is diligent, insightful, goal-oriented, and pays special attention to detail. He exhibits a profound sense of teamwork, and our joint efforts paid dividends in efficiency, business acumen, and timely decision-making. In a business environment depleted of independent thought, Andy introduces a refreshing burst of creativity; he is a true change-agent. I would endorse Andy for any strategic finance role, and I hope during the course of future business endeavors we will be afforded the opportunity to collaborate again.
George Bayer, MBA, PMP, Management Consulting Sr. Director
I have worked with Andy on several management projects that required a depth of understanding in finance, management and technology. He is adept at maintaining his vision while navigating through the different business disciplines. I appreciated Andy’s ability to communicate, teamwork and problem solve in a very productive manner. Andy works with a sense of urgency while he maintains clear focus on the business goals. I hardily recommend Andy to any organization wishing to implement or advance their business strategy.
Mike Foley, Partner- Software Development, IT Planning, and Audit at Digicomm Systems Inc.
Andy is one of the finest individuals I’ve had the pleasure to meet. He is a highly intelligent and motivated person that always looks for the best in others. I look forward to a long and lasting relationship in matters both, personal and professional.
JB Hicks, Owner, Patriot Services Corporation
Andy is truly a diamond in the rough. As a business consultant and coach, he is one of the most rounded individuals I have come across. He is strongly grounded in business fundamentals and best practices, and understands human motivation and psychology like few others. In addition, his genuine humility, unwavering character and positive outlook on life make him a great leader and an outstanding coach. I can confidently say that Andy Kruger makes an outstanding addition to any team, organization or company.
Brian P. Leonard, VP Channel and Alliances Marketing, Bridgepointe Technologies
Andy is a relentless advocate of ethical business practices and a strong mediator who builds conscience to bring everyone to an agreement. I would strongly recommend Andy Kruger in any type of business analysis, negotiation or management position.
David Havrylkoff, Broker, Wine and Spirits
Andy is a completely trustworthy individual. In the months that we worked reorganizing my company I found him to be insightful and he fully grasped what I was aiming to achieve. In all my years in business I feel that he has helped me the most in making business decisions and he helped me to better understand and modify our procedures. Andy is a truly gifted individual.
Rose Garcia, President, ASN Natural Stone Inc.