Who we are

At Further, “boutique” doesn’t mean limited. It means we’re focused on client service, with deep relationships grounded in trust and fostered over many years.

This intimate level of engagement, combined with a high degree of flexibility, world-class talent, objective perspective, and bias toward results, is what sets us apart from others.

How we're different

EXPERIENCED, EXPERT ADVISORS

Our consultants average over 15 years of experience, with deep expertise in their respective fields and a breadth of consulting experience necessary for “big picture” thinking.

ACCELERATIVE & ADAPTIVE

We balance proven consulting methodologies with an agile approach that draws from extensive experience and delivers on expectations at an accelerated pace.

STORYTELLERS & STORYDOERS

Impacting complex organizations often requires telling the right story and translating it into pragmatic plans and actions. We are experts in narrative development, crafting myriad data points and opinions into structured storylines that drive organizations toward action and value creation.

OBJECTIVE & CANDID

We will always tell our clients what they need to hear… which isn’t always what they want to hear. We are direct, empathetic, and fair, effectively helping our clients navigate through the challenges and complexities of growing the business.

THINKING BEYOND THE PRESENT

We think about what comes next for our clients, and what’s needed in order to execute. As true partners in our clients’ growth journey, we never leave without clearly articulating and delivering roadmaps, plans, and tools for success.

Our People

Our teams of professionals have diverse backgrounds, talents, and experience that combine to go further in driving unique value for our clients.

Why we started Further

We started Further because we feel the giant consultancies out there are missing the mark. Despite their claims of doing “everything,” our clients feel that they aren’t doing many of those things well, and we agree.

Therefore, a handful of us set out to build a firm positioned to be the go-to alternative to the big guys. We un-learned many of the rigid methodologies of our former stomping grounds in favor of more agile approaches, while retaining the decades of practical experience making real impacts on our clients’ businesses.

Then, we leveraged our networks to find more folks like us – subject matter experts in payments, banking, and healthcare, specialists in technical architecture, user-centered design, and go-to-market execution. We know that by assembling this diverse cohort of professionals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and experiences, we can form amazing teams that will drive unique value for our clients.

We take great pride and joy in our work, and we look forward to taking your company further.

Our Values

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INTEGRITY & TRUST

Operating with the highest levels of integrity and trust is fundamental to who we are. Nothing is more important than earning and maintaining trusted relationships with our clients and our people.

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EXCEPTIONAL CLIENT WORK

Our business is delivering extraordinary value to our clients. Our hallmark is extending this value beyond any single project, sustaining it via deep and ongoing client relationships.

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INSPIRATION THROUGH COLLABORATION

We achieve exceptional work by cultivating and sharing our diverse talents, backgrounds, and experiences. We reach across boundaries to meet our clients’ needs and make our company stronger

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RESPECT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL

We grow and mature as a company by actively championing a diversity of perspectives, fostering an open and inclusive culture, and treating every person with respect.

Our Partnerships

Our ability to scale – and thus our value to clients – is magnified via strategic partnerships with other great independent firms

Data science, analytics, & insights and enterprise data engineering-at-scale

Offshore software engineering, cloud, and devops capacity augmentation

Customer & colleague experience design and transformation

A global team of payments industry advisors and specialists

Due diligence for technology mergers & acquisitions

Public sector specialists with “CIO as a service” offerings

Payment specialists in merchant acquirers and network strategy

Payment specialists in FinTech and real time payments

Design-centric engineering teams who make bold digital concepts a reality

Experts in innovation, content marketing, and bold market strategies

Champions of digital strategies and pragmatic digital transformation

A strategic communications WBE consultancy, specializing in integrated B2B marketing

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