Grant W. Hunter Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Gainesville, Virginia, Us

We help Product leaders and their teams deliver consistent Growth, and becomeorganizational Leaders.We founded Product Growth Leaders on the principles that there had to be a better way. A better way to develop capabilities in your product organization and professionals. A better way to consistently deliver successful products. A better way for you and your organization to lead the organization based on obsessive market-focus and objective decisions on where to focus.​We are here to help you become a Product Growth Leader, and help you enable your organization with a better way.

San Diego, California, Us

Helping Vistage members learn how to be strategic about growth and effective at growth strategy. My first session "Getting Pragmatic About Growth Strategy" has 100% Recommendations and walks members and participants through the five keys to Effective Growth Strategy:Define your core.Know your playing field.Evaluate growth optionsFocus your strategy.Make it an ongoing process.Providing them with a proven system to get out of the no-growth low-growth rut, navigate the current economic crisis to get ahead and emerge stronger, and build growth strategy as a core capability.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

The Quartz Open Framework is a new business innovation process-framework. Quartz is designed to give businessses and product teams a repeatable, reliable process and framework that will reduce risk, increase efficiency, improve inter- and intra-team communication, and ensure that all decisions are made with the voice of the customer in mind. Quartz is issued under a creative commons license meaning that you can share and adapt it as much as you like as long as you credit our work. Quartz development is a community-driven effort and we want your help! Check out Quartz and provide your feedback here: https://quartzopen.com/quartz-intro/

When companies are struggling with growth or looking to get ahead I help them become more market-focused in their products and strategies. (Currently d/b/a Growth Strategy Labs and Product Growth Leaders, previously as Inventis Strategies).I help companies build market-focused strategies and product roadmaps to help them grow top and bottom line, gain market share, and increase their enterprise value significantly.-Helped leading education publisher become more market-focused in their strategy during a major disruption leading to a major gain in market share.-Led a fast-growing AI-based solutions company for hard rock mining in evolving their product strategy approach and roadmap to be more market-focused and achievable. Presented updated product strategy and roadmap to Board and the same presentation was used to communicate their strategy and value to their eventual acquirer.-Served as advisor to CEO and interim SVP of Strategy and Corporate Development for a private equity portfolio company providing content and solutions for the aviation maintenance industry. Led market engagement and development of the organic and inorganic growth strategy, including completion of a major acquisition.-Helped the VP of Services at a venture capital-backed provider of collaborative office solutions "productize" their professional services to streamline the sales and delivery of services, resulting in service attach-rates almost doubling to >90%, and a 700% growth in revenue in two years.-Helped a multi-billion dollar financial services software company develop standardized best practices for product management based on Pragmatic Marketing and roll these best practices out across the organization. Engagement extended from an initial three-month engagement to 20 months.

San Francisco, California, Us

I was recruited to Executive Networks to help drive growth in our membership. Through strong engagement with our membership, member value delivery and sales team we delivered a material improvement to renewal rates and new sales.Currently continuing to evolve the product strategy based on member feedback and increase the value we deliver to members.

Phoenix, Az, Us

After having been a loyal Pragmatic Marketing fan since 2003, using the framework to help define my and my teams roles, and taking the courses as an executive I decided to join Pragmatic Marketing as an InstructorDuring this time I had the pleasure to help more people and companies become market-driven in their products and strategies through the courses Practical Product Management (currently Foundations and Focus) and Requirements That Work (currently Build).

Ewing, New Jersey, Us

After migrating EPCglobal US into the core GS1 US membership I was asked to help drive our community awareness and engagement with members and solution partners, including the annual GS1 Connect event.In this role I helped lead the creation of the Education and Training division at GS1 US in 2011 which continued to growth their revenue, headcount and offerings. I also designed and re-launched the GS1 US Solution Partner Program, exceeding first year revenue expectations post-launch in the first six months.

Ewing, New Jersey, Us

I was brought in to GS1 US to turn-around the EPCglobal US membership business which had shrunk by almost 75% in three years. Through strong engagement with the members I was able to stop the revenue decline and eventually recommend the end-of-life of EPCglobal as a stand-alone business, and migrate the membership into the core GS1 US membership.During this time we were able to bring strong value to our members and the retail industry as a major player in the roll-out of item level RFID in the retail industry, helping deliver major improvements to inventory accuracy and adding visibility to the supply chain.

Newark, Nj, Us

I had the pleasure to help our future leaders learn Business to Business and High Tech Marketing at the Rutgers Business School at both their New Brunswick and Newark campuses. This is one of my favorite things I have done and the classes I taught include:MBA - Business to Business Marketing Fall 2011MBA - Marketing High Tech Products/Services Spring 2011MBA - Business to Business Marketing Fall 2010Business to Business Marketing Spring 2010Intro to Marketing for Summer 2009

Union, Nj, Us

I had the pleasure to help our future leaders learn Business to Business at Kean University in Union, NJ. This is one of my favorite things I have done and like at Rutgers Newark I taught Business to Business Marketing in the Spring of 2010.

New York, Ny, Us

I was recruited to Knovel by the CEO to help build the Product and Marketing organizations and drive the product strategy. In partnership with the CEO and COO hired four tremendous professionals to lead Data Insights, Product Management, Content Strategy and Marketing - two of which are still there more than a decade later.Working closely with the CEO, Board, the head of development and my team we developed a product strategy that evolved the product from its infancy to an award winning engineering reference platform, helping lead to an acquisition by Elsevier.

Phoenix, Az, Us

I was brought to GE Access (now part of Avnet Technology Solutions) to turn-around the stagnant Enterprise Solutions division (extended team of 40+ with ~$300M of revenue across 18+ vendors).In this role my team was responsible for go-to-market strategies/execution, vendor relations, and new vendor development/selection in the Storage, Network Security and Enterprise Software markets. Through strong engagement with our customers and partners my team delivered in 10% increase in revenue and 16% increase in profitability. This included a market-driven new vendor strategy that added over $100M of revenue to GE.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

I was recruited to IHS to help turn-around the Enterprise Solutions business unit and grew to lead Product Management for IHS Engineering's Parts & Logistics and Integrated Content Solutions businesses. In the role, through strong engagement with our customers, I launched IHS' integrated content solutions vision which was the core foundation for their 2004 and 2005 strategic plans, swell as their S1 filing. Following this vision I build the foundation for the $50M+ Parts Management business, including a $9M DoD Parts Management contract, and IHS Engineering's corporate development strategy that led to three acquisition that added $25M in annual revenue.Based on the success of these strategies I was retained by the President of IHS as a consultant in 2006 and 2007 to help develop the strategy and acquisition target list for the creation of IHS Environmental (now Sphera).

I joined Broadiant to create and manage their Allaire (ColdFusion, JRun and Spectra acquired by Macromedia/Adobe) Practice, including development of the go-to market strategy and operations plan. Our team grew the practice from $0 to $750,000 in revenues in less than six months, and was cash flow positive in month five.

Nl

I joined Baan (now part of Infor) to develop a corporate Competitive and Market Intelligence competency.In this role I streamlined Baan's market intelligence operations across all of its divisions providing more consistent intelligence and reducing redundancy of roles. Additionally I lead a WIn-Loss program that helping increase the sales close rate by 10% in six months.

Boston, Ma, Us

I joined GE Information Services (now part of OpenText) as an intern during and then upon gradation of business school.In this role I provided market analysis and strategic planning for ongoing corporate strategy efforts. Supported market analysis needs in Retail and Healthcare verticals.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

I was recruited to PMA out of college as a Workers' Compensation claims adjuster.

Mba, Strategy And Marketing

Bs, Analytical Management

High School Degree, College Prep