Kingfisher helps Business Owners overcome frustration and achieve ambitious profit and company value growth goals. We use an immediately-actionable, two-pronged approach, and focus and sense of urgency are our hallmarks. We are driven to win for our clients.​For more information, please see www.kingfisherconsulting.com. From clients:"Shep Burr has been a secret weapon in the substantial growth of our business...He can see around corners and is next to me in the bunker, fighting as hard as I do for the ongoing growth and well-being of our companies."CEO/Owner, Engineering, Science, and Manufacturing Firm"Our company has earned a big return on its investment with Kingfisher...Shep provided excellent insights, delivering a phased-in set of recommendations and action plans." CEO/Owner, Automation/Homeland Security Firm"I was impressed by Shep's ability to assess the situation, stay focused on the issues, analyze and recommend options, and help me overcome challenges. His work was responsive, creative, and indispensable." President/Owner, Economic Development Firm"The culmination of the work was a Strategic Growth Plan...Shep was not only very knowledgeable and an expert in his field, but was a real pleasure to work with." CEO, NYSE-Listed Fraud Protection Company"Kingfisher's report was very well received. Its conclusions were thoughtful and strategic...a great service to the principals in development of the new initiative."President/Owner, Pension Trust Advisory Firm"Shep has helped identify our brand strategy...The only thing that surpasses his work ethic and business acumen is the care he brings to his help." President/Owner, Real Estate Company"Shep is methodical and transparent...and has been very supportive." CEO/Owner, National Consumer Product Brand"Shep is a clear communicator with a no-nonsense style. He has challenged me to think bigger." Managing Member, Investment Hedge Fund

Turned around business by stemming significant asset redemption and personnel turnover at this large cap equity and core fixed income institutional investment management firm, tripling assets to $15.5 billion, and achieving the company’s best financial performance in more than a decade. Successful strategies included:• Developed, launched, marketed, and managed sales of a new equity index fund that attracted $7 billion in commitments, more than 100 pension plan investors, and recommendations from 24 institutional investment consulting firms in less than five years. Further expanded product line by introducing two new equity investment styles.• Created an insurance company sales category, resulting in 10 insurance company accounts and approximately $100 million in assets.• Opened a new institutional consultant/investor sales channel through eight data platforms (e.g. Morningstar, eVestment Alliance, PSN), overseeing all query responses. Initiated and managed new high-net-worth/mass-affluent financial advisor category through five investment platforms, including Envestnet and UBS.

Re-positioned an established company, led marketing and sales team, and played key role in integrating an acquisition, tripling fee revenue to plus-$20 million and quadrupling targeted assets to $2.2 billion.• Led positioning analysis and re-branding of high-net-worth investment management business. Managed marketing and sales, devising detailed annual plans that laid out opportunities, strategies, and tactics.• Leveraged Chevy Chase Bank branch and customer network to introduce and sell services; incentivized and trained existing relationship managers to upsell. • Identified philanthropy thought-leadership as a competitive differentiator, resulting in market credibility and high-profile exposure (including a front-page story in The Washington Post, three large philanthropy symposiums, and a televised presentation). • Analyzed, developed, and launched new product for affiliated firm: the ASB Focused Core Fixed Income Fund. Also led a re-work of presentation strategy, including product re-label, which supported 250% growth in the ASB Allegiance Real Estate Fund, to $1.7 billion in assets.

Through analysis, strategy development, marketing, and sales, drove growth in real estate and venture capital assets under management from $0.7 billion to $5 billion, establishing one of the largest institutional real estate funds in the U.S. • Achieved a near-100% win record in competitive presentations to pension fund boards. • Induced strategic change in selling/marketing as key decision makers shifted within the market.• Co-founded, developed, launched, marketed, and sold six additional, successful real estate and venture capital investment funds. Served on the Management Committees of three of these funds.

Promoted to Division Partner within two and a half years of hire for the largest real estate development firm in the country. Led one of firm’s two offices in the Philadelphia region, with business-planning and P&L responsibility for an eight-person retail development business and leasing team oversight of a two-million square foot commercial and industrial portfolio. Closed more than $100 million in lease transactions and oversaw key development stages for three shopping centers with total costs of $50 million.

Recruited as the second Midwest Sales Representative for this start-up trade show display manufacturer. Quickly promoted to Western Sales Manager and built 33-person sales organization through recruitment, training, and management, in Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Cincinnati. Key contribution to company's inclusion in the Inc. 500.

Selected for highly-competitive management program. Developed national promotion business plans for Cascade dishwashing detergent and television advertising for a test-market dishwashing liquid. Chosen for three-person brand roll-out team for company’s largest product acquisition to that time.