CFAR is a management consulting firm specializing in strategy and organizational development.

CFAR’s unique strengths and advantages include:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, the economics of organizations—revenue streams and expenses, funding sources and uses—combined with a deep understanding of the human systems that compose all organizations.
• A rich academic heritage as a spin-off of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, bolstered by years of practical consulting experience applying new ideas to both intractable and novel problems.
• A small group of experienced consultants who work with sophisticated leaders in both the nonprofit and private sectors, creating a team of insiders supported by outsiders with a common problem-solving agenda.

Our consultants represent a broad array of academic disciplines—anthropology, economics, finance, psychology, and strategy among them—as well as professional experience. It is this diversity of training and backgrounds that gives CFAR its particular strength in working with clients to address emerging issues, especially those for which there is no straightforward solution or methodology.

Our engagements include organizational development and design, usually in combination with strategy, aimed at systemic change. CFAR is often called in by senior leaders who may have worked with other consulting firms but who now seek a different or novel perspective. Clients include Fortune 500 companies and mid-market, family, and owner-led businesses, medical centers, associations, universities, foundations and social service agencies.