Eric Powers, MBA - Principal Consultant

New York, NY

Eric is a small business and business plan consultant who has worked with a variety of clients, while specializing in service sectors. He endeavors to make sure clients ask the right questions first and then help them to dig deeper into their strategy. Eric’s clients include a skin care product, a water filtration provider, a cellular phone retailer, web software services, a language training center, social service organizations, consulting firms, and a theater company. Projects have included business plans, executive summaries, mission statements, strategy and operations consulting, and technology implementation. Eric developed over forty sample business plan templates for business plan consulting firm clients to help small businesses launch more easily.

He has written numerous articles on business planning, private placement memoranda, and entrepreneurship. Eric has served pro bono non-profit clients through the Net Impact Service Corps and volunteers for the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) as a mentor.

Prior to working as a consultant, Eric was Associate Director in charge of operations at Helen Mills Event Space in New York where he sold event rentals to corporate, non-profit and private clients and helped to grow a startup business. He was a founding editor of offoffonline.com and ran development and office management as Administrative Director for Target Margin Theater.

Eric holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management from Baruch College and a BA from Williams College.