Consultant Pages

Employee Engagement and Business Goals

Helping business owners develop, engage, and retain employees and grow their businesses is a passion for Roger. He worked for 33 years at HP where he focused on product development, marketing, and business management. While there, he also helped start mentoring programs, assisted in coordinating community volunteer efforts, and leading career development/engagement discussions. Roger currently manages his own custom woodworking and repair business. He and his wife, Teresa, are also part-owners of Blue Moose Art Gallery in Fort Collins.

Whether you are a new entrepreneur looking to expand your business or you have an existing set of employees, Roger would like to help you set achievable goals, navigate your current challenges, and lay out the steps you need to sustain or grow your business. He enjoys honing in on the root cause of a problem, ideating solutions, and then defining the steps needed to drive results.

Roger learned a lot about hard work, good management, and ingenuity growing up on a successful wheat and barley farm in Northern Idaho. He graduated from Boise State University with an MBA/focus on marketing. In his spare time, he loves to cook, garden, travel, and tell bad jokes.

Restaurant Consultant

Tiffany Helton has worked in the restaurant industry for over 20 years. She is the co-founder of the STUFT burger bar restaurants and Lonesome Buck Breweries. Her original restaurant in Fort Collins has been in business for over 8 years. She is Serve Safe Certified and TIPS Alcohol Trained Certified. Tiffany is a true hospitality professional.

International Business Relationships

Tom Galey has been involved in a wide variety of business ventures and teaching for decades. With an undergraduate degree in Economics from University of Colorado, Tom moved to Taiwan in the mid-1980s. There he studied Mandarin and soon ran the Asia buying office for a large Canadian toy store chain. He spent time working in market consulting for several Chinese firms, later working for a Chinese hydraulics manufacturer.

In the 1990s, after over 6 years in China, Tom Moved to the US territory of Guam and began working with Exxon. Tom ran downstream operations and was marketing director for the retail chain.

Tom was later hired by Anheuser-Busch and was named Marketing Director for Micronesia for Budweiser brands. He developed an international advertising specialty division for AB that was subsequently used globally.

In 2000 Tom moved back to Colorado and started his own business in Promotional Products. In 2005 he moved into product development consulting for Asia-made consumer items. He started a consulting firm that still operates today assisting production globally. 3Chinas.com is active today as he assists firms expand.

With a master’s degree in Business Administration and International Relations, Tom has helped major US and European firms launch production of new product lines. In all, he’s assisted in the development of between 300 and 400 new products in Asia.

Tom has been teaching at Front Range for over 13 years in Intro to Business, Economics (Micro and Macro) Business Law, Marketing, International Business and International Marketing.

Tom lives Gunbarrel with his wife, and their 21-year-old son, Ty is currently attending CU. Tom’s book was published in 2013; Making the China Connection – Understanding Business Culture to Create Great, Sustainable Relationships. It’s available on Amazon and is published by SinoMedia in San Francisco, California.