Business & Management Consultants
Work shouldn't be this hard.
If your team is buried in manual work, your numbers tell three different stories, too much of the business lives in one person's head, and every new software tool somehow creates more work than it removes, those are the problems Positive Deviant Labs fixes.
We help Northeast Ohio companies find the things making work harder than it should be, whether that's a broken process, a messy CRM, unreliable data, a stalled initiative, or a strategy that never made it off the page. Then we fix them with you and build your team's capability to keep improving after we leave. No 70-slide deck and a handshake.
Our specialty: decision systems for growing manufacturers. When sales, operations, and finance each work from different numbers, leadership decides too late and pays for it in expediting, inventory, and missed commitments. We connect them into one agreed operating plan, grounded in SIOP principles, sized for owner-led companies. Most engagements start with a Decision System Diagnostic: 2-3 weeks, ending in a 90-day roadmap you can execute with or without us.
Whether your company is overwhelmed by growth, plateaued and leaving money on the table, or healthy and determined not to fall behind, the starting point is the same: figure out which problem is actually holding you back before spending money fixing the wrong one.
Founded by Andrew Ciszczon, a Lorain County-based strategist with deep manufacturing, automotive aftermarket, and industrial experience. Start a conversation at positivedeviantlabs.com.