Company Profile

Founded by Stanford MBA and organizational transformation expert Gordon Starr, Starr Consulting Group offers a broad range of services designed to generate a quantum leap in organizational accomplishment. At the core of Starrco's work is a comprehensive transformation initiative designed to unleash the commitment, passion and creativity in an organization, create an environment where collaboration and teamwork naturally occur, and produce unprecedented results in fulfillment of a highly desirable, shared future.

Starr Consulting Group works in concert with a cadre of outstanding consulting firms, encompassing over 50 senior consultants, whose approaches are harmonious with and complementary to our own. We custom design each engagement in partnership with our clients and then mobilize our team according to the specific requirements of the project.

Gordon Starr, Founder & CEO

Gordon Starr founded Starr Consulting Group in January 2000. From 1991 to 1999, Mr. Starr was a partner in a consulting firm whose expertise was large-scale, systemic transformation. The firm, London Perret Roche, grew eight-fold during his tenure and worked at the heart of four Fortune 50 companies.

From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Starr was Executive Vice President of Transformational Technologies, the parent company for an international network of consulting firms specializing in organizational transformation. In 1985, Mr. Starr became CEO of Fredkin Enterprises. The start-up sold what was then the largest shipment of U.S. microcomputers ever exported to the Soviet Union.

In 1978, as President of ComputerLand Europe, Mr. Starr successfully launched ComputerLand's European franchise network. In 1980, he returned to California as Corporate Vice President for Marketing and subsequently International Development and Strategic Planning. During his seven years with ComputerLand, system-wide sales increased from $13 million to over $1 billion, at the time making it one of history's fastest growing private enterprises.

Mr. Starr earned his MBA from Stanford University in 1968. He received his BA from Allegheny College in 1966 where he was also president of the student body.

In 1984, as a volunteer, Mr. Starr created the Moscow Marathon Project, an initiative dedicated to the possibility of the United States and the Soviet Union working collaboratively to end global hunger. During the ensuing six years he raised $2 million in donations for the end of hunger from ten thousand people in fourteen countries. In 1990 Presidents Bush and Gorbachev entered into three collaborative initiatives and the Moscow Marathon Project was complete.

In 2000, Mr. Starr co-sponsored and participated in a four-day workshop for Catholic and Protestant religious leaders in Ireland, as part of a continuing private initiative to catalyze a mutually empowering relationship between these two Northern Ireland factions.

Mr. Starr currently serves on the board of advisors for the Pachamama Alliance, dedicated to preserving tropical rain forests. He is also involved in the Microcredit Summit, an initiative committed to reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families with credit by 2005. Listed in Who's Who in the West, Mr. Starr was one of USA Today's 1989 "people who make a difference." He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, Lily.