Our team members recently came together in Chicago for a collaborative training session focused on learning, knowledge sharing, and professional development. The session provided a great opportunity for everyone to connect, exchange perspectives, and learn from one another while strengthening relationships with those that don’t work together on a daily basis.
About us
TRC Advisory is a boutique consulting firm focused on working with clients to define and deploy the strategies and tactics necessary to consistently outperform competitors and create value. Our work is both analytically rigorous and highly collaborative in nature. We are focused on Strategy work that impacts entire organizations, particularly: -Corporate & Business Unit Strategy Development -Strategy & Customer Segmentation -Pricing & Performance Improvement. We are a highly entrepreneurial firm and we have thrived - and will continue to thrive - by doing things differently from other firms. TRC is committed to constantly innovating and evolving our practice to deliver insights to clients that are sound, practical, and creative. Careers at TRC offer the following opportunities to our team members: -Learn at an accelerated pace by working closely with experienced consultants and business leaders -Gain exposure to C-suite leadership of successful businesses -Grow at the speed that best works for you -Be compensated for high performance -Engage your entrepreneurial spirit to build a business together We believe a team of diverse thinkers with different experiences brings the greatest value to our clients. Some common attributes we look for when adding team members include: -Problem solvers with analytical capabilities who have an insatiable thirst to solve complex problems -Track record of success in your previous academic and professional endeavors -An entrepreneurial spirit that drives them to always improve upon the status quo -Team players with strong leadership and business building skills -An action and results-oriented mindset in everything you do
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https://www.trcadvisory.com/
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- Industry
- Business Consulting and Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Strategy Development, Growth Strategy, Customer Segmentation, Performance Improvement, and Pricing
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Updates
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☑️ Commercial teams struggle to articulate value of service? ☑️ Pricing still revolves around products? ☑️ Systems built decades ago no longer suited for more complicated customer relationships? As Nick Scarlett highlights, becoming a value-added solutions provider requires more than a change in strategy. Pricing, commercial capabilities, operations and systems must all evolve to support the new value proposition. Read Nick’s thoughts on why a confusing invoice may be an early sign that a company’s ambitions have moved ahead of its ability to execute.
Customers hate our invoices. We hear this surprisingly often from industrial clients. It sounds like a billing problem, but I’ve come to think it’s often a signal of something much bigger. Many industrial businesses were built to manufacture, inventory, sell, and ship SKUs. Their ERP systems, processes, commercial teams, and metrics were all designed around products. But their strategies have evolved. They want to move up the value chain: adding services, engineering support, managed inventory, data, or other solutions that deepen customer relationships and improve margins. Often, they can point to a handful of their best customers where this is already working. The challenge is scaling it. The value proposition changes, but the selling motion doesn’t. Pricing still revolves around products. Commercial teams struggle to articulate the value of the service. Operations aren’t designed to deliver it consistently. And systems built decades ago to move widgets now have to somehow explain a much more complicated customer relationship. Which brings us back to the invoice. A confusing invoice can be a canary in the coal mine: evidence that the company’s aspiration has evolved faster than its ability to execute. Becoming a value-added solutions provider isn’t just a strategy. It requires the rest of the business to catch up. #Manufacturing #CommercialStrategy #Servitization
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We’ve continued to grow throughout the summer, adding 11 new team members to TRC Advisory! Drew Dutton has joined us as a Senior Associate, along with 10 new Associates: Aarav Lodha, Dylan Balcer, Gina Ryu, Elisa Bullrich, Kaia Thelwell, Nicolas Pagnotta, Saharsh Pasari, Sanya Goyal, Shawn Cho, and Tommy Schrieber. Please join us in welcoming them to TRC Advisory! We’re excited to have them on board and look forward to their contributions across the firm.
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Please join us in thanking Daniel Weinstein and Kristina Whitwell for completing their Co-Op program at TRC Advisory! We are also excited to welcome three new Co-Ops this fall: Brendan Friday, Helena Dubé, and Esben Brasch Jensen. Welcome to the team! 👏
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A big thank you to all our Summer 2026 interns Audra Olson, Brian Gent, Evelyn Chao, Eric Pak, Jordan Gross and Nicholas Mahoney! You were a great addition to the TRC team! Wishing you all a successful return to your studies!
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We’re proud to announce five well-earned summer promotions at TRC Advisory! Congratulations to Mark Laboe and Henry Posega Rappleye, promoted to Senior Associate; Aiga Pārupa and Benjamin Trigsted, promoted to Associate Principal; and Anthony (A.J.) Sadler, promoted to Principal. Thank you for the impact you make for our clients, colleagues and firm. We’re excited to see what comes next. 🎉 #TRCAdvisory #Promotions #TeamTRC
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AI will make good strategy more accessible. But if every company has access to similar tools and insights, what will separate the winners? Cyrus Patel, Partner and Managing Director of TRC Advisory, identifies four potential sources of advantage: proprietary data, advanced AI models, the judgment to diverge from consensus and the discipline to execute. In this article, Cyrus explores why AI convergence could make independent thinking and strong execution more valuable than ever. What will create lasting competitive advantage in the age of AI?
If everyone has access to the same AI tools, do we all eventually converge on the same business strategies? The question came from an unexpected place. I was listening to a podcast about AI-generated fiction, which is now competing with and beating human writers for literary awards. The discussion was not really about the quality of AI-generated writing, but whether it might make writing more homogeneous over time. It made me wonder whether the same thing could happen in business strategy. My perspective is that an edge in data or AI capability can create an advantage, but in most cases, it will not be enduring. What's a breakthrough today becomes table stakes tomorrow. The lasting advantage is not the AI itself, but the judgment to know when to follow its recommendations and the conviction to depart from them. And ultimately, execution still wins. Insights and ideas are becoming abundant, but the ability to consistently turn them into results remains scarce.
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This past week, five TRC Advisory colleagues attended Elixirr’s Indaba in the English countryside outside London, marking the second Indaba since TRC became part of Elixirr. As one of the participants Daniel Taub reflects: "The event gave us the opportunity to work through multiple client simulations with colleagues from across Elixirr’s business units and capabilities, highlighting the breadth of expertise now available across the combined firm. As we used various AI tools throughout the simulations, one concept was reinforced again and again: AI can create volume, but humans provide the judgment needed to shape, challenge, and apply it in ways that matter for clients."
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At TRC Advisory, we often move quickly from one priority to the next. But taking time to train the team is one of the most practical ways to improve quality, confidence, and delivery. As part of our annual firm meeting last week, we gathered with our interns, associates, and new hire class to go through the fundamentals of our consulting practice, the technical skills needed, and project case studies that helped connect theory with practical application. Investing in our people remains one of the best investments we can make. Thanks to our trainers and colleaugues behind the scenes Roberta Gentile, Matthew Eliason, Janis Beikmanis, CFA, Patrick Lelich, Anthony (A.J.) Sadler, and Brenden Ryan.
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We’re proud to share that Tim Romberger, the Founder and Managing Partner of TRC Advisory (An Elixirr Company), together with three other Elixirr partners, have been named in Consulting Magazine’s 2026 Top Consultants awards in the US. The awards celebrate leaders who have delivered significant impact for clients and the consulting profession through transformation, leadership and execution. This recognition reflects the strength of our growing team and our continued focus on delivering measurable impact for clients across industries. Read the full announcement to learn more about their individual awards: Four Elixirr Partners recognized as Consulting Magazine’s 2026 Top Consultants - Elixirr - USA
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