The reason is obvious: the one true measure of our success is theirs.
Below are some words from a few of those very clients.
Mike Wickstrand
Senior Director, Windows Product Management Group, Microsoft
"Compass Consulting Partners has partnered with our Windows Product Management Team at Microsoft for almost a year. During this time they helped us scope, define, and execute market research in a number of emerging countries. Susan brought a deep background in the area consumer research to help us learn a tremendous amount, and more than we expected, about how potential customers and industry partners feel about our offerings. In the future I wouldn’t hesitate to pull Compass Partners in as a close partner to assist and guide even the most complex market research studies."
Yannis Dosios
Director of Marketing, Smilebox Inc.
"Susan brings a breath of fresh air, fresh ideas, enthusiasm and positive energy to the team. She is incredibly engaged in the project at hand and is always thinking about how to interpret available information and apply it as effectively as possible. This, combined with her sharp intellectual ability, strong analytical skills and creativity leads to results of very high quality that exceed expectations. Equally importantly, she is a person that people love to work with. She builds her rapport easily, stands by her views while being very respectful and open to the views of others, and she is compassionate and understanding when difficulties arise. All in all, she is a very strong addition to a team."
Doug Harrison
President and CEO, Harrison Group
"Susan Wright is perhaps the best consultant I have ever had the pleasure to work with (and I have worked with many). It is rare to find someone who can provide very high level strategic insight while also recognizing all of the details necessary to achieve goals. Our experience has been that Susan takes projects/programs beyond the level recognized by the client and presents information in a manner that can be acted on. One of her other great qualities is the abilities to bring teams together toward common goals. We always look forward to working with Susan and have invited her to be a permanent part of our team on several occasions."
Tracey Grove
Communications Manager, Technical Community Network Team, Microsoft
"Maria Langworthy brings deep qualitative research skills, together with a broad understanding of Microsoft's culture, to her research projects. Her in-depth analysis of stakeholder issues provides an informed cross-organizational perspective, enabling the delivery of successful strategies to combat those issues."
Sally Solaro
HR Program Manager, Technical Community Network Team, Microsoft
"Having Maria Langworthy as a research and strategy source on our team meant that the whole team became smarter, by gaining a much deeper understanding of our core audience and by thinking through our strategic decisions with a strong conceptual framework at the foundation."
Irada Sadykhova
Director in Engineering Excellence, Microsoft
"Maria Langworthy offers a unique combination of capabilities: the skills of an exceptionally insightful researcher, with a great understanding of Microsoft's culture, and institutional knowledge of how to 'move' things forward amid the complexity of the organization. Among other things, she gets how we do professional development here and is able to integrate research in a way that brings clarity to our program and product strategies."