Who has used Good Business Advice™?

On this page you’ll find a representative list of clients I’ve served from the following eight major sectors and twenty sub-sectors. You may use this menu to jump to the major sectors.

Retail
- Retail merchandise stores
- Retail food stores (with a focus on collectives/coops)
- Mail Order
Travel and Hospitality
- Hotels, Spas, Restaurants, Caterers
- Adventure, Leisure, Entertainment & Fun
Wholesale/Distribution (including food, timber/lumber, custom weaving, software distribution, and appropriate technology/alternative energy)
- Transport
- Storage
- Outsourced Shipping and Receiving
Manufacturing
- Commodities (clothing, cosmetics, food)
- Publishing
Services
- Architecture & Landscaping
- Consulting firms
- Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Advocacy Non-Profits
Education
- Professional Education & Training
- Massage Schools
- Higher Ed
  - Colleges & Universities
Government
- Regional, county, federal

Retail

Frame of Mind, small chain of art and photo framing stores, San Francisco
Gaia Bookstore and community center, Berkeley, California
Good Vibrations, sex-positive retail store, San Francisco
Living Lightly, urban “Whole Earth” type truck store, San Francisco

Retail Food Stores (collectives)

Bolinas Peoples Store, Bolinas, California
Other Avenues Food Collective, San Francisco
Noe Valley Community Store, San Francisco
Rainbow General Store, San Francisco

Mail-Order

"You took the time to understand the business before contributing your clear and effective advice. Your ideas were really helpful and you pin-pointed the key problems with our company. Thank you for all your help over the last two years."

Tom Asher

Art Venture, clothing manufacturer, Tiburon, California

Artventure, natural fiber clothing catalog, Berkeley
Brush Dance, recycled paper greeting card catalog, Sausalito, California
California Kids History Catalog, history books for kids, San Francisco
Good Vibrations, a sex-positive sex-toy catalog & retail store, San Francisco & Berkeley

Travel and Hospitality

Hotels, Spas, Restaurants, & Caterers

Sunrise Springs; hotel, spa, and restaurant; Santa Fe, New Mexico
Creative Catering, San Francisco
Just for You Cafe, San Francisco
Mudd’s, restaurant, San Ramon, California
Taste of Joy, restaurant, Oakland, California

Adventure, Leisure, Entertainment & Fun

Mariah Wilderness Expeditions, (Donna Hunter) Sausalito, California

Pickle Family Circus, San Francisco

Sea Trek, ocean kayaking, Sausalito

Wholesale & Distribution

Alfalfa-Omega, food products, CornCheaps, Oakland
EcoTimber, sustainably harvested & reclaimed wood, San Rafael

Off the Loom, custom Oaxacan tapestries, San Francisco & Oaxaca, Mexico
Softyme, networked in-store software kiosks, San Francisco

Storage, Transport, Shipping, & Receiving

E.V. Warehousing; logistics, outsourced fulfillment; San Leandro, California
Special Services; wholesale distribution of energy efficient woodstoves and other environmentally friendly products; San Rafael, California.

Manufacturing

Artventure, natural fiber clothing, Berkeley

Tom Asher

Art Venture, clothing manufacturer, Tiburon, California

Harmony Products/J.N. McMartin Company, Clear Creek brand, natural toiletries and cosmetics, Santa Rosa, California

Wildwood, natural foods, Fairfax, California

Publishing

Been There, photo maps, San Francisco
Babylon Burning, silk screen printing, San Francisco
Crafts Faire Guide, advertiser style newspaper, San Francisco
Down There Press, sex-positive book publisher, San Francisco

Services

Aunt Ann’s Agency, temp agency, San Francisco
Paradox Enterprises, online medical database, Glen Ellen, California
Damn Good Resume Service, Oakland, California
Sunflower Compositaers, word processing & data entry, San Francisco
Wells & Vincent, CPAs, Berkeley, California

Architecture & Landscaping

Canessa Park Architects, San Francisco

"I learned a lot from our session. You answered questions I'd had for years. It was good to have someone so knowledgeable to work with."

Zack Stewart

Canessa Park Architects, San Francisco

Page, Anderson, & Turnbull, architects, San Francisco
The Russell Group, architects, San Francisco
Barbara Blake, landscape contractor, San Francisco
Joan Dekelboum, landscape architect, San Francisco
Michael Painter Associates, landscape architects, San Francisco

Consulting Firms

Growth Management Institute, leadership and organizational change, Donner, California
Hummingbird Associates, dental practice mgt, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Matt Taylor Associates, organizational development, Boulder, Colorado

"We were quite glad you changed your plans so that you could be with us. Not only did you contribute to [our client's] thinking, you contributed to ours, too! We look forward to working with you on other projects."

Matt Taylor

Founder, Matt Taylor Associates

Paradox Enterprises, market research, Glen Ellen, California
RealChange Network, leadership and organizational change, Aptos, California

"Claude Whitmyer is one of the most thorough, versatile and effective consultants I know. The breadth of his business knowledge and his demonstrated commitment to integrity and social responsibility make him a uniquely gifted business advisor and management consultant. Claude truly makes a high value contribution to each project he undertakes."

Christian Forthomme, MBA

Founder, RealChange Network

Sibbet Associates, group graphics and meeting facilitation, San Francisco

"Claude is a deep water community builder and networker. He was in on the ground floor of the PC revolution in the '80s and has learned his way up with it, inventing and evolving many useful solutions. He has tirelessly supported right livelihood approaches to business and other sensible strategies for the new century."

David Sibbet

Founder, The Grove

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

Clement Street Counseling Center, San Francisco
Marina Counseling Center, San Francisco
Don Propstra, psychotherapy practice, San Francisco

"The consultations I did with you were definitely an important factor in the rapid gains in my business. I have taken your suggestions and support to heart and they have greatly strengthened me and my work."

Don Propstra

Therapist, San Francisco

Malka Gorman, psychotherapy practice, San Francisco
Maureen Redl, psychotherapy practice, Greenbrae, California

Advocacy Non-Profits

Big Apple Green, virtual community for the green businesses of New York City, sponsored by Consortium for Worker Education, New York City
Crow Canyon Institute, Market Garden and Environmental Education Center, San Ramon, California
Institute for the Human Environment, Norman Gilroy, Sausalito
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, women and minorities in business, San Francisco
Save Our Shores, shoreline property owners, Southern Maine
White-Robed Monks of Saint Benedict, church and monastery, San Rafael, California

Education

Professional Education & Training Companies

American Hospital Association, Health Forum Fellowship Leadership Program, San Francisco and Chicago
KaosPilots, management training, Aarhus, Denmark
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, business training for women and minorities, incubator consulting, San Francisco
Thousand Islands Institute, owner-builder center, Picton, Ontario, Canada
University of Phoenix (online campus), continuing professional education, San Francisco

Massage Schools

Amma Institute, Japanese massage, San Francisco
McKinnon School of Massage, Oakland, California
New Age School of Massage, Sebastopol, California

Higher Ed

Yosemite Community College District
- Columbia College of California, Sonora, California

"Thanks for the good work on the Adobe Premiere workshop.”

Gene Womble

Columbia College of California

"Ditto on the Adobe Premiere seminar. This was a great workshop. You are model facilitators.”

Sylvia Watterson

Columbia College of California

Yosemite Community College District
- Modesto Junior College, Modesto, California

"[You] definitely met my expectations for a technology workshop. You were current with your information, well- prepared, and excellent facilitators. Thank you for your top-notch training sessions.”

Sylvia Watterson

Columbia College of California

Mendocino College, Ukiah, California
Merced Community College, California
Dominican University of California, San Rafael

"Thanks so much for a very productive training "suite" of programs!! I couldn't be happier with the outcomes. I look forward to working with you to develop an even more effective training strategy for next year."

Terry Ratcliff, Ed.D., Executive Director

Center for Adult and Extended Education
Dominican University of California

"It has been marvelous to work with you. Thank you for your mentorship and guidance . . . I am impressed with the professional and kind service I have received."

Denise Lucy, Ed.D.

Dominican University of California

Holy Names University, Oakland, California
Missouri State University, Springfield

"Thanks for the valuable workshop. Once I manage to get everything arranged for my course and meet all of next week's deadlines, I plan to direct a letter (to the President, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and your sponsor, the Dean of Arts and Sciences) regarding the value of our recent training.
"I have attended many workshops, but none has served me as well as this one. I'm most appreciative of everyone's work in organizing and delivering this event. I hope you enjoyed teaching us as much as we enjoyed learning from you."

Betty L. Bitner, Professor

Missouri State University, Springfield

New College of California, San Francisco
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada

"The program that you provided our 160+ online faculty members and several staff was immediately relevant to the context of teaching and learning at Thompson Rivers University. You clearly took the time needed to understand our needs and to tailor the training program to those needs. We received many comments from our faculty attesting to the time and effort you put into this endeavour. It seemed many times that you went over and above what was expected of you in regards to the amount of time that you spent answering questions and troubleshooting problems."

Dr. Valerie Peachey, Director Program Delivery

Open Learning Division, Thompson Rivers University

Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Arecibo

"In all my 15 years here, we've never had this much interest in a faculty development workshop."

Ricardo Diez, Ph.D.

Title V Project Director, Universidad
Interamericana
de Puerto Rico

Government

Alameda County Housing Authority, Hayward, California
East Bay Department of Unemployment, Oakland, California
NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames, Menlo Park, California

"[Claude] is a creative thinker and revolutionary educator, combining technological sophistication with highly developed people skills. A pleasure to work with, reliable, thorough and innovative."