The Stuart Skorman Group | Strategic Consulting

We guide, energize and transform companies through innovative business design, branding, marketing, organizational development and growth strategy consulting.

Our clients include large companies as well as rapidly growing small businesses and start-ups. We currently focus on restaurant chains, retail chains, e-commerce and wellness businesses.

Stuart is the lead consultant for every client. He assembles a specialized team of consultants, experts and entrepreneurs to participate on each project.

Elephant Pharmacy

“Mention the name Elephant Pharmacy to people here and the response is, ‘That’s the drugstore that prescribes yoga.’ ”
 – New York Times

“Elephant Pharmacy is positioning itself to challenge established chains such as Walgreens and Rite Aid Corp. by pairing traditional aspects of pharmacies with alternative remedies.”
 – The Wall Street Journal

“Stuart Skorman founded Elephant Pharmacy, and he wants it to do to Walgreens what Whole Foods did to Safeway.”  
– SF Chronicle

“Amid all the happenings crowding in on each other in this hectic chain drug year, a case could be made that the No. 1 story has been the success of an independent drug store, Elephant Pharmacy of Berkeley, Calif., and of its entrepreneurial proprietor, the redoubtable Stuart Skorman.”  
– David Pinto, Chain Drug Review

Reel.com

“The Hollywood Entertainment Corporation, the second-largest chain of video rental shops, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy Reel.Com Inc., the largest service selling videos over the Internet. The price is $100 million…”
– New York Times

Hungry Minds

“HungryMinds.com offers links to 17,000 online courses and other resources such as the UC Berkeley Extension, UCLA Extension and  NYU Online.”  
– SF Chronicle

Clerkdogs

“Clerk Dogs does for movies what the Internet radio site Pandora does for music.”  
– New York Times

“Netflix recently licensed part of  Clerkdogs’ database…”  
– Associated Press