My background in corporate finance, with experience in multiple industries, shaped how I think about cost management. Success depends on more than simply cutting expenses - it requires making disciplined, informed decisions that protect operations and support long-term performance.
Cutting costs simply to say you are cutting costs will get you nowhere. I focus on strategic cost management: eliminating waste, improving efficiency, and ensuring that every dollar spent aligns with business priorities.
My Guiding Principles:
Strategy Over Shortcuts: I differentiate between blind cost cutting and thoughtful cost optimization that strengthens the organization.
Operational Awareness: Every recommendation is evaluated for its impact on service levels, quality, and day-to-day operations.
Financial Rigor: Opportunities are driven by data, benchmarking, and objective analysis, not baseless assumptions.
Partnership, Not Transactions: I work closely with clients to understand their goals and deliver solutions that support long-term success.
What Sets Schooley Mitchell Apart
Schooley Mitchell is North America’s largest independent cost-reduction consulting firm, with decades of experience helping organizations uncover unnecessary spending. Our model is entirely risk-free: you only pay if real, measurable savings are achieved.
Proven specialized expertise: For almost 30 years, the firm has focused on areas like telecom, merchant services, shipping, waste, and other operational costs, constantly refining best practices and benchmarking data.
Vendor independence: Consultants do not receive kickbacks, commissions, or incentives from vendors, ensuring recommendations are objective and made in your best interest.
Contingency‑based fees: You only pay when savings are actually found and implemented, aligning Schooley Mitchell’s success with yours.
Professional reputation: The firm has saved clients hundreds of millions of dollars and supports a large network of franchise consultants with training, tools, and ongoing research.
How It Works
Our process is straightforward, transparent, and designed to minimize disruption:
Baseline Review: We gather your current invoices, contracts, and usage data to understand how you’re spending today.
Strategic Analysis: We analyze your expenses using benchmarking, market intelligence, and vendor comparison to identify optimization opportunities.
Client-Driven Decisions: We review the findings with you and decide which opportunities you would like to implement. We support the transition and ongoing monitoring.
Because fees are based solely on actual savings realized, there is no risk in exploring what opportunities may exist.
Ready to see if you’re overspending?
If you would like to explore potential savings with no risk and no obligation, let’s schedule a brief conversation. We will review where you may be overpaying, explain how the process works, and only move forward if it makes sense for you.
When it comes to saving money for your business, the best time to start is right now. Reach out today for a risk-free analysis of your business expenses.
Schooley Mitchell saves our clients an average of 28%, and our entire process takes less than two hours of your time on average. Stop paying your vendors more than you need to. Let Schooley Mitchell put that money back in your pocket.
