North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 658)
After a forty-year career in global logistics, Jeff Fischer retired five years ago and moved into consulting in the non-profit space. He joined host John Ray to track the course of his career, discuss how he got into nonprofit consulting, the challenges he sees in nonprofits that he works with, strategies he’s used in supporting them, his thoughts on fundraising, boards, and much more.
North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Jeffrey Fischer has over 35 years’ experience within the Global Supply industry; of which the final 25 were with UPS. During his UPS career, Jeff developed innovative and integrated logistics solutions for the world’s largest Fortune 100 companies. During his tenure he also was a member several domestic and international Merger and Acquisition teams, including the largest in 2001, of the Mailboxes Etc. (MBE) acquisition team that converted the 4,200+ shipping retail network into today’s UPS Stores. He also led management teams within UPS’s sales training, business development, operations, product development, and customer experience divisions.
In 2014, he was UPS’s Corporate United Way Campaign Co-Coordinator, overseeing all program activities, that successfully raised $63.7 Million. Prior to joining UPS, Jeff worked for Fuji Photo Film and Lever Brothers in New York City. Jeff has written and published dozens of articles within a variety of trade magazines and has been a guest columnist to the Cambridge Information Network and the Global Business Network.
He was an adjunct professor in New York and Georgia colleges teaching logistics, international management, thesis research and writing, and organizational management. He holds both a Bachelor of Science in Transportation and Distribution Management and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Syracuse University with a minor in Economics; and earned a Master of Business Administration in Management from Long Island University with a minor in Finance.
Since retiring from UPS in March 2018, Jeff started a consulting service, The Whole Business, which takes a holistic approach examining an organization’s order-to-cash cycle to determine the root causes that create unnecessary cost, impede growth, and inhibit a positive customer experience. He applies those same techniques to non-profits to improve their efficiency and those that seek fundraising assistance and/or guidance by leveraging his communication, writing, and teaching skills.
He is co-owner of Roswell’s Houck’s Grille since opening in 2015. Jeff is married 38 years to Nancy and has 2 adult children, Matthew, and Christine.
Questions and Topics in this Interview:
- How did you get motivated or inspired to give back to the local community becoming involved with Non-Profits?
- So, 40 years in corporate America, how has that helped you prepare for working with & supporting non-profits?
- What specific acquired experiences and skills do you bring to non-profits?
- Non-profits come in many shapes and sizes, how do you decide who to help and how?
- What are some of the biggest challenges local non-profits, collectively, seem to face, particularly since the pandemic?
- What challenges have you faced when initially engaging with or while engaging with a non-profit?
- What’s next for your consulting career and more specifically within the non-profit arena?
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