Forrest Consulting, a management consulting firm founded in 1988, is behind Strategic Business Leader. Forrest Consulting has helped for-profit and not-for-profit organizations succeed by working with leaders to tackle high level management, strategy, planning, leadership, marketing, communications and publishing issues.
Some organizations that Forrest Consulting has assisted are American Lung Association, Arthritis Foundation, The Business Ledger, College of DuPage, Monetta Financial Services, Inc., Mosaic Media, Inc., National Fiber, National Provisioner, Oak Enterprises, Sampler Publications, United Way of Illinois and Village of Glen Ellyn.
Lee Crumbaugh, Forrest Consulting's founder, is a management, planning and communications expert. As a consultant he has helped many organizations address management, planning, publishing, marketing and communications opportunities and issues.
He now leads organizational growth as Vice President, Marketing, for a premier accredited association management firm. Lee has driven fund-raising and organizational success as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Marketing, of a major United Way; founded and led a business organization that addressed economic, business development and entrepreneurship issues; founded and led a consumer publishing company; served as Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Continental Bank, Chicago; edited an award-winning national financial magazine and served as Vice President, marketing director and market researcher for a national financial trade association; and worked for a major daily newspaper and a national title company.
He earned his M.B.A., marketing management concentration, finance emphasis, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has a Bachelor of Science degree, news-editorial journalism, from University of Illinois. He attended Colorado State University and completed a financial executive program at Indiana University.
Lee has written many articles, software tutorials, greeting cards and a thesis on interstate banking, and contributed to books and other publications. He has conducted business seminars, offered presentations on a wide variety of topics, and taught journalism.
He has been a leader in business and community organizations. He has chaired a political caucus and public school referenda, been an elected official, managed political campaigns, served on a task force to streamline government, and chaired his county's sesquicentennial celebration. He was a board member and development chair for domestic violence agency; national committee chair and local board member for the Arthritis Foundation; and a founding trustee of an educational foundation serving six school districts.
He is a 12-year Ironman triathlete and has run 34 marathons, including six Boston Marathons. He is a former competitive speed skater. Lee and spouse Sherry live in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. They have three adult children and a granddaughter.
