PERSONAL PROFILE

 

Gregory N. Fern, FSMPS, Associate AIA

 

Greg Fern is President of the Index Group - a national marketing and management consulting company.   His company helps professional service firms promote reasoned thinking about the future of their company and the markets they pursue using proven frameworks for growth.

 

His personal and consulting work covers a broad spectrum of firms ranging in size from single practitioners to more than 700 professionals in the areas of strategic business and market planning, client research, organizational design, sales and presentation training, marketing information systems and visual communications.

 

Greg has more than 45 years experience as a business partner, director and manager for prominent ENR 500 architectural, engineering and environmental firms as Kraus-Anderson Construction, Symmes, Maini & McKee Associates, Braun Intertec and Leo A. Daly.  He also worked in the public sector as Director of Marketing and Communications for transit authorities in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Cleveland, Ohio.

 

He is a Fellow and past national President of the Society For Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) and the founding president of the local Twin Cities Chapter. Greg is a frequent speaker and panelist at trade conferences and seminars in the areas of marketing, strategic planning and information systems.