Meet Our Team

John F. Coy
Founder and president of The Consulting Network

Areas of Expertise

Assessment, strategic planning, program design and organizational and professional development in the areas of corporate citizenship, community and employee involvement and contributions.

Recent Assignments

• Designing community investment and corporate citizenship strategies for a major financial services firm.
• Providing ongoing counsel, program policies and strategy execution for U.S. operations of a German-based corporation.
• Assessing and creating a strategy to integrate contributions and community relations into a newly formed global initiative for a major pharmaceutical company.
• Identifying models for program mergers involving companies in the telecommunications and financial services industries.
• Designing a multi-million dollar signature program for a major energy company.
• Creating a strategy and new foundation for a U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese corporation.
• Developing an exit strategy for a company moving its national headquarters to another community.
• Evaluating national business and nonprofit partnerships.

Background

• Fourteen years consulting with nearly 200 companies and private sector organizations.
• Ten years in public affairs with Deere and Company.
• Ten years in college development at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
• Author and speaker on corporate citizenship, community involvement and contributions.
• Graduate of Augustana College earning MBA from Northern Illinois University.