Overview

Companies of all sizes face operational risks—quality, environmental, health & safety, security, food safety/quality. Some risks are anticipated; others are unexpected. How organizations plan for and manage those risks determines their ability to sustain a profitable and successful business.
Kestrel assists with many of our clients’ difficult operational challenges—the ones that often present the greatest business risks—and works with management to deliver reliable, achievable, and sustainable solutions.

Solutions with Staying Power

At our core, Kestrel works to understand the potential risks to our clients’ businesses, and to then build tailored systems/processes and management tools that yield improved business and operational practices.
Kestrel’s solutions have staying power because they are successfully embedded within our clients’ organizations. Not only do we work for our clients; we work with them. We make sure companies can sustain and continue the process improvements implemented when Kestrel’s work is done.
Together, we develop solutions that are reliable, fit our clients’ cultures, reduce risks, and assure compliance. Solutions that our clients can deploy across their organizations, maintain, and continually improve.

Suite of Services

Kestrel helps our clients reduce operational risk and continually improve processes and performance by offering a suite of integrated services:
Operational Risk Management
Process Improvement
Management Systems
Compliance Assurance
Technology Enabled Business Solutions

Our Story

The Kestrel, a small hawk, symbolizes our service delivery model:

• Swift and Nimble. Our team of highly experienced principals and senior consultants constantly adapts to changing conditions. We listen carefully to our clients’ needs and move swiftly and creatively to address them.
• Efficient. Our goals are to:
  • Master variability, inefficiency, and cost by helping streamline processes
  • Reduce risks
  • Improve productivity and quality
  • Optimize the allocation and deployment of resources
  • Enhance compliance and performance
• Focused with Clear Vision. Our consulting methods zero-in on key issues, correctly guide priority setting, and achieve positive business results.
• Loyal. We are committed to our clients, staff, and teaming partners. We take the long-term view, building relationships based on quality, service, reliability, and trust.

Our Team

Kestrel has built a team of carefully selected principals and senior consultants who excel at putting management’s vision, goals, and objectives into operation. Kestrel’s team averages over 25 years of experience working for industry, as consultants, and as operational managers. We have dealt with many of the challenges our clients face; we have lived the types of processes we help design and implement.

Integrally Involved

Our senior staff is integrally involved on every project, offering perspective and interacting directly with our clients to reduce risks and verify compliance. We engage employees at all levels and work across organizational structures to become trusted advisers in developing and improving cross-functional processes. We understand how to apply this knowledge to operationalize policies and strategies—enabling the vision expressed by boards of directors and senior management to be translated throughout operations

Associates

When the need arises, Kestrel draws from a select group of qualified teaming partners and associates to provide the highest level of expertise at the best value for our clients. We draw on the following experts, who provide specialized expertise to complement Kestrel’s capabilities:
Chris Tarpey – EHS Consulting, Risk Management, Process Optimization
Ted Bleifuss – Risk & Business Continuity, IT Systems Analysis
Robert Evangelisti, P.E., CEA, CHMM, CSP – Industrial EHS Consulting, Auditing
David Malter, CIH, CSP, LIH, ROH, CPEA – Safety, Industrial Hygiene
Ken Terrill – Incident Command System (ICS), Wildfire Prevention

Compliance Assurance

Businesses face an ever-growing array of regulations and other requirements regarding their material use, supply chain, byproducts, and environmental and safety practices, amongst many others. In today’s economic climate, it is difficult for companies to devote the resources required to maintain compliance activities at a sustained and satisfactory level—but it is essential.

Kestrel understands the importance of developing and maintaining key internal controls that ensure the reliability of compliance systems and that adhere to current and pending regulations, industry standards and other requirements.

Connecting Compliance to Strategy

Kestrel is an innovator and developer of services that help industry improve performance and reduce costs of regulatory compliance. Some of the highest value assistance we provide our clients is in the early stages of project planning and strategy development, particularly in the sequencing of compliance and audits, management systems development, and Corrective Action Plan (CAP) management and completion.

We have experience and success with regulatory enforcement-driven projects that require skills in regulatory strategy, negotiations, expert analysis, presentations and testimony—and, equally important—trust and relationship building. Using a systems model that is aligned with business objectives and capabilities, we optimize compliance methods and improve performance.

Our compliance services include:

• Compliance program review — process development and standardization
• Auditing services, including program design and electronic auditing tools
• Training
• Outsourced compliance support
• Right-Sized Compliance approach
• Policy and regulatory analysis
• Regulatory negotiation strategy and support, expert testimony
• Due diligence
• Siting, permitting, and ongoing compliance program strategies
• Third-party oversight/expert support