About Us

The Schatten Group LLC is a firm organized to assist clients in accelerating business growth or successfully selling their business. Your business is your life’s work; the place you spend the most time; the place you think about most. Our mission is to help you reap the value of your business, financially and personally.

TSG is a very different advisory firm. We combine techniques and tools, operational expertise and highly strategic thinking to help you achieve greater outcomes in your business or to help you successfully sell your business. Our team and business partners are comprised of proven executives and advisors who have achieved sustainable, long-term success in their personal endeavors and have helped many clients achieve breakthrough results. We work with successful business people and entrepreneurs who seek to achieve new levels of growth or sell their business.

The Schatten Group brings to your organization a management methodology that helps to ensure that you and your team focus efforts on the same important issues An organizing principle. The “Why”, the “What” and the “How”. The Why is your mission or vision. For Google, the mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The What are the goals and objectives that must be achieved over accepted time frames to propel the company towards the continuous realization of its mission. A company may set a goal of introducing a specified new product in 18 months. The How are the actual things that must happen in order for the goal or objective to be achieved. For example, product design must have a prototype in place in 3 months.

The organizing principle, The Schatten Group methods, are a platform for growth. It brings together strategy and plans. It aligns people and teams and points them in the same direction. It drives improvement throughout the company and most importantly, it is measurable. All “Whats” and “Hows” must be measured with a number. The number may be a date of completion, a gross profit margin, or an increase in the number of customers. But a number there will be. And the person responsible for that number will have their team and the entire company working with them to achieve that number because the entire team will know the importance of that number..

The Schatten Group serves as trusted advisors to savvy business owners and entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries. With The Schatten Group, it will be your vision that will be identified. Ultimately, it will be you and your team that will drive your company to an even better future.

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About Our Founder

Alan Schatten began his career as a CPA, but found the lines of a balance sheet too narrow a focus. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to work in and with a wide variety of industries; that experience formed the basis for the techniques and tools we use to help successful business owners to grow or sell their business.

A Partnering Relationship

We don’t presume that we know more about your business than you do. We don’t presume that we’re smarter than you. You’ve already achieved great success with your business. The objective is to build on your proven track record of success to help you achieve your next goal.

What Our Clients Say

“In the early nineties my partner and I purchased a struggling marine supply wholesale distributor on Long Island. Soon after, we met Alan Schatten and hired him as our accountant. In a relatively short period of time, we realized Alan was not just about putting numbers in columns. Alan quickly learned the internal workings of our company – payroll, inventory, personnel, cash flow, sales and marketing, profit margins, and our competition. Alan became our adviser and confidante, forcing us to take time to step away from our hands on, day to day grind and focus on the big picture details as we grew our company.” [Read More]