Who We Are

Strategic Directions, LLC
 was founded by Louis and Kathleen  Emond to provide guidance to small- and medium-size businesses in the key areas of:

    ~ Strategic Thinking and Planning
    ~ Leadership Development
    ~ The Executive Leadership Process

Louis A. Emond has been consulting for more than 10 years, primarily in the area of International Business Development and Marketing. Louis spent 20 years in the US Air Force, and he worked for the international companies Nashua Corporation, Lockheed Sanders, and General Dynamics.

Louis has a BA in French from Fordham University, and an MS Ed from the University of Southern California.

Kathleen A. Emond, has more than 30 years experience in training and development, consulting, and software engineering. Kathy was Director of ESC University, a corporate training program at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts, where she was responsible for offering classes in Total Quality, government acquisition, and personnel development. She was a software engineer on two large military defense programs, one for the U.S. and one for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Kathy's greatest challenge as a consultant came in 2002, as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, when she became the Director of Logistics for the Southeast Area of the U.S. The challenge? Implementation of the training program for all airport passenger screeners at the 100 airports within that area.

Kathy has a BS in Early Childhood Education Fordham University, and an MEd from Boston University.

Kathy and Louis believe in Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk. They have developed their goals for Strategic Directions LLC and are working toward achieving them.

Kristin Fitzpatrick
Associate Kristin Fitzpatrick has over 20 years experience in the medical technology field and has worked with hospitals across the United States in utilizing their software packages.

Ms Fitzpatrick specializes in Medical Personnel Development.

In these roles Ms. Fitzpatrick has a proven record of success that utilizes her ability to understand, work with, represent, and train her clients.

About fifteen years ago, she began to study human potential. She attended Coach U and has been a life and business coach for the past five years. Her clients have included small business owners, career changers, and people making life changes.

One of her specialties is passing on Tony Buzan's "Mind Mapping" process, a methodology used to help people map their future choices in their business and personal lives.

Ms. Fitzpatrick holds an AS degree in Medical Technology, a BA from the American Institute of Holistic Theology, is a Worcester Polytechnic Institute Certified Client Server Programmer, and holds a certificate from Coach U.

Ms. Fitzpatrick is a native of Milford, NH and lived in the Boston area for about 20 years. She moved to Nashua about six years ago.

Jim Anderson
Associate Jim Anderson is an experienced business and quality system consultant, trainer, advisor, and auditor. He has worked with hundreds of organizations to help them understand, implement, and improve business systems and develop quality cultures in organizations such as those demonstrated by Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Winners.

He is a lead assessor for ISO 9001:2000, ISO/TS 16949:2002, and ISO 14001:2004 and has been an examiner for the New Hampshire and the Arkansas State Quality Awards.

A combat veteran, Jim has taken advantage of his 25 years experience in the United States Air Force in his consulting activities. He served in a wide variety of leadership and management positions including duty as the commander (CEO-equivalent) of two different USAF organizations. Both of these organizations received recognition as dramatically improving during his tenure.

Jim has personal experience in operating at all levels in organizations and can relate to processes and problems from all aspects – “from the shop floor to the boardroom.” He’s facilitated problem solving, organizational development, and process development groups at the “hands-on” level and has facilitated and guided strategic and business planning sessions at the most senior levels.

Jim has created tailored approaches to developing an organization’s business systems including topics such as: "Leadership in a quality system – How to lead the quality effort"; strategic planning; business planning; overall operational system planning, definition, and design; implementation strategies; and control methods.

Jim is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in Chemistry and lives in Clearwater, FL.

Contact us for a FREE consultation.
phone:603.880.8191
fax: 603.386.6026
email: info@strategicdirectionsllc.com