Think Globally, Change Locally

The challenges that permeate the national and global agenda provide great need and opportunity for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.  It is our hope at Cobalt Group to play a role in the broader landscape by addressing those challenges and issues first for ourselves and our clients.  We strive to help shape the future economy in ways that are local, sustainable, and part of a greater collection of efforts by many; the product of which will be geometric in its impact. My partner Patti Choby and I remain committed to Entrepreneurship and Sustainability as part of our core values and business model, and we always welcome the opportunity to work with Leaders who share that commitment.

Entrepreneurship and Democracy

We open 2009 with greater challenges than our country has arguably ever faced.  Many Americans are and will be presented with circumstances they not have faced in the past.  I firmly believe that adversity brings opportunity for those who have the courage to grasp it. The founders of this Democracy must have had Entrepreneurship firmly in their minds as a core of our society and our economy that would insure the United States would prosper in the long term and weather difficult times.  We now find ourselves in an era where greed, lack of leadership and absence of oversight bring us to where we are. My partner Patti Choby likes to say, “real change happens locally”, and she is right. Grass roots entrepreneurship, quality education, innovation, integrity and just plan hard work will ultimately have a greater and longer lasting impact in remaking our economy and reshaping our future than billions of bail outs designed for short term results with long term consequences unknown.