Senior advisors. Small bench. Serious operators.
CSMG was built for leaders who want experienced hands in the room — not a slide library and a junior team.
Built at the intersection of freight, sales, and the people who lead both.
CSMG was founded on a simple observation: the operators we admired weren't being served well by traditional consulting. They needed senior partners who understood the dispatch desk, the deal desk, and the boardroom — and who would stay long enough to see the work through.
Today we work with a deliberately small number of clients per year. Engagements are scoped tightly, staffed by partners, and held to outcomes their CFO can verify.
Whether you're a regional carrier rebuilding margin, a B2B sales org modernizing the motion, or a leader stepping into a bigger seat — the goal is the same: durable performance.
The principles behind every engagement.
Operator first
We've sat in the seats we advise. Strategy without execution is theater.
Senior in the room
The people you meet are the people who do the work. No layered teams, no junior bait-and-switch.
Honest counsel
We'll tell you what we see — including when the answer isn't us.
Outcomes over output
We measure ourselves on what changed in the business, not the volume of artifacts produced.
Where we tend to do our best work.
- Trucking & logistics
- Freight brokerage
- Industrial distribution
- Construction & equipment
- Energy services
- Manufacturing
- Private equity portfolios
- Family-held operators