Why Me

Why Use Me?

Experience & Expertise

Productivity

I offer you expertise and a long, diverse experience that may not be available in your company today. I could hold the missing piece of expertise that can complete the jigsaw of incomplete solutions or solve your dilemmas. I can pass my skills and knowledge on to your regular staff, even to new employees that can “take over” my job, and whom I can help you recruit, train and support in getting started.

Cost Containment

Using an external consultant at the beginning of a project, for the introduction of a new product or technology, in case of a reorganization, merger or acquisition, or a change in your company’s mission or goals, can often save lots of money down the road. I have experienced what works and what does not work. After you add in recruitment, overhead and management costs, employee training and benefits, engaging a consultant is often less expensive. My fees are all-inclusive: no surprises, and easier to budget.

Highly skilled, freelance professionals are often more productive than in-house staff. I have many years of solid experience to draw on. I do not simply provide expertise, I have experience in providing and using my expertise. I am a veteran that is not distracted by inside company policies or outside concerns. I have acquired a healthy work ethic, obtained in many corporate environments, countries and cultures.

Easy to Hire & Fire

I can be easily engaged and dismissed, making me your perfect short-term asset. This allows you to maintain your core staff without adding new employees, especially in these times of financial hardships. Once I have completed an assignment, you don't have to go through all the problems and hurt feelings involved in laying off regular employees. The end of our contract is the end. Unless you wish to retain me for additional assignments.

My name is Robert Barzelay. I am a globetrotting marketing pundit with a creative mind. I have roamed the world, and lived and worked on all continents. Everything I have done had to do with innovation. I ran one-man shows, set up startups, was hired in various interim management positions, established and managed subsidiary companies for large corporations, consulted private clinics, supervised marine salvage operations, and organized medical symposia and conferences. I carried out projects in a wide variety of industries and domains. I strongly believe in EQ, and have a nose for challenging opportunities. I am a builder and pusher to create and develop what people need and want. Most of my career I have worked in MedTech, BioTech, CleanTech and AgriTech. My two mother tongues are English and Dutch, speak reasonably French and German, and can get around in Hebrew and Spanish. My educational background is political science and business management, my profession the bygone art of diamond cleaving, and my calling innovation. GlobalStrategists is based in the Netherlands and I reside in Israel.