Eric Pierce

Eric Pierce is the managing director at St. Charles Consulting Group. Eric has also served as the chief operating officer, vice president of strategy, and an angel investor at CourseAvenue, Inc. from October 2009 to October 2012.

During their time at CourseAvenue, Eric was responsible for analyzing the company’s existing products, services, clients, and competitive landscape; developing a comprehensive growth and expansion strategy; and defining specific, quantifiable action steps to be completed by each employee to ensure the aggressive implementation of that strategy. Additionally, they built a knowledgeable and successful sales team and a dynamic overall sales culture for each of the company’s target market verticals; eliminated underperforming employees and contractors; recruited, hired, coached, and mentored new employees and contractors; identified suitable alliance partners to penetrate target clients and market verticals; established productive and profitable relationships with those partners; revamped the company’s marketing channels and collateral material, logos, and website; designed and implemented the company’s first multi-platform social media marketing strategy; revised the pricing of all software and professional services; negotiated contract terms with all clients; and oversaw all aspects of the company’s day-to-day internal and external operations.

Under Eric’s leadership, the company saw a 97.6% increase in gross revenue year-over-year. Eric was also instrumental in securing the company’s first contract with the General Services Administration (Contract No. GS-35F-0023X).

Eric Pierce has a long and distinguished educational career. Eric began their schooling at Upper Arlington (Ohio) High School where they completed the College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program. Eric then went on to the University of Virginia and earned their Bachelor's of Science Degree in Accounting and Finance. After working for a few years, Eric decided to return to school and earn their Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Michigan Law School, which they did cum laude. After working as an attorney for a number of years, Eric decided to change careers and went back to school again, this time at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, to earn their certification in Leadership Coaching from the Institute for Transformational Leadership. In addition to their formal education, Eric is certified by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), by The Myers-Briggs Company in the California Psychological Inventory (CPI 260) instrument (including the Client Feedback Report and the Coaching Report for Leaders), and by Power and Systems Leadership Development in "When Cultures Meet" -- Learning to Transform Separate Team Cultures Into a Robust New Culture.

Eric Pierce reports to Phil Davis, Co-Founder & Partner. Eric Pierce works with Laura Oswald - Partner, Thomas Kupetis II - Managing Partner Client Solutions, and Larry Durham - Managing Partner Firm Strategy.