WELCOME TO KCA CONSULTING
Your Advisor for Strategic Growth & Global Market Expansion
We help high-growth startups, scaling businesses, and executive teams align leadership, systems, and culture to increase revenue, streamline operations, and prepare for international expansion. Through strategic consulting, LEAN-based process improvement, and executive architecture planning, we help companies analyze data, map out scalable systems, and unlock sustainable profit as they grow. Whether you're barely at $1M or tackling international tariffs at $100M – we custom design the roadmap for your business.
Founder – Nathaniel Swokowski
MORE ABOUT KCA CONSULTING
At KCA Consulting, we help high-growth companies build the structure, strategy, and leadership alignment needed to scale with confidence. Whether you're expanding into new markets, refining your product roadmap, or removing operational inefficiencies, we bring a strategic lens that blends business consulting, LEAN Six Sigma process improvement, and growth-focused advisory. With experience spanning Fortune 500s, fast-scaling startups, and cross-border partnerships, we specialize in uncovering what’s blocking growth—and building the roadmap to sustainable scale.
Growth Roadmapping & Strategic Planning
Aligning leadership vision with executable strategies to scale revenue and market reach
Process Optimization & LEAN Transformation
Applying Six Sigma frameworks to reduce inefficiencies and improve cross-functional performance
Leadership Architecture & Executive Strategy
Structuring the right roles, responsibilities, and accountability systems to support long-term impact
The 4 C’s Framework™
A proprietary model focused on Clients, Customers, Collaboration, and Contribution—designed to activate process, product, people and profits!
Global Readiness & Cross-Border Advisory
Supporting teams as they navigate growth between the U.S., Asia-Pacific, and beyond (Tarrifs*)
OUR SERVICES
HOW WE SERVE YOUR BUSINESS
Process & Systems Design
Efficient systems are the engine of scalable businesses. At KCA Consulting, we help leadership teams identify and remove inefficiencies across people, process, and technology. Using LEAN Six Sigma, Kaizen culture principles, and KPI-driven diagnostics, we build operational frameworks that improve performance, reduce waste, and prepare your business to scale.
Recent Wins:
Implemented scalable operational SOPs for a high-growth e-commerce brand experiencing 300% YoY growthConducted a cross-functional process audit to reduce fulfillment cycle time and streamline vendor coordination across multiple markets
Strategy & Planning
We help executive teams gain strategic clarity through deep-dive assessments and decision-making frameworks. Whether you’re realigning after rapid growth or mapping your next stage of scale, we bring tools like SWOT, SMART goals, RACI role clarity, and org-level diagnostics to help you prioritize what moves the needle.You also receive strategic coaching along the way to support real-time implementation, executive communication, and change management.
Bonus:
You also get strategic coaching along the way to help your leadership team stay focused and accountable.
Business Planning
Our business planning engagements are designed for founders, executive leaders, and scale-stage companies seeking clarity. We don’t just write plans—we build frameworks. From market positioning to team structure, financial modeling to hiring timelines, we help you translate vision into action. Recent projects include supporting health & wellness companies with C-suite strategy, KPI mapping, and investor readiness.
Includes:
Strategic forecasts
Org structure consulting
Leadership hiring plans
Competency model integration
Business Support
You don’t need to figure it all out alone. We offer retained and fractional advisory services for CEOs, founders, and leadership teams navigating growth, transition, or transformation. Our consulting is built around clarity, capability, and culture—because when those align, businesses thrive.
We’ve supported executive teams across sectors including e-commerce, finance, and human capital management, and advised cross-border partnerships internationally throughout USA, Canada, China, Taiwan and Spain.
Services Available:
Monthly executive strategy sessions
Organizational coaching
Team communication and alignment
Cross-functional leadership planning
Trusted By Clients Like
KINGS LOOT
TAG CXO
UpRecruit
Cadence Consulting
Proven Results. Trusted Partnerships.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Founder, CEO of Kings Loot
KCA Consulting was instrumental in helping us assess, stabilize, and scale during a critical growth phase of our business.
Nathaniel conducted a full operational assessment that led to a powerful insight: our returns and exchanges workflow—often viewed as a cost center—was actually an untapped revenue opportunity. By restructuring that process and applying a strategic lens to customer interaction, he helped us turn returns into a $2M+ revenue stream and create a new business channel rooted in smart, scalable systems.
In parallel, he supported our leadership team with a comprehensive SWOT analysis as we launched new product lines, evaluated Amazon as a sales channel, and tested a subscription model. His LEAN Six Sigma–inspired recommendations helped us establish clear KPIs, refine our org chart, and build the operational infrastructure required for a multi-channel business model.
Nathaniel later met our team in Guangzhou, China to consult on global manufacturing strategy and explore partnership opportunities in Taiwan as part of our broader Asia-Pacific growth. His strategic guidance continues to shape how we operate at scale.
I’d recommend KCA Consulting to any high-growth company navigating operational complexity and international expansion.
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Joshua Stephens, CEO, Kings Loot
OUR TESTIMONIALS
Founder, CEO of UpRecruit
"Nathaniel has been one of the most valuable strategic consultants I’ve worked with in my career."
We started working with KCA Consulting in 2021 to bring structure and clarity to our operations. Nathaniel led our team through LEAN Six Sigma–inspired trainings, helped define key competencies, and reshaped the way we measure success. That foundation enabled us to streamline performance, rethink team roles, and build stronger playbooks for scale.
In 2023, we brought him back to help build our first true outbound sales engine. His leadership and strategic frameworks helped us design a sales function from scratch—complete with pricing strategies, scripts, and full-cycle systems. The result: we avoided costly mistakes, accelerated our growth timeline, and opened new revenue channels.
What sets Nathaniel apart is his ability to think both tactically and strategically. He has coached our team, guided executive decision-making, and even helped us expand our services into retained executive search and international consulting. We’re now landing roles at the CEO and CMO level—and doing it with confidence and clarity.
His work continues to shape how we grow, serve clients, and scale. I’d highly recommend KCA to any high-growth company ready to evolve their operations and expand internationally.
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Vince Dorazio, Founder, UpRecruit
OUR TESTIMONIALS
Founding Partner, TAG CXO
“Nathaniel and KCA Consulting were instrumental in helping us stand up a retained executive search division inside TAG CXO.”
His one-day immersive with our leadership team in Phoenix led to a full-scale engagement that fundamentally reshaped how we package, sell, and deliver executive search as a premium service.
Nathaniel brought clarity to the business model, helped us analyze competitors and benchmarks, and designed an operational framework from scratch — including service design, SOPs, pitch decks, contracts, offer letters, talk tracks, and even how we structure commission and delivery responsibilities across our team.
He didn't just advise — he coached, facilitated, and delivered real IP and process tools we could implement immediately. His experience with executive consulting, LEAN Six Sigma systems, and founder-stage scaling made him the perfect partner for this phase of our growth.
Today, thanks to KCA, TAG CXO has a functioning retained search division, aligned delivery roles, and a pipeline of clients who now see us as a full-service leadership solutions firm.
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Paul Theisen, CEO & Managing Partner, TAG CXO
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