The Journey to Drive Growth for Your Business

Achieve your full potential with our custom, comprehensive model that drives businesses to achieve the next level of success!
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Introduction

We help businesses reach their next level of success.

The partners of Point NorthEast bring deep experience and fresh perspectives to help you boost your organization to its next stage of growth. We help you assess your situation, enhance team dynamics, map a path to achieving measurable results and bring the tools you need for achieving your wildest dreams.
Let’s go Up and to the Right!
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Acheive Business Outcomes Beyond Expectation
How Our Team Provides Clarity to Level Up Your Business
We help clients find success through our proven system, The Journey. Point NorthEast offers a versatile range of consulting services, provided independently to solve short-term issues or integrated into The Journey. This roadmap will address significant challenges and leverage strategic opportunities, enabling clients to reach their Summit and achieve their full potential!
Solutions

Business Analysis & Assessment

We evaluate the most critical factors that will be pivotal in strengthening your business to achieve success.
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Design a Strategic Performance Model

We empower your leadership team to create and implement a customized operating management system that will drive sustainable performance.
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Drive Team Growth & Development

It all starts with strong leadership. We will work with you to level-up your leadership team to be better prepared for long-term success.
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Expert Advice & Consultation

Critical, time-sensitive issues arise in business. Our team has a wide set of business experience we can offer to help you manage important matters with objective, honest counsel.
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Resources

Access our insights, guidance, news and case studies that can spark ideas for your vision toward growth.

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Grit Runs in the Family with Georgia, Alex & Ashley
Our latest guests are the people that know Sara Frasca best: her daughter, Georgia, and her stepdaughters, Alex and Ashley. Together, they make up a blended family that has navigated a lot of change, figured out how to support each other, and each found their own version of grit somewhere along the way. The three […]
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Entrepreneurship, Integrity, & Uniting Women with Dr. Braley Bourque
Dr. Braley Bourque founded three companies before most people figure out what they want to do with one. She built them in industries where she kept running into the same problem — a lot of surface-level success and not enough actual leadership. So she stopped trying to fit into spaces that weren't built the way […]
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Science, Storytelling, and Staying True to Yourself with Kimberly LaPointe
Kimberly LaPointe studied molecular biology, knew she talked too much for the lab, and spent the next decades building a career that nobody had a job title for yet. She became the person who could walk into a room full of brilliant scientists and translate what they were doing into something an investor board could […]
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Testimonials

"Our firm has been working with Michael and Sara for over a year and I can attest firsthand to the transformational power of what they bring to an organization in terms of strategic guidance, enthusiasm and creativity. Their ability to identify and unlock potential, to spot issues and help us solve them, and to guide us to a structured plan for our present and future really can’t be put into words – you have to see it and live it to appreciate their unique skill sets and combined ability to move a group forward and upward to its goals."

— Cale Conley, Founding Partner at Conley, Griggs and Partin

"I am a big fan of Sara Frasca and the amazing team at Point Northeast. We look forward to our quarterly and annual meetings, which have propelled my business into a new level of success. I continue to be impressed, every meeting I have with them. Highly recommend, if you are looking to take your company/law firm to the next level."

— Craig Goldenfarb, Founder of The Law Offices of Craig Goldenfarb

"Working with Michael Smith has been a game changer - there is no substitute for experience - I could not have higher praise or respect for him and his coaching process."

— Ed Diab, Founding Partner at Dixon Diab & Chambers LLP

"Excellent! Able to get groups to engage well and high level of energy and experience!"

— Jim Macke, VP, Marketing, Enterprise Holdings

"Practical, pragmatic and workable solutions for every problem."

— John Sakson, Former Managing Partner, Stark & Stark, Philadelphia

"Incredibly engaging! Sara gave relevant examples and was very knowledgeable in the content. Sara was also very approachable and relatable, and I learned several techniques that can be used right away!"

— Ali Johnson, Marketing Manager, Best Buy

"Knew more about our organization–its people and its needs–than we did!"

— Knox White, Mayor - Greenville, SC

"Michael Smith's review of our firm opened our eyes to how we could improve client and employee relations and reach our peak potential."

— Ron Gilbert, CGW & C, LLC

"Thanks to the both of you for attending and making the meetings so special, and thank you for 25 years of good counsel! You two hold a special place for Integra and its shareholders - the architect of a vision realized! Here is to the next 25!"

— Anthony M. Graziano, CEO, Integra Realty Resources

"Sheila and Point NorthEast provided an exceptional assessment of our veterinary practice from both an organizational and business-development perspective.

Sheila was flexible and respectful of our time. She created an environment where our staff felt comfortable and at ease, which allowed them to share their experiences and answer her questions openly.

Point NorthEast's approach was thoughtful, diligent and honest, offering valuable feedback while remaining supportive and constructive.

Most importantly, Sheila and Point NorthEast helped us identify opportunities for growth and improvement in areas of practice organization and business development that I had never even considered.

Her insight and expertise made the experience truly worthwhile."

— Maria Keppel, Owner & DVM, McFarland Animal Hospital

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