Centric Consulting

Centric Consulting

Centric Consulting was founded on the premise that a consulting firm could prioritize culture and flexibility without sacrificing delivery. The firm was born from a conversation on a couch — a piece of furniture that has become an internal symbol — where long-time friends and colleagues designed a virtual office model. That model allows consultants to live and work in their own communities rather than relocating to a central hub, a structural choice that informs both hiring and project staffing. Co-founder and CEO Larry English has since codified the approach in his book, Office Optional. The firm operates at the intersection of business strategy and technology implementation, with a heavy tilt toward the Microsoft ecosystem. Its practice areas span artificial intelligence, data and analytics, cybersecurity, and enterprise application modernization. Client stories publicly reference robotic process automation work for World Wide Technology, AI-assisted mobile app modernization for bswift that drove a 2,400% surge in downloads, and a Microsoft 365 collaboration build for Portland Street Medicine. Geographic delivery is anchored by consultants in markets including Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and an India office, allowing the firm to pair local relationship management with global delivery capacity. Centric Consulting operates from 14 locations across the United States and India. Its leadership team includes CEO Larry English, Co-founder Eric Van Luven, and Founding CEO and Board Member Dave Rosevelt, alongside vice presidents overseeing operations, culture, and growth. While the firm does not publicly disclose financial metrics, its website highlights flexible engagement models — solution-based consulting, role-based support, and managed services — that suggest a revenue mix spanning project work and recurring service contracts. A case study notes a data analysis time reduction of 30% for Maas Energy Works, indicating the firm’s ability to deploy against operational KPIs. Centric Consulting’s structural differentiator is its permanent office-optional posture, adopted well before remote work became a pandemic-era norm. The firm does not maintain a central headquarters that dictates consultant location; instead, it hires locally and staffs client engagements from a distributed network. This architecture shapes its cost structure and talent model, with an emphasis on experienced practitioners who can work autonomously. Its exclusive focus on solving client-defined problems — rather than pushing a proprietary methodology — creates a delivery pattern closer to capacity augmentation than traditional management consulting.