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PCG stands out with a team of seasoned industry veterans and a leadership philosophy rooted in integrity, strategic innovation, and sustainability. Our approach ensures:

Mutual success through collaboration
Innovative solutions leveraging technology and market insights
Commitment to sustainability, multiplicity success, belonging, and performance
A results-driven focus on long-term business impact and company acumen

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Why PCG?

PCG — Pihlstrom Consulting Group, LLC.

Where Strategy Meets Soul.

PCG is a future-forward consulting firm helping brands become household names through strategic growth, cultural relevance, and values-driven innovation. Founded by Armetha Pihlstrom, a dynamic Black woman entrepreneur and CEO. PCG is built on the belief that business should be both impactful and intentional.

We specialize in developing long-term partnerships and delivering the blueprint for accelerated growth, go-to-market success, and brand elevation. If you're ready to scale with purpose, we’re ready to partner.

Our Expertise

Our team of fractional executives and consultants brings deep insight across industries:

Business Development & Strategic Engagement
HR & Organizational Change
Cultural Intelligence & Employee Experience
Food, Beverage & Restaurant Industry Advisory
Start-Up Acceleration & Brand Development
Sales Training & Crisis Management
Health & Beauty Industry Consulting
Public Speaking & Thought Leadership

We operate as subject matter experts with a shared commitment to innovation, adaptability, and emotional resonance.

What’s Trending

We help brands stay ahead by integrating:

Cultural Intelligence: Understanding the nuances of identity, behavior, and belonging to shape authentic engagement
Regenerative Business Models: Prioritizing circular systems, ethical sourcing, and long-term sustainability
Conscious Consumerism: Aligning brand values with the expectations of today’s socially aware buyers
Experience-Driven Strategy: Designing customer journeys that feel personal, intuitive, and unforgettable

Our Values

We believe your footprint matters.

That’s why we only work with companies that prioritize clean ingredients, ethical sourcing, and sustainable practices. Our standard: good for you, good for the planet.

Our Clients’ ROI

PCG delivers results through:

Scalable business models
Strategic project management
Leadership development programs
Operational protocols tailored to unique markets

We’re proud to be the trusted partner behind some of the most dynamic and mission-driven brands in the industry.

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I’m Armetha Pihlstrom, Founder, CEO,

I'm passionate advocate for inclusive innovation and conscious leadership. I’d love to learn more about your company and explore how we can partner to create meaningful impact together.

With gratitude and strategic engagement,

Armetha Pihlstrom Founder & CEO Pihlstrom Consulting Group, LLC 📧 Armetha@pcg-8.com |

🌐www.pihlstromconsultinggroup.com

"Leadership is not about titles; it’s about impact, intention, and the courage to elevate others." Armetha Pihlstrom

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SERVICES

SCOPE & CAPABILITIES

Well Connected. Well Equipped. At Pihlstrom Consulting Group, we deliver best-in-class consulting services rooted in strategic insight, cultural intelligence, and industry expertise. Our team is deeply experienced across B2B, B2C, and the food & beverage sectors, and we operate as trusted subject matter experts in organizational development, brand strategy, and plant-based innovation. Whether guiding startups or scaling legacy brands, we bring a global perspective and a collaborative spirit to every partnership.

RETAIL AND FOODSERVICE
CORPORATE DISTRIBUTION
STRATEGIC PLANNING & NEGOTIATIONS
LOGISTICS & DISTRIBUTION OPS
SALES & ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
MILITARY & NON-COMM
REVENUE PROJECTIONS
BEVERAGE & ALCOHOL

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT
HR & ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE & EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
FOOD, BEVERAGE & RESTAURANT INDUSTRY ADVISORY
START-UP ACCELERATION & BRAND DEVELOPMENT
SALES TRAINING & CRISIS MANAGEMENT
HEALTH & BEAUTY INDUSTRY CONSULTING
PUBLIC SPEAKING & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

E-COMMERCE & CULINARY INNOVATION
OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
PERFORMANCE & LEADERSHIP COACHING
BRAND MARKETING

Representing & Advocating for Clients

PCG expands in B2B & B2C to sphere the influence by strategic planning, training and promoting high-integrity best practices using key performance indicators by our consultants who make a bottom-line difference in sales, operations, and services. Developing strategies to address the unique needs of our client base is our top priority. Our consultants help our partners achieve their objectives through collaborative business planning to leverage data insights, analytics, and performance measurement. Through combining expertise, a nose for innovation, and our extensive networks we believe we can help your business penetrate new channels and grow across multiple verticals.

Foodservice, Retail & Beverage Solutions

PCG has a track record of taking unperforming sales pipelines business and teams to transforming them into top-tier revenue generators. We fiercely work on behalf of our clients to drive sales growth and more significant market share at any point in their journey. Our consultants work tirelessly to integrate themselves with our partners, building a unified strategy to execute across retail channels.

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Strategic Planning & Negotiations

Senior-level operations executives bring a result-oriented mindset, evoke change that will drive success. We believe in turning around situations by providing data that entails a proof positive of expertise in developing business that thrive, grow and set the example for the industry. We offer our experience from front-of-house, back-of-house operations, purchasing buyers and general management.

Brand Marketing & Community Relations

Our consultants provide the best service from coast to coast, while being able to activate on a global scale. Their goal for your business? Think sustainably and drive explosive growth. By weaving ourselves into the framework of our client’s business to expand the sphere of influence by training and promoting high-integrity leaders who make a bottom-line difference in sales, marketing, communication, strategy, business development, operations and service.

Ann Clark Tucker, MA

“Armetha is thoughtful, collaborative, and highly driven to connect and succeed. She is the type of person you want on your team who will make you and everyone she works with better. She is enthusiastic, smart, and rarely takes no as the final answer. But she does it in a way that you begin to want what she wants. I recommend Armetha unconditionally."

Casell Randle, AR

"I have worked with Armetha over the past 8 years, and she is a dynamic and savvy businesswoman. We have worked on several marketing campaigns and community events where she has displayed her natural ability to visualize and implement a strategy to the smallest detail. Armetha is great at networking and can build strong personal and professional relationships with individuals across multiple levels in organizations, including the "C" Level. She has a strong commitment to improving herself and those around her. She is a true team player and I admire her passion and willingness to enhance the community to work and live in."

Amanda Haubrock, OH

“Armetha is a true team player who approaches projects with creativity and dedication. She strives to bring customers products and solutions that will make an impact in their business. Armetha is a trustworthy person who has great energy and passion for what she does..”

LEADERSHIP

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At Pihlstrom Consulting Group (PCG), we are powered by a team of seasoned professionals who bring multidisciplinary expertise and global perspective to every engagement. We specialize in managing a diverse portfolio of strategic initiatives from scalable business models and leadership development programs to operational protocols that are both standardized and customizable for unique markets and service offerings.

Years of experience have shaped our foundational leadership principles:

Success without integrity is not success at all.
Mutual accomplishment is the engine that propels us forward.
We cultivate a stewardship culture where every team member is empowered to lead, troubleshoot, and co-create solutions.
True success is built through strategy, innovation, and technology while advancing sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusive work environments.

ARMETHA PIHLSTROM

Owner, Founder & CEO

Armetha Pihlstrom is the Owner, Founder, CEO, and Chairwoman of the Board at Pihlstrom Consulting Group, LLC. She has been known to describe herself as the following: Child of God, Wife, and Mother. However, as an Entrepreneurial, she is Business Savvy, Generational Thought–Provoking Leader and Philanthropist. Her specialty lies in New Start Ups, Business Development and Major Market Expansion. She is a trusted advisor to clients and food industry sales leader. Armetha is a proud member of the Plant Based Foods Association, Women’s Foodservice Forum, and Plant Based World Expo. In addition, her proven track record in Business Management, negotiation skills, secure growth exponentially, and market share suitability.

World-Class Consultants

Well connected. Well equipped. At PCG we take a best-in-class approach to providing consulting services to our clients and partners. Our team members are well-traveled within the food, beverage, alcohol, restaurant industry advisor, fashion, public speaking, and brand development marketing, public relations, and health & beauty industry. Our entire team of consultants can operate as subject matter experts across a variety of disciplines.

Certifications/Chamber Memberships:

Better Business Bureau
Minority Owned Business
Certified DBE
Certified WBENC – Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
Certified Targeted Group, Economically Disadvantage, and small business
U.S. Black Chambers, Inc & MN Black Chamber.

List Specific Pertinent Codes:

541613 Marketing and Consulting
DUN & Bradstreet Number: #029759091
UNSPSC code: #80101508 Business Intelligence Consulting Services/ Management of Companies and Enterprises.
NAICS code: #541611 Business Management Consulting Services & General Management Consulting Services

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Armetha Pihlstrom is the

Owner, Founder & CEO at Pihlstrom Consulting Group, LLC. She has been known to describe herself as the following: Child of God, Wife, and Mother. However, as an Entrepreneurial, she is Business Savvy, Generational Thought–Provoking Leader and Philanthropist. Her specialty lies in New Start Ups, Business Development and Major Market Expansion. She is a trusted advisor to clients and food industry sales leader. Are you seeking a fractional executive or consulting services for business development, strategic engagement, HR, DEI Employee Resources, Retail, Foodservice, and Ingredient Sales? If not, please consider her experience if an opportunity arises as an advisory board member, public speaking or sales training your staff.

Jenny L. Verner, commercial Executive with experience primarily in the agricultural and food industries through her 37 year career with Cargill. She has operated as a business unit president, and brings with her a background in leadership across a variety of disciplines, including: commodity trading and risk management, supply chain, transportation & logistics, sales & commercial, and general operations. Presently, Jenny serves as a Director of Minnwest Corporation.

Jenny lives in Chaska, Minnesota and has three grown children.

Thomas Pihlstrom, CPA, CFO of Pihlstrom Consulting Group with over 20 years finance experience. He has worked across a wide array of industries, using his exemplary mix of analytical and client relations abilities to bridge the gap between people and the numbers.

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