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Business Academics, LLC
A Veteran-Owned Business
(Making Businesses Great Again)
Co-Founders
Dr. James (Jamy) I. Schaap
Professor Jonathan Breiter
Strategic, Management, and Marketing Consultants
Our mission at Business Academics, LLC is to provide world-class strategy, management, and marketing consulting services and solutions.
We provide outstanding strategic, management, and marketing solutions – from formulation to implementation. As such, we are here to help you transform your challenges into (profitable) opportunities with expert guidance. More importantly, we will help you where the organization and the people within the company thrive.
Business Academics, LLC
Dr. Schaap and Professor Breiter believe that any organization can achieve world-class strategic (i.e., which includes financial) performance. As such, Business Academics, LLC is here to help you achieve outstanding business results through your strategic, management, and/or marketing solutions—from formulation to implementation. That includes assisting you in developing or revising your vision, mission, objectives, and strategies. More importantly, Business Academics, LLC is here to help your company execute its strategy, management, and/or marketing effectively (i.e., by evaluating and analyzing the external environment and the firm’s internal and external situations).
Our Business Academics Team
Our talented management consulting team is skillful at promptly assessing multifaceted situations and providing immediate support to help you improve performance in the short-term. Building on quick wins, we will work with you to develop the strategy, management, and/or marketing plans for long-term success.
Please get to know the backgrounds and expertise that make up our distinctive and gifted team. Dr. Jamy Ike Schaap.
James (Jamy) I. Schaap
Co-Founder & Principal Strategist
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strategic Management Processes
- Mission and Vision Statements
- Strategic Planning/Development through Implementation
- Management Facilitation and Teaching
- Leadership and Change Management
- SWOT Analysis
- Growth Strategy
- Financial Ratio Analysis Professional Experience
- Schaap co-founded and is the lead consultant for Business Academics in the strategic management discipline.
- Schaap has been an adjunct professor for over 25 years at the College of Business, University of Nevada, Reno, where he has taught over a dozen undergraduate and graduate business courses.
- Schaap has been an adjunct professor for over 13 years, teaching strategic management to online graduate students at the California State University, Monterey Bay.
- Schaap was also an adjunct professor for over 10 years, teaching strategy to online graduate students at Norwich University (the oldest private military college in the United States).
- Between UNR, CSUMB, and NU, Schaap has published over 20 articles in the business discipline.
- Schaap was the Strategic Manager for Microflex Medical Corporation, where he helped grow the company by 684% over 5 years.
- Schaap held various positions at Salomon North America for over 16 years, helping grow this multinational company into the world’s leader in ski equipment sales.
Jonathan Breiter
Co-Founder & Principal Marketer
Jonathan Breiter is a Lecturer Level II, Professor of Business at the University of Nevada Reno. He teaches entrepreneurship, marketing and management. A veteran of the international business world, where he spent 35 years, Breiter has direct experience in the advertising business working for Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, General Mills (Yoplait Yogurt) and Hasbro (various toys and games such as Jenga, Playskool, Milton Bradley and Parker Bros.) He transitioned to Hasbro after working on their advertising for 3 years. At Hasbro he launched Barney and Elmo while also launching over 150 innovative, award-winning and patented products over a 5-year period as a SVP Marketing. His entrepreneurial spirit started upon leaving Hasbro to start his first consumer packaged goods company which he sold 3 years later to an international conglomerate. With the conglomerate, he discovered and helped launch the Teletubbies, Pokemon and SpongeBob Squarepants. Today, his greatest joy and interest is teaching.
Research interests
- Marketing (i.e., creating value to disrupt markets, leading with AI and analytics, consumer behavior, target demography, positioning)
- Strategic Management (i.e., strategy implementation, mission, vision, and value statements)
- Entrepreneurial Finance/Marketing/Management (i.e., go-to-market omnichannel design)
- Leadership/Effectiveness Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ethics
- Charitable Contributions/CSR
Education
- MBA, Hofstra University, Finance and Accounting
- B.S., Bostom University, Marketing, Communication