About | HALDEMAN

How We're Different

6wks

To Clarity

Sr.

Staff Only

Dependency Created

Who We Are

HALDEMAN is a strategic consultancy focused on AI and enterprise transformation for growing companies.

We were founded on a simple premise: company size shouldn't determine access to world-class strategic thinking. For decades, the best strategy work has flowed to companies that can afford six-month engagements and seven-figure fees. Everyone else gets frameworks built for someone else's problems, delivered by junior analysts still learning the craft.

We built HALDEMAN to close that gap.

Our team has shaped billion-dollar programs across global and national telecom, technology, retail, and service companies, partnering with senior leaders from the world's most prestigious management consultancies, largest system integrators, and award-winning creative agencies. We've sat across the table from hundreds of Fortune 2000 executives and we know what world-class looks like.

We also know what's broken: strategies built for slide decks instead of operations, pricing that extracts value instead of creating it, and recommendations that require the consultants who wrote them to stick around and implement them.

We move fast. Six weeks to clarity, not six months of discovery. We staff senior. The people you meet are the people who do the work. And we build for independence. Everything we deliver is designed for your team to run, not to create dependency on us.

We work primarily with CEOs, owners, and senior leaders at growth-stage companies navigating AI strategy and enterprise transformation. Our clients are pragmatic operators who are skeptical of hype, short on time, and tired of consultants who deliver binders instead of results.

We're based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and serve companies across the Midwest and beyond.

Cory Haldeman

Founder

Cory Haldeman is a third-generation Iowan. His great-grandparents opened the first Maid Rite in Iowa City. His grandparents met as students at the University of Iowa, as did his parents, who owned Buc's, a retail store in downtown Iowa City, for 25 years. He grew up watching family build businesses in the communities they served.

Cory left Iowa in the early 2000s and spent the next two decades in New York and the Bay Area, building programs that shaped how the world's largest companies approach transformation. At Verizon, he built a marketing transformation program that led to a multi-billion dollar marketing engine. At Adobe, he elevated enterprise sales and strategic partnership programs to drive board-level value. At Code and Theory, a Stagwell company, he scaled an AI-led consulting and technology practice from 0 to eight figures in just six months.

Along the way, Cory worked with hundreds of Fortune 2000 executives and partnered closely with senior leaders from McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture, and Deloitte. He knows what world-class looks like: how elite consultancies think, how they price, how they structure engagements, and where they fall short.

In 2020, he came home to Cedar Rapids and founded HALDEMAN to bring that experience to Iowa companies.

Verizon Marketing Transformation Multi-billion dollar engine

Adobe Enterprise & Partnerships Board-level value

Code and Theory AI Practice Lead 0 to 8 figures in 6mo

How We Work

Every engagement starts with understanding your business: your priorities, your constraints, your definition of success.

We start with you

We don't arrive with pre-packaged solutions or frameworks built for someone else's problems. We understand your business first.

We move fast

Two decades of enterprise work means we know where value hides and where time gets wasted. Six weeks to a clear roadmap isn't rushed. It's focused.

We build for your team

Strategy that requires consultants to implement isn't strategy. It's dependency. Our job is to leave you stronger, not to create a reason to stay.

We tell you what you need to hear

If AI isn't the right priority right now, we'll say so. If we're not the right fit, we'll say that too. We'd rather lose a deal than oversell.

World-class strategy doesn't require world-class budgets.