Conestoga Strategies is a principal-led advisory in Lancaster County. The strategy, the build, and the change work all come from the same senior hand. That is the point.
Conestoga Strategies is led by Terry Harmer. Terry has spent twenty years in enterprise technology, the last fourteen inside insurance and financial services across five institutions, rising from delivery lead to Assistant Vice President of Continuous Improvement at a Fortune 250 insurer. He has led the operating-model and AI work that big firms design and most companies struggle to actually land.
We bring that to the mid-market: the growing businesses that feel the same pressure to modernize and use AI, but cannot justify a full-time $200K director to lead it. We do the senior work directly. We find where the operation is losing time and money, put AI only where it genuinely earns its place, and do the process and change work that makes it stick. If AI is not the answer, we say so plainly. That honesty is the whole point of hiring a principal instead of a tool vendor.
Best fit: established businesses (10 to 200 employees) that want senior help making the operation run better: process and operating-model design, continuous improvement, and the right automation. Healthcare, financial services, professional services, manufacturing, and family businesses. Based in Lancaster County, working on-site across the region and remote anywhere.
Anti-fit: staff augmentation (renting hours rather than buying outcomes), AI rollouts for their own sake, or anyone shopping for the cheapest implementer. If that is the brief, we will happily point you to better options.
You get a senior operator who has done this at Fortune 250 scale, working on your business directly. No juniors, no handoffs, no tech for its own sake.
Fixed-price, plain, and honest about where AI helps and where it does not.
Tell us what you're seeing. You'll get an honest read on whether we can help, and if we are not the right fit, we'll say so and point you to who is.