Welcome to Momentum Bay, headquartered in Houston, Texas since 2002. We are a full-service management consulting firm focused on sustainability.
That is, we provide strategy, research, procurement, training & messaging related to green business, green building & green energy.
Our business is restoring good, old-fashioned values in a modern world through new habits & new technologies. The results: healthy profits, healthy people, & a healthy planet.
We're blessed to work at what we love: showing others that it's easy, profitable, healthy, fun, entrepreneurial, responsible, neighborly & urgent to be better stewards of the environment.
How did we come to the join the green movement?
Providence, timing, events & important people in our lives helped us discover what we’re built to do: revitalize & grow enterprises alongside leaders & their teams.
Our founder's parents, grandparents & youth pastors inspired him early on to learn about environmental stewardship applied in three ways.
First, it came as an urgent & necessary response to family members' health challenges (such as, migraine headaches & heart attacks).
Second, it was a natural expression of loving the things God loves -- people & the rest of creation.
Third, it made business sense after the founder's early years as a strategic growth, corporate renewal, turnaround management & crisis management consultant in construction & real estate related industries and as a mixed-use real estate developer, when the green building industry was organizing formally.
A decade later, after global focus has advanced from energy efficiency & clean tech to air quality, health & productivity, it is still clear that sustainability will always be the right thing to do. The good & bad news is that, with so many more proven green alternatives, sustainability is getting easier and, at the same time, more complex more rapidly.
Why did we choose the name Momentum Bay?
Structurally, we considered the fact that great brands are typically four syllables or fewer. And, we wanted more soft, soothing consonants (e.g., m's, n's, b's) than hard consonants (t's, k's). Mo-men-tum Bay fit.
Our firm began as a management consulting firm providing corporate renewal, turnaround management & crisis management services, primarily as interim executives. So, one of our initial focus groups with family & friends turned up the word "momentum." We think that the founder's "mom" somehow seeded the word & idea with everyone so she would always be foremost in our founder's work at MOMentum Bay.
We also knew that our best memories have been by bodies of water. That's where we've always been recharged, renewed, refreshed, restored, rejuvenated & revitalized -- which is the same experience we bring to clients as consultants. So, we considered incorporating words like lake, river, stream, harbor & bay. (Did you know that Americans today spend 90% of our lives indoors & 5% in cars, whereas 100 years ago, we spent 90% outdoors.)
We also regain momentum in relationship with other "bodies of water" … people, whose bodies are designed from roughly 60% water (for those of you who appreciate random facts).
As we brainstormed the name of our company, we landed on the word "bay" because it has several interesting dictionary definitions & meanings, three of which describe exactly what we do:
- we help companies & people move from feeling cornered (i.e., held at "bay" by dogs)
- to protected (as in a "bay" or harbor)
- to victorious ("bay" leaves were awarded in the Olympics for victory, honor or excellence.)
And, since 2005, when we focused our consulting services exclusively on comprehensively transforming executives & organizations - no matter where they are currently along the sustainability continuum - through green management consulting, the name Momentum Bay seems to fit us even better.
In Texas, you may also see our firm marketed as Sustainable Texas®.
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