History
The story of Clearpath is the story of its founder, Art Frohwerk. It is a Seattle-based company built on a foundation of three decades of experience in problem-solving and innovation.
Throughout his life, Art has approached all opportunities and challenges with a discovery attitude. He gained a strong background in science, psychology, and systems engineering at Harvey Mudd College. He then went on to work at Procter and Gamble and Walt Disney Imagineering. The diverse challenges at those companies, and later at the Belcan Engineering Group solidified his belief that a can-do attitude and the right tools to enable effective conversations will bring about amazing results. Throughout the years, he and his teams have pioneered processes that have shaped everything from household items, such as coffee, diapers, and Pringles to theme park attractions, to reengineering of billion-dollar international organizations and non-profits.
Art and his partners have been using and developing trademark tools and methodologies to address strategy and process over the last 15 years within three of his own companies. The first, FutureCORE, was a healthcare process company. It worked with healthcare organizations to see new ways to simplify and succeed. With FutureCORE providing guidance and creative strategies, the clients improved processes, connected information, dealt with mergers, and orchestrated transformational change in labs, hospitals, physician practices, and blood centers. It was sold in 1995 to a medical software company.
Art created Discovery Business Design in 1995 as the development center and repository for the tools and methodologies that he has created and assembled. It continues to study big-picture patterns, to collect the best ideas, and form them into a practical suite of tools which are constantly tested, adapted, and improved.
Clearpath was formed in 2004 by Art Frohwerk and Rob Larsen. It is unique as a consulting firm because of its foundation in engineering. Art first worked in development engineering at P&G – doing things that had not been done before. He then led show and ride systems engineering at Disney – designing the big picture so that all the details would fit together and happen reliably. With his study of psychology and experience in management, Art engaged human factors – and created the conditions for people to best contribute to any mission.
Clearpath’s history of tools, methodologies, and project experience represents a country-wide collaboration with great clients, critical conversations with experts, and insights gained from working with communities of people. It has been applied to over 100 organizations, both public and private, in almost every industry or endeavor. For more information you can download our company profile.