# Brand Brief — Kellerman Consulting *Company background, values, positioning, and voice · compiled July 2026* --- ## At a Glance | | | |---|---| | **Legal name** | Kellerman Consulting, Inc. | | **Founded** | August 2016, Columbus, Ohio | | **Founders** | Mickey Kellerman (President) and Brian Kellerman (Chief Quality & Food Safety Officer) — brothers | | **Ownership** | Family-owned and independently operated | | **Headquarters** | 977 S Remington Rd, Columbus, OH 43209 | | **Service area** | All 50 U.S. states, remote and on site | | **Team** | 10 full-time consultants plus support staff; no subcontractors | | **What it does** | Writes and implements food safety, quality, and ISO certification and compliance programs, trains client teams, and supports them through their certification audits | | **Company certifications** | ISO 9001:2015 certified Quality Management System (certificate US021712) · Exemplar Global Recognized Consulting Group | | **Track record** | 1000+ clients · 1250+ projects · 100% audit pass rate | | **Contact** | (800) 535-1376 · info@kellermanconsulting.com · [kellermanconsulting.com](https://kellermanconsulting.com) | --- ## Mission Kellerman Consulting exists to take the burden of certification and regulatory compliance off the businesses that need it. The firm writes the program, trains the team to run it, and stays with the client until they pass their audit — no matter what. That mission extends past paying clients. Since its founding, Kellerman Consulting has published free food safety and ISO training resources for the wider industry, on the principle that the supply chain is safer when knowledge is not locked behind a consulting invoice. --- ## Company Story ### The founding Two brothers, Mickey and Brian Kellerman, started Kellerman Consulting in August 2016 to bring together their shared passions for problem-solving, education, and helping others. Brian came from the plant floor. He graduated with a degree in Ecological Agriculture from the University of Vermont, then became head of the science department at a high school teaching biology and chemistry. Starting in 2013 he worked in quality assurance and managed a BRCGS program for a facility producing more than five million pounds of dry spice blends, pet food, and dietary supplements. He had lived the problem Kellerman Consulting was founded to solve. Mickey came from a family of entrepreneurs, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and two decades of leadership experience spanning the food industry, the financial sector, manufacturing, and the music industry. The very first thing the brothers did when planning the company was to write down its core values — honesty, transparency, accountability, responsiveness, supportiveness, and relentlessness. Those six values are the foundation of Kellerman Consulting and have not changed since. ### Growth Kellerman Consulting launched with a focus on the food and beverage industry, providing hands-on regulatory guidance to manufacturers and processors. In 2018 the firm extended its offering to include GFSI-recognized certification schemes — SQF, BRCGS, FSSC 22000, and PrimusGFS — which are the certifications major retailers require of their suppliers. In 2022 Kellerman Consulting applied the same expertise in quality management and compliance to industries outside food. Today the firm supports clients across manufacturing, transportation and energy, automotive, railroads, metals and materials, printing and packaging, sustainability, recycling, chemicals, food and beverage, logistics, medical devices, aerospace and defense, engineering services, professional services, and technology. In 2025 Kellerman Consulting achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for its own Quality Management System, passing the initial certification audit with zero non-conformances — the best possible result, and a year ahead of the schedule the team had set for itself. The firm marks its 10-year anniversary in 2026, and plans to continue growing its team of full-time consultants across the United States. > **In Mickey Kellerman's words:** "When we started in 2016, our goal was to provide hands-on regulatory guidance to the food industry. Reaching our 10-year milestone is a testament to our team's expertise and the trust our clients place in us. Extending our service offering to include GFSI certifications in 2018 and expanding our footprint to other industries in 2022 was a natural progression, allowing us to bring our meticulous approach to quality and safety to a broader array of businesses facing complex certification standards and compliance regulations." --- ## Core Values Kellerman Consulting is committed to six values, set before the firm took its first client. ### Relentlessness Kellerman Consulting's attentiveness and focus on client needs continues until all of the agreed-upon support is complete. The firm does not give up until it achieves a successful outcome. ### Honesty Honesty is the foundation of how Kellerman Consulting builds relationships with clients and with its own team. Practicing honesty as a core value allows clients to trust what the firm says and commits to, which in turn allows Kellerman Consulting to show integrity and full sincerity and to build strong client relationships. ### Supportiveness Supportiveness is the act of providing encouragement to others. When Kellerman Consulting works with clients, it does not just support them with their challenges — it also listens to their concerns, encourages them to reach their goals, provides advice and feedback, and cheers them on, often long after their project has ended. ### Accountability Kellerman Consulting views accountability as setting goals and taking responsibility for achieving them. Its consultants pride themselves on showing up prepared and on time to every meeting, every phone call, and every site visit, to be at their clients' side supporting, guiding, and championing the shared objective of creating and maintaining successful programs. ### Transparency Being transparent allows Kellerman Consulting to build trust, maintain open communication, respond to client inquiries in a timely manner, and freely share information with clients to provide as much value as possible while developing and implementing high-level programs. ### Responsiveness Responsiveness means that every interaction is meaningful and important to Kellerman Consulting, and that the firm demonstrates this through timely action each time someone reaches out. --- ## Positioning ### What Kellerman Consulting is An independent, specialist consulting firm that builds food safety, quality, and ISO management systems for organizations that need to be certified or compliant. Kellerman Consulting writes the documentation, implements it alongside the client's team, trains that team, prepares them for the audit, supports them during it, and works through any non-conformances afterward. ### What Kellerman Consulting is not - **Not a certification body, registrar, or auditor.** Kellerman Consulting prepares clients for audit; an accredited certification body, hired separately by the client, performs the audit and issues certification. - **Not affiliated with any certifying body or compliance software vendor.** The firm's recommendations are not tied to a particular auditor or platform. - **Not a restaurant or retail food-service consultancy.** Kellerman Consulting serves manufacturers, processors, packagers, distributors, importers, and commissaries. It does not work with individual restaurants or food trucks. - **Not a food-industry-only firm.** Since 2022 Kellerman Consulting has served medical device, aerospace and defense, engineering, professional services, and industrial organizations through ISO standards. - **Not an advisory firm.** Kellerman Consulting produces the actual program, not a set of recommendations for the client to implement alone. ### The five differentiators 1. **A 100% audit pass rate across 1000+ clients**, backed by a commitment to stay with each client until they pass — including corrective-action support for any non-conformances raised at audit. 2. **Full-time, in-house consultants only.** Kellerman Consulting uses no subcontractors. Every consultant follows the same documented process, so the outcome does not vary depending on who is assigned. 3. **Food safety and ISO under one roof**, which allows integrated programs — ISO 9001 combined with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, or a GFSI scheme with a retailer addendum — to be built as one system rather than parallel projects. 4. **The firm holds the certification it sells.** Kellerman Consulting is ISO 9001:2015 certified for its own Quality Management System and passed its initial audit with zero non-conformances. 5. **Fixed, transparent pricing.** A custom quote follows a free consultation, priced on project scope. Kellerman Consulting does not bill hourly, pays travel expenses out of the project total, and invoices nothing beyond what was agreed in writing at the start. ### The process Every engagement runs through six stages: Project Planning, Gap Assessment, Program Development, Program Implementation, Audit & Inspection Preparation, and Audit & Inspection Support. This repeatability is the mechanism behind the consistency claim — it is why a client's outcome does not depend on which consultant they draw. --- ## Who Kellerman Consulting Serves **Food and beverage:** food manufacturers and processors · food packaging manufacturers · dietary supplement manufacturers · beverage manufacturers · storage and distribution · farms and indoor agriculture · brokers and importers · commissaries · private equity firms evaluating food and beverage targets **Other industries:** medical devices · aerospace and defense · engineering services · professional services · infrastructure, transportation and energy · manufacturing · automotive · railroads · metals and materials · printing and packaging · IT service management · sustainability · recycling · chemicals **Not served:** individual restaurants and food trucks The clients who get the most from Kellerman Consulting tend to share a situation rather than an industry: a certification is required by a customer or a regulator, there is a real deadline, and nobody internally has built one before. That pattern shows up in a startup's first SQF audit, a newly promoted quality manager with four months to prepare, a multi-site distributor certifying three warehouses at once, and a manufacturer recovering from a failed audit with an anchor customer at risk. --- ## Education Commitment Kellerman Consulting publishes more than 100 free food safety and ISO training videos, publicly available on its website and its [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@KellermanConsulting), with new resources added at least monthly. **Food safety topics** include risk assessment, dietary supplements, KPIs, validation and verification, corrective and preventive action, internal audit, food safety culture, traceability, allergens, supplier approval, environmental monitoring, preventive maintenance and repair, foreign material control, sanitation, USDA and FDA compliance, food defense and security, and sampling and testing. **ISO topics** include ISO 9001 and QMS fundamentals, combined actions in integrated ISO systems, KPIs, internal audit, ISO 9001 for small businesses, ISO 13485 compared with ISO 9001, ISO 13485 certification, implementing ISO, quality control versus quality assurance, and integrating ISO into operations. **Free downloadable tools** accompany the video series: risk assessment worksheets, a dietary supplement MMR checklist, a validation and verification assessment log, a food safety and quality A–Z acronym guide, an FSMA checklist, a CAPA program starter kit, an environmental monitoring swab location guide, a traceability toolkit, a supplier approval document guide, allergen control tools, an internal audit template and checklist, and a KPI reporting spreadsheet. Kellerman Consulting also runs webinars and publishes a food safety blog, along with buyer-facing resources on grocery store audit requirements and certifying bodies. --- ## Brand Voice ### Tone Professional, straightforward, supportive, confident. Kellerman Consulting speaks the way its consultants do on a client call: plainly, specifically, and without overselling. ### Voice attributes - Responsive - Honest - Relentless - Accountable - Transparent - Supportive - Plain-spoken, not jargon-heavy - Specific rather than promotional ### Preferred phrasing - "We write your program, train your team, and stay with you until you pass — no matter what." - "We stay with you until you pass." - "No matter what." - "Full-time consultants." - "Repeatable and reliable process." - "Family-owned." - "Free consultation." - "100% pass rate." - "Pass your audit." ### Language to avoid | Avoid | Why | Use instead | |---|---|---| | "Kellerman" on its own | Kellerman Consulting does not abbreviate its company name | "Kellerman Consulting" | | "First-time pass rate," "pass on the first try" as a company-wide claim | Some clients do not pass on the first attempt through no fault of Kellerman Consulting. The firm supports them until they do. | "100% pass rate" and "we stay with you until you pass" | | "Guarantee" | Implies a contractual or money-back promise the firm does not make | "100% pass rate," "we stay with you until you pass" | | "Best," "#1," "leading," "premier," "world-class" | Unbacked superlatives | A specific, verifiable proof point | | "We certify you," "certified by Kellerman Consulting" | Kellerman Consulting is not a certification body | "We prepare you to pass your certification audit" | | "GFSI" as shorthand for all food safety work | Excludes GMP, HACCP, FSMA, FSVP, and retailer-specific schemes the firm also handles | Name the relevant scheme, or "food safety certification and compliance" | | "ISO" alone when describing the audience | Reads as manufacturing-only and excludes service businesses and other sectors pursuing ISO | Name the standards and the industries | | "Restaurants" as an audience | Kellerman Consulting does not serve individual restaurants or food trucks | Name commissaries, manufacturers, processors, packagers, distributors, and importers | ### Example sentences in voice > "Kellerman Consulting writes your food safety or ISO certification program, trains your team, and stays with you until you pass your audit — no matter what." > "All of our consultants are full-time employees and are well-versed in Kellerman Consulting's repeatable and reliable process. You will achieve the same successful outcome regardless of which of our team members you work with." > "During a free consultation we can discuss the factors that influence the time to certification." --- ## Key Messages 1. **Kellerman Consulting writes the program.** The deliverable is a complete, facility-specific certification or compliance program the client owns — not advice about how to build one. 2. **Kellerman Consulting stays until you pass.** Support runs through the audit and continues into corrective actions for any non-conformances. 3. **The outcome does not depend on who you get.** Full-time in-house consultants, one repeatable process, no subcontractors. 4. **Kellerman Consulting is independent.** No affiliation with any certifying body, registrar, or compliance software vendor. 5. **The price is the price.** Fixed quote after a free consultation, based on scope, with travel included and no hourly billing. 6. **Kellerman Consulting is certified itself.** ISO 9001:2015, passed with zero non-conformances. 7. **Kellerman Consulting gives its expertise away.** 100+ free training videos and a library of free tools for the whole industry. --- ## Fact Sheet **Founded:** August 2016 · **10-year anniversary:** 2026 **Founders:** Mickey Kellerman (President), Brian Kellerman (Chief Quality & Food Safety Officer) **Ownership:** Family-owned **Headquarters:** Columbus, Ohio **Consultant locations:** Los Angeles, Petaluma, Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Ocala, Charleston, Nashville **Service area:** All 50 U.S. states **Team:** 10 full-time consultants; all consultants are employees, not subcontractors; bilingual English/Spanish consulting available **Clients:** 1000+ · **Projects:** 1250+ · **Audit pass rate:** 100% **Client satisfaction:** 100% of survey respondents would recommend Kellerman Consulting; 4.98/5 overall satisfaction across 57 responses **Company certifications:** ISO 9001:2015 (certificate US021712, passed with zero non-conformances) · Exemplar Global Recognized Consulting Group **Memberships:** New York State Food Processors Association **Business rating:** A+ with the Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio **Free resources:** 100+ training videos, downloadable tools, webinars, blog **Media contact:** Phoebe Kellerman, Business Support Manager · phoebe@kellermanconsulting.com · (800) 535-1376 **Kellerman Consulting** · 977 S Remington Rd, Columbus, OH 43209 · (800) 535-1376 · info@kellermanconsulting.com · [Free consultation](https://kellermanconsulting.com/contact-us) *Last Updated: July 2026*