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Lisa Keohokalole Schauer launched PointNorth Consulting as a woman-owned, minority-owned business in 2018. It has offices in Vancouver, Washington, and Tacoma. The company now has 22 employees and in 2023 had revenue of $3.2 million.

鈥淲e are very proud to lead strategic communications solutions, to engage with our community to build trust, to connect creatively and to build teams on 鈥� mega, multistate, multibillion-dollar projects,鈥� the firm states.

PointNorth has faced financial obstacles. 鈥淎s we grow, access to capital has been far more difficult than I experienced as a shareholder in a primarily male-owned firm,鈥� Schauer states. 鈥淐reating family-wage positions helps our economy thrive, yet funding payroll and equipment has been a barrier to our continued growth.鈥�

However, the self-described 鈥渟mall-but-mighty鈥� firm is 鈥渄edicated to finding ways to cultivate a culture that relies on growth and learning, that welcomes mistakes being made, and that seeks to promote leaders from within the team.鈥�