# About ListenToSee | Business & Technology Consulting

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Meet ListenToSee, the Thousand Oaks business and cybersecurity consulting firm founded in 2007 by Scott Young, serving businesses and education programs.

## A full-service business consulting firm, since 2007

ListenToSee is dedicated to helping clients "fast-forward" to achieving their goals and building effective organizations. We work closely with each client to identify core strengths and market opportunities, and we create strategies that maximize them — so companies can expand their presence, increase profits, and remain competitive. As the business environment becomes more virtual, we help organizations put the right technology in place to conduct business and support customers wherever they are.

## Two practices, one approach

**Strategic planning and coaching.** Just as athletic coaches provide guidance and counsel to their players, we provide guidance and counsel to our clients: which technologies, tools, and resources will most effectively help them achieve their objectives. We believe that if you are not measuring your efforts you will never know whether they are effective, so every plan comes with the metrics to judge it.

**System integration and application development.** Our analysts have worked with Fortune 500 companies and sole proprietorships. We start by analyzing a company's needs and then design a solution to fit the need and the budget. Many times that analysis has shown that an off-the-shelf program fits better than a custom one — which has saved our clients thousands of dollars and countless hours of building and maintaining their own software.

## Our philosophy

We have a simple yet fundamental guiding philosophy: remove the clutter from the business process. We encourage clients to set the "how" aside in their strategy planning long enough to be clear about the "why" of their primary objectives. Once those objectives are validated, we help apply the best resources available to achieve them in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.

## Education and workforce development

Since 2010 we have consulted with California's community colleges and workforce programs — curriculum, statewide portals, digital credentials, annual educator conferences, and cybersecurity education — to promote workforce development. That practice produced our flagship product, [Aye Wanda](https://listentosee.com/aye-wanda), and it is why our research partner is synED, the nonprofit our founder leads.

ListenToSee, Inc. is a business consulting firm founded in 2007, based in Thousand Oaks, CA 91362.

Scott Young, Founder and President.

We translate business into your language.

Specializing in cyber and risk, governance, and compliance in the scope of business continuity, competitive advantage, and automation and integration.

Public contact: [info@listentosee.com](mailto:info@listentosee.com); [310.613.4534](tel:+13106134534); [contact page](https://listentosee.com/contact).

## Company timeline

- 2007: ListenToSee founded; first engagements in engineering and e-commerce.
- 2009: Association portals and hosting for the livery industry.
- 2010: Workforce consulting for the California Community Colleges begins.
- 2014: First Digital Media Educators Conference produced.
- 2017: synED founded; statewide cyber education programs.
- 2023: GRC and incident-response advisory for biotech.
- 2026: Aye Wanda launches: AI tutoring as human augmentation.

## Scott Young, Founder and President

Before founding ListenToSee in 2007, Scott was VP of professional consulting services at an enterprise software and services firm. He managed ERP implementations, corporate computer-based training, enterprise software design and systems integration for Fortune 50 companies including General Electric, Frito-Lay and Bank of America, as well as mid-tier companies.

At ListenToSee he has served clients in civil engineering, biotech, international services, utilities, livery transportation, government, technology and media, and education, as fractional IT director, systems integrator, GRC advisor and program builder for California's community colleges.

Developed with research from synED, the nonprofit Scott Young founded and leads.

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