Manter Consulting is a consulting firm specializing in planning, market research, and marketing consultation since 1996 (Woman-Owned Business Certification since 2007). Joan Manter, Principal, earned an MBA from The Ohio State University and has held positions as senior consulting associate, senior director of planning, marketing, and market research, director of strategic planning and market research, and part-time professor of marketing. Manter Consulting specializes in strategic planning, marketing, and market research. This includes planning processes and meeting facilitation, telephone, mail, online studies, executive interviewing, focus groups, and industry studies.