About Us
We create expert, innovative, simplified management system solutions for American small businesses.
Core Business Solutions provides online and onsite services to help our customers to learn, grow, and succeed— regardless of experience, location, or industry.
Our unique approach combines a simplified, web-based platform with hands-on help from professional consultants. We’ll give you the tools you need to succeed, but we’ll also be there to help every step of the way. Learn more about our standards.
Make it Matter
Your certification can be more than checking off a box. We want to help businesses achieve excellence that will set them apart in the eyes of customers.
Make it Work
We know that every business is different. We’ll make CORE work for your business, your processes, and your resources. And we’ll keep things flexible and fun along the way.
Make it Last
We want to see your business grow beyond certification. We work every day to help you meet changing industry requirements, customer needs, and company goals.
Our Solution
With a combination of web-based software with expert consulting, our solution simplifies preparation, increases the benefits of certification, and helps you achieve greater customer satisfaction. We empower companies to be ISO experts through our process.
The CORE Compliance Platform is the heart of our method. This web-based document control system provides everything you need to maintain a Quality Management System and become compliant. CORE also contains video trainings and documentation to make the certification process work for you.
It will take 2-4 months for Core to help you prepare for a registrar-led audit.
Our Story
We’re an American business with a story like yours. It all started with two brothers, a desire to help, and an idea.
Our Team
Scott is an active voting member of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO Technical Committee 176 (ISO/TC 176), which is responsible for drafting ISO 9001 and ISO 9004 standards. Scott has spent 20 years running Core Business Solutions and developing ISO programs for small businesses.
Scott Dawson
President and Co-Founder
Drew is a people person, through and through. He understands the complexities of running a business and has worked on the Registrar / Certification Body. His 20-year background in sales, administration, and manufacturing help him understand and meet our customers’ needs.
Drew Markley
Vice President of Sales
Suzanne has been a Management System consultant for over 25 years. She currently oversees our Consulting, CORE Support, and Training Development teams. She’s a member of the US TAG to ISO Technical Committee 176 and a senior member of ASQ. Her ultimate goal is to create processes that simplify every customer’s experience.
Suzanne Strausser
Vice President, Consulting and Development
Lori has been in marketing management for over 25 years. She manages the marketing team and is responsible for all internal and external brand communications including webcasts, website management, SEM, SEO, and all traditional and digital marketing efforts.
Lori Engle
Vice President of Marketing
Teresa has been with Core since the beginning as Scott’s right hand. She manages Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and more. A hard worker to the core, we would not be where we are today without her.
Teresa Dawson
Vice President of Administration
Core Business Solutions is a proud member of the Better Business Bureau and has maintained an A+ rating since our company started in 2000. If you’d like to read our customer reviews, visit our Reviews page.
