About Lithyus Group
We are a consultancy built around one purpose: helping organizations retain the knowledge that keeps them running.
Our work acknowledges and addresses the fact that experienced people move on, retire, or change roles; the hard-won expertise they carry is at risk of leaving with them.
We partner with leaders to celebrate and preserve what those people know, transfer it to the next generation, and make transitions a time of strength rather than disruption.
About Our Founder: Ben Bomar
Ben has been working in the US and Europe since his first role in the Czech Republic in 1997.
He has led Sales, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Customer Support operations for Fortune 500 companies.
Ben has held leadership positions on multiple non-profit boards.
Founded Lithyus Group in 2021 to help clients understand and reduce their risk of business disruption due to employee transition.
Originally from North Carolina, Ben and his family are proud to call Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, home.
Lithyus Values
Respect for the Work
Expertise and Innovation exist at every level of the organization.
Lifelong Learning
Our team members have a natural curiosity and a desire to ask questions.
We are the Guide, not the Hero
Our role is to help our clients understand the value their best people add.
Trust the Process
Systematic approaches free us from worrying about capturing everything.
Work with the Best
We are in the business of retention – critical knowledge, key clients, best people.
The Story of Stone Soup
Our logo represents the stone from the tale of Stone Soup. In the story, the stone serves as the catalyst for sharing and creating something of value. Our mission is to be that catalyst for our clients. We love Stone Soup so much, we named the company after it. Lithos (Greek for stone) + ius (Latin for soup).
A stranger rides into a nervous town…
As he knocks on doors and begs for food to eat, the townspeople bolt their locks and peer out from their windows.
They become curious as the stranger builds a cooking fire and sets a large pot of water over the coals. He announces that he is hungry for a meal of “Stone Soup” and begins searching for a suitable rock within a pile of rubble.
Finding one, he places it in the water and waits.
After a while, the stranger tastes the soup and declares, “Delicious! If only I had some carrots to add!” A few moments later, a door opens and a young girl steps out holding a bundle of carrots. She offers them to the stranger, who thanks her and slices them into the soup.
He tastes again, this time even more excited, but wishes aloud that he and the little girl could add onions to their broth. The cycle repeats with onions, then mutton, then salt, then pepper, and so on.
Soon, every resident of the town has come out into the open and added something of their own to the soup.
In the end, the stranger and the townspeople enjoy a meal together in unity.