About Us
Sparkline Group is a business and technology consulting firm that helps companies make ideas and projects reality. Our approach is simple and straight forward: select the right projects, align them to your company’s strategic objectives, sell them with clarity up and down the organization and then deliver them with realistic project schedules. Sparkline focuses on three primary offerings to help our clients achieve success: IT Strategy, Presentation Coaching, and Project Management.
What is a sparkline?
Sparklines are small data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics. They are intended to be succinct and memorable. Sparklines were first introduced by Edward Tufte in his 2006 book, Beautiful Evidence.
Examples of sparklines can be found here on Edward Tufte’s website.
Sparklines are the essence of what our consulting firm strives to become. Delivering services that are succinct, memorable and provide maximum value for our customers and partners.
Sparkline core values:
- Simplicity
- Collaboration
- Integrity
- Personal Accountability
- Balance (work/life)
- Fun
- Giving Back
Sparkline Group, LLC was founded by Chris Lake who has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, most recently as VP of IT for a billion dollar construction company in Tempe, AZ. Download Chris’s Bio as a PDF.

