Governmental Diversity Disaster to Partnered Success

As one of six, nationally selected firms to conduct legislated diversity training for 75 governmental agencies employing 60,000 employees in the State of Connecticut, we were selected by an 1800 employee agency for high level expertise and customization. It previously conducted diversity training with disastrous results, creating greater animosity and divisiveness. It also was experiencing…

Rapid DEI F100 Culture Shift

A financial services’ industry leader set course to aggressively pursue emerging markets to build marketshare. Their most successful and largest revenue-producing sales group was charged with leading this endeavor. However, the sales group was largely homogeneous in gender and race and had rebuffed a need to diversify in staff composition to resemble their clients and…

Business Case for Shared Services

Three weeks prior to the Global Leadership Team Meeting, the Global CEO had announced his plan to dismantle the shared services structure they had formed a few years before, supporting 20 IBUs. The North America CEO felt the Shared Services Model was working effectively that it was worth a ‘fight’ to save it. Contacted by…

Effective Succession Through Leadership Teaming

A steadily growing professional services firm which had just merged with another sizable firm was facing a succession dilemma. Their long-standing Managing Partner was ready to scale back and succession planning was not in place. Their top producer as well as a couple other partners were interested in the Managing Partner role. However, the incumbent…

Global High Tech Rapid Expansion

A rapidly growing, global high-tech manufacturer with strong R&D function, had been operating quietly and growing moderately on a sizable campus in Connecticut. Due to shifts in locations of production lines and substantially increased demand for products, their staffing needs were about to skyrocket from a level of thirty-five hires per year to sixty hires…

Accelerated Culture Shift Enables Record-Time Expansion Strategy

The HRC was referred by a Fortune 500 client to one of its clients – a privately-held, 2,000 employee, eastern seaboard-based retail organization. It needed D&I advisory consulting and training support to design, develop, commence, guide, and help implement a diversity and inclusion initiative to support rapid expansion into new, diverse markets in five (5)…