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Accelerating Digital Transformation Learn More AEEC provides IT, Environmental, and Engineering solutions that accelerate digital transformation to advance your mission-critical objectives. At AEEC, our success is defined by our client’s success. Facilitating complex technology modernizations since 1995, we bring decades of proven experience and technical expertise to the table. We’ve developed the right IT, Environmental, and Engineering talent to consistently deliver excellence. Through our spirit of collaborative development and culture of co-inventing solutions, we build innovative success outcomes that create long-term business relationships.Contact Us Our Solutions Information Technology We provide transformative solutions and access to emerging technology through our award-winning Innovation Lab (i Lab) and diverse industry partnerships. Environmental We design the best solutions.

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Appleby & Associates is an alliance of organization development consultants specializing in building workplaces where people fully commit their talents to making their organization and customers successful. They help leaders and change agents envision, design, build, and sustain great organizations, providing multi-talented consultants who fit the culture of the organization and bring evidenced-based methods and tools.

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Arc Aspicio is an information technology and management consulting company focused on homeland security and intelligence. It creates and delivers integrated, innovative solutions for government clients, applying capabilities in strategy, human-centered design, human capital, data analytics, and technology. The company is a woman-owned small business and holds multiple GSA contract vehicles.

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We're celebrating Microsoft Top 5 Supplier of the Year 2024 Diverse-owned Category We’re ​the secret sauce Sales, Marketing, & Operations leads call for GTM2 ®: GO-to-Market strategy & GET-to-Market execution. We empower executives to cut through complexity and drive real business growth. From defining strategies that land to helping sales & success pods work better together, our GTM2 ® expertise makes a big difference bringing your ideas to life to enhance the customer experience. With a deep focus on data-driven strategies and incorporating human-centered AI design, we help leaders uncover hidden revenue opportunities and turn them into scalable revenue impact. The job of GTM teams is to make selling and supporting an offering easy. It sounds simple, but in reality it’s far from easy. Add in siloed teams, disconnected journeys and processes, and average consultants and project.

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Blue Cedar Management Consulting is a federal-focused consulting firm specializing in workforce planning, organizational development, and program execution. With over a decade of experience supporting large federal organizations, it helps federal agencies, prime contractors, and organizations strengthen workforce capabilities, improve operational effectiveness, and achieve mission objectives.

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Bridge Innovate is a consultancy founded in 2003 that partners with leaders to solve problems while building their leadership capabilities. It blends leadership development, management consulting, and co-design to help teams lead, think, and problem solve differently, serving clients from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits. It is an SBA-Certified Woman-Owned Business.

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Codal is a digital product strategy, design and development agency that provides end-to-end strategy, design and engineering for meaningful experiences. It helps organizations identify opportunities, optimize operations, and implement solutions that drive measurable growth, serving industries including healthcare, retail, manufacturing, financial services, legal, automotive and life sciences.

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CRIT Workshop is a midwest-based design and collaboration firm that brings diverse perspectives and flexible, creative, collaborative solutions to projects nationwide. Founded by Elizabeth A. Schultz, a Registered Architect and Certified Planner, the company works closely with clients in workshops to define project needs from start to finish. It also offers Lizzy's Signature Collection No.1, a colorful fabric collection available via custom orders for creative projects, décor, and gifting.

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Desklight is a learning design consultancy in Chicago that trains teams to be better problem solvers. Founded in 2014 by Erin Huizenga, it blends design thinking, behavioral science, and learning experience design to create embodied, experiential, and transformational training that teams can put into practice immediately.

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The Corporate Accelerator Forum (CAF) is a curated private community, founded by Dr. Diana Joseph, that gathers corporate innovators who work with startups. Since 2017, members have shared stories, tools and techniques for stakeholder influence, startup collaboration, and ecosystem creation. CAF offers expert consulting, workshops, hackathons, and industry gatherings focused on open innovation.

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Life-Changing Innovation We create technology that makes measurable impacts for marginalized communities. Who we are:We are a women and minority-owned human-centered design and technology company with an emphasis on designing for niche demographics. Our mission is to support our clients in moving from nascent ideas to life-changing technological innovations. Working with for profit industries, nonprofit organizations, government entities, and startups, we support the development of new technologies or re-centering of existing products and services. With more than 25 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing technologies, we are confident that our research-based strategies will position your idea to make a difference in the marketplace. Want to build better?Dig Deeper. We created DEEP Designs because we believe great success is fueled by deep knowledge. Our company is.

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Dorchester Strategy, LLC is a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) located in Maryland's Dorchester County, a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone). With decades of national security operations and strategic design experience, the firm helps public sector clients navigate change and complexity, specializing in finding opportunity in chaos. It holds TS-SCI level clearance.

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EdIntersect is a woman-owned small business working internationally to take action at the intersections of education and multiple sectors of global development. Founded in 2013, it draws on implementation science and applied research to generate focused analysis and action, addressing child well-being and education across the USA and around the world.

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EF International Advisors, LLC is a consulting firm that helps organizations navigate pivotal moments through actionable insights, customized strategies, and resources. For over 30 years it has served leaders in finance, real estate, education, media, insurance and technology, using the Agile Action Strategy Process (AASP) pioneered by Ted Fujimoto to build high-performing, sustainable organizations.

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Empatic & Co is a consulting firm that partners with organizations to achieve sustainable growth and operational excellence by integrating human-centered design principles with technology such as artificial intelligence. Its team blends strategists, creative designers, and technology experts to help businesses align people, processes, and systems.

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VISUAL FACILITATION & CONSULTING find the way visually WAYFIND® is a facilitation and consulting partner that takes a holistic, human-centered approach to visually solve the complex challenges that matter most.Are you ready to take your meeting to the next level? Learn More Services Meeting Design & Facilitation We lead groups through processes that enable participants to put their best thinking forward in achieving shared outcomes. Consulting & Advisory We partner with you in weaving world-class methodologies with innovation strategy to move from meaningful insights to results with lasting impact. Training & Development We develop and deliver custom training, workshops and learning experiences to reskill, upskill and bring new learning aimed at evolving development needs. Visual Design & Notetaking We capture key ideas and concepts as the stories, conversations and dialogues unfold.

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EquiVant Strategies (EVS) is a boutique consulting practice serving public, private, and nonprofit sector clients. Founded and led by Gabriel Matthews, it helps leaders and organizations close the gap between intention and impact through clarity in priorities, ownership, and measures of progress. Engagements are time-bound and tied to tangible outputs such as implementation roadmaps, aligned structures, performance dashboards, and documented decision rules.

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Fat Pencil Studio is a team of sharp-minded designers with visual tools to help clients make a stronger case. They create visual stories and visual strategies for legal cases, using techniques such as 3D modeling, mapping, data visualization, video editing, and animation to evaluate evidence, test theories, and enhance forensic analysis. Their areas of specialty include construction law, personal injury, criminal law, corporate litigation, and civil rights.

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FreshTracksHX is a boutique UX consulting agency providing User Experience Research expertise to clients. Founded in 2008 as StoneUX, the team conducts end-to-end strategic and tactical research and helps organizations grow their UX research capabilities through training and expert support, creating custom programs to meet organizations' UX research needs.

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Hooked on Performance Excellence (HOPE), LLC is a business consulting and training firm based in North Charleston, South Carolina. It specializes in lean consulting and process optimization, offering tailored solutions to help organizations streamline processes, eliminate waste, and improve productivity. The company is a veteran, female- and black-owned business led by Jennifer Hooks, a retired Air Force E9 Chief Master Sergeant with 30 years of experience.

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Hopkins Strategic Consulting (HSC) is a management consulting firm founded by Alison Hopkins Leithner, an executive strategist and former nonprofit leader. HSC guides leaders and organizations through change, helping them align strategy, people, and execution to achieve clarity, confidence, and measurable impact. It partners with organizations of all sizes, from startups and nonprofits to established corporations, across corporate, nonprofit, and cultural sectors.

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Indochina Research is a market research company operating in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. It provides reliable, high-quality data and insightful research findings to support business and social development, and has been doing so since 1994. The company conducts regional large-scale quantitative projects and complex qualitative studies, and is a member of the WIN Association covering 49+ countries.

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Innovekt, Inc. is a business management consulting company whose name combines the words "innovation" and "vektor." It offers the InnValuAble™ System, software aligned with the ISO 56001 standard, along with systems such as Innterprise®, Certinn®, and Innovation Vektor™ to help organizations imagine, design, operate, and improve their business models, products, services, and processes.

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The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) is a think + do tank working at the intersection of social and environmental impact, blending strategic analysis and evidence generation with hands-on implementation. Founded in 2014 by Dr. Azra Kacapor Nurkic and Dr. Emir Nurkic Kacapor, it is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Washington, D.C., with satellite offices in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Serbia, and has reached 48 countries.

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