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AG Wins #11 Women-Owned Businesses on Austin Business Journal Top 50 List 2020
AG Wins #11 Women-owned businesses out of 92 companies in the Austin-area Ranked by Total revenue 2019 "The 2020 list of women-owned businesses features eligible companies in the Austin area. To be eligible, firms must be at least 51 percent women owned, have local...
AG Wins #7 Ethnic Minority-Owned Businesses on Austin Business Journal Top 50 List 2020
AG Wins #7 Ethnic Minority-Owned Businesses out of 31 companies in the Austin-area Ranked by Total Revenue 2019 To be eligible, firms had to be at least 51 percent owned by an ethnic minority with local headquarters. "Combined revenue for listmakers...
Rebecca Contreras, CEO of AvantGarde, Feature in Austin Woman Magazine, October 1, 2020
"On the Road to Survival" Feature in Austin Woman Magazine, October 1, 2020 Rebecca Contreras had only ever been on one other plane in her entire life. It was a trip to Mexico with her husband. “First time on a plane ride, first time in the ocean,” Contreras says....
A Forward-Thinking Look at Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Results – By Susan Bradberry
Today OPM will issue the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) to collect employees’ perceptions about their workforce environment and the work of their team, supervisors and leaders. To be certain, this year’s results will be colored by employee reactions...
The Need for Data Driven Decision Making to Enable Transformation in this New Normal (by Colin Waitt)
A short note from the Dining Room Table The majority of the Federal workforce still is grappling with a return to work as discussed in previous posts and seen in numerous government related articles and op-eds. And while some agencies are leaning forward there is...
The Importance of Pausing to Plan for the Future Work Environment (by Colin Waitt)
Dining Room Table Discussion (Written by Colin Waitt June 11) The government COVID-19 return to work planning is a complicated scenario that requires to be thought through as the implications of wrong moves can have severe repercussions on the workforce. This is...