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A Letter to A-G Veterans
A Letter to A-G Veterans Dear colleagues, As I reflect on A-G's incredible journey over nearly two decades, I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to [...]
A-G Associates Named to Inc. Business Media’s Vet100 List
A-G Associates Named to Inc. Business Media’s Vet100 List Columbia, MD-area company ranked among 100 Fastest-Growing Veteran-Owned Businesses 11/7/2024 (Columbia, MD) – Leading organizational consulting firm A-G Associates, Inc. (A-G) [...]
DOT Awards A-G Associates National Training & Qualifications Branch & Hazmat State Programs Contract
A-G Associates Awarded National Training & Qualifications Branch & Hazmat State Programs Contract by the Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) Office of Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (OHMS) [...]
SAMHSA Awards A-G Associates the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Logistical Support, OD Support, and Operation Support Contract
The Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Awards A-G Associates the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Logistical Support, OD Support, and Operation Support Contract This contract is a continuation of A-G’s [...]
A Culture of Suicide
A Culture of SuicideTed C. Bonar, Psy.D. Suicide prevention is hard. Let’s start there. There are too many factors to count. So many warning signs. Infinite risk factors. Global, specific, cross-cutting, intersectional, and multi-layered statistics. [...]
NIC Awards A-G Associates Grant to Improve Trauma-Informed Crisis Responses in Carceral Settings
NIC Awards A-G Associates Grant to Improve Trauma-Informed Crisis Responses in Carceral Settings A-G to develop new research-backed training model to improve responses by correctional staff will deescalate crises and enhance safety [...]
Soaring to New Heights: A-G Associates Secures the 592 Spot in the 2024 Inc. 5000 List
Soaring to New Heights: A-G Associates Secures the 592 Spot in the 2024 Inc. 5000 List A-G Associates, a leading organizational consulting firm driving high impact strategy and implementation, data analysis and [...]
Belonging Again: Coping with PTSD After Military Service
Belonging Again: Coping with PTSD After Military Service When soldiers in World War I began reporting symptoms like dizziness, tremors, and amnesia with no sign of physical injury, doctors theorized their brains had [...]
A-G Associates’ Chris Jachimiec Joins Fox & Friends to Promote Best Practices for Safe Gun Storage
A-G Associates' Chris Jachimiec Joins Fox & Friends to Promote Best Practices for Safe Gun Storage A-G Associates' Senior Management Analyst Chris Jachimiec was recently invited to Fox & Friends Weekend to discuss [...]
Serving the Service Community: Reflections from A-G Team Members for Whom This Work is Deeply Personal
A-G Associates' Personal Commitment to Serving the MVF Community As an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and a proud partner to the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans [...]
Peg Anthony Recognized Among Top 50 Women Leaders of Maryland for 2024 by Women We Admire
Peg Anthony Named Among Top 50 Women Leaders of Maryland by Women We Admire April 17, 2024 – Dr. Peg Anthony, A-G Associates Co-Founder and Executive [...]
Automation with R: Nine Use Cases
Data is one of the most valuable assets in business today. Companies ranging from small to large have developed new and innovative ways to gather, analyze, and even monetize data. While the data [...]
A-G Associates Deploys the Center of Excellence
In 2023, A-G launched a new initiative aimed at improving the lives of military personnel, Veterans, and their families (MVF). The A-G Military, Veteran, and Family Center of Excellence (MVF-COE) is designed to [...]
Veterans, Firearms, and Reducing Suicide
The Problem: Servicemember and veteran suicide isn't an easy topic to talk about. Cultural stigma, emotional discomfort, personal experience, or having friends who died by suicide often make the subject difficult to discuss for [...]
New Faces at A-G Associates
A-G Associates is excited to announce the addition of nine new staff members; as our projects have grown throughout the past eight months, so has our team. Since October of 2022, A-G has [...]
Change Management: A Military Lifestyle Perspective
Towards the end of graduate school, my husband let me know that he really wanted to join the Army. He then asked me what I thought, and I replied ……. Neither of us realized [...]
Stay Away from the Big “But”
In my 44 years of living, I’ve observed one consistent thing about my interactions: successful people use successful language. I am not assuming that successful people are driven all the time, but that [...]
The Importance of Veterans’ Community Health
Background According to the Department of Defense, between 170,000 and 240,000 people join the military each year in the Active and Reserve components. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in 2018, [...]
Creative Networking in a New Zip Code
I grew up in Tampa, FL. I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of South Florida. I established my career in education and created a solid network. My husband and I [...]
Support the Family. Strengthen the Veteran.
“Providing quality care to America’s Veterans doesn’t end with the Veteran himself or herself. It extends to the family member or loved one who tends to the everyday needs of a disabled, chronically [...]
Memorial Day Veterans Project
Memorial Day represents a time when people can come together to remember those that lost their lives in service to their country. For many, the purpose of Memorial Day is abstract as they [...]
USMC Leadership Lesson: Decentralized Decisions
How many times have you listened to colleagues that have been micromanaged in the workplace? Their frustration and disengagement are palatable. Meanwhile, the senior leaders are unaware of how their actions have impacted [...]
The Investment in Staff is an Investment in Your Business
In 2020, many Americans were forced to step back from their normal lives and take inventory of their skills during rapidly changing and uncertain times. The world changed significantly with many in-person activities [...]
Coming Together: Bringing COVID-19 Vaccinations to Prince Georges County, MD
Symptoms of mental health distress have been on an alarming rise as a result of the stressors brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. A June 2020 survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of [...]
Providing Hope to Vulnerable Neighbors
Volunteers of America Chesapeake and Carolinas Establishes a New Behavioral Health Center in Maryland In 1896, Ballington and Maud Booth founded Volunteers of America with a pledge to “go wherever we are needed, [...]
The COVID Effect on Events
As an established career field, many event planning professionals have invested passion and time to create meaningful events and productive meetings. Today, these highly sought-after professionals are facing a difficult and unprecedented time [...]
Public Speaking vs. Death: Which Do You Fear More?
According to the National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC), “the fear of public speaking is the most common phobia ahead of death.” Glossophobia, the scientific term for fear of public speaking, is a sentiment [...]
