Blog
February 8, 2023
We are consistently strategizing how we can help our clients make the biggest impact. After a year of unprecedented growth, we’re leveraging the momentum that we worked together to create to drive new innovations and create an impact in the education and nonprofit industries. Read about our recent areas of growth and how we’re leveraging each to continue to deliver excellence in 2023 and beyond.
Reflecting on the company’s growth, Founder and CEO Greg Baroni shared, “What I notice, more than anything, is how each and every one of our team members goes above and beyond to Execute with Discipline to serve our clients, with the idea and the focus of creating a better world for their constituents, and thereby improving the communities in which we live and work.”
Team Attain Partners: Growing our talent
As a people-first organization, it’s only right we begin by highlighting how our talent flourished over the past year. In 2022, Attain Partners experienced incredible growth, with approximately 100 new team members hired—an increase of 84% from 2021.
Among our key hires were two strong additions to Attain Partners’ executive leadership team—Philip (Phil) Agee and Shannon Benson. Former Partner and Board Member of Attain, Phil Agee, was appointed as Attain Partners’ President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). A proven leader with demonstrated success, Phil brings nearly 20 years of experience growing and building diverse and inclusive teams. Shannon Benson also joined the team in 2022 as the Director of Human Resources at Attain Partners. Shannon brings two decades of experience providing human resources support, guidance, and engagement to the team. Together, Phil and Shannon bring a wealth of experience—their positive impact has already been felt throughout the organization, and we look forward to their continued leadership as we strive to Invent the Future.
Learn more about our leadership team here.
Juran Acquisition: Extending our offerings
In June 2022, Attain Partners proudly announced its acquisition of Juran, an organization recognized as a global leader in quality management service offerings. Now known as Attain Partners | Juran, the practice, led by Dr. Joseph DeFeo, continues to offer robust advisory services and comprehensive training and certification programs, including Lean Six Sigma (LSS), under the strategic guidance of Phil Agee.
In addition to consulting services, Attain Partners | Juran’s IMPRO e-learning content includes a comprehensive suite of online training modules and learning plans. The learning content included within IMPRO will help drive Attain Partners toward our vision as an asset-based consulting firm.
Learn more about Attain Partners | Juran here.
New Clients: Increasing our impact
In addition to the commendable growth Attain Partners experienced internally, we also expanded our external impact by adding several notable clients to our roster in 2022.
Learn more about who we serve here.
Maryland Connect
In October, Attain Partners was pleased to expand our work with University System of Maryland (USM), reinforcing Attain Partners’ role in the education space as a leader of enterprise transformation for schools and universities nationwide.
Attain Partners is providing the Maryland Connect (MD Connect) consortium of five schools—Bowie State University, Frostburg State University, Salisbury University, University of Baltimore, and Coppin State University—program management, organizational change management, and staff augmentation support as the client implements a single instance of Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management systems.
Seattle Children’s
In 2022, Attain Partners also proudly strengthened our working relationship with Seattle Children’s providing interim staffing and research operations stabilization and research leadership support to help further advance its important mission.
Salesforce Success: Showcasing our ecosystem expertise
As premier Salesforce implementation experts, we were proud to add two impressive accolades to our Salesforce partnership in 2022. In June, Attain Partners was named the 2022 Salesforce.org Consulting Partner of the Year – Education, in recognition of our unparalleled expertise leveraging Salesforce to reimagine the student experience. In December, Attain Partners achieved the highest tier of Salesforce partnership, earning the coveted Salesforce Summit Partner status.
These esteemed milestones are a direct result of our team’s commendable work to advance certifications, update project entries, achieve business development growth, and maintain efforts fostering a positive, active relationship with Salesforce.
Learn more about our Salesforce Innovation services here.
Asset-driven Business: Expanding our capabilities
As an asset-powered consultancy, we are especially proud of the 21 new assets we created and added to our portfolio in 2022, including Deep Data Exploration (an addition to Attain Research Performance), assessments (used to deliver the Attain Partners IDEA Performance Maturity Framework), Amp Impact templates, an F&A benchmarking tool, and the Salesforce Student Success Hub accelerator, among others.
Looking Ahead: Growing our impact The Attain Way
As we move ahead into the new year, the great work from our team members in 2022 is paving the way to attain even greater success ahead. We look forward to further expanding our impact as we continue to help education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government organizations move their missions forward.
We invite you to join us on this journey in a variety of ways:
- Visit us at an upcoming industry event.
- Learn more about our offerings through our monthly webinars, or watch an on-demand session that can help your organization grow.
- Check out our other blog entries—we’re constantly updating case studies and client stories, thought leadership, and sharing work with our partners.
- Subscribe to our monthly newsletter, The Pulse—one of the best ways to stay current on all Attain Partners news and innovations.
Interested in doing even more? Discover how you can grow your career at Attain Partners here.
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