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ABOUT IVY

Ivy Planning Group is an award-winning, full-service management consulting, and training firm that leverages difference as a workforce + workplace + marketplace opportunity for enterprise organizations. Founded in 1990, the company’s roots are in fortune 1000 core business consulting and strategy development. 

The Ivy Difference

The Ivy Difference

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THE IVY DIFFERENCE

We have a passion for leadership development, change management, and using diversity, equity, and inclusion solutions to solve real world problems. We balance strategy, diversity, and an unwavering eye on the bottom line. Ivy helps enterprise clients enrich their product and service offerings so they can deliver exceptional value to their customers, partners, and stakeholders.

What Makes Ivy Effective?
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What Makes Ivy Effective?

Why Do Clients Choose Ivy?
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Why Do Clients Choose Ivy?

MISSION + VISION

Our mission is to be a world-class diversity and inclusion management consulting provider, helping enterprises of all kinds to reach their full potential. For more than 30 years we’ve upheld that mission. Our vision is to retain our entrepreneurial energy, and work hand in hand with our clients to design strategic, change-ready, creative organizations. Organizations that are eager and fully capable of reaping all of the benefits that come from being a diverse and inclusive enterprise.

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GARY A. SMITH

Co-Founder and Senior Partner

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Gary A. Smith, Co-Founder and Senior Partner of Ivy Planning Group, has over 25 years of strategy, technology, management consulting and executive coaching to large private sector and government organizations.

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JANET CRENSHAW SMITH

Co-Founder and President 

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Janet Crenshaw Smith, Co-Founder and President of Ivy Planning Group, is an award winning consultant and DEI expert. Janet has testified before U.S. Congressional Subcommittees as an expert on diversity and inclusion.

OUR CLIENTS

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  • U.S. Department of Justice

  • NBCUniversal Comcast

  • Black Entertainment Television

  • State of Delaware

  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission

  • Institute of Food Technologists

  • HBO

  • Post Consumer Brands​

  • San Ysidro Health Care

  • Lockheed Martin

  • MetLife

  • U.S. Department of Agriculture

  • Intelligence Agencies

  • American Transmission Company

  • JP Morgan Chase

  • ​Target

  • ​Hilton

  • ​Amway

  • ​Evans and Chambers

  • ​Scripps Network

  • ​Nike

  • ​PepsiCo

  • ​Viacom

  • ​American Red Cross​

  • ​Freddie Mac

  • ​Hyatt

  • Herman Miller

  • Special Olympics International

  • Deloitte

  • Department of Defense

  • ​Pepco Holdings

  • ​WSSC

  • ​FINRA

  • ​United Way of America

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield

  • ​U.S. Government Accountability Office

  • ​U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

  • ​Marsh & McLennan Companies

  • ​U.S. Department of Treasury

  • O'Melveny & Myers

  • U.S. Postal Service

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THE IVY EDGE

 

What is the point of diversity and inclusion work if it doesn’t make you and your organization better? At Ivy, we are obsessed with influencing the future. We are always asking ourselves how can we deliver real, measurable value to our clients? We’ve been building our client’s bottom line for more than 32 years.

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