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CONTACT: Rockville, MD (BlackNews.com) - Ivy Planning Group LLC, a leading strategy firm, announced today that one of their founders, Gary A. Smith, was named to Consulting Magazine's 2007 Annual Top 25 Consultants list. Smith was recognized for leading diversity strategy, development and education for some of the world's largest companies. Mr. Smith joins consultants from 21 other top firms on this year's list, including Accenture, A.T. Kearney, Bain & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM Global Business Solutions, Deloitte Consulting, and others. The award profiles strategists, technologists and management thinkers, ranking them among the most influential leaders in their industry. Smith is one of the three founders of Ivy Planning Group. A graduate of Yale University, he first honed his skills at IBM, then ran a series of tech companies, where much of his work was spent helping underperforming clients. "Those skills became the foundation for my consulting and problem-solving background," Smith explains. "What marks most of the work we do is getting C-level people to understand what implementing a diversity program looks like, and how to lead it." "His ability to share first-hand knowledge, experience and expertise in the C-suite has impacted senior management within the entertainment, financial and challenged organizational cultures resulting from mergers and acquisitions," says CiCi Holloway, managing director of diversity and inclusion, Americas, at UBS Investment Bank. According to Consulting Magazine, "As the pace of business and industry continues to accelerate, staying ahead of client needs becomes a more difficult challenge. These Top 25 Consultants are doing their part to push the profession to higher places in an ever-expanding global economy. The Top 25 is a snapshot of all that's right in consulting." For more information about Ivy Planning Group's services, please visit: www.ivygroupllc.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 30, 2007
Janet Crenshaw Smith
(301) 963-1669, ext. 13
JSmith@ivygroupLLC.com
IVY PLANNING GROUP FOUNDER GARY A. SMITH AMONG TOP 25 CONSULTANTS FOR 2007
Gary A. Smith, Founder of Ivy
Planning Group LLC 
About Ivy Planning Group
Ivy Planning Group (Ivy) is a leading management consulting and training firm focused on diversity, strategy and change management. Ivy has been recognized as a Top 100 company by DiversityBusiness.com; a Diversity Pioneer by Profiles in Diversity Journal; a Top 25 Consultant by Consulting Magazine; a Black Enterprise Magazine Emerging Company of the Year Finalist; and has received the Working Woman magazine Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. Ivy helps organizations strategically integrate and balance diversity with their bottom-line, core business objectives. Ivy's forward thinking approach help clients benefit from a changing workforce, workplace and marketplace. To learn more about Ivy Planning Group, visit www.ivygroupllc.com
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