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Diversity.
Community. Leadership. Change.
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Romney Associates, Inc. is a SOMWBA
certified minority and women-owned business founded in 1994.
We are organizational psychologists,
educators, and conflict resolution professionals ready
to partner with you in further developing your enterprise.
Our
research shows that successful organizations embrace the principles
of diversity, community, leadership and change. Romney
Associates consultants have decades
of experience helping organizations maximize their value through
strengthening people, their most important asset.
Our
clients have included: Five Colleges, Inc., Mt. Holyoke College,
Phillips Academy, the Animating Democracy Initiative, Faith
United Church, and the Massachusetts Department of Mental
Retardation.
Click
here for a more comprehensive client list.
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| Benefits
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1.
We invest in our clients.
We are successful when you are successful. We believe in our
clients and in their missions. We want you to achieve, and we
give you all the support you need to accomplish your desired
results. We do not take a one-shot approach. When you hire Romney
Associates, we're in your corner for the long haul.
2. We are systems thinkers and practitioners.
We understand how organizations work, how components fit together
to make a whole. We understand the context in which our clients
are embedded. When you work with Romney Associates consultants,
you get more than just task completion, you get a sense of the
whole picture of your environment, and where you fit in.
3. We understand human behavior.
We are psychologists, social workers and counselors who specialize
in the behavior of people in the work place. We understand leadership,
team dynamics and working with difficult people. We understand
what motivates people, how to lead and manage from a psychological
perspective.
4. We work toward social justice and the common good.
We pay attention to the needs of those who have been disadvantaged,
discriminated against, disenfranchised. We champion the needs
of the "have nots." At the same time, and with equal
vigor, we commit ourselves to the common good, the good of the
whole organization. We recognize that success involves everybody
and that people in organizations are in it together. We work
tirelessly to balance the goals of social justice and the common
good.
5. We bring out the best in our clients.
We are proponents of "positive psychology." We know
that paying attention to strengths garners the best results.
While we are mindful of challenges, we focus on strengths to
bring out the winning spirit in each of our clients.
6. We create learning communities.
We know excellence and accomplishment depend on on-going learning.
All of our consultants are educators who stimulate thinking,
and recognize the importance of integrating theory with practice.
We help you use knowledge to benefit your organization.
7. We are relationship builders.
We strengthen relationships wherever we consult by encouraging
respect, caring and cross-cultural competence. We build bridges
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| History |
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In
1993 while driving to New York City to visit her father, Pat
Romney, then a full-time tenured Associate Professor of
Psychology at Hampshire
College, conceived the idea of starting a consulting business.
She first presented the idea to her husband and children and
with their support, next approached her father, Hubert Forbes
Romney.
Mr.
Romney, whom everyone called "Pa," was a successful small
businessman born in Trinidad, in 1896. At the age of ten,
Pa had sustained a serious head injury and doctors pronounced
that he would not live. Although the head injury did keep
him from finishing school, Hubert survived and as he grew
older took different jobs - working for the telephone company,
and working in the oil fields in his homeland.
In
1924, at the age of 28, he sailed to the United States to
find better economic opportunities. He traveled back and forth
between in the US and Trinidad for many years acquiring small
properties in both countries and starting his business, as
owner of a barber shop in the Bronx. While his entrepreneurship
was certainly on a very small scale, Pa was economically successful
and respected by many for his business acumen. In 1993, at
the age of 97, Pa provided the seed money to fund Romney Associates.
Because of his generosity and to continue his legacy, of which
we are all proud, Romney Associates, Inc. was named after
him.
Our
company retains the name of Romney to remind us of Pa's business
values, which can be summarized in his own words:
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Get
a good education. No one can ever take that away from
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Do
not waste. |
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Be
generous with those less fortunate than yourself. |
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Always
save for a rainy day. |
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Never
put your hat higher than you can reach. |
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