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Check out this exciting announcement from Sangfroid Strategy in celebration of 7 years of important work from this talented, hard-working team!

It's always a party at Door No. 3! Hat tip for celebrating 30 years in business. I'm grateful to be part of writing this current chapter. From a new business perspective, it's no small feat to grow an agency. For 30 years, no less. Striking the right balance of growth is a delicate dance. Providing excellent care for your existing clients while running ahead to cultivate new clients. Building a sticky culture where top talent wants to stay while creating demand to grow the bench. Marketing for others, while also marketing for yourself. Staying heads down in the work while staying up on constantly evolving trends. You get it. Holding all of these tensions is the daily work of growth. It's the daily inputs, those little disciplines that compound over time. Keep at it today!

"Big shoutout to Cecily for her unwavering dedication and hard work! It’s been almost a year since we started working together, and I'm continually impressed by your commitment and expertise. Also, a huge thank you for the thoughtful review you left. Your feedback means a lot and fuels our drive to excel even more. Here's to many more successful collaborations ahead! 🌟 #AppreciationPost #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork"

Celebrating the 5 year anniversary of our incredible Premier Field Engineer and Brand Ambassador, Feli Michaca. Feli embodies the mission of Managed Solution by sharing his journey and love for helping people through the power of tech. Check out our recent interview with him to hear about his journey to tech and experience hear at Managed Solution: https://hubs.la/Q02z_TxD0

NCS IT is 30! We are celebrating our 30th anniversary this year. As part of our celebrations, we've had a look at what technology was like back in 1994. Read our blog post here and let us know what you remember from 1994! https://lnkd.in/e-ADXa6E

Cheers to ONE Environmental Managing Principal J. Rusty Field PE who is celebrating his 15-year work anniversary! Back in 2009, Rusty envisioned a customer-centered company that prioritizes lasting, meaningful relationships over the bottom line when he and his partners founded ONE. And the rest is history, as they say. Learn more about Rusty on our blog! https://bit.ly/3yJdDxF

Hola! As another year ends, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone that has supported PARIETTI in 2023. I tried to segue in a metaphorical pun about time to log off the internet and put a log on the fire, but I couldn’t quite make it work. Or have I... One of the most special things this year has been the interactions and conversations with everyone who has been a customer, who we met at events, who just got in touch to say lovely things, and all those who offered their advice, time and expertise in helping PARIETTI develop, pedal by pedal. The (bio) fuel that keeps us going are all the special connections created by all of you. Thank you so much, it means so much and it powers us on. It is mind blowing that nearly all sportswear is unsustainably made from cheap virgin polyester derived from oil. That’s cycling too. Creating outdoor clothing that is ironically destroying our freedom to enjoy so many places around the world. The freedom of riding is incredibly special. It’s therapy, recreation, exercise, social connectivity, exploration, discovery and more all rolled into a single ride. And that’s sometimes the commute to work.  And just like that feeling of riding deep pow in winter, or surfing a glassy wave in summer, cycling offers you a natural high from life’s day-to-day. Parietti was started to help protect and promote that special freedom. Firstly, to become a “Patagonia for Cycling” creating the most responsibly made clothing with a “Leave No Trace” mantra (having an unachievable mantra means you never stop striving to improve) and secondly to create a more inclusive brand, away from the pressures of metrics and focusing on that freedom cycling affords. Living for the ride, not the finish time. Freeriding as we call it. It feels like all we can read about at times is big legacy brands engaging in a race to the bottom, through continuous year long sales, while churning out virgin polyester kits alongside intangible sustainability targets. If you can and you believe, please do keep supporting all the amazing smaller brands out there making a difference. It means the world. Literally. Thanks again and have yourself a wonderful Christmas Holiday time. #founders #community #cycling #sustainablebusiness

Since September 1, 2018, I have been at DirectTrust as President and CEO - and the time has flown by.  As I take stock now, we have grown four times bigger by most measures. The number of Direct Secure Messages sent and received per quarter has gone from about 50 million to over 200 million.  Our network has grown from fewer than 1 billion transactions cumulatively, and recently passed 4 billion.  Our team is 4 times bigger, as is our annual budget. I am so proud of our accomplishments.  We became an ANSI accredited standards development organization, acquired SAFE Identity, and this year, merged with the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC).  I have long made it clear to my Board that we wanted to pivot to a focus on TRUST while driving the use and usability of Direct.  Today we offer multiple services to our members and the industry including accreditation, HITRUST assessment and technical trust services for Direct Secure Messaging, Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and TEFCA.  We collaborate with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), CMS, HHS, WEDI , The Sequoia Project, CommonWell Health Alliance, Civitas Networks for Health, CARIN Alliance, and many more organizations as well as our members. Our membership today is extremely diverse beyond even the HIT companies, payers and providers in the healthcare sector to include app companies, social care organizations, and identity companies.   Our standards efforts include work to enable sensitive information exchange within the community even beyond healthcare. We are engaging with cloud fax vendors to establish standards for trustworthy exchange of data by fax. We are working with the remote online notaries to enable trusted communication of health documents.  We are building out new accreditation programs to improve trust in the consumer health application ecosystem to add to our portfolio of accreditations that assess compliance for nearly 100 healthcare companies large and small.  You should watch us, we are just getting started! Special thanks to my team to whom I owe a great debt of gratitude - Kelly Gwynn, Lee Barrett, Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, MBA, CHPC, CHTS, Kyle Neuman, Alexander Young, Susan Flynn, Ronald S. Moser, Debra Hopkinson, Stacy Clements, Taylor Gaunt,  Mischelle Curtin, Lesley Berkeyheiser, Tom Hanks, CCSFP, PHIAS, Mark R McLaughlin, CCSFP, CHQP, Rick A. Moore, PhD , Felix Ofori, Larry Watkins, Stephen Weiss and yury vayman.  Thanks to my board members past and present who helped us make this all possible, and to the EHNAC Commissioners.  And thanks to our Legal and regulatory advocates, Jodi Daniel, Bryan Brewer, Stanley Nachimson, Doug Peddicord and Sophia McLeod.  Special thanks to Ginna (Yost) Wotowey Wotowey for helping us assemble a great team and to David Kibbe who founded the organization in 2012.    I have had a great time here.  Time flies when you are building a trusted ecosystem!

Our recent 'Supercharging Technology Team Performance' webinar was a fantastic opportunity for technology industry leaders to come together and share their knowledge. The event, hosted by our technology principal, Daniel Harrison, and featuring guest speaker Giles Delafeld (CEO of Delafeld + Partners), focused on the challenges facing technology teams and discussed strategies to overcome them. To stay updated on our technology events, be sure to follow Daniel Harrison. #BoydenUK #TechLeaders #InterimManagement