OUR PURPOSE & OUR BELIEFS
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
To help VR agencies create their own blueprints for success.
OUR VALUES
OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
- It’s all about solutions
- Good solutions come from within
- Team solutions work best
OUR APPROACH
Compass: Structured Listening
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
We begin by learning the perceptions of all those involved in whatever challenges your agency is facing through a process of organized active listening interviews to understand the challenge from a 360° perspective.
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
Next we interpret what we’ve heard, learned, and understood to identify key barriers to resolving your agency's challenges and then share our analysis with those individuals who are best positioned to address the issues.
Scaffolding: Collective Coaching
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
Blueprint: Design/Build Solutions
We collaborate with the members of your agency most equipped to solve identified issues, utilizing a team coaching approach based on best practices to support and guide them.
Blueprint: Design/Build Solutions
Building Blocks: Interpretive Analysis
Blueprint: Design/Build Solutions
The final step is for your team to configure and execute an effective blueprint solution. Our method and approach of collective coaching and empowering your team begins to allow your agency to become the architect of its own transformation!
Blueprint Consulting
Most consultants assess your problem and then come up with a series of recommendations for you to implement to solve your problem. The solution, often referred to as the plan of action, is usually what the consultants design. The inherent problem with this is that the agency is responsible to implement the consultants’ plan, whether or not the leadership and staff have fully embraced it.
Our consulting approach is different, because we believe that successful solutions to agency problems should come from the agency itself and not the consultants. Our goal is to help agencies learn to fix their own problems, and research supports that. Organizations that truly develop and take ownership of their own solutions are more likely to achieve long-term and sustainable success.
We call our consulting approach “blueprint consulting” because it represents how we guide (help, teach, coach) your team to realistically create its own blueprint for success for whatever challenges your agency may be facing.
HELPING VR AGENCIES CREATE BLUEPRINTS FOR SUCCESS
Executive Coaching
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching is a professional development approach that helps leaders improve their performance and achieve their goals. It brings out the best in people, uncovers strengths and skills, drives strategy, and maximizes critical thinking.
Team Coaching
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
Executive Coaching
Team coaching is a powerful approach that helps teams enhance their performance, foster collaboration, and achieve their goals. Similar to coaching a sports team, team coaching focuses on both individual skills and collective talent within an agency's work team.
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
Customized training is provided to develop high-performing management teams by focusing on skills such as strategic thinking, change management, influencing, communication, and decision-making using current agency initiatives.
HELPING VR AGENCIES MEASURE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS
Satisfaction Surveys
Needs Assessment Surveys
Needs Assessment Surveys
We design, conduct, and analyze consumer engagement and satisfaction surveys. Our surveys are user-friendly, have customizable content, and use a digital platform with smartphone capability. Our surveys provide real-time data and actionable results.
Needs Assessment Surveys
Needs Assessment Surveys
Needs Assessment Surveys
We design, conduct, and analyze comprehensive statewide needs assessments that offer the flexibility to tailor inquiries and collect precise data that agencies can leverage for strategic decision-making and service enhancements.
TARGETED Surveys
Needs Assessment Surveys
TARGETED Surveys
We design, conduct, and analyze targeted surveys that enable agencies to pinpoint and address areas of concern effectively, such as service providers or sensory services. This focused feedback can provide valuable insights.
OUR TEAM
Greg Schmieg, Ph.D., CEO
Known as a mission-driven and results-oriented professional, Greg Schmieg is committed to excellence and success in all endeavors. He has served as a chief executive for more than twenty-five years in both the private and public sector. His private sector experience includes serving as the CEO for hospitals in Wisconsin, Texas, and Georgia for a Fortune 25 corporation, and his public sector experience includes serving as the Executive Director for the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, originally founded by President Franklin Roosevelt and internationally known for the treatment of polio. Greg later served as the first Executive Director for the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency. Most recently, he is a founding principal of Synergy Consulting Partners. He is a Vietnam War veteran and recipient of the United States Navy League Award and has a doctorate in Rehabilitation from Auburn University. His areas of personal interest include transformational leadership and leadership development, stakeholder and partner relationships, consumer engagement, and high performing organizations.
Deane Belk, Executive Assistant
A seasoned professional with diverse experience and background, Deane graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and brings varied skills to Schmieg Consulting. With a foundation in education, ESL experience teaching English to Turkish children in Izmir, Turkey, and EFL experience teaching non-native English speakers in North Carolina, she has a broad understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives. Deane’s entrepreneurial spirit led her to establish a successful children's consignment sale, becoming a cornerstone for thousands of families and involving hundreds of volunteers every year. For over 30 years, this venture has impacted the lives of many families, exemplifying her ability to create and sustain community-driven initiatives. Most recently, Deane has worked with Synergy Consulting Partners in an administrative capacity and by assisting the principals in many aspects of their VR agency engagements. Her personal life is characterized by a passion for service, a commitment to community, and a dedication to making a positive impact. Driven by strong organizational and logistical skills, coupled with fierce determination and tremendous energy, Deane is dedicated to assisting agencies bring about positive change to their vocational rehabilitation landscape.
Schmieg Consulting Meet & Greet Bethesda, MD
You may know us from our monthly emails, but this is our invitation to meet you in person. You're invited to stop by, say hello, and enjoy some tasty appetizers and a glass of wine, beer, or soft drink. No presentations or handouts to take. Just our way to introduce ourselves to you, and if we've already met, come by and say hello!
Date: Sunday, April 6
5:00PM – 7:00PM EDT
Address:
Silver New American Brasserie
Please RSVP to db@schmiegconsulting.org by the end of day Wednesday, April 2.
We will reply with map and walking directions from the Hyatt Regency (it's a 9 minute walk).
WE HOPE YOU WILL COME BY TO SEE US DURING CSAVR!
Bethesda Meet & Greet 2025 VR Directors Survey Results
Scroll down for M & G info and downloadable survey results