About RGC
Helping Businesses See Their Value and Maximize It
RGC was founded in 2017 to help businesses, not just survive, but thrive. Since opening, RGC has worked with business owners, CEO's and presidents to help them find value in their company that they were missing. A new perspective on your challenges can open up opportunities and potential that can smooth out your operation and take you to the next level. The RGC network is dedicated to helping businesses meet their challenges head on and build the capacity that they need in order to thrive.
RGC and Erie Businesses
WORKFORCE
-Evaluate your workforce search and retention processes through a new perspective
-Find new capacity for training and upskilling
-Engage your workforce and show them that you value their skills and commitment
Meeting Facilitation
-RGC Business Discussion Groups
-Renaissance Center City Within A City Organizer
-Weekly
-3 groups: Nonprofit, For Profit, Healthcare; approximately 15 businesses engaged for the year
-Connected them when they were feeling isolated and in need of engagement
One-On-One Business Owner Consulting
-Athena Powerlink Panelist, Strategy: Donato’s Pizza, Presque Isle Printing
-Erie Innovation District, Secure Erie Accelerator Business, FIRE Accelerator Mentor
-Private Clients: Adding lines of service, Adding new locations, Connecting with resources
-Women-owned businesses and businesses serving those in need and minorities in the community are 75% of the private clients
Operational Excellence
-Value Stream
-Current and Future State Reality Trees
-Breaking Free from “We’ve Always Done It That Way”
-Creating capacity for market expansion
-Clients: manufacturing, construction, petroleum industry
-RGC Records Management Tool
Strategic Planning
-Organizing their data tracking
-Stakeholder engagement including Board of Trustees
-Improved Decision Making and Resource Allocation
-For-profits and Nonprofits in the Erie region to better link their Board of Directors to their strategic plan and to improve visibility of their goals to all of their stakeholders
Industries Served
-For-Profits: Retail, Construction, Petroleum, Manufacturing, Business Services, Food Production, Food Distribution, Food Retail
-Non-Profits: Higher education, Healthcare, Human Services, Civic Organizations
Continuing Education Presented
-Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Stakeholder Meeting Facilitation: Facilitated two workshops with PA CareerLink®, Federal Reserve Bank, FDIC and Office of Disability Employment and local bank representatives. Advancing banking career pathway access, highlighting services for the unbanked and underbanked, and collaboration on banking education opportunities across the NWPA region.
-Webinar Panelist: Modernizing The Workforce System, Hosted Online By Thomas P. Miller and Associates May 17 2023. A look at the state of workforce and how training needs have changed in recent years and are being met. Represented the NWPA Job Connect Workforce Development Board as the Executive Director of the Board.
.-Cohort Workshop on Funding Pitches, Strategy and Resources Secure Erie Accelerator 2019, 2020
-You Can’t Get Bigger Until You Get Better For Nonprofits February 2020
-RGC Records Management Tool: Athena, Erie Regional Chamber, Corry Chamber, NPP 2020
-RGC Discussion Groups: Nonprofit, Healthcare, For-Profit March 2020-February 2020
-Employee Engagement In Times Of Employee Shortages,Corry Chamber, 2021
-Viewfinder for Business, A Soul Collage Collaboration May 2021
-Journal Publication: Published in the August 2018 edition of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice. Level of Decision Making, Perceived Influence and Perceived Satisfaction of Faculty and their Influence on Student Retention in Community Colleges. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2018.1504700
-Conference Presentation: Presented at the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) National Symposium on Student Retention of Oklahoma University, November 2017, Destin, FL