The Wardlaw Group, Incorporated Acquires Vantage Human Resource Service, Incorporated

The Wardlaw Group has acquired Vantage Human Resource Services, Incorporated, an innovative provider of career performance and training services.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Vantage has been providing its services to federal sector clients both locally and nationally since 1974. Vantage currently provides career counseling, leadership and training development, and communications training services to clients including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Labor, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and others. “We are very excited about the opportunity to work with the Vantage team” said Butch Wardlaw,
President of the Wardlaw Group. “Because our firms have worked together in partnership over the past few years, there is a tremendous amount of synergy between the two organizations.”

The Wardlaw Group is a small, veteran-owned business offering professional services in management consulting, strategic planning, public involvement, communications training, and organizational communication. The Wardlaw Group’s corporate headquarters is located in Blacksburg, Virginia with consultants and partners operating in the National Capital Region, Ohio, and North Carolina. Wardlaw Group clientele include URS Corporation, SAIC,
Battelle Memorial Institute, Alliant TechSystems, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Vaccine Healthcare Centers Network, EnDyna, Rumpke Consolidated Companies, and others. Vantage will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Wardlaw Group while also partnering with the Wardlaw Group in strategic efforts to enter new market sectors.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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The Wardlaw Group Welcomes Terry Cole, Training Director

Terry Cole joined the Wardlaw Group staff after more than three years of supporting the organization as an independent consultant and trainer. Terry has over 40 years of in-classroom instruction in higher education combined with over ten years experience as a professional trainer and consultant – initially with C4CS and now with the Wardlaw Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Public Address and was a Full Professor and past Chair of the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University. Terry is currently in a phased-retirement program where he splits his time between training and training development duties with the Wardlaw Group and teaching Communication Law and Crisis Communication at ASU.

Terry’s considerable experience and expertise in the field of communication adds great depth to the Wardlaw Group’s training capabilities.

Welcome aboard Terry!

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VHC Strategic Plan Complete

VHC-Strategic Plan Wardlaw Group Consultants recently completed work on a year-long effort to develop the Vaccine Healthcare Centers Network Strategic Plan. The VHC Network plan marks a significant milestone in the organization’s history and was developed to serve as a guidepost for the network to provide the highest quality immunization healthcare services to the military while remaining dynamically responsive to the rapidly changing landscape of medical developments. Development of the plan was a collaborative effort between Wardlaw Group
Consultants and the VHC Network staff. Dr. Renata Engler, Director for the VHC Network described the plan as a “wonderful layout and very well done.” Jim Farr, National called the Wardlaw Group’s work “superb.”

For more information about the Vaccine Healthcare Centers Network, visit www.vhcinfo.org.

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Brief Highlights of Wardlaw Group Activities

Army Corps of Engineers

Patsy Hosner, Project Manager for the Wardlaw Group contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently spearheaded efforts to conduct community interviews for the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot, published the annual FNOD Newsletter, Restoration News, and is currently developing an update of the FNOD Public Involvement Plan.

Radford Army Ammunition Plan/Alliant TechSystems

We’re please to report renewal of our longstanding support to Alliant TechSystems' (Radford Army Ammunition Plant) Environmental Department for Environmental Management System (ISO 14001, EMS) implementation support. The facility recently passed a milestone in declaring itself conformant to the ISO 14001 standard.

Support to the SAIC and the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency

Over the past several months, Butch Wardlaw, Chief Consultant for the Wardlaw Group completed a unique sequence of support activities for the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency and their prime contractor SAIC. His work included:

• Supporting development of the CMA Depot Safety Strategy
• Facilitating focus groups for CMA workers
• Conducting communications training for Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
• Facilitating the CMA Public Affairs Roundtable
• Facilitating the CMA Environmental Forum
• We value greatly our ongoing work with SAIC and CMA.

Support to Battelle Memorial Institute

The Wardlaw Group recently partnered with Battelle’s Communication and Public
Involvement team to provide strategic messaging support to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Affairs.

Partnership Opportunities

We are looking for strategic partners to engage in long-term collaborative efforts for mutual growth and penetration of new markets. Please contact us for additional information.

Butch Wardlaw
bwardlaw@thewardlawgroup.com
(703) 899-7505 (cell)

Patsy Hosner
phosner@thewardlawgroup.com
(540) 239-4195 (cell)

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The Wardlaw Group is a small, veteran-owned business providing professional services in management consulting, communications training, and organizational communication. The core mission of The Wardlaw Group is assisting clients with their unique communication challenges and opportunities. For more information about The Wardlaw Group and services
offered, visit our Web site at: www.thewardlawgroup.com.