Parker Group Consulting Inc

Testimonials

What Our Clients Say About Our Training and Consulting Solutions

Gloria Parker

A Glimpse of Our Industry Engagement

  • Keynote speaker at International CIO Conference in Seoul Korea (3 times)
  • Speaker at numerous AFFIRM Luncheons and programs (Association for Federal Information Resource Managers)
  • Regular speaker at Partnership for Public Service to Future Leaders in Government
  • Speaker at Women in Government conference
  • Speaker and Award Recipient at Congressional Minority Business Awards Event in Washington DC
  • Speaker at Girls Inc
  • Speaker at 50 Influential Women Awards Program at Minority Enterprise Association conference
  • Speaker at African Trade and Investment Meeting, U.S Africa Trade and Investment Conference
  • Speaker at WBO (Women business Owners) Association several times (Building Client Base and Winning Business)
  • Speaker at IAC (Industry Advisory Council) Small business conference
  • Speaker on WTOP Radio – Ask the CIO
  • Speaker on TV Show – Government Matters
  • Speaker at Executive Leadership Conference – American Council on Technology/Industry Advisory Council (ACT/IAC)
  • Others

Accolades

Good Afternoon Gloria,

Thank you very much for taking time to participate as a panelist in our recent online training – Engaging Employees Through Appreciation. We appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experiences with us and our federal audience. In reviewing the evaluations, one participant commented that “The knowledge and stories from Gloria Parker were outstanding; what a treat to hear from this person with so much experience. ”

Your invaluable insights and expertise truly helped to enhance the quality of this training and helped to meet the needs of our audience. It was a pleasure working with you and we hope to engage you in future efforts.

All the best,

Nathan

Nathan Pace
Program Associate
Partnership for Public Service
1100 New York Ave. NW
Suite 200 East
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 495-7184

"Gloria Parker, of Parker Group Consulting, did an extraordinary job of helping Qinetiq develop a strategy for marketing innovative solutions to the First-Responder community. We called on her because of her expertise, not only as a successful executive in sales and marketing at a major Fortune 50 company, but also as one of the most successful and innovative government executives in the IT community. She has been an extraordinary asset to our company."

Suzan Zimmerman
Sr Vice President
suzan.zimmerman@qinetiq-na.com

Hi Gloria,

It was great seeing you yesterday. I would like to thank you again for coming in to speak to our group of emerging HR leaders. It was great to hear your stories on the importance of business acumen. 100% of our participants found your portion of the session to be useful and we received very warm feedback regarding the strategies you shared through your anecdotes. One particular comment that I would like to share stated: “I enjoyed Gloria's stories [which] emphasized the importance of breaking down silos (through Business Acumen) to [fulfill] the mission.”

We can’t wait to bring you back for future engagements!

Best,

Lynn Mugodo
Associate
Center for Government Leadership
Partnership for Public Service

During organization improvement effort at CDC, the Parker Group exceeded all expectations by going well beyond their calling to helping us to stay strategically focused and proactively think about the needs of our organization. We hired them to assist with aligning the technology components of the new organization, but soon realized that their skills and areas of expertise reach well beyond technology management. They also successfully assisted us areas of strategic planning and organizational design, build and implementation. They communicated clearly and listened carefully to the needs of the organization. Besides being a joy to work with, Gloria Parker is a take-charge person who is able to present creative ideas and communicate the benefits. She and her team successfully developed the blue prints for a lean and efficient organizational structure.

This company does business with the mind-set that they are here to help us, not sell us services. The integrity and openness of the Parker Group made it easy to integrate the team into the CDC environment. It's nice to know there are people who are as good as their word and their handshake when conducting business.

Walter Harris
Deputy Director
CDC/Office of Surveillance Epidemiology and Laboratory Services

Last two days have been so much more in addition to learning to become a better salesman! ☺ It was very refreshing to connect and learn from peers and leaders like you.

Vidya

Vidya Patankar
DEAP-Clinician User Interface (CUI)
M (301) 787-9338

a. "Gloria Parker, of Parker Group Consulting, did an extraordinary job of helping our company develop a strategy for marketing innovative solutions to the First-Responder community. We called on her because of her expertise, not only as a successful executive in sales and marketing at a major Fortune 50 company, but also as one of the most successful and innovative government executives in the IT community. She has been an extraordinary asset to our company." Sr. VP, Mid-Tier company

b. "She is a vital addition to our government team. Gloria, you certainly are a game-changer to us!" Sr. VP, Large company – video at Congressional Award Ceremony

Accolades

Good Afternoon Gloria,

Thank you very much for taking time to participate as a panelist in our recent online training – Engaging Employees Through Appreciation. We appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experiences with us and our federal audience. In reviewing the evaluations, one participant commented that “The knowledge and stories from Gloria Parker were outstanding; what a treat to hear from this person with so much experience. ”

Your invaluable insights and expertise truly helped to enhance the quality of this training and helped to meet the needs of our audience. It was a pleasure working with you and we hope to engage you in future efforts.

All the best,

Nathan

Nathan Pace
Program Associate
Partnership for Public Service
1100 New York Ave. NW
Suite 200 East
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 495-7184

"Gloria Parker, of Parker Group Consulting, did an extraordinary job of helping Qinetiq develop a strategy for marketing innovative solutions to the First-Responder community. We called on her because of her expertise, not only as a successful executive in sales and marketing at a major Fortune 50 company, but also as one of the most successful and innovative government executives in the IT community. She has been an extraordinary asset to our company."

Suzan Zimmerman
Sr Vice President
suzan.zimmerman@qinetiq-na.com

Hi Gloria,

It was great seeing you yesterday. I would like to thank you again for coming in to speak to our group of emerging HR leaders. It was great to hear your stories on the importance of business acumen. 100% of our participants found your portion of the session to be useful and we received very warm feedback regarding the strategies you shared through your anecdotes. One particular comment that I would like to share stated: “I enjoyed Gloria's stories [which] emphasized the importance of breaking down silos (through Business Acumen) to [fulfill] the mission.”

We can’t wait to bring you back for future engagements!

Best,

Lynn Mugodo
Associate
Center for Government Leadership
Partnership for Public Service

During organization improvement effort at CDC, the Parker Group exceeded all expectations by going well beyond their calling to helping us to stay strategically focused and proactively think about the needs of our organization. We hired them to assist with aligning the technology components of the new organization, but soon realized that their skills and areas of expertise reach well beyond technology management. They also successfully assisted us areas of strategic planning and organizational design, build and implementation. They communicated clearly and listened carefully to the needs of the organization. Besides being a joy to work with, Gloria Parker is a take-charge person who is able to present creative ideas and communicate the benefits. She and her team successfully developed the blue prints for a lean and efficient organizational structure.

This company does business with the mind-set that they are here to help us, not sell us services. The integrity and openness of the Parker Group made it easy to integrate the team into the CDC environment. It's nice to know there are people who are as good as their word and their handshake when conducting business.

Walter Harris
Deputy Director
CDC/Office of Surveillance Epidemiology and Laboratory Services

Last two days have been so much more in addition to learning to become a better salesman! J It was very refreshing to connect and learn from peers and leaders like you.

Vidya

Vidya Patankar
DEAP-Clinician User Interface (CUI)
M (301) 787-9338

a. "Gloria Parker, of Parker Group Consulting, did an extraordinary job of helping our company develop a strategy for marketing innovative solutions to the First-Responder community. We called on her because of her expertise, not only as a successful executive in sales and marketing at a major Fortune 50 company, but also as one of the most successful and innovative government executives in the IT community. She has been an extraordinary asset to our company." Sr. VP, Mid-Tier company

b. "She is a vital addition to our government team. Gloria, you certainly are a game-changer to us!" Sr. VP, Large company – video at Congressional Award Ceremony

Testimonials

Excellent speakers, great content, superb planning.

Gloria had great experiences to share and was engaging. The DISC styles were eye-opening and helpful for dealing with both teammates and customers; all stakeholders.

While not normally giving “5”’s, this training was a top-notch effort worthy of a “5”. The only issue was time…not enough. Gloria was engaging and theatric-effective teacher. Having the resources from outside entities was welcome.

Excellent workshop!! Invited speakers were an added bonus!

The organization of the content was excellent. Every presentation and workshop was clear, to the point and geared towards my customer relationships. This is exactly what I expected from executive presentations.

The experience showed through via the clarity, quality, and mastery of the presentation content.

Experience, real-world examples.

Gloria and speakers had great real-world experience.

This is the class that I’ve always wanted to take. Thank you for de-mystifying the sales process and making it executable for me.

Great event/Learning Face to Face.

Very good content to the training. I was able to pick up some very helpful and insightful things that will greatly benefit me in dealing with my customers.

Everyone’s knowledgeability. We had tons of questions and all were thoroughly answered. Gloria was able to debunk anyone’s thought that we knew how to do this already. There wasn’t anyone who walked away without new info, approaches, etc.

Makes you think about customer relationships from a different point of view than day-to-day project management responsibilities.

All speakers were awesome! Gloria was super awesome!!!

Thank you for teaching the class. I enjoyed the class and it helped to put a framework around engaging and winning business with the customer. Thank you!!

Practice all I’ve learned. I used to meet with clients in the 80s and early 90s, and this reminds me that it’s not so awkward when you’re prepared and practice.

I feel equipped with tools to be better engaged.

I learned so much about government customer engagement that the space provided is not enough.

I like this course. The strengths of the course is that it is a great course for both beginners and seasoned professionals. Everyone learned something.

As a seasoned government sales/BD professional, I found today to be an outstanding refresher and opportunity to have and improve my skills.

Great class. Held my attention all day. Appreciated the CIO point of view.

Exceeded my expectations and kept my attention throughout the day.

Gloria is very well-spoken, and has good experience to draw for examples.

Gloria’s knowledge as a former CIO and sales trainer was clear. She addressed each and every question from the group.

Very well organized program with well thought out training objectives.

Enjoyed the two-day class. Learned a lot and know my team did as well. Appreciated my company investing time and energy into this training.

Gloria and Ron’s experience! What an amazing opportunity to learn from 2 very accomplished professionals.

Gloria’s background and experience as former CIO.

Getting a realistic view of how gov’t thinks.

Educating us on dealing with objections. Learning how to make “no” an impossible reply, the importance of building a rapport! Relationship selling.

CIO expertise brought to the table.

CIO expertise brought to the table.

This is a terrific course in navigating how to engage with  government customers. Some things seem they should be obvious, but they are not as obvious if the mindset is not well oriented  and aligned to see the obvious. This class brought that obvious to me and I see the big gap between what I’m doing now and  what I need to be doing to be effective. Thank you, Gloria and Mike.

I now have a  structured approach to effectively use in getting and conducting customer meetings.