About Aretao

Aretao brings national and international experience grounded in a values-driven approach to project management and training in the fields of energy, innovation, management, and public administration.

We use our knowledge and experience to work with organizations that share our values to help them achieve their goals.

Values

Aretao’s work is guided by core values including the need for mutual trust and respect among our partners, clients and ourselves; the need to act in a way that demonstrates our integrity and honesty; the need to make sure our actions demonstrate and encourage good stewardship of the world’s resources; and the need to successfully assist our clients in achieving the results they expect. In short, we try to do what is right for everyone involved to the best of our understanding and ability.

What we do...

We can help you or your organization take an idea, and with innovative technology or processes, assist you in making your goals become reality.  We have found that innovators or technology folks don't always speak the language of other stakeholders, but we can help translate those ideas. We are confident we can help you, because we have successfully done these things for others. As Albert Einstein has been quoted as saying: "Knowledge is experience.  Everything else is just information." Our decades of experience gives us confidence in our knowledge and in our ability to communicate it. Here are some examples of benefits we can provide to you and your organization:

• We help you determine how new or innovative technologies or processes might, or might not, benefit your organization.
• We work with your organization through implementation and evaluation phases. 
• A well-developed change management process is vital for the success of even seemingly small changes; we can help you develop and implement that process.

 We can help your organization become what it wants to be, and accomplish that which you desire. Maybe you don't feel like you are really fulfilling your mission, or not moving toward realizing your vision, or not living up to your values. We have found that often bringing in people who can take a knowledgeable and unbiased look can lead to simple suggestions that can re-energize an organization as well as its stakeholders.

...and how we do it

Based on our initial discussion with you and other members of your organization (as appropriate), we will reach into our "bag of tricks and tools" and decide which will best help you achieve your goals.

Some of the "tricks and tools" (skill sets and processes) our consultants have used in the past include:

• Project design, management, implementation and evaluation
• Principles of learning teams and communities of practice
• Strategic planning and the implementation and evaluation of strategic plans
• Diversity training
• In-depth statistically valid research
• Meeting facilitation
• Negotiations
• Grant and Proposal Writing
• Designing and presenting training classes or workshops
• Process design, development, implementation and evaluation
• Designing and providing content for
  • public websites
  • intranets
  • personnel and policy manuals
  • online and hard copy policy and training manuals,
  • online and onsite training courses