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Arc Aspicio Selected as a Winner for 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces Award

Arc Aspicio Selected as a Winner for 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces Award

Arlington, VA, May 23, 2011 – Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces selected Arc Aspicio as a 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces winner. This prestigious award recognizes exemplary small businesses and their workplace practices that foster innovation and job creation.

Every year since 2003, Winning Workplaces has recognized those firms that attribute much of their business success to their commitment to exemplary people practices and outstanding workplace cultures. This year, Winning Workplaces and Inc. received nearly 350 completed applications for the contest and selected 50 businesses as 2011 winners.

“These firms represent some of the finest privately held companies in the world,” states Bob LaPointe, president of Inc. “Their stories, appearing in the June issue of Inc., clearly demonstrate that taking an innovative approach to creating the right culture—one in which human capital is embedded in a company’s value proposition—can create real competitive leadership. Each of these Top Small Company Workplaces offers an environment in which people flourish and, as a result, profit follows.”

Arc Aspicio, a homeland security and intelligence company, has built a distinct culture focused on employee growth and development that has enabled the company to hire and retain top talent in a highly competitive market.

“We are very excited to be recognized as a Top Small Company Workplaces winner. Our success in creating this unique culture of collaboration and professional growth is attributed to our talented employees and the tools, training, and individual support we provide.” —Maryanne Waller, Director of Talent and Operations

Arc Aspicio employees participate in a custom-built Homeland Security Mission Training program. The company keeps employees and projects connected through our Socialcast social media portal, designed to facilitate informal networking and knowledge sharing across our projects. The company recently started a company-wide leadership coaching program, facilitated by an external coach.

For more information about Arc Aspicio, please visit our website at www.arcaspicio.com. To read our story in the June issue of Inc., click here. To see our company mascot, Maggie, featured in Inc., click here.

Contact Information
Lynn Ann Casey
lac@arcaspicio.com
703.465.2060

Arc Aspicio is an information technology and management consulting company that focuses on homeland security and intelligence. Our services include strategy and planning, business architecture, strategic communications, mission/technology alignment, information technology, and program management. Arc Aspicio is building a community that promotes collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and intelligence to improve homeland security. For more information, visit us at www.arcaspicio.com.

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Arc Aspicio enhances the future of our nation by creating bold ideas and bringing them to life. A consulting and solutions company, Arc Aspicio solves problems by applying our integrated capabilities in strategy, design, data, human capital, behavioral science, and technology. The company passionately pursues our vision to be the hub of creativity where people take action to change the world. To do this, employees collaborate with clients and partners to create solutions using a human-centered approach. Innovation is not possible without action. The company focuses on strategy first, then takes a hands-on approach implementing ideas to achieve results. Join Arc Aspicio and our Strategy Innovation Lab (SILab) by creating and sharing ideas to inspire people to change the world. Follow us on Twitter @ArcAspicio @SILabDC and, #welovedogs!

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