www.ceotodaymagazine.com 45 questions and answers, video, application sharing, whiteboards, and other activities. What have been CRP’s achievements over the past 12 months? In 2022, CRP was recognised with the prestigious Moxie Award, which annually celebrates organisations in the DC metropolitan area that have demonstrated moxie (e.g., boldness, courage, innovation, risk-taking) in business. CRP received the award for the womanowned business category for its bold pivoting to a newpractice area: staffing augmentation. From 2020 to 2022, CRP experienced phenomenal growth from 14 full-time staff to an average of 132 full-time employees or a growth rate of 900%. During this same period,CRPwasretainedbyaDCgovernment agency to assess the agency’s remote work pilot program. The pilot program assessment employs a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the feasibility of the agency’s hybrid work model. What excites you about the future? CRP recently was awarded a Procurement of Research Evaluation and Statistics Task Orders (PRESTO) Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences (IES). This award will expand and increase CRP’s opportunities to bid on future work within the IES divisions. The possibilities are unlimited! I am also excited about expanding our national exposure via additional contracts and partnerships both in the private and public spaces. As a DC Certified Business Enterprise (CBE), CRP is excited about the potential growth in responding to the city’s Mayoral DC Comeback Plan. This economic strategy framework outlines the mayor’s vision for post-pandemic growth for the city and particularly in the downtown area over the next five years. The plan emphasises the importance of workforce development and its alignment with housing, job creation and financial growth for the Black residents of the nation’s capital. There are numerous possibilities for CRP in job creation and changing the landscape of emerging entrepreneurs and successful minority businesses. Anotherpossibilitythat excitesme is creating new jobs by expanding our call centre work, which currently supports DC’s workforce development goals by offering employment opportunities for District residents. Recognising today’s competitive environment, I envision that we can play a stronger role as part of the workforce solution in closing the opportunity gap by hiring more unemployed DC residents, many of whom live in DC’s underserved neighbourhoods. Within this context, I am excited about the prospect of CRP, aminority-owned business, becoming an even more impactful driver of economic growth and job creation in DC. I am optimistic that CRP will continue to build on its impeccable reputation for setting standards of excellence in providing workforce solutions.
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