Based in the Washington DC area, Strategent Corporation and its affiliated Strategent Academy provide coursework and coaching services to aspiring and accomplished leaders who want to sharpen their skills in strategic planning, tactics, communication, strategy execution, and performance monitoring and evaluation. Our method is based on the practice, teaching, and consulting we have done for almost three decades here in the nation's capital for entities and clients such as government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and notable non-profits.
Are you a structured, traditional learner? Then our coursework is for you. Do you learn by doing? Then our StepMinders coaching system might make more sense. Are you a reader? Download our e-book on the STEP Cycle method for strategic management. Or you can use a combination of these approaches to step up your skills in leading and managing organizations.
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Strategent Academy will build your strategic management knowledge as a leader, manager, or consultant
Professional development
The Strategent team provides you the knowledge and experience you need to advance your skills at your own pace, in your own style, as your needs and resources allow. Engaging us through Strategent Academy is easy and affordable, with no long-term contracts to sign.
Approach
Based on our STEP Cycle © method of strategic management, we show organizations how to develop and implement effective strategies. We help teams handle conflict constructively and create synergy to become measurably more productive. We provide individuals with proven methods for reliably assessing their personal strengths and opportunities for improvement and leveraging that knowledge to achieve at new levels of performance excellence.
Consulting/Coaching
We specialize in strategic planning, strategy implementation, performance measurement and development, program and project management, conflict resolution, evaluation, process improvement, professional training and educational programs, customer satisfaction surveys, employee engagement surveys, leadership development, team building and interventions, meeting planning, facilitation, and follow-up, including on-site interventions.
Our products and services
Our Team
John A. Corso, DPA
President
Strategent Corporation
John Corso has achieved real, measurable results for individuals and organizations from various sectors of industry. He holds a Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, with specific concentrations in performance measurement, evaluation, training, and organizational development, and research focused on team leadership and interpersonal dynamics. He teaches and lectures in strategy and performance management at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies and McDonough School of Business and has practiced in all of these disciplines as an internal and external consultant since joining the University's adjunct faculty cadre in 2002. He has served as a manager, consultant, and coach to other managers and senior leaders for more than 35 years of both public and private service.
Gary A. Steinberg, MBA
Vice President
Strategent Corporation
Gary Steinberg is a former federal senior executive and a recognized leader in strategic planning, performance management, and organizational management. Currently an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, he previously served as an agency director at the U.S. Department of Labor. He was a Meritorious Executive recipient of the President's Rank Award in 2015. He served as a senior executive at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for strategic human capital and performance management programs. He served nine years at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where he was responsible for strategic planning, program evaluation, organizational assessments, and management improvement programs. He began his Federal career at NASA where he served as Director for Strategic Management, leading development of NASA's strategic and performance plans and strategic management system. Prior to joining the government, Mr. Steinberg had private industry management responsibilities in the areas of strategic and business planning, management controls, and quality. Mr. Steinberg graduated from the University of Connecticut cum laude, and from the University of Hartford with a master's in business administration.