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Ignoring Elephants = Bad
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•Disability is the 3rd largest
market segment, behind men
and women (1.1B people)
•Market is untapped due to
‘charitable’ approach
•Rigorous process will prove
opportunity
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Intelligence
•Domestic and international business/disability trends, analysis and insights
•Qualitative and quantitative consumer research
•Insights gathering, assessment and analysis of key internal attitudes, desires and perceived
challenges as they relate to disability
Targeted Programming
•Talent Sourcing
•Accessible Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Solutions
•Management Training
•Messaging & Communications
•Community Outreach
•Extreme User-Led Innovation
Strategic Platform Development
•Alignment and integration of all disability related programming and intelligence gathering
efforts with the strategic organizational mission under one umbrella
•Development of long-term strategy for systems of interaction with the disability market that
drives sustained value
Valuation & Measurement
•Performance audits to track and measure improvement
•RoD™ Index
What We Offer
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IPS Product Portfolio
Pinnacle RecruitingIPS Strategy IPS CapitalIPS Insights
Return on DisabilityTM Process
RoD Assessment Where are your organization’s opportunities in business /disability and the Baby Boomer generation?
RoD MapTranslates opportunities into strategy and tactics.
RoD Index Sets clear goals and specific deliverables. Measures progress based on 320 customizable attributes.
RoD MarketplaceAttract the Customer and market of People with Disabilities, their Stakeholders and evolving Boomers.
Informing Process and Decisions
Global Economics of DisabilityA macro view on disability for managers (Released annually)
Best Practice AuditWhich companies are doing what, and how?(Released annually)
Trend AnalysisPapers on emerging topics in business/disability (Released bi-monthly and ‘as it happens’)
Custom AnalysisCompany specific consumer and market research
Training/speakingCustomized sessions ranging from ‘Broad business case around disability’ to ‘Leveraging quality frameworks in Diversity’
Sourcing the Best, for the Best
Diverse Experienced Talent Fee per hire model.
Recruiting Program BuildHow to hire and retain People with Disabilities, their Stakeholders and evolving Boomers.
Third Party Branding Portable credibility through branding and program operation.
Resource Collaboration Marshalling talent sources to one spigot.
Investing for Ultimate Value
Principal InvestingSeeking outsized returns from capitalizing ‘stealth’ marketplace
Index InvestingLeveraging RoD Index, investing in global large-cap debt/equity and soveriegns using observable benchmarks.
Customers | Employees | Recruiting | Product Development | Risk Management
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Return on Disability Process Map
Delivering SolutionsIdentify Opportunity Measuring ProgressDefine Strategy
Audit of existing programs/policies• Focus on specific audiences,from executive leadership toemployees to consumers• Diagnoses of gaps in business/disability program delivery
Assessment & Analysis• Attitudes/Corporate Culture• Executive Priority Survey –Cascading priority ofObjectives
Overview of the marketplace• Business/disability overview• Macro trends on disability andeconomic progression
Insights Gathering• Customer segmentation• Ethnographic research
RoD™ Assessment• Internal & ExternalOpportunity Analysis
RoD•Map™• Focus Strategy• Hone vision• Propel transformation
Best Practices Development• Talent outreach, recruitingand retention• Management training• Marketing• Safety procedures
Messaging & Communications• Internal corporatecommunications• External brand messaging
Innovation• Productivity Enhancement• Product Development
RoD™ Index• Performance Audits• Track Improvement• RoD™ - Innovation• RoD™ - Allocation• Success Metrics
Internal ResourcesDevelopment
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About us
IPS Managing Partner, Rich Donovan
Rich Donovan is a Managing Partner of IPS Group LLC(IPS). Rich worked as a Vice President
at Merrill Lynch & Co in the role Portfolio Manager in New York City. While churning out an
average annual return of 17%, Rich was a key change agent at Merrill to put measurable
results behind disability and ensure that it became a recognized pillar of the firm’s diversity
strategy.
He is the founder of Lime, a New York-based not-for-profit delivering economic
empowerment to people with disabilities. With its partners – Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo, Google,
Target and Goldman Sachs – Lime approaches this space with a ‘rational edginess’ to
combat the existing ‘radioactive’ brand of disability in connecting talent and opportunity in
the workplace.
Rich is a recipient of Merrill Lynch’s 2006 Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion Award in
recognition of the results Lime produced for the firm, The Life Without Limits 2008 Award of
Excellence and was honored as a ‘Champion of Change’ by the Bubel/Aiken Foundation.
He serves on the board of directors of The United Cerebral Palsy Associations and the
Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation. Mr. Donovan, who happens to have
cerebral palsy, holds a BBA from Schulich School of Business at York University and an MBA
from Columbia Business School. Rich is an avid sailor.
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IPS Managing Partner, Dustin Longstreth
Dustin Longstreth is a Managing Partner of IPS Group LLC. He is a founding board member
and an original apostle of Lime, a New York-based not-for-profit dedicated to delivering
economic empowerment to people with disabilities.
Dustin was a founding partner of The New York Branding Company, a brand strategy
consultancy that outsources talent to top NYC based agencies. Prior to founding NYBC,
Dustin was a director of brand strategy at CBX and Wallace Church where he led major
brand positioning and innovation projects for Pepsico, General Mills, Del Monte, M&M Mars,
The Scotts Company, LifeStyles, McNeill Nutritionals and Wine Enthusiast Companies among
many others.
Dustin has been a speaker at Columbia Business School and the Institute for International
Research. He is a graduate of the Actors Theatre of Louisville conservatory training program
and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
About us
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IPS Group, LLC
99 John Street
Suite 520
New York, NY 10038
718.395.7877
www.returnondisability.com
Contact us
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