Metaforix brings these key strengths to your project:

• Vision: We apply big-picture, systems-oriented thinking to the issues you face. We help you synthesize existing strengths in new ways to address emerging challenges.
  
  
• Leadership: We believe that risk-taking, a strong work ethic, and continuous professional and personal growth are critical to your success. We model these qualities and help you to recognize the same qualities within yourself. We encourage you to become a mentor to colleagues, staff, and others in your personal and professional communities.
  
  
• Communications: We work collaboratively with you to identify and refine your message, tailoring it to the media that will deliver it and the audiences you want to reach. Our goal is to make your communications professional, memorable, and consistent.
  
  
• Innovation: New ideas and creative solutions exist within you and within your organization. The trick is to bring them to light. We facilitate a "safe space" for brainstorming and problem-solving that allows tacit knowledge to emerge. We help you synthesize the collective wisdom that results from this process and use it to design, implement, manage, and evaluate new programs in response to client needs.
  

Metaforix has developed special knowledge and expertise in a variety of skills and disciplines:

• Writing and editing: We create and edit all kinds of text, from proposals to poetry. We design e-mail newsletters and associated Web site content to meet our clients' immediate needs and produce additional content on an ongoing basis. Alternatively, we collaborate with clients on the initial design and then teach them to produce new content on their own.

• Research: Internet research is our specialty -- doing it and teaching other people how to do it, effectively, efficiently, and successfully. We use the Internet to assemble literature summaries and reviews, create white papers, write reports, and create proposals. In addition, we conduct needs assessments, program evaluations, and other qualitative research projects.

• E-health: Healthcare on the Internet -- often called e-health -- magnifies the issues of privacy, trust, and quality that accompany the growth of the Internet as a whole. E-health services, products, and information have significant ramifications in such areas as e-commerce, ethics, law enforcement, doctor/patient relationships, medical research, public policy, and employee morale. We are prepared to help you address the impact of e-health services in a workplace or personal context. (We do not offer legal or medical advice.)

• Education and training for working adults: With over 25 years of hands-on experience and academic training, we are uniquely equipped to help you sort through the complex and rapidly-changing array of educational choices available to organizations and individuals. Businesses, educational institutions, professional associations, nonprofits, and individuals have taken advantage of our expertise to design, implement, evaluate, refine, or purchase educational services to meet their specific needs.

• Workplace diversity: We take pride in our ability to apply both practical and academic knowledge to issues affecting special populations in the workplace. We have planned and implemented constructive interventions to address diversity and inclusiveness, sexual harrassment complaints, work/life balance, educational and professional development options, mentoring, skills self-assessment, self-presentation, body image and personal style, and related areas of employee development, management, and public policy.