Finalists Announced for Atlanta's 2009 Client Advisor Awards

PR Log (Press Release) – Oct 28, 2009 – Creative Growth Group, Inc. and Atlanta Business School Alliance, the organizers of Atlanta’s Client Advisor Awards, announced today the 2009 Client Advisor Awards finalists.  Winners will be announced at a special luncheon program on December 1, 2009.

Since 2006 the Client Advisor Awards have celebrated the importance of the professional services sector to the Atlanta economy and set the standard for professionalism by honoring advisors and clients who consistently and cooperatively foster and grow successful client advisor relationships. This year the Client Advisor Awards program will also recognize the importance of professional service firms to the U.S. economy with National Client Advisor Awards.  The premise of the Awards program is that clients and their advisors both get more out of their engagements when they demonstrate certain best practices.  These practices are publicly recognized and rewarded through the Client Advisor Awards program.  

The awards are divided into six categories: Large, Mid-size and Small Professional Services Firm and Large, Mid-size and Small Client Organization.  Finalists for the 2009 Atlanta Client Advisor Awards are:

Small Professional Services Firm
•   Brightwave Marketing
•   Jabian
•   Argus Benefits
•   Communication 21

Mid-Sized Professional Services Firm
•   TM Capital
•   HLB Gross Collins, PC
•   BSPJ
•   Calysto Communications

Large Professional Services Firm
•   McGuire Woods
•   Cushman & Wakefield
•   Gensler

Small Client Organization
•   Manheim Online Services
•   Merich, Inc.

Mid-Sized Client Organization
•   Atlanta Botanical Garden
•   Resurgens Orthopaedics
•   EBIX

Large Client Organization
•   Premier Global Services
•   Global Payments, Inc.
•   Invesco

Finalists for the 2009 National Client Advisor Awards are: Grant Thornton, professional services firm and US Army, client organization.

The organizers will also present the Client Advisor Community Involvement Award, which recognizes community involvement partnerships between professional services firms and their clients that have improved quality of life and made a significant difference in neighborhoods and communities at the local and national level.  Finalists for the 2009 Community Involvement Award are: Jabian, Local Community Involvement Award, and IBM, National Community Involvement Award.

Client Advisor Award winners will be announced at an exclusive ceremony on December 1, 2009.  The Awards ceremony will feature Alan Deutschman, business journalist and best-selling author of Change or Die and the recently published Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders.  Drawing from his 22-year career as a journalist for publications such as Fast Company and Fortune magazine, interviews with top executives, and analysis of great leaders, Alan will share his compelling theory of leadership in a talk that will inspire and challenge clients and advisors. Details about location and attendance registration for the December 1, 2009 Client Advisor Awards luncheon ceremony are available at www.clientadvisorawards.com.

In addition to Creative Growth Group and Atlanta Business School Alliance, sponsors of the Client Advisor Awards include: BusinessWise, Cbeyond, Chubb, Constant Contact, Lockton, and Soloflight Design Studios.  

About Creative Growth Group
Creative Growth Group, Inc. creates superior, sustainable business development results exclusively for growth-minded professional services firms. For more information, contact Andrew Dietz at 404-664-7484 or adietz@creativegrowthgroup.com  

About Atlanta Business School Alliance
The Atlanta Business School Alliance is an alliance of Atlanta-area alumni groups from the top-ranked MBA programs including Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Ross School of Business at University of Michigan, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Duke University Fuqua School of Business, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, The Johnson School at Cornell University, New York University Stern School of Business, Emory University Goizueta Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tepper at Carnegie Mellon, The Darden School at University of Virginia, Columbia Business School and the London Business School. For more information, contact Barry Trout at (404) 459-0890 or btrout@hgi1.com.