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History
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Kyle Smith established the RedWind Group in 1999 when the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, a nation of 230,000 members and 1,700 employees, requested assistance to significantly transform the culture of the tribal service organization.
Funded by the Ford Foundation, Kyle used his fifteen years of operational, financial, organizational development experience in the energy industry and assembled a group of uniquely qualified consultants. The resulting effort, called “One Fire,” became the catalyst of a two-year project to regain the Cherokees status as a leader among Indian Nations. The team created an economic development plan that helped the Nation’s business enterprises by increasing their profit more than ten-fold. Cherokee leadership developed the capacity to manage it’s exploding operating budget, going from $144 million in 1999 to over $337 million in 2004.
Founding RedWind, Inc., an American Indian owned and operated, SBA 8 (a), Smith drew on his relationships with American Indian tribal leaders and nationally known consultants and put together a consulting group uniquely qualified to provide the tools and expertise that organizations need to seize on economic opportunities.
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RedWind’s consultants have been nationally recognized for their innovative work with clients.
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- The Veteran's Administration won the first Al Gore Hammer Award for reinventing government. They also earned the prestigious PILLAR Award.
- Amerada Hess received the Smithsonian Award for the implementation of technology.
- The Navy Postal Group in Washington, D.C. won the Federal Mail Center Excellence Award.
- InTek, the Geon Company, and AT&T Credit Corp. have been featured in America's National Tour of outstanding organizations.
- Colgate's facility in Richmond, Indiana has won the US Senate Productivity Award.
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Our consulting work has been featured in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, IEE Engineering Management, and Fortune. Our work has appeared in Peter Senge’s, The Fifth Discipline Handbook, Michael Hammer's Reengineering the Corporation, Robert Mile's Corporate Comeback, Katzenbach & Smith's The Wisdom of Teams and Ned Herrmann's The Whole Brain Business Book.
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