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Company Overview

The Dougherty Group, LLC is a one-stop consulting, services, operations, sales and marketing source for services and solutions targeting the K-12 Education, Retail Real Estate, and Travel & Event Planning market sectors.

K-12 Ed. Tech. Consulting Services

The Dougherty Group, LLC, is your source for proven education strategists, sales and marketing executives, planners, consultants / project managers, trainers, and both 'keynote' & featured speakers. We are uniquely positioned to assist you because our expertise spans both the instructional and administrative needs of District operations.

Retail Real Estate Services

The Dougherty Group, LLC provides proven retail-centric property leasing, property management, tenant representation and exceptional proven levels of support. Our focus is Shopping centers which include: Regional/Super-regional malls; Open-air, Speciality, Neighborhood/Community, Power, Entertainment/Lifestyle, and Outlet centers.

Travel and Event Planning

The Dougherty Group, LLC, Travel & Event Planning Practice is renown for personalized and outstanding Customer Service. We provide custom air travel, hotels, transportation, destination vacations, incentive trips, and 'Hands On' world wide Culinary Travel experiences for 'Foodies'; we are your partner. Being flexible, we can offer any size solution to fit your needs.

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Foundation for Growth

No matter which "service verticle" your business or personal interests require, a fundamental premise of our engagement philosophy is to lay a "Foundation for Growth" and client satisfaction. We collaborate with you to plan your long-term objectives, minimize exposure due to economic or political impacts, minimize unplanned exposures, and assist you in planning for long term significant success!

Defining the Difference

Each and every client has a unique set of objectives and goals. We discover the 'value' and expectations in these objectives by actively working with our clients through listening, learning, and asking "the key" (relevant) questions and "Defining the Difference". We have found that this methodology approach brings success, satisfaction and sustainability to all parties involved. With the questions answered and your goals throughly understood, we work with you to refine each strategy, objective, and tactic with the end result being a unique solution that finds it's foundation in your goals and assists in differenting you from your competitors where applicable.

Passion for Success

Our "Passion for Success" lies in the approach that once a plan is developed and implementented it is not the strategic panacea and the 'locked in' roadmap! We have a philosophy that all plans and approaches are "Evergreen" and need to be continually revisted and refined where required based on economic, competitive, technology, new destination locations, and market dynamics. Whether it be business related or travel/event planning centric; we actively work with all of our clients, to assure that their current and future actions continue to meet your long term goals. Working with our clients, on a collaborative basis, we adjust our actions and deliverables where required. The end result is measurable in the form of business growth, market share increase, increased profitability, and travel/event super-satisfaction.

In the News

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The Dougherty Group just successfuly completed a 4-day professional development event for I.C.S.C. (International Council of Shopping Centers) in Scottsdale Arizona. The classes focused on Retail Real Estate Marketing, Merchandising, and Leasing. For more pictures and more detailed information please got to our Retail Real Estate Practice tab on this site.

Current News

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The Dougherty Group has developed a series of new 'turnkey' interactive Retail Real Estate curriculum that combine classroom-based professional development topics with 'field based' excursions that tie back to the content exposed during the classroom sessions. The offering can be Client Custom & Specific. The initial offering was recently successfully tested with the NIRSC (Northern Ireland Region of Shopping Centers). The focus of this 4 day event was Customer Service and Satisfaction; and common and alternative uses of Social Media as a component of Marketing and Branding campaigns. Thru working with our Event Planning practice, we were able to offer a 'Turn Key' approach where we orchistrated venue planning, hotel reservations, conference room facilities, meals, and transportation to all venues ... including group airport pick-up.

The next version of this innovative Professional Development program has been developed to align with the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) certifications requirements and again provides both classroom and real life 'field based' concept re-enforcement.
For more information please contact The Dougherty Group.

Recent Events

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The Dougherty Group has enhanced our web-site for 'smart phone' and 'mini pad'/ and 'slate' support. The new responsive design allows you to access us at anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

The Dougherty Group successfully completed a 4 day teaching engagement for the John T. Riordan School for Retail Real Estate professionals. The focus of our curriculum focused on Marketing, Merchandising, and Leasing. Key events inculded a capstone assessment in the theme of 1) Jeopardy and 2) I.C.S.C. Family Feud. It was a fun experience for all and we received rave reviews.

The Dougherty Group has started booking travel events for 'Foodies'. We are currently working with Epitourean with it's product 'Edible Destinations' culinary travel experiences. We can create customized or pre-designed cultural tours, culinary getaways and cooking vacations for the foodie in all of us. Packages are available world-wide as well as the US. Our first clients will be attending the La Dolce Vita Culinary Adventure which includes lodging, local transportation, sightseeing, and most importantly 'hands on' cooking classes/experiences with local Chefs. Destination travel can be booked by us or on your own ... it is all up to you! For more information just send an e-mail to foodies@thedocgroup.com

About Us

In the Beginning:

Founded in 2002, The Dougherty Group has over 200 years experience designing, developing, selling, and implementing leading edge technology solutions for the Education Market sector. The 'key players' have been successful, industry proven senior executives working for such visionary Instructional Technology / Technology companies as: Computer Curriculum Corporation, iMind Education Systems, Prescription Learning, NetSchools Corporation, Plato Learning, CrossPointe, Educational Data Resources, Ingres Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.

The Growing Years:

In 2014, we expanded our focus and introduced two new practices focusing on Retail Real Estate Consulting Services and Management; and a Travel and Event Planning Service. These additions were based on TDG's ability to attract proven industry renown professionals such as Linda Carrick-Warfield that leads our Retail Real Estate Services practice. Include our beliefs on the benefits of social-media for growing businesses like TDG.

Where we're going:

Our Philosophy is to assist all of our clients and their customers (where applicable) to optimize your investments (capital, operational, and human assests by assisting you in identifying those critical challenges to your organization, achieving measurable results, and optimizing extensibility solutions. We challenge ourselves to deliver targeted and measurable solutions that meet the needs of the 21st Century business owner… both today and in the future!

Team Bio:
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personel bio picJim Dougherty - Founder, CEO, and Managing Partner:
Jim Dougherty is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Dougherty Group. At TDG Jim has Business Development responsibility as well as operational responsibility for all Key Business Initiatives in all principle areas of our consulting practices. Jim has an outstanding track record of success with over 30 years experience in the Educational / New Media and Enterprise Software industry working for such innovative leaders as: Xerox Corporation, Ingres Corporation, Computer Curriculum Corporation, Pearson, NetSchools Corporation, and Plato Learning. Jim has been recognized nationally as a key strategist and Subject Matter Expert in areas of B2E, B2B, and B2C e-learning directions, market trends, and solutions for the K-12 and Adult Education e-learning and e-commerce markets. Jim has been a 'featured' speaker at most major industry and state Education Conferences.

personel bio picLinda Carrick-Warfield; CRX, CLS, CSM, CMD - EVP Retail Real Estate Practice:
Linda is a top-ranked commercial real estate professional with more than 30 years’ of national experience with commercial retail units consisting of: Mixed use, Lifestyle centers, Entertainment centers, Neighborhood, Community and Enclosed malls. She has numerous I.C.S.C Designations (CMD, CLS, CRX, CSM) which form the intellectual and experiencal foundation for the numerous Professional Development courses she teachs for I.C.S.C. Linda's experience is both broad and deep with Retail Real Estate management, marketing and leasing experience with strengths that include: - Tenant Representation, Landloard Representation, Site Selection, and Property Management - Prospecting and Networking, Marketing, Meeting Planning, and Research and Analysis. Linda has also been a 'Featured Speaker' at numerous Retail Real Estate Conferences nationally.

personel bio picJim Dougherty - EVP and Managing Partner K-12 Practice:
Jim Dougherty is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Dougherty Group. At TDG Jim has Business Development responsibility as well as operational responsibility for all Key Business Initiatives in all principle areas of our consulting practices. Jim founded TDG to focus on provding Technology Planning and Consulting Services to the K-12 Education market sector. The initial focus was to provide technology expertise/services to K-12 School Districts and to those vendor's targeting at doing business in this market sector. Jim has an outstanding track record of success with over 30 years experience in the Educational / New Media and Enterprise Software industry working for such innovative leaders as: Xerox Corporation, Ingres Corporation, Computer Curriculum Corporation, Pearson, NetSchools Corporation, Plato Learning, and Educational Data Resources (formally CrossPointe). Jim has been recognized nationally as a key strategist and Subject Matter Expert in areas of B2E, B2B, and B2C e-learning directions, market trends, and solutions for the K-12 and Adult Education e-learning and e-commerce markets. Jim has been a 'featured' speaker at most major industry and state Education Conferences.

personel bio pic'tbd' Event Planning & Travel Practice (Linda acting):
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personel bio picJimmy Dougherty - Social Media Consultant:
Jimmy Dougherty graduated from California State University - Sonoma with a BS in Business Administration, Marketing emphasis. He has been actively involved in establishing Internet (Web, Facebook, and Twitter) identities for numerous Silicon Valley companies. He is the point person for TDG's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram presence.

personel bio picCompany Consultants:
Marianne Mullins - Marketing and PR
Ewald Wiberg - K-12 Project Management and Implementations
Katie Gilchrest - Travel & Event Planning
Prestige Travel - Travel & Event Planning
Don Hall - IT, Hosting, and Web Application Maintenance & Support additional ...

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