Connect. Innovate. Adopt.
Who we are...
4CORE is an SBA CERTIFIED, WOMAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS (WOSB)
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Over 40 years combined government (Department of Defense) and commercial leadership, innovation, technology and program experience.
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We know how to work with the government and how to navigate their acquisition, budget and programmatic processes.
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We're fun to work with, well respected in many government and commercial communities and are highly sought after as business relationship advisors between government and contractors.
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We're expert technology advisors and consultants delivering innovative solutions and compelling approaches to a wide range of technology adoptions.
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We enable organizations to work better together with greater productivity, streamline approaches in creating new technologies or products, enhance operations, and simplify the implementation process to make transitions as easy as possible for the organization as well as the user.
🔒 Technical Cybersecurity Consulting:
Independent evaluations of cybersecurity and data analysis platforms.
Cybersecurity validation to ensure robust security measures.
Empowering organizations with actionable insights to enhance cybersecurity.
🏗️ Solutions Architecture Design:
Design and development of innovative architectures to solve IT problems.
Tailored solutions through products, professional services, and cutting-edge technologies.
Enabling organizations to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in their IT infrastructure.
🤝 Business Relationship Advisement:
Understanding government needs and challenges.
Building integrative teams to address organizational goals.
Providing advisory services for successful business relationships.
💡 Clarifying Customer Personas:
Crafting key messaging and themes for effective customer engagements.
Developing targeted marketing strategies to resonate with customers.
Enhancing customer experiences and driving positive outcomes.
✨ Your Trusted Partner in Cybersecurity and IT Solutions:
We specialize in independent cybersecurity evaluations, solutions architecture design, business relationship advisement, and customer persona clarification. Our expertise empowers organizations to enhance their security posture, optimize IT infrastructure, and drive effective customer engagements. Partner with us to unlock the full potential of your cybersecurity and IT initiatives.
What we do...
VALUES
~ PASSION. We use our drive and commitment to energize, engage and inspire others.
~ COURAGE. As entrepreneurial risk takers, we reach beyond boundaries and experiment.
~ INTEGRITY. Consistently open, honest, ethical and genuine.
~ TRANSPARENCY. We fully disclose substance over flash and open think without hesitation.
~ FUN. Making the best out of any situation to increase motivation, productivity and success.
Let us show you what is possible by maximizing the resources you already have. We are practical. We help solve problems, apply conceptual ideas and validate theories.
Who We Are
Get to Know Us
Megan Corey
About Megan “The Facilitator”
Megan started 4CORE after she left a promising career within the Department of Defense. She wanted to support organizations and communities in a bigger way. With her background in private and public industry, Megan wanted to infuse creativity, team-building, resilience, well-being, and leadership development through innovative approaches. Megan also has a wealth of experience as a people connector and relationship builder. She's frequently requested to manage business relationships as well as work her magic with leadership and teams. Focusing on trust, accountability and motivation within groups to enable culture change, create powerful connections among groups and build better relationships.
Having served as a government civilian in an IT agency in the Department of Defense for over 10 years in leadership positions supporting high ranking government officials and military officers, I now provide facilitation and consulting services to government entities and IT organizations doing work with the government. We help clarify customer personas, craft key messaging and themes for effective customer engagements, decipher ambiguous IT requirements and design and develop architectures to solve IT problems and offer solutions through products, professional services and different technologies.
Megan's patience, leadership style and confidence allow her to work with the toughest challenges to find optimal solutions for her clients. She's experienced in getting people together to make decisions in the best interest of the programs she's supporting. She understands working within budget and schedule constraints and matrix organizations.
Megan will get you the results you're looking for when you thought nothing else was possible.
Jeremy Corey
About Jeremy “The Technology Explainer”
Jeremy has more than two decades of experience in engineering and delivering information technology solutions in the public and commercial industry. Jeremy left a storied career in the Department of Defense to bring practical innovation and courage to leverage collective genius for solving organization’s toughest technical challenges. Jeremy wanted to educate organizations on solutions and deliver his passion for explaining technical concepts to executives.
Jeremy approaches problem solving in a semi-structured manner. Considering implemented systems, formal process and business rules, and unstructured intuition, judgement and organization context. A Johns Hopkins alumni with an uninhibited desire to learn, Jeremy applies his approach candidly, thinking out-loud, articulating, and visualizing with the simplest terms to decompose the problem into digestible portions. Jeremy likes to relate everything to good food. :)
As a technologist, Jeremy appreciates organizational uniqueness in tools, infrastructures, and software stacks. In more recent years, cybersecurity has become a central focus for many clients. Decomposing the security concerns of executives, recognizing the core business objectives, it is not uncommon for a discussion around a particular risk, concern, or vulnerability to include technology roadmaps, fiscal constraints, and human capital development. It isn’t always about the technology, and as a Partner of 4CORE LLC, Jeremy realizes people don’t fit into neat boxes like containers in a Kubernetes cluster. We want to work with curious and empathetic people who are just as committed to developing themselves and learning new skills as they are about the success of the organization and its mission.
Jeremy helps customers innovate, adopt and derive value from collaborative solutions.
WHAT WE DO
And How We Do it
CONNECT
Facilitation, Strategy, Design
Facilitation and strategy to align with the vision, mission and goals of the organization to reach intended outcomes. We lead interactive strategy, well-being, and resilience sessions focused on either individual and/or systems level forward thinking approaches with no limits to what’s possible. These creative strategy and design sessions include a mix of collaborative thinking, active learning, solution circles/crowd sourcing and future visioning to really dig deep into the heart and expertise of each of the key stakeholders to bring magic and momentum to the surface.
Each person has a voice and something to contribute to the greater good of the organization. Gone are the days of one voice, one leader and one-sided direction. Allowing the creative genius to emerge from each one of us brings endless possibilities and motivation to see ultimate contribution from every single person leading to incredible success within the organization. We’ll elevate team strengths, communication and connection leading to a thriving and productive workforce that will take your organization to the next level.
INNOVATE
Technical Advisement, Create, Strategy
With our corporate, commercial, and government backgrounds, we dive deep into conducting market research, assessing the newest technologies, applying industry best practices, developing minimum viable products to prove out ideas, identifying measurable results, considering integrations, and operational and human capital burdens.
Our team of experts have the skills and experience to dive deep into specific areas of focus to a broad range of topics. We’ve led teams with all different backgrounds and areas of expertise and understand the best approaches to each situation that proves the most value to the organization. We thrive on continuous learning, research and development to not only improve our knowledge and understanding, but to also provide the most innovative and valuable guidance and recommendations to our customers. We’re also pretty good at taking the 1000 foot look at each and every situation or topic and bringing it down to a more logical level so everyone, even the non-techy’s or experts in the group, can understand and contribute on an equal playing field. We’re able to strategize and streamline approaches to every situation with optimized processes and resources.
ADOPT
Plan, Implement, Conquer
We help you create the message platform and value proposition for traction, identify and scope pilots, recruit champions far and wide, build momentum and ultimately conquer. There’s nothing worse than putting in all the work and the money to innovate, design, and strategize to then just see all of this go nowhere. That’s where a unique implementation plan and strategy to keep the momentum going and see each innovation come to life and into the users hands is key to making each and every project a success.
From start to finish, we pave the way from initial idea to seeing this in use. The strategy around adopting new technologies or processes is just as important as the initial design phase. What’s the point of creating something if no one’s going to use it? This is why we put user experience high on our priority list during the entire design and innovate stage and especially into implementation. Another area we tackle is the process of sunsetting or removing older technologies when replacement or updated innovations are ready to be brought in. There’s a fine art to this entire process to make it as seamless and practical as possible to alleviate any issues or interruptions to the user. Let’s create something truly innovative and watch as the magic happens in real life being used by real people.
Joint Venture Info & Partnership Opportunities
4CORE and August Schell Enterprises (ASE) have formed a Joint Venture called 4CORE Solutions, an SBA-Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) providing everything you see here plus the reselling of different technologies and products in the cyber security space.
Looking for More?
Check out these 2 books Megan had the opportunity to be a co-author in. These books are meant to provide support, guidance and motivation to women everywhere in their career, health and life.
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Certified XCHANGE Facilitator
Coach, Facilitator, & Consultant using the XCHANGE framework.
XCHANGE is a radically effective, scientifically based, multi-disciplinary approach for leading and managing teams, organizations and learning communities, both at in-person events (retreats, conferences, summits & workshops), as well as in the virtual environment.
Certified by the Small Business Administration and a part of the WOSB Federal Contract Program.
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Certified Woman Owned Small Business
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach (INHC):
Graduate of the Integrative Nutrition's Health Coach Training Program. Demonstrated ability to understand and utilize a wide range of dietary and nutrition theories, as well as develop business and coaching skills to practice in a variety of settings. Trained to educate and guide clients to make behavioral changes resulting in improved nutrition, dietary habits, physical ability, and overall greater health and wellness.
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200 hours:
Successfully completed a 200- hour yoga teacher training that is registered with Yoga Alliance.
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