We combine deep public-sector and regulated-industry expertise with senior-led advisory, operational rigor, and disciplined execution to help clients navigate uncertainty, unlock opportunity, and deliver measurable outcomes.
We specialize in business development, transaction advisory support, strategy and management consulting, and executive retained search. Our professionals serve global Fortune 500 enterprises as well as small to medium-sized businesses, private equity and family offices with enterprises across multiple sectors.
Our extensive industry knowledge paired with our global reach enables us to identify areas of opportunity, create new connections, and implement innovative strategies to help your business grow.
At growth[period], we have an unwavering commitment to ethical business practices and corporate compliance in all aspects of operation. Every member of our firm completes an annual ethics and compliance training, which covers a wide range of topics, including Global Anti-Bribery Standards, and data privacy. This also helps us best assist our clients to navigate evolving regulatory and compliance requirements.
Clients work directly with experienced operators and advisors—not junior teams. We specialize in environments shaped by regulation, geopolitics, public sector exposure, and operational risk.
Investor-Grade Thinking
Our work is informed by how boards, lenders, and private equity evaluate risk, value, and outcomes.
Strategy is only valuable if it can be implemented. We focus on what works in practice. At growth[period], our clients are our priority. We take a strategic, personalized approach to every engagement—aligning our services with your objectives to drive meaningful, measurable results. Your success is our mission.
Our executives help our clients uncover new opportunities to grow, win business and create value. growth[period] is comprised of business development experts and highly specialized Strategic Client Advisors.
For every project, we customize teams with the right expertise to deliver results. Our approach is designed to encourage close collaboration, with the client and our executives working as a single team.
Ultimately, working side by side helps build trust between the client and our staff at growth[period]. Such a relationship of trust helps us provide a better solution to our clients and understand and help solve the challenges they face.
Tysons Corner, Virginia – April 7, 2026 – growth[period] is proud to announce it has been named one of the Washington Business Journal's 2026 Best Places to Work, marking the 10th time the firm has earned this prestigious recognition. The annual program highlights the top 100 organizations across the Greater Washington region where employees report exceptional levels of trust, collaboration, and workplace satisfaction.
Selection is based on confidential employee surveys that measure engagement, culture, and workplace satisfaction across key factors including management effectiveness, compensation and benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. This year, growth[period] achieved a perfect score: 100% of employees reported being “Highly Engaged,” rating the firm as “highly favorable; advocates for the organization; intending to stay; and demonstrating high discretionary effort.” Additionally, 100% of growth[period] employees reported feeling valued by the organization. When asked to choose a single word to describe their work environment, employees responded: "Supportive.”
"Being recognized for the 10th time is a testament to the people who make growth[period] what it is," said Courtney B. Spaeth, CEO of growth[period]. "These results don't come from any single initiative; they reflect a culture our team builds together every day. We are incredibly proud that every single employee feels engaged and valued, and we remain deeply committed to maintaining the supportive environment that makes this possible."
The Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work program is one of the region's most anticipated and respected workplace recognition programs, celebrating companies throughout Greater Washington, D.C. that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to employee satisfaction, engagement, and culture. Honorees are recognized for recruiting and retaining top talent and for cultivating workplace cultures that serve as a genuine competitive advantage.
growth[period] will be celebrated alongside fellow honorees at the Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work May 7th award event.
About growth[period]
For more than 19 years, growth[period]’s management consulting, business development, geopolitical risk, strategy and transaction advisory services have focused on serving the principal challenges faced by companies in highly regulated industries. We are nationally recognized as a leading provider to growing and established firms seeking assistance to complete sophisticated corporate and technology transactions; manage entry into the federal government contracting industry; assist with navigating the federal marketplace; represent them in partnering agreements; and/or advise them on diligence matters. With deep roots globally, growth[period] has more than 90 experts and offices in multiple markets across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit www.growthprd.com.
CONTACT Talia Frey 703 556 0111 info@growthprd.com
Tysons Corner, Virginia – July 24, 2026 – growth[period], a strategic advisory firm serving public- and private-sector clients at moments of growth, complexity, and transformation, today announced that Candice Foley has joined the firm as a Strategic Client Advisor.
From 2007 to 2025, Ms. Foley served as a Special Agent for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), where she was a recognized expert in strategic technology transfer investigations, weapons of mass destruction proliferation networks, U.S. export laws and regulations, and international money laundering, with a practice concentration in violations of the Arms Export Control Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Export Control Reform Act.
In her role as Strategic Client Advisor, Ms. Foley will support growth[period] clients navigating export control compliance, national security, and international regulatory challenges, drawing on her extensive experience advising government and private sector leaders on border security operations, strategic technology interdiction, and counterproliferation measures.
During her tenure at HSI, she led multi-agency international strategic operations targeting illicit supply chains of autonomous weapon systems utilized against U.S. forces and allies, ultimately disrupting adversary procurement of more than 300,000 weapon components. She served as HSI New England's liaison to the Central Intelligence Agency and as HSI's appointed representative to the U.S. Department of Justice Strategic Technology Strike Force, and is a two-time recipient of the HSI Executive Director Award for Outstanding Investigative Accomplishment and Emergency Management and the World Customs Organization International Customs Award.
About growth[period]
For more than 19 years, growth[period]’s management consulting, business development, global risk, strategy and transaction advisory services have focused on helping companies in highly regulated industries achieve their growth goals. We are nationally recognized as a leading provider to growing and established firms seeking assistance to complete sophisticated corporate and technology transactions; manage entry into the federal government contracting industry; assist with navigating the federal marketplace; represent them in partnering agreements; and advise them on diligence matters. With deep roots globally, growth[period] has more than 90 experts and offices in multiple markets across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit www.growthprd.com.
CONTACT
Talia Frey
703 556 0111
info@growthprd.com
Tysons Corner, Virginia – July 3, 2026 – growth[period], a strategic advisory firm serving public- and private-sector clients at moments of growth, complexity, and transformation, today announced that Brigadier General Michael Cornell, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), has joined the firm as a Strategic Client Advisor.
With his vast senior military leadership in cyber, intelligence, homeland security, and joint operations, Brig. Gen. Cornell joins growth[period] to support clients navigating complex cybersecurity, IT modernization, and national security challenges, leveraging his expertise in mission command, crisis management, and large-scale technology operations.
Brig. Gen. Cornell culminated his 33-year Air Force career as the senior uniformed officer at the Pentagon for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), where he led 4,000 personnel in operating and defending a $14 billion IT and cybersecurity infrastructure supporting 500,000 warfighters across 850 locations worldwide, including bespoke capabilities enabling the President, Secretary of War, and Joint Chiefs of Staff to execute essential functions in all environments. His tenure included modernizing complex IT environments while driving $55 million in budget savings.
Prior to DISA, he commanded an ISR unit enabling global cyber operations for the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, and led counterterrorism and close air support missions across the CENTCOM theater. He commanded at the squadron, group, and field agency echelons, leading expeditionary forces in the Pacific, Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan, where he earned the Air Force Combat Action Medal.
About growth[period]
For more than 19 years, growth[period]’s management consulting, business development, global risk, strategy and transaction advisory services have focused on helping companies in highly regulated industries achieve their growth goals. We are nationally recognized as a leading provider to growing and established firms seeking assistance to complete sophisticated corporate and technology transactions; manage entry into the federal government contracting industry; assist with navigating the federal marketplace; represent them in partnering agreements; and advise them on diligence matters. With deep roots globally, growth[period] has more than 90 experts and offices in multiple markets across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia and Europe. For more information, please visit www.growthprd.com.
CONTACT
Talia Frey
703 556 0111
info@growthprd.comGiving back is a wonderful opportunity for team building, and it is an engaging, fun, meaningful way to spend time together strengthening our community. Our employees who invest in our community develop a stronger sense of belonging and pride in themselves and our culture.
growth[period] provides our employees paid time off for volunteer work annually. Our leadership sets an example with 100% participation in community engagement every year.
