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It is the mission of S.M. Groves Consulting to provide the best and most affordable accreditation consulting services available on the market today while increasing the school's efficiency and productivity as they relate to accreditation.
What Our Clients Say
School Administrator
Arizona
I faced a huge problem in writing the documents required by the NACCAS . I very quickly realized that I needed help. I looked around and found Stephanie Groves. I felt comfortable with her since she has worked for NACCAS and felt she may know the ins and outs. She helped me write my ISS. I was impressed on several levels. First was her professionalism, second was her knowledge and third was her patience.
Once the ISS was written and submitted, I realized that I needed to bring Stephanie back in for the final visit to make sure that all of my ducks were in a row...which I did. We passed and I have to say thank you to Stephanie Groves.
Any clients which hire you as a consultant will be happy with your services.
School Administrator
Tennessee
I would like to highly, highly recommend Stephanie Groves and S.M. Groves Consulting Services if your school is going through reaccreditation (or initial accreditation). Our school has been in business 82 years and I have personally gone through 9 re-accreditation visits. I had already completed our ISS and thought I was prepared for the team visit. I was contacted by Stephanie about one month prior to our team visit and after speaking with her, speaking with references, and learning that she was a former NACCAS employee, I decided “it couldn't hurt to have her consult with me.” Was I ever wrong!!! Not only did it “not hurt,” but I would NEVER go through another team visit without her again. Although I thought “I knew everything” since I had done this so many times before, she knew EXACTLY what they would be looking at, she knew the format things needed to be in, and she knew how to make it easy on the evaluators, which in turn would make it easy on us. Not only that, she was on top of all of the changes that had been implemented by NACCAS since we had sent in our ISS.
With Stephanie's help, we passed our visit with flying colors. Prior to Stephanie working with us, they would have ripped apart our SAP, back-up annual report data, and parts of our catalog. To be able to make these changes BEFORE the team visit was huge. She is really good about looking into the minutia that NACCAS loves to look at and that we, as school owners, tend to overlook.
Again, I would highly recommend you work with Stephanie Groves prior to any team visit. It will be the best money you've ever spent!
School Administrator
Ohio
Shortly after taking over as director of the school I completed my first annual report. It was not that difficult and I was confident going into our school visit later that year. The visit went well until it was time to discuss our annual report. Unfortunately, I completed the annual report based on our computer reports and kept no backup documentation. I was never able to recreate the same numbers as I submitted in our report and when responded to NACCAS I made the mistake of arguing with them rather than trying to fix it… enter Stephanie. She came to the school finished the report correctly, responded to everything NACCAS needed and solved the problem.
I am a college graduate with a graduate degree so I am an educated person. Sometimes, education is not enough. NACCAS has a specific way of doing things and it really helps having someone that understands the system and how to do things the right way. We have not had a problem since bringing Stephanie on board.
I work with Stephanie for the peace of mind. She knows the system and understands NACCAS
"I believe that knowledge is power,
but only if it is shared."
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