Arcadia Group's integrative approach combines the holistic and the pragmatic to generate superior outcomes. The pragmatic focuses on what is observable and measurable: activities, knowledge, skills, behaviors, and experience. The holistic focuses on the deeper drivers of what is observable: values, beliefs and mindsets. Looking at both offers the broadest and most effective solution set to any situation.
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Nothing exists in a silo. As in nature, where everything is connected and integrated into a fabric that forms the natural world, organizations and people are part of dynamic and complex systems, with root causes manifesting as issues in different ways. As we result, we address:
Systems: look at the whole person and system, and employ different modalities based on need.
Root Cause: go to the source of the issue; problems are often deeper than surface level.
Solutions must be practical to be effective. By identifying tangible goals, while addressing immediate needs at powerful leverage points, organizations and people can manifest powerful change rapidly. As a result, we focus on:
Focus: focus on most important issues and capabilities needed to be developed.
Efficiency: use the easiest and quickest solutions that are also sustainable; no over-engineering.
Our Values
Arcadia Group relies on these core values to guide our work and relationship with clients. We also help others uncover and embody their own core values.
Authenticity
Client Focus
Creativity
Excellence
Growth
Integrity
Relationship
Service
Sustainability
Being true to oneself in all endeavors.
We are here for the client, not ourselves.
Innovative solutions to challenges.
Delivering our best.
Operating beyond boundaries.
Be the example we wish to see.
Creating more together.
Thinking beyond oneself and seeing action as contribution.
Creating renewable capabilities in our clients and ourselves; doing well through doing good.
Our Name and Logo
Arcadia - Prosperity and Fulfillment
Arcadia is a metaphor for the prosperity and fulfillment that we help create for our clients. Arcadia refers to a utopia that is in harmony with nature. It is often connected with The Golden Age of Greek mythology and represents a period of primordial peace, prosperity, harmony and stability. Arcadia has captured the imagination of painters, poets, playwrights and other artists for centuries to evoke an ideal state of existence of virtuous living and connection to the natural world.
Phi - Infinite Development
We chose phi, The Golden Mean, as our logo. The Golden Mean (or Golden Ratio) is one of those mysterious natural numbers, like e or pi, that seem to arise out of the basic structure of our cosmos. Unlike those abstract numbers, however, phi appears clearly and regularly in the realm of things that grow and unfold in steps, and that includes living things. The decimal representation of phi is 1.6180339887499....
In pure mathematics, an increase in size can be any imaginable number, even one like e or pi. But in the world of nature, things always grow by adding some unit, even if the unit is as small as a molecule. So it's not surprising that phi turns out to be an ideal rate for things to grow by adding some quantity.
Thus, phi is one the fundamental building blocks of natural development and represents how we help our clients achieve excellent growth into a state of Arcadia.
Arcadia painting by Károly Markó
The sunflower:
an example of phi in the natural world
The Fibonacci retracement:
an example of phi in the financial world
