Monaghan Group is guided by a unique business and cultural philosophy. Our Legacy and Intentions define why the company exists and how we conduct business that honors our clients, our profession and ourselves.

To demonstrate that Corporate America is better served when professionals honor their lives.

Legacy is what’s left behind; it’s the impact; it’s the difference; it’s how things were changed.

Demonstrate is to provide evidence, to prove, to show by action, to show how. To dispel any thoughts to the contrary.

Corporate America is the business world; the world where making money is typically the highest outcome for a company; Corporate America is where everyone is an “employee” and everyone is expected to adjust and fit their lives around – what’s left – after the Corporate work is done; the time, the energy, the passion is expected to go to Corporate America.

Better served, means the outcome is better, more money, more identity, more efficiency.

Honor their lives, is to hold in awe their life in general, to have a sacred space for work and professional development, a sacred space for friendships, a sacred space for their families, a sacred space for themselves; this is to have a holistic approach to life and to “have it all.”

To create a dynamic environment where committed professionals serve and delight clients.

By our choices, our practices, our policies, we intend for these to happen continuously and these intentions will become a natural way of doing business within Monaghan Group. These intentions will guide our decisions.

Create is to define from scratch, to decide what it’s going to be and make it be that; it is to draw conclusion from theory and ideas, not from how it’s been or what you’ve seen.

A dynamic environment is fun, fast paced, high energy, with lots of connection and sharing. Dynamic is ever-changing and fluid, it is not “set in stone.” Dynamic is responsive to changes inside and outside the environment of the business.

To serve clients is to give them exactly what they want and what they ask for. This means you have to ask and in some situations, you have to tell them what you think they need and get their buy in. The client guides the service needed, with your continual input, your guidance, your push back, your constant request for feedback.

Before you delight, you have to serve. To delight is to do more than serve, it is to understand the client’s culture, their vision, to offer up assistance in areas more than accounting and finance. It is to become partner with the client, with no equity shared. To delight infers you are putting the client’s needs first and trusting they will honor your commitment to their success, while your honor yourself and Monaghan Group.

To build genuine relationships with clients that make a positive, measurable difference in their business.

To build is to take the time; one discussion, one decision, one piece of advice, one piece of work, at a time; that’s what is needed to build something of substance.

Genuine relationships honor the space to speak and listen to each other. Both parties want to see the other succeed. This is not a customer – vendor situation. This is a relationship you will be proud of. This is honest and full of integrity. You strive for your client to have the same pull for this type of relationship, you expect that and you ask for that; you have a lot of responsibility to create the space, the environment for this to occur. Genuine is real, even and honest; both parties get something out of it and both parties expect it. This is one of the big reasons we do the work with clients, to build the relationship; not for the money. The money will come when you build a genuine relationship with clients of integrity.

Positive is good, better than it was. Positive feels good, positive feels proactive, positive is lasting.

Measurable is simply that. It can be quantified, for our work, quicker financials – how much quicker; more accurate financial info. – what are all the things we fixed; more or less resources – how many; it has to be measurable, quantifiable – in some way – or at the minimum identifiable or it doesn’t count. And it all counts.

To embrace relationships with committed professionals who utilize their talents, while honoring their lives.

To embrace is to cherish, to expect, to value and nurture; when you embrace something it is real, natural, genuine, welcoming – a part of your life that is sacred and you honor it with honesty and integrity.

Committed professionals are committed to their professional growth; they want and like to be challenged and work in community with other, similar professionals. They recognize and embrace that it is their responsibility to ensure their professional growth. They take the time, have the desire and know how to figure out what they want, professionally. They ask for what they want and they are up for being part of the solution, to get what they want; they are problem solvers. They apply all these characteristics to their professional career and development, to Monaghan Group and to our clients. They do not answer yes or no – they answer, this is how.

Utilize your talents implies you know what your talents are; you offer them up as a means of service, they are more natural for you than for others. You don’t hold back, you set the tone to establish space and relationship where your talents will be recognized and used for good. To do work “only for the money” won’t be good enough, your talents have to be utilized.