What We Do

“Develop Viable Alternatives to Manage Professional and Personal Lifestyle Challenges and Achieve Impactful Results” Distinct Designs + Diverse Developments = Dynamic Decisions ( brainstorming for more versions) We build innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities.

Vision

Overcome Client Challenges with Alternatives that Offer Measurable Improved Outcomes Inspire Growth and Learning Through Knowledge Sharing Empower Individual Autonomy to Inspire Perpetual Learning Enable Personal and Professional Lifestyle Balance and Wellbeing  

Values

Serve with integrity 
Value Diversity:  Respectful Inclusion    

Operating Principles

Embrace and Effect Change (Transformation) 
Explore and Embrace Innovation 
Facilitate and/or Enhance Social and Professional Emotional Intelligence

Meet the Founder

Jean Horton

Ms. Horton is founder and CEO of Solutions That Matter LLC (STM), a women-owned small business. A retired Contracting/Agreement Officer andProcurement Analyst, her career spans decades of diversified AcquisitionManagement/Analysis, Acquisition and Assistance Training Development and Training Delivery experience she has provided to clients in more than 80countries. She has a passion for training, mentoring, coaching, and consulting.

Ms. Horton is an accredited Certified Professional Contracts Manager, holds accreditation as a Certified Ayurveda Health Instructor and Certified Zumba Fitness Instructor. She is a member of the National Contract Management Association and the Association for Talent Development.

Ms. Horton has an Undergraduate degree in Business Management from National Louis University, a Graduate degree in Acquisition Management from George Washington University and a master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.

CONSULTING SERVICES

STM offers consulting services to facilitate professional lifestyle enrichment and technical training that facilitates your growth and learning, STM’s programs are based on accepted practices and traditions proven successful over time through repetition, scientific research, and studies and internationally acclaimed processes.

Building knowledge, skill and competence in an individual, a group or team is vital to the achievement of an organization’s mission. STM offers critical people centered training in the following areas, including virtual and technical support:

Professional Lifestyle Enrichment

Alterations to the stability of our lives are common and often overwhelming.
We spend a lot more of our time working on our obligations, sacrificing, andcompromising our lives than on managing it.

TECHNICAL TRAINING

ACCOUNTABILITY AB​​C's

Accountability ABC’s concentrates on adaptation of social and emotional intelligence and soft skills development that Improve outcomes of our personal and business encounters.  Accountability ABC’s offer tools to become a conscious observer of experiences and mindful responder who focuses on achieving desired positive results.      
 A great process for accountability awareness that focuses on the release of personal and workplace toxicity.

Program Outcomes

Build comradery through positive relationships resulting in, improved stakeholder relations, diminished emotional baggage, increased commitment to positive results, decreased culpable toxicity, and promote innovative thinking, and enhanced individual and team productivity that supports acceptable outcomes.

Acquisition & Grant Management Competency Enrichment(AGMCE)

Embedded in the principle that acquiring skills does not end with formal education, technical/job training connects academic knowledge with practical, on-the-job obligations. It encompasses a broad spectrum of activities including online courses, and mentorships to assist with the advancement of your or your employee’s professional competence.

AGMCE is technical and soft skills training that will enhance the knowledge,skills, and proficiency in this interdisciplinary profession.

  Program Outcomes

As part of a larger professional or personal improvement plan, Professional Development is an investment in yourself and your career. It implies a commitment to personal growth through proactive measures taken to acquire new skills, knowledge and expertise that increase one’s value in the workspace. In addition, an employer’s commitment to staff development motivates employees to accelerate professional growth which can result in greater productivity.