TPI entered the Phoenix market in 2019, and since then has committed to create over 500 neurodiverse employment careers by providing IT and business support services to our client partners. Explore our journey in Phoenix in the stories and news releases below.
Zachary Brown, a TPI Data Analyst, was one of the local neurodiverse professionals featured in First Place’s Be Open + Be Ready campaign video. The initiative is designed to bridge the gap between employers seeking talented workers and neurodiverse individuals ready for meaningful employment. Watch the video and to learn more about the initiative visit: https://firstplaceglobal.org/employment/be-open-be-ready/
Phoenix, AZ (December 12, 2023) – SRP, an Arizona power and water utility, is celebrating a five-year partnership with The Precisionists (TPI), a Wilmington, Delaware-based organization focused on employment for adults with disabilities. This innovative employment program uses the talents from TPI’s workforce, who are impacted by autism and other neurodiversities, to tackle critical business needs for SRP. Read the full Press Release HERE.
TPI and SRP were featured in the July 31, 2023 KTAR news story: Untapped power: SRP hires individuals with disabilities, challenging myths, breaking employment barriers.
The story features three TPI consultants: Alex Polesky, Data Analyst; Stephen Miner, Legal Research Assistant; and Anne Kirchgessner, Service Delivery Manager, all supporting projects for TPI’s neurodiversity employment partnership with Salt River Project (SRP).
This story highlights the long-standing TPI partnership and the impact it’s having on TPI’s workforce, as well as the positive business impacts to SRP.
A video featuring TPI Associates thriving as they deliver services to the State of Arizona’s DES. .
The State of Arizona’s Department of Economic Security produced this video, which brings to life the impact that its partnership with The Precisionists, and the employment opportunities this collaboration provides, is having on the careers of neurodiverse individuals, whose skills and talents had been previously underutilized or overlooked.
The story features TPI consultants: Morgan Hinton, Case Aide Consultant; Nick Lutz, Data Analyst Consultant; Andrew Walters, Data Analyst Consultant; Lindsey Saultz, Project Leader, as well as TPI’s CEO Ernie Dianastasis.
In February of 2019 Arizona Governor Doug Ducey announced the creation of an innovative program, known as the “Phoenix Precision Project (PPP),” with a vision to create employment opportunities for adults with autism in the Phoenix community. The PPP was developed as a collaborative effort which included Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), Salt River Project (SRP), First Place®, and The Precisionists, whose mission is to create jobs for individuals impacted by autism and other neurodiversities.
The Arizona Department of Economic Security was one of the first organizations in Phoenix to partner with TPI on this initiative. At DES what began in late 2018 as pilot project comprised of a team of four TPI data analysts, providing support for the Centralized Data Services department, has grown today to dozens of TPI associates supporting multiple projects throughout Arizona DES’s Family Assistance Administration.
This impactful video, which highlights how focusing on a person’s abilities can make all the difference in the life of an individual, their family, as well as to the organizations, like DES and TPI, that value the unique talents they possess and can utilize in performing critical business functions.
PRESS RELEASE: The Precisionists, Inc. (TPI) opens Innovation & Technology Center in Phoenix, Arizona; expands innovative program supporting employment of individuals with autism
The Honorable Kate Gallego, Mayor of Phoenix and Mike Hummel, CEO of Salt River Project (SRP) joined the TPI Team for the ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the announcement.
Phoenix, AZ (May 4, 2021) – The Precisionists, Inc. (TPI), a Wilmington, Delaware-based company that creates jobs for individuals across a broad range of disabilities, announces the opening of its Innovation & Technology Center (ITC) in Phoenix, AZ. The announcement comes just two years after it announced its expansion to the market as a part of the “Phoenix Precision Project,” and further solidifies TPI’s commitment to provide jobs for hundreds of local adults with autism and other neurodiversities over the next decade. The ITC is located at 4646 Van Buren Street, Suite 185, Phoenix, AZ 85008.
Read the full Press Release HERE
“Phoenix Precision Project” launched at press event with Governor Ducey.
On Tuesday, February 5, 2019, Arizona Governor, Doug Ducey, Salt River Project (SRP), the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), and First Place® AZ announced the creation of an innovative program, known as the “Phoenix Precision Project,” providing employment opportunities for adults with autism. The Precisionists, Inc. (TPI), an IT and Business Administrative Services company who has developed a world-class best practices model for employing people with developmental disabilities, with a focus on autism, will be making a major expansion to Phoenix, Arizona. The program will be implemented utilizing TPI’s innovative employment model.
The Phoenix Precision Project will provide jobs for hundreds of Arizonians with autism and other diverse abilities over the next three to five years.
Charter members of the Phoenix Precision Project will utilize The Precisionists’ innovative disability employment model in a number of areas of their businesses, including IT and administrative services. The first three organizations to participate are the State of Arizona Department of Economic Security, Salt River Project (SRP) and Mobile Mini.
This announcement supports Governor Ducey’s November 2017 Employment First State Executive Order, which expanded job opportunities for Arizonans with disabilities within state agencies, and raised awareness and interest in private companies in the community to hire people with disabilities.
Read the full press release HERE
Proud to collaborate on neurodiversity employment with these organizations in The Valley:
