Relocation Strategies has built its reputation through decades of professional project management, client advocacy, and business leadership. Our work spans corporate relocations, construction oversight, feasibility studies, facilities management, and complex projects involving multiple vendors and stakeholders.
Along the way, RSI and members of our leadership team have received recognition from business publications, professional organizations, and national organizations. These honors reflect both the growth of our company and the leadership behind it.
Relocation Strategies has received multiple honors recognizing its growth as a woman-owned, diversity-owned, and privately held business.
Business Leader Magazine recognized Relocation Strategies among the Top 100 Small Businesses in North Carolina in 2010.
The recognition reflects RSI’s continued development as a Charlotte-based company serving commercial clients with increasingly complex project needs.
In 2011, Business Leader Magazine named RSI among the Top 300 Small Businesses in the Southeast.
This regional recognition came as Relocation Strategies continued expanding its project management services beyond Charlotte and supporting organizations with relocations, workplace projects, and other commercial initiatives.
Relocation Strategies ranked #37 among the Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses through DiversityBusiness.com in 2011.
Woman-owned leadership remains an important part of RSI’s history and identity today.
In 2012, RSI was ranked #32 among the Top 50 Women-Owned Businesses in North Carolina.
The recognition highlighted the company’s growth within North Carolina’s business community and its continued development as an independently owned professional services firm.
Relocation Strategies was also ranked #73 among the Top 100 Privately Held and Diversity-Owned Businesses in North Carolina in 2012.
As an independent project management company, RSI works directly for our clients rather than a landlord, mover, contractor, furniture company, or other project vendor. That independence continues to shape the way we manage client projects today.
In 2013, RSI ranked #21 among the Top 50 Diversity-Owned Businesses in North Carolina.
The honor added to a growing record of recognition for the company’s ownership, growth, and participation in North Carolina’s commercial business community.
Owner and Managing Principal
Some of the honors connected with Relocation Strategies recognize the accomplishments of our Owner and Managing Principal, Delaine Mead, rather than the company itself.
These individual awards form part of RSI’s broader history, but they recognize Delaine’s entrepreneurship, leadership, and contributions to the business community.
In 2011, Business Leader Magazine recognized Delaine Mead as one of its Top 25 Women Extraordinaire.
This honor is identified specifically with Relocation Strategies and recognized Delaine’s leadership and accomplishments as a woman business owner.
Delaine was also named among the 50 Most Influential Women by The Mecklenburg Times in 2011.
The recognition honored women whose leadership and professional accomplishments had a meaningful impact on the Charlotte region.
Also in 2011, Business Leader Magazine recognized Delaine as a Top 50 Entrepreneur.
Her entrepreneurial leadership has helped shape Relocation Strategies into a firm capable of supporting small, medium, and large organizations through complicated workplace and facility projects.
In 2012, Delaine received the Woman Business Owner of the Year Award from the Charlotte chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, or NAWBO.
The award recognized her accomplishments as a business owner and her involvement in the women-owned business community.
Delaine received a Bronze Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012.
The award was presented in the Business Products, 11 to 2,500 Employees category by the Stevie Awards.
In 2013, the Charlotte Business Journal named Delaine among its Top 25 Women in Business.
The recognition placed her among Charlotte-area women recognized for leadership, professional achievement, and contributions to the local business community.
RSI’s awards records also include the 2013 North Carolina Women’s Business Advocate of the Year Award, presented by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
This recognition forms part of the leadership honors associated with Relocation Strategies and its long history as a woman-owned business.
Awards tell only one part of our story. Relocation Strategies also maintains certifications that reflect our status as a woman-owned business and our participation in supplier diversity programs.
Relocation Strategies is certified as a Women Business Enterprise, or WBE.
Our company records identify the certification through WBENC/WBENC-related national certification records, recognizing RSI as a woman-owned and managed business.
For companies with supplier diversity initiatives, this certification can support procurement goals while giving them access to an experienced independent project management team.
RSI’s certification records also identify the company as HUB certified through the SBA.
This certification complements our broader commitment to serving corporate, institutional, government, healthcare, financial, educational, and other commercial organizations.
VBI is evaluated annually on performance sales training, and overall service to end user clientele which needs to meet or exceed high grade quality standards set individually by each manufacturing partner.
Although BIFMA / ANSI Certified primarily rates the physical built units themselves and meeting product safety and durability as a BIFMA / ANSI Certified/Accredited dealership means VBI is continually trained to specifically handle BIFMA / ANSI Units with care, meeting or exceeding the minimum rigorous required to receive, un-package, assemble and install these commercial grade units at the highest levels of manufacturing standards set by the industry itself
as a dealership VBI aligns with our manufacturing partners ISO 9001 for quality management or greenguard for low chemical emissions…meaning we don’t shoot from the hip, if assembly requires screws we want glue ….we meet all their standards and we do not utilize any secondary/after sale market tools, glues, screws etc when assembling our manufacturer partners units.
Awards and rankings matter, but they are not what drives our approach to a project.
Relocation Strategies works as an independent project management firm representing the interests of our clients. We coordinate the people, vendors, schedules, budgets, and decisions involved in commercial relocations and workplace projects.
We are not a mover, architect, general contractor, cabling company, or furniture supplier. Our job is to manage the broader project, identify where different scopes intersect, and help clients move forward with fewer surprises.
That approach has supported projects for organizations ranging from growing businesses to major corporations, healthcare providers, educational institutions, municipalities, and government entities.
Our recognition reflects the history behind that work. Our focus remains on what comes next.
That approach has supported projects for organizations ranging from growing businesses to major corporations, healthcare providers, educational institutions, municipalities, and government entities.
