Today’s guest is part of a Special On-The-Road Edition of Learning Insights in Chicago, Illinois.
Molly Heilmann / Berkeley Training
Berkeley provides a wide spectrum of learning and development solutions for our enterprise clients. As Vice President of Custom Learning Solutions, I represent Berkeley’s Custom Learning Solutions team, working with clients on identifying their needs and managing both internal resources and contractors on client facing projects.
Today’s guest is part of a Special On-The-Road Edition of Learning Insights in Chicago, Illinois.
Pam Puryear / Hospira 
Pam is a business leader, thought leader, and OD practice leader with over 25 years of business experience including 10 years in the real estate investment advisory industry, 12 years as an external Organization Development consultant, and 5 years leading an Organization Development practice at Hospira, a Fortune 100 company. Her professional passion is performance excellence and creating and delivering value, and from these diverse professional experiences, she has developed a unique perspective on what creates and sustains excellence. She has worked with individuals, teams and organizations to excel by assessing what is needed, and offering strategic and tactical solutions that directly impact performance and productivity. With an MBA and a PhD, she considers both financial capital and human factors and how to manage those using sound organizational management thinking and focused business metrics. Through LinkedIn and her personal website JoinDrPam.com, she seeks to build her network and develop a community of practice to keep up to date on the latest thinking, events, and opportunities related to how individuals, teams, and enterprises work, thrive, and drive toward excellence.
Today’s guest is part of a Special On-The-Road Edition of Learning Insights in Chicago, Illinois.
David Kaiser / Confidence For Women Professionals 
Dave Kaiser is an Executive Coach and the CEO of Confidence For Women Professionals. He helps women executives and professionals, who are struggling with perfectionism, aversion to conflict, and excessive modesty to become happier and more effective leaders, by increasing their confidence and reducing self-sabotage.
Rebecca Harrell / Randstad US
Rebecca Harrell is Regional Vice President of Randstad Staffing, Office and Administration division. She is responsible for the sales strategy, operations and market growth for Office and Administration in the Atlanta market. She brings over 20 years of sales, recruitment and operational leadership and has had a proven track record of delivering strong financial results while developing and implementing strategies and programs that enhance, evolve and strengthen a high performance culture.
Pegge Riley & Angela Wacht / Sage Center
Licensed Counselors & Directors
Kelly Riedinger / Real Living Capital City
Realtor
Rusty Willis / Real Living Capital City
Broker
Jay Ferro / American Cancer Society
Jay is currently Chief Information Officer for the American Cancer Society (ACS), a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the American Cancer Society has more than 900 local offices nationwide and a presence in more than 5,100 communities. Jay is responsible for the people, strategy and operations of the Global Information Technology organization.
Prior to joining ACS in 2012, Jay served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for AdCare Health Systems, a rapidly growing and recognized innovator in health care facility management. Jay spent the previous 7 years at AIG (American International Group), most recently as VP and CIO for AIG Aerospace, a leading global aerospace insurer. At AIG, Jay implemented numerous improvements that have delivered substantial value to the organization while managing significant organizational change in a turbulent market environment. In addition to his role as AVP of Information Technology with AIG Personal Lines, Jay was selected as CFO for Operations and Systems in 2006 and led multiple global IT Finance and Governance Standards initiatives that resulted in millions of dollars in savings for the organization.
Jay continues to be a thought leader in the Information Technology arena and is a frequent guest speaker and panelist, both in Atlanta and Nationwide. In recognition of his accomplishments, Jay was selected as Georgia CIO of the Year in 2011, and is currently serving as Chair for the Georgia CIO Leadership Association.
His commitment and dedication to community involvement is evidenced by the time and energy he contributes. In 2007, he founded the non-profit group, Priscilla’s Promise, in honor of his late wife, which raises funds for cervical cancer education and research, and currently serves as its Executive Director. In 2011 he was elected to the Board of Directors for TechBridge, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization which helps other nonprofits use technology to improve their capability to serve the community, and in 2013 was named Board Chair.
Jay earned both his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and his Masters of Business Administration from The University of Georgia. Jay continues to be involved with his alma mater, both as a mentor for young alumni and as a member of the Alumni Board of Directors for the Terry College of Business.
Jay lives in the Metro Atlanta Area with his 3 sons: Trey, Connor and Alex.
Lee Crump / Rollins, Inc. 
Lee W. Crump is the CIO and Group Vice President of Business Support for Rollins, Inc. Rollins, based in Atlanta, has annual revenues of over $1.3 billion and is the parent company of Orkin Pest Control, and other well-known pest control companies. Prior to joining Rollins in 2009 Crump spent ten years as the CIO of the largest and most profitable ServiceMaster subsidiary based in Memphis, TN. In 2012 Crump was named Georgia CIO of the Year (Global Division) by the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA).
In his current capacity, he manages a team of 150 professionals and is responsible for all Information Technology (IT) and Program Management (PMO).
Mr. Crump holds the PMP credential from the Project Management Institute and has a long track record of successfully delivering major systems implementations. He served as the Six Sigma Executive Deployment Champion in his previous role with ServiceMaster. He has spent over 35 years in IT, equally divided between IT Executive Management and Business Consulting.
Mr. Crump serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Georgia Junior Achievement, Year-Up Atlanta, and CHRIS Kids. He serves on the Advisory Boards of the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) where he is Vice Chair of Programs, the Association of Telecommunications Professionals (ATP), and the Sprint CIO Advisory Board. He is a volunteer and mentor for Pathbuilders Achieva and Year-Up Atlanta, where in 2013 he received the Year-Up Urban Empowerment Award.
He is a member of American Mensa, the Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA), the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Technology Association of Georgia, (TAG), and the Society of Information Managers (SIM).
Rebecca Busch / Medical Business Associates 
Rebecca Busch is President/CEO of Medical Business Associates, a healthcare consulting, auditing and forensic services firm she founded in 1991. Rebecca has several patents, authored three books, penned chapters in 4 professional text books, written over 46 articles, gave over 100 presentations to consumers, government, corporate, professional entities, has prepared academic coursework and serves as an adjunct professor. Recognized as an expert in her field, Rebecca provided public testimony and served as a forensic expert in Federal and State court.
Jemilah Senter / Association Forum of Chicagoland 
Originally from Waukegan, IL, Senter earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing communications from Columbia College Chicago. She has been a marketing and communications professional from more than 15 year. Prior to joining Association Forum of Chicagoland in February, 2013, Senter spent the previous 8 years in various roles of increasing responsibility at the supplemental educational publisher, ETA hand2mind, where she received the Rookie of the Year Award in 2005 and the Marge Goldman ‘Attitude is Everything’ Award in 2010. Senter is a member of the Business Marketing Association Chicago where she currently serves on the membership committee and is also a member of ASAE, IAEE and AM&P.
Dr. Adarsh K. Arora / TiE Midwest
Adarsh is a founder and CEO of Reputada and Lisle Technology Partners. He was a founder and CEO of Athena Security which was acquired by Solarwinds (NYSE:SWI) in August 2012. Prior to Athena, Adarsh has created, managed and nurtured multiple successful start-ups (Peritus Software Services and Vista Technologies) to maturity, including an IPO that created a $500 million market capitalization.
Adarsh is on the Boards of School of Applied Technology of IIT, and the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science of Northwestern University. Adarsh is a founding Charter Member, Board Member and current President of TiE Midwest. He has invested in many technology start-ups including XML Solution and AccelChip Corporation which were acquired by Vitria and Xilinx, respectively.
Adarsh is a frequent speaker for entrepreneurial events offered by the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Adarsh is a CEO Mentor at the Junto Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership. As a member of the Chicago Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors, Adarsh was often invited to speak on the issues involved in offshore outsourcing. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Chicago Software Association’s Annual City Lights Award.
Adarsh received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and his work in relational database systems is quoted in standard textbooks.
In this episode we learned about Safari Club International and the humanitarian outreach program they offer for wounded warriors who are suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This program collaborates with the wounded warrior evaluation program at Fort Benning to identify veterans who are suffering significant decreased quality of life due to PTSD. They bring them together with other similar veterans and a group of professionals and volunteers to take them on excursions to let them experience nature and positive, compassionate people who help to show them that there is value and hope in their lives; that they can return to a life that is closer to “normal” for them. In this way these veterans begin to regain a sense of worth and purpose to carry on in spite of their past traumatic experiences.
Dick Caillouet 
Veteran of Viet Nam Conflict
President-Elect — Safari Club International
Georgia Chapter & Chairman — Wounded Veterans Events
Just in time for any prospective protégé or mentor that is considering getting involved with the new 2014-2015 Mentor Protégé Connection (MPC) class, GMSDC Radio’s Let’s Talk Small Business featured MPC Program Director Veronica Maldonado and MPC alumnus ITLogica founder and Chief Financial Officer Marcel Sarzen. The nomination/application deadline for the new class has just been extended to Thursday, July 10, so if you haven’t already, listen in to learn more about the benefits and opportunities from the nation’s first mentor-protégé program of its kind. Also, visit the MPC website to learn more about the program and for application details.
Marcel Sarzen/ ITLogica 
Marcel Sarzen is an Information Technology entrepreneur who has founded and managed distributed information technology professional services companies. He has held direct ownership in both US and OUS IT services companies. Proven track record successfully delivering IT projects on time and budget leveraging the distributed IT solution delivery model.
Goals focus on:
1) Building teams that successfully delivery through the distributed IT delivery model.
2) Managing the infrastructure and resources responsible for making a distributed IT delivery model excel
3) Building a differentiated services offering that provides a strong value proposition to our Clients
Business Marketing Association (BMA) Atlanta 
Mark Semmelmayer is the 2014 President of BMA’s Atlanta Chapter and the Chief Idea Officer of Pen & Inc. Marketing Communications, a marketing consultancy he founded in 2013. Mark has over 40 years of broadcast, ad agency and corporate communications experience and retired from corporate life last year after 32 years with Kimberly-Clark.
Natalie McNulty is VP of BMA Atlanta — Young Professionals.
