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Meeting Pros: Elizabeth Hogan with Juice Studios

March 6, 2013 by angishields

Meeting Pros Radio

Meeting Pros: Elizabeth Hogan with Juice Studios

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On this episode of Meeting Pros:

Elizabeth Hogan with Juice Studios

Elizabeth is a forth generation Atlantan with a passion for her city and special events. That coupled with over nine years of extensive experience in the hospitality industry. More specifically in destination management. Elizabeth is an expert in both sales management and event logistics. Elizabeth is one of our destination management gurus and specializes in on-site and off-site events,dine-a-rounds, VIP tours and VIP transportation services. She has worked with hundreds of Fortune500 companies with groups ranging in size from 10 to over 4,000 attendees.

Jennifer Hale with Assurant

March 6, 2013 by angishields

Learning Insights

Jennifer Hale with Assurant

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Jennifer Hale is Vice President, Talent Development & Performance at Assurant, a Fortune 300 insurance company. In her role, she is driving transformative change in the Assurant Specialty Property business by developing the strategy, infrastructure and tools to foster a culture of engagement, learning and performance. Ms. Hale focuses on driving a talent strategy that changes the way people interact with their teams, empowering employees to create grassroots culture change in support of business strategy and enhancing business results. She is also responsible for Talent and Organizational Development initiatives that align employees with key business initiatives, helps ready them for the right job at the right time and enables them to succeed and thrive in their roles.

Prior to joining Assurant in 2009, Ms. Hale founded her own management and organization development consulting practice, Organizational Impact in 1998. She provided executive coaching and senior leadership development support to industry leaders including AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company, ING Financial Services International, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Yum Brands.

Ms. Hale began her career with Arthur Andersen, where she consulted with mid-size and Fortune 500 client organizations undergoing significant change. Following her tenure with Arthur Andersen, she joined ING Financial Services International as the Director of Management Development, where she was responsible for the design, development and deployment of all regional and global management and organization development initiatives. Ms. Hale holds a Master of Science degree in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication. She is a certified facilitator in over 15 renowned leadership programs and continues to deliver speaking engagements on executive coaching and leadership development internationally. Ms. Hale is a member of Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and the Human Resources Planning Society (HRPS). She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Alliance Theater and provides advisory services to several educational institutions throughout greater Atlanta.

Today’s show is brought to you by TrainingPros.

Scott Beckwith, VP and Director of Sales & Marketing for Southern Capital Mortgage Group (GA & FL)

March 6, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Scott Beckwith, VP and Director of Sales & Marketing for Southern Capital Mortgage Group (GA & FL)

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Scott Beckwith, VP and Director of Sales & Marketing for Southern Capital Mortgage Group (GA & FL) was our guest today. An expert in residential lending up and down the east coast, Scott brings many years of experience linking mortgagees with specialty lenders, private lenders and traditional mortgage firms. An owner of his own 11 state mortgage company, Scott helped many hundreds of new homeowners find the perfect mortgage.

The experience of going through good times and tough times before gives Scott an advantage, he has developed many direct sources of funding besides the mortgage companies, a distinct advantage when serving jumbo loans with special situations and homeowners with unique needs.

With private sourcing and multiple conventional sources, Scott does the legwork for you to find the very best mortgage product for your situation. As a direct writer, you won’t be working with a faceless committee in Timbuktu who sees you as “application #1,434,330,911 C”. For those with special situations, Scott and his company are the go to guys.

First time homeowner? Figure a mortgage is impossible? Scott has been very successful matching new homeowners up with mortgage products and putting them in a home. In fact, Scott admits that helping people get the financing for their home is a huge reward and why he has loved every minute of the 17 years he’s been in the business.

Freddie or Fannie mortgage holder? Have you checked what HARP can do for your payments? Go online at www.scmgonline.com and use their HARP calculator to see how HARP can benefit you.

Refinance? You should also talk to Scott and his team first. Maybe your best solution financially is to not refinance, they’ll work the numbers to show you what is the right course for you… even if it means forgoing a loan they could have made.

But then, that’s Scott’s attitude and one of the things that sets Southern Capital Mortgage Group apart – putting their client first and doing what’s very best for them.

You can contact Scott at 678-905-9605 email: sbeckwith@scmgonline and on the web at www.scmgonline.com.

The Atlanta Womens Foundation

March 5, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

The Atlanta Womens Foundation

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The Atlanta Women’s Foundation engages and educates women as leaders through its Women on Board program. Created in 2000, the program was designed to increase the number of women on nonprofit boards in Metro Atlanta by providing effective board governance training to Atlanta women and connecting participants to nonprofit organizations. Since its inception, the program has trained over 1,700 women in board governance and leadership skills.

Danita Knight is a public relations and fundraising consultant. Prior to relocating to Atlanta nearly 11 years ago, Danita was vice president for public affairs and community relations at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Indianapolis, Indiana.

Prior to joining the NCAA, Danita worked for Anthem, Inc., a parent company for Blue Cross/Shield plans, as director of public relations (Indianapolis, Indiana). She has also served as director of communications for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce; deputy director for communications and public affairs for the Council of State Governments (Lexington, Kentucky); director of media and public relations for the United Way of Central Iowa (Des Moines, Iowa); assistant, speech writer, scheduler, and public relations director to Iowa’s first female Lieutenant Governor (Jo Ann Zimmerman); information specialist for the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women; and public relations manager for the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs. Danita started her career as a morning news anchor and reporter for KOMU-TV (Columbia, Missouri).

Danita is board chairperson of the Atlanta Women’s Foundation. She was chairperson of the 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011 Atlanta Women’s Foundation “Numbers Too Big to Ignore” fundraising luncheons (note: the 2011 luncheon raised $1M – the highest amount raised for a luncheon in the organization’s history). Other activities include Elizabeth Baptist Church; Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority; the National Center for Civil and Human Rights; Speaker for “Great Black Speakers” (a national speakers’ bureau); Advisory Board Member for Lending Hearts, a non-profit in Pittsburgh focused on recreational activities for adolescents with Cancer; various political campaigns and committees; and basketball (Danita was part of the original group responsible for bringing the women’s professional basketball team — the WNBA Dream — to Atlanta; and is married to former Atlanta Hawks General Manager Billy Knight).

Danita is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, where she majored in broadcast (television) journalism. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she lives in Atlanta with her husband, Billy, and German Shepherd, Neko. Her oldest daughter, Erika, is a recent college graduate (Bennett College for Women; Greensboro, NC). Younger daughter, Olivia, attended another historically black college, Tennessee State, in Nashville.

Deborah Ryan is Interim Director with The Atlanta Womens Foundation, Georgia’s only public foundation focused solely on the challenges faced by women and girls. Prior to serving as Interim Director, Deborah was Vice President of Development and Communications where she supervised all aspects of fundraising and marketing for AWF, including major gifts, planned giving, annual campaigns, corporate partnerships, grant proposals, and external communications.

Deborah has more than twenty years of experience as a fundraising professional in the Atlanta market. She joined The Atlanta Women’s Foundation from her position as Director of Development at Oglethorpe University, where she managed planned giving, major gifts, the annual fund, prospect research and donor relations. Before Oglethorpe, she spent seven years with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center as Senior Director of Development and Communication, increasing the organization’s budget and partnering with the Board of Directors and Executive Director to eliminate debt and secure cash operating reserves. Deborah has also held positions with the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), The Cartoon Network, AID Atlanta, The Georgia Conservancy and The Atlanta History Center.

In 2006, Deborah received the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Up and Comer Award for 40 under 40. She served on the City of Atlanta’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs Art Funding Panel and also on the Fulton County Arts Council Art Funding Panel. A graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Arts in History, she has been a member of the Junior League of Atlanta and currently volunteers with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and AID Atlanta. Deborah currently serves on the Foundation Center Atlanta Board and The Junior League of Atlanta Community Advisory Board.

Does “IQ + EQ + LQ + BQ” = Success for Financial Leaders?

March 5, 2013 by angishields

Global Leader Radio

Does "IQ + EQ + LQ + BQ" = Success for Financial Leaders?

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In this edition of Global Leader Radio!™, we discuss the common denominators of success for financial leaders. Mike McCracken joined host Alvin C. Miles to explain leadership through the lens of finance, along with several strategies, tools and tips to help your leadership emerge!

Here are seven takeaways from our discussion:

“If you have the ability to influence others into action, you are a leader!”
Always empathize with the people you lead.
Under duress, people fall back on their core values.
Knowing your strengths & struggles is valuable to becoming a better leader.
Have you built a team that can survive without you?
Like athletes, leaders must continue to practice .
The best leaders celebrate as a team.

Mike provides great insight to help you understand the dimensions of financial leadership. Add his ideas to your leadership toolkit to help increase YOUR influence. Leadership IS a conversation!

Mike McCracken / Founder, McCracken Alliance LLC

Mike McCracken has been the founder of many companies throughout his career including McCracken Alliance, LLC (MA) which focuses on building business and leadership networks that foster peer-to-peer relationships, provide leverage through knowledge sharing and facilitate access to innovative value added business solutions. Previously, Mike was a founder of Tatum LLC, which became the first National Professional CFO Firm with annual sales of $200 million, and in 2010, merged with a $2.0 billion NYSE registrant.

Earlier Mike formed an internet services provider which sold in the late 90’s for several million dollars. He was also a partner with Ernst & Young LLP in New York, reporting to the Chairman and CEO, after being a Regional Director of Marketing and Strategy for the seven-state SE Region during a reorganization period to introduce a specialized industry focus and merger with Arthur Young which created the largest professional services firm at that time. He served as coordinating partner on the team of professionals that designed the spin-off of Eastman Chemical Company, a $4.0 billion Fortune 500 manufacturer, from Eastman Kodak and was business development advisor to the member firm in Japan. Previously a CPA in four states and CMA, he has served on numerous boards including serving as a founding member of more than 10 university based leadership networks.

Contact Mike: (770) 696-5312, mike.mccracken@mccrackenalliance.com

Which Book Has Most Impacted Your Leadership Ability?

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Using Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Outsourcing Administrative Staffing

March 5, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Using Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Outsourcing Administrative Staffing

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Today’s show investigates how to best staff, hire, motivate, retain and lead high performance teams in growing companies and cost-effective solutions for today’s distributed workforce that provide the high level of administrative support as enjoyed in the best corporate offices (maybe even better).

Randall Lucius, Ph.D. with the Turknett Leadership Group was in the studio today along with the Gurl Friday Services team of Theresa Widmann and Victoria Hunter. Both are experts in helping expanding businesses deal with growth and a more demanding work environment. Randy’s company does that by applying the tools of Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology to optimize the interactions and management of people while the other brings the host of support services growing companies need to run a business smoothly, efficiently while minimizing their costs.

Dr. Lucius is Vice President of Turknett Leadership Group, and Director of the Human Performance Division. He has over 15 years of progressive consulting experience that spans such diverse areas as executive assessment and coaching, job analysis, competency modeling, employee selection, litigation support, performance management, 360 degree feedback, frame-of-reference training, organizational re-structuring, employee opinion surveys, personality assessment, and leadership development. He has worked for numerous organizations of all sizes and types from small to the Fortune 500, government agencies, and non-profit.

He is a graduate of The University of Georgia with a doctorate degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Prior experiences include Employee Relations specialist with United Parcel Service, research director for the Center for Leadership and Career Studies at Emory University, Research Director for Fitability, and Project Manager for Applied Psychological Techniques.

Dr. Lucius is the co-author of the Fitability 5, a personality-based assessment administered to over a quarter-million individuals across the U.S. Dr. Lucius’ co-founded Organizational Diagnostics Online, a company acquired by Fitability in 2001.

Dr. Lucius is a licensed psychologist, has served as an adjunct faculty member at Oglethorpe University, and once served as the President for the Atlanta Society of Applied Psychology.

You’ll want to find out how professionals can dramatically transform individual, team and company effectiveness, innovation, nimbleness and creativity and transform small, medium and large firms into fearsome competitors.

Explaining that many small family firms and even companies with 4 or 5 individuals can afford their services and set themselves up to avoid conflicts while maximizing individual contribution…

I/O psychology is heavily business based and focused and is assuredly not the stereotypical “on the couch, chin-stroking” type of psychologist asking about your childhood. The Turknett Leadership Group works to improve the business effectiveness of senior executives, manager and employees using the principles of psychology. This approach helps people understand themselves and their coworkers better, assemble the right teams of the right people and form cohesive, goal oriented teams that excel, compete and win. A necessity in today’s ever more competitive international business community.

You can reach Dr.Randy Lucius at 770-270-1723 rlucius@turknett.com and online at www.turknett.com.

The “Gurl Friday Services” team delivers the suite of services today’s distributed business can’t get along without. Teleworkers, remote sales agents operating from small offices and home offices, startups and many growing businesses need administrative support for accounting and bookkeeping, managing email, setting appointments, making travel and event arrangements, dealing with expense reports, taming accounts receivable and accounts payable, correspondence, etc., but they can’t afford to nor they need all those people full time, sitting around and costing money.

They need a service that delivers an on demand, al la carte menu of business services at reasonable prices. That’s what Gurl Friday Services does for their customers.

Both Theresa and Victoria have broad experience and backgrounds with large and small companies and they and their team of people bring put business expertise and experience in the hands the small companies while saving them money over other alternatives.

If you are being buried in the details, tax time means reaching for the grocery bag of receipts, you have a big marketing program and need to send out a thousand invitations, plan a conference or the pile of to-do’s is robbing you of handling your real business and has you working in, not on, your business, then you’ll want to call your own Gurl Friday.

Contact Theresa Widmann at 770-315-8613 theresa@gurlfridayservices.com and Victoria Hunter at 678-643-3132 victoria@gurlfridayservices.com and on the web at www.gurlfridayservices.com

Attorney Sam Levine, Nicole Monique and Byron Grover with Thats What SHE Said Sports and Sidney Slover with Learn It Live

March 4, 2013 by angishields

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Sam Levine/Law Office of Sam Levine, LLC

Sam Levine is a civil and criminal defense attorney from Atlanta. He loves helping people, making a difference and improving his community.

Nicole Monique and Byron Grover/Thats What SHE Said Sports

Nicole Monique recently launched a new sports showÂ â€œThatâ€™s What SHE Said Sportsâ€. Â She describes herself as a BIG TEN girl living in a SEC world. Â She is a sports fan, wife, host and executive producer. Â Nicole is a recent graduate of Kennesaw State Universityâ€™s EMBA Program.

Sidney Slover/Learn It Live

Sidney Slover, founder of Learn It Live, talks about the new trend toward online learning, and why it is the future of 21st Century education.

The Harada Method – World’s best day-to-day management process

March 3, 2013 by angishields

Performance Difference Radio

The Harada Method - World's best day-to-day management process

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The Harada Method is a sport’s analogy: people love sports – how to make winners at work? Harada Method in Japan is recognized as the world’s best process on day-to-day management to develop people to their fullest capability . Listen as we talk to Norman Bodek as he discusses what this method is and how the method teach managers how to be coaches

Norman Bodek, a professor at Portland State, is the co-founder of The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence at Utah State University (often compared to The Deming Prize in Japan). He is recognized as collaborator and contemporary of Dr. Deming, Dr. Juran, Phil Crosby, Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa, Dr. Joji Akao, Mr. Taiichi Ohno, and Dr. Shigeo Shingo. Norman has gone to Japan 81 times in the last 33 years and visited more than 250 plants; he has led over 35 executive study missions to Japan (and still counting!!!) He worked recently with CIBC Bank – Back Office Operations in Canada for the past four years focused on improving OpEx capabilities. Norman has published over 250 books; including translation of 100+ books in Japanese

Norman has been a frequent keynote speaker at major conferences and teaches companies on employee empowerment, Lean/Toyota Production System, customer service, productivity, lean accounting, quick kaizen, and process improvement. Norman also teaches business management students “Japanese Management Principles” at Portland State University.

Mr. Bodek attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated with a bachelor’s degree from New York University. He also attended New York University Graduate School of Business and New York University College of Education.

Norman can be reached via email.

Abby Kohut with Staffing Symphony

March 3, 2013 by angishields

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Abby Kohut with Staffing Symphony

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Abby Kohut, who is known on the web as Absolutely Abby, is the President of Staffing Symphony, LLC. In the past 16 years, Abby held positions such as Senior Director of Recruiting for Kaplan, Interim Director of Recruiting for Continuum Health Partners, and Manager of Global Recruiting for Alpharma. Her website AbsolutelyAbby.com and her book Absolutely Abby’s 101 Job Search Secrets teaches candidates secrets about the job search process that other recruiters won’t tell you. Abby has provided job search tips on Fox 5 Business News, LinkedIn, Forbes, USA Today, ABC’s Good Morning Connecticut, and the Joe Franklin show on Bloomberg Radio. Abby was selected as one of “The Monster 11 for 2011: Career Experts Who Can Help Your Job Search” and is one of the “Top 100 Influential People Online” according to Fast Company Magazine. Since 2010, Abby has been on a mission to help one million job seekers and since 2012 has been driving around the USA on a nationwide tour to accomplish that goal which you can learn more about at www.AbbyAcrossAmerica.com.