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Julie Gudger and Emily Rowell with Crowne Office Suites, and Al Meyers and Jacqui Chew with TEDx Peachtree

December 17, 2012 by angishields

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Julie Gudger/Crowne Office Suites

Julie Gudger is an executive offices suites and commercial real estate expert specializing in helping small businesses in the Atlanta area. She has been withÂ Crowne Office Suites starting at the location in Marietta in 1998.

Now part owner of Crowne Office Suites, Inc. at Downtown, Offices @1100 Peachtree, LLC and Southeast Realty Group, LLC, she helps professionals find solutions ranging from a simple mailing address for their business to 2,000 square feet of private office space.

Her goal is to make sure all of her clients are happy and getting the support services they need to help grow their businesses.

Emily Rowell/Crowne Office Suites

Emily Rowell achieved Top Honors in 2010, earning the â€œAgent of the Year Awardâ€ at New York Life.

Coming toÂ Crowne Office Suites with her experience and training in referral marketing for small businesses, she helps her clientsâ€™ take their business to the next level. Her care for their success is what makes her successful.

At the referral meetings Crowne holds, Emily is the director who guides Professionals on how to build their business through qualified referrals.

Her favorite accomplishment is the joy of putting the right people together.

Al Meyers/TEDx Peachtree

Al Meyers serves as the Founder, Official TEDx Licensee, Team Cheerleader forÂ TEDx Peachtree. Â Al is aÂ Senior Executive Leader experienced in leveraging Fortune 100 companies. Â His background is in Strategic Planning, Corporate Development, Start-ups,Â and M&A with a proven impact in Marketing, Operations, Finance, and International business, coupled withÂ expertise in digital/new media, television, home video, and kidsâ€™ media. Â Alâ€™s specialties include critical thinking, negotiation, leadership and vision, managing people, cultural awareness and sensitivity, global perspective, relationship building, execution, digital media, video games, innovation, organizational behavior, and strategy development.

Jacqui Chew/Â TEDxÂ Peachtree

Jacqui ChewÂ Spent the last 15 years leading high-performance teams at both marketing consultancies and corporations. Four years ago she started iFusion Marketing to exorcise her passion for supporting innovation and by extension technology startups. Officially, iFusion Marketing is a consultancy that provides fractional CMO services to technology startups. In practice, she serves as the stand-in senior marketing executive for companies that arenâ€™t quite ready to add a permanent senior marketer to their team. Tasks run the gamut from strategy planning to brass tacks execution.

Jacqui apprenticed with some of the best in Atlanta such asÂ Georgia Technology Hall of Fame inductee Leland Strange and worked with or at some pretty recognizable companies likeÂ eBay, Durex Consumer Products,Â PeopleSoft (acquired by Oracle), Miller Brewing Company andÂ Stonesoft (HA+infosec for you cyber security buffs). Finally, she led the launch ofÂ Silverpop, RealEstate.com, drkoop.com and hsupply.com during the tech boom of the late 1990s.

Meals on Wheels and Sunrise team up to fee Atlanta!

December 14, 2012 by angishields

Eugeria

Meals on Wheels and Sunrise team up to fee Atlanta!

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Return guest, Jeff Smythe discovered early on that he wanted to spend his life and career helping people. While in college, he spent time with WorldTeach in Costa Rica. Upon return and graduation from college, Jeff moved from Denver to Atlanta. He started working with OpenHand Atlanta, and went on to earn a Masters in Public Administration from Georgia State University. About 10 years ago, Jeff began working for Senior Citizen Services, now Meals on Wheels Atlanta,(www.MealsOnWheelsAtlanta.org). Now, as the Executive Director of the organization, Jeff takes pride in the fact that the organization serves more than 100,000 meals per year through its Meals on Wheels program, and provides home repair for literally hundreds of Fulton County citizens each year.

Jessica Gill has never held a job that didn’t involve serving seniors! Growing up in Connecticut, she spent time in school visiting nursing homes. While doing that, she also learned to square dance. As a result of that experience, she developed a passion for the senior community. She went on to school at University of Southern Connecticut, earning a Masters in Public Health, and then to Boston University, where she received a certificate in Gerontology. Upon graduation, Jessica took a job with the CDC, and was ultimately transferred to Atlanta. She is also a certified geriatric care manager, and has spent time working with the Area Agency on Aging, as well as working as a geriatric care manager in private practice. Today she works for Sunrise Senior Living as an Area Manager of Business Development. Part of her role with Sunrise is linking arms with like-minded organizations in the community. Thus, Sunrise and Meals on Wheels Atlanta have come together to provide more than 300 Christmas Eve/Christmas Day meals for Atlanta’s most needy seniors. To find out how you can donate or get involved, please contact either Jeff or Jennifer. Here are their coordinates:

Jeff Smythe: Phone – (404)-351-3889 Email: jsmythe@mealsonwheelsatlanta.org

Jessica Gill: Twitter @GillJJLL, Email: Jessica.Gill@sunriseseniorliving.com

To donate canned goods, blankets, CO2 or Smoke Detectors, simply drop them off at any of the 10 Atlanta Sunrise locations, but hurry – only 19 days to Christmas Eve!

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for 20 years.

Healthcare Consumerism with Dr. David Redding, John Linss, and Kimberly Hedzik

December 14, 2012 by angishields

The Doctors Roundtable

Healthcare Consumerism with Dr. David Redding, John Linss, and Kimberly Hedzik

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This weeks show is about Healthcare Consumerism and has three guests on our panel.

David Redding, M.D./Redding Allergy & Asthma Center

A premier allergist in the Atlanta area for both pediatric and adult patients, Dr. David Redding with Redding Allergy & Asthma Center is certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and has been featured on The Weather Channel and the TV show “Diagnosis X” on TLC.

John Linss/MedServ Global

Bringing over 30 years of industry experience, John Linss is the Chairman and Founder of Medserv Global, an organization that connects medical tourism patients to JCAHO facilities (abroad and domestically) and American trained and English speaking physicians abroad to obtain qualitymedical care abroad for cost savings. John also serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Healthcare Consumerism.

Kimberly Hedzik/Writer

A local writer and married mom of three, Kimberly Hedzik participates on the show as a consumer representative.

Ashley Hancock with Southeastern Medical Device Association

December 14, 2012 by angishields

Disruptive Healthcare

Ashley Hancock with Southeastern Medical Device Association

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Ashley Hancock/Southeastern Medical Device Association

Ashley Hancock is founder and CEO of Innovetica, LLC, a boutique firm that assists physician inventors and small to mid-sized medical device companies with their strategy and commercialization needs. He specializes in market analysis, strategic planning, new product development, and market entry and expansion strategies. Ashley also serves as Executive Director of the Southeastern Medical Device Association, a non-profit industry association promoting growth in the medical device industry across the region. Previously, he managed the medical device portfolio for EndoChoice, an Atlanta-based venture-funded startup, and held senior marketing positions with C.R. Bard, accountable for an extensive surgical implant portfolio. During his 23 years of professional experience, Ashley has also held leadership positions with BP Amoco Chemical Company, where he began his career as a chemical engineer and progressed through the organization in positions of increasing management responsibility.

Ashley holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ashish Mistry with BLH Venture Partners and Heath Hyneman with Hypepotamus

December 14, 2012 by angishields

Disruptive Business

Ashish Mistry with BLH Venture Partners and Heath Hyneman with Hypepotamus

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Ashish Mistry/BLH Venture Partners

Ashish Mistry is Managing Partner with BLH Venture Partners. Ashish functions as an investor and adviser to young companies. His experience includes leadership roles with high-growth companies in the technology-enabled services, enterprise IT, e-commerce, and consumer markets.

Ashish spent two tours as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), working with start-ups across Georgia. He is active in non-profit organizations that foster entrepreneurship, including board positions with Venture Atlanta and the Atlanta CEO Council, as well as serving on committees with the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ashish is a graduate of Emory University and resides with his wife and children in Atlanta.

Heath Hyneman/Hypepotamus

HeathHyneman is a search marketer who provides his organizations roadmaps to product viability through agile product development practices. Heath has spent the past decade on enterprise-level ecommerce marketing technologies, with a focus on D2C commodity SKU search traffic generation and conversion optimization. He covered responsibilities for leading HM Wallace’s marketing and CMS efforts and setting the strategic direction of NationalBuilderSupply.com and its network of properties. He has recently opened up Hypepotamus, a co-working space in Midtown Atlanta focused on enabling consumer oriented digital startups within the Atlanta community. Prior to founding HM Wallace, he co-founded Celecast, broadcaster of live NCAA event audio through mobile devices.

Heath is an active member of a number of Atlanta’s professional communities including AiMA, SEMPO and Shop.org as well as offering his time to help local start-ups decipher and define their Search + Social Marketing strategies and development cycles.

Heath started off at Georgia Tech, duly transferred, and completed undergraduate studies at Samford University followed by an MBA from Georgia State University.

Today’s show is brought to you by Minerva Planning Group.

Tom Wesley and Trevor Smith with The Wesley Company and Harris Konter with Raymond James

December 13, 2012 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Tom Wesley and Trevor Smith with The Wesley Company and Harris Konter with Raymond James

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Tom Wesley/The Wesley Company

Founded in 1983, The Wesley Company builds upon a tradition of over 100 years of active involvement in Atlanta’s and Georgia’s commercial real estate industry. The company specializes in Tenant Representation, representing companies with the acquisition-by lease, purchase or development-and disposition of facilities for their business activities. Through a network of preferred service providers in the field of design, construction, legal, furnishings, communications/technology and relocation, The Wesley Company further simplifies the process of establishing its clients’ real estate facilities.

Because they do not represent landlords in the leasing or management of their properties and are not active in income property sales, they assure their clients of the uncompromised loyalty which is essential to the effectiveness of the Tenant Representative.

Tom Wesley is a 3rd generation commercial real estate broker. Born in Atlanta, he has been actively involved in the commercial real estate business in Atlanta and Georgia since 1969. Tom has received numerous awards in recognition of his achievements in his field, having consistently operated among the top producers in the Metropolitan Atlanta area.

Trevor Smith/The Wesley Company

Trevor Smith is a native of Hernando, Mississippi. At a young age, he learned what hard work and ingenuity can bring to any business enterprise. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2009 with a degree in Business Administration and a concentration in Real Estate Finance.

Trevor currently works as a Commercial Real Estate Agent for The Wesley Company and is pursuing his CCIM designation. He represents companies such as Viacom, Paramount Pictures and MTV by consulting their real estate needs; whether it’s office, retail or industrial space.

Trevor is actively involved in the Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce. He served as Executive Vice President in 2012 and will serve as President of the organization in 2013. He is also an active member of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

In his spare time, Trevor enjoys the thrill of motocross racing, cheering on his Ole Miss Rebels, and sharing spontaneous adventures with his friends.

Harris Konter/Raymond James & Associates

Harris Konter is a Financial Advisor with Vidal & Whitley Wealth Advisors of Raymond James. Originally from Savannah, GA he received his B.S.B.A. from the University of Florida in the field of Decision Information Sciences. He started his career at Aaron Rents Inc. in their Audit Department and left after 2 years as their Lead Mergers and Acquisitions Auditor. In 2006 Harris started his own Financial Advisory practice with Raymond James & Associates and was named a Rising Star in 2008. He continued to better himself through education and received his Wealth Management Specialization in 2010 and became a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) in 2011.

When Harris isn’t working he’s helping his community by serving on various non-profit boards throughout the city; he is currently the Co-Chair of ACCESS, the Young Professional’s arm of American Jewish Committee. Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP® and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ which it awards to individuals who successfully complete initial and ongoing certification requirements.

December 18th – Finding the Best Fit

December 13, 2012 by angishields

Write Here Write Now

December 18th - Finding the Best Fit

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Two guests, representing different businesses, sharing a common goal of finding the best “fit” for the financial and business goals of their clients. Axxiom Franchise Advisers, LLC is a premier franchise consulting and brokerage organization that assists entrepreneurs, corporate refugees, dreamers, and many others to understand the benefits of business ownership and how they might control their own destiny and future through franchise ownership. Axxiom utilizes proprietary qualifying and search processes to find the best fit for their clients in matching their personal and professional skill sets and financial resources to the ideal franchise system. Integrity Wealth Center is an independent investment services firm that takes pride in providing customized financial planning and wealth management solutions for its clients.Using an all-inclusive set of strategies that aims to grow, manage, protect, and distribute assets in a planned and integrated manner, Integrity Wealth Center provides insight into the concepts of wealth management and describes how the company crafts and implements a comprehensive wealth management plan personalized for each client – finding the best fit – and helping their clients to attain life goals and dreams.

The guests are: Bill King, founder and president of Axxiom Franchise Advisors, LLC and Keith Bowers, founder and president of Integrity Wealth Center.

What do each of these companies do to make sure that they find the best fit for their clients? What sets them apart from their competition? And as always, we will ask “What part writing plays in their business.”

Technology RULES! In both Marketing & Business Management

December 12, 2012 by angishields

The Good, The Bad, and The Reality

Technology RULES! In both Marketing & Business Management

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Sonja Williams

Co-Founder and Director of Marketing

Go Getter Marketing Group Inc

404-992-2110

sonja@gogettergroup.com

Building a Digital Brand for Your Business

As we launch into a more “digital” age, small businesses need to constantly think of ways to innovate their processes and engagement with consumers. Establishing a traditional presence in the “offline” marketplace is of value, but companies need to position themselves to have strong digital impact to be competitive in today’s economy

Biography

Sonja Crystal Williams has led a career in marketing and sales for the past 11 years. She is passionate about connecting with people, sharing resources and opportunities, and furthering the development of small business owners. Sonja was born in Washington D.C. to

a military family and is the youngest of 3 siblings. In 1994, Sonja moved to Atlanta where she currently resides and completed her undergraduate studies at Clark Atlanta University and MBA from Mercer University.

At age 17, Sonja started her corporate career with NCR Corporation and took on various roles—most notably her assignment in Oiso, Japan where she was responsible for translating and introducing a new operations system to the U.S. She started her marketing career in 2000 with the Federal Highway Administration where she worked on a team of national marketing experts providing marketing plans, web design, graphic design, conference marketing, and marketing training to engineers. She continued her career taking on roles with Career Education Corporation and Eli Lilly as a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative. In 2008, Sonja began to nurture the growth of her company, Go Getter Marketing Group, where she works with small business owners offering viral marketing campaigns, social media management, search engine optimization, web and graphic design. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Beta Gamma Sigma, and Junior Chamber of Commerce International.

Learn more about Go Getter Marketing Group, Inc. at www.gogettergroup.com or visit Sonja at www.sonjacrystal.com

https://twitter.com/sonjacrystal |https://twitter.com/gogettergroup | www.linkedin.com/in/sonjacrystal

Stephen Gross

CEO

Trusted CFO Solutions, LLC

678-306-1551

sgross@tcfos.com

The Gross Reality

CPA, Advisor and best practices consultant moves business from outdated on premise business back office and management systems to a Virtual (cloud Based) Environment opening up new business models, flexibility and access to real time customer service, performance dashboards, mobile management, bill pay, and collaboration. Technology rules, don’t be left behind or out-maneuvered by your competition.

Biography

Steve Gross is the Founder Emeritus of HLB Gross Collins, P.C. He was Regional Managing Partner, National Director of Business Consulting and a member of the Executive Committee of an international accounting firm.

Steve founded Trusted CFO Solutions, LLC and Business Builders Team, LLC to assist businesses and management teams in being exposed to, educated, and assisted in transitioning their administrative and financial reporting internal operations to “New Platform Technology.”

These new systems and technologies achieve business goals of (1) reduced cost of ownership of back office systems and equipment, (2) reduced manpower needs of operating and maintaining these processes, (3) real time access to operational reports, dashboards, and financial performance reports anywhere that is accessible to the web, (4) simplified backup and disaster recovery of data, programs and functionality, (5) automatic analysis and insight reports integrated, and (6) presentation products, interactive and enabling drill down analysis of trends, variances, and peer performance on 87” interactive touch digital whiteboard/monitors with video conferencing to aid board groups or management team in far flung locations.

Steve also founded Gross Capital Advisors, LLC and The Gross Consulting Group, LLC at the end of 2011 to pursue advising, servicing and providing capital to business transactions and operating companies. The market need for investors to locate opportunities and for owners to access capital has never been more intense, and cumbersome with the stresses that have occurred in the financial markets.

In his role of capital formation for clients over the past 35 years, he has assisted companies in raising capital and financing for hundreds of companies and provided capital in the hundreds of millions. Companies who has used his services including Al Williams Life Insurance, WebMD, NetEffect, HotPalm and many others. As an advisor to companies with dynamic growth, family offices and high net worth angels, he has provided strategic, advisory and investment advice creating wealth for stakeholders.

Steve is a licensed CPA, Chartered Global Management Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Valuation Analyst, and he is Certified in Financial Forensics. He is a member of the state and national CPA societies. He is a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

www.tcfos.com | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-gross-cpa | https://twitter.com/Stevegross1

Leadership Character: Who’s Responsible For Your Success?

December 12, 2012 by angishields

Global Leader Radio

Leadership Character: Who's Responsible For Your Success?

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In this edition of Global Leader Radio, we learn that leadership character can be a study in paradoxes. Co-Founders of the Turknett Leadership Group – Lyn and Dr. Bob Turknett, joined host Alvin C. Miles to describe why integrity and strengthening your character are foundational to effective leadership.

Here are seven takeaways from our discussion:

“When juggling balls, try not to let the glass balls drop!”
Top leaders are 100% accountable and responsible for shaping and setting organizational culture…
…AND each employee is 100% accountable and responsible for making a positive impact on that culture.
Worrying is praying for the worse to happen.
Confidence is there for the taking.
Our thinking creates the way we feel and we can train our brain to help us feel better.
Our Character is something we should work to optimize every day of our life!

Listen to Lyn and Bob as they describe and unpack these points, then add their teachings to your leadership toolkit. Leadership IS a conversation!

Bob Turknett / CEO, Turknett Leadership Group

Dr. Robert (Bob) Turknett is an executive leadership coach and licensed psychologist with over 28 years of consulting experience. Both he and his wife Lyn are co-founders of Turknett Leadership Group, an Atlanta-based consulting firm providing leadership and organization development services to companies in a variety of industries.

Dr. Turknett specializes in CEO Consulting, executive team development and individual development and coaching. Bob has served as an executive coach to more than 1,000 executives in more than 100 companies, both large and small businesses in a variety of industries. His unique approach to coaching blends psychological expertise with extensive business knowledge. Typical engagements involve work with a leader and the entire team producing leadership development results that impact the whole organization.

Bob, along with business and life partner Lyn, published a book about their work together entitled, Decent People, Decent Company: How to Lead with Character at Work and in Life. The book is based on the Turknett Leadership Character Model™ that describes the kind of character all of us need to lead wherever we are. Turknett Leadership Group sponsors a Leadership Character Awards program each year in partnership with the Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Character, honoring leaders of character in the business, education and nonprofit sectors.

Prior to founding Turknett Leadership Group, Dr. Turknett was in private practice for nine years for both the Georgia and Kentucky mental health and hospital systems. He was also a co-founder of the Georgia Psychological Health Network and Chief Psychologist for the Georgia Regional Hospital System. He received his undergraduate degree in business from Jacksonville University and his doctorate in psychology from the University of Georgia. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honorary society.

In 2006, Dr. Turknett received the Leadership Entrepreneurial Award presented by Jacksonville University to an outstanding alumnus. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Georgia Psychological Association, the American Management Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Atlanta Rotary, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Dr. Turknett is an active United Way volunteer and served two terms as co-chair, with wife Lyn, of the Cole Society for Leadership Giving. Each year the Turknetts devote a portion of their time to pro-bono work with various organizations.

Lyn Turknett / President, Turknett Leadership Group

Carolyn Turknett has more than 20 years experience in management and leadership consulting. The focus of her work is character in leadership, organization assessment and change, executive team development, and leadership in turbulent times.

Ms. Turknett’s consulting engagements have included leadership and executive team development, cultural assessment and change, mergers, and individual feedback and coaching. She is particularly interested in helping teams at all levels improve effectiveness and working relationships, and in helping organizations maximize intellectual capital and create cultures that support flexibility and initiative.

Ms. Turknett received her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Georgia, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. in Sociology, with special emphasis in organizational sociology, from the University of Georgia.

Current research interests include leadership and Constructive Developmental Theory and gender differences in leadership style. In presentations at national and local conferences and in publications, Ms. Turknett has addressed such topics as leadership character, succession planning, trends in executive development, executive coaching, executive onboarding, retention, organizational culture, women in leadership, and revitalization after downsizing.

Lyn, along with business and life partner Bob, recently published a book about their work together entitled, Decent People, Decent Company: How to Lead with Character at Work and in Life. The book is based on the Turknett Leadership Character Model™, a model that describes the kind of character all of us need to lead wherever we are. Turknett Leadership Group sponsors a Leadership Character Awards program each year in partnership with the Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Character, honoring leaders of character in the business, education and nonprofit sectors.

Ms. Turknett is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Academy of Management, the Organization Development Network, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Organization Change Alliance.

Lyn has long been an active United Way supporter. She has chaired the United Way in DeKalb campaign, and is serving currently on the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta Board of Directors. She has served as chair of the Community Investments Committee, and has served with her husband, Bob, as co-chair of the United Way Cole Society for Leadership Giving. She is also an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

Contact Bob or Lyn: (770) 271-1723, lturknett@turknett.com or bturknett@turknett.com

Which Book Has Most Impacted Your Leadership Ability?

Bob: