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How to Exploit Fiscal Leadership in Your Industry – 10 Secrets to Fiscal Growth

October 1, 2012 by angishields

Renegade Radio

How to Exploit Fiscal Leadership in Your Industry – 10 Secrets to Fiscal Growth

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Gary Patterson, Trusted Advisor | FiscalDoctor Inc.

How to Exploit Fiscal Leadership in Your Industry – 10 Secrets to Fiscal Growth

Uncover Your Blind Spots and dramatically accelerate correct financial and fiscal leadership decisions! Risks are what go wrong when you are not looking: those stupid things like bounced checks, losing your best customers or best people when you are blindsided. We help you create peripheral vision in your business so you are not caught unprepared. You need a perspective of business under the microscope and to have lived to tell the tale. (Audiences can expect a color commentary of insights which give a common sense approach to what people make complex, as companies grow, to solve problems easier than you think.)

Gary W. Patterson works with leaders to uncover blind spots IN TIME to make better business decisions and dramatically accelerate correct fiscal leadership decisions. This helps leaders gain control of their financial destinies and capitalize on hidden high return opportunities, while limiting risk exposure. Patterson, a Big 4 CPA/ Stanford MBA, speaks regularly on topics such as risk management, corporate governance, strategic planning, achieving corporate financial goals, and building long-term wealth.

He has more than 30 years of senior management experience and has provided high level strategic guidance for more than 200 companies — from start-ups to Fortune 500. — to provide high level strategic guidance and expertise. His company – FiscalDoctor® – helps CEOs, board members, executive teams, and private equity investors and owners achieve fiscal health. His new book Million Dollar Blind Spots: 20/20 Vision for Financial Growth helps exploit fiscal leadership to create high growth opportunities.

678-319-4739 | gary@fiscaldoctor.com | www.FiscalDoctor.com | @ERMadvocate

| Renegade Radio host Andy Lowe is a highly experienced Mindset Coach, Triathlon Coach and Performance Expert for businesses, athletes and top performers. To learn more go to www.renegadeconcepts.com.

Davin Green with Green Machine, Inc. and Perry Cantrell with High Touch-High Tech

September 27, 2012 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Davin Green with Green Machine, Inc. and Perry Cantrell with High Touch-High Tech

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Davin Green/Green Machine, Inc.

Davin has extensive experience in Marketing, Information Technology, and Design. He has spent the last ten years following the trends of digital strategy and has established himself as an expert in online marketing, design of digital products, and internet strategy with emphasis on engagement and conversions. Davin’s role at Green Machine, Inc. is to extend brand awareness, ensure quality delivery of services, and manage the execution of strategies and projects both internally and for their clients. Outside of the office, you’ll find Davin helping to promote sustainability initiatives throughout Atlanta, camping in the North Georgia Mountains, or touring around town on his Honda motorcycle.

Perry Cantrell/High Touch-High Tech

Perry Cantrell is a Quality Assurance Manager with High Touch-High Tech. High Touch-High Tech is a valuable tool in helping schools meet their internal academic targets and government imposed testing standards. High Touch-High Tech’s kinesthetic teaching methodology puts the world of science into students’ hands in their own class room, thus leveling the playing field for all students to develop an understanding and inquisitive love for science.

How Leadership Delivers for Multiple Stakeholders!

September 27, 2012 by angishields

Global Leader Radio

How Leadership Delivers for Multiple Stakeholders!

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Karen Finger and Vaughn Williams join host Alvin C. Miles to discuss how leadership delivers results for multiple stakeholders!

Karen Finger / President, The National Association of Telecom Professionals (ATP)

Karen Finger has over 20 years of experience in the communications and technology industry. She has held leadership positions in sales, service and product delivery, customer lifecycle operations, network design, and software development working with the largest enterprise and service provider clients with companies such as Nortel, Sprint, and currently, CenturyLink Business.

Karen is an active leader and “connector” in the Atlanta business community serving as President of the Association of Telecommunications Professionals (ATP), a non-profit industry association. She has been actively involved with ATP since 2008, and has held various leadership roles on the board including Vice President and Director. Karen has also chaired the prestigious ATP Awards Gala in 2009 and 2011, which recognizes and promotes leadership, innovation, and excellence in Georgia.

Karen grew up in Memphis, TN where she graduated from Lausanne High School and then went on to the University of Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and business administration. She is married with two children and lives in East Cobb Marietta, Georgia.

Contact Karen: (404) 964-4688, Karen.Finger@atpconnect.org

Vaughn Williams / Athletic Director & Presidential Cabinet Member, Kennesaw State University

Vaughn Williams brings his extensive knowledge and experience of collegiate athletics to the position of athletic director at Kennesaw State University. On April 12, 2011, University President Dr. Dan Papp announced at the conclusion of a national search that Williams would fill the void created by the retirement of Dr. Dave Waples, who had been the department’s athletic director since 1987. Williams officially took his post on May 2, stepping in for Senior Associate Athletic Director Scott Whitlock, who had served as Interim Athletic Director since Waples’ departure in August, 2010.

Prior to accepting the job at Kennesaw State, Williams has had a prestigious six-plus year tenure at the University of Connecticut. While there, Williams served as Associate Athletic Director, with his responsibilities mainly involving strategic planning, facility master planning and policy and procedure improvement. He also served as chair of the University of Connecticut’s Sportsmanship/Fan Environment Initiative Committee. At Connecticut, Williams directed the operation and management of 11 campus athletic facilities for 24 varsity sports and 600 student-athletes, as well as the university’s recreational/intramural program, which serves 3,500 participants.

He also oversaw the Huskies’ event management team that provides support to varsity sports, including the hosting of Big East and NCAA post-season events. In addition, Williams served as the program’s home game administrator for football and basketball games. Before arriving at Connecticut, Williams had over 10 years of NCAA Division I athletics experience. He was a staple at Boston College in their athletic department as an assistant athletic director for six years from 1998-2004. While working at Boston College, he earned his Masters degree in Administrative Studies.

Williams got his start working in collegiate athletics at the University of Utah. During his two years there, Williams went from the Assistant Director of Finance to the Director of Finance before leaving for the University of Toledo, where he served as the Associate Athletic Director of Business Affairs from 1996-1998.

Williams’ experience in athletics reaches beyond the boundaries of administration. Earning his bachelor’s degree in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in 1992, Williams was a four-year letter winner in football at UMass.

Williams and his wife, Eileen, have three children.

Contact Vaughn: (770) 423-6284, vwilliam@kennesaw.edu

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October 2nd – From Start-up to Dynamic Adventure: a Story of Two Businesses

September 27, 2012 by angishields

Write Here Write Now

October 2nd – From Start-up to Dynamic Adventure: a Story of Two Businesses

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An impressive 55% of new companies are begun by women. What triggers these creative adventures? A chance conversation? A news article? A long held dream? An I can do that attitude? A bit of each of these? We learn about two companies begun by dynamic women determined to make a difference. Medical Staffing Resources is one of Atlanta’s oldest, established healthcare staffing firms. By providing top talent, MSR believes they can truly make a difference in the long term stability of the healthcare community. 5 WIVES is a concierge business created to make life more manageable and enjoyable for its clients. Whether it is cleaning house, organizing files, washing sheets, restocking a pantry, or picking up dry cleaning, 5 WIVES engages in best practices, adheres to efficiency, and constantly seeks ways to add value to the customer’s life.

The guests are Michelle Lee and Adecia Shumate. As always the guests will be asked in what ways writing is a part of their business.

Michelle Lee serves as President and CEO of Medical Staffing Resources; she began with the company as a recruiter in the first few years of the business. Michelle continues to build upon the mission and dream of the founder from whom Michelle purchased the company. Adecia Shumate founded 5 WIVEs after the idea was first conceived during lunch with about 20 single friends in 2006.

Honor Air sends 60 WWII Veterans to Washington DC

September 26, 2012 by angishields

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Honor Air sends 60 WWII Veterans to Washington DC

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Gene Beckham is a native of Perry, Georgia. He is the owner of Business Furniture Services, Inc. in Marietta. Long active in his community, Gene is a past president of the Roswell Rotary Club. As he was passing the torch to the next president in 2008, he was looking for a signature project for the incoming president. At this time, Gene became aware of the Honor Flight Network. Drawn to honoring our veterans and their sacrifices for our freedom, Gene immediately knew this was something in which he wanted to be involved.

The Honor Flight Network provides WWII veterans an opportunity to make an all expenses paid trip to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. Since the first trip in 2008, the Roswell Rotary Club has created Honor Air to continue to provide opportunities for WWII veterans to take this trip, and be honored for their service to our country. Four trips have been completed, with a fifth scheduled for October 10, 2012. This year’s trip has been made possible by Coldwell Banker and their local Atlanta-based agents for up to 60 veterans. Listen as Gene tells how this “one time project” has become an ongoing initiative for the Roswell Rotary Club!

For more information about this terrific trip to honor our WWII veterans or to make a donation, click here, send an email to rrhonorair@gmail.com, or call (678) 318-3647. Contact Gene directly at (770) 971-5424, email him at gene@bfsga.com, or visit his website at www.bfsga.com.

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.

Peter Pasternack Real Estate Connections Special with Beverly Fenello, Wesley Boyd and Ashley Testa

September 26, 2012 by angishields

Real Estate Atlanta

Peter Pasternack Real Estate Connections Special with Beverly Fenello, Wesley Boyd and Ashley Testa

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The Real Estate Connections event for this month will be on Thursday, October 4, from 6pm-9pm, and it will be held at Aja, a modern Asian kitchen, located in the Alliance Center on Lenox Road. If you are in Real Estate in Atlanta this is a must-go-to networking event.

Peter Pasternack/Foundations Designs

Peter Pasternack, from Foundation Designs, is one of our hosts and is also one of the stars of Flip This House, one of television’s most recognized real estate investment and home renovation shows. His company designs, builds, and renovates residential and commercial property.

Peter is in charge of the largest real estate networking event in town, Real Estate Connections, that is held every month.

Beverly Fenello/Women’s Council of REALTORS

Beverly Fenello is a REALTOR with Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta. She began her career as a Buyer’s agent and worked for the top agent in her office for several years before establishing her own business. She credits her success for selling listings to the ability to know what Buyers want and create the “perfect” showing condition in order to entice them to buy.

Beverly grew up in Columbia, S.C., and has lived in Atlanta since 1997. She is an active member of Northpoint Community Church, where she has participated as a small group leader for the Middle School Ministry and presently serves on the Host Team.

Beverly is an active member of the Atlanta Board of REALTORS and the Women’s Council of REALTORS where she is currently serving as President-Elect for the Atlanta Chapter.

Wesley Boyd/Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

Wesley Boyd joined the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Team in October of 2011. He has 12 years of experience in Retail and Wholesale areas of mortgage financing. Before joining Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, he worked for large financial institutions as well as small community lenders. Wesley has originated and approved thousands of mortgages.

Ashley Testa/Allstate Insurance – The Lincoln Wells Agency

For the past two years, Ashley has been the Director of Outside Sales and a top producer at the Lincoln-Wells Agency with Allstate Insurance. Her agency is ranked in the top 2% of the state and has a Retention Rate of 94%. The Agency is very involved with Habitat for Humanity and sponsors multiple athletic programs in the community and in several school systems. Ashley also serves as Vice President for the Legacy Park Networking Group, a local group of nearly 30 business leaders in her community.

Ashley is a native of Georgia. She has been active in Equestrian sports since childhood. At the age of 20, Ashley’s father endured a brain tumor; this led to her to take over her father’s business, a large collision center in Smyrna. This contributed to her strong leadership skills and intensive goal setting. This also helped her formulate her comprehensive skill set of the insurance industry. After successfully leading her father’s company for several years, she remained in the field as a Collision Adjuster. Her vast experience in the collision industry greatly compliments her ability as an agent in going above and beyond ensuring that the customer gets the maximum benefit.

Pamela Grant and Susan Mitnick with CBeyond discuss partnering in Talent Management initiatives

September 26, 2012 by angishields

Performance Difference Radio

Pamela Grant and Susan Mitnick with CBeyond discuss partnering in Talent Management initiatives

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Pamela Grant

Pamela is currently the Director of Corporate Human Resources for Cbeyond. Her responsibilities include Cbeyond’s Total Rewards, HR Technology, and Talent Management. In previous roles she has managed Employee Relations and Corporate Events. Since joining Cbeyond in 2006, she has been an instrumental part of growing the HR team to support an organization that has more than doubled in size. Her strength has been enabling the firm to attract, engage and retain some of the best and brightest talent in the industry, through a holistic approach to the people side of the business.

Pamela has over 10 years of experience in Human Resources at both Cbeyond and BellSouth Corporation, giving her a deep knowledge of the Communication and Technology Industries. Before starting a career in Human Resources, Pamela was a District Manager for a national retailer and a Consultant for a non-profit, conducting educational seminars for college students. Both of these early career roles enabled Pamela to understand the front lines of running a business, lending great perspective as she has partnered with business leaders to leverage their human capital.

Pamela currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Frazer Center and has previously served as the Georgia State University Chapter Advisor for Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity. Pamela has earned two degrees from Georgia State University a BBA in Organizational Theory and Behavior and an MBA in Business Analysis.

As a native of Georgia, Pamela has enjoyed living all around the greater Atlanta area at one time or another. She currently lives in Marietta with her husband Chris, one year old daughter Kennedy and dog Abbey.

Pamela can be reached via email at pamela.grant@cbeyond.net.

Susan Mitnick

Susan Mitnick leads Cbeyond University, overseeing the development and execution of the learning strategies for all of Cbeyond’s sales distribution channels, customer care and operations teams. With over 25 years of combined sales, sales management and training experience, she has been instrumental in implementing training programs that support organizations in achieving their goals. Most recently, she successfully lead her team in redesigning Cbeyond’s direct sales training curriculum from a 3-week live instructor-led format to a blended-learning strategy delivered through online learning, virtual classroom sessions and collaboration tools.

As Sr. Director of Training at Cbeyond, she has had the privilege of leading the Cbeyond University team to be recognized with Training Magazine’s Top 125 Award for the past three years and ASTD’s BEST Award in 2009 and with a ranking in the top 10 in 2011.

Ms. Mitnick previously lead training for a B2B division of MCI. She is currently the marketing chair for ASTD’s Technology-Based Learning special interest group in Atlanta.

Susan can be reached via email at susan.mitnick@cbeyond.net

A Season For Living: Susan Willis Updegraff.

September 26, 2012 by angishields

BRX National

A Season For Living: Susan Willis Updegraff.

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Susan is a native of Atlanta having grown up in Sandy Springs. Her banking career spans over 40 years and includes retail, mortgage, private, and business banking. She currently works with State Bank & Trust in Buckhead.

She began writing her first novel about three years ago. She completed “A Season For Living” in 2010 and self-published with iUniverse. The novel’s genre is Romantic Historical Fiction and follows the lives of four very strong women from the late 1940’s to 2000 in Atlanta. You will take a walk back to the Atlanta that we remember so fondly. Each of the women has her own struggles, but the bond of family and friendship provides the love and support they all need to survive and triumph over tragedy and hardship. Susan’s love for interior design is evident in the book with detailed descriptions of the homes they lived in and the places they visited. Many of the homes and places in the book are historic homes and places in Atlanta, Roswell, Charleston, Charlottesville, Williamsburg and Kennebunkport. The book is available at Barnes & Noble on line, Amazon, and iUniverse.

Because of the wonderful responses she has received from her readers and the encouragement they provided, she is currently writing a sequel to “A Season for Living.” This book continues to follow the lives of these strong women and you will meet new people who will add to the inspirational story.

Susan has five children and six grandchildren. She lives in a North Atlanta suburb with her husband, Don. She is a member of Johns Creek Baptist Church in Alpharetta where she is an ordained deacon and has taught adult Sunday School for over twenty years.

Women in Leadership

September 25, 2012 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Women in Leadership

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Ashby Kent talks with Katie Caperton and Maggie Geraghty on the topic of Women in Leadership on this installment of Results Matter Radio.

Katie Caperton/HLN Digital

Katie Caperton is Editor-in-Chief of HLN Digital. Based in CNN’s global headquarters in Atlanta (also the home of sister channel HLN), she is responsible for directing the editorial content for the newly launched website HLNTV.com, overseeing its daily “must see, must share” news stories and videos.

Caperton joined CNN in July 2009 as Entertainment Editor at CNN Digital. In that position, she relaunched the website’s entertainment section, which is now one of the most popular user destinations on CNN.com. Her revisions to the entertainment pages include the addition of user comments on CNN.com and Facebook; breaking entertainment stories and videos; and “Quote Board” highlights of the week’s most controversial or interesting celebrity comments and activities. Addtionally, Caperton is responsible for overseeing the launch of the entertainment blog, The Marquee Blog, one of the most highly viewed on CNN.com.

Before joining CNN, Caperton was the Editor-in-Chief of OK! Magazine, where she also served as managing editor and executive editor. Before that, she held the position of assistant managing editor at Star Magazine. She was also an editorial contributer to InStyle Magazine, New York Magazine, Interview, Atlanta Magazine and the New York Daily News.

Caperton earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with honors from New York University.

Maggie Geraghty/Thomas Arvid Fine Art, Inc.

Maggie Geraghty is the Director of Marketing and Operations for Thomas Arvid Fine Art, Inc., a boutique publishing firm representing the art of Thomas Arvid. Credited for redefining the modern still life with his monumental paintings of the beauty of wine, Arvid’s work is featured in over fifty galleries across the U.S., Canada and abroad. In addition to working with galleries to sell and promote Arvid, Maggie manages the marketing strategies and production team for the Limited Edition program. She creates and edits all marketing materials including thomasarvid.com, Living Artfully television pilot, annual Arvid calendar, wine tasting journals and museum catalogs.

Currently, Maggie is also the Director of Exhibition and Sponsorships for Arvid: Reflecting the Good Life at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art September 21 – December 15, 2012. In addition to managing and organizing Arvid’s first museum exhibition, she was able to raise more than $75,000 in sponsorships and in-kind donations to successfully support an exhibit of more than 46 paintings representing twenty years of Arvid’s career.

Ashby L. Kent/Burr & Forman

Ashby L. Kent has practiced in Burr & Forman’s Litigation section since 2003 where she specializes in general commercial litigation. She has handled a wide variety of business disputes (tort and contract) for both plaintiffs and defendants, and her clients range from individuals and small businesses to large national financial institutions, including banks, lenders, mortgage companies and insurance companies.

Ashby represents her financial services clients in a variety of consumer finance and real estate matters, including actions for wrongful foreclosure, predatory lending, consumer protection law claims and other state and federal lender liability claims. In representing her title insurance clients, Ashby has handled numerous matters which involve evaluating and litigating bad faith claims, boundary line and easement disputes, one-half interest defects, lost or unrecorded security instruments issues, disputes over damages and loss valuations and other issues that frequently arise in the title insurance industry.

Ashby has nearly 10 years of experience litigating in Georgia’s state and federal courts, and has tried cases (bench and jury trials) in both. Additionally, she has successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively resolved numerous disputes through effective settlement negotiation and/or participation in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including mediation and arbitration.