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Transformational Women Highlights Kristin Adams, Managing Director Aon Hewitt

March 2, 2012 by angishields

Transformational Women

Transformational Women Highlights Kristin Adams, Managing Director Aon Hewitt

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We sat down to talk with Kristin Adams, Managing Director of Aon Risk Solutions. She has been with Aon for 15 years, beginning her career as a Legal Associate with Aon’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York. Kristin also spent 3 years with Aon’s Capital Markets team, based in San Francisco and Chicago. In this interview she talks about how important it is to focus on and understand the strengths of people you manage on your team.

As a team leader for Aon in Atlanta, Kristin is responsible for delivering solutions to her clients surrounding a broad range of issues including Directors and Officers Liability, Enterprise Risk Management, property and casualty program placement, and a variety of human capital offerings.

Her background in M&A and Capital Markets allows Kristin to bring a wide range of industry specialization, and she has particular expertise with the private equity, financial institutions and real estate sectors.

Kristin graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Law. She also completed post-graduate executive education programs in finance at New York University and Harvard Business School. Kristin is FINRA Series 7 and 63 licensed.

Jeff Smythe, Executive Director of Meals on Wheels Atlanta, and Scott Farber, Lest We Forget Video Project

March 2, 2012 by angishields

Eugeria

Jeff Smythe, Executive Director of Meals on Wheels Atlanta, and Scott Farber, Lest We Forget Video Project

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Scott Farber grew up wanting to be a professional baseball player in Chicago. After knee surgeries ended that dream, he went into broadcasting baseball games for both radio and television. After moving to Dallas 30 years ago, Scott went into advertising where he founded SF Media Consultants, and has worked closely with the record labels, the medical industry and professional sports franchises.

Recently, Scott had the opportunity to work on a World War II documentary which led him to launch www.generationslestweforget.com. This website hosts recorded stories from our seniors to preserve them for future generations. Scott works closely with senior communities around the Dallas area to film 15-20 minute ‘mini documentaries’ of their residents (at no cost to them), and he is always looking for more stories to record. If you are interested in having your, or your loved ones’ stories captured, you can call 972-625-5419 x106 or email scott@sfmediainc.com.

A Denver native, 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 Central America. Upon return and graduation from college, Jeff moved to Atlanta for our glorious Spring and Autumn weather. He started working with OpenHand Atlanta, and went on to earn a Masters in Public Administration from Georgia State University.

Approximately ten years ago, he accepted a position with Senior Citizen Services. 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. In addition, Senior Citizen Services offers one of the only Adult Day Health programs for mid-stage Alzheimer’s patients and operates seven neighborhood senior centers. Senior Citizen Services counts on YOUR assistance to continue to serve Atlanta’s elderly population. To find out how you can help, please visit their website at www.MealsOnWheelsAtlanta.org, or call them at 404-351-3889.

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

Mike Pennington – President of GEDA

March 1, 2012 by angishields

BRX National

Mike Pennington - President of GEDA

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Mr. Pennington is President of Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) and, in this edition of 200 Office Radio, he speaks to Alan Urech about his varied work experience and how it helps him serve the organizations 700 members. He also talks about why it’s important for Georgia to have the GEDA. One prime example he gives is the new Caterpillar plant which brought 1,400 new jobs to Georgia! Go to GEDA.org for more information or look them up on Facebook or Twitter!

March 6th – The Power of Story to Enhance Our Writing and Our Bottom Line

March 1, 2012 by angishields

Write Here Write Now

March 6th - The Power of Story to Enhance Our Writing and Our Bottom Line

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We constantly hear the power of story: in a job interview share a story of how you tackled a challenge at work and resolved it; when meeting with potential clients, tell a story of how your work or product had a positive impact on the bottom line of other clients; when writing an article or a book, fill it with personal stories. Today’s guests have highly successful businesses, speak often to challenge others to success and are authors. Stories are key to their presentations. Donna Satchell is a Professional Speaker, Success Skills Trainer, Author, and President of STARR Consulting & Training, an organization dedicated to motivating, training, and helping individuals and businesses achieve greater success. Jim Dawson is a nationally recognized, award-winning expert in the area of human functioning in the workplace. His company is ADI Marketing. As a presenter/speaker Jim has addressed and impacted thousands of people and achieved impressive results for his clients. Listen in as Donna and Jim provide insights on identifying the stories in our lives which we can use in our writing, speaking and especially in growing our businesses.

Robert Newcomer of The Lang Legal Group LLC & Green Chamber of the South rejoins ITWC

March 1, 2012 by angishields

Inside the Winner's Circle

Robert Newcomer of The Lang Legal Group LLC & Green Chamber of the South rejoins ITWC

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Robert Newcomer, Esq. is a commercial litigation, environmental and business law attorney with more than fifteen years of experience advising business entities and individual entrepreneurs in clean/green technology and social enterprise areas on a broad range of legal and strategic business issues, including entity formation and governance, contracts, intellectual property, litigation and risk management. He combines his personal interest in social and environmental responsibility with his professional skills to help clients who seek to make the world a better place.

Mr. Newcomer is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and serves on the Sustainable Building Taskforce for Sustainable Atlanta and the Sustainability Taskforce for Atlanta BeltLine. He is a member of U.S. Green Building Council Georgia Chapter and the Urban Land Institute – Atlanta District Council, where he serves on the Management Committee, Advisory Board and as Chair of the Technical Assistance Program Committee. Mr. Newcomer helped establish and still serves on a number of non-profit boards, including the Green Chamber of the South, whose mission is to promote sustainable business practices through education, business development and collaboration, and girltank Foundation, whose mission is to empower young women social-change entrepreneurs globally, and WACSI Environmental Education, Inc. Mr. Newcomer also serves on the board of a 2nd generation family business providing residential and commercial door products and services nationwide.

Mr. Newcomer received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and served as an editor of the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.

Mr. Newcomer is an avid trail runner and randoneur.

Stephanie Armistead of GreenBusiness WORKS talks sustainability on ITWC

March 1, 2012 by angishields

Inside the Winner's Circle

Stephanie Armistead of GreenBusiness WORKS talks sustainability on ITWC

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In September 2001, Stephanie refocused the direction of her marketing communications agency, (The) Communication Works, to assist nonprofits in recovering from the aftereffects of 911. The agency began to work on meetings and events executing fundraising and development campaigns for Georgia Ovarian Cancer Alliance, Athletes for a Better World, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Keep Atlanta Beautiful, and others.

During her work with Keep Atlanta Beautiful, Stephanie learned about Mayor Franklins initiatives for the greening of Atlanta and was inspired to do her part in making Atlanta the Green Capital of the South. As a result, Stephanie founded GreenBusiness Works.

“Sustainable business practices is important to me because of my increasing awareness of climate change and the effect of greenhouse gases on our environment. Concerned, I began looking at the choices I could make to reduce my carbon footprint. After making simple lifestyle changes such as increasing the use of mass transit, composting and recycling, I began to assess my professional life. What changes could we make in our internal operations of the company and how could the company make an impact in the community? With our experience in the marketing communications and event production industry for more than 25 years, it became apparent that we could add another line of business to the 8 year old company, and thus, GreenBusiness Works began.”

To literally walk my talk, I gave up my car Earth DAY of 2010 and write a blog… GOING AWOC… Atlanta WithOut a Car!

Stephanie served on the inaugural board of the Green Chamber of the South and is a volunteer for the Georgia Chapter of the United States Green Building Council as the sponsorship committee chairperson, an ambassador for the Zero Waste Zones (ZWZ) and a liaison for the Emerging Green Builders. She lives in Ansley Above the Park, a vertical community in Midtown, Atlanta, volunteering as co-chair of the AATP Green Team. She enjoys playing tennis, hiking, golf, horseback riding, and any activity with her five nieces, 3 nephews and her two incredibly adorable great-nephews.

Ambassadors Brzezinski & Hafström discusses the Swedish American Green Alliance on ITWC

March 1, 2012 by angishields

Inside the Winner's Circle

Ambassadors Brzezinski & Hafström discusses the Swedish American Green Alliance on ITWC

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The Swedish American Green Alliance (SAGA) is a sustainability exchange for Swedish and American researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, journalists, legislators, activists, industry leaders, academics, NGOs, and more. SAGA makes connections, cultivates partnerships, and celebrates the ongoing story of progress toward a sustainable future.

Mark Francis Brzezinski was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 18, 2011 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden. Mr. Brzezinski has had a distinguished career in both public service and the private sector. Most recently, he has been a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of McGuireWoods law firm, specializing in anti-corruption law. In this capacity, Mr. Brzezinski has helped U.S. companies comply with laws regulating the way business is conducted overseas. At the same time, he has been very active in promoting broader public knowledge about the challenges of overseas corruption and ways law can be used to address it.

Mr. Brzezinski served as a Director on the National Security Council in the White House from 1999 to 2001. During this time he coordinated interagency policy formulation and advised the President and the National Security Advisor on issues relating to Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans, including regional democracy promotion, international public law, war crimes accountability, and was responsible for public diplomacy relating to the region. He helped lead U.S. policy implementation in relation to NATO enlargement and in response to the Kosovo conflict. He also coordinated presidential summits in Russia and Ukraine. From 1996 to 1999, he was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson law firm, where he assisted U.S. companies to expand their businesses around the world and to create economic opportunities in developing countries. From 1991 to 1993, he worked in Poland as a Fulbright Scholar, where he researched and wrote about the country’s constitutional transition.

Mr. Brzezinski is a member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Poland and of numerous articles on foreign policy and law. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Doctorate from Oxford University.

He is married to Natalia Brzezinski, a Huffington Post blogger and freelance writer, and they have one daughter named Aurora Emilie.

Ambassador Jonas Hafström presented his Letter of Credence to the President of the United States of America on September 18, 2007. Ambassador Hafström arrived in Washington, DC following three years as Ambassador of Sweden to Thailand, also accredited to Laos, Cambodia and Burma /Myanmar – a position he had held since 2004. From 2000 to 2004 he was Deputy Director for Consular Affairs and Civil Law at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. For three years (1991-1994) he served as foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Carl Bildt. Between 1987-1991 and 1994-2000, he was foreign policy adviser to Carl Bildt in his position as leader of the opposition.

Jonas Hafström joined the Foreign Service in 1979. Shortly thereafter he worked as Press Secretary to the Minister of Justice 1979-1981. His first posting was as First Secretary at the Embassy in Teheran from 1982-1984. He then spent the following two years as First Secretary at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington, DC.

Ambassador Hafström also served as a member of the Swedish Defense Committee 1998-99.

Born in 1948, Jonas Hafström is a graduate of the University of Lund and holds a degree in law. During his college years, he was President of the Student Union in Lund. The following two and a half years he served as District Clerk at the District Court in Nyköping. Jonas Hafström is a Non-Commissioned Reserve Captain of the Swedish Army and served as Aide D’Camp to the Swedish Commanding Officer in the United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in the Middle East in 1977. He received the “Jonas Weiss Memorial Award” in 2005 and The Seraphim Medal from His Majesty the King in 2008 “for meritorious contributions during the tsunami catastrophe in Southeast Asia”. Ambassador Hafström and his wife Eva have three children

Alpha Omega Health Center – Roswell, GA Chiropractor

February 29, 2012 by angishields

Everything Atlanta

Alpha Omega Health Center - Roswell, GA Chiropractor

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Dr. Robert Sanborn

Dr. Robert Sanborn, owner of Alpha Omega Health Center, is a graduate of New York Chiropractic College and has been in both group and private practices in the Roswell and East Cobb area for almost 20 years. His specialties are: family care for all ages, sports injuries, accident injuries and laser therapy.

Dr. Sanborn is involved in many sports activities and is an avid biker. He lives in Roswell, since 1992, with his wife and two children and is active in his local church.

1792 Woodstock Road Suite 450

Roswell, GA 30075

Phone: 770-642-8886 Fax: 770-642-7774

aohcroswell@att.net

Hours

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

08:30 to 1:00 and 3:00 to 6:30

Saturday 09:00 to 12:00

Bring Your Superpowers to Work: Darcy Eikenberg. Build it! Run it! Sell it!: R.W. Crossley. LifeSpan Financial Mapping: Jim Hudson.

February 29, 2012 by angishields

BRX National

Bring Your Superpowers to Work: Darcy Eikenberg. Build it! Run it! Sell it!: R.W. Crossley. LifeSpan Financial Mapping: Jim Hudson.

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Darcy has coached, inspired, and motivated change for individuals and teams at companies including Wachovia, The Home Depot, The Coca-Cola Company, AOL, Biogen Idec, and Verizon. She also has been a featured speaker for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), the Public Relations Society of American (PRSA), the Credit Insurer’s Association, and Best Buy’s Women’s Leadership Forum (WoLF). Her coaching expertise has been cited in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Modesto Bee, Atlanta Business Chronicle, ABCnews.com, and CareerBuilder.com.

Before founding her company, Darcy was a Principal, Internal Coach, and Senior Communication Consultant at Hewitt Associates, a top human resources consulting firm. She served on Hewitt’s national Communication Leadership team and led the Communication Consulting business in the Southeast US. In that role, she was responsible for developing and retaining successful people and teams, helping clients create better results, and managing a healthy, growing bottom-line. At Hewitt, Darcy also innovated an Associate Coaching program, designed to support associate retention and growth in ways that made a tangible difference to the company and its clients. She coached associates one-on-one, plus coached teams accountable for serving multi-million dollar, complex client relationships.

Darcy holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is the 2010 president-elect of the Georgia Coach Association, and graduated from Northwestern University.

William Crossley was born in Columbus, OH after which he was educated and raised around the world as a military child. After attending several Universities from Sophia University in Tokyo to Georgia Tech, Bill graduated from Mercer University.

During Bill’s 28-year career in the Army, he commanded field artillery units at every level from Lieutenant to Brigadier General. He retired in 1988 after three years as Chief of Staff – V Corps in Germany, where he was selected by Colin Powell.

Retirement last a whole 10 days before Bill was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. He co-founded and successfully ran various entrepreneurial ventures before settling down for retirement.

As a retiree, Bill now writes business books with a twist. His first was H2 which was an espionage thriller set in Europe and more recently Build it! Run it! Sell it! (BIRISI)- a business book disguised as a novel, that comes out in the next couple of weeks.

Short Introduction to Build it! Run it! Sell it!

BIRISI is a business book disguised as a humorous novel, with a plot that makes for an entertaining and informative read. Set in the disparate worlds of sailing aboard luxury yachts and women’s high fashion, BIRISI is organized around the framework of the entrepreneur’s mantra—Build it! Run it! Sell it!—into which are woven the imperatives of a multi-million dollar entrepreneurial enterprise and the structuring of a deal that investing angels and green card seekers can’t refuse.

A long time resident of Atlanta, Jim moved to Marietta in 1980 while he was working with AT&T. He spent 36 years with AT&T and affiliated AT&T companies progressing through positions of greater responsibility up to Area Vice President. Jim retired from AT&T in 2001 and went on to work for OFS, Conklin Corp., Carbon Motors, Ameriprise Financial and Penn Mutual, before finally settling into a slower paced life.

He has remained active with Georgia Tech teaching financial planning and supporting the alumni organization through the Cobb Georgia Tech Executive Network group as a coach and mentor for senior level graduates in career transition. Jim is also a member of the Kettering Executive Group.

Jim first came to Atlanta to attend Georgia Tech where he received a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration majoring in finance. He is also a graduate of the Executive Program at Penn State.

His has 3 grown children, and 8 grandchildren, and lives with his wife of 44 years in East Cobb. His hobbies include golf, bridge, motorsports and writing. His book “LifeSpan Financial Mapping” is listed with Amazon.com.