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Wendy Stewart with Bank of America

December 9, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Wendy Stewart with Bank of America

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As the Atlanta Market President, Wendy Stewart is responsible for advancing Bank of America’s strategy across Metro Atlanta. Wendy connects with local business leaders and community stakeholders to deliver the company to customers, clients and the community.

Wendy is also responsible for ensuring Bank of America’s Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy, including philanthropy and community development efforts have a positive impact on metro Atlanta.

As co-head of Bank of America SE Global Commercial Banking practice, Wendy leads the firm’s efforts, working with mid cap and middle market companies. Wendy partners closely with teammates across the firm to provide the expertise and consultation necessary to deliver the best solution for the client.

Wendy serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Metro Atlanta Chamber, the Board of Directors for The Grove Park Foundation, the Board of Trustees for Woodruff Arts Center, and a member of Atlanta Committee for Progress.

Wendy is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta- Class of 2017 and Leadership Georgia- Class of 2010.

Connect with Wendy on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

In just over 8 weeks, the Million Mask Challenge has provided 90+ Atlanta area non-profits with more than 1,000,000 masks – but we believe more can be done as there will be a continued need as schools go back face to face and businesses go back to their offices.

The donation of masks began with Bank of America giving to 14 local organizations – including Morehouse School of Medicine and Atlanta Public Schools, but realized there was an even greater need. A partnership was then formed with the Global Health Crisis Coordination Center (GHC3), Atlanta Metro Chamber (MAC) and VGI Group to challenge other businesses in metro Atlanta for much needed support and resources.

This collaboration has been an unprecedented effort for the Atlanta business community to step in and help those in need, particularly our children, in the face of this pandemic. Major donors include GPC/NAPA, NCR, Coca-Cola, OMNIA Partners and many others who deserve a huge thank you for stepping up to help Atlantans protect themselves and others while keeping Georgia healthy.

To donate or get more information on how to receive donations, contact the Metro Atlanta Chamber at maskdonations@macoc.com

About Our Sponsor

OnPay’s payroll services and HR software give you more time to focus on what’s most important. Rated “Excellent” by PC Magazine, we make it easy to pay employees fast, we automate all payroll taxes, and we even keep all your HR and benefits organized and compliant.

Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.

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Joe Eppy with The Eppy Group

December 9, 2020 by angishields

Columbus Business Radio

Joe Eppy with The Eppy Group

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Joe Eppy, a native of Ohio, graduate of The Ohio State University and avid Ohio sports fan, is the founder, president and Chief Visionary Officer of The Eppy Group. To know Joe, is to know his passion! You can tell in an instant that he truly loves what he does; for him it’s a blurred line between work and play. With an academic background in accounting, Joe has been in the financial services industry in the South Florida region since 1993. Since then, Joe has grown The Eppy Group into one of the premier financial firms in the area. Joe is privileged and honored to have his wife as his business partner and both his sons in the practice, propelling the firm into the next generation. He believes that change is a constant and keeps his eye on the ever-changing economic and product environment.

Joe’s approach to financial planning revolves fundamentally around education; preferring that his clients have the knowledge to make well informed decisions. He believes that growing wealth must be accompanied by a strong defensive plan; a most important and often overlooked facet of planning. He focuses on the most tax efficient use of wealth at retirement, while preserving the legacy. Joe would be considered a reallocation specialist, helping his clients determine the most effective placement of their money. His strongest skill set lies in helping people keep the money they make. Joe knows that trust is essential in making any relationship work and strives to create, maintain and enhance his relationships through his commitment to act ethically and with integrity, inclusion and diversity.

Joe manages many facets of financial planning such as: retirement maximization, tax minimization, estate analysis and strategy, business, individual, special needs planning, and philanthropic fundraising through charitable trusts. Joe does not lose sight of the simple basics; when the very unfortunate occurs and someone’s life is swept away or becomes disabled, the very products he sells are what helps to allow the families to move forward with dignity and security.

Early on in his career, Joe found a place in his heart for helping families who have a child with special needs. Joe’s involvement in special needs triggered Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company to seek his assistance in establishing and implementing their own special needs program. He has addressed numerous organizations regarding financial planning for special needs families and is regarded as an industry expert. This passion has evolved into many philanthropic relationships and new initiatives that Joe is currently spearheading. Joe is thrilled and honored that his son Craig has taken a special interest in the special needs community and is not heading up this department of the firm.

Joe currently serves on the boards of Riverwalk Trust and Oakstone Academy. He is an active leader in the community and is a sponsor and donor to many organizations throughout the year. Joe and his wife Fran, after living in Boca Raton for 20 years, relocated to downtown Fort Lauderdale in 2014, where they love their 7-minute walk to work!

Joseph Eppy is a registered representative of and offers securities and investment advisory services and financial planning through MML Investors Services, LLC. Member SIPC: 1221 Brickell Ave, Suite 300 Miami, Florida 33131 | 305-648-2445. Insurance offered through Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and other fine companies. The Eppy Group, LLC., is not a subsidiary or affiliate of MML Investors Services, LLC. or Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company or its affiliated companies. CA Insurance License #OC48018 CRN202207-268977

Connect with Joe on LinkedIn and follow The Eppy Group on Facebook.

Jeremy Gustafson with Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching

December 8, 2020 by angishields

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Atlanta Business Radio

Jeremy Gustafson with Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching

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Jeremy Gustafson’s thirty years of experience in business leadership and management has established a proven track record of leading double digit growth for both his firms and his client’s firms.

Curious & disruptive at his core, Jeremy brings deep passion and experience to the total picture of successful leadership, client satisfaction and talent development with measurable results. With specialties in strategy, marketing, business development, talent acquisition and change management, he has served in a variety of leadership roles in multiple successful start-ups, growth stage companies and large multinational firms.

Jeremy successfully led a global digital transformation engagement for NIKE, cutting product content go-to-market time by more than 900%, resulting in a large balance sheet win to their favor. Constantly innovating and working through massive ecommerce 1.0 and 2.0 disruption, he has had the privilege of helping enhance the way many top brands go to market and connect with customers.

Over a period of six years, he was part of a very small team that changed the way several top ten retailers bring their assortment to market. His tenure in retail and ecommerce has provided him with many opportunities to provide C-suite teams, marketing, technology and creative leaders with a deep perspective on strategy, implementation, talent and leading change.

With a degree in applied mathematics, Jeremy is no stranger to data and analytics that make today’s business world hum. An avid gardener, cook, watercolorist, collector of vinyl LPs and was voted the #1 Cub Fan (as published in their fan magazine), he is proudly and happily kept on his toes by his three growing daughters as a coach, cook, mentor, homework helper and cheerleader and whatever else they may ever need.,

Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What made the opportunity with ILEC so appealing
Who can benefit the most from its services
The industries Jeremy works with
How Jeremy’s background plays a role in his coaching style
How executives should adjust their leadership style to best lead their employees during today’s circumstances

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

BRX Pro Tip: Appreciate Yourself

December 8, 2020 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Appreciate Yourself

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BRX Pro Tip: Appreciate Yourself

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, one of the keys, I think, to remaining sane and, probably, to continue the effectiveness is to simply appreciate yourself.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:16] Yeah. I think as an entrepreneur, business leader, it’s hard, and you got to take a moment to kind of just own that, and appreciate yourself, and appreciate that it is a hard thing you’re trying to do here. Every business leader and entrepreneur is a little crazy, a little stubborn, relentlessly optimistic and hopeful. So, you got to take that moment periodically and appreciate that, “Hey, I’m taking a risk most other people wouldn’t. I’m trying to do something that’s difficult, and it has a high probability of not working out exactly as I pictured in my head, but I’m going boldly forward. I’m going to fight the good fight.”

Lee Kantor: [00:00:58] So, in order to do that every day, you got to give yourself some grace and some slack. And you got to find the other people who believe what you do. And that way, you can go forward together. So, you got to find your people, you got to find your tribe, you got to serve the heck out of them, and just try to get a little better every day, and you’re going to get there. But just take a moment and just appreciate that this is hard work, and you’re not going to be perfect, you’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to go down rabbit holes that don’t work out, but just keep kind of plugging away, keep grinding every day, and good things will happen.

Rome Business Radio – Dr. Clemmie Whatley, author of “The Chubbs”

December 7, 2020 by angishields

Rome Business Radio

Rome Business Radio - Dr. Clemmie Whatley, author of "The Chubbs"

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Michael Mogill with Crisp Video Group

December 7, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Michael Mogill with Crisp Video Group

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Michael Mogill is Founder & CEO of Crisp Video Group, the nation’s fastest-growing law firm growth company and is the author of the Amazon Best-Seller, “The Game Changing Attorney”.

He’s helped thousands of attorneys — from solo and small firms to large practices — differentiate themselves from competitors and earn millions in new revenue. His company has been named to the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing companies and has been awarded Best Places to Work.

A sought-after speaker, Michael often presents at national conferences on innovative ways to create exponential business growth. His advice has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Inc., ABA, The Trial Lawyer, Huffington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

Leadership
Team engagement and accountability
Vision and growth
Hiring

About Our Sponsor

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Les Adkins with DigitalGift

December 7, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Les Adkins with DigitalGift

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One of the most sought after generational change gurus in the country, Les Adkins has an MBA in global communication and has spent the last decade working with some of the most progressive companies in the USA and Internationally to bridge the gap between old and new.

He met Jim Clark in 2012, and realized there was a commonality between the Boomer Generation and Millennials…both generations felt lost in the wave of social media. Les partnered with Jim in 2013 as EVP and together they took Jim’s idea, made it “Millennial Useable”…(aka Digital) and after several years of collaboration, they were granted Patent US 9,830,627 B2.

Today DigitalGift is the result of this collaboration; a new technology designed to create real connections among a mountain of meaningless connections.

Download DigitalGift and make a real connection by making someone’s day with the perfect gift, perfectly personalized.

Follow DigitalGift on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

Buying local
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Gift Card Industry
How DigitalGift got started

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

BRX Pro Tip: You Can’t Escape Uncertainty

December 7, 2020 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: You Can't Escape Uncertainty

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BRX Pro Tip: You Can’t Escape Uncertainty

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, a lot of truths we’ve learned through the years of being in business, one of which is I don’t care how hard you try, you just simply cannot escape uncertainty.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:16] Right. In business, were always operating without all the information we need in order to make a permanent decision. That’s just the way it is. We like to think that today, because there’s a crisis, that this is new and unusual, but there’s a crisis every day. There’s always something going on. There’s always a million variables at play every single day. So, we like to try to take control and we like to pretend that we have some control. So, what we do, we do assessments, we do tests, we do pilots. So, that way, we’re checking to see what’s what. And sure, those activities give us some information, but it’s not perfect information.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:54] So, no matter what you know or how much you think you know, a better strategy is always take some action, learn something, tweak that until you eventually get to the result you were looking for. You cannot kind of go back in time. Tomorrow is a new day and things are going to change. They always change. That doesn’t change the fact that change is everywhere every day. So, of course, there’s uncertainty. There’s uncertainty every day. So, you just got to deal with it by taking action, learning, and moving forward and getting a little better every day.

TMB E49: Spark Partners, Think & Execute Like Innovators

December 4, 2020 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

TMB E49: Spark Partners, Think & Execute Like Innovators

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Spark Partners prepares business leaders and entrepreneurs to think and execute like innovators. We drive results in your business by teaching you to identify, classify, and develop innovations that will conquer your market. Stay in front of market shifts by becoming part of our  SparkCom Innovator community, giving you insights, tools, and resources to gain the advantage and & help propel your business to greater success.

ADAM HARTUNG:

“Don’t plan for what you know. Plan for what you don’t know.”

Adam is a world-renown expert on innovation, strategy, and change management. He has served on multiple boards, including Audit Chair for a NASDAQ traded company and has spoken at over 1,000 leadership events, both multi-company and single company, as a keynote speaker. Adam presents and leads workshops on how to achieve faster growth via higher levels of innovation. 

Since the emergence of innovation as a critical part of the strategy, Adam’s accurate forecasts about market shifting trends and his predictions for industry-leading corporations has made him a frequent press interviewee regarding top tech companies, as well as the automobile, media and retail industry leaders.

His insights into business growth and overcoming organizational obstacles have been featured in over 600 journals, including such notables as Inc, Adweek, Fortune, Washington Times – and multiple radio and television interviews.
Adam was named “Top Leadership Columnist” for Forbes.com, with more than 90 million readers. He is a leadership columnist for CIO Magazine and a founding editor for the International Journal of Innovation Science. Adam has extensive international innovation management and P&L expertise and has advised corporations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and India.

Adam received his Harvard MBA with distinction and offers three decades of top-tier management consulting credentials with Fortune 500 companies

Manny Teran

Manny is an award-winning business leader and entrepreneur with expertise in the areas of innovation, rapid technology deployment, sales, and marketing. Manny has applied his vast cross-market experience to launch hundreds of successful commercialization projects, support the growth of established businesses, and has helped many startups launch their companies to sustainable revenue. 
Manny is the founder and former CEO of Aztera, LLC, a technology development company, which he started in 2011 and quickly grew to a multimillion-dollar enterprise, working on novel technologies across medical devices, aerospace, and clean-energy markets.

In addition to Spark Partners, Manny is currently founder and CEO of SaiOx Inc, a medical device company focused on helping people breathe easier with respiratory distress issues, including COVID and COPD patients.

He coaches CEOs and founders in the areas of ideation, market adoption, and how-to effectively grow sales.

Manny has served on multiple boards and has received multiple awards for his rapid company growth including Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 40 under 40, Innovation & Impact Award, Copper Cactus Innovation Award, and the SBDC Success Award.

Manny received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona and stays active in the community.