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Lori Brewer with LBA Ware

June 19, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Lori Brewer with LBA Ware

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Lori Brewer is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology leader who has manifested her forward-thinking visions into the development of award-winning fintech applications including CompenSafe™, the premier incentive compensation management platform, and LimeGear™, a revolutionary business intelligence platform.

As an officer in the U.S. Air Force, she designed an inaugural website for the C-130 Hercules, organizing and presenting crucial information for troops around the globe. As a civilian software developer, she was hired by a mortgage lender and found similar challenges: disorganized and disparate data, a clear need for improved processes, and the opportunity to show high returns on technology investments.

Now with over 20 years of mortgage banking experience, Brewer is an indispensable technology leader in the industry founder and CEO of LBA Ware™, an Inc. 5000 company, and recipient of the prestigious Tech All-Star award by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Follow LBA Ware on Facebook and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

How did LBA Ware start? How much has your company grown since?
What current projects are you working on at LBA Ware? Why is this important to the mortgage industry?
What makes LBA Ware stand out against the competition?
What qualities in your work ethic have helped you to get this far and stay relevant?
How has your business been impacted by the current pandemic? What business practices will look different for your organization moving forward?
As a small business owner, what is one piece of advice you want to share with other individuals starting a business right now?

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.

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

John R Hightower with Arch + Tower

June 18, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

John R Hightower with Arch + Tower

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John Hightower is the CEO of Arch + Tower | an FD Company . John co-founded the company and led the firm from inception through acquisition. Arch + Tower has served firms across various industries and sizes, notably Chick-fil-A and alongside the Founder of the Ritz-Carlton – Horst Schulze.

In 2019, Arch + Tower was acquired by Frazier & Deeter, a national ranked accounting firm, with offices across the United States and a budding footprint in the United Kingdom. John has worked with leading brands in their respective industries: SAP, Ritz-Carlton, Coca-Cola, Leadercast, Chick-fil-A, Spanx, Home Depot, McDonald’s as well as many start-ups and nonprofits.

Connect with John on LinkedIn and follow Arch + Tower on Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

The Arch + Tower story
The CxExOx framework
Client case studies
What typical client engagement looks like for Arch + Tower
The acquisition by Frazier & Deeter
Current trends John is seeing in the marketplace

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

SBBV E18: Tabitha Danloe, Empower Others to Conquer

June 17, 2020 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

SBBV E18: Tabitha Danloe, Empower Others to Conquer

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Tabitha Danloe, Owner
The Divine Sophia
(520) 409-2988
tabitha@thedivinesophia.com
https://www.thedivinesophia.com/
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram|

As a Professional Certified Coach & Certified Professional Integrative Coach, Tabitha loves to empower others to conquer fear, let go and trust, and to embrace being courageously authentic. She does this by helping busy executives & leaders, entrepreneurs, and men and women all over the world to create measurable results towards their goals in their companies, careers, businesses, and lives. She believes that everyone has tremendous wisdom that lives within, and as a Certified Coach it is her job to help you hear that wisdom.

About Your Host, Stephanie Rising

A business coach and author, Stephanie Rising has helped over 100 small business owners achieve greater proficiency, profitability, and sanity. She specializes in navigating the complexities of family-owned companies and partnerships with 5 to 25 employees. An expert small business advocate, she provides objective problem solving and accountability that has led many of her clients to award-winning achievement. Her clients have represented a total of over $60M in annual revenues and 1,000 employees.

Stephanie specializes in DISC behavioral analysis and her book, DISC: Leverage Your Nature, Increase Your Sales, is available on Amazon. She outlines step-by-step tactics for building a marketing plan that is sustainable for each reader’s personality and speaks to their specific target market. Stephanie has led numerous well-received workshops on DISC-based marketing and applying behavioral analysis in business.

As an extension of her belief in promoting an educated and healthy community, Stephanie is a monthly sponsor of Youth On Their Own, which provides stipends, supplies, and mentorship to Tucson teens who are homeless through no fault of their own.  She also supports Temwani Children’s Foundation, which provides education, food, and hope to orphaned children impoverished by the effects of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa.

Stephanie’s podcast, Small Biz, Big Voices, is broadcast monthly on Tucson Business Radio X. Show notes, interview questions, and additional coaching tips can be found on her small Biz, Big Voices Facebook page.

Stephanie is available for executive team coaching, strategic planning retreats, and public speaking.

Dayton Business Radio: Dr. Pamela Ellis with Compass Education Strategies

June 17, 2020 by angishields

Dayton Business Radio

Dayton Business Radio: Dr. Pamela Ellis with Compass Education Strategies

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Pamela Ellis, MBA, PhD—also known as The Education Doctor®—has helped hundreds of young people find and be admitted to best-fit colleges so their parents save time and avoid over-paying. As CEO of Compass Education Strategies, she brings combines 15+ years of expertise with the education system to offer educational advising services and programs to school districts, busy families, and companies who value their employees who are parents.

For school districts, Compass provides research-based, thoughtful college and career-readiness curriculum and professional development services.

For families, we help teens find a college that feels like home and partner with parents to avoid overpaying. Compass saves families time, money, and their relationships.

For employers, we are pursuing opportunities to offer educational services as an employee benefit to businesses in Ohio with over 5000 employees. We will help these employers offer a benefit that results in improved employee productivity and stress management for their employees.

Dr. Pamela is a highly sought-after speaker and author of the best-selling book What to Know Before They Go. In the first of this series, College Edition, coined “the how-to guide for the teen years”, she shares actionable insights and tips to help parents, caregivers and mentors navigate the high school years with less worry.

Dr. Pamela graduated from Stanford University and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and she earned a doctorate from the Stanford University School of Education.

Connect with Dr. Pamela on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

BRX Pro Tip: Remember Your True North

June 17, 2020 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Remember Your True North

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BRX Pro Tip: Remember Your True North

Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, it is so important, I’ve come to believe, and much of it from hanging out with you, I think, to remember our true north. And I can’t think of anybody better to ask about a brief conversation in this regard than the founder and the CEO of the company. So, can you speak to this general idea of finding and remembering true north? And maybe a few words about your true north for Business RadioX.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:35] Yeah. In times of crisis, this is really important because you have to remember the reason you’re doing what you’re doing. And in our case at Business RadioX, we’ve grown. Right now, there is a crisis happening in terms of a pandemic that’s impacting the world, and we can’t lose sight of the reason that we got involved with Business RadioX. We think it’s important to use our service to help people meet and serve the people most important to them, that our service helps them do that.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:10] Now, historically, we’ve done that face to face in the studio. That’s how we used to go about. And then, that was our big selling point. And if people wanted to meet more people face to face, then our system works extremely well to help them do that. We’re not saying stop doing that. In our case, the media is an essential service, so we’re able to do that, and we’ve been doing it through the entire time. So, I’m not saying stop doing that, but what I’m saying is that just remember that part of what we’re trying to do is to be the voice of business in the marketplace as well, and that we can do that virtually, and we can help create these relationships between our clients and their guests virtually.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:52] It’ll be a different way of doing it, or it might require more services for us to provide in order for them to help facilitate those relationships. But at the heart of what we’re trying to do is that every Business RadioX studio is to become the voice of business in their community and every Business RadioX sponsor is trying to become the voice of business to the constituents that are important to them. That has not changed. That is still the same. That is our true north.

Ben Brunt with Noble Investment Group

June 16, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Ben Brunt with Noble Investment Group

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Ben Brunt is a principal with responsibility for sourcing and underwriting new investments encompassing individual asset and portfolio acquisitions, land, and new development opportunities, market, and investment analysis and brand positioning.

Prior to joining Noble in 2005, Mr. Brunt held senior executive investment roles at Songy Partners and Hardin Capital. He has more than 23 years of hospitality industry experience and began his career in hotel operations.

Mr. Brunt received a B.A. from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He is a former professional violinist and spent two years as a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Brunt currently serves as a board member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Midtown Alliance. He is also a member of the AHLA Lodging Investment Council and a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Follow Noble Investment Groupon LinkedIn and Facebook.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What’s going on in the hotel business since Covid-19 started
What kinds of hotels have business
What is projected for the return of travel
What segments of business will return first
What markets will experience a return of travel first
How long will take to return to pre-Covid travel demand

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Leo Falkenstein with Consume Media, Steve Barha with Instant Financial and Eyal Benishti with IRONSCALES

June 16, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Leo Falkenstein with Consume Media, Steve Barha with Instant Financial and Eyal Benishti with IRONSCALES

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Leo Falkenstein is a brand strategist, video producer, and co-founder of Consume Media. Leo has been working in video marketing for eight years and has worked with a wide variety of clients in fields including technology, consumer goods, municipalities, and healthcare.

Currently, Leo spearheads the Strategy and Customer Success divisions at Consume Media with the goal of crafting engaging and innovative video content. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia.

Connect with Leo on LinkedIn and follow Consume Media on Facebook and Twitter.

Steve Barha has spent the past two decades utilizing the key principles of “operating with integrity” and “acting with urgency” to develop successful technology companies. The Founding CEO and now serving as the Executive Chairman of Instant Financial, Steve brings an extensive background delivering financial technology to large enterprise customers.

Prior to Instant, Steve served as both the CIO and EVP of Mobile for TIO Networks (acquired by Paypal) leading the mobile business unit while driving the company’s engineering, IT, and product teams.

Steve was also previously the Founder & CEO of Santra Technology, the pioneer of Web Services QoS and performance monitoring, along with holding management positions at Saba Software (NASDAQ: SABA), TELUS Enterprise Solutions (TSE:T) and Emerge Online.

Connect with Steve on LinkedIn and follow Instant Financial on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

As Chief Executive Officer at IRONSCALES, Eyal Benishti pioneered the development of the world’s first self-learning anti-phishing email security solution that combines human intelligence and machine learning technologies for automatic prevention, detection and autonomous incident response to cyber-attacks in real time.

Under Eyal’s leadership, IRONSCALES has filed four patents for anti-phishing and email security solutions and secured three funding rounds from K1 and Israel’s RDSeed totaling more than $20 million. IRONSCALES has received numerous awards, including Frost & Sullivan’s AI-Powered Email Security Innovation Award and Best Enterprise Email Security Solution by the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards.

Eyal brings to his executive leadership role nearly 15 years of software industry experience with enterprise and startup companies. Prior to founding IRONSCALES in 2013, he was a security researcher and malware analyst at Radware and worked as technical lead for various information security solutions at Imperva. Previously, he held a variety of R&D roles with Comverse and Amdocs. A passionate cybersecurity researcher from a young age, Eyal earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

Connect with Eyal on LinkedIn and follow IRONSCALES on Facebook and Twitter.

About Your Host

Joey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole. He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.

With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.

Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.

Connect with Joey on LinkedIn.