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Suzanne Erickson with Brenau University and Taylor Harper with Taylor, Feil, Harper, Lumsden & Hess, P.C.

January 29, 2018 by angishields

Dr. Suzanne Erickson is originally from Seattle. She earned her BBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Washington and an MBA in Accounting from Seattle University. She has been at Brenau since 2007 and has been the Dean since 2014. Her areas of interest are corporate finance and Entrepreneurship.

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Taylor Harper‘s practice, Taylor, Feil, Harper, Lumsden & Hess, P.C., focuses primarily on regulatory compliance and litigation in the beverage-alcohol industry. Specifically, Taylor focuses on assisting supply-tier companies, e.g., breweries, distilleries, wineries, etc., companies on the wholesale tier, and retail-tier companies, e.g., restaurants, hotels, package stores, etc., in administrative, regulatory, and litigation matters at the federal, state, and local levels. He also assists his clients in all phases of operations, including start-up, structuring, and governance. The beverage-alcohol industry is highly regulated and governed by a complex web of laws from multiple, intersecting jurisdictions. In his regulatory compliance practice, he helps individuals and companies navigate this gauntlet with care, foresight, and precision to protect them from mishaps and position them for success. On the litigation side, he uses his industry expertise to achieve the best possible solution for his clients, whether through trial or negotiated resolution. He’s been neck-deep in the beverage-alcohol industry for the past few years, and his firm has been a leader in this practice area for nearly 40 years. He is regularly asked by government officials, legislators, and trade organizations to explain the ins and outs of the industry. He has presented at multiple conferences, such as the Annual Conference of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators and the Annual Southeastern Craft Brewers Symposium. Ultimately, his goal is to give his clients more in value than he takes in payment. TFH Legal avoids the highly-leveraged law firm model adopted by some firms. Instead, they provide their clients with hands-on service by experienced attorneys who are responsive and accessible, and who work shoulder to shoulder with their clients to meet their needs and goals.

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Neha Gupta with True Office Learning

January 29, 2018 by angishields

As Chief Executive Officer, Neha Gupta is responsible for True Office Learning’s product and technology vision, strategy and growth. Prior to her role as CEO, Neha served as Senior Director of Learning Solutions & Strategic Initiatives at NYSE Governance Services, leading all product strategy and development initiatives for the business. Neha has also served as Citigroup’s Chief of Staff for the Institutional Clients Group Technology organization, reporting directly to the CIO. In her time with Citigroup, Neha led a number of strategic change management efforts involving critical, multi-million dollar initiatives across industries.

Neha holds an MBA in Management and Business Strategy from Rutgers Business School and a BE in Computers and Electrical Engineering from the Honors College of Engineering at Rutgers.

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Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 9

January 25, 2018 by angishields

Supply Chain Now Radio brought to you by APICS Atlanta

Scott Luton serves as Managing Partner for TalentStream and is a member of the ownership group. He brings more than 15 years of general management and business development experience to TalentStream. After graduating from the University of South Carolina in 2000, he began his career as a database analyst in the United States Air Force. Luton later joined EmployBridge, where he was named to the President’s Club in 2007 and 2008. He has held leadership roles including Vice President of Business Development for Definity Partners and Director of Sales for Clairon Metals Corporation. Scott currently serves as Executive Vice President of APICS Atlanta, is a member of APICS Southeast District Staff and currently serves on the 2018 Georgia Logistics Summit Executive Committee. A certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and an APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional, Luton also maintains active membership in the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance, and the Transportation Club of Atlanta. Follow TalentStream on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Ben Harris is the Director 0f Supply Chain & Advanced Manufacturing for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Connect with Ben on LinkedIn.

Dave Maddox is the President of CSCMP Atlanta Roundtable and SVP Sales Supply Chain with nVision Global Technology Solutions. Connect with Dace on LinkedIn.

Elizabeth Vamos is a Georgia State graduate student and organizational psychologist who also serves on the APICS Atlanta Gender Gap Task Force. Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn.

Marketing SuperHeroes Series Featuring Pamela Slim with PamelaSlim.com

January 25, 2018 by angishields

Pamela Slim is an award-winning author, speaker and small business coach. She spent the first 10 years of her business as a consultant to large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems. In 2005, she started the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, which led to coaching thousands of entrepreneurs, from martial art studios to software start ups. Pam opened a national small business learning laboratory in Mesa, Arizona last year.

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Alan George with Franchise Marketing Systems and Calvin Graves with Young Entrepreneurs

January 24, 2018 by angishields

Alan George, Vice President at Franchise Marketing Systems, works hard every day to keep his word to President and Founder, Chris Conner to create the ultimate “Franchise Marketing System”.

In 7 short years Mr. George has been instrumental in leading their growth from a team of 3, to a staff of over 26. That growth has included Inc a 1000 membership with (3 years- 541% growth) and a TOP 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Atlanta designation.

Mr. George prides himself on having a PhD from the School of Hard Knocks. Always striving to become a subject matter expert in whatever he does. He has used a combination of formal education, corporate training, extensive reading to become expert in ROI Selling, Value Proposition, Sales Process Engineering, CRM, Quality Control/Process Building. Mr. George’s strength is the ability to take complex ideas and convey them in easy to understand everyday language.

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Calvin Graves took an internship with Young Entrepreneurs as a senior at Kennesaw State University. He went on to take a full time position with them mentoring a team of 20 interns to run a business.

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Heath Hooper with Shorter University and Kate Tunison with PresentingPlus!

January 24, 2018 by angishields

Dr. Heath Hooper is Dean of the Ledbetter College of Business and an Associate Professor of Sport Management at Shorter University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Sport Studies from Reinhardt College, a Master of Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University – Irvine and a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Sport Management from North Central University. Prior to coming to Shorter University, he worked as an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach for Reinhardt University for one year and also was an Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach for two years at Young Harris College. Dr. Hooper teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level on campus and online consisting of various Sport Management courses such as Introduction to Sport Management, Sport Marketing, Sport Ethics, and Social Media in Sport just to name a few.

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As President and Founder of PresentingPlus! Kate Tunison brings over 20 years of professional experience in Presentation Skills, Sales Execution, Management, Leadership, Training, Coaching and Performance Development. Her unique experiences provide a solid foundation of expertise and credibility in these areas. Kate trained for a Top 100 Training Company and corporate training university, IKON Office Solutions. During this time she was the National Manager of Sales Training for IKON Document Services; teaching customer focused consultative selling skills and business presentation skills for a national audience. As a National Manager, Kate provided intervention for senior leadership to improve business results, evaluated needs and made recommendations for improvement, counseled management teams to improve coaching skills, advised and collaborated with leadership committees on training and mentoring.

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Tom Cunningham with the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

January 23, 2018 by angishields

Thomas J. Cunningham is Senior Vice President and the Chief Economist for the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC). Tom joined the MAC in July 2015 following a 30-year career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is a specialist in open economy macroeconomic policy and regional analysis. At the MAC, he manages an internal team that supports the research and advocacy roles of the economic development and public policy departments.

After starting his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as an economist in the Macropolicy group, Tom served at various times as associate director of research, interim director of research, vice president for the Regional group where he was also responsible for the Latin American group, and acting head of the Finance group. He served on the Bank’s Personnel, Information Technology, and Risk Management Committees and as a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Information Security Group and Technology Services Council. He also was the acting director of, and helped establish, the Bank’s Center for Real Estate Analytics. When Dr. Cunningham retired from the Fed, his title was Vice President, Senior Economist and Regional Executive.

A native of Reedley, California, he received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in economics from California State University, Fresno. He earned a master’s degree, a master of philosophy, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. He previously worked as an economics instructor at Barnard College at Columbia University and as an adjunct instructor at Iona College, Agnes Scott College and Emory University. He attended the executive development program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Dr. Cunningham has published numerous professional articles and is a member of the American Economic Association, the Western Economic Association, and the Southern Economic Association.

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Culinary Atlanta Series Featuring John and Anderson of Hand-Picked ATL

January 22, 2018 by angishields

Hand-Picked ATL is the best of what to do and where to go in Atlanta. It’s their humble belief that by surrounding ourselves with the authentic, the unique and the curious, our lives are more awesome. Hand-Picked celebrates the independent makers by seeking out their inspired goods and crafted experiences, providing meaningful ways for their users to connect for themselves.

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Robert Berris with 352, Brandon Fleming with Harvard Debate Council, David Shands with Sleep is 4 Suckers and The Sleepless Society, and Andy Decker with Robert Half

January 22, 2018 by angishields

As VP of Design & Innovation at 352, Robert Berris leads the innovation and strategy practice to co-create human-centered solutions, by uncovering problems worth solving.

In addition to building new business strategies, Robert leads the design department and product design practice. He blends his expertise in web development, user experience design, storytelling and product marketing to position 352 as a leading innovation and digital product development agency.

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The Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project story was made possible because of the generosity of Ricky Steele with Steele Technology Partners. Learn how you can help tell a story like this one here.

Brandon P. Fleming is the founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Debate Council Diversity Project. Fleming is Assistant Coach of Debate at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA and one of the “Master Educators” at the highly-acclaimed Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, GA. The Georgia Center for Nonprofits & Young Nonprofit Professionals Network selected Fleming as a 2016 recipient of the Georgia ’30 Under 30′ award. Fleming was recently inducted into the 2017 class of Outstanding Atlanta and the 2018 class of LEAD Atlanta – Atlanta’s premier young professional’s program for emerging leaders. At Ron Clark Academy he teaches social sciences, trains thousands of educators worldwide, and coached the middle school speech & debate team to consecutive high school championships, including an undefeated record. Fleming went from being a high-risk youth to a college dropout to an influential educator who has used his story to inspire many throughout the world. As freshman undergraduate student at Liberty University, Fleming founded the S.Y. Scholars Program, Inc., a competitive non-profit college preparatory and leadership development institute. Through rigorous training in academics and leadership, the student body, consisting entirely of at-risk teens, increased from a 1.2 to a 3.0 cumulative GPA only 9 weeks after the program’s inception – 90% of them having achieved honor roll for the first time. He instituted a leadership development curriculum that cultivated the students into community organizers, hosting events that galvanized the community in support of education reform in Central Virginia and beyond. Fleming had soon become a community trail blazer, initiating projects that assembled members of the community to raise education awareness. In 2012, Fleming hosted the first annual Harlem Renaissance Festival, which drew over 300 members of the Lynchburg community. This same year, he hosted the Symposium, an education gathering that united political leaders, educators, students, parents, and the community for a forum discussing, “The State of Education in America.” The successful event had soon evolved into The Symposium Tour, in which Fleming and his students traveled to prestigious colleges & universities in an effort to motivate members of the community to undergird the local education system. Institutions involved in this tour included Liberty University, University of Virginia, Duke University, Howard University, Wake Forest University, and many more. In 2013, the News & Advance recognized him as one of Lynchburg’s most significant people. In 2015, Fleming was recruited by famous educator Ron Clark, subject of the TNT film The Ron Clark Story.

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David Shands is an inspiration to anyone with an idea to create what doesn’t yet exist. From employee to employer David worked in various customer oriented industries, all while building his own apparel business. David coined the phrase “Sleepis4Suckers” starting out with wristbands and a cool story; later evolving into a clothing line, and an established national business coaching program, ‘Sleepless Knights’. With entrepreneurship being his overarching area of expertise, David works to inspire and uplift many with his brands tag line ” If you lose sleep doing what you love, you will eventually live the dream that you only would have dreamt.” Since David quit his job at The Cheesecake Factory in 2012, his successful businesses, compelling story and unique teaching style has taken his speaking platform all across the country. David has the unique ability to teach complicated subjects like entrepreneurship, marketing, leadership and mental toughness in a way that is being grasped and understood by audiences of all ages. David was named one of Urban Shakes Magazine’s favorite Atlanta entrepreneurs and also featured in major mainstream publications; not to mention countless online blogs, podcasts, and radio stations. David has also been traveling alongside his mentor and world renowned motivational speaker, Dr. Eric Thomas. David has been requested to be on Dr. Eric Thomas’ latest cross country tours, “Stay Ready” in 2017 and “School Days with E.T.” for 2018. David’s approach to speaking is a fusion of traditional education and the knowledge of life experiences. David has built a nation wide business coaching program that teaches entrepreneurs all across the country how to turn their ideas into income. Painting pictures with words and using everyday life illustrations, David harbors a gift for speaking and uses that gift to invoke ambition. David is bringing up a new generation of entrepreneurs and continues to have a relatable message for everyone regardless of age.

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Andy Decker is a regional president for recruiting firm Robert Half in Georgia where he oversees operations for the Accountemps, OfficeTeam, Robert Half Finance and Accounting and Robert Half Management Resources divisions. Founded in 1948, Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm. As regional president, Andy focuses on business development while managing and training the region’s branch teams. Since joining Robert Half in 2006, he has held a variety of roles with increasing responsibility Prior to joining Robert Half, Andy was the executive vice president of a training and development company located in San Francisco, Calif. where he trained thousands of business professionals each year on leadership and team development. In addition, Andy was a part-time lecturer at Indiana University and an instructor with San Jose State University. He is a graduate of James Madison University.

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