BRX Pro Tip: Additional Revenue Streams from Associations
Daniel Fitch and Ron Emile with Natural Leaders Media, Nicole Toole and Ishir Vasavada with EcoDrop Technologies and Savannah Samples with Angel Assistance
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Mr. Daniel H. Fitch is the Founder/CEO of Natural Leaders Media. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur, real estate professional and filmmaker originally from Roselle, New Jersey. He has been residing comfortably in Atlanta, GA since 1996 and is a proud husband and father. The filmmaker journey began in the early 90’s when Daniel took his first film course at Union County College in Elizabeth, NJ. The course was entitled Intro to Television, and it immediately opened his eyes to the world of film. As he sat in class each day visualizing potential scenes, he realized this newly discovered passion for visual motion pictures and the art of storytelling
Ron Emile is a multi-talented creative and writer, whose earliest memories involve GI Joe and Transformer action figures with elaborate storylines.
Emile is a broadcaster, screenwriter, educator, film director, and producer. He has produced and written a wide range of content: PSA’s for the NAACP about statutory rape laws, commercials for diversified clients, a documentary about a notorious gang member battling AIDS, to comedic digital shows about pop culture and politics. Emile works seamlessly across platforms.
Emile is extremely involved with the betterment and education of the youth in his community He is an avid athlete that loves to compete from basketball to boxing.
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Nicole Toole is a sophomore at GSU obtaining an undergraduate degree in computer information systems with a minor in entrepreneurship. She is also the CEO and co-founder of EcoDrop Technologies and ConcussionBeGone.com. She finds fulfillment in helping others and creating practical solutions to everyday problems.
Ishir Vasavada is a Senior pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Computer Information Systems. He is the Chief of Finance and Strategy at EcoDrop. His primary experience lies in the Financial Services and Business Advisory Industry. He is passionate about technology driven entrepreneurship and navigating a business from idea to implementation.
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Savannah Samples is the Founder and Owner of Angel Assistance in Atlanta, Ga. They specialize in household assistance and childcare and have been in business for almost 4 years. Savannah has a strong heart for Atlanta and is striving to create a company that nourishes a positive environment within our families and community.
She is in the College of Education and Human Development at Georgia State University. During her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her pit bull Gunner, attending Victory World Church, and exploring local spots with close friends.
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Perry Binder, Eleanor Foxwith and Bryan Girard with GSU
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Perry Binder is an award-winning legal studies professor in Robinson, and the co-founder of GSU’s Corporate Intellectual Property Institute, a premier two-day annual conference for practitioners. Perry is a founding Board Member of the Georgia IP Alliance (GIPA). Though GIPA, he secured five Governor Proclamations to recognize IP’s value to Georgia businesses. October 2019 is IP Month in Georgia – the only state in the nation to have a dedicated IP Month.
Prior to his teaching career, Perry litigated complex business cases in Florida, with stakes in excess of $10 million. Presently, he conducts law training for large companies and law firms at PerryBinder.com. Perry’s interactive and entertaining sessions for companies and HR professionals include: Employee Use of Social Media, Leadership Ethics, Harassment training, Negotiation, Intellectual Property, and Minimizing Business Risk.
Perry volunteers his time speaking with middle school, high school, and college students on how to succeed in college and life, based on the lessons from his book, 99 Motivators for College Success. Each year since 2016, Randolph College in Virginia sends 99 Motivators to hundreds of rising high school seniors nationwide, as the centerpiece of its Book Award Program.
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Eleanor Fox is a senior in the Robinson College of Business studying economics. She has focused her undergraduate studies in urban economics and legal studies taking classes such as Internet Law, Introduction to the Law, Economics of Cities and Urban Sociology.
She works at a small business in Smyrna, Georgia managing public relations including their social media accounts and transactional relationships with equipment vendors.
Bryan Girard is a recent graduate from the Georgia State university Robinson College of Business. He majored in Computer Information Systems with a concentration in cyber security. He was a student of Professor Binder in his ENI 4060, IT Law course. After graduating from Georgia State, he enrolled back into Georgia State and he decided to a pursue a Masters in Information Systems Audit and Control. Bryan was awarded a Graduate research assistantship to work with Dr. Varshey in the Computer Information System Department during his Masters. He is currently assisting Dr. Varhsney in his research of Mobile Health and Security.
He has an interest in FinTech, more specifically RegTech. He is interested in the use of blockchain to assist in audits. Also, the use of AI in auditing. He plans to try and enter the FinTech or RegTech industry upon completion of his masters in May 2020.
Baiyina Jihad with Beyond the Classroom, Robert Hatcher with Soundcollide and Sheehan Khan with Airlift
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Baiyina Jihad is a native of Atlanta who was raised in the communities of West End and East Atlanta. Baiyina loved the city so much she attended Georgia State University. During her senior year in college, she applied and got accepted to Teach for America. She just transitioned out of the classroom after teaching for 4 years to pursue Beyond the Classroom.
During her teaching, she noticed a startling pattern; a large number of students enter 3rd grade reading below their grade level. Thus, inspiring Beyond the Classroom. As a solo founder, she participated in numerous programs such as Goodie Nation, 4.0 schools and Female Founder, Atlanta Tech Village, and GSU Mains Street Fund. She was featured in Hypopatmus and Fast Company.
She is currently working on her third pilot of Beyond the Classroom and expanding her partnerships with organizations and individuals.
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Robert Hatcher with Soundcollide is a student entrepreneur with an affinity for psychology. He’s crazy enough to believe we can change the music industry and give music artists more authority and ownership of their music by decentralizing the industry. Currently pursuing his MBA with a concentration in analytical consulting.
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Sheehan Khan is the Founder and CEO of Airlift, a modern shipping and fulfillment platform for online sellers. Airlift stores, packages and ships ecommerce inventory while sellers focus on their business.
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Mikayla Oberlton with Sisters, Timi Faderin and Immanuel Powell with Gilmer Street and Branding Strategist Miya Burrus
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Mikayla Joy Oberlton is a transfer student to Georgia State University. She is a junior with a love for writing, people, and pageantry. She has been published in Our Voice magazine, received the Miss America DC congeniality award, the Harper Avery and Biggest heart award.
As the Founder of Crowns Without Boundaries, and the new start up app, Sisters, entrepreneurship is a new venture for her, but an exciting one.
Timi Faderin and Immanuel Powell are two students from GSU, who major in Film and Media Entrepreneurship. They Co-Run Gilmer Street, a Production Startup mainly focused on film and photography. Our main goal is to achieve the aspects of cultural representation in their works.
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Miya Burrus came up with the idea to start her company Miya Burrus & Co a little over year ago. After working with platinum producer Polow Da Don, she decided she wanted to help more than artists with their brand. As an striving expert in PR, Miya picked her up first client in April of 2019 and begin full throttle into starting her PR firm.
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Jag Sheth with Emory University, Charles Shapiro with World Affairs Council Atlanta and Wolfgang Schloer with GSU Office of International Initiatives
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Jagdish N. Sheth is Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Professor Sheth has over 50 years of combined experience in teaching and research at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory University.
Professor Sheth is the recipient of all four top awards given by the American Marketing Association: the Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for market research, the P.D. Converse Award for outstanding contributions to theory in marketing, and the William Wilkie Award for marketing for a better society. He is also a Fellow of the AMA, ACR, AMS, and APA.
Professor Sheth is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science, awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016), and Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, awarded by Shiv Nadar University (2017). In 2019, he was presented the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest faculty honor at Emory University. Professor Sheth has authored or coauthored more than three hundred papers and several books. His latest book is Genes, Climate and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots (2017).
He is the co-founder, with his wife Madhuri Sheth, of the Sheth Foundation, which funds the AMA Doctoral Consortium and the Sheth Family Foundation, which supports local community projects and cultural events.
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Charles Shapiro, President, World Affairs Council of Atlanta, held numerous senior positions at the U.S. Department of State, including Ambassador to Venezuela, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere and Coordinator for Cuban Affairs. From 2011-2013, he was the president of the Institute of the Americas, a think tank at the University of California San Diego. He is a member of the Agnes Scott College Board of Trustees.
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Wolfgang Schlör is Associate Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia State University (GSU), serving as the Senior International Officer for the institution. Prior to joining GSU in 2017, he was Associate Provost for the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education at Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also served as Interim Associate Provost for International Affairs and Interim Director of International Programs and Studies (IPS) as well as Associate Director of IPS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and held similar positions at the University of Pittsburgh.
Schlör has held research and postdoctoral appointments at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; and the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1994 to 1996, he served as the US Director of the International Affairs Network, a major project to develop international affairs training capacity in Central and Eastern Europe, based in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Schlör holds PhD (Dr.Phil.) and M.A. (Dipl.Pol.) degrees in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.
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BRX Pro Tip: Additional Revenue Streams from Authors and Speakers
Seela Farani-Simmons with National Education Partners and Jonathan Keyser with Keyser
Transforming Leaders and Reinventing Organizations from the Inside Out
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Seela Farani-Simmons
Seela Farani-Simmons is an Organizational, Learning, and Leadership Development professional and Director of L&D at Northcentral University / National Education Partners. Northcentral University was founded in 1996 with the goal of offering higher education to working professionals around the world, and today is a proud affiliate of the private, nonprofit National University System based in La Jolla, California. NCU delivers a premier online educational experience with doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in business, education, and psychology, as well as doctoral and master’s degrees in marriage and family therapy, technology and health sciences.
Seela’s career spans nearly 20 years across a variety of industries, including finance, retail, hospitality, and health care. She is dedicated to understanding organizational behavior and performance. Throughout her career, Seela has worked with business leaders and HR professionals in organizations ranging from small start-up environments to large-scale Fortune 100 organizations. Regardless of the industry and company, what sets Seela apart is that she approaches her work with vision, passion, and authenticity.
Seela holds a Masters degree in the Psychology of Leadership from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelors in Technical Communication from Arizona State University. She is also a member of the Association for Talent Development, the National Speakers Association, and the International Coach Federation.
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Jonathan Keyser
Jonathan Keyser is the founder of Keyser, the largest commercial real estate tenant brokerage firm in Arizona and one of the fastest growing in the country. Keyser is dedicated to exclusively representing the global real estate needs of office, industrial, educational and medical space users, helping them with all real estate matters including lease renewals, relocations, build-to-suits, acquisitions and dispositions. Through Jonathan’s disruptive focus on selfless service, he is reshaping the commercial real estate industry, and his firm represents thousands of companies globally across multiple industries.
Jonathan Keyser’s book, You Don’t Have to Be Ruthless To Win, details his transformation from a former ruthless, cutthroat commercial real estate broker who used to do whatever it took to win into a man on a mission to reinvent and transform the commercial real estate brokerage industry through selfless service.
A Wall Street Journal #1 Best-Selling Author, national speaker, regular media contributor, and strong supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Jonathan is actively working toward the upcoming launch of The Keyser Institute to inspire, train, and equip the next generation of selfless leaders.
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