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María Tomás-Keegan with Transition & Thrive with María and Rawa Awad with Ethár Collection

March 19, 2019 by angishields

María Tomás-Keegan

María Tomás-Keegan is the founder & CEO of Transition & Thrive with María, a private coaching practice focused on helping women face major career and life transitions move through and beyond them with resiliency and grace.

María specializes in transitions—what she calls “the Upside Downs of Life.” A successful transition is grounded in the deep understanding of personal core values, a crystal-clear vision of the future and a passion for taking meaningful action to move forward. Her 30-year career in corporate management, coupled with her experience with life-changing events along the way, has evolved into compassion for women who feel they need to be super-human. Family, friends, community, and career make for a very full plate, and many women feel the need to be perfect at all of it, all the time. You’re not alone!

When life events turn a woman upside down, there is an alternative to putting on a mask, pretending they are just fine, while they are crumbling inside. Having tools in their treasure chest, and putting strategies into practice, can prepare them for any major life event. When they stumble, they can make it part of their dance.

Connect with María Tomás-Keegan on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Rawa Awad

Rawa Awad is the Creative Director and CEO of Ethár Collection, a luxury eveningwear line that focuses on creating high quality and classically designed modest garments for sophisticated women. Long sleeves, maxi length, fully lined garments made of exquisite fibers and detail construction helps meet faith based requirements of dress while promoting women of dignity.

A graduate of ASU, Rawa earned dual degrees in design and business management with a minor in architecture. Committed to her community, Rawa has found her love in nonprofit work. Combining this with her devotion to her faith, Rawa has grown into many leadership roles within the Muslim Community in Arizona. Her passion for design, business and community, beautiful intersect with the launch of Ethár Collection, a brand aimed to celebrate selfless women causing an impact.

Connect with Rawa Awad on on LinkedIn, and follow Ethár Collection on Facebook and Instagram.

Lisa Riley with LINK Business

March 19, 2019 by angishields

Buying & Selling Businesses in Arizona

Valley Business Radio

Lisa Riley with LINK Business

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Do you want to sell your business but are unclear of the process? This is where the experience and expertise of LINK Business-Phoenix will help you with a clear plan of action to sell your business (with its Commercial Real Estate, if any) for the maximum amount of money in your pocket. They always have a list of qualified buyers looking for businesses and a proven proactive marketing approach for selling your business. LINK-Phoenix is committed to the successful sale of their clients’ businesses.

Selling or buying a business is time consuming and very difficult at times. LINK-Phoenix provides insight on valuations, market condition, and manage the due diligence process. This helps to remove the stress and anxiety for you, the business owner, and allows you to keep successfully operating your business.

LINK-Phoenix is part of the LINK family that started in 1996 in New Zealand, and grew internationally into Australia, the United States, and the Philippines. LINK is the most innovative and fastest growing international business brokerage in the world. They have world class IT Cloud based custom developed business systems, their own award-winning valuation tool to ensure accurate pricing of businesses, meaningful marketing tools and materials to get businesses sold.

Lisa Riley, LINK Business

Lisa Riley, Owner and Business Intermediary at LINK Business-Phoenix, has been serving clients in the Phoenix metro area as well as across the country. She has been engaged by a wide variety of buyers and sellers and provides a higher closing rate than the national average. Having earned the prestigious designations of CBI (Certified Business Intermediary) and CCB (Certified Business Broker), Ms. Riley is skilled in negotiations and is an experienced adviser and a key member of any business transaction team.

An active resident of Maricopa County, Ms. Riley is involved in both the local business and philanthropic communities. She is a member of the Arizona Business Brokers Association (AZBBA- Current Board Member and past chair), the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA-Current Board Member), Market Pulse Chair (a quarterly survey/report on Main Street and Lower M&A markets), M&A Source, and has been involved with several local non-profits since moving to Arizona. Working the last 10 years in the Phoenix metro area, she has access to a broad spectrum of business types and sizes. Additionally, she heads a team of agents specializing in various industries.

Ms. Riley holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. She enjoys spending time with her husband, as well as traveling, hiking, wine, music, and enjoys helping others transition to the next phase in their lives.

To hear more, listen to Lisa’s appearance on Valley Business Radio in August 2019.

Connect with Lisa Riley on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

CEO Exclusive: Dunbar’s Principle

March 19, 2019 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

CEO Exclusive: Dunbar's Principle

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One person can have a limited number of relationships. This idea is articulated by Dunbar’s principle, based on research by an anthropologist who studied the brains of primates. In this week’s CEO Exclusive, we discuss the implications for building a corporate culture.

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 58

March 18, 2019 by angishields

Supply Chain Now

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 58

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Supply Chain Now Radio, Episode 58
“Continuous Improvement & Digital Innovation in Manufacturing”

Larry E. Fast serves as Director for the Southeast Region of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. He is also owner of the consulting firm Pathways to Manufacturing Excellence, LLC. Larry is a 35-year veteran of the wire & cable industry, with 25 of those years at Belden and 10 at General Cable. As Belden’s Vice President of Manufacturing, he led a transformation of plants in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1997, Larry joined General Cable Corporation (GCC), one of the world’s largest wire and cable companies.

As Senior Vice President of Operations, he launched a manufacturing excellence strategy in 1999 that became an enterprise-wide priority in 2001. Since the launch of this initiative at GCC, there have been 34 Industry Week “Best Plants Finalists” including 12 “Best Plants in North America” winners since 2001. Larry retired in 2007, where he’s been consulting with companies ever since. His book, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence – A Lean Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, 2nd Edition was released in September 2015 by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. The original book, a bestseller, was published in October 2011.

Larry is a long-time member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) and has served on university advisory boards including IUPUI-Richmond; the School of Applied Sciences, Miami University; and the Industry Advisory Board of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute, University of Michigan. He became a judge for Industry Week (IW) magazine’s “Best Plants in North America” competition in 2009. Since 2013, Larry writes a monthly column for the IW online magazine under the byline of “Ask the Expert: Lean Leadership & Continuous Improvement”.

Born in Winchester, IN, Larry served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force for three years of active duty and three years in the reserves. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management and Administration from Indiana University and is a graduate of Earlham College’s Institute for Executive Growth. Larry also successfully completed the thirteen week “Program for Management Development” at the Harvard University School of Business. Connect with Larry E. Fast on LinkedIn and learn more about the Association for Manufacturing excellence here: https://www.ame.org/

Blaine Mellor has spent most of the last 30 years working in Supply Chain with the last 25 working in CPG. He currently leads Clorox’s Digital Supply Chain transformation effort as their Director of Digital Supply Network. Past assignments with Clorox have includes positions in Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Planning and Business Unit Leadership. Blaine led the expansion of Clorox’s manufacturing footprint in the Atlanta area with the creation of a Laundry and Homecare products Hub. He has also been involved in other large scale product innovations on the Glad® and Brita® businesses.

Originally from the West Coast Blaine now resides with his family in the Metro Atlanta area and enjoys all things outdoors. Connect with Blaine Mellor on LinkedIn and learn more about The Clorox Company here: https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/

Will Haraway is Founder & Lead Evangelist at Backbeat Marketing. Will has 20 years of executive experience in B2B Technology Marketing. Will is a certified analyst relations practitioner by the Knowledge Capital Group and has helped companies including Manhattan Associates, Aptos, Atlantix Global Systems, American Software and Rubicon Global improve their brand reputations with marketing results that help increase sales.

Will also serves as a member of the APICS Atlanta Executive Advisory Board and serves as co-host of the popular #SupplyChainCity series on Supply Chain Now Radio. The Backbeat team includes lead generation, digital marketing, media relations and content marketing specialists with a combined 50 years of experience in their chosen disciplines. Connect with Will on LinkedIn and learn more about Backbeat Marketing here: www.backbeatmarketing.com

Ben Harris is Director of Supply Chain Ecosystem Expansion for the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ben comes to the Metro Atlanta Chamber after serving as Senior Manager, Market Development for Manhattan Associates. There, Ben was responsible for developing Manhattan’s sales pipeline and overall Americas supply chain marketing strategy. Ben oversaw market positioning, messaging and campaign execution to build awareness and drive new pipeline growth.

Prior to joining Manhattan, Ben spent four years with the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Center of Innovation for Logistics where he played a key role in establishing the Center as a go-to industry resource for information, support, partnership building, and investment development. Additionally, he became a key SME for all logistics and supply chain-focused projects.

Ben began his career at Page International, Inc. where he drove continuous improvement in complex global supply chain operations for a wide variety of businesses and Fortune 500 companies. An APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Ben holds an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration (EMBA) and bachelor’s degree in International Business (BBA) from the Terry College at the University of Georgia. Connect with Ben on LinkedIn and learn more about the Metro Atlanta Chamber here: www.metroatlantachamber.com

Scott W. Luton is the founder of Supply Chain Now Radio and also serves as Managing Partner for TalentStream. He has worked extensively in the end-to-end Supply Chain industry for more than 15 years, appearing in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Dice and Quality Progress Magazine.

Scott currently serves as Executive Vice President of APICS Atlanta, and was recently named a 2019 Pro to Know in Supply Chain by Supply & Demand Executive. He served on the 2018 Georgia Logistics Summit Executive Committee and currently serves as Chair of the 2019 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards Planning Committee. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and holds the APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) credential.

As a Veteran of the United States Air Force, Scott also volunteers on the Business Pillar for VETLANTA, and maintains active membership in the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance & CSCMP Atlanta Roundtable. Connect with Scott Luton on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter at @ScottWLuton. He can also be reached by email. Learn more about TalentStream, a leading recruiting & staffing firm that helps companies find top talent in the Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain space, by visiting their website here: www.talentstreamstaffing.com

Upcoming Events & Resources Mentioned in this Episode
2019 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards: www.AtlantaSupplyChainAwards.com
eCommerce Operations Summit: https://www.operationssummit.com/
MRO Americas: https://mroamericas.aviationweek.com/en/home.html
Velocity 2019 Conference: https://velocity-conference.com/
AME Atlanta 2019 Lean Summit: https://www.ame.org/ame-atlanta-2019-lean-summit
EFT 3PL & Supply Chain Summit: click here
Lynette Mathew’s webinar on Job Search & Resume Best Practices: click here

Pensacola Business Radio: Kyle Cease Series Ep 6. with Kathy Summerlin and Kolleen Edwards Chesley

March 17, 2019 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Kyle Cease Series Ep 6. with Kathy Summerlin and Kolleen Edwards Chesley

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Combining the art of stand-up comedy and transformation, New York Times Bestselling Author and Comedy Central headliner, Kyle Cease, uses his 25 years of performing, creating, and letting go of what other people think to help his audience move past their old stories and into a new vision of what is possible in their lives. This interactive one-man show will evolve spontaneously, in the moment, as Kyle taps into his inner wisdom and hilariously guides the audience back into their natural state of playful creativity.

Evolving Out Loud is a powerful event designed to help you release your old conditioned patterns of fear and strategy and leap into a higher awareness of your unlimited potential. At this event you will discover amazing and unique things about yourself that have been hiding just beneath the surface.

WARNING: The things you learn at this event you will never be able to unlearn.

https://www1.ticketmaster.com/kyle-cease-pensacola-florida-03-25-2019/event/1B00556EA0BD4F97

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2019, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17^th , 2018 at Sanders Beach.
Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews.

Kathy Summerlin/Saenger Pensacola

*Broad experience in booking negotiations and special event planning and management from both a non-profit and for-profit aspects including talent research, sound, lighting, logistics, and catering.

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Pensacola Business Radio: Guests-Lyndol Woodruff, Mason Pelt, Blythe Brumleve and Lorena Tomasini

March 15, 2019 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Guests-Lyndol Woodruff, Mason Pelt, Blythe Brumleve and Lorena Tomasini

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Mason Pelt is the founder and managing director of Push ROI, Inc. Mason’s helped some of the largest brands in the world improve their online marketing and helped to grow startups to states of sustainable revenue.

Mason has written about technology, design, business, and marketing in publications including TechCrunch, Venture Beat, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today, and other

My expertise has been all over, I started in video production, moved into digital ads /analytics and shifted into using data for user experience. I’m capable of ranting a bit about any marketing question. I’m sorry if this isn’t super helpful.

I’m currently working on a few articles about AI, those don’t fully relate to marketing and maybe a bit doom and gloom. I’ve come to think AI, is going to either kill us all or destabilizes the economy… As I said, doom and gloom.

Lyndol Woodruff / Thought Culture

I’ve been all over, experienced a ton of amazing and crazy things, met a ton of amazing people (and some not so good people), worked in all facets of entertainment in LA for a number of years, built stuff, lost stuff, ignored saving money, been in trouble with the law, avoided love, lived in a bus, done stand up comedy, slept on couches, slept in bushes, slept in jail cells. And a laundry list of other shenanigans. And yet, here I am. Still alive. With a great big question mark on how that is even possible.

I am currently Chief Connection Officer of Dallas-based production company, Thought Culture, Director of the Southwest Region for Recording Artists Guild (RAG) and working with my team to build my personal brand as an inspirational comedian.
http://www.thoughtculture.com

Blythe Brumleve / Brumlevebrands.com
In 2008, Blythe was working as a blogger with a dream of owning her own company when she received an opportunity to work in the world of logistics. As an executive assistant to the CEO, COO, and CFO, she gained first-hand knowledge into the daily operations of a $140M asset-based logistics provider. Knowing about her blogging side hustle, the executive team allowed her to take on the additional responsibility of the company’s digital marketing initiatives where she felt as if she found her true calling. However five years later the company unfortunately closed leaving Blythe to seek other opportunities in marketing and media. During stints as editor in chief of a local magazine and radio/TV broadcaster in the North Florida market, Blythe’s team earned several awards including several ADDY®’s plus receiving runner-up as Jacksonville’s Best Radio Personality. Eventually Blythe would use these skills to realize her dream by founding Digital Dispatch in 2018. Present day, Blythe and her team oversee a variety of digital marketing and web development projects for their clients with an omnichannel approach. Using turn key in addition to custom built solutions, Digital Dispatch is able to help the transportation industry with inbound marketing strategy, online employee/driver recruiting solutions, streamlined communications, goal-oriented marketing analytics, and other software tools specifically built for the transportation industry.

Lorena Tomasini/MALM Life and Health Insurance Agency
Lorena Tomasini is the owner of MALM Life and Health Insurance Agency, a digital insurance agency in Miami, FL. Together with her mom, they work with clients over the phone to help them meet their financial protection needs.
https://LinkedIn.com/in/Lorena.tomasini

Trusted Advisor Radio Episode 3

March 15, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Trusted Advisor Radio Episode 3

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Kiné Corder is a hypnotherapist, Financial Therapist, International Speaker, and the CEO of Presidential Lifestyle, a wellness company focused on wealth in all of it’s forms; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The mission at Presidential Lifestyle is to relieve the pain in the world by relieving the stress. They help stressed out employees and business owners reach their wealth goals without sacrificing their wellness and their relationships. They do this using a library of resources called Prosperity Club.

Using virtual courses and coaching Prosperity Club gives members the tools to stop comparing and start repair their mindset, their money, their relationships, and their lives. Members report feeling more confident personally, financially, and romantically.

Connect with Kiné on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About Your Host

Christopher Seabrook is the host of Trusted Advisor Radio and serves as a Financial Representative at Country Financial. He prides himself on working hard to provide the best possible service to his clients. Being able to help people is a central part of his life, and is happy to be of service to his clients and community.

Christopher also enjoys meeting new people and building one-on-one relationships. Open and honest discussions are an easy way for him to connect with clients and ultimately help them secure their financial security goals.

Follow Christopher Seabrook on LinkedIn, Facebook.

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

March 15, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

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The work of Women in Technology has an incredible impact.

Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT COMMUNITY, WIT also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEAM.

Jill Arcadio is a Georgia native – raised in Valdosta, graduated from Mercer University in Macon, and currently lives in Lawrenceville. She is a Software Engineering Manager at Cox Automotive and the WIT Girl’s Volunteer Program Director.

When Jill attended her first WIT Forum in 2014, she came away from it deeply inspired. She wanted to work with or work for every woman who spoke at the event. Seeing so many women in attendance supporting each other and working toward the same goals opened her eyes to the opportunities this organization offered. Once Jill started volunteering with WIT Girls, she saw the difference we could make (and have already made) in encouraging young girls to pursue STEAM in school and in their future careers.

Her favorite part of every WIT Girls event is seeing how excited everyone is about learning new ideas, trying out new technologies, and sharing their love of STEAM with other girls who are just as passionate as they are! Growing up, Jill had some amazing female role models, and would not be who she is today without their influence. Jill said, “If I have the opportunity to be a role model for even one girl, I feel like I will have made a difference!”

Connect with Jill on LinkedIn.

Stephanie C. Coleman, a mother of two teenagers, was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated in the first graduating class of Westlake High School. She holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. During her senior year she was elected Senior of the Year for the Society of Management Information Systems. She is currently a Director of Digital Communications with responsibilities for a popular Georgia company’s website, email marketing, and social media presence.

Ms. Coleman rose through the ranks at Arthur Andersen, LLP from application developer in their Tax Solutions organization to project manager in the Business Consulting organization over an eight-year tenure. She flexed her entrepreneurial muscles by creating a small web design, development, and maintenance company that she developed over a ten-year period. While growing the small business, Ms. Coleman began working as a quality assurance manager and senior application developer at a small human resources software development company.

Ms. Coleman was introduced to Women in Technology when she became a 2013 Woman of the Year finalist while she was working as Director of Web Services at Southern Polytechnic State University. Since that time, she has explored multiple opportunities to volunteer within WIT, landing as the Campus Manager for WIT Campus at Kennesaw State University for the past two years. Through Women in Technology and WIT Campus at KSU, Ms. Coleman has been able to marry
her love of STEAM and desire to mentor others in their technology career journey.

Connect with Stephanie on LinkedIn.

COACH the COACH: Jorge Cortijo with Kairos Action Group

March 15, 2019 by angishields

Coach The Coach

COACH the COACH: Jorge Cortijo with Kairos Action Group

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Jorge Cortijo, founder and CEO of Kairos Action Group, brings 17 years of proven success in international military, corporate and academic leadership development. A fitness enthusiast of more than 20 years, Jorge brings a unique toolset enhanced by his life’s experience. He joined the US Air Force shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and has since emerged as a thought leader in the area of self-improvement through comprehensive fitness, both in the lives of everyday citizens as well as in the profession of arms.

Mr. Cortijo is a graduate of the National Personal Training Institute, holds a Bachelor of Science in sports & health sciences and has been a trusted resiliency instructor for the US military and foreign allies for more than a decade. He is a certified executive coach through the Center for Executive Coaching and the International Coaching Federation.

Connect with Jorge on LinkedIn.