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Chris LaFay with Classic City Consulting

August 16, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

ePresence

Chris LaFay with Classic City Consulting

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Chris LaFay/Classic City Consulting

Chris LaFay is a web developer and designer that enjoys working with clients as much as working on their projects. The challenges that he has faced as a web developer, corporate project manager and as the CEO of my own company, Classic City Consulting, have all given me insight into all aspects of the process. Chris believes this enhances his understanding of the expectations that are put upon himself and his team. The more difficult the problem, the more he wants to solve it.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged.

Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

Live Well – Episode 1 (August 15, 2018)

August 16, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Live Well - Episode 1 (August 15, 2018)

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DeWitte Thompson, Mike, Tracy, Stephanie Wolfe

Welcome to the 1st episode of “Live Well“. Follow the journey of Mike and Tracy as they begin their trek to better health with the help of two experts: Health and wellness coach Stephanie Wolfe and personal trainer DeWitte Thompson.

Stephanie Wolfe/The Whole Food Health Coach

Stephanie Wolfe is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, which is the highest level of training available to health coaches and is a coveted partnership with physicians and medical practitioners. She works with clients individually or as a group through a step by step process using advanced coaching methods, offering her clients full access to resources and tools to support them throughout their health journey. As a two-time cancer survivor (now 18 years clean) she knows about body systems and the nutrition that fuels them. She calls herself a “preventionist” because it is her believe that prevention is a stronger goal than finding a cure or treatment for diseases that are robbing us from our health and happiness.

DeWitte Thompson/Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants

DeWitte Thompson is a certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and owner of Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. DeWitte has been involved in the health and fitness industry for over 12 years working with sports teams, corporate groups, and individuals helping them to achieve their health and fitness goals. He started Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. four years ago when he realized the need for personalized and convenient training that gets results.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Keys to a Successful Business

August 16, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Keys to a Successful Business

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Jennifer Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Jennifer Rusz has a long career working for both corporations and as an entrepreneur. Rusz began her career, in the 90’s in market intelligence, business operations and management for companies such as Mid America Research/Fact in Focus, Lucent Technologies, Kyocera Wireless, ARS/ Current Analysis and Websense Software Solutions before starting her first company in 2004. She has since been a business consultant now Founder and CEO of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is an award winning full service business consulting firm, with three divisions, which include business consulting, marketing consulting and strategic technology consulting. For more information about Jennifer Rusz or Sterling Rose Consulting Corp please visit www.sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com or call (470)202-8659.

About “Strategic Insights Radio”:

“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.

Yoshi Domoto with Japan-America Society of Georgia & JapanFest, Brittany Luiz with American Tombow and Masae Okura with Taylor English Duma

August 16, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Yoshi Domoto with Japan-America Society of Georgia & JapanFest, Brittany Luiz with American Tombow and Masae Okura with Taylor English Duma

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Brittany Luiz, Yoshi Domoto, Masae Okura

Yoshi Domoto/Japan-America Society of Georgia and JapanFest

The Japan-America Society of Georgia (JASG) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to promote mutual understanding between the people of Japan and the state of Georgia through establishing and promoting ties and programs in the areas of business, culture, customs, education, commerce, politics, and social networking. One of its biggest events is JapanFest Atlanta. JapanFest is the largest Japanese festival in the Southeast. Held September 15-16, 2018 at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday and 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday, the festival will celebrate the special economic and cultural bond Japan and Georgia share together.

Brittany Luiz/American Tombow

Tombow is today’s market leader for arts, crafts and office products. Serving consumers and businesses around the globe, Tombow was established in Japan in 1913 as the wood-case pencil provider for Japanese students. Since these beginnings, they have upheld a history of unparalleled customer service. Tombow has grown the company’s portfolio to a worldwide provider of art markers, liquid glue and adhesive tape, fine writing pens, correction tape, drawing pencils, colored pencils and erasers manufactured in facilities located in Japan, Vietnam and Thailand. Worldwide operating divisions distribute Tombow branded products in their respective geographies.

Masae Y. Okura/Taylor English Duma

Taylor English Duma LLP is a full-service law firm headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Built from the ground up to provide highest-quality legal services for optimal value, the firm combines the best aspects of a traditional law firm with seasoned attorneys managing their practices remotely throughout the United States. Their attorneys work each day to provide timely, creative, and cost-effective counsel to help clients solve problems and achieve goals. Taylor English Duma represents all types of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups to individuals. A 2018 recipient of Forbes Small Giants award, the firm is the Georgia law firm member of Geneva Group International (GGI), the leading worldwide alliance of accounting and law firms.

Buzz Brockway with Marsy’s Law For Georgia

August 15, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Case In Point

Buzz Brockway with Marsy’s Law For Georgia

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Buzz Brockway/Marsy’s Law for Georgia

Marsy’s Law was named after Marsalee (Marsy) Nicholas, a beautiful and vibrant University of California Santa Barbara student who was stalked and killed by her ex-boyfriend in 1983. Only a week after Marsy was murdered, her brother Dr. Nicholas and Marsy’s mother, Marcella Leach, walked into a grocery store after visiting her daughter’s grave and was confronted by the accused murderer. They had no idea he had been released on bail.

Their story is typical of the pain and suffering the family members of murder victims have endured. She was not informed because the courts and law enforcement, though well-meaning, had no obligation to keep her informed. While criminals have more than 20 individuals rights spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, the surviving family members of murder victims have none.

The passage of Marsy’s Law changed all that in California, and now in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota and Ohio. Victims of crime in all of these states must, by law, be treated with respect and dignity by the criminal justice system. Courts must consider the safety of victims and families when setting bail and release conditions. Family members have legal standing in bail hearings, pleas, sentencing and parole hearings.

“If any good can come of something this horrible, the loss of my sister and the losses of other families of crime victims, it’s that these violent acts served as a catalyst for change,” Dr. Nicholas said. “Marsy’s Law will provide for a more compassionate justice system for crime victims and make that a constitutional guarantee. Now the momentum can be put behind a U.S. Constitutional Amendment so that the rights of all crime victims, anywhere in America, can be protected.”

Birdies and Beer – The Prequel

August 15, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Birdies and Beer - The Prequel

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Welcome to the “prequel” episode of Birdies and Beer, an unique lifestyle podcast featuring all things golf and craft beer! On this episode, you will meet the host of the show Tim Stolz, his Birdies and Beer partner Jason Grady, along with producer Mike Sammond.

Tim Stolz/Host

Jason Grady/Birdies and Beer

Michael Daugherty with LabMD and The Cyber Education Foundation

August 15, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Michael Daugherty with LabMD and The Cyber Education Foundation

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Michael J. Daugherty/LabMD and The Cyber Education Foundation

Mike Daugherty is the CEO of LabMD, a cancer testing laboratory. He has spent most of the last decade defending his company against charges that it had deficient cyber-security practices. The early years of his entering and fighting Washington, DC, are recorded in his book “The Devil Inside the Beltway”. In so doing, he has become the only litigant to challenge the basic authority that underlies more than 200 enforcement actions relating to cyber-security and online privacy that the FTC has brought over the past 15 years. Every one of the over 200 litigants before him, including some of the largest companies in the world, have settled with the FTC, creating an unquestioned and untested belief that the FTC has broad authority to regulate in these areas. On June 6, 2018, he prevailed. In so doing, he toppled key pillars of the FTC’s cyber-security and online privacy edifice, successfully exposing and challenging The Administrative State.

Wendell Strickland with Strongside Solutions and John Herbert with the Roswell Attorney Project

August 14, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Wendell Strickland with Strongside Solutions and John Herbert with the Roswell Attorney Project

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John Ray, John Herbert, Wendell Strickland

Wendell Strickland/Strongside Solutions

Strongside Solutions is a cost management consulting firm that specializes in the design, implementation and supply-chain management of self-funded healthcare benefit programs for employers. Experts in mitigating healthcare costs, Strongside Solutions’ has a game changing healthcare benefits package, eBenefix, that is revolutionizing the healthcare benefits industry by delivering a better healthcare experience to employees and reducing healthcare costs up to 40%.

Employee healthcare is one of the largest expenses by an employer that goes mostly unmanaged. The clear majority of employers are used to 10 to 15 percent (or more) in increases annually and are struggling to not pass on the increases to their employees. With eBenefix, employers are realizing savings and it is truly making healthcare benefits a competitive recruiting & retention tool again.

John Herbert/Roswell Attorney Project

The Roswell Attorney Project was born out of the vision of John Herbert and Kurt Hilbert who were opposing counsel in litigation a few years ago. The focus of the organization are to promote civility in all legal matters and to raise awareness of the great attorneys who call Roswell home.

LEADER DIALOGUE: Verge Health, Safety First – Deep Dive

August 10, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: Verge Health, Safety First - Deep Dive

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On this follow-up deep dive episode of Leader Dialogue, Verge Health VP Lisa Counsell again joins host Ben Sawyer and Duffie Dixon to unpack the related Baldrige principles. (See the Visual Baldrige, Organizational Hierarchy of Needs model below)

Listen in to learn…

The principles of effective leadership
The power of persistent curiosity and the art of the possible
How strategy should prioritize performance improvement initiatives
How to avoid becoming an organization that prioritizes the important over the urgent

About SOAR Vision Group

The SOAR Vision Group mission is to: Align People with Purpose to Achieve Exceptional Results. SOAR provides best practice strategy execution, business process optimization services, and a structured organizational development approach for organizations to effectively implement the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. For more information, contact SOAR Vision Group at (888) 294-3303 or visit soarvisiongroup.com.

About the Baldrige Foundation

The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is presented annually by the United States President to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence. For more information, contact the Baldrige Foundation at (202) 559-9195 or visit baldrigefoundation.org.