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David Cady with Virtuous CRM and Oye Waddell with Hustle PHX E22

July 19, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

David Cady with Virtuous CRM and Oye Waddell with Hustle PHX E22

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David Cady with Virtuous CRM and Oye Waddell with Hustle PHX E22

Virtuous is the Nonprofit Marketing, CRM and Email software helping charities grow giving and build better relationships with donors. Virtuous empowers modern nonprofits to create personalized donor experiences and dramatically grow giving by better understanding each donor individually.

Nonprofit brands like Teen Challenge, Habitat for Humanity, American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, Harvard Kennedy School and Comic-Con use the powerful data insights from Virtuous to create personalized donor messages, boost the effectiveness of their development staff and grow repeat giving.

David Cady leads the customer facing and business development efforts for Virtuous Software, a cloud software company focused on re-imagining generosity in the nonprofit space. David has worked in the software world for over 12 years, specifically for some of the world’s best CRM companies.

David has been in Phoenix for over 30 years along with his wife and 3 kids. While hobbies have eluded him since having kids, most of his days are spent playing with them, hiking and exploring the mountains up north, and experiencing ALL the good food in AZ.

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Hustle PHX encourages the creation of sustainable business ventures that affirm the dignity of people and lead to the flourishing of all communities in Phoenix. Hustle PHX was built on the belief that some of the best natural entrepreneurs in the United States are in underserved urban communities.

They are called “hustlers” – visionary risk-takers who seize the opportunity to move product and turn a profit. They have the God-given skills, attributes, and talents of an entrepreneur, but they lack key resources needed to create sustainable businesses that benefit the broader community. Hustle PHX wants to let the hustlers hustle – for the common good.

Oye Waddell is the Founder & CEO of Hustle PHX, where he is fueled by his visionary style of leadership and the belief that all people have dignity. Oye’s long track record in urban education and entrepreneurship created a passion for him to see urban communities in North America transformed through business.

In addition to Hustle PHX, Oye also serves as a pastor at his church and as a partner of the Hustle Real Estate Investment Fund, which is designed to serve as a pathway to homeownership for low income individuals. Oye attended the University of Washington on a full athletic football scholarship. He later earned his MPA from the University of Southern California and MEd from Arizona State University.

Oye, his wife Crys, and their four young children – Chariot, Clover, Crescent, and Oye II – currently reside in Phoenix, Arizona.

Connect with Oye on LinkedIn and follow Hustle PHX on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About 3C Amplified

3C Amplified is a space to highlight businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals collaborating to amplify their impact in the community. We share real world examples for how partnerships allow for growth both within our businesses and our communities. Listen in as we share how others are connecting, creating and collaborating and how you can be part of something greater.

About Jacqueline Destremps

Jacqueline Destremps is a creative marketing strategist and founded Another Hand Advantage, LLC in 2014 to help community minded small business owners and nonprofit professionals move forward more confidently with their marketing strategy. After graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in Psychology, she has spent her professional career working in both the nonprofit and for-profit sector.

She now enjoys being self-employed and the flexibility it provides to allow more time to volunteer, serve on nonprofit boards, choose pro-bono projects, run 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun (which she co-founded in 2014) and travel the world. Jacqueline believes in creating connections between businesses and nonprofits in the community to stimulate growth and collaboration.

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Sentari Minor with Gen Next and George Grombacher with Money Alignment Academy E7

July 19, 2019 by Karen

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Sentari Minor with Gen Next and George Grombacher with Money Alignment Academy E7

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Sentari Minor with Gen Next and George Grombacher with Money Alignment Academy E7

Gen Next is an invitation-only organization of successful individuals dedicated to learning about and becoming engaged with the most pressing challenges facing future generations. With the collective influence of its national community of Members, Gen Next aims to ensure anyone can achieve success by expanding the opportunities that await them.

Sentari M. Minor is a social impact advocate and passionate relationship builder. As Regional Director of Gen Next, Mr. Minor oversees the development and engagement of accomplished and purposeful local leaders to ultimately drive generational change.

Prior to Gen Next, he worked to steward effective philanthropists and strengthen social enterprises at the venture philanthropy firm, Social Venture Partners Arizona. A Phoenix native, Mr. Minor continued his education in the Midwest and is an alumnus of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where he studied English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. He is also a member of Class IV of the American Express Leadership Academy through the Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Nonprofit Innovation.

With an extensive background in high-touch stakeholder engagement, fundraising, public relations, and strategic planning, Mr. Minor serves on the board of directors for a diverse set of nonprofits. Passionate about strengthening the social sector, Mr. Minor speaks nationally on governance, leadership, and the concepts of venture philanthropy, nonprofit capacity building, and social entrepreneurship. When he’s not busy changing the world, he enjoys fitness, reading, and spending time with his loved ones.

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Money Alignment Academy helps great organizations achieve what they’ve always wanted: successful employees. Combining online modules with an interactive community, the Academy serves as a simple and easy-to-use employee engagement tool to address financial literacy and overall wellness.

“Do Your Part By Doing Your Best.” A 20 year finance industry veteran, podcaster, writer and sought-after speaker, George Grombacher is working to help people lead happier and more contented lives.

He spent 10 years with a Fortune 100 company as an advisor as well as in leadership positions where he impacted thousands of lives and developed training curriculums. He then founded a financial firm and upon recognizing the need for a different kind of financial literacy program, George launched Money Alignment Academy. It’s his desire to help people become the best possible versions of themselves.

“Financial Peace of Mind Allows Us To More Fully Pursue Our Passions.” If a passion of yours is money, investing and following the markets, great! For the rest of us, George wants to help people gain control and have an understanding of their finances so they are free to focus their time and attention on the things that bring them joy.

Connect with George on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Arizona Good Business Radio

What is good business? What are local businesses doing to build a better Arizona?

Join Arizona Good Business Radio to hear from local companies who are:

Centering purpose at the forefront of business
Creating social well-being for the community
Prioritizing sustainability and positive environmental practices
Growing strong company cultures through building authentic teams
Ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion are involved in all business decisions

Arizona Good Business Radio features local business leaders that are redefining what it means to do good business.

About Your Host

Thomas Barr is the Executive Director for Local First Arizona, the largest coalition of local businesses in North America. He advocates for a strong local business community that contributes to building vibrancy, equity, and prosperity across the state. A proud Arizona native and graduate of Arizona State University,Thomas leads the business coalition of Local First Arizona by advocating for the economic and cultural benefits provided by building strong local economies.

Thomas steers the strategic direction of LFA’s major programs and initiatives as well as the engagement of over 3000 businesses across Arizona. As Executive Director, Thomas guides a team of statewide senior directors overseeing the execution of LFA’s communication strategy, major initiatives and key partnerships, as well as the collaboration of over 30 staff implementing work in entrepreneurship programs, small business advocacy, local food initiatives, sustainability, urban development and community building. He frequently speaks to groups locally and nationally, presenting the impact of Local First Arizona and the importance of local economy work in building prosperity.

Outside of Local First Arizona, Thomas has participated in volunteering his time to many causes and organizations throughout the Valley including Young Nonprofit Professionals – Phoenix, Equality Arizona, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Heritage Square Foundation and Phoenix Legal Action Network. Additionally, Thomas is a 2018 Phoenix Magazine 40 Under 40 honoree, alumni of Arizona Leading for Change, and current participant in Valley Leadership Institute’s 40th cohort.

Connect with Thomas on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Local First AZ

Local First Arizona is a nonprofit organization that celebrates independent, locally owned businesses. We support, promote and advocate for a strong local business community and raise public awareness of the economic and cultural benefits provided by strong local economies. Local businesses contribute to a sustainable economy for Arizona and build vibrant communities we’re all proud to call home.

Holistic Made Co-Founders Jonathan and Sascha Schlossberg and Nicholas Tambakeras with Wellspring Center for Health and Healing

July 18, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Holistic Made Co-Founders Jonathan and Sascha Schlossberg and Nicholas Tambakeras with Wellspring Center for Health and Healing

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Holistic Made Co-Founders Jonathan and Sascha Schlossberg and Nicholas Tambakeras with Wellspring Center for Health and Healing

Holistic Made is a Phoenix-based digital marketing agency catering to health, wellness, and intentionally driven companies. Run by a husband and wife team, Holistic Made specializes in SEO and lead generation, bringing clients more of their ideal prospects. For the independent businesses who want to do their marketing and SEO in house, Holistic Made offers their own line of courses at https://courses.holisticmade.com.

Jonathan and Sascha Schlossberg are lifelong creative entrepreneurs who met as actors in Hollywood. Seen on film and television shows such as Gray’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Entourage, and Jerry Maguire, they met, married and dove into the world of digital marketing.

After leaving Los Angeles for the family-friendly neighborhoods of Phoenix, they began picking up web design, SEO, and lead gen freelance work from the businesses they frequented. Their chiropractor and birth center were some of their first clients. Not long after, they officially founded their agency, Holistic Made, around their passion for healthy, holistic living.

Together, they run their agency and have three children under the age of four years old.

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Wellspring Center for Health and Healing offers massage and aesthetics services backed by over 40 years of combined experience by the two founding therapists, Nancie Lopez and Pagona Xenos. Wellspring delivers advanced massage techniques and exquisite aesthetics services using natural, safe Osmosis Skincare products.

Dedicated to maintaining a meaningful and productive relationship with each client, Wellspring’s track record speaks for itself. Committed to delivering results that transform your life, with natural healing and ethically-driven practices at their core, Wellspring looks forward to welcoming each client into the perfectly appointed and soothing spa atmosphere.

Niko Tambakeras has been passionate about developing solutions for people to feel better and live better for a long time. Originally a community coordinator then supervisor for multiple valley-wide educational institutions, Niko is driven by a desire to serve.

Working in the wellness industry has only yielded greater opportunities in this regard. He is an avid hiker, adventurer and traveler who embraces the high-spirited side of life, feeling closely committed to bringing the wonders of natural healing to as many people as he can in his professional career.

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CULTURE CRUSH Catharine Ellingsen with Republic Services and Patti Milligan with Tignum

July 18, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

CULTURE CRUSH Catharine Ellingsen with Republic Services and Patti Milligan with Tignum

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CULTURE CRUSH Catharine Ellingsen with Republic Services and Patti Milligan with Tignum

Republic Services is an industry leader in U.S. recycling and non-hazardous solid waste disposal. Through its subsidiaries, Republic’s collection companies, recycling centers, transfer stations and landfills focus on providing effective solutions to make responsive waste disposal effortless for its 14 million customers. We’ll handle it from here.®, the brand’s promise, lets customers know they can count on Republic to provide a superior experience while fostering a sustainable Blue Planet for future generations to enjoy a cleaner, safer and healthier world.

Catharine Ellingsen is EVP, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the Company’s legal affairs and ensuring Republic upholds the highest ethical standards for our customers, employees and shareholders. She oversees Legal Services, Board and Corporate Governance, Corporate Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management and Labor Relations.

Additionally, Catharine is the Executive Sponsor of the Company’s Diversity & Inclusion Council. Catharine has nearly 20 years of experience in the recycling and waste services industry. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Wheaton College and her JD from the Washington College of Law, The American University.

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TIGNUM is the major performance building block for business professionals, designed around a skill- and data-based approach that respects individuality, focuses on the brain, evolves constantly, and creates lasting impact.

TIGNUM’s international team comes from a wide range of fields, including human behavior, elite athletics, special forces, performance medicine, executive coaching, change consultants, and more.

Patti Milligan has been in the high performance field for over 38 years. As a competitive athlete and trained nutritionist with a graduate degree in exercise science and PhD in neuroscience of taste, she  approaches performance in a truly integrated way. She combines her experience with the natural foods industry, knowledge, commitment, and enthusiasm working with hundreds of executives around the world.

Her passion for impacting the way people experience high performance foods through their choices makes her an extraordinary one-on-one specialist and presenter.

Connect with Patti on LinkedIn.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Deb Caron is the owner and principal consultant of Anahata Marketing, a Phoenix-based marketing and brand communication consultancy that focuses on empathic listening and content creation to foster real connection between businesses and the customers they serve. She hosts Culture Crush Rx as part of her personal passion for helping people live healthier, more fulfilling, well-rounded lives.

Deb is also a registered yoga teacher and she truly enjoys sharing her knowledge and love for the practice with her community. Deb can be reached at deb@anahatamarketing.com and on Linkedin.

Ilana Lowery and Victoria Saylor with Common Sense Media

July 18, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Ilana Lowery and Victoria Saylor with Common Sense Media

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Ilana Lowery and Victoria Saylor with Common Sense Media

Common Sense is committed to making kids the nation’s top priority. The San Francisco-based nonprofit, which just opened an Arizona office in January, is a trusted source for families, educators and advocates who help kids thrive. Common Sense provides resources to harness the power of media and technology, and to shape public policy to improve the well-being of every child.

Ilana Lowery, Arizona Director for Common Sense Media, is the former editor-in-chief of the Phoenix Business Journal. She left the Journal in June, 2018, after 23 years as a key leader at the daily business publication. As the first director of Common Sense, Ilana is responsible for driving a strategic effort to build the organization’s presence, philanthropic base and strategic partnerships throughout the state. The Chicago native joined the publication as a reporter in 1995.

Prior to the Business Journal, she was an editor for Independent Newspapers Inc., a community newspaper chain based in Scottsdale. Before moving to the Valley in 1989, Ilana was a reporter and editor for Pulitzer Newspapers in Chicago. An award-winning journalist, she also worked as a scriptwriter and associate producer for the NBC-TV affiliate in Chicago. A 1986 graduate of the University of Illinois, Ilana earned BA degrees in Mass Communications and English.

Currently, Ilana is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications and a digital editor for the Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. In addition, Ilana serves on the executive board of Gabriel’s Angels and is a member of the prestigious women’s professional associations Charter 100 and Central Phoenix Women. She recently served on the advisory board for the Greater Phoenix Jewish News and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Arizona Press Club and the Arizona Newspaper Association, which in 2015 presented her with the Order of the Silver Key, an honor for journalists who have been in the profession for 25 years or more, contributed to the journalism profession both locally and nationally, and have inspired fellow journalists.

Ilana is a longtime advocate of causes involving social issues, education and children’s well-being, and she has served on multiple boards for Valley organizations committed to these issues. In 2014, Ilana was a Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Athena Award finalist. She also was honored as a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine Council. Ilana also is a member of the Alliance of Arizona nonprofits, a long-time member of the Hon Kachina Board of Governors, and most recently, she was co-chair of the 2919 Arizona Science Center’s Galaxy Gala.

Victoria Saylor has over 20 years of experience in the education sector as an elementary school teacher and university advisor, bringing a strong sense of student advocacy and best practices to her role at Common Sense. She has provided educational leadership by helping pioneer her district’s groundbreaking Spanish Immersion program and establishing it into a highly desired choice for students.

After leaving the classroom, Victoria worked as a consultant for Santillana USA and Capstone Classroom publishers, where she sourced K-12 curriculum and teamed closely with district leaders and teachers for professional development. As proof of her long-standing commitment to student success, she served as a home instruction teacher for homebound students by providing a personalized learning environment that accommodated their needs. She also founded a private tutoring service, which allowed her to remain connected to her professional network and help students grow academically.

Victoria actively volunteers in several private and professional groups, and is a recipient of the Above and Beyond award, which recognizes educators who have made lasting impacts in the lives of their students and community. She is a proud graduate of the University of Arizona, where she earned degrees in Elementary Education and Spanish. Outside of her career, she’s a proud wife and mom to her daughter, son, and Labrador Retriever. She loves to cook and enjoys hiking the beautiful deserts of Arizona.

Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow Common Sense on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

July 15, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

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E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

Listen to this episode and learn how EOS ® (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and Project Management both can help organizations successfully deliver on Strategic initiatives. We learn about EOS from Chris Spear, Founder of Traction Point and Tom Wesner, Founder of TractionSquared. We also learn about an alternative to traditional PMP certification training from Scott Payne, Founder of PM Master Prep.

Tom and Chris share their stories which include time running successful start-ups, leadership roles within large corporations and now running EOS Coaching businesses. At the core of EOS is the Traction book and the processes within. We also hear the similarities and shared leadership practices of EOS and Project Management. Scott and PM Master Prep are sponsors of Project Management Office Hours and it was great to have Scott share his story. We hear how PM Master Prep came to be and why they have a unique model with the PMP training industry. We also get to hear plans for Scott’s upcoming podcast.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker or your favorite podcast platform! Our next show will be July 18th with guests Roger Haskett and Jessica Kuhn. Thanks to our sponsors PM Master Prep and THE PMO SQUAD. PM Master Prep is offering 20% off all services by using code PMOJOE at checkout on www.pmmasterprep.com.

PM Master Prep is the world’s only case story focused PMP training company. PM Master Prep both teaches courses and partners with great companies to bolster their PMOs and provide PMP training that not only prepares students to succeed on the exam, but also improves their project management skills. PM Master Prep is offering 2 free online or live-online training seats to their groundbreaking case story focused PMP classes to any organization serious about transforming their PMP training program. Email Scott Payne (Founder PM Master Prep) directly at scott@pmmasterprep.com to receive your 2 free training seats.

Scott Payne has reinvented the process and focus of PMP preparation. Abandoning the traditional memorization focused methods, Scott created an entirely case story focused PMP training method. The power of this method is that it not only helps students learn faster and retain more, but it also drastically improves the student’s skills as a project manager.

Scott has published a best-selling PMP book, The PMP Exam Master Prep Manual, and created the world’s first case story focused video eCourse that flows in the order of a real project. In addition to his book, eCourse, and simulator, Scott leads students to success through focused Live and Live-Online classes weekly.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn and follow PM Master Prep on Facebook.

Traction Squared coaches / teaches leadership teams how to run on a holistic business system called the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®). Through EOS, your leadership team will be equipped with a simple set tools to achieve the following:

Vision. First, I’ll help your leaders to get 100% on the same page with a vision for your organization.
Traction®. Your leaders will become self-disciplined and accountable.
Healthy. Your leaders will become an open, honest and cohesive team. From there, as goes your leadership team, so goes the rest of your organization. Your entire company will become crystal clear on your vision.

People at every level will grow more disciplined and accountable in executing your vision. Your company will achieve consistent traction and drive forward as a healthy, functional, cohesive team. Our sweet spot is companies with 10-500 employees, that are open minded, and looking to get more of what they want out of their business. There are no contracts, and our time spent together is 100% guaranteed.

Tom Wesner is Co-Founder & CEO of Traction Squared, Professional EOS Implementer For over 25 years Tom’s passion has been helping people achieve BREAKTHROUGHS and take their lives to the next level – no matter how successful they already are – in the areas that matter most: doing what they love for work, with people they enjoy, making a difference in the world, being appropriately compensated and having the time to pursue other passions.

Tom has helped many people from a multitude of companies transform their lives and their businesses through his approach to leadership and personal coaching. He’s worked with CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies, CEO’s of Not-For Profit organizations and world class leaders in the entrepreneurial world. Over the past few decade, he’s developed a passion for helping small business owners, entrepreneurial leaders and not-for-profit organizations.

Most of his core strategies for creating breakthroughs have come from his work within really successful businesses. He has learned, applied and modeled the art and science of growing a profitable business from some of the most renowned leaders and businesses in the world. He uses these distinctions to help optimize and grow enterprises to new and more profitable levels.

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn.

Traction Point helps small and medium sized businesses to Create Success Faster! Every successful business needs an operating system. EOS, The Entrepreneurial Operating System, is a way of harmonizing and orchestrating all the moving parts of your business to help you run a better business and live a better life!

Chris provides professional training to give your team a proven system and the leadership skills they need to take you to the next level! They coach companies that are ready for transformation! You’re not just looking to dabble or pick up a few ideas from a seminar. You are committed to growth. Your team is willing to be open, honest and vulnerable with themselves and the people around them! You’re more afraid of the status quo than you are of change!

A few years out of college, Chris Spear did something everyone told him was stupid! He walked away from a great job and co-founded a software company. The team “bootstrapped” to $2 million dollars in revenue, a dozen employees, and was acquired in year three by a public company. This launched Chris into roles at a few really big companies.

At IKON/Ricoh, he led sales and marketing process implementation for a field sales organization of over 5000 reps. At Extra Space Storage, a real estate company, he led sales and operations process implementation as the company grew from 300 to over 700 locations. Through all this Chris learned he had a “superpower” for scaling businesses. But he didn’t want to just do something big, he wanted to do something that mattered! This is when he found a growing software company called Infusionsoft. Their purpose “To Help Small Businesses Succeed” was so compelling to him, that he joined them to lead operations and systems as they grew from $50M to more than $100M in revenue.

With a “small business success” fire in his belly, Chris happened on the EOS book “Traction.” He was truly shocked to find that everything he had learned about how to scale a business through years of painful trial and error was there in one harmonious system. Chris was hooked and is now on a mission to help hundreds of small businesses change the world and get more of what they want from their businesses!

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn and follow Traction Point on Facebook.

ABOUT THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

Project Management Office Hours is powered by The PMO SQUAD

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

PM Master Prep^TM is simply the worlds best PMP^® Exam Preparation licensing system. There is no other product available to businesses and independent trainers that can offer the same premium courseware along with the rich feature set of our online exam simulator and study resources.

Our Courseware has been designed to be shorter, easier to learn for students, and easier to teach for instructors. Your students will learn faster, retain more and will pass the PMP exam!

Kimberly Roland with Better Business Bureau and Katelyn Harris Lange with Y Scouts E6

July 2, 2019 by Karen

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Kimberly Roland with Better Business Bureau and Katelyn Harris Lange with Y Scouts E6

For more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau has been helping people find businesses, brands, and charities they can trust. In 2018, people turned to the Better Business Bureau more than 173 million times for BBB Business Profiles on nearly 5.4 million businesses and Charity Reports on 11,000 charities, all available for free on BBB.org. Nearly 400,000 BBB Accredited Businesses support the mission of the Better Business Bureau, and their dues and contributions allow BBB to offer its information and services to consumers at no charge.

Kimberly Roland is the Director of Entrepreneur Programs for Better Business Bureau serving the Pacific Southwest (BBB).

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Humanistic Studies from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame and her Master of Arts in Social Justice and Human Rights with a Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership Management from Arizona State University.

Kimberly is responsible for the design and implementation of entrepreneur programming at BBB, including the development of new services for both accredited businesses and small business startups. She recently directed the buildout and launch of ignite sparked by BBB, a community coworking and collaboration space in Central Phoenix.

Prior to joining the BBB, she served as the Manager of Partner Relations in Entrepreneurship + Innovation at ASU where she managed programs and external partnerships in the greater business and startup community. Kimberly also serves on the Greater Phoenix Chamber Valley Young Professional Board of Directors and Phoenix Suns Charities 88 Board in addition to being the City Organizer for the House of Genius Phoenix Chapter.

She is a native Arizonan with a passion for serving and supporting local businesses.

Y Scouts helps leaders hire on purpose, so their businesses have the greatest positive impact. Y Scouts doesn’t do placements, they align leaders and work. Placement is a cold top-down approach, focusing on resumes and filling empty seats.

By hiring on purpose, Y Scouts takes the broken vertical model and flips it on its side, creating horizontal alignment between leader and company.

They bridge the gap between the business purpose and a leader’s passions and strengths. The Y Scouts approach to hiring is purposeful, methodical and driven by empathy.

Katelyn Harris Lange is a leadership search specialist (executive recruiter) with Y Scouts, a local B Corp, working to reorient hiring around values and fulfillment. Her previous experience working in inpatient mental health and addiction spurred her belief that as a community, we can design better and do more.

She is a philanthropist serving as Advocacy Committee Co-chair for the African-American Women’s Giving and Empowerment Circle, Civic Engagement Chair with the Greater Phoenix Urban League Young Professionals, and the current Diversity and Inclusion Director with Net Impact Phoenix Professionals.

Her partnership with Local First Arizona Foundation Executive Director, Kimber Lanning, brought Transform Finance to Phoenix in March to host a two-day place-based workshop for local social justice leaders on shifting capital.

Connect with Katelyn on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow Y Scouts on Facebook and Instagram.

About Arizona Good Business Radio

What is good business? What are local businesses doing to build a better Arizona?

Join Arizona Good Business Radio to hear from local companies who are:

Centering purpose at the forefront of business
Creating social well-being for the community
Prioritizing sustainability and positive environmental practices
Growing strong company cultures through building authentic teams
Ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion are involved in all business decisions

Arizona Good Business Radio features local business leaders that are redefining what it means to do good business.

About Your Host

Connect with Thomas on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Local First AZ

THE DAY BEFORE MONDAY Risk Analyst Alaura Skiff with Deb Bond of Avertium

July 1, 2019 by Karen

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THE DAY BEFORE MONDAY Risk Analyst Alaura Skiff with Deb Bond of Avertium

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THE DAY BEFORE MONDAY Risk Analyst Alaura Skiff with Deb Bond of Avertium

In this episode, we had mentor/mentee pair, Deb Bond (Avertium) and Alaura Skiff, in studio to talk career management and the importance of mentoring to create a more fulfilling career. Increased confidence, more strategic thinking, and even having a mentor/mentee outside of your own company defines this fun conversation with this dynamic duo.

Some of the themes were…why to speak up in meetings, when to leave a bad position, how to identify a potentially great organization, how to identify a good mentor/mentee, and the best way to ask someone to be your mentor. Navigating certain industries can be taxing especially if you don’t have a powerful partner in your corner cheering you on every step of the way.

By the way, one of these women restores classic cars and one shoots arrows in armor. I can’t wait for you to find out which is which.

Alaura Skiff went to ASU West originally to do networking and programming, but fell in love with governance risk and compliance.

She was lucky enough to have a professor who saw her potential in the security field and had her become an RSA security scholar and helped her land the job she’s in now, as a Risk Analyst.

Avertium focuses its comprehensive expertise on supporting mid-to-large enterprises, making it one of the largest managed cybersecurity services companies focused on this market.

Avertium is a leading provider of managed cybersecurity services with more than 150 employees and growing, and security operations centers in Arizona and Tennessee, the company serves more than 1,000 customers in the retail, healthcare, hospitality, financial services, manufacturing and government sectors.

Deb Bond is a QSA, CISM, CISA, CISSP and Microsoft Certified Professional with over 20 years of experience in the industry overseeing PCI, SOC, and FTC compliance audits, Identity and Access Management, Third Party Management, internal risk assessments, third-party risk, and helping organizations to build and mature their governance, risk and compliance functions.

When she is not working, Deb is a console gamer who enjoys playing Destiny online with family and friends, as well as playing ‘sherpa’ to newcomers to the game, helping them learn the ropes in a safe environment.

When she is not gaming with family and friends, she and her husband work together to build and restore old cars as a hobby. She has a fully built show truck which she takes to custom car shows around the state and occasionally out of state.

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A former engineer and project manager within corporate America, Brenda M. Cunningham now runs Push Career Management and helps super smart professionals get back to work, get positioned for promotions, and get paid what they’re worth.

She is the President of the Resume Writers’ Council of Arizona, served on the board of the National Resume Writers’ Association, and holds credentials in resume writing, career management, and job search strategy (CPRW, CCM, and CJSS).

Working with corporations to provide more personal outplacement services, Brenda has already made an impact for several companies in manufacturing, retail sales, R&D, and financial services facing reductions in force (layoffs).

An author, public speaker, career strategist, and unapologetic encourager…Brenda is on a mission to make sure no one is limited by boundaries in their own career. You can connect with Brenda at LinkedIn.com/BrendaMCunningham.

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Their clients get a huge surge of confidence after working with them. Their signature Discovery Process helps them to extract the things that make their clients marketable so they can demand and get paid what they’re worth…while accelerating their transitions. To find out more, visit pushcareermanagement.com and schedule a complimentary consultation or a more in-depth strategy session.

E32 PMOps with Kim Curtis and Echo Woolf

July 1, 2019 by Karen

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E32 PMOps with Kim Curtis and Echo Woolf

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E32 PMOps with Kim Curtis and Echo Woolf

Are you familiar with PMOps? We’ve all heard of DevOps and SecOps and now we learn of PMOps. Listen to this episode to hear Kim Curtis share the experiences and successes from 30+ years in the PM trenches.

All of our shows are live and at times that gives us some technical difficulties, but in this episode our guests Kim and Echo Woolf worked through all of it and brought in another insightful show full of valuable content.

Echo shares her story growing into a successful Project Manager and Entrepreneur. We hear her experience knowing early on she would pursue a PM career and now working to help others through her consulting work and PM training. Listen to get her insight on how to get your PM career started and ways to accelerate your growth.

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True North Team Professional Consulting was formed in 2018 to help Program and Project Management Offices better position their teams to be successful in project delivery. We specialize in Team Building, PMO assessment, remediation, expansion and help PMO managers overcome the pitfalls associated with project delivery with large Project Management teams.

Our founder, Kim Curtis has developed a PMO structure that combines Project Management principals, Management by Objectives and Capability Maturity key performance indicators to drive success in project delivery.

With more than 30 years in the Project Management field, Kim Curtis has a wealth of long term knowledge for both process improvement and project delivery. She excels at creating structure in ambiguous environments including Enterprise PMO and Center of Excellence PMO Structures. She is considered an SME on Capacity Planning, Release Delivery and Project Scheduling and has helped several Fortune 500 companies improve project delivery, labor forecasting, and reduce turnover in high volume PMOs.

As a consultant for over a decade, she has diverse experience in retail, higher education, healthcare, and many other business sectors. She has extensive experience managing integrated project teams with complex inter-dependencies.

Her Key Performance Indicator tracking serves as a catapult to improving labor estimating, project schedule forecasting, change management and project budgeting that has transformed struggling PMOs into successful Project Management Operations Offices, her new PMO framework is called PMOps™.

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Your PM Sidekick helps ambitious and experienced professionals, from business and technical fields, prepare to take the PMP exam with focused supplemental material that fills in the gaps compared to other material on the market.

They do this by helping aspirants understand the content by leveraging real-world case studies to apply the material and providing time management techniques to avoid burnout and increase information retention.

All of this, and more, to help you achieve your personal goals of getting a high paying, flexible role as a PMP, allowing more time for travel, hobbies and a higher salary.

Echo Woolf was never an ‘accidental project manager,” instead she consciously and deliberately chose the field that she seemed drawn to, and has continued to enjoy the journey over the past 8 years.

She has worked in public and private organizations working with clients in government, non profit and for profit organizations.

Most of her career has been spent leading enterprise SaaS based solutions.

Despite her love to work as a practitioner, she realized that she wanted to build and create something on her own, thus leading to her co-founding “Your PM Sidekick.” Her business focuses on a variety of consulting, coaching and training for professionals looking to get into project management, to prepare for the PMP and to refine their skills to further advance their career.

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