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National Speakers Association with Stephanie Angelo, Noelle Stanley, Dr Karen Jacobson and Dan Shinder

March 14, 2018 by Karen

National Speakers Association with Stephanie Angelo, Noelle Stanley, Dr Karen Jacobson and Dan Shinder

National Speakers Assocation (NSA) provides professional speakers with the comprehensive resources, mentoring and professional connections they need to become more efficient and more effective in all aspects of their trade. Our 3,400+ members reach audiences as thought leaders, authors, consultants, coaches, trainers, educators, humorists, and motivators. Anyone who uses the spoken word to impact listeners can benefit from NSA membership.

NSA-Arizona is an award-winning chapter of the National Speakers Association. It is the original home chapter for the greatest speaking professional in the world Cavett Robert (1907-1997). Robert was the Founder and Leader of the 3800-member strong National Speakers Association, the respected national organization of expert professionals who deliver messages to order.

NSA Arizona Chapter
www.nsa-arizona.org
480-968- 7443
NSA International Conference Center
1500 South Priest Drive
Tempe, AZ

NSA National Offices
www.nsaspeaker.org
480.968.2552
1500 South Priest Drive
Tempe, AZ 85281

Guest Co-Host, Stephanie Angelo is a Mastermind group leader for enterprising people in a range of industries, from marketers to designers, financial planners, and physicians. Like an architect for business she helps entrepreneurs and solopreneurs grow and build their own enterprises.

She has a unique talent for connecting people and creating collaborative relationships that result in quantifiable growth. She’s sought out for mastermind group membership so people, and their business, can benefit from her skills.

She is a professional speaker and member of National Speakers Association, speaking on Innovative Accountability Programs and Strategic Thinking. Stephanie is also a member of Society for Human Resource Management. In both 2008 and 2009 she received the Best of Tempe Award in the Lecture & Seminar Bureaus category. She was awarded the AZCADV 2010 Desert Sunflower award for Allies. She was named a Finalist in the Best Entrepreneur – Service Businesses – Up to 100 Employees category for the 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

StephanieAngelo.com
Stephanie Angelo on Linkedin

Noelle Stanley, a Certified Holistic Nutrition Educator, life coach and professional speaker brings her captivating knowledge and passion to transform individual and corporate health and productivity by digesting complicated concepts and goals into simple, immediate, and effective nutritional and lifestyle choices. Inspired by new awareness, you will be motivated to take small steps, leading to an immediate feeling of success and genuine, lasting, positive results.

Noelle’s corporate clients reduce their health care costs and absenteeism, while profiting from healthier, more energetic, more productive employees. She offers expertise in motivation, cleansing and detoxification, food allergies, long term healthy weight control, nutrition for medical conditions, children and adolescent nutrition, nutrition for the aging, fitness plans, stress reduction, supplement use, and a variety of other health and wellness topics.

Noelle Stanley is the founder of My Body Balanced where she creates innovative techniques and concepts to improve individual and corporate health by combining the best of ancient and modern wisdom.

MyBodyBalanced.com
Noelle Stanley on Linkedin

Dr. Karen Jacobson is a High-Performance Strategist and Speaker. She is the creator of the High-Performance Triad and author of Power Conversations. Dr. Jacobson works with entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals showing them how to play at the top of their game by providing strategies to align engage and lead High-Performance Teams.

DrKarenJacobson.com
Dr Karen Jacobson on Linkedin

Dan Shinder is the Founder of Drum Talk TV and Social Media On Steroids. Social Media On Steroids is a series of products, which include Social Media Marketing Education, Consulting and Service Providing.

Everything Dan teaches is based on the strategies he has developed to get Drum Talk TV, a lifestyle media company, to 100k engaged followers on Facebook in the first year, and now 1 Million Followers just before the five-year anniversary—100% organically. Dan has a passion for teaching others how to do what he has done.

The education is provided in a variety of formats, from open enrollment workshops and seminars to presentations to teams on-site for companies to Online Webinars and VIP+ Days for individual clients as a retreat at his home in the mountains of Globe, AZ

SMOSMasterClass.com
Dan Shinder on Linkedin

CopperPoint Insurance Companies with President and CEO Marc Schmittlein

March 13, 2018 by Karen

CopperPoint Insurance Companies with President and CEO Marc Schmittlein

Marc Schmittlein brings more than 30 years of commercial insurance experience. He joined CopperPoint on June 6, 2016. Schmittlein was most recently with The Travelers Company as president of its cyber business division and previously as co-president of business insurance. Prior to those roles, he served as president and CEO of the small commercial division known as Select Accounts, a $2.7 billion division of Travelers’ Business Insurance that included workers compensation, business owner’s policy, umbrella coverage and commercial auto. In addition, his career includes leadership roles in commercial divisions of St. Paul Companies and Aetna.

Schmittlein holds the designations of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and Accredited Advisor in Insurance. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania.

Schmittlein serves on the board of directors for the Greater Phoenix Economic Council and the advisory board of the Arizona Chapter Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). He previously served as honorary chair of the Western Connecticut Chapter of JDRF. He also is active with United Way.

About CopperPoint Insurance Companies

Founded in 1925, CopperPoint Insurance Companies is dedicated to protecting and empowering conscientious business owners. Our vision is to be a top-tier regional commercial insurance company and the preferred partner for business owners, agents and brokers in every community we serve. For over 90 years CopperPoint has been a leading provider of workers compensation insurance. Today we are a multi-line commercial insurance company, offering additional products to ensure peace of mind to business owners, their employees and customers. As a mutual insurance company with $4.1 billion in assets, a policyholder surplus exceeding $1.5 billion and no debt, CopperPoint embodies stability and sustainability for over 13,000 policyholders generating approximately $420 million in revenue. Headquartered at CopperPoint Tower in Phoenix, Arizona, our team of talented professionals embrace Corporate Responsibility through active engagement in the communities we serve. The companies that comprise the CopperPoint Family of Insurance Companies are rated A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best.

Copperpoint.com
@CopperPointMu (Twitter)
CopperPoint Insurance (Facebook)
CopperPoint Insurance Company (LinkedIn)

Transition & Thrive with María Tomás Keegan and Friends

March 11, 2018 by Karen

Transition & Thrive with María Tomás Keegan and Friends

María Tomás-Keegan has reinvented herself several times—from a young New England country girl to a New York City career girl. From a 30-year Corporate America rescue to a budding entrepreneur. As if those transitions weren’t enough, she experienced many other life-changing events in between, including divorce, loss, career upheavals, layoff and caregiving.

Those life-changing events can be difficult to deal with, and many women condition themselves to bury their pain, ignore their feelings and just go through the motions of life, coping and surviving.

María understands very well what it’s like to put on a mask every day pretending everything is fine. That’s how she dealt with her first experiences with major life events. The journey from dragging herself through difficult days to learning how to thrive led her to help other women get through these transitions easier and faster than she did.

On her journey, she got back in touch with what really mattered to her, rediscovered her voice, and got healthy again.

She now offers insights, wisdom, and compassion—with a healthy dose of humor along the way—in her work today. The joy of helping women to thrive again is why she became a Certified Life Coach, specializing in transition. It’s why she founded Transition & Thrive with María.

https://www.facebook.com/TransitionAndThriveWithMaria/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariatomaskeegan /
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHxy6pe3IpMJATggdbOu2A/
http://transitionandthrivewithmaria.com/

Jan M. Whalen, MASL is the founder of WhalenVoices, LLC. She is the author of an award winning book, Rock Solid Confidence: Presenting Yourself with Assurance, Poise and Power—based on 25 years as a presentation coach. Fascinated with the power of life stories, she created a workbook and seminar, Character Safari: Remember and Write the Stories of Your Life. Her latest book, You are the Perfect Age, honors women who are stepping into a new decade—from ages 10-100.

Whalen is also a book shepherd, seminar leader and keynote speaker. She’s most passionate about guiding women in the discovery of their most confident voice, and delivers uplifting messages to her audiences. Former clients include AT&T, General Mills, Mayo Clinic, AEGON, USA, as well as numerous associations, non-profit agencies, and entrepreneurs.

jan@whalenvoices.com

WhalenVoices.com

https://www.facebook.com/whalenvoices

As an emerging artist Noel Tillman enjoys creating in many different mediums, including clay sculptures, limited edition relief prints and acrylic painting. Noel shares a studio space at WHAM in Surprise. Noel enjoys creating beautiful photos of pets and their people. She has a welcoming home studio set up. In April ’18, Noel will be joining the Beehive Cooperative Workspace at Techcelerator in Surprise, AZ.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/inspiredbynoel/albums

Instagram: @noeltillman_art

Starshine Communities, Inc is an Arizona Benefit Corporation creating collaborative communities of small business owners resulting in positive personal, social and economic impact. Our Collaborative Communities are designed to foster the sharing of resources to provide solutions for your business and to support YOU, the heart and soul behind the business! StarshineAZ Communities in Glendale and Peoria are female-focused.

Starshine@MyOffice Communities are open to both women and men in Peoria, Surprise, N Phoenix and Central Phoenix.

Co-Founder, Susan Moody
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Michelle Faust with Rhino Online Strategies and eCreativity and Gordon Parkman with Achieve Results Consulting

March 11, 2018 by Karen

Michelle Faust with Rhino Online Strategies and eCreativity and Gordon Parkman with Achieve Results Consulting

Rhino Online Strategies and eCreativity serve small to midsize businesses and entrepreneur’s who want their business to grow and thrive. They partner with them to identify content and marketing strategies that best serves their target market. Their focus is on fresh, innovative and dynamic copy that effectively reaches their market through email campaigns, marketing articles, web content, blogs and newsletters. It’s all about powerful messaging for business owners that converts, so they can focus on what they do best, running and growing their business.

Michelle Faust has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public speaking, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. When she left my corporate career, she shifted into the entrepreneurial world, combining her experience, talents and passions to reinvent herself. As a marketer and copywriter, Michelle thrives on discovering what motivates people into action and what their key emotional triggers are. Michelle loves to connect people through the power and beauty of the written word. Her passion is helping people create a roadmap to success, so they can fulfill their dreams and live their destiny.

www.rhinostrategy.com
https://www.facebook.com/michellecontentandcopywriter/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-faust-64b72b29/

Gordon Parkman started Achieve Results Consulting, LLC in April 2009 after 40 years in industry. Gordon is an accomplished traveled executive with extensive experience, who is skilled in both management and operating systems. A graduate of Northeastern University, with a masters in engineering management, who has always focused on having a peer organization that is built on collaboration and
mutual respect and one that considers the importance of innovation, teamwork and the free flow of ideas. He has been particularly effective in growing operations and managing cost. One of his strengths is building management teams that value cross-functional working relationships.

Gordon was involved in two acquisitions involving the due diligence phase to managing the new acquisitions and turning them into profitable business entities. These acquisitions involved transferring of products into the new facilities and ramping up production as well as implementing Lean Manufacturing concepts using Toyota Production System (TPS) model. A self-starter, Gordon has led teams from solution concept through planning, design, development, and implementation.

Gordon provides clarity and focus in partnering with individuals and organizations, helping determine what success means to them and then developing the road map to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. He helps clients discover the way to unlock their door to success and achieve the things that are most important to them. Gordon unlocks a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them. He is a certified member of the Total Quality Institute and The Institute for Sustainability, both divisions of Resource Associates Corporation and certified for the administration
and interpretation of the Innermetrix Attribute Index, DISC and Values Index.

Gordon uses his past experiences in working with clients as they achieve improved results and sustained long term competitiveness. Gordon is active in community having been a member of three Chambers of Commerce, including serving on their Boards, and currently serves on the Board of the Kiwanis Club of Desert Ridge.

http://www.achieveresultsconsulting.com

www.linkedin.com/in/achieveresultsconsulting

http://www.facebook.com/AchieveResultsConsulting

LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN with Tom Hatten of Mountainside Fitness and Russ Yelton of Yelton and Associates

March 10, 2018 by Karen

LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN with Tom Hatten of Mountainside Fitness and Russ Yelton of Yelton and Associates

It all started with an idea. An idea to be the friendliest gym in town. To know their members’ names, not just their numbers. To offer free towel service, even if that meant doing laundry at his apartment until two in the morning. This was the beginning of Mountainside Fitness.

In 1991, founder and CEO, Tom Hatten, began Mountainside Fitness while a junior at Arizona State University. Together with his family and friends, Tom brought his dream to life. From welding gym equipment to painting walls to selling memberships, the early years were true sweat equity in every sense of the word. Mountainside Fitness was founded on community and value, and those continue to be at the company’s core as they grow into 16 locations and over 80,000 members this year.

In November of 2005, Mountainside Fitness Centers was voted 1 of 10 “hottest growing” companies in Arizona by Biz AZ magazine when 5 clubs were added to the chain. Tom has also received various awards and accolades throughout his career, including being voted 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Business Journal/USA Today, being the Cover story of Entrepreneur Magazine July 2004, and being featured in Forbes Magazine, US News and World Report, Club Solutions Magazine, Paradise Valley Magazine, and Club Insider Magazine.

In addition to growing his company, Tom is a motivational speaker to many business organizations, colleges, high schools and churches. His topics range from entrepreneurship, economics, and corporate community involvement. Hatten is also featured in the college textbook titled Entrepreneurship: A Practice Based Approach co-written by authors: Christopher Neck (Management Professor Arizona State University), Heidi Neck (Entrepreneurship Professor Babson College), Emma Murray (Consultant). And he is currently working on another book Dream On: An Entrepreneurs desire to overcome which is due out in Spring 2018.

Hatten at one time co-hosted the mid-day all fitness request hour for local KZZP FM radio. Tom strongly values the community and has dedicated his time and resources, not only to helping people live healthier lifestyles, but also to social responsibility. Some of the highlights of his commitment to the community include:

2016 Honoree – Teen Lifeline Foundation
2016 Honoree – Muscular Dystrophy Association
2016 Chairman of the board – Make-A-Wish Arizona
2017 Honored as one of the Most Admired Leaders by the Phoenix Business Journal
2017 Board member – AZ Special Olympics
2017 Board member – AZ Diamondbacks Foundation

Tom is also a Founding Board member of AZ Bank & Trust, member of the YPO (Young Presidents Organization) Scottsdale, and member of the International CEO’s against cancer. Born in Austin, Minnesota, he has lived in Arizona for all but 6 months of his life. Favorite charitable organizations include: Make-A-Wish Arizona, Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation, Special Olympics and MDA of AZ.

Tom@MountainsideFitness.com
MountainsideFitness.com
Tom Hatten on Linkedin

Russ Yelton served as Chairman of the AZBio Board of Directors from January 2015 to December 2017. He has been an active board members since being elected in 2009.

He is currently president of Yelton and Associates. The firm provides economic development services as well as early stage business solutions. Yelton and Associates has experience both domestically and internationally and has assisted thousands of entrepreneurs to raise funding and bring their products to a variety of markets. The firm also has a long history of assisting municipalities with the development of co-w0rk, incubators and accelerators as well as loan funds, student focused entrepreneurial programming as well as shared facilities.

As a Board Member at Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, Inc., Yelton provides executive level leadership to a rapidly expanding tissue bank and medical device company. Yelton served as Pinnacle Transplant’s CEO from 2014 to 2017.

Pinnacle Transplant Technologies is a multi-service tissue bank dedicated to ethical participation in the donate life process. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) registered and American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) accredited, Pinnacle only works with federally chartered Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) and agencies accredited by AATB to help safeguard our employees, provide superior allografts for transplantation and assure reverence to our donor families.

Prior to joining Pinnacle Transplant Technologies, Yelton was President and CEO of the Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology located in Flagstaff. NACET is a business incubation program that assists companies with commercializing their technologies in both domestic and international markets. NACET is supported by the City of Flagstaff and Northern Arizona University where it functions as the Technology Transfer Office for NAU. Clients in NACET’s program received individual business consulting, access to mentors, venture and angel capital and domestic and international student research teams.

Prior to coming to Arizona in 2009, Yelton oversaw the creation of a business incubation program in Asheville, North Carolina in an abandoned 141,000 sq feet former BASF manufacturing plant. That program, located at a community college, included a commercial food kitchen, biotechnology space with wet, dry and core laboratories, light manufacturing and executive offices.

Yelton received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Appalachian State University, a Masters of Business Administration from Western Carolina University and Doctoral studies in Educational Leadership also at WCU. In addition, he received a European Union Grant in 2008 to complete Evaluation of Sustainability Training from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Russ@YeltonandAssociates.com
PinnacleTransplantTechnologies
Russ Yelton on Linkedin

The Leadership Lowdown was created to share the REAL story behind valley leaders’ rise to the top, and the truth about what it takes to TRULY succeed in life and business. Hear the raw stories of these leaders’ journeys…the pitfalls, the victories, and all of the heartaches and triumphs in between.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Jodi Low is an accomplished corporate trainer, inspirational speaker, and the Founder and CEO of U & Improved. Jodi has trained thousands of entrepreneurs and executives on how to build a booming business, master a mindset for success, and achieve the lifestyle they desire through heart-fueled leadership.

Through U & Improved—an award-winning personal and professional leadership development company based in Scottsdale—Jodi has redefined traditional leadership training by creating a sustainable and actionable model that is personal, challenging and meaningful to each and every individual who enrolls in any of the two-and-a-half-day experiential training classes. She and her elite training team have advanced the charge in heart-based leadership
development and empower U & Improved graduates with knowledge, tools and awareness to immediately be more effective and responsive leaders at work, home and within their communities.

Among her many accomplishments as a Valley leader, Jodi launched a teen leadership program in 2014 to empower young adults to become more confident, motivated and focused stewards of our future. In 2016, she founded a non-profit arm of the company—the U & Improved Leadership Foundation—that makes the program more accessible to deserving teens.

Jodi has been recognized by industry publications and organizations for her work in leadership development and serves as a source of inspiration within the community. In 2015, she was honored as an “Outstanding Women in Business” by the Phoenix Business Journal and by the Phoenix Suns and National Bank of Arizona with the “Amazing Women” award. She has received both the prestigious “Diversity Leader of the Year” and the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce’s “Sterling Award.” She was also awarded a Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 and was a finalist for the Junior League of Phoenix’s Valley Impact Award. Jodi is a devoted single parent who volunteers her time at her daughters’ school programs and with organizations such as Angel Mamas, where she’s served on the board for three years.

BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Larry Jones with Insperity and Chris Rude with Arizona Business Bank

March 2, 2018 by Karen

BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Larry Jones with Insperity and Chris Rude with Arizona Business Bank

Insperity is a 30+ year old company that has assisted over 150,000 businesses and over 2 million employees across the country. The company’s original founder and current CEO, Paul Sarvadi envisioned making business owners’ lives easier by taking HR and administrative burdens off their plates. So he decided to start a company with about 600 sq ft and one phone. Since then, Insperity has grown to a 3 Billion dollar company by simply helping clients also reach their goals. Insperity uses the same methods we have used internally to help businesses run better, grow faster and make more money.

Insperity is based in Houston, with 60 offices across the country. They are dedicated to helping level the playing field for small businesses to compete against larger corporations by helping them attract and retain top talent with big company perks and benefits. Insperity create efficiencies by bundling many of the items that you already pay for as a business owner like payroll, administrative support, employee benefits, workers comp and local HR support with customized service plans. They also help a small business mitigate risk, while keeping up with all tax and government compliances. Taking all of these items off the plate of the business owner, lets them focus on what they do best and to grow their business.

Larry Jones is going on his 2^nd year with Insperity and it was their passion to help small businesses that drew him to this team. Larry grew up around several family businesses and he has seen first-hand what the burden of running a business can be like. His parents had many struggles running their businesses, and he’s seen similar struggles with friends and extended family that run their own businesses too. Insperity help business owners manage this burden of being an employer and help create some efficiencies in bundling many services together.

Insperity mission: Helping businesses succeed so communities prosper.
YouTube video: Insperity’s Workforce Optimization
Business News Daily article recognizing the ‘Best PEO for small businesses’

Larry Jones
Business Performance Advisor
Insperity
4900 N. Scottsdale Road | Suite 1200 | Scottsdale, AZ 85251
602-500-7001
Larry.Jones@Insperity.com
linkedin.com/in/larry-jones-a8906b7

Christopher Rude has been in both retail and commercial banking for 20+ years spending a majority of his career with Citibank and BMO Harris, most recently moving to Arizona Business Bank about 2.5 years ago. Chris’s focus is on working with good people who want to have a strong relationship with their bank. Most of his portfolio is in the contracting, manufacturing, and distribution space with company revenues ranging from $5MM to $200MM and credit needs north of $1MM.

When Chris isn’t banking, he spends his time with his wife, Lisa and three kids, Gabriella 10, Layla 8, and Henry 8. The family spends a lot of time playing soccer, fishing in the neighborhood, and hanging out with friends.

CoBiz Financial (NASDAQ:COBZ), is a multi-billion dollar financial services company that serves the complete financial needs of businesses, business owners and professionals in Colorado and Arizona. The company’s subsidiaries are: Colorado Business Bank and Arizona Business Bank which provides commercial banking services; CoBiz Private Client Advisors which offers private banking through CoBiz Private Bank and investment management and wealth planning through CoBiz Wealth; and CoBiz Insurance which delivers employee benefits, and property and casualty insurance brokerage.

Christopher M. Rude
VP, Commercial Banking
Arizona Business Bank
275 E. Rivulon Blvd, Ste 101
Gilbert, AZ 85297
Office: 602-217-1563
Twitter.com/cobizfinancial
https://www.linkedin.com/company/332492/
https://www.facebook.com/cobizfinancial
http://www.cobizfinancial.com/blog/Pages/default.aspx

ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS RADIO HOST

In 2014, Jon Deiter was working on the leadership team of a company which began implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®). Jon experienced first-hand the value and power of EOS and its simple tools to establish a clear vision, gain traction toward that vision, and grow a healthy team.

He also came to realize his true motivation and passion ….. to help many more companies achieve great things through implementing EOS! He was trained as a Professional EOS Implementer and since 2015 has been working with organizations to help them implement EOS. He offers his implementation/coaching services through his company, Jon Deiter Solutions, LLC.

EOS is a people-centric management system that embodies successful, proven ways of working with people and a team. In addition to company growth and achieving the life you desire, implementing EOS has positive impacts to employees, culture and team health.

Jon has worked for over 30 years in leadership/management positions in privately held and family owned entrepreneurial businesses as well as smaller divisions of public companies. He earned an MBA in Finance from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois and he has worked as a licensed CPA with Accreditation in Business Valuation and Certified Global Management Accountant. He has held positions in a variety of industries as Tax Advisor, Consultant, Controller, Vice President, CFO, and President.

His leadership career in manufacturing, distribution and service businesses, along with experience as both a user and implementer of EOS, give Jon a unique perspective to pursue his passion of helping business owners and leadership teams achieve all they want from their business.

Jon is active in the Conscious Capitalism movement and is a founding member and Treasurer of the Arizona Chapter of Conscious Capitalism. Jon lives in Chandler, Arizona with his wife Julie, having moved to Arizona from Chicago suburbs in 2003.

www.linkedin.com/in/jondeitereosimplementer
www.eosworldwide.com
www.consciouscapitalismaz.com
Jon’s Direct Line: 480-760-5809

ATHENA Valley of the Sun 2018 HAIL Award Honorees

March 2, 2018 by Karen

ATHENA Valley of the Sun 2018 HAIL Award Honorees

ATHENA Valley of the Sun Leadership Awards on March 8 – International Women’s Day – to celebrate Arizona women igniting change in our community

2018 ATHENA HAIL Awards “Women Ignite Change”
Thursday, March 8th
11 am – 1 pm (10:30 am check in)
Phoenix Airport Marriott
1101 N. 44th Street, Phoenix 85008

Registration: www.athenaaz.com. Tickets are $85 each and proceeds help provide leadership programs to women and also to high school girls in grades 11 & 12 in East Valley High Schools.

The event will honor a 2018 ATHENA Leadership Honoree and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Eileen Borris, and 6 HAIL (Honoring ATHENA Inspired Leaders) – extraordinary women leaders in our local Arizona community. Each HAIL honoree represents a different ATHENA Principle (below). Young ATHENA’s (girls in grades 11 & 12 from East Valley Schools) will act as emcee’s.

Holly Rose, HAIL Honoree – Act Courageously

After conquering breast cancer at the age of 39, Holly Rose was filled with a desire to give back to her community and leave a legacy for her daughters. Holly founded the non-profit Don’t be a Chump! Check for a Lump! to empower women with the facts regarding breast cancer to help save lives and to directly assist women in need by providing breast cancer patients a free new wig and hosting free mammogram events. Holly’s courage, passion and unwavering commitment to educate and assist the breast cancer community has been honored with many esteemed awards.

Holly Rose Founder & President
Don’t Be a Chump! Check For A Lump!
hollyrose@checkforalump.org

Susan Cordts, HAIL Honoree – Foster Collaboration

Susan Cordts is an empowering business leader who fosters diversity, innovation and broad and deep collaboration with others to improve health outcomes for patient members, providers, institutions, caregivers and communities. As CEO, Susan founded Catalytic Health Partners to dramatically improve healthcare using real-time data, supported by proprietary technology, and compassionate people delivering outstanding care. Through collaboration, it is her focus to impact more than 1,000,000 lives. Susan is a serial entrepreneur, investor, business leader and civic trailblazer. Prior to CHP, Susan was CEO at Adaptive Technologies, Inc., SVP at CHG Capital, and CEO of Universal Robot Systems.

Susan Cordts President & CEO
Catalytic Health Partners
scordts@catalytichealthpartners.com

Jill Mapstead, HAIL Honoree – Advocate Fiercely

Jill Mapstead began her career in Special Education, then graduate school in Organizational Development. As a philanthropist, Jill’s mantra is John Wesley’s quote: “Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”

Jill advocates for the disabled, empowers women through business ownership and financial choice, and advocates for the rights of women in our country in her roles as Board Chair for the YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix, and Board President of Detour Company Theatre, an authentic performance troupe for adults with cognitive and/or physical challenges. A teacher at heart, Jill is at her very best when contributing to the learning of others, and loves to mentor the next generation.

Jill Mapstead
Board Chair with YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix
Board President of Detour Company Theatre
jillmapstead@gmail.com

Guest Co-Host Dr Kristine Quade
Founder & President, ATHENA Valley of the Sun
For more information about ATHENA Valley of the Sun:
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Instagram @athenaazvos
LinkedIn ATHENA Valley of the Sun
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E2 Lynda Stanton from WebPT and John Sievila from Cancer Treatment Centers of America

March 1, 2018 by Karen

E2 Lynda Stanton from WebPT and John Sievila from Cancer Treatment Centers of America

John Sievila is PMO Project Director for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. John is a graduate of University of North Dakota with a BSEE. As an accomplished Technology professional with extensive PMO experience in large-scale projects including Healthcare (PACS, HIS, RIS, etc.), John has successfully led large scale PMO driven projects and programs, including Professional Services organizations throughout his career. Expert at developing and aligning corporate strategies with operating processes, organizational structures and IT, John has built development models and project delivery methodologies for large scales projects including PACS, CRM and data warehousing.

John’s career highlights include 3M Healthcare implemented PACS projects for USC University Hospital, Baylor Medical Center, University of Washington, and Blodgett Medical Center. Supported RSNA and trade-shows in Singapore and Japan. While at Imation (3M Spinoff) John led the team (Project Director) for CRM selection (RFP, RFQ) and Deployment. Negotiated license fees. Acted as IT liaison to (5) business units. Moving to Eloyalty (Formerly Bentley Group) performed logistics technology selection (RFP/RFQ) for GE Medical Systems. Project Director (CRM deployment) for RCN, Frontier Telecommunications, Century Link, and Agilent (HP Medical devices). While at Braun Consulting John was the Program Manager for DirecTV which included technology selection and deployment for CRM and data warehousing solution.

John enjoys a good round of golf and working with K9 rescue groups.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-sievila-72133/

About CTCA: https://www.linkedin.com/company/20260/

Lynda Stanton began her career as a business analyst working on financial systems at Phoenix-based Apollo Education Group. After enjoying varied experience at Apollo, which included internal audit and playing a key role on a PMO for a $13M business transformation project, she moved into the consulting world. As an advisory consultant at PwC, Lynda led efforts to develop an adoption dashboard for a large cloud application implementation and ran the PMO for a $10M+ trade promotion system transformation.

Feeling it was time for a new challenge, Lynda began working in the newly established PMO for Phoenix-based software company, WebPT. Over the last year, Lynda has worked with WebPT leadership to create the PMO function as well as manage internal projects including obtaining a security certification and the efforts to integrate a new acquisition.

Lynda lives in Scottsdale with her husband, 2 dogs and a cat. She spends her free time doing yoga and volunteering for the Arizona Animal Welfare League where she is also a member of The League, AAWL’s Young Professionals Council.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndastanton/

About WebPT: https://www.linkedin.com/company/webpt/

ABOUT 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!

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.

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BEST OF HEALTH with Arizona HealthNow Expo 2018

February 27, 2018 by Karen

BEST OF HEALTH with Arizona HealthNow Expo 2018

You are invited to attend the HealthNow 2018 Healthcare Expo located in Scottsdale, AZ to learn about health, wellness and senior services available in the community.

This is your opportunity to receive education, ask questions on the latest in health and wellness products and medical services for living a healthier life at ANY age.

Free health seminars
Free blood pressure checks
Give-aways and raffles

Come meet TOP Scottsdale/Phoenix Physicians and Medical Facilities specializing in integrative medicine, pain management, family medicine, hormone replacement and more!

When: Saturday, March 3rd from 11:00am – 3:00pm
Event located at Venue 8600
8600 E. Anderson Drive, Scottsdale 85255
(easy access from Scottsdale 101 freeway, with plenty of free parking)

www.HealthNow2018.com
Facebook.com/healthnow2018/

Jodi Towns, Founder and Marketing Mixologist for Towns Consulting LLC. My business background is a bit of a puzzle, with all points back to “I love people!” I’ve been called by many friends and colleagues a “connector” and one of my favorite quotes that reads something like this, “A room full of strangers are just friends I haven’t yet met.” Professionally, I’ve worked mostly in the financial and healthcare industry, held positions like Director of Marketing, Training & Development Director, and CEO of a staffing/recruiting firm.

Towns Consulting LLC offers go-to market strategies mostly in the healthcare space. I teach and coach physicians and their staff on how to organically market and promote their medical practices to draw in their perfect patient. Jodi offers consulting services to help businesses (mostly physicians and other medical practitioners, including cosmetic and aesthetic service providers) create marketing strategies to launch or re-launch their business products or services to the world. Jodi has spent the past 7 plus years in healthcare, specifically Concierge Medicine (membership based medicine) aesthetics and nutrition as a Marketing Director and knows what it takes to make a medical practice stand out from the rest, attract your ideal patient, build physician referral partnerships and create a practice you can be proud of!

Founded in 2017, Jodi Towns has organized Networking for Healthcare Mix and Mingle events bi-monthly growing her group to 200 plus members. This group is comprised of physicians, practitioners, medical marketers/promoters and is an opportunity to build connections and relationships to support others in the medical community. She is the organizer and event coordinator for HealthNow Expo coming to Scottsdale, March 2018.

Jodi is called on to speak at events, webinars, and conferences to share advice and educate on various topics around business, healthcare marketing and networking.

Jodi has consulted for a broad spectrum of clients including:

Recovia
Health and Wellness Care, Geralyn Jones FNP
King Integrative Primary Care
Smooth Contour
Medmetrics Compounding Pharmacy
Goddess Fit
Accurate Care Pain Relief
Integrative Orthopedics of Arizona

www.JodiTowns.com
www.NetworkingForHealthcare.com
www.HealthNow2018.com
joditowns@gmail.com

Towns Consulting LLC
11445 E. Via Linda Suite 2-414 Scottsdale, AZ 85259
602-741-3190

https://www.facebook.com/jodi.riostowns
https://twitter.com/JodiTowns
https://www.instagram.com/wave1jodi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joditowns/

Eva Savageau CNMT, LMT, Infant Massage Instructor, Public Speaker, Author and Owner of NeuroMuscular Pain and Wellness Center in Old Town Scottsdale

Diana Fischer, Marketing Operations Director for HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital

WHY BEST OF HEALTH?

I am a Physician Assistant who has been caring for patients for over 20 years and Family Practice (cradle to grave) is my specialty.

Following the footsteps of three generations of family practice physicians (my father, grandfather and great grandfather) this was a natural and genetic calling that I do not regret.

Given this, I have a unique perspective and it’s time to share that perspective through Ask the PA. As a health care provider, teacher, business owner, patient, and advocate for my family and friends throughout the years, it has been painfully apparent there are disconnects within the current state of health care in the US and throughout the world. It can be confusing and frankly very scary.

It is my goal though this series, Best of Health, to bring people together that are passionate about their roles in the business of health care… and yes, whether or not you want to hear that it’s a business, it is — and that’s the fact. I will introduce to you great, dedicated practitioners and people with a passion for getting the word out about their personal journeys and causes. I will provide information about navigating through a confusing system, asking the right questions and share ways for saving money and time along the way.

It’s time to create change by partnering, empowering, and focusing on the patient, their families and their providers of care. It’s time for you to take the driver’s seat rather than leave your health care solely in the hands of entities such as insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.

Stay tuned. Here’s to your Best of Health.

~ Barb

ABOUT BARB

Barb is a Physician Assistant (PA) and a primary care provider with a passion for education and advocacy. Prior to becoming a Physician Assistant (PA), Barb was an accomplished musician and teacher. In 1992, Barb made the conscious decision to leave teaching and her musical career in pursuit of a career in medicine. She graduated from AT Still University’s first PA class in 1997 with a Masters of Science in Physician Assistant Studies.

Barb has spent several years working in clinics and family practices. Currently, Barb works for Premise Health at Insight Enterprises in Tempe, AZ as a solo practitioner providing primary care to employees and families on campus. She was also a partner in Renaissance Medical Group and Renaissance Medical Properties in Chandler and Maricopa, AZ and had a dual role of Chief Operations Officer and practicing PA for 14 years.

Along with being a PA, Barb is the author of the book Surviving the “Business” of Healthcare, Knowledge is Power! She is a certified Medical Professional Legal Consultant and Patient Advocate, speaker and influencer for change in healthcare for the patient, provider and family members. Barb is also certified by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants and is an active member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.

In her spare time, she loves to travel, maintaining an active lifestyle that includes running, biking, swimming. She loves to spend time outdoors with her family and friends, whether it’s walking on the beach or hiking in the desert.

For more information about Ask the PA and to connect with Barb:

Askthepa.com

Facebook: Ask the PA

LinkedIn: Barb Regis, M.S.,PA-C