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E18 Eric Wright CEO of Vets2PM Trevor Stasik and Paul Martin from PMI Phoenix

November 7, 2018 by Karen

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E18 Eric Wright CEO of Vets2PM Trevor Stasik and Paul Martin from PMI Phoenix

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, Joe Pusz, PMO Joe has a great discussion with special guests Eric Wright, CEO of Vets2PM and Trevor Stasik VP External Relations and Paul Martin, AVP Military Relations from PMI Phoenix.

As we honor our Veterans this month, we dedicated this episode to Project Management topics for our Veterans. We discussed the Veterans Project Management Mentoring Program offered by THE PMO SQUAD and Vets2PM. In less than a year this Program has over 100 participants across 30 states and continues to grow. To learn more about the Program visit: https://www.thepmosquad.com/veterans- mentoring.html

Eric shared his story which lead to founding Vets2PM and eventually on to building VetStone. Both of these organizations serve our Veterans in the Project Management space offering training, career services, and prep for certifcation. Thank you to Eric for his multiple tours of duty and now for providing tools and services to assist Veterans transitioning into civilian PM careers!

Trevor and Paul are both Veterans as well. Now with their roles within the PMI Phoenix chapter they are leading efforts to give back to our Veterans. Listen to hear Paul discuss the Project Language Learner initiative and plans to launch a Veterans Mentoring Program from the PMI Phoenix Chapter. Trevor shares his experiences in the military and how those activities and skills translate to his role as a BA and PM leading projects for the Make A Wish Foundation.

We honor our Veterans for the service they provided to our country. We get to honor a second time on this show for their service post military career. Eric, Trevor, and Paul are all Veterans who continue to serve, as Project Management Leaders working to assist our Veterans!

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders discussing a wide range of current topics and events! Our next show will be November 15th with Dr Harold Kerzner and Belinda Goodrich.

The Military Outreach team at the Phoenix PMI Chapter does an amazing job of connecting with local veterans. For them, it’s not just about helping our military find jobs, it’s about building lives and guiding careers. Most recently they held Project Language Learner workshops for transitioning military at the Luke Air Force Base, guiding them in the art of writing resumes and engaging in job interviews. You may also see them participating in other events ranging from job fairs to golf fundraisers.

This is the 40th anniversary for the Phoenix PMI Chapter and the year has been highlighted by a great series of speakers and educational opportunities including James Snyder, Harold Kerzner, Dr James Brown, and Steven Fullmer. The Chapter conducts dinner meetings every other month and has numerous breakfast meetings and social events.

Trevor Stasik was recently elected as the VP of External Relations for PMI Phoenix for the 2019-2020 term. He is currently a Project Manager & Business Analyst with Make-A-Wish America, but has experience from his past life in records management, retirements, and financial services.

Trevor was a petty officer in the Navy back in the early 2000s.

Paul Martin is the AVP of Military Affairs at PMI Phoenix. He is a Specialist Section Chief with the US Air Force Reserves. Paul is building Project Management assistance programs and training for transitioning military, and can be frequently found at PMI Phoenix Chapter events. He is passionate about helping the veteran community expand their professional network, work toward a PM certification, and find employment.

Both Paul and Trevor are studying to pass the PMP Exam in the coming months.

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Vets2PM is a professional services company specializing in helping Military Veterans become Project Managers, which helps Corporate America transform its Veteran Hiring and Lean Initiatives from slogans into robust, legitimate, high-impact programs by employing this Nation’s highly-trained, highly-quali ed, highly-productive, deeply experienced Military Veteran Project Professionals

Since its inception 1 January 2015, Vets2PM, LLC has placed 341 experienced, credentialed military- turned-civilian project management professionals into 282 companies with average starting salaries of $90K, creating $30+M in economic activity, and all of them are still on the job!

Eric Wright is a decorated 2-Service, 2-Era Military Veteran; Serial Founder of 3 companies; an experienced, credentialed project manager and PMI-Chapter recognized mentor; an “entertaining” instructor/public speaker on project management, deep learning and the military and professional transition, PMI’s PMP® and CAPM® exams, Vetrepreneurship, and project manager and career development. He helps Military Veterans change their lives profoundly through project management, entrepreneurship, and AI using inspiration, translation, training, and placement.

Connect with Eric on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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!

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.

AAA Arizona with Michelle Donati and Stephanie Moe

November 7, 2018 by Karen

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AAA Arizona with Michelle Donati and Stephanie Moe

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Established in 1927, AAA has a proud history of serving almost 1 million Arizonans. They are more than their legendary fleet of tow trucks, auto, home, life insurance and travel services. They are on a mission is to make a positive impact in the communities they serve, offering smarter solutions that improve traffic safety and helping the public adapt to a fast-changing mobility landscape. Learn more at AAA.com.

Michelle Donati started her career at a Scottsdale public relations agency. Shortly thereafter, her car had a tire blowout on the freeway. She viewed this as an omen and left to work for the country’s largest roadside assistance provider and advocacy organization, AAA.

She’s spent over a decade working on the communications and public affairs team at AAA Arizona, creating one of the most successful public relations programs in the AAA federation. Currently, she’s the company’s media relations lead, and works to ensure the organization conveys its branding and messaging through communications strategies across a seven state region.

Her professional accomplishments include: – ATHENA Young Professional Finalist, Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce – Who’s Next: Communications Professionals, AZCentral.com – Destination Graduation Volunteer of the Year, Valley of the Sun United Way – Volunteer of the Year, 161st Air Refueling Wing – Outstanding Recent Alumna Award, Hood College.

Stephanie Moe began her professional career at AAA Arizona on the Public Affairs team. She spent five years working in media relations and advocacy, serving as one of the club’s spokespeople on topics such as traffic safety, travel, automotive and gas prices. For the last four years, she’s worked on the club’s Community Impact programs, with a focus on our team member giving and volunteering program, where she develops innovative ways for AAA Team Members to engage in giving back to our community.

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Our host for this segment is Daniel Liguori. Dan is a graduate student at Grand Canyon University in The Colangelo College of Business and a dedicated volunteer here at Phoenix Business RadioX. Daniel’s Bachelor’s Degree is from The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU. With a love for journalism and business, Daniel enjoys helping us with all aspects of our B2B radio & podcast platform. When he’s not with us in the studio, he can be found cheering on an Arizona sports team; enjoying Arizona horse racing; or (and we probably should have led with this one)… listening to jazz music while studying.

Ideaology Consulting Group with Todd Davis

November 6, 2018 by Karen

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Ideaology Consulting Group with Todd Davis

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iDeaology Consulting Group is a brand and business development company that takes a brand through its idea stage and to its launch. They develop a specialized development and marketing methodology that creates ongoing growth for a small to large business. They teach and train marketing to individuals and businesses.

Todd Davis speaks marketing( leads, solutions, strategy, and content) for Nonprofits, Lawyers, Realtors, Doctors, Financial Advisors, Startups, Kidpreneurs, and Mompreneurs. He’s also an evangelist for podcasting for professionals.

He believes in utilizing social media channels to create a balance between traditional marketing and a Fluid Digital Marketing Strategy(DMS). His insights about the process of establishing the right social channels and developing the right social media programs helps to generate leads and understand the return of relationships.

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

Dominic Saragaglia, Founder and Co-Owner of StaySeated is an entrepreneur in his second company venture. He believes there is a new way for consumers to enjoy their favorite events and ensure they will never miss a memory in any stadium and arena.

Dioly Alexandre, Founder of Blackshield Sentinel is a techpreneur who is keenly focused on how to develop products and services to keep the world secure and educated on cyber attacks and online privacy.

Anastacia Rivera, Creator of Pinistry, is a driven womenpreneur who is driven to serve and educate moms and young women to be empowered in their own business as Virtual Assistants or their own bosses.

Terry Cargile, Currently a junior at Arizona State University and the Founder of Midas Touch and ‎Fysique is developing a fitness app targeted for university students and youth. This app is designed to eliminate excuses for living a healthy lifestyle and condition the users to think positively and become secure about themselves.

JOURNEY RADIO Paul Brunoforte with The Olympic Method and Mended Wing Consultant Christiana Russell and Chess Coach Samantha Giknis

November 6, 2018 by Karen

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JOURNEY RADIO Paul Brunoforte with The Olympic Method and Mended Wing Consultant Christiana Russell and Chess Coach Samantha Giknis

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The Olympic Method is a company dedicated to the personal development of executives, professionals and small businesses. The owner and founder personally trains and coaches an exclusive clientele that recognize the importance of life-long learning and continual personal growth. In addition, the founder sits on several Boards as an advisor providing a broad, non-biased perspective of the strategic business/operating plans of these organizations.

Paul Brunoforte started his career as a CPA for a Big 8 accounting firm specializing in audits of small businesses in the southwest. After supervising numerous audits of real estate companies, Paul took a position as controller for one of the largest, privately held real estate developers/home builders in Arizona.

After 10 years as an accountant/CPA, Paul went back to school and earned an MBA from the ASU W.P. Carey School of Business. With that degree in hand, he became the Marketing Director of his home building company and followed that as president of a national design and fabrication company for more than 13 years. In 2001, Paul decided to move away from the 8-5 structured world of business and devoted his time to real estate development for his family RV business and custom homes.

In 2009, he obtained certification as a professional coach. Since that time he has worked with many companies to promote and develop business skills for executives and their staff as well as conduct numerous seminars and workshops on Goal Setting, Wealth Development and Team Building. Paul is a long-time member of Toastmasters and competed last year in the World Championship of Public Speaking in Vancouver, Canada.

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Since 2005, Christiana Russell has guided clients as they experienced the breakthroughs necessary to remove the obstacles that seemed to limit their ability to soar. After earning her BA & M. Ed at University of Arizona & Northern Arizona University, respectively, Christiana spent the next 9 years working in the Mental Health and Prevention Education industries. Most recently, she expanded into the healthcare field, providing training, capacity building, and management services for the nation’s top healthcare providers.

Christiana founded Mendedwing Consulting because she believes everyone deserves to experience the peace and self-fulfillment that they seek. She works with clients to discover the tools and skills necessary to yield their desired results and unlock their authentic truth. She believes her clients deserve to experience the peace and self-fulfillment they have long sought after.

Connect with Christiana on LinkedIn, and follow her on Instagram and YouTube.

The Chess Emporium is the premier provider of scholastic chess classes and tournaments in the Phoenix area. There are four chess centers located in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Goodyear. Each week we teach over 3000 students in more than 300 schools. We have taught over 70,000 students in the past 20 years. We have over 75 dedicated coaches that are passionate about training our chess students.

Coach Samantha Giknis has been teaching chess for 14 years. She is one of seven females that teach chess at ten schools with over 130 students. Each student attends one class lesson a week and are encouraged to go to our local chess tournaments held every Saturday.

Coach Samantha has a creative way to communicate with Pre-schoolers and Kindergarteners to learn the MOVES and RULES of chess. She is available for private lessons and has taught children as young as three to achieve top 10 in a 2 day tournament.

Follow The Chess Emporium on Facebook.

ABOUT JOURNEY RADIO

Tune into Journey Radio to learn from successful professionals who will provide you with a roadmap for your own Journey to success. Our guests are individuals who want to share stories, tips and guidelines based on their own journey. Listeners will be encouraged to stay the course after learning that a journey that ends successfully is not a straight line but is a winding road of experiences that teaches life lessons that can be built upon, providing us grit and knowledge to complete our Journey.

Journey Radio’s mission is to ensure all listeners have the opportunity to learn from guest’s experiences, failures and successes enabling Journey listeners to complete their “Path to Success” at a faster pace, with fewer failures. Every lesson learned does not need to be through experience, but can be learned by listening and learning from other’s experience. Journey Radio connects listeners with guests who have completed the journey that the listener is on.

Journey Radio is powered by Divinity Beauty Bar

Tucson’s Leader in Extensions, Color, Healthy Hair and All your Spa Needs. Connect with Divinity Beauty Bar on Facebook and Instagram and via email.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Journey Radio’s host and sponsor Enid Moore-Cranshaw is a consummate business professional. Enid holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and Accounting from Regis University. She is the Immediate Past District Director of Toastmasters International, District 3 (state of Arizona) with a membership of over 4,000. District 3 Toastmasters is ranked seventh in Arizona’s networking and is one of the top organizations for communication and leadership development in the world. She is a Financial Professional and owner of Divinity Beauty Bar. Divinity Beauty Bar specializes in nails, hair styling, wigs, hair extensions, maintenance and growth. Enid is the Immediate Past Board President of Child Parent Centers (Headstart). Child Parent Centers is a leader in early childhood development and serves Southern Arizona’s underprivileged children. Her passion is early childhood development, community service, personal development, effective communication and empowering others to realize their full potential.

Marcia Bench with Conscious Experts Academy and Lynne Cockrum-Murphy with Desert Jewel Institute

November 6, 2018 by Karen

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Conscious Experts Academy is a coaching, training and resource company for coaches, speakers, authors and other experts who want to grow their message into a worldwide brand and change the world with their gifts.

Marcia Bench is a best-selling author, professional speaker, intuitive guide and coach, founder of Conscious Experts Academy and the author of 26 books including Conscious Client Attraction and Tao of Entrepreneurship. Known as the Manifesting & Marketing Mentor, she is the go-to expert when you want to attract more ideal clients easily and profitably, whether to turn around strategies that aren’t working or to leap to the next level of your success. Using Conscious Client Attraction™ and the roadmap of the chakras as her primary marketing approach, Marcia launched her initial business part time while working as an attorney. It rapidly grew to serve clients in more than 50 countries and has generated more than $2.7 million dollars in revenues.

Connect with Marcia on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Desert Jewel Institute offers spiritual guidance, energy healing and counseling to support spiritual people in creating life changes in work, relationships and health.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy is an intuitive consultant specializing in supporting spiritual people achieve freedom from limiting beliefs, change work and life conditions to a happier state and to embrace an expanding sense of self and possibility. She uses ThetaHealing®, Access Bars®, channeling and counseling skills to support clients in all their personal goals. With decades of experience teaching and counseling, she uses her broad skill set to guide people in their quest.

Lynne received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada, Master’s Degree from the University of Oregon and her doctorate from Arizona State University. She is a certified ThetaHealer® and Instructor, a certified Access Consciousness Bars® healer, a channel, a licensed substance abuse counselor since 2003, a meditation instructor, an Amazon best-selling author and a retired adjunct university professor.

Her previous books, Living Hope: Steps to Leaving Suffering Behind and Unfolding the Mystery of Self – We are Never Alone, were both Amazon #1 Bestsellers. Living Hope describes how she moved beyond traumas in her childhood, loss, and family dysfunction. The book is a model of hope, action and success for those who also suffered trauma and seek a life of spirituality and inner peace.

Unfolding the Mystery of Self goes well beyond her story of tragedy and trauma in Living Hope and explores the spiritual journey of study and mystical experiences. She describes the development of psychic and healing gifts. Moving beyond one’s personality to the awareness that enlightenment isn’t just for Buddhists.

A Journey with Matityahu, her first fictional work, is a story of an ordinary young man, Daniyyel who observes miraculous moments in his friend Matityahu’s life and wants that same awareness in his own. After questioning, studying and trying out Matityahu’s spiritual practices, we watch Daniyyel’s growth from traditional religious thinking to an awakening of his own spiritual nature as they travel the road together. The journey portrays passage to self-realization, accessible to everyone.

Lynne has taught spiritual practices throughout the Northwest, Southwest and Caribbean. She has a private practice in the Phoenix – Scottsdale, Arizona area. Lynne offers one-on-one services, group sessions, workshops based on her books, and multiple ThetaHealing certification seminars. She is available to help clients move to their next level and provides nurturing and gentle guidance in their spiritual growth.

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN Steve Miksta Product Owner of SPEAR at VIP Mortgage Partner with Howard Fleischmann Partner of Community Tire Pros and Auto Repair

October 30, 2018 by Karen

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN Steve Miksta Product Owner of SPEAR at VIP Mortgage Partner with Howard Fleischmann Partner of Community Tire Pros and Auto Repair

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN Steve Miksta Product Owner of SPEAR at VIP Mortgage Partner with Howard Fleischmann Partner of Community Tire Pros and Auto Repair

VIP Mortgage is a retail mortgage lender, based out of Scottsdale, AZ, although they have offices in several states across the country. VIP’s vision has always been to restore the reputation of the mortgage industry and they believe in attracting people with HEART, who can in turn accomplish more together than they ever could alone. VIP is built on relationships and is always focused on providing what is best for their employees, as well as for the end customer.

Steve Miksta was nationally ranked among the top 1% of loan originators in 2012. Instead of continuing to grow his production, Steve believed there was a greater opportunity in streamlining the mortgage process and assisting Loan Originators across the country in providing a better service to their customers. Steve partnered with VIP Mortgage in 2013 with the vision of building out an enterprise platform on Salesforce that would maximize company efficiencies, while attracting top Loan Originator talent. To date, VIP has grown over 50% since Steve’s arrival, while many competitors have continued to see volume drop. VIP continues to expand recruitment of top producing loan officers throughout Arizona, as well as in the other markets where they operate.

Steve is originally from a Chicago suburb and received a degree in Information Systems from the University of Illinois. Steve is now married to his wife, Dawn, and they recently gave birth to their son, Remington.

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Community Tire Pros & Auto Repair has been serving its communities since 1945. They strive to make a difference in their clients’ lives and believe in creating lifelong relationships. Thus allowing their clients the comfort of providing preventive maintenance service and tires when it’s timely of date, weather-worn & appropriate, rather than reacting to only break down; this allows our clients to budget and maintain a lower cost of vehicle operation. Community Tire Pros is centered around the community; both in their name andtheir company culture. They chose the name to reflect the true image and beliefs their company and associates stand for, their “Community” Tire Pros and Automotive Service Repair. They believe in giving to, and supporting, their local community and they have built a reputation for providing the highest level of honest and professional service in their industry. They center their service around you, as their valued customer, and want to earn your repeat business. With their Reward Program, you earn points with repairs and NEW CUSTOMERS 1st visit receives $25 of, Try us & Take us for a TEST DRIVE!

They are a certified partner with AskPatty.com, creating a female-focused environment and positive experience for all our women consumers. They specialize in ALL Vehicle repairs/NEW Tires/ Vehicle manufacturer required service & updates. (excluding collision repairs)

They have six service facilities, North Phoenix, Tempe/East Phoenix, West Glendale, Downtown Phoenix, Metro Center & minutes from the Sky Harbor Airport.

Howard Fleischmann Sr. has been in the industry for the past 49 years, starting his career in Tucson in 1969. After 27 years in the automotive wholesale business, he ventured into the retail auto repair business. In 2008, he went to his teams & recreated their direction of the business. Howard & his wife, Pat went to the clients instead of waiting for them… good old grassroots, Networking! We are a “Hassle-Free.Guaranteed” Tire Pros to satisfy everyone to the best of their ability! Ten years later are a few accolades to their Team Efforts: Proud to be the National “Top Shop” of the year by Tire Review /Tire Industry by our peers!

Community Tire Pros is part of their community and participate in worthwhile “Give Back” programs. They have been honored with the BBB Ethics Award, Impact Award from the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Spirit Award from the WP Carey Business Center of ASU, twice awarded the TOP 5 SHOP national finalist in Tire Review Magazine-Tire Industry, AAA TOP SHOP Award for years running, AZ Central Reader’s Choice, Phx Business Journal Ranking AZ, Diversity Champions-Phx Business Journal, A+ BBB rating, One Community “Spotlight on Success” award, Business for Success Award by Governor Brewer, Phoenix Gay Pride Grand Marshall’s, another honor to be given yearly to a recipient is the Pride “Patricia & Howard Spirit Award” for forwarding thinking allies, etc. Their accolades deems their Customers Satisfaction! They specialize in Fleet Service and know the importance of keeping you Safe & on the Road!

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.

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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.

AZ BRANDCAST Rod Lenniger Owner and Principal with RAL Advisory Services

October 29, 2018 by Karen

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AZ BRANDCAST Rod Lenniger Owner and Principal with RAL Advisory Services

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AZ BRANDCAST Rod Lenniger Owner and Principal with RAL Advisory Services

Hear from a seasoned veteran, with a foot in both education and investment/management in the innovation and entrepreneurial space, speak about the realities and deep challenges of innovation, especially in established companies.

in this episode of AZ Brandcast, Rod Lenninger talks about intrepreneurship: the challenges inherent in creating space for innovation within an established organization. He discusses the potential for business and higher ed to work together and the realities of the challenge.

Since 2013, Rod Lenniger has owned and operated RAL Advisory Services. He is an Executive Advisor and Mentor for the C-Suite and often serves in “interim” executive positions to help companies maintain stability during times of change or to help lead accelerated growth initiatives as well as turnaround challenges.

Leveraging an expertise in business planning, he also functions as Lead Facilitator implementing a “Business Model Canvas” accelerator program for clients who want to design new or modify existing business models. Rod has conducted multiple BMC programs for companies ranging from startups to established businesses and continues to refine the usage to assist executive teams through the shared experience of clearly defining their business strategies and most importantly, identifying the tactics needed to actually implement them!

Rod brings more than 20 years of accomplishments in the information technology industry. He has held executive leadership positions in high tech companies ranging from early stage growth to global Fortune 500 companies. He has a successful track record in international business development, product marketing and professional services as well as mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. From 2004 to 2013, Rod was an Executive Team member for iCrossing, responsible for operations,corporate development, mergers and acquisitions and the global integration of new businesses. He firstjoined iCrossing in 2004 as VP Operations and served in various leadership roles participating in the rapid growth of several Search and technology functional units as well as the acquisition and integration of seven new businesses in North America, South America and Europe. During his tenure, iCrossing raised in excess of $100 million in venture funding and was successfully sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2010 for $325 million.

Appointed by the Governor, Lenniger has served on the Arizona Information and Technology Acquisition Council (ITAC) and the State’s eLearning Task Force. He also has been an advisor on the Arizona StateUniversity’s Computer Science Department, Senior Advisory Council. Chairman Emeritus of the Arizona Technology Council, he served as President and then Chairman for several years. He was appointed to the State’s Data Governance Council assisting the Department of Education and served as a Board member for both the Southwest Center for Chronic Disease, as well as Helping Hands For Freedom, serving families of deployed members of the military.

Awarded a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, Rod also achieved a Master’s Degree in Business from the Columbia University School of Business in New York City. His practical leadership skills were first honed as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army wherehe served for 3 years being honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant.

RAL Advisory Services provides personalized one-on-one coaching and mentoring for the CEO and/or Exec Team members. An executive coach can see what you cannot see; they are on the outside looking in. As your advisor they help you clearly see your options and the decisions you can make to advance your leadership, as well as the organization you lead. They bring years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership knowledge and experience to provide fresh insight and expand your thinking, build your confidence and skills, and ensure you complete your goals. Value is not only in providing expert, third party analysis of your business, but the specific guidance on steps to improve it.

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ABOUT AZ BRANDCAST

Branding isn’t just for companies. In fact, Arizona is its own brand. Every month, Mike Jones and Chris Stadler tap into Arizona’s rich community of thought leaders and business owners to find out how the state is developing that brand. Join them as they interview business and thought leaders from in and around Arizona about higher purpose in their companies and Arizona’s development as a brand. AZ Brandcast is powered by Conscious Capitalism AZ and Resound Creative.

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS

It’s Mike Jones‘ mission to see brands grow and succeed – to reach their full potential. He believes every brand, like every person, has DNA that’s remarkable, but not every brand knows how to act like it (and communicate it to the world). It’s not about what’s trendy, whatever consumers are demanding, or whatever will turn the fastest profit. It’s about the long game – building real relationships with your customers and your community.

Chris Stadler likes to see great plans executed. In a world looking for magic formulas, his stoic outlook tends to point people back to doing the basics really well. Accountability and measurement are his tools. In the past, Chris served as the staff copywriter for a large credit union, UX/human factors researcher at the University of Iowa and full-time teaching faculty, teaching design, copy and strategy at the University of Oregon.

RHINO NATION Carey Conley Founder of Infinite Nation Community and Maria Tomas-Keegan with Transition and Thrive with Maria

October 29, 2018 by Karen

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RHINO NATION Carey Conley Founder of Infinite Nation Community and Maria Tomas-Keegan with Transition and Thrive with Maria

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RHINO NATION Carey Conley Founder of Infinite Nation Community and Maria Tomas-Keegan with Transition and Thrive with Maria

Infinite Nation was created as a community to help people develop a rock solid vision for thief life and business. This includes doing ‘live’ workshops, events, and coaching them through the process for support and success.

Carey Conley has been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and has built two successful businesses. Her passion and expertise is assisting people through the process to create their authentic and powerful vision that aligns with their purpose in life. She is a speaker, author of ‘Vision Is Victory’, and has coached hundreds of people through her coaching programs. She is from Denver, Colorado but now resides in Scottsdale, AZ.

Connect with Carey on Facebook and Instagram.

Transition & Thrive with Maria specializes in helping women turn their life back around after experiencing what they call the Upside Downs of Life. Life events–whether large or small, expected or unexpected–can knock us off our foundation and we struggle to get back up. It might be a divorce, caregiving, career upheaval or retirement, to name a few. It might be just one of those that takes us to our knees or an accumulation of events over time. One day we look in the mirror and wonder, who am I now? How did I get here? And where do I go from here?

As an author, speaker, coach and workshop facilitator on a mission to let women know they are not alone, Maria Tomas-Keegan knows from experience about life’s upside-down moments, and she’s here to help other women turn right side up again. Her new book, “Upside Down to Right Side Up: Turning Transition into Triumph,” is coming out in October.

In this book, she shares her own experiences as she describes the seven phases of transition in Part One. Part Two relays the stories of other women as they have walked a different path, yet ended in a similar place. Part Three offers a system Maria created, called “5 Petals of Power,” to help women take off the mask they wear pretending they are fine. In this process, they will find their footing again, clear the path of what stands in their way, create a unique road map for their next chapter, and uncover their authentic voice, so they can take flight to make the dream happen.

Connect with Maria on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

ABOUT RHINO NATION

Rhino Nation is a growing community of influential entrepreneurs and small business owners that share a common trait, they don’t walk, they don’t run, they CHARGE to their destiny. We acknowledge and celebrate their business expertise, leadership and fearless attitude to be victorious in their goals. Rhino Nation is committed to making powerful connections and providing enhanced exposure to broaden the reach and promote the extraordinary talents of our community members.

ABOUT YOUR SPONSOR

Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity helps you free up your precious and limited time, as a business owner, to do what you do best….running and growing your business. Michelle Faust and her team partner with you to identify your content and marketing needs and provide you with fresh, innovative, dynamic copy that will effectively reach your target market, leading to increased customer engagement, a higher conversion rate, and increased sales.

Great content becomes the seeds of a bountiful business harvest, so you can cultivate and grow your business. We take the time to personally understand you and your company’s purpose, so your marketing message reflects who you are and speaks directly to your target market. Let us join you as part of your team. We’ll partner with you to develop powerful messaging strategies.

We strive to create an expansive mindset through education, marketing content and access to a talented team of business consultants. Our mission is to deliver cutting edge entrepreneurial support by providing engaging targeted messaging along with online business education, ancillary business services, and enhanced exposure.

Michelle has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public speaking, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. When she left her 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 and her team create powerful and targeted messaging that improve conversion rates and increase sales. Michelle loves to connect people through the power and beauty of the written word. her passion is helping people create a road-map to success, so they can fulfill their dreams and live their destiny.

For more about Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity find them at www.rhinostrategy.com, on Facebook and LinkedIn.

TALES FAILS and ALES Crush Craft Cider Company Co-Founders Eric Thorn and Jared Thorn with Kai Restaurant Chef Ryan Swanson

October 29, 2018 by Karen

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TALES FAILS and ALES Crush Craft Cider Company Co-Founders Eric Thorn and Jared Thorn with Kai Restaurant Chef Ryan Swanson

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TALES FAILS and ALES Crush Craft Cider Company Co-Founders Eric Thorn and Jared Thorn with Kai Restaurant Chef Ryan Swanson

Join Jennifer Burwell and Kyle McIntosh for the monthly rendition of Tales, Fails & Ales . . . where we drink ales and tell tales about fails. We represent MAC6, a company dedicated to the success of entrepreneurs and sharing their stories. Our hope is by forcing these leaders to share their biggest fuck ups, that we can realize our greatness is always just on the other side of adversity. Tune in monthly and enjoy hearing from the latest fuck ups, and be inspired by their tenacity to push through and make it happen.

Crush Craft Cider Company was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 2017 out of a love for hard cider and a frustration over the lack of quality craft cider available in US markets. In response, Crush Craft Cider has devoted itself to making complex craft ciders from pure, natural ingredients. Employing traditional and modern techniques, we produce in small batches several styles of hard cider. Our mission is to offer a variety of products that raise the standard for craft cider, to redefine what cider means in the craft beer and wine communities, and establish ourselves as a staple of the southwest regional beverage landscape.

Eric Thorn, a passionate hobbyist for the last 10 years, has traveled extensively to discover the ancient secrets of cidermaking lore. Several years ago, with the help of his brother and cousin, he turned his hobby into a thriving business.

A background in academia, event production, and business management, he brings a unique perspective to the cidermaking process.

Jared Thorn is our crazy cider-centric cidermaker! After working in the cider industry under the tutelage of Bishop Cider Company, he’s brought home his vision for cidermaking to the Valley of the Sun.

Armed with more than a few crazy ciders, he’s back to share his passion for the craft and his favorite ways to crush it.

Follow Crush Craft Cider on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Kai is the only AAA Five-Diamond/Forbes 5-Star restaurant in Arizona. Their cuisine is in
influenced by the Native American Pima and Maricopa tribes (Kai means “seed” in the Pima language).

Chef Swanson has 17 years in the fine dining and hospitality industry. His current role as Chef of Kai is to lead all creative processes for the restaurant in an effort to continue pushing the envelope for Pima and Maricopa cuisine.

For more from Chef Swanson, connect with him at Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass, Facebook, Instagram or via email.

ABOUT TALES FAILS and ALES

Tales, Fails, & Ales is brought to you by MAC6, Conscious Capitalism Arizona, Phoenix Business Radio X, Crush Craft Cider, and Lyft. Remember to keep your fuck ups in the board room and not on the road.

ABOUT YOUR CO-HOSTS

With a background in marketing, in various for profit and not for profit companies, Kyle McIntosh wondered, “How can I pair the passion and commitment to community progress of a non-profit with the sustainability and reach of a for profit company?” From this question and perspective a mission evolved to tear down the false distinction between the two sectors and to promote companies with Conscious Capitalism® business models through MAC6.

Kyle is the President and Creative Excitant of MAC6. Day to day, his main operational role is on the “spaces” side of the business, focusing on creating thriving communities in the commercial office buildings, the co-working space, and the co-manufacturing space. The other role that he plays is that of EOS implementer, working with clients to bring the Entrepreneurial Operating System, from the book Traction® to their businesses. Additionally, he sits on the boards of Conscious Capitalism Arizona, telling the stories of good businesses in Arizona, and The Tempe Chamber of Commerce, sustaining Tempe’s quality of life and keeping our community and economy vibrant.

Kyle loves Arizona and wants to see us all collectively find great success based on the awesome things that are happening here every day.

Jennifer Burwell, joined MAC6 in 2013. Jennifer is their VP and Director of Programs. She uses her experience in real estate, team development and management to seamlessly integrate each of the MAC6 business units to assure they are all focused on the long-term company vision. She is also a student of human behavior.

As a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst, she uses her knowledge to facilitate culture focused leadership programs with organizations of all sizes to integrate the company’s values and create higher performing teams.

To learn more about MAC6 Communities, call 480-293-4075 or find them on Facebook and Twitter.