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Future Sight EP 138

January 12, 2023 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Future Sight EP 138

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Future Sight EP 138

Austin Peterson and Landon Mance, owners of Backbone Planning Partners, joined to talk about the importance of planning for the future and retirement when owning or leading a small business. They spoke about having an exit strategy and what steps you can take to help ensure that your business is taken care of in the future.

Tune in to hear Austin and Landon share about how they work with clients to plan for the future and some of the steps they recommend that business owners and leaders should take. Visit https://www.backboneplanning.com/ to learn more about Austin and Landon.

Landon Mance and Austin Peterson are registered representatives of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. Securities and investment advisory services offered through Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., a broker/dealer (member SIPC) and registered investment advisor. Insurance offered through Lincoln affiliates and other fine companies. Backbone Planning Partners is a marketing name for Registered Representatives of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. Tycoon of Small Biz is not affiliated with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. CRN-5403305-010923

About the Show

Tycoons of Small Biz spotlights the true backbone of the American economy, the true tycoons of business in America… the owners, founders and CEO’s of small businesses. Join hosts, Austin L Peterson, Landon Mance and the featured tycoons LIVE every Tuesday at 1 pm, right here on Business RadioX and your favorite podcast platform.

About Your Hosts

Austin Peterson is a Comprehensive Financial Planner and co-founder of Backbone Planning Partners in Scottsdale, AZ. Austin is a registered rep and investment advisor representative with Lincoln Financial Advisors. Prior to joining Lincoln Financial Advisors, Austin worked in a variety of roles in the financial services industry.

He began his career in financial services in the year 2000 as a personal financial advisor with Independent Capital Management in Santa Ana, CA. Austin then joined Pacific Life Insurance Company as an internal wholesaler for their variable annuity and mutual fund products. After Pacific Life, Austin formed his own financial planning company in Southern California that he built and ran for 6 years and eventually sold when he moved his family to Salt Lake City to pursue his MBA.

After he completed his MBA, Austin joined Crump Life Insurance where he filled a couple of different sales roles and eventually a management role throughout the five years he was with Crump. Most recently before joining Lincoln Financial Advisors in February 2015, Austin spent 2 years as a life insurance field wholesaler with Symetra Life Insurance Company. Austin is a Certified Financial Planner Professional and Chartered Life Underwriter. In 2021, Austin became a Certified Business Exit Consultant® (CBEC®) to help entrepreneurs plan to exit their businesses.

Austin and his wife of 23 years, Robin, have two children, AJ (21) and Ella (18) and they reside in Gilbert, Arizona. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in French and of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management with a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in sales and entrepreneurship.

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

Landon Mance is a Financial Planner and co-founder of Backbone Planning Partners out of Las Vegas, Nevada. He rebranded his practice in 2020 to focus on serving small business owners after operating as Mance Wealth Management since 2015 when Landon broke off from a major bank and started his own “shop.”

Landon comes from a family of successful entrepreneurs and has a passion and excitement for serving the business community. This passion is what brought about the growth of Backbone Planning Partners to help business owners and their families. At Backbone Planning, we believe small business owners’ personal and business goals are intertwined, so we work with our clients to design a financial plan to support all aspects of their lives.

In 2019, Landon obtained the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) designation through the Exit Planning Institute. With this certification, Backbone Planning Partners assists business owners through an ownership transition while focusing on a positive outcome for their employees and meeting the business owner’s goals. Landon is also a member of the Business Intelligence Institute (BII) which is a collaborative group that shares tools, resources and personnel, and offers advanced level training and technical support to specifically serve business owners. In 2021, Landon became a Certified Business Exit Consultant® (CBEC®) to help entrepreneurs plan to exit their businesses by counseling owners about exit options, estimating the value of the business, preparing the business for exit and tax considerations.

Landon enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, stepson, and new baby twins. He grew up in sunny San Diego and loves visiting his family, playing a round of golf with friends, and many other outdoor activities. Landon tries to make a difference in the lives of children in Las Vegas as a part of the leadership team for a local non-profit. He regularly visits the children that we work with to remind himself of why it’s so important to, “be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Landon received his B.S. from California State University Long Beach in business marketing and gets the rest of his education through the school of hard knocks via his business owner clients.

Connect with Landon on LinkedIn.

Doug Bruhnke with Global Chamber

January 10, 2023 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Doug Bruhnke with Global Chamber

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 regions around the world… 525 chapters, led by global business leaders… connecting member businesses to new opportunities and advancing growth and success.

It’s the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that helps exporting, importing and investing members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources.

Doug Bruhnke is Founder/CEO of Global Chamber®. He is a global entrepreneur dedicated to helping members of Global Chamber® successfully reach new markets across 525 metros – everywhere!

He is a two-time ex-pat with Dupont in Tokyo and Singapore with 35 years of global business experience in nearly all countries and segments. Doug is a member of the Arizona District Export Council, British American Business Council of Northern California, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and more.

Doug has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah and an EMBA from Michigan State University and is co-inventor on 5 patents. He was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and now is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Palo Alto, California. He’s been married for 40 years, with one wife, one daughter and a superstar grandson named Luca.

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

Finding Authenticity E137

January 5, 2023 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Finding Authenticity E137

Linda Fanaras joined Tycoons and gave insight into the world of branding and marketing. She talked about the importance of authenticity, don’t force something that doesn’t fit. She touched on professionalism and making sure you don’t cut corners on what’s important.

Tune in to hear Linda share about finding the “white space” in the market. Finding the things that can set you apart from your competition. Learn more about Linda and Millennium Agency at www.mill.agency

Millennium Agency is a nationally recognized, top woman led B2B branding, positioning, and digital marketing firm who creates value that builds emotionally impactful brands that influences the customer’s buying decision, giving company’s the competitive advantage.

As an industry partner for B2B pharma/biotech, technology and manufacturing, Millennium Agency’s proprietary research-based framework makes a strong impact and accelerates brand growth. While business leaders focus on what they do best – run their business successfully – the Millennium team will build the brand, and drive leads.

CEO and Strategist of Millennium Agency since 1998, Linda Fanaras is a brand, messaging and digital marketing expert specialized in branding analysis, the development of multi-channel marketing plans, and the formulation of creative strategies and digital concepts for national, regional, and statewide brands.

She is experienced in transforming brands through powerful messaging through creative campaigns, website design, and demand generation strategies, exceeding client expectations. Her unique approach includes in-depth market research, in-depth industry knowledge, and business acumen giving her the competitive advantage to develop plans from conception to completion.

Backed by strong team and strong leadership skills, she has built multi-faceted campaigns that drive leads to sales, decreasing the CPL while increasing the CLV. Linda has been in the branding, messaging, and strategy industry for 25 years, and is budget-conscious and deadline-driven, bringing results with a proven record of accomplishment achieving client objectives and exceptional results.

Follow Millennium Agency on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About the Show

About Your Hosts

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

Landon received his B.S. from California State University Long Beach in business marketing and gets the rest of his education through the school of hard knocks via his business owner clients.

Connect with Landon on LinkedIn.

Gary Braun is a Founder and co-owner of Pivotal Advisors. In his role at Pivotal, Gary is primarily responsible for business development but, he’ll gladly take on few clients in a consulting role. Gary speaks with and partners with other firms that help drive top-line growth.

Gary, helps organizations define where growth is coming from, helps them hire and/or develop the sales team, identify ideal clients and markets, and leverage true differentiators (even in commodity markets). He also implements sales processes, targets specific KPIs, increases activity, creates and applies sales compensation plans, and develops sales leadership skills.

Pivotal Advisors LLC is dedicated to creating a community of people who strive for excellence in sales and leadership. A Sales Operating System is the model for how to achieve excellence. Leadership is the First Factor of success in any sales organization. Therefore, building and developing leaders responsible for generating revenue is critical for growth.

Follow Pivotal Advisors on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Grace with Grandfather Eyes E12

December 28, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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What can we learn from six senior leaders about leading large organizations connected to our best selves? Join Hylke Faber and Rick Gage as they reflect together on the past six Rooted & Unwavering episodes with: Pamela Mattson from Outreach, Amit Basak from Full Potential Solutions, Greet Prins from the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Bernard Slowey from Salesforce, John Rex, formerly at Microsoft, and Pradeep UN from Truths & Insights. Explore deep acceptance of ourselves and what is, daring to be present also when things don’t go our way and discover the always and already grace that is here in and around us to enjoy and to share. Look at the world with grandfather eyes.

Growth Leaders Network is a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

Rick Gage: Executive Change Agent | Architect Builder of Culture & Community | Leadership Coach & Facilitator.

My passion is unleashing human potential in the workplace and beyond. Very early in life I got to see truly transformational leaders up close and personal.

I became fascinated by the powerful impact they had in the lives of people around them. Since early elementary school I have aspired to be a leader who makes a difference.

In school, I led informally and as an elected student leader. A book about servant leadership was a key influence that shaped how I have approached the role of leader. That passion carried forward into the majority my career where my greatest fulfillment was the positive team environment I could create for my team.

I’ve had the opportunity to lead in some of the great global companies of our time over the last 40 years. Working for companies with deep roots in Japan, Germany, India, France and the United States gave me an appreciation for the powerful role culture plays – both within an organization in the society that surrounds the organization.

After climbing the corporate ladder there came a point where it all shifted for me. What had driven me up to that point no longer seemed to matter. An extended sabbatical gave me the chance to think deeply about what I wanted to do and more importantly who I wanted to be. From that time forward I have been moving into deeper and deeper alignment between my work with who I authentically am.

My father taught me very early that with privilege comes responsibility. I’ve worked hard to use my voice to amplify the voices of those often not fully heard. Advocating for women is something I’ve been doing my whole life. Accepting and celebrating difference has always been easy and natural for me. I just love people. And in recent years, I’m humbled as I learn about the ways I still fall short and how much more there is to do for people of color and all marginalized communities.

My work now with Growth Leaders Network provides such rich and rewarding opportunities to engage deeply with clients who want to grow as leaders, build stronger teams and transform workplace cultures. Beyond GLN, I also am honored to lead mindful communities like the Organizational Mindfulness Network (OM Network) and support transformational teams like the one at A Human Workplace. In all of these ways I can help create the context in which every person can thrive.

Beyond work, being with my sweetheart and six grandchildren is what brings me joy. I’m working to see the world through the wonder of a child’s eyes and the wisdom of grandfather eyes.

Connect with Rick on LinkedIn.

About Rooted & Unwavering

Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.

In this podcast and radio show, Hylke Faber, seasoned transformational coach and author of the award-winning Taming Your Crocodiles series, engages in deep inquiry with leaders from all walks of life about courageously connecting with our true selves, others and the world at large.

How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?

Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.

About Our Host

For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.

Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.

When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.

He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.

He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.

His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

Realizing Your Greatness

We are a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

- Executive Coaching: we work with clients individually to help them connect to their calling and use every challenge as an opportunity to help them grow more into what makes them great.
- Team Performance: we help teams evolve to their next level of excellence, connectedness and impact by working on the root drivers of team performance.
- Culture Development: we help organizations to evolve their culture by creating clarity about where they aspire to go, and by building role models, coaches and systems that catalyze people being energized to work the new way.

Key Notes: we deliver powerful speeches at conferences and other events that help audiences become energized, more connected to themselves and each other, more open to discovery and ready to commit to the next stage of learning in their career and life journeys.

Growth Leaders Network (GLN) serves Fortune 500 companies, smaller organizations and non-profits globally.

GLN clients report that we catalyze significant business transformational impact and profound shifts in people, team and organizations at the root cause level.

Learn more about the Growth Leaders network here.

No Expiration Date E136

December 21, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Scott Crossen joined Tycoons and really opened up about some of the challenges that business owners face and what he did to overcome them. Scott talks about experiencing growth even in a market that may seems like society has outgrown. His company is always searching and learning new ways to provide quality product offerings to expand their market and deliver top-notch service.

Dig My Pics still has an endless shelf life even though society doesn’t really use printed pictures anymore. Think of all the boxes sitting in someone’s garage that are dying to be digitized. If you are looking for a great gift this holiday season for your parents or relatives, think of Dig My Pics and what an exceptional service they provide in digitizing all those years of generational memories. Check them out at www.digmypics.com.

digmypics.com digitizes old photos, slides, negatives and various film types along with home movies. Every family has old photos, video tapes and home movies in a box stuffed in a closet somewhere.

digmypics.com put all that into a format that everyone can view on their computers and phones and store in the cloud.

Scott Crossen studied Computer Science and Spanish at the Ohio University and later worked in digital image processing and then international sales.

In 2002 he and his wife founded digmypics.com shortly after moving his family from Boston to Phoenix.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.

About the Show

About Your Hosts

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

Landon received his B.S. from California State University Long Beach in business marketing and gets the rest of his education through the school of hard knocks via his business owner clients.

Connect with Landon on LinkedIn.

James Frink and Paul Ebert with Two Maids and a Mop

December 20, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

James Frink and Paul Ebert with Two Maids and a Mop

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James Frink and Paul Ebert with Two Maids and a Mop

Two Maids Franchising is one of the fastest growing residential cleaning franchise brands in the country. They currently have over 100 franchise locations operating across the nation. The company leverages technology to create efficiencies for customers, franchise owners, and professional house cleaners.

The residential cleaning industry is experiencing a surge in consumer demand due to the growing number of dual-income households and more consumers permanently working from home. Presently, more than 90% of the marketplace is served by an extremely fragmented industry comprised of small Mom & Pop operators. The small businesses that currently serve most of the residential cleaning industry are notorious for providing poor customer service and inefficient, inconsistent cleanings.

The entire business model of Two Maids is designed to provide unique benefits to a consumer that cannot be replicated by a competing house cleaning company or individual. Our unique incentive plan allows for everyone to get what they want. Customers stay happy, employees make more money, and franchise owners grow their business.

Follow Two Maids Franchising on LinkedIn.

Paul Ebert is a seasoned accounting and business executive, CPA, and business owner. He has extensive hands-on experience across several industries and all levels of corporate leadership.

He has led Two Maids through a significant period of growth, with revenues more than doubling since June of 2020 and successfully led the company through the transition of being acquired by one of the largest franchise systems in North America, Home Franchise Concepts.

Paul received a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Birmingham Southern College, a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama and resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where Two Maids Franchising is headquartered.

He is married to his beautiful wife Samantha. Together they are raising three young men, Samuel 12, Elijah, 10 and Joseph 8. When not at work Paul enjoys reading, cooking, playing Basketball and Tennis, and watching University of Alabama athletics.

Two Maids is a residential cleaning franchise. Their unique differentiator is the Pay for Performance system. After each cleaning, you have the opportunity to rate our work on a scale of 1 to 10. Your rating alone determines the compensation level for the Two Maids assigned to your home.

This performance-based approach encourages excellence and is the primary reason that Inc. Magazine recognized us as one of the fastest growing cleaning companies in America.

James Frink grew up in Upstate NY and moved to the Phoenix area in 1996 after graduating from Hillsdale College in Michigan.

His wife, Sidney, is a native of Phoenix and works in corporate America but plans to include her in the business operations in the future. They have two daughters, Jacqueline and Sarina as well as two grand kids.

In their free time they enjoy traveling, especially to San Diego, and James is an avid automotive enthusiast who autocrosses a Subaru once a month.

After serving over 20 years in sales in corporate America, James decided it was time to build something for himself and the Two Maids & a Mop franchise offered the best opportunity for success due to it’s all inclusive business model and the recurring revenue nature of the business.

Connect with James on LinkedIn and follow Two Maids and a Mop Tempe on Facebook.

E115 Moving at LitheSpeed with Sanjiv Augustine

December 20, 2022 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

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E115 Moving at LitheSpeed with Sanjiv Augustine

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe welcomed Sanjiv Augustine, CEO and Founder of LitheSpeed. Sanjiv shared his story and the origins of LitheSpeed. We also hear challenges that organizations are facing and to overcome them. We learn about the Value Management Office, VMO, and how do you go about setting one up.

Sanjiv Augustine is an entrepreneur, industry-leading agile and lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant and trainer. With over 30 years in the industry, Sanjiv has served as a trusted advisor to executives and management at leading firms including: Capital One, The Capital Group, CNBC, Comcast, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, General Dynamics, HCA Healthcare, Huntington Bank, The Motley Fool, National Geographic, Nationwide Insurance, Walmart and Samsung.

Sanjiv shared his insights on 4 keys to move from a PMO to a VMO. You can learn more about these insights by picking up his book, PMO to VMO Managing for Value Delivery. First is to transition from a project model to a product model. Second, moving from large batches to small batches. Sanjiv said, “Now in today’s world, because things are moving so much faster, it’s much better to say what is the smallest piece of value that I can deliver to my customers as quickly as possible?”

Third, is to track business outcomes or value and not just outputs. Lastly, is to shift from command and control, top-down management to leadership and collaboration. Sanjiv stated, “So, in a nutshell, project to product mindset, change large batch to small batch, tracking outcomes towards value, delivery value, not just outputs. And then transitioning from command and control to leadership collaboration.”

Listen to the entire episode to hear the full story from Sanjiv.

Connect with Sanjiv Augustine:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjivaugustine/

Learn more about LitheSpeed:
https://lithespeed.com

Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

The PMO Squad is a leading provider of PMO and Project Management services in the US. They assist clients building and improving PMOs, provide Project Management Consulting services, deliver custom Project Management Training and provide Project Management staffing services. Learn more about The PMO Squad – https://www.thepmosquad.com

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community!
Learn more about The PMO Leader – https://www.thepmoleader.com

LitheSpeed is a cadre of trainers, agile coaches, and enterprise consultants on a mission to transform workplaces into environments that promote self-management, continuous improvement, and high morale. We take a pragmatic approach to helping individuals, teams and organizations disrupt their industries, focus on value, experiment and transform.

They provide Lean-Agile-DevOps Executive and Management Consulting, Assessments, and Portfolio, Program & Team Coaching. In 2016, LitheSpeed founded the Agile Leadership Academy ® (www.agileleadershipacademy.com), a graduate-style program for executives leading enterprise Agile transformation. They build custom Agile training and host public Scrum and Agile training globally through Scrum Alliance, ICAgile, and Scaled Agile.

LitheSpeed offers consulting, coaching and training such as Agile for Business (Marketing, HR, Finance departments), Release Planning, User Stories, Lean UX and Agile Engineering.

Sanjiv Augustine is an entrepreneur, industry-leading agile and lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant and trainer.

With over 30 years in the industry, Sanjiv has served as a trusted advisor to executives and management at leading firms including: Capital One, The Capital Group, CNBC, Comcast, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, General Dynamics, HCA Healthcare, Huntington Bank, The Motley Fool, National Geographic, Nationwide Insurance, Walmart and Samsung.

Follow Lithespeed on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

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.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

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.

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community! Learn more about The PMO Leader – www.thepmoleader.com

Truths & Insights: Your Past Becomes Their Future E11

December 20, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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How does sharing our stories help us to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other? How do we help each other by sharing our story? What do we want our legacy story to be that becomes a seed for someone else’s? Pradeep U.N., Senior Director, Inclusive Innovations at Microsoft, shares his story about making choices on what truly adds to his life and about staying courageously curious to learning about things that bring him joy.

Pradeep was inducted into the Microsoft Garage Wall of Fame in May 2022, as the founder of Truths & Insights, a digital culture transformation platform that enables leaders to engage their teams and customers in courageous conversations. One way Pradeep is able to keep learning and create groundbreaking innovations is by committing to ‘suck’ at something for a while, simply to allow the learning experience to unfold as it does.

Listen to this episode of Rooted & Unwavering and allow yourself to become more conscious of the choices, as you grow more and more into your aspirations.

With a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement.

Microsoft Truths & Insights is a digital, social-learning platform to drive purpose-driven organizational transformations, by increasing team cohesiveness and organizational belonging using storytelling, gamification and AI analytics at scale for organization wide impact.

Truths & Insights is a highly engaging, competitive, personal story-driven, multi-player digital card-game that facilitates courageous conversations (such as dealing with workplace changes) amongst employees.

Truths & Insights was inducted into the Microsoft Garage Wall of Fame in May 2022.

Pradeep U.N. is the Senior Director Inclusive Innovations at Microsoft and the Founder of Microsoft Truths & Insights, a digital platform to enable leaders to engage their teams and customers in courageous conversations.

Over a 23 year career in the tech industry Pradeep has founded startups that bring cinematic storytelling to business, created movies with AI in under 90 secs, and held a number of leadership roles at Microsoft for first generation innovations in Collaboration, Data, Analytics, entertainment and AI technologies. Pradeep is an a11y champion actively advocating in the industry to help empower their employees with inclusion.

Pradeep has direct family from 3 different continents; communes with droids from alien star systems and colludes with imaginary monsters to manage and entertain his 5-year-old twin girls. He used to be passionate at tennis, photography, travelling and storytelling, but now his skills are limited to French braiding & dad jokes.

He holds an MBA (Strategy & Organizational Behavior) from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Connect with Pradeep on LinkedIn.

About Rooted & Unwavering

Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.

Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.

About Our Host

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

Realizing Your Greatness

We are a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

- Executive Coaching: we work with clients individually to help them connect to their calling and use every challenge as an opportunity to help them grow more into what makes them great.
- Team Performance: we help teams evolve to their next level of excellence, connectedness and impact by working on the root drivers of team performance.
- Culture Development: we help organizations to evolve their culture by creating clarity about where they aspire to go, and by building role models, coaches and systems that catalyze people being energized to work the new way.

Key Notes: we deliver powerful speeches at conferences and other events that help audiences become energized, more connected to themselves and each other, more open to discovery and ready to commit to the next stage of learning in their career and life journeys.

Growth Leaders Network (GLN) serves Fortune 500 companies, smaller organizations and non-profits globally.

GLN clients report that we catalyze significant business transformational impact and profound shifts in people, team and organizations at the root cause level.

Learn more about the Growth Leaders network here.

MHG Leadership Team Unwrapped E18

December 20, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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What went down in the world of commercial real estate in 2022? Carla’s fellow members of the MHG Commercial leadership team join her for a fun hour of what worked, what didn’t, and how much they missed Lish who couldn’t be there for the recording.

Listen in to hear the magic that happens when this ragtag group of amazing people get together! Find out what challenges they faced in 2022 and what they look forward to for 2023 as well as the typical overshare.

Nicholas Skogen works in commercial real estate with MHG Commercial. Starting out as an investor in 2013, Nick learned how to strategically invest in the ever changing market.

Looking to expand his knowledge in the local market, Nick became a licensed agent in 2017. Focusing on commercial real estate fit perfectly for an investor’s mind set to always consider the bottom line.

Audra Travis moved from Ann Arbor Michigan to Tempe Arizona in 1992 with the intention of enrolling in Arizona State University teaching program with hopes and dreams of teaching Junior High School Science. She was placed in a teaching program in Tempe immediately. As it turns out teaching was not in her future.

During this transition Audra served as the maître de at various fine dining establishments further refining her customer centric views. Following the restaurant years, Audra worked for a family-owned Acura shop, writing service and co-founding the Phoenix NSX club hosting events and race days.

Audra developed an interest in real estate and felt that real estate, coupled with her previous experience, was a logical fit the foreseeable future. Audra had the pleasure to land her first real estate position with John Hall & Associates where she met John Johnson, co-founder and co-owner of Utah based builder, J. Ballard Homes. This position launched Audra into managing and operating the property management arm of J. Ballard Homes in Salt Lake City.

However, Audra was not done. She saw a need for yet another arm and after bringing the right people together, Park Place Homes was born, which developed a 42 lot luxury subdivision in the area known as “The Point of the Mountain” and created luxury homes named after Hollywood starlets such as “The Monroe”. She also created “The Design House” , which allowed clients to design and upgrade their home new homes for both J. Ballard and Park Place Luxury Homes.

The recession hit and Audra was forced pivot into flipping homes where she did the bulk of the work herself – leaving only a few items to the pros. Her favorite tools are the sawzall and 45 lb jackhammer! She also began seminar for first time home buyers and decided to approach one of her neighbors about investing in multifamily homes, which led to her first commercial deal. She worked in both commercial and residential real estate and coined the term “Rezimercial Agent”, but in November 2019 she joined Aaron Dutcher’s team, MHG Commercial Real Estate, to focus primarily on commercial real estate.

David Pierce has been a resident and Realtor Broker in Arizona for 20 years. He earned his BS in Regional Development from the University of Arizona with a minor in Economics.

He is actively involved in the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors (SAAR). David currently focuses on commercial real estate in all forms. From the tiniest piece of undeveloped desert land to a multi-billion dollar development projects, David has done it all and is an experienced leader.

David has worked for both large and boutique firms and secured his broker license in 2014. Early in his career, he graduated from SAAR Leadership Academy Class 9, shortly after achieving Rookie of the Year at Russ Lyon.

He also served as a day leader for SAAR Leadership Academy Class 10 and volunteered for Make-A-Wish® , SAAR’s Member Relief Fund, the South Scottsdale RMS Tour and most recently Scottsdale Mayor Ortega’s campaign committee.

His passions in life are family, friends and real estate. David loves the outdoors and as a life scout he grew up camping, scuba diving, hiking, boating, biking, running, swimming and diving. He enjoyed reading science fiction and played football.

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Aaron Dutcher’s career in real estate started in Y2K. He was reunited with a hometown buddy who convinced him that people actually did rent houses and a career in investment real estate was born. Since then he has encountered every aspect of real estate from residential to luxury, single family to development and raw land to commercial.

Always approaching each enterprise with his grassroots mentality and always focused in real estate investing. In supervising everything from VA assumptions to subdivision development, Aaron excels at out of the box thinking and transactions that require a more hands-on approach and ingenuity.

As an Associate Broker and Executive Director along with other skilled and ambitious people, he managed a real estate portfolio in excess of 500M and purchased/sold over 4000 properties during his administration. As a natural progression of real estate investing his first commercial deal was in 2004, and it hasn’t stopped. Never being one to let the market determine his outcome, Aaron is certainly not scared to reinvent his model to shift with the ebb and flow of the market. As foreclosures entered the marketplace, Aaron was able to lead the charge with his company at the courthouse steps to purchase thousands of properties, not only for individual investors but also for large institutional and REIT buyers. He then shifted into fix-and-flips alongside wholesale properties.

Aaron became a broker in 2006 and has been a branch manager, managing broker, and designated broker. From 2010 to 2015, along with his partner, he ran and operated his boutique brokerage. He was slowing down the pace, reducing the clients, and building multiple businesses. Aaron has owned and sold a number of his own businesses, subsequently giving him a knack for working with local and regional business owners to purchase and sell their own businesses as well as purchase and lease their commercial real estate.

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About the Show

Smashing Through Walls is geared toward a guide through complex commercial real estate and finance topics while adding humor and anecdotes along the way. Discover what is going on in the valley and beyond with host Carla Magee, broker at MHG Commercial.

About Our Host

Carla Magee’s background is designed with the investor in mind. After obtaining her finance degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, she worked for large corporations like Boeing and Microsoft. With a critical eye and flair for analytics, she was able to shave millions in lost profits, managing cross-functional teams by utilizing her Green Belt in Six Sigma and Masters Certification in Project Management.

Ultimately she realized that she couldn’t be contained in an office environment working for the corporate world. Being an investor herself, she came into real estate as an investment & multifamily property specialist, effectively applying her education & skillset. Carla excels in helping investors make sound decisions for their financial goals, in real estate negotiations, and takes deep pride in educating homebuyers and sellers.

On a personal note, Carla is a busy wife & mother to two daughters. In addition to an ever growing career and podcast, she also enjoys volunteering and being active in the community. She has a deep love for Arizona and although she travels whenever possible, she always finds her way back to the beautiful Sonoran Desert.

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About Our Sponsor

MHG Commercial emerged from the highly successful and innovative residential brokerage: My Home Group. MHG Commercial’s vetted and experienced advisors have a wide range of complementary professional expertise that span over 100 years of cumulative experience.

Encompassing every aspect of commercial real estate from office to industrial development, raw land to luxury commercial, and multifamily to subdivision development. We excel at out of the box thinking and transactions that require a more hands-on approach and ingenuity.

No matter the property type or service need, our commercial advisors are committed to your objectives. Combined with business finesse and unsurpassed market intelligence, MHG Commercial brokers help you determine and surpass your business goals.

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