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7 Generation Philosophy of Development – Maleena Deer and Aaron Studebaker with SRPMIC E17

September 13, 2022 by Karen

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Discover the 7 Generation Philosophy towards development with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Maleena Deer and Aaron Studebaker shared an insightful look into the development model and partnerships on their tribal lands along the 101 corridor.

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is home to two distinct tribes, the Akimel O’odham and the Xalychidom Piipaash, more commonly known as Pima and Maricopa. The Community encompasses over 52,600 acres, shares a Scottsdale address and is bordered by the cities of Mesa, Tempe and Fountain Hills.

Discover Salt River is the tourism division for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Tourism helps to promote the Talking Stick Entertainment District, home to Salt River Fields, Talking Stick Resort, Medieval Times, and more.

Maleena Deer is the Tourism Manager for Discover Salt River. With a strong background in sales and communication, Maleena came to the government sector of SRP-MIC from Talking Stick Resort.

She now leads the efforts in chamber of commerce growth and development for both the Discover Salt River and Talking Stick Entertainment District brands.

As a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, she has a passion for carrying on the tradition of hospitality through tourism.

Aaron Studebaker has had the great privilege of working for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community for over 11 years.

As a Project Manager within the Community Development Department, Aaron supports endeavors such as business development, business operations and special projects. He also provides support in tourism marketing for the Talking Stick Entertainment District and Discover Salt River Tourism Office.

Prior to his current role, Aaron held the position as Director of Sales & Marketing at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, an Enterprise of the Community.

Follow Discover Salt River on Facebook and Instagram.

About Your Hosts

Meet JJ Levenske

JJ Levenske is a seasoned construction executive with over 30 years of experience in the commercial and industrial sectors. From pre-construction services to complex quality controls and close-outs, he brings a commitment to delivering the highest levels of professionalism and customer service.

JJ’s dedication to construction has allowed him to become an industry expert which he aims to share with customers and investors alike. JJ does not believe in mediocrity and strives to see the “end at the beginning” for each project, effectuating a higher return on investment for the entire team.

Early on in his career, JJ worked as a cost engineer conducting feasibility estimates, strategic capital estimates, cost planning, and analysis of value engineering for the technology, petrochemical, and food industries. He went on to develop and implement a variety of systems for estimating, scheduling, resource management, and cost tracking while holding Project Manager and Senior Management Positions.

During his tenure, JJ has been involved in $1 billion worth of construction services. A strong entrepreneurial acumen allows him to be the perfect advocate for your facility based business solutions.

Meet Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson is a knowledgeable construction professional with over 40 years of experience. His experience ranges from residential to the commercial and industrial sectors.

Robert began working in the trades immediately out of high school and quickly advanced to Journeyman status. Robert went on to estimating, operations, senior level management and then business development.

Robert is consistently building relationships and networking with those associated with all aspects of development and construction. Robert has become a respected source for prefabricated construction solutions.

Robert enjoys spending time with Pam, his wife of 42 years, their 3 children, and 10 grandchildren.

About Our Sponsors

Bleuwave is a Phoenix-based general contractor with a specialty in land development & site improvement, pre-construction, design build, remodel and renovations, construction management, and post construction.

Bleuwave is passionate about what they do and takes pride in their partner’s success.

When you need it done right the first time, call Bleuwave.

Follow Bleuwave on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Tori Contracting’s smaller, cohesive structure results in superior workmanship and economical solutions.

The Tori Contracting team has construction experience acquired by performing highly successful work for hotels and casinos, restaurants, retail stores, healthcare facilities and a wide range of commercial and themed projects.

We provide design assist capabilities from start to finish…from schematic design and development through construction documents with the aid of our full-time AUTOCAD staff.

Higher Humble Purpose E4

September 13, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Stepping into our higher purpose, we connect to a deeper sense of energy that we experience viscerally, shares Erica Schaper, Chairman of the Board of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Purpose helps Erica to be decisive, also when she needs to take unpopular decisions. In the heat of a challenging conversation, she keeps an eye on what is truly important, so as not get distracted by emotions, hers or anyone else’s.

Erica finds greater strength in purpose by becoming clear what she is really called to focus on and what is outside of her scope. She humbly acknowledges that we are only on this planet for a very short time and we will not solve all our problems in our lifetimes. Does that dissuade her from giving it her all? No, not at all. Erica stays focused on her purpose and takes small steps towards it every day. This includes taking care of herself, taking time off, spending time with her wife Hetty at their horse farm, or losing herself in a good book.

NHL Stenden. Groundbreaking.

By expanding your boundaries, there is no telling what you might accomplish. That is why we challenge our students, staff and partners every day to discover and develop their talents, as part of a journey that transcends the limits of their own professional field and immediate environment.

Our multi-campus university of applied sciences is firmly rooted in the northern part of the Netherlands where we are based, while at the same time maintaining a strong international focus.

At all our Dutch and international branches, we are always looking for new ways to successfully integrate education, research and the latest developments in the professional world.

Our students, lecturers and researchers work together in small teams on real-life assignments and share their innovative ideas in practice. Our courses incorporate all the latest trends and developments in the relevant sectors and industries, both at a national as well as an international level.

NHL Stenden offers hands-on English-taught bachelor and/or master’s programmes in the fields of hospitality, tourism, leisure & events, creative business, communication & multimedia design, international business, IT, supply chain, HR and European Studies as well as 2 unique international teacher education degrees.

Around 24.000 students are studying at NHL Stenden, amongst them 3.000 international students from over 100 different countries.

Erica Schaper is a passionate director, executive and supervisor with a social heart and extensive experience in realising strategic reorientations with organisations in the public domain.

She makes sure the focus is on results and efficiency. In doing so, she uses the internal motivation of employees for their profession or the context in which they work. Her strength lies in moving people.

Within an organization, she encourages individual responsibility for employees’ own development and job satisfaction. People experience this as pleasant, but also as decisive, reliable, transparent and honest, with an eye for the human factor.

As a Chairperson of the Executive Board, Erica Schaper carries executive responsibility for NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. January 2018 marks the start of NHL Stenden University after the merger; a brand-new university where 24 000 students and more than 2000 academic staff expand their boundaries every day. NHL Stenden University distinguishes itself with a unique educational concept Design Based Education, inspired by the principles of Design Thinking.

NHL Stenden opt for a solid substantive research profile based on the focus areas Vital Regions, Smart Sustainable Industries and Service Economy. As an international multi-campus NHL Stenden has a strong and varied student body, with more than 90 nationalities, and several campuses located in the Netherlands, and partners in South Africa, Thailand and Indonesia. Therefore, NHL Stenden is one of the most international educational institutes in the Netherlands.

Since 1 January 2014, Erica has been working as managing director for trade union FNV. Her activities focused on guiding the merger process of five organisations, and the establishment of the new FNV work organisation.

In addition, she has extensive experience with merger and change processes in education, gained as managing director of Van Hall Larenstein UAS and as interim manager for, among others, Hanze UAS Groningen and Inholland UAS. She has also worked as higher education supervisor and auditor for the NVAO and the Sirius excellence programme.

Erica Schaper has extensive experience in the field of public administration, and a strong interest in education, empowerment, community building, and merger processes.

Connect with Erica 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.

Living The Dream E121

September 8, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Franco Albarran, Principal Architect at Albarran Architecture + Construction, engages listeners as he starts off the show sharing that he is one of 10 siblings and comes from a family with over 40 grandchildren.

Franco comes from a family of Jewelers and was taught a lot about business ownership and leadership. Although he did not continue on as a jeweler like fellow family members, he has continued on with their hard work ethic and successful traits. Tune in to hear Franco talk about how being an architect and builder has paved the way for a successful future.

ALBARRAN | Architecture + Construction a Boutique Architectural and Construction Firm with a unique Architect Led Design + Build process where the same design professional is the single point of contact from beginning to end. This allows for seamless transitions through all phases of design and construction.

Their goal is to simplify the client experience through effective communication, proactive/efficient project management, and a forward thinking approach to design & construction.

Born in Mexico City, Franco Albarran is a first generation immigrant.

He was raised in Rosenberg – a suburb 30 miles southwest of Houston, Texas. He’s the youngest of 10 siblings and the only one to attend college and graduate. He attended the University of Houston and received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1999.

The impulse to design and create are in Franco’s DNA. At an early age he learned the value of design aesthetics and craftsmanship to create a unique piece. His father was a 3rd generation custom jewelry designer and fabricator.

Some of Franco’s best memories were being allowed to join his father in his workshop, where he witnessed the entire process from beginning to end. It started first with a client’s idea of what they wanted, then his father’s intricate design, then many hours spent creating the piece, and finally seeing the sheer joy of a customer receiving their unique design.

Franco started out as many architects do – creating architectural designs based on a client’s wish list and then engaging the services of a contractor to build the project. He felt this process could be disjointed and subtleties of a refined design were sometimes lost in the process. He wanted the opportunity to carry a project through from design to construction and was able to pursue this in 2010.

This allowed the client to have a single point of contact throughout the entire project and made the process seamless for the owner. Having one individual at the helm of what can be a fairly complex process simplifies the client experience, and ensures that the true intent of the design is preserved.

Over the years Franco has had the privilege of developing strong relationships with interior designers, craftsmen, vendors, and suppliers who are trusted and essential members of the team and work together to create each unique custom project.

Connect with Franco on LinkedIn, and follow ALBARRAN Architecture + Construction on Facebook and Instagram.

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.

After serving in C-level finance and operational roles for multiple entrepreneurial companies, Ryan Weissmueller realized his dream to serve the entrepreneurial community even further by founding Fintrepid Solutions.

Using nearly two decades of experience with the creation, growth and ongoing support of small and midsize businesses, Ryan has developed a rich skill set in delivering customized, nimble solutions to support leadership teams and their companies as they face new challenges at various stages over time.

Successful businesses face new challenges as they evolve over time. Fintrepid Solutions exists to help its clients navigate those challenges, providing clarity and confidence so they can become more sustainable, more profitable and more valuable.

Having supported nearly 100 clients since its founding in 2016 the Fintrepid Solutions team delivers customized solutions for each client, combining both strategy and execution to achieve business goals.

For its efforts partnering with businesses seeking to buy and sell, Fintrepid Solutions received the 2020 M&A Firm of the Year for the Southwestern US by Acquisition International.

Follow Fintrepid Solutions on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Austin Peterson and Landon Mance are registered representatives of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. Ryan Weissmueller and Fintrepid Solutions are separate from and not affiliated with Backbone Planning Partners/Lincoln Financial Advisors.

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E110 Making an Impact with Project Management featuring Milan Dordevic

September 7, 2022 by Karen

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe welcomed Milan Dordevic for an in-studio discussion. We get to hear Milan share his story and how he began a career in Project Management spanning many countries and industries. Milan and Joe also discussed Leadership, Certifications, Artificial Intelligence and so much more.

Milan is a certified project management expert and leader, author, speaker, and business and technology mentor for high-tech start-ups. His expertise is in complex & remote project and product management, organizational development, and change, all of which he has gained over the course of 15 years. Through dynamic leadership and vision, he is driving business and product innovation, automatization, digitalization, program efficiency, and scaling agility in the organization.

Milan has made a big impact in his career and when asked about how did he do so much so quickly he shared, “I was never afraid of doing some project or taking the project or jumping into something that I didn’t know I was learning by doing. In the meanwhile, every night I was reading about it, I was enrolling myself, currently in parallel with my family.”

When asked about some lessons learned during his experiences Milan shared, “I think the biggest mistake that people, organization do, they read about some methodology, they read about some approach or they hear that one company succeeded because they did it in that way and they want to do the same. So there is one person who succeed. He was doing it the same way and you want to do the same. No, but you are in different industry, you have different products, your story is different. You need to take all those things into consideration and apply to your organization company approach. So you cannot implement. There are probably chances that you will succeed, but there are plenty of approaches, plenty of methodologies, frameworks, and you can select one of them or you can make even better, custom one, select the best from all of them and apply to your organization. Make a custom fit.”

Connect with Milan:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dordevicmilan/

See the guest list for upcoming shows – https://www.thepmosquad.com/podcast

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

Proctorio is a leading EdTech company that provides a fully automated SaaS online proctoring service as a scalable, cost-effective solution to validating student identities and activity during online exams. Proctorio ensures the integrity of distance learning while protecting institutional accreditation and increasing the value of online degrees and certifications.

In 2021 Proctorio became a leader in online assessments by proctoring more than 25 million exams in that year only, with 20 million more so far in 2022 by supporting the USA and worldwide online education. In 2021 Proctorio was recognized as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S by Inc magazine. And by Forbes in March 2022 as the No1 best startup employer in Arizona and No 110 in the whole United States.

The PMI Phoenix chapter was founded in 1978, as the 29th Chapter to be chartered in the United States. Over years it has grown and evolved, and today it has approximately 2100+ members locally, representing project management in industry, consulting, government and academia.

Milan Dordevic MBA, PMP is a certified project management expert and leader, author, speaker, and business and technology mentor for high-tech start-ups. His expertise is in complex & remote project and product management, organizational development, and change, all of which he has gained over the course of 15 years. Through dynamic leadership and vision, he is driving business and product innovation, automatization, digitalization, program efficiency, and scaling agility in the organization.

Prior to joining Proctorio in the position of Director of Product Development, Milan managed multi-million dollar cutting-edge software development projects in the areas of Cloud computing, Software for Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things, Entertainment, and Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) around the world for largest Fortune 500 companies as BMW, Audi, Samsung, Harman Kardon, Toyota.

As Proctorio starred at the SeedSpot accelerator back in 2013, now Milan is volunteering there as an industry mentor to give back to the community and support new startups in the early and most vulnerable phase.

Recently he started volunteering in the leadership position as Board director and VP of Membership of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Phoenix Chapter as a link to the largest and most diverse international organization in the world dedicated to the profession of project management.

With his Serbian heritage, he is supporting the Serbian community in Arizona. He is volunteering as Board director of Arizona Serbian Business and Professional Network, an organization that serves a community of 20.000+ Arizonians with Serbian heritage.

In May 2022 Milan was recognized and selected for Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives, based on the impact in the area and the depth and diversity of his experience.

Milan Dordevic has an MBA degree from Grand Canyon University, an MSc in Engineering Management from the University of Novi Sad, and a BSc in Organizational Sciences from the University of Belgrade.

Also, Milan has 8 of the most distinguished certifications in the area of Project Management, Product and Software development received from Project Management Institute, International Project Management Association, Scrum Alliance, Scaled AgileAlliance, LeSS etc.

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

Creating a Better Blue Collar Community with Forrest Dorhmann of Eagle Eye Productions E16

September 6, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Forrest Dorhmann of Eagle Eye productions met with J.J. and Robert to discuss creating a better culture in the blue collar world. Forrest and his team utilize various methods to help create a better culture for employers to attract quality employees.

Learn how a mind set of service to others can turn into a lucrative business strategy.

Eagle Eye Productions is a company based in the DFW metroplex that provides construction consulting work for Construction, Mining, Oil and Gas, Forestry and Transportation companies across the US and International markets.

Through their main services being Media, Branding, Web Development, Operational Development and Training Eagle Eye Productions has a goal to change companies through building a foundation for people centered service culture companies. Their core mission is to create a community build on values that create “Limitless Boundaries”

Their team believes that with a big enough community of companies focused on doing what’s right above what’s making them more money, there will be real change in the blue collar industries and may solve some workforce issues we see today.

Forrest Dohrmann first got his first opportunity to get a taste of the construction industry as a freshman in high school at the age of 12-13 working as an intern at a local Drafting agency in his small town.

Throughout the years in high school he stayed interested in the industry and began working his junior and senior years full time as a laborer and carpenter at a local remodeling business while also doing duel enrollment in Gainesville FL Santa Fe College.

After officially graduating high school online through his college, he decided to drop out of college and keep working as a carpenter and foreman in the Gainesville and surrounding areas.

Shortly after he moved to the DFW area where he began his career learning commercial construction working for a few General Contractors. Working from a carpenter to foreman, Assistant Superintendent to Project Engineer He realized there was a massive issue in the construction industry and decided to make some changes in the industry by starting his company now, Eagle Eye Productions.

Young but with over 13 years experience in the industry, his goal is to learn as much about how blue collar businesses operate so his company can help offer value to the areas they need help.

Follow Eagle Eye Productions on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About Your Hosts

Meet JJ Levenske

During his tenure, JJ has been involved in $1 billion worth of construction services. A strong entrepreneurial acumen allows him to be the perfect advocate for your facility based business solutions.

Meet Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson is a knowledgeable construction professional with over 40 years of experience. His experience ranges from residential to the commercial and industrial sectors.

Robert enjoys spending time with Pam, his wife of 42 years, their 3 children, and 10 grandchildren.

About Our Sponsors

Bleuwave is passionate about what they do and takes pride in their partner’s success.

When you need it done right the first time, call Bleuwave.

Follow Bleuwave on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Tori Contracting’s smaller, cohesive structure results in superior workmanship and economical solutions.

We provide design assist capabilities from start to finish…from schematic design and development through construction documents with the aid of our full-time AUTOCAD staff.

Patrick Holcomb Drew Archer and Taylor Kerley with Ironwood Venture E31

September 6, 2022 by Karen

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Ironwood Venture is a management consulting company specializing in accelerating growth for emerging and middle-market businesses. We work with clients that range in industry but have a common need; bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

We are passionate about seeing our clients succeed by working side by side with them to understand their business, their customers and their challenges in order to develop customized solutions that make the difference.

Our deep expertise and experience in operations management and product development coupled with building and leading high-performing teams provides clients with unmatched hands on guidance and support to realize their goal.

Patrick Holcomb is a highly accomplished Executive with proven leadership experience in the Engineering, Financial Services and Technology Sectors.

Deep experience with large multi-geographic operations, Big Data initiatives, strategic planning/implementation, sales management, talent development and revenue/expense optimization all centered around driving customer loyalty.

Drew Archer is an experienced outsourced CFO with exaperience in both an operational & strategic level.

This ranges from tactical assistance in QBO to close the books on time to strategic guidance around; detailed cashflow modeling, multi-year budgeting, profitability analysis, debt optimization and reporting requirements from outside stakeholders.

Taylor Kerley is a versatile and creative marketer with expertise in social media, branding, PPC, social advertising, graphic design, email marketing, photography, SEO, blogging, and overall marketing strategy.

Follow Ironwood Venture on LinkedIn.

About Arizona Good Business

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

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

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

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

About Your Host

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

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

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

Connect with Thomas on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Excitant and The Igniter – aka The 2 Dudes E11

September 6, 2022 by Karen

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Kyle McIntosh of the Mac6 co-working space in Tempe faced a major problem. Tenants of the building began to fear for their safety and were moving out due to a growing homeless population in the area. Kyle & community leader Darren Chapman put their heads together to come up with a proactive solution that not only alleviated the problem but also benefited the the displaced individuals taking up residence.

Carla explores the idea of “Conscious Capitalism” in this episode of Smashing Through Walls with her guests Kyle and Darren (aka Dude 1 & Dude 2). Together, the three take listeners on a journey of positive impact & change through relationships. They discuss how commercial real estate can institute concepts that push the community in a positive direction.

The Tiger Mountain Foundation, led by Darren Chapman installs community gardens with native, food producing plants in spaces that you might not expect to find them and uses these gardens to create a sense of community pride and lift up people in need.

What if you could smash down some walls and create an effective solution of social entrepreneurism? Join Carla and her guests Kyle & Darren to find out exactly what that means, how they did it, and and the major positive impact it is having on their community!

TigerMountain Foundation converts space into edible landscaping, workforce development and lifestyle transition and transformation opportunities.

Darren Chapman is a community pro-activist who has committed his life to helping people. He is Founder and CEO of TigerMountain Foundation (a.k.a. TMF), which has implemented Empowerment Initiatives to uplift communities and eliminate blight.

TMF’s initiatives are community garden / landscaping development, audio, visual and performance art, community service and volunteerism. The gardens promote healthy living and active lifestyles by feeding, engaging and enfranchising the community.

MAC6 Builds Better Communities Where People and Businesses Thrive. They do that through programs and spaces for growing businesses. The three things that make MAC6 completely unique from anything else you’ll find are Growth, Flexibility, and Community.

1) Growth: From the perspective of, you will be in a Place filled with other growing and focused companies, surrounded by programs and resources to take you to the next level.

2) Flexibility: From the perspective of, The most flexible work spaces in Arizona, getting you laser focused on what you love to do and building your business with the freedom to not need to know what it may look like tomorrow let alone in three years.

3) Community: From the perspective of, growing your team and your business in a high performing and healthy environment, while being connected with the MAC6 Community of over 100 businesses.

Located in Tempe, 10 minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, and 15 minutes from Arizona State University, the MAC6 Entrepreneurial campus offers 150,000 square feet of space including traditional and non-traditional private office suites, a variety of coworking office space solutions, and a unique light co-manufacturing space; all in service to growth-oriented entrepreneurs, startups, and mid-market.

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. MAC6 Builds Better Communities where People and Businesses Thrive, in commercial office buildings, co-working spaces, and co-manufacturing space. Additionally, he sits on the board of Conscious Capitalism Arizona, telling the stories of good businesses in Arizona.

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

Connect with Kyle on LinkedIn and follow MAC6 on Facebook and Instagram.

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.

Connect with Carla on LinkedIn.

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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Allan Himmelstein Armando Ojeda and Jane Delong with SCORE

September 2, 2022 by Karen

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Allan Himmelstein Armando Ojeda and Jane Delong with SCORE

SCORE is a non-profit organization funded by the SBA offering free Small Business Mentoring and Education. Nationally there are over 10,000 volunteers, and three hundred chapters. in Metro Phoenix there are 120 volunteers.

Our mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through mentoring and Education. Our Vision is that every person has the support necessary to thrive as a small business owner. One of our core values is that our client’s success is our success.

We help small businesses by providing free business advice and mentoring, offering low or no-cost business training, and sharing free business templates and resources.

Allan Himmelstein has over 40 years’ experience with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Since 2007, he has worked with business owners in the US, Mexico, and Germany as a Business coach and an Outsourced Sales Manager.

Allan has extensive sales and business management experience including the start-up of an international company which grew to $40M in only 9 years and a turnaround for an international company. From start up to multimillion dollar companies, he understands the problems and opportunities of growing private companies.

As a coach and consultant, Allan has worked with technology companies (IT, E-Discovery, Automated Mining, Clinical Research Organizations) and manufacturing companies (Cutting tools, food manufacturing).

Connect with Allan on LinkedIn.

Armando Ojeda has been a SCORE mentor and Workshop presenter since 2017.

He specializes in start-ups and can be your guide and direct o to resources to help you get started.

Connect with Armando on LinkedIn.

Jane Delong is the Education Director at SCORE. She has over 30 years of Human Resource Skills including compensation, employee relations, recruiting training, and Strategic Planning.

Jane is an experienced Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the program development industry.

Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Team Building, Management, Strategic Planning, Service Training and Project Management. Strong business development professional with a BA in Business Education from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN.

Connect with Jane on LinkedIn.

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E109 Utilizing Research in Project Management with Robert Joslin

September 1, 2022 by Karen

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In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe welcomed Robert Joslin to the show. We get to hear Robert share his story and learn about the founding of AIPMO. Robert and Joe also discussed global associations, industry research, Agile in PMOs and so much more.

Robert is a Portfolio/project/program management consultant, professor, and engineer. He has 25 plus years in designing, initiating management delivery of business transformation, reengineering, infrastructure, and strategy development including winning national prizes for ideas and product innovation.

Why start AIPMO? “AIPMO stands for the Association of International Project Management Officers. So really the association should be about the individuals rather than the project management office itself. So the O could be officers or office, depending on how you use the term. And the reason I actually set up AIPMO back in 2015 was having worked on projects pretty much all my life and experienced projects, good ones, poor ones, you realize actually in the projects that are poorly run, how it actually impacts individuals.”

What differences do you find with PMOs from different regions around the world? “I actually call Saudi Arabia the Kingdom of PMOs because it has so many structured PMOs run by consulting companies like McKinsey, for example. PwC is big into PMOs. So really Saudi Arabia has maybe surprising to some, it’s extremely advanced in the way that PMOs they’ve actually developed.”

Connect with Robert:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-robert-joslin/

Connect with AIPMO:
www.aipmo.org

Or see the guest list for upcoming shows – https://www.thepmosquad.com/podcast

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

AIPMO is the Association of International Project Management Officers and was established in Dec. 2015 in Switzerland.

Its Vision is to identify and put into place the building blocks for PMO management to become a recognized international profession.

Its Mission is to advance the theory, design, and implementation of high-performing collaborative PMOs to empower PMO professionals to create sustainable measurable organizational impact.

Its Strategy is to build and evolve AIPMO’s PMO strategic lifecycle framework through research, development, and partnering in parallel to determining and establishing the building blocks in creating PMO management as a profession.

Robert Joslin, Founder of AIPMO, is a portfolio/project/program management consultant, professor, and engineer with 25 plus years in designing, initiating management delivery of business transformation, reengineering, infrastructure, and strategy development including winning national prizes for ideas and product innovation.

He develops and designs enterprise PMOs target operating models (TOMs) using various frameworks including AIPMO’s Strategic Lifecycle Framework. Robert has worked across many industries and experienced different cultures.

Connect with Robert on LinkedIn.

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