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John Monahon with Trusted Counsel and Mark Aurand with DAMA Healthy Green Solutions

December 13, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

John Monahon with Trusted Counsel and Mark Aurand with DAMA Healthy Green Solutions

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Steven Julian, John Monahon, Mark Aurand, Mike Sammond

John Monahon/Trusted Counsel

Trusted Counsel is a corporate and intellectual property law firm dedicated to serving the unique needs of companies and investors. Trusted Counsel focuses is to guide and empower clients with exceptional legal counsel, knowledge, and tools that lead to practical, informed business decisions.

Mark Aurand/DAMA Healthy Green Solutions

Mark Aurand is a independent dealer for Vollara, a 35-year old company that specializes in high-tech healthy living technologies with environmental friendly green solution products specifically designed to help meet the needs and problems of their customers, both at home and business. Such as energized alkaline drinking LivingWater that raises the pH and allows you to drink high alkaline filtered water. FreshAir machines remove and eliminate viruses, bacteria, staff, MRSA, mold, mildew, pet and smoke odors on fabric and hard surfaces as well as in the air up to 99.9% in a 3000 sq. ft. area. They have LaundryPure that saves you money because you do not have to use hot water or detergents. They have SteadyPower that attaches to your electrical box and provides whole home protection against lighting strikes, surges, along with removing line noise filtration and reducing your carbon emissions through the power factor correction. SafeHearth is a portable heater that has a tip over, auto lock, & high temp shut off safety features. The heater is output rated at 3400 BTU/5100 BTU and it also cleans & sanitizes the air similar to the FreshAir units.

Amy Bray with the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

December 11, 2018 by Mike

Case In Point

Amy Bray with the Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

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Amy Bray/Gwinnett Ballet Theatre

Gwinnett Ballet Theatre was founded in 1977 by Lynn Snipes, becoming the first performing non-profit organization in Gwinnett County. The original mission continues: to provide local students with the training and performing experience necessary for a professional dance career while serving the community with entertainment, outreach, and education.

Following Ms. Snipes, Lisa Sheppard Robson took over as Artistic Director and provided 15 years of nurturing leadership. Under Ms. Robson’s tenure, GBT produced many dancers who became notable professional dancers around the world, including Princess Grace Award winner, Alessandra James (Charlotte Ballet), Jessica Collado (Houston Ballet), Robert Dekkers (Post:Ballet in San Fransisco), among many others dancing across the country. In 2011, Wade Walthall joined GBT as Artistic Director, and continued the tradition of excellence. Mr. Walthall presented two regional premieres, Journey and Pictures, which GBT performed in 2014 & 2015.

Tonia Morris with ToniaMorrisSpeaks.com and Vanessa Lowry of VanessaLowry.com

December 11, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Tonia Morris with ToniaMorrisSpeaks.com and Vanessa Lowry of VanessaLowry.com

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Mike Sammond, Tonia Morris, and Vanessa Lowry

Tonia Morris/ToniaMorrisSpeaks.com and Simply HR & More

Simply HR & More is a consultant company that focus on helping organizations and individuals’ transition from where they are to where they want to be. This is done by providing consultant services, coaching and training. Simply HR & More has help several organization with cultural transformation, embracing a multi generations workforce and improving productivity and customer satisfaction. Simply HR & More provides multi generation training that focus on generation inclusiveness, communication, leadership and much more. To learn more about training provided, visit simplyhrandmore.com; to learn more about Tonia’s speaking engagements and her books, visit ToniaMorrisSpeaks.com.

Vanessa Lowry/VanessaLowry.com

Vanessa Lowry teams up with mindful entrepreneurs and marketing departments of small to medium size businesses to differentiate their brand through distinctive graphics, compelling copy, and unique strategies for promoting their products and services. To that end, she has assisted more than 100 business professionals in publishing their own book or coauthoring one of her topic-specific, collaborative book projects. Visit VanessaLowry.com or Connect4Leverage.com to learn more and see examples of her work.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Taujuanna (TJ) Ware with Xquisite Marketing

December 7, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Taujuanna (TJ) Ware with Xquisite Marketing

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Taujuanna (TJ) Ware/Xquisite Marketing

Xquisite Marketing is a leading full-service marketing agency based in the Atlanta area. They work closely with top brands and companies. They’ll help you hatch a plan for success that integrates all channels with correlating creative and a single, cohesive message to your audiences. Discover how they can transform the way you do business. They offer a wide range of professional marketing, branding, and advertising services. They’ll work together with you to create an individual package that best suits your needs. Rise through the ranks from their tailored strategies that truly work. They’ll help you to get to where you want to be by piecing together a unique marketing strategy and helping you execute that plan with their team of experts.

About “Strategic Insights Radio”:

“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.

Anthony Rodriguez with the Aurora Theatre

December 5, 2018 by Mike

Case In Point

Anthony Rodriguez with the Aurora Theatre

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Anthony Rodriguez/Aurora Theatre

In 1996, Aurora Theatre was established in a converted hardware store in the suburbs of Atlanta. The City of Lawrenceville, GA recognized the positive economic impact the arts have on its community and invited Aurora Theatre to serve as the cornerstone for their revitalization plans. In a unique partnership between city government, private development and a non-profit charity, the city purchased a 100-year-old church and together with Aurora Theatre transformed the space into a $7.5 million theatre complex, which opened in May of 2007. Now, Aurora Theatre houses 2 performance spaces, boasts 5,000 season ticket holders, produces over 850 events annually and entertains 80,000 visitors. Currently in our 23rd Season, Aurora Theatre has become the largest arts organization in Gwinnett County and the fastest growing professional theatre in the state of Georgia. The Peach State Federal Credit Union Mainstage Signature Series is comprised of the biggest Broadway plays and musicals. The GGC Harvel Lab Series produces exciting contemporary theatre. Additionally, Aurora produces concerts, stand-up comedy, children’s programs, Metro-Atlanta’s top haunted attraction Lawrenceville, GA Ghost Tours, as well as Atlanta’s only professional Spanish language theatre, Teatro Aurora. Always grateful for our loyal patrons, Aurora provides FREE attached covered parking and a city booming with restaurants and shops.

Under the artistic leadership of Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Anthony Rodriguez and Ann-Carol Pence, Aurora Theatre has garnered numerous accolades highlighted by recent achievements that include winner of ten 2017 Suzi Bass Awards, 2016 Governor’s Award for Arts and Humanities, Creative Loafing’s 2010 Best Theatre Company, Georgia Trend Magazine’s 2011 Best Places to Work in Georgia, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2012 Best Places to Work, Atlanta Magazine’s Best of Atlanta 2013, Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 President and CEO Award for Excellence in Arts and the Gwinnett Chamber’s 2015 IMPACT Regional Business Award for Hospitality.

Driving Commerce and Keeping Technology Secure

December 5, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Driving Commerce and Keeping Technology Secure

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Rick Strawn/Paradign Security Services

Rick Strawn serves as the President and CEO of Paradigm Security Services and Strawn Security Services. He retired from law enforcement in 1998 after 25 years of service with the Atlanta Police Department. During those years, Rick worked in many assignments ranging from patrol to Detective Sergeant and Day Commander over the White Collared Crimes Unit.

Rick started Strawn Security Services in 1988 to provide services of top quality off-duty law enforcement personnel to major construction firms throughout Atlanta. The company also provided traffic control and security for executives. He developed one of the largest resources of dedicated state, county and municipal law enforcement officers and deputies available in Georgia.

In 2006, after years of establishing their reputation as a provider of highly trained law enforcement personnel and at the repeated request of their clients, Rick and his wife Susan formed Paradigm Security Services to provide those clients with professional unarmed uniformed and plain-clothes safety and security personnel.

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Justin Hoffman with Agency Hydra and Jacob Andrews with Drone iVue

December 4, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Justin Hoffman with Agency Hydra and Jacob Andrews with Drone iVue

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John Ray, Justin Hoffman and Jacob Andrews

Justin Hoffman/Agency Hydra

Agency Hydra is a state of the art technology centric talent agency. It creates software that allows for a massive and diverse talent pool which casting agencies and production companies can use efficiently to streamline their needs. Agency Hydra differs from other talent agencies by having this unique, diverse, searchable talent pool and the development and application of technology. Agency Hydra is as much a software company as it is a talent agency. They are a modern approach to an industry lagging behind other markets due to its antiquated approach to both talent and casting agents alike.

Jacob Andrews/Drone iVue

With the ongoing problem of wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, and theft leaving people feeling helpless, Drones iVue has begun to implement a solution to provide interior and exterior virtual imagery services for residents, insurance companies, and government agencies to save time, money, and frustration in times of crisis. These problems are mitigated by iVue 360 and Drones iVue imagery services through the affordability, transparency, efficiency, safety, and objectivity of 360° camera and drone imagery at the consumer level available to be scaled and produced using Drones iVue’s unique business model.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Keys to the Right Business Technology (Part 3 of 3)

November 30, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Keys to the Right Business Technology (Part 3 of 3)

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David Wilkins/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Dave Wilkins has over 30 years experience working for companies such as E&Y, Whitridge Associates, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and IBM in business and technology management and consulting. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp and the Business Unit Manager for the Business Technology Division of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Originally from Michigan, he has a BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan, and he has been a resident of Gwinnett County, GA for over 20 years. In his 30 years in business and technology, he has worked with clients in multiple business sectors including finance, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and government, among others.

About “Strategic Insights Radio”:

“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategic_radio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.

Jose Laos with Tanners

November 30, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Jose Laos with Tanners

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Jose Laos/Tanners

Tanners in Suwanee is under new ownership. Now made from scratch comfort food, with daily specials and great beers. They strive to provide great food and great service. Try them, again!

Jose Laos has been in the restaurant business for 33 years, mostly in the kitchen. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, and a former Executive Chef at The Cheesecake Factory, Houlihans, Bugaboo Creek, Bahama Breeze, Brio Tuscan Grille, and The Capital Grille.

Jose’s wife Christina has been in the restaurant business for almost 25 years, serving as a front of the house manager as well as kitchen manager for Olive Garden and Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse.