Lori & Jim Casal/Lucky Dog Chicago Eatery
Located at 1175 Buford Highway in Suwanee, Lucky Dog Chicago Eatery is proud to offer the true Taste of Chicago with Southern Hospitality. Serving up Vienna Beef and a variety of Italian Sandwiches. Good for families, groups and kids, they offer home delivery, catering, take-out and of course walk-ins.
Neal Weaver/School of Rock
School of Rock Buford is a performance-based music instruction program. Students learn how to perform in a group setting with their peers through both one on one lessons and group rehearsal sessions. Then they perform in public. These aren’t the stuffy recitals you remember from your youth. These are full on rock and roll shows. Depending on the student’s age, School of Rock can take them from zero to onstage playing rock and roll in six months or less.
Keith Ivey/Keith Ivey & Associates
Through Keith Ivey & Associates, Keith connects you with people, places and things that matter. Keith’s purpose is to enhance the personal and professional lives of those he meets by making them aware of valuable resources.
Hosted by Scott Henrichsen, the President of the Atlanta Gladiators’ ECHL hockey team, “Power Play” introduces you to the team’s sponsors and partners, while sharing much of the team’s exciting news and promotions throughout the upcoming season. The show airs live at 1:00 PM ET on the first Wednesday of each month during the 2018-19 season.
Marty Mazzawi & John Reynolds/Slow Pour Brewing Company
Life moves fast with no shortage of distractions, so why not strip away the noise and slow down for a while? Slow Pour Brewing Company believes that “Nothing Good Happens In A Hurry” and that the most important moments in life should be shared with friends. Slow Pour is a simpler time and a familiar place, a feeling of home and a respite for the weary traveler. So ease into a comfy chair, start a real conversation, and enjoy a good beer with them.
Slow Pour Brewery desires to create something classic, yet new and distinct. They brew a line of enjoyable and flavorful beers. They have something on tap that everyone can enjoy. Their 3,000-square-foot tasting room is warm, welcoming, stylish and relaxed. Come out and stay awhile.
In addition to their tasty and ever-expanding selection of fine craft beer, they offer a selection of soft drinks and water. They’ve got indoor and outdoor games, lots of space, a good vibe… basically everything you could want in a brewery.
Matt Vrahiotes/Sweet Acre Farms Winery
Located just ten minutes north of Gainesville, GA, Sweet Acre Farms Winery is a small husband and wife run farm located in the beautiful foothills of the Northeast Georgia mountains. After growing blackberries and keeping bees for some time, they have turned their farm into Hall County’s first winery. They specialize in fruit, or “country wines”, that are reminiscent of those that southern families used to make. They honor the state’s agricultural diversity by using the finest ingredients from their farm and farms alike.
Aaren Dieffenbacher/Gwinnett County Police
The Gwinnett County Police Department is a nationally accredited and rapidly growing police agency located in the Northeastern quadrant of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Department currently has an authorized strength of 813 sworn officers supported by 280 civilian employees with the responsibility of providing law enforcement services to approximately 800,000 residents within an area of 436 square miles. The Department is organized into the Office of the Chief and two Bureaus with four Divisions: Administrative Services, Support Operations, Criminal Investigations and Uniform Divisions.
Gregg Mooney/Leadership Max
Leadership Max provides executive and group leadership coaching, speaking, training, workshops, seminars, mastermind groups, leadership assessments, team assessments and training, and DISC assessments and consultation. Founder and President Gregg Mooney is an independent certified John Maxwell coach, trainer, and speaker. He has served as Vice President of two national engineering firms over the past 20 years and has extensive leadership experience at all levels.
Bill Neglia/Neglia Insurance Group
The Neglia Insurance Group has been in business since 1991. Their principal broker Bill Neglia has been a licensed agent since 1983. Neglia Insurance Group provides a wide variety of group and personal insurance benefit plans such as health, life, short & long term disability, long term care, Medicare supplements, dental and vision. Neglia Insurance Group also provides voluntary employee benefits through companies like AFLAC, Colonial and Humana. Bill has access to every major well-known insurance carriers as well as many niche carriers who provide products that can be as much as 70% less expensive than traditional ACA health plans. Bill is certified to offer plans both on and off the marketplace. Bill can provide group insurance to businesses with only one covered employee. He can also provide group insurance to businesses comprised of a husband and wife with no outside employees, as well as businesses with up to several hundred employees. Bill carefully analyzes each client’s specific needs and objectives and makes recommendation based on those variables. There is never a fee to utilize the services of Bill or the Neglia Insurance Group! The premium is the same whether you use the Neglia Insurance Group or you buy your insurance on your own.
HCI Group’s SVP of Innovation and Technology John McDaniel discusses the transformation advisory function that the HCI Group provides to healthcare systems regarding emerging technologies. Ben and Jennifer explore with John the innovation and performance excellence requirements for organizations to effectively compete in the Age of Consumerism as web-based technologies proliferate, including advances in biometric monitoring, telemedicine, and robotic surgery. The discussion also includes the impact of global medical tourism.
Successful organizations will have to innovate at a level previously unknown, as large commercial players also begin to compete. Insights from previous disruptive technology and innovation megatrends are discussed, such as the universal adoption of mobile devices and the digital marketplace. Similar to the impact on fixed retail establishments from these emerging technology trends, this discussion provides a backdrop of the upcoming tidal wave of change in healthcare, and what will be required to survive and thrive.
Listen in to learn…
John McDaniel/Senior VP of Innovation and Technology with The HCI Group
With more than 35 years of experience as a healthcare CIO, consulting services executive, and as an executive with large healthcare solution companies, John McDaniel currently manages the CXO Innovation and Technology Solutions division at The HCI Group.
Prior to joining HCI, John worked as a National Practice Leader – US Healthcare for a large data storage and software organization. He was responsible for cultivating C-level executive relationships, understanding emerging requirements, and collaborating with development teams to ensure solutions that met market-driven operational, scalability and cost efficiency requirements.
As a CIO, John worked with St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center, McLaren Health Care Corporation, and The Emory Clinic, where he also served as Director of Medical Informatics for the Emory Healthcare System. He is a keynote speaker at National and Regional healthcare conferences and frequently presents at large, international healthcare events.
About SOAR Vision Group
The SOAR Vision Group mission is to: Align People with Purpose to Achieve Exceptional Results. SOAR provides best practice strategy execution, business process optimization services, and a structured organizational development approach for organizations to effectively implement the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. For more information, contact SOAR Vision Group at (888) 294-3303 or visit soarvisiongroup.com.
About the Baldrige Foundation
The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is presented annually by the United States President to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence. For more information, contact the Baldrige Foundation at (202) 559-9195 or visit baldrigefoundation.org.
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Vince DeSilva/Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce
The mission of the Gwinnett Chamber is to strengthen existing businesses, facilitate the growth of quality job opportunities, and enrich the community’s quality of life. In addition, the Gwinnett Chamber will be the forum for business, government, education, healthcare, arts/culture/entertainment, and philanthropic and public-service communities to come together to advance our region’s economy and enrich Gwinnett’s quality of life.
Tim McCormack/Business Transition 360
Business Transition 360 is a uniquely qualified New and Reconditioned business furniture dealership, space planning and furniture decommission company, created for the sole purpose of helping businesses save time and money when relocating, renovating or transitioning their businesses.
“Beyond the Cupola” allows invited customers, community, and team members of Oconee State Bank to have an opportunity to share their stories of success and inspiration, and/or how the “Remarkable” culture of Oconee State Bank has inspired them to mark lives in their own right.
Laura Whitaker/Extra Special People
Extra Special People is the legacy of one woman who had a passion for children and young people with special needs, and a vision of a place where they and their families could focus on their abilities instead of their disabilities. Martha Wyllie founded Extra Special People in 1986, offering high-quality affordable programs for “people with different abilities.” Twenty-one children enrolled in that first summer camp. By the time Martha passed away in 2004, ESP was serving 130 campers with a budget of $150,000 and had acquired a small facility where children could be served on-site.
The year following Martha’s death, ESP Summer Camp was in danger of being eliminated because of lack of funding. When a young camp counselor, Laura Whitaker, heard this, she pulled together the families and made a call to the community to save camp by raising $50,000 in just a matter of months. The founder’s family appointed Laura as the new Executive Director in January of 2006.
Since becoming Executive Director, Laura has led ESP to expanded programming, and the organization now serves more young people than ever before. ESP runs weekend and after-school programs, family support programs, and events in addition to summer camp. After a 5 year capital campaign, ESP opened the doors on a 14,000 sq. ft. facility in Watkinsville in June of 2016. Every day, ESP continues to provide a safe place that individuals with disabilities can call their own.
Through the magic that ESP creates kids, young adults, families, volunteers, donors and staff are changed!
Natasha Lisin/Smile Creations Dental
Dr. Natasha Lisin and the experienced staff at Smile Creations Dental are dedicated to helping you improve your smile. Together with their highly trained staff, Dr. Natasha Lisin is committed to meeting all of your dental needs and goals! The dental team at Smile Creations Dental is eager to help you and your family achieve optimal oral health. They are proud to provide comfortable, painless dental care to all of their patients, and they are pleased to offer both cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Whether you are in need of a simple cleaning or a complex treatment, Smile Creations is certain that they can meet your needs to restore your oral health. They invite you to browse their website, call them, or visit them in Suwanee, GA to learn more about the dental practice and their services. Dr. Natasha Lisin and her highly skilled team are always ready to help you maintain and improve your smile!
Ashley Lail/Benco Dental
Benco Dental is now the largest privately-owned full-service distributor of dental supplies, dental equipment, dental consulting & dental equipment services. The company has remained family-owned and is in its third generation of leadership. During the company’s 80-year history, Benco Dental has grown from a single storefront location in Wilkes-Barre, PA into the nation’s fastest-growing dental distributor, with 50 regional showroom locations and five distribution centers servicing over 30,000 dental professionals across the country.
Vonya & Kareem Hodrick/WellSource Integrative Health Solutions
WellSource Integrative Health Solutions, formally Holistic Healing Avenues (HHA), services the Greater Metro Atlanta area and the online community. Originally, HHA provided Outpatient Mental Health Clinic services from 2010 to 2016 and was
groundbreaking with integrating Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) with professional counseling to improve client therapy treatments. Furthermore, HHA attained a state certification in drug and alcohol treatment from 2010 to 2016 and was a partner of the Mental Health Board to provide outpatient mental health and addiction services in another state.
Proudly in 2018, WellSource has been developed to service the residents of throughout the Atlanta area and the online community to provide transformative health and wellness serves through professional coaching strategies, leadership programs and educational workshops. Wellsource facilitates coaching sessions through a Holistic Integrative Model emphasizing the nine dimensions of wellness: Environmental, Spiritual, Financial, Social, Purpose, Occupational, Intellectual, Emotional and Physical.
