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Dr. Robert Wright with SENTEL Corporation

August 4, 2015 by rhondachale

Dr. Robert Wright / SENTEL Corporation

With almost 50 years of experience in government, business, finance, politics and project management, Dr. Wright is one of the most highly-respected and well-regarded business leaders of his generation. He presently serves as Chairman and CEO of FE Holdings, Inc., a firm dedicated to the investment and growth of private and public sector companies. He is also the Chairman Emeritus of SENTEL Corporation, a government contracting company headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and serves as a current member of its Senior Advisory Board.

Prior to his most recent leadership roles, Dr. Wright founded Dimensions International, Inc. (DI), a provider of technology solutions to the government and private sectors. DI conducted organizational and direct support maintenance on a variety of Army, Navy, and Marine Corps equipment, and also worked with the Department of the Army to develop new logistics innovation concepts, as well as policy and doctrine. In addition, DI provided depot-level repair and logistics support services for Navy/Marine Corps Aviation Support Equipment at selected CONUS sites.

Dr. Wright later served as Chairman of Flight Explorer (FE), which he purchased from DI prior to the Honeywell acquisition. FE is a global flight tracking, information technology and communications solutions provider to the business, aviation and traveler community. He also maintained a vested interest in Sentel Corporation, another wholly-owned subsidiary of DI that was acquired before the Honeywell acquisition. Dr. Wright sold FE to Sabre Technologies in 2008, but remains Chairman Emeritus of Sentel Corporation. He later created FE Holdings, Inc., a private investment company, and continues to serve as Chairman and CEO.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Dr. Wright was appointed by President Reagan to the position of Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business at the U.S. Small Business Administration, where he managed the office of Minority Small Business/Capital Ownership Development (MSB/COD) to foster business ownership and to promote competitive viability of eligible socially and economically disadvantaged businesses.

Dr. Wright also served three consecutive terms as a member of the Columbus, Georgia City Council. He was directly responsible for Council District 2, with a population of approximately 50,000 people. He developed and supported legislation related to housing, recreation, employment, industrial development, and street and highway improvements.

Popular Genius Spotlights Wegener Media

July 31, 2015 by rhondachale

Andrea Falls, Founder of Popular Genius, introduced Business RadioX listeners to special guests from The Netherlands, Wegener Media.

Brent Vicknair / Head of Innovation

Global integrated marketing, integration and innovation consultant whose entrepreneurial leadership produces outstanding results for organizations and brands who must innovate in order to grow. Connecting the business case with the areas of brand strategy, product development and design, communications planning and execution consistently – and meaningfully – across all channels.

Dirk Henst / Innovation Consultant (Technology)

Working in a lean and highly agile environment helping internal and external people to accelerate business with Wegener Media. Main focus on concepts, strategy and getting things done. Having a background in IT and being part of every innovation concept from a technology perspective to align with legacy environments and use the full potential of new technologies.

Paul Vereijken / Innovation Consultant (Content & Storytelling)

Background in journalism – both print and online. Connects to power of content and art of storytelling to the ideas we work on at Innovation. Believes that the power of a story you can truly connect with is the one thing that will give you the strength to break the wall and make the change.

Listeners can also learn more about Popular Genius

Kathleen Hamrick with Innovation Depot and UAB, Justin Smith with Sertaware, John Peinhardt and Katie Johnson with Directorpoint, Matt Landers with Platypi, and Tommy Cox with Advanced Systems Unlimited

July 31, 2015 by rhondachale

Kathleen Hamrick / Innovation Depot and UAB

Hamrick is an Alabama native and serves Innovation Depot and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as Director of the Innovation Lab (UAB iLab) at Innovation Depot. In the UAB iLab, Hamrick has played an integral role in the sourcing of seed investment for two student-led startups and for the programmatic development and implementation of programming to support experiential learning opportunities for students with interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. Hamrick is a shareholder with the cancer molecular diagnostics company: Blondin Bioscience, which recently secured Phase 1 SBIR funding from the National Institute for Health. She serves also as a member of TEDxBirmingham’s organizing committee.

Justin Smith / Sertaware, LLC

John Peinhardt and Katie Johnson / Directorpoint LLC

John Peinhardt is a co-founder and President of Directorpoint LLC. Prior to Directorpoint, Mr. Peinhardt served as a Management Consultant for Vantage Associates, Inc., where he advised management teams on strategy execution, large-scale project management, and project portfolio management. Before consulting he gained extensive experience managing large-scale strategic and information technology initiatives for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. Mr. Peinhardt is a Project Management Institute Certified Project Management Professional.

Matt Landers / Platypi

Tommy Cox / Advanced Systems Unlimited

Alan Reeves with Birmingham Business Alliance, Cecil Bostany and Max Koss with Warren Averett and Alston Noah with Vincari

July 31, 2015 by rhondachale

Alan Reeves / Birmingham Business Alliance

Cecil Bostany and Max Koss / Warren Averett

Alston Noah / Vincari

Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Vincari helps hospitals, surgery centers and the physicians who perform surgical procedures to minimize costs, maximize quality and specificity for ICD-10 documentation as well as optimize facility and professional fee reimbursement. The software platform, Lightspeed Valet, is engineered for speed, accuracy, and the ability to anticipate physician needs, learn individual patterns and guide specificity. Lightspeed Valet dramatically improves the entire process related to ICD-10 both upstream at the point of care and downstream for the coding and documentation teams.

Devon Laney with Innovation Depot, Glenn Kinstler with 2B Solutions and Will Wright with Pack Health

July 31, 2015 by rhondachale

Devon Laney / Innovation Depot

T. Devon Laney is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Innovation Depot, Inc., the high-tech/biotech business incubator located in downtown Birmingham and recipient of the 2011 Technology Incubator of the Year Award from the National Business Incubation Association. Devon has been with the Innovation Depot since 2005. Prior to joining Innovation Depot, he worked on a broad range of marketing, I/T and strategic organizational projects with various Fortune 500 companies as an analyst with Accenture LLP in Atlanta. Previously, Devon worked on the development, redesign and launch of Energen Corporation’s intranet, and also served as the Entertainment Editor for nationally distributed Family Issues Magazine during its first 18 months of publication.

Glenn Kinstler / 2B Solutions

Husband, father, dog lover, Tide and Blazers fan, craft beer connoisseur, guitar player, Birmingham native, Relationship Manager at 2B Solutions.

Will Wright / Pack Health

Brad Spencer and Kate Hayden with Blondin Bioscience, and Bebe Goodrich with Icebox Coffee

July 31, 2015 by rhondachale

Brad Spencer and Kate Hayden / Blondin Bioscience

Bebe Goodrich / Icebox Coffee

Bebe Goodrich is a New Orleans native. She’s also a mother of two under 2. Icebox is her first dip into entrepreneurship. Prior to this, she worked on capital hill and for a local non-profit.

Dr. Lenore Coleman with Healing Our Village

July 28, 2015 by rhondachale

Small business owners these days often do not have much residual time to invest in the procurement of knowledge about the current Affordable Healthcare Act, and its impact on their business. In this LTSB we speak to Dr. Lenore T. Coleman about the new reform, how it will impact small businesses, and the importance that employee health plays on employer productivity and cost.

Meet Dr. Lenore T. Coleman. Dr. Coleman is the purveyor Healing Our Village, and the advocate of two important precepts in her service line: 1) The management of chronic disease through programming and wellness leaders, and, 2) The importance of data procurement for minority populations in clinical trials.

Dr. Coleman does not just cater to the Georgia market, she has 2 other locations in DC, and LA. As a small business owner herself, Dr. Coleman understands the importance of employee health, the idea, she says, is to engage employees in a health program that, ultimately, not only lowers the overall cost of health for the employer, but increases employee productivity. Dr. Coleman is engaged with several institutions on furthering this initiatives throughout her 3 locations (Atlanta, DC, and LA), the most notable in Georgia being Morehouse, which is one of the largest physician’s groups in the state.

Although Dr. Coleman has only been in Atlanta for 3 years, her practice has been around for 15 years altogether. That, coupled with her doctorate, also makes her a veritable well of knowledge for what the Affordable Healthcare Act really means for small businesses. Atlanta, considered the national hub of Medical IT, she suggests, would benefit greatly from the new Medicaid act. “Medicaid,” she says, “increases the number of clinics and expands the number of people who can enroll in the program,” which opens up the number of jobs for people in the IT medical field. Today, with telehealth, technological advancements, and the constant influx of innovation in the field, the expanded opportunities are endless.

Ultimately, this LTSB brims with education and information on the benefits of how to raise the bar for employees and their health, and provides vital clarification on the hot topic of healthcare reform for small businesses.

Dr. Lenore T. Coleman / Healing Our Village

Lenore T. Coleman, Pharm.D., CDE, received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1979. She completed an ASHP approved residency in Ambulatory Care at the USC School of Pharmacy in 1980.

Since that time, in every practice setting, Dr. Coleman has developed innovative programs to address medication adherence and barriers to health for minority populations.

Dr. Coleman has been a practicing pharmacist for over 30 years. She has worked as a clinical pharmacist in the acute care, ambulatory care and community pharmacy setting Within each of those practice settings, Dr. Coleman has focused on the care and management of people with diabetes and heart disease with a special focus on African Americans and Latinos.

Dr. Coleman holds the title of Adjunct Professor, Xavier College of Pharmacy and is the past Director of Diabetes Research for the Health Disparities Center of Excellence. She is also a Research Fellow, Center of Excellence, Howard University School of Pharmacy.

In 2001, Dr. Coleman founded Total Lifestyle Change, Inc. (TLC) and is currently the Executive Director and CEO. TLC a non-profit service organization (501 3 c ) and has most recently gotten the IRS designation as a pubic charity. Dedicated to eliminating health care disparities in ethnic populations www.tlc-global.org TLC has two primary programs that are provided in the US and abroad. Project FAITH is a church based program that provides wellness screening and educational workshop. Operation DETECT is a Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program that is provided to Community-Based Organizations.

Dr. Coleman is currently the President and Founder of Healing Our Village of Maryland, Inc. (HOV) www.healingourvillage.com). HOV provides minority recruitment for clinical research trials as well as a medication therapy management and health education programming in physician offices, urban hospitals and community health clinics.

In March 1996, Dr. Coleman became a Fellow of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists which represents sustained excellence in a practice area for more than 10 years. Dr. Coleman has 15 publications and provides professional training in the United States, Nigeria, Trinidad, USVI and Jamaica.

Todd Gray with Grady Health System and Dr. Alita Anderson with Eubio Medical Communications

July 21, 2015 by rhondachale

How will opportunities in Georgia be affected by the changing landscape of healthcare? This question concerns practically every small business across the country. In this edition, we are joined by the Director of Supplier Diversity from one of the top medical institutions in the nation—Mr. Todd Gray, of Grady— and by an MBE that is capitalizing on a burgeoning field in healthcare/pharma— Alita Anderson, MD of Eubio Medical, a medical communications firm.

The opportunities, according to Grady, are great. In the next two years alone, Grady plans on creating 132 jobs, and Gray expects the minority inclusion on that to be 30%– an exceptional number for any organization. Grady plans on doing this through several initiatives, including a GMSDC partnership and through expanding the list of services and products that it will pull from (marketing, IT, untraditional suppliers, GOPs, etc.). His dialogue teems with advice such as:

Remember Healthcare is NOT fee-driven, but all about quality outcome
Think about strategic partnerships before setting your sights on a large bid
2^nd tier does not mean 2^nd class
And consider how supplier rationalization factors in

On the other side of the field of medical/healthcare, meet Alita Anderson, MD. Alita found a need and turned it into an opportunity for her small business, Eubio Medical. In the growing field of healthcare, there are so many moving parts that the need for a clear voice is essential, and an overarching, clear vision is imperative. That’s where Alita comes in. Her firm, comprised of a virtual “A-Team” of professionals in scientific backgrounds, come in and facilitate a conversation with stakeholders about the product or service to reveal what is important about the data and she then comes up with “credible and compelling” communication surrounding that item or service. Once she gleans and crystalizes that information, she provides training to the professionals that need it, so that everyone in the system is up to speed on the critical facts.

Overall, through the lens of a supplier diversity professional from a large organization, and an entrepreneur who created a successful firm out of the need she saw as an opportunity, we learn that there are real, and concrete opportunities on the horizon in healthcare—we just have to go out and look for them.

Todd Gray / Grady Health System

Alita Anderson, MD / Eubio Medical Communications

Alita Anderson, MD is Principal of Eubio Medical Communications, a team of physicians, scientists, writers and designers that inspires clients to communicate medical and scientific information both credibly and compellingly. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale University School of Medicine Alita combines her passion for science, her love of the written word and her desire to positively impact other’s lives in her leadership of Eubio.

The Owners’ Manual launches on Friday, August 7, 2015 at 11:30am EST!

July 18, 2015 by rhondachale

Join us for the inaugural episode of The Owners’ Manual on Friday, August 7, 2015 at 11:30am Eastern.

The Owners’ Manual will promote small business owners and franchise owners. We will get to understand how a business works, from an owner/franchisee’s point of view. We will hear about the struggles, as well as the highlights of owning a business.