THE DAY BEFORE MONDAY Shannon Teixeira with Waste Management and Lindsay Moellenberndt with AZ Biz Link
Waste Management is the largest comprehensive waste and environmental services and recycler company in North America. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
The company’s network includes 346 transfer stations, 293 active landfill disposal sites, 146 recycling plants, 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and six independent power production plants. 
Waste Management offers environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
With 26,000 collection and transfer vehicles, the company has the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry including the largest fleet of natural gas heavy-duty truck fleet of its kind in North America.
We’re always working toward a more sustainable tomorrow. Their focus is on maximizing resource value while minimizing impact in order to further both economic and environmental sustainability for their customers, shareholders and the planet.
Shannon Teixeira is a designer & builder of Modern HR who is deeply passionate about impacting people, business, communities. She fuses both business and people performance transforming to unified, aligned, collaborative and purpose driven workplaces for employees to be at their best and do their best work.
Her background has straddled between design, operations, marketing and HR working in companies from start-ups and Fortune 500 which has given her the ability to use innovative ways of thinking and doing to drive strategy into high performing organizational outcomes. She considers herself agile and thrives in growing, evolving and collaborative environments. She leads by showing up authentically, mentoring, teaching and having fun.
She is currently leading the people strategy for regional operations unit within WM with revenues exceeding $1B and over 3100 employees across five states. In addition she is part of a core team designing and implementing a new HR operating structure across all of Waste Management focused on a driving a people -first culture.
Shannon is co-founder of AZ Talent coop an organization focused on bringing together all of the people focused organizations across Greater Phoenix, is a past president of SHRM of Greater Phoenix and currently sits on the Advisory board for AZ Biz Link. She is also a Phoenix Business Journal past award recipient for HR Innovation.
Connect with Shannon on LinkedIn.
AZ Biz Link spends our time and efforts on what fuels companies – their workforce and their leadership. We strive to understand what topics companies and individuals are curious about and develop thoughtful education events that answer those questions. 
We love to tackle tough topics and provide non-political responses. We keep it real and focus on bringing the right community leaders to the table to help all of us navigate specific topics that relate to our personal and professional lives.
Ready to take your personal life and career to the next level? Join us for a future event.
Lindsay Moellenberndt is a real estate expert with a passion for connecting people and businesses with resources for growth. Throughout her career in commercial real estate and regional economic development she has helped friends, clients, colleagues and community members identify ways to elevate their businesses.
Lindsay founded AZ Biz Link in 2017, a professional development organization focused on facilitating discussions around today’s modern workforce and leadership challenges, while creating solutions and driving real positive change in the workplace.
Lindsay latest hobby includes hosting the AZ Biz Link podcast where she interviews local leaders to discuss all the great people, places, services & companies that exist in our community that can help set one up for personal and professional success.
Connect with Lindsay on LinkedIn and follow AZ Biz Link on Facebook and Instagram.
ABOUT THE DAY BEFORE MONDAY PODCAST
An encouraging and practical podcast giving you the tools to have a happier “work” experience. We tend to do our best work in a healthy environment with/for people we respect, and this podcast will help you to identify and navigate toward the more fulfilling work you crave.
ABOUT YOUR HOST, BRENDA M. CUNNINGHAM
A former engineer and project manager within corporate America, Brenda M. Cunningham now runs Push Career Management and helps super smart professionals get back to work, get positioned for promotions, and get paid what they’re worth.
She is the President of the Resume Writers’ Council of Arizona, served on the board of the National Resume Writers’ Association, and holds credentials in resume writing, career management, and job search strategy (CPRW, CCM, and CJSS).
Working with corporations to provide more personal outplacement services, Brenda has already made an impact for several companies in manufacturing, retail sales, R&D, and financial services facing reductions in force (layoffs).
An author, public speaker, career strategist, and unapologetic encourager…Brenda is on a mission to make sure no one is limited by boundaries in their own career. You can connect with Brenda at LinkedIn.com/BrendaMCunningham.
ABOUT OUR SHOW’S SPONSOR
Push Career Management, LLC, is a Career Transition firm that works with professionals who are ready for promotion or who are eager to get back into quality positions in the workforce. They provide corporate outplacement services, 1:1 portfolio development (resume, LinkedIn profile, cover letter, etc…), and job search/interview coaching.
Their clients get a huge surge of confidence after working with them. Their signature Discovery Process helps them to extract the things that make their clients marketable so they can demand and get paid what they’re worth…while accelerating their transitions. To find out more, visit pushcareermanagement.com and schedule a complimentary consultation or a more in-depth strategy session.
