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Aubrey Hord with Aubrey Hord Photography

July 17, 2020 by Mike

ePresence

Aubrey Hord with Aubrey Hord Photography

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Aubrey Hord/Aubrey Hord Photography

Maui-based professional photographer Aubrey Hord specializes in Commercial and Portrait Photography, both on-location and in her full service studio. She is a photography instructor at the visual arts center and University of Hawaii Maui College as well as a public speaker. Aubrey is a Certified Professional Photographer with a Photographic Craftsman Degree from the Professional Photographers of America. Established on Maui in 2008, Aubrey Hord Photography is a woman-owned and operated small business, and the studio is a proud Business Member of 1% For The Planet, donating 1% of pre-tax
revenue back to grassroots environmental organizations.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged. Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Kara Brown of LeadCoverage

July 16, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Kara Brown of LeadCoverage

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Kara Brown/LeadCoverage

LeadCoverage executes B2B marketing, sales, and PR on behalf of clients in the supply chain, heavy industrial, and technology industries. The LeadCoverage team executes lead generation through targeted marketing and sales strategies and media coverage that drives inbound conversions and measurable marketing Return on Investment (ROI).

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Gwinnett County Commission Candidate Jasper Watkins

July 16, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Gwinnett County Commission Candidate Jasper Watkins

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Jane Bishop, Jasper Watkins and Ryan Sauers

Jasper Watkins/Gwinnett County Commission Candidate (District 3)

Gwinnett County Commission (District 3) candidate Jasper Watkins has accumulated over 40 years of federal and state leadership experience. As part of his military and civilian career, LTC Watkins has gained a license as a Nuclear Pharmacist. He supported the Walter Reed Army Medical Center with the placement of injured Pentagon officials during September 11th. Watkins initiated the pharmaceutical support and medical re-supply for New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina while serving as the Pharmacy Director of Martin Army Hospital at Ft. Benning, GA. He also sits on several boards and scientific associations. He was awarded the Legion of Merit Award for meritorious conduct while discharging his duties.

Jane Bishop/Take the Next Step

Jane Bishop, is CEO of Take the Next Step which emerged out of her passion to help others “go for their It.” She helps small business owners and entrepreneurs strengthen and align with their inner core for success by using her coaching and training skills. When you work with Jane you will experience accomplishing your “it” and be a greater influence to those around you. Jane uses her E4U system to help clients get to the core faster to create and execute a plan for effectiveness. Jane is also a professional speaker and published author. Curious? Reach out and book a complimentary session and see where that leads.

Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies

Ryan T. Sauers has spent 25 years leading and/or consulting with visual communications and marketing related organizations. Ryan is President/Owner of the consulting firm, Sauers Consulting Strategies; Our Town Gwinnett Magazine (2 monthly magazines); and its parent company End Resultz Media.

Key areas of focus of the consulting firm include: sales training, marketing strategy, personal branding, leadership development, and organizational change.

Sauers is a frequent national speaker and columnist. He has been recognized as one of the top 80 CMO’s in the world and achieved the top designation of Certified Marketing Executive through Sales and Marketing Executives International.

Sauers is an adjunct university professor teaching leadership, marketing, and communication courses to current and aspiring leaders. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner.

Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is host of the radio show Marketing Matters. Sauers is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You? More info at: RyanSauers.com or OurTownGwinnett.com.

Show Overview

Marketing Matters with Ryan Sauers is a radio show presented by Air Filter Sales and Service. The show discusses topics as they relate to marketing, communications, sales, customer service, leadership and more. Host Ryan Sauers, a best-selling author and national speaker, discusses how these topics play a role in every aspect of our lives. Each episode shares tangible nuggets of information that listeners can easily understand and apply to their everyday life, whether personal or business. The show challenges listeners’ current state of thinking so they can grow to new heights and see new opportunities in business or life: which is rapidly changing, multi-generational, and noisy in nature.

Lauren Summers of New Dawn Realty and Tom Shelton of the Sugar Hill Business Alliance

July 16, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Lauren Summers of New Dawn Realty and Tom Shelton of the Sugar Hill Business Alliance

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Mike Sammond, Lauren Summers, Tom Sheldon, Steven Julian

Lauren Summers/New Dawn Realty

New Dawn Realty is a local real estate company based out of Norcross,GA which has focused on serving the Gwinnett community for over 20 years.

For buyers, whether you’re looking for your first home, your dream home, or an investment property, New Dawn Realty is committed to providing you with the highest quality buyer service. For sellers, the decision to sell a home is often dependent on many factors. Whatever your reasons are for selling, their proven effective marketing strategies will ensure that you get the highest possible price for your home.

Tom Sheldon/Sugar Hill Business Alliance

The Sugar Hill Business Alliance provides a platform to enable members to gain exposure and relationships. Promotion and growth is facilitated through networking opportunities, sponsorships, social media exposure, and special events. Their goal is to unite and empower local businesses in Sugar Hill, GA and the North Gwinnett area.

JL Robb, Author of “The End: The Book: The Series”

July 15, 2020 by Mike

Case In Point

JL Robb, Author of "The End: The Book: The Series"

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JL Robb/Author of “The End: The Book: The Series”

JL Robb was born in Augusta, GA in 1947. The journey from birth to author of 7 books is an intriguing story in itself, and book-worthy. Robb was also born into a world-wide pandemic. Like the pandemic the world is experiencing today, polio was also viral. There was no vaccine and at age 5, polio hit wher Robb lived in High Point, N.C, so he was sent to live with relatives in Georgia. It was there that Robb got his first taste of Aunt Kiki’s Bible. At age 10, he read the Book of Revelation and has been hooked since.

He left home at 16, graduated from high school, joined the Navy from 1968-74 where he served as Hospital Corpsman, graduated from N.C. State University with a degree in Zoology, and became sales manager for major medical company. Then he and a few friends opened what Billboard Magazine branded as “Atlanta’s Hottest Disco”. The drift away from the God he grew up knowing continued.

In 1979, Robb revisited Revelation and was hooked again. It seemed it was happening. He decided to read the Bible, starting on page 1 and 6 months later was hooked on the entire Book. In 2000, at age 53, Robb started getting a calling to write a book series when he would pray. After 10 years of hearing that voice, he thought maybe it was God, so at age 63, he decided to take the journey if God would help him as he had never written a novel.

This is where his story gets interesting. Robb began to have a series of dreams telling him what to write, and he would wake up, write it on a post-it, and stick it on the bathroom mirror. He said he knew they were messages because “I could have never in a million years thought up the story I wrote”.

In 2010 he began to write and the journey lasted 9 years. During that time, Robb dealt with prostate cancer, malignant melanoma, open-heart surgery, Bell’s Palsy and 2 minor strokes. He trudged on, never quitting, trying to finish before health problems did him in. A friend suggested he was really ticking off Satan and to keep up the good writing. Apparently he did, as his much talked-about “The End-The Book-The Series” – a 7-book series about prophecies that have not yet happened – is rated 4-5 stars in Amazon Reviews. “If it was not for the polio pandemic, I probably would have never read Revelation.” Now at the age of 73, he admits it was quite a journey. and the dreams kept him going.

Dave Emanuel of the City of Snellville

July 8, 2020 by Mike

Case In Point

Dave Emanuel of the City of Snellville

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Dave Emanuel/City of Snellville

Snellville is a city in Gwinnett County with a population of approximately 20,000. Although it wasn’t chartered until 1923, the city was founded in the late 1800’s as a mercantile center. Like most of Gwinnett County, Snellville grew rapidly through the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s and lost much of its small town feel. That started to change in 2010 and with construction of a new Towne Center as the city adds amenities and attractions that will be transformational.

LEADER DIALOGUE: Physician Engagement Post COVID-19 (Part 2 of 2)

July 3, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: Physician Engagement Post COVID-19 (Part 2 of 2)

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Dr. Michael Shabot/Executive VP & System Chief Clinical Officer of Relia Healthcare Advisors

Dr. Michael Shabot is a Founding Partner of Relia Healthcare Advisors, which provides services in the areas of high reliability safety and quality, executive leadership development, organizational culture assessment, medical staff governance and implementation of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Framework.

Dr. Shabot formerly served as Executive Vice President and System Chief Clinical Officer of the Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, which includes 17 hospitals, 20 ambulatory surgical centers and 300 other Ambulatory sites. Memorial Hermann has private, employed and academic medical groups totaling 6,500 physicians and an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Memorial Hermann’s ACO generated the highest annual savings the CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program has ever recorded, totaling $200 million. Dr. Shabot served as chairman of Memorial Hermann’s ACO Board.

Under his leadership, Memorial Hermann embarked on a journey to high reliability safety. In 2013, Memorial Hermann received the John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality, presented by the Joint Commission and National Quality Forum. In 2009, Memorial Hermann received both the National Quality Healthcare Award from the National Quality Forum and the National Patient Safety Leadership Award from the VHA Foundation and National Business Group on Health. In 2016, the Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital received the Baldrige National Quality Award, and in 2017 and 2018 respectively, the Memorial Hermann’s Katy Hospital and Memorial City Medical Center received the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE), based on the Baldrige Award criteria. In 2019, Memorial Hermann received the International Hospital Federation’s Dr Kwang Tae Kim Grand Award, presented to Dr. Shabot at the IHF Congress in Muskat, Oman.

Chuck Stokes/Former President & CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System

Charles (Chuck) D. Stokes, former President and CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System, joined the system in 2008 as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In June 2017, he was named President and CEO of the System. In his role, Chuck was responsible for leading and overseeing the $5.6B System’s network of more than 17 hospitals and 300 delivery sites, with more than 27,000 employees and 6,400 affiliated physicians in the Greater Houston area. Chuck retired from Memorial Hermann effective December 2019.

Chuck has four decades of leadership experience in healthcare, and throughout his accomplished career has achieved success in service line leadership, employee engagement, leadership development, physician collaboration, and quality and patient safety improvement.

During his tenure with Memorial Hermann, Chuck worked tirelessly to establish a culture of high reliability, innovation, and clinical transformation throughout the organization. Under his visionary leadership, Memorial Hermann attained unprecedented national accolades in patient safety, high-quality care, and operational excellence all while serving as Houston’s “safety net” health system.

Chuck models servant leadership with an emphasis on coaching and team building while using Malcolm Baldrige criteria as a platform for driving operational excellence. His leadership was instrumental in helping Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital secure the 2016 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award – the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence. In 2019, Chuck was named one of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.

Co-Host: Dr. Roger Spoelman

Dr. Roger Spoelman is an accomplished healthcare executive and coach, having served as President/CEO of Mercy Health, a regional network of hospitals, physician organizations, and health network operations in western and northern Michigan. He also served as a senior executive for Trinity Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States having been posted as President/CEO of several of Trinity Health’s largest regional health systems including Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio; Trinity Health of New England; and Loyola University Health System in Chicago. Roger has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions, community health improvement, leadership development, physician integration, physician groups, and governance. He is also a frequent speaker and facilitator, helping organizations develop a culture of innovation.

Co-Host: Lisa Counsell

Lisa Counsell comes to SOAR Vision Group with over two decades of clinical, leadership and clinical informatics experience. She has a proven leadership record – from start-ups to large Fortune 10 companies – generating strong customer engagement, leading high-performing teams, and driving profitable, sustainable business growth. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing with experience in critical care and is currently pursuing her MBA with a concentration in healthcare.

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.

Coping with COVID: Mark McGraw with Sandler Training

July 1, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Coping with COVID: Mark McGraw with Sandler Training

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This special edition of “TravelSafely with Bryan Mulligan” features the third installment of a limited series called “Coping with COVID”. Hosted by Bryan Mulligan, the President of Applied Information, “Coping with Covid” shares the stories and successes of people and organizations during these unprecedented times of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Joining Bryan on this installment is Mark McGraw with Sandler Training to discuss how sales organizations are coping with the COVID-19 pandemic

Mark McGraw/Sandler Training

Mark McGraw is the President of Sales Engine, LLC, a Sandler Training Company. The Sandler Selling System has helped over 1 million salespeople sell more and sell more easily by avoiding the games buyers play and empowering the salesperson to take control of the conversation. Their highly innovative programs, created by Sandler professionals, are tested and have proven effective for over 50 years by professionals around the world in every industry.

About Applied Information

Applied Information is a leading developer of connected, intelligent transportation system (ITS) solutions designed to improve safety, reliability and mobility. Applied Information’s Glance Smart City Supervisory platform allows cities to manage all their traffic and ITS assets on one web-based application. This includes 5 key areas: Traffic Intersections, School Beacons, Parking Guidance System, Mobile Vehicle Assets and ITS devices. AI’s Glance TravelSafely smartphone app connects drivers, cyclists and pedestrians for a safer commute.

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Sharon Levell with Women for Trump and Black Voices for Trump

July 1, 2020 by Mike

Case In Point

Sharon Levell with Women for Trump and Black Voices for Trump

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Sharon Levell/Women for Trump and Black Voices for Trump

Atlanta business owner Sharon Levell serves as an Advisory Board Member for Women for Trump and Black Voices for Trump.

What makes Women for Trump so special? They are women. Women who know what it takes to get the job done. A group of women who knows that the next 4 years are critical. Their team has decades of experience in politics, media, and grassroots activism. Women that have been successful, and have shown they can make a difference. There are millions of women who support Donald Trump and they’re not standing in the shadows anymore! They won’t be pushed around by bullies who tell them who they are “supposed” to like. And they’re not going to keep quiet just because the Washington, D.C. power elites want them to!

Black Voices for Trump encourages the black community to re-elect President Donald J. Trump by sharing experiences and successes of everyday Americans as a result of the Trump administration. Re-electing the President will ensure greater economic opportunity, safer communities, and better healthcare policies for generations to come.