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“How a Fractional Chief Operating Officer Helps Businesses,” with Cary Matthews, Opal Partners Group

July 15, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

"How a Fractional Chief Operating Officer Helps Businesses," with Cary Matthews, Opal Partners Group

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“How a Fractional Chief Operating Officer Helps Businesses,” with Cary Matthews, Opal Partners Group (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 259)

Opal Partners Group Founder Cary Matthews joins host John Ray to discuss the value a fractional chief operating officer brings to a business, including helping scale, tackling vital operational projects, and more. “North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Opal Partners Group, LLC

Opal Partners Group, LLC (OPG) is an operations consulting firm. They work with business owners to ensure all aspects of their operations are sound and aligned with their strategic and short-term goals.

They break down client challenges into three levels of the operations hierarchy: Process, Structure, and Strategy.

From younger companies that need to add structure and process to support their growing organization to more established firms that need to solve a singular challenge, OPG can help.

For a company struggling with identifying the root of their challenges, Opal can perform an operations audit to help hone in on the areas that need improvement.

Cary Matthews, Managing Partner, Opal Partners Group

Prior to starting OPG, Cary was COO at Trextel, LLC, a multi-technology solutions provider in the Atlanta area that performed installation, project management, and managed services for Fortune 500 companies servicing their edge networking.

In that role, Cary led the project management, support services, accounting, and human resources departments.

At Trextel, he restructured the project management and support services teams to increase employee utilization and efficiency, reduced time to invoice, improved cash flow through new vendor agreements, and formalized employee coaching and other human resources practices.

Cary earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, both from Auburn University.

Activities include serving as a member of the MBA Advisory Board for Anderson University, board member and treasurer for Vision USA, and a member of Vistage International.

He has taken professional development classes at MIT and Georgia Tech.

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Questions/Topics Discussed in this Show

What is a fractional COO?
What are the characteristics of companies who hire fractional executives?
What types of problems does Opal Partners help clients solve?
Operations can be vary from industry to industry. How does that impact how you help your clients?
What are some of the most common questions or challenges clients bring to you?
From an operations perspective, how has the pandemic changed how companies operate?
What is the biggest takeaway or lesson learned that businesses should be aware of going forward?
How has the rapid move to remote work arrangements affected companies and their operations?

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E30 Change Management with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi

May 20, 2019 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

E30 Change Management with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi

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E30 Change Management with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi

Have your struggled with Change Management? In this episode of Project Management Office Hours we have an in-depth discussion with Julia Steel and Renee Campisi on Change Management and Agile for Business.

We often look at Change Management on a per project basis rather than looking at Change as an overall initiative. How are we working within organizations with Managers and Leaders to prepare for change? Julia shares insights from her book, “Buy-in: How to Lead Change, Build Commitment and Inspire People.”

Listen to hear Julia describe the 3 C’s, Confidence, Clout and Courage to lead to successful Change. Renee shares her story which has grown to founding Nimble Giants. Listen to hear her discuss Agile for Business and the experiences that have helped shape her work. She provides great insights with stories, tips and tools which help organizations and leaders implement change.Think of “Change Fitness”, just as athletes need to practice and exercise to improve within their sport of choice we need to practice Change to improve.

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Julia Steel is on a mission to help individuals, teams and organisations supercharge progress, navigate change and deliver results that matter.

She is an international speaker, author, facilitator, and coach, offering programs that help you focus on, implement and achieve strategic change.

Julia is the author of “Buy-in: How to Lead Change, Build Commitment and Inspire People,” is a graduate of Stanford University’s Executive LEAD program and knows that enrolling the right people, at the right time, is crucial to your success.

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Nimble Giants will work with you to figure out exactly what services your business needs to run more efficiently and productively using an agile for business approach. Once that is established, they will work with you to figure out how you can grow your business from where it is now to where you dream of taking it.

Renee Campisi is leveraging her 20+ years of Process, Technology, Operations, Leadership and Change Management experience to bring her clients Nimble Giants Consulting. Renee’s business consulting services are focused on helping her clients unlock additional potential within their teams as well as operate in a strong, flexible and swift manner to remain competitive in today’s ever-changing landscape.

Renee first began her career at Accenture in Process and Technology Consulting for Fortune 100 companies. She credits her passion for business and leadership approach to spending her formative business years at Accenture where she practiced client partnership, consultative solutioning, innovation, technical leadership and project adoption.

Six years later, Renee left Accenture to operationalize a Joint Venture Partnership Program for a Phoenix based startup. This entrepreneurial experience helped round out Renee’s corporate business experience and provided her with a deep appreciation of the commitment and determination needed to succeed as a business owner.

After successfully expanding the Phoenix based entrepreneur’s Partnership Program across the US, Renee returned to her Process and Technology roots where she lead Professional Services for Pearson Education’s School Systems Business Unit. Here she strengthened her Program and Change Management experience and furthered her Operational Leadership and Business Partner Acumen.

After five rewarding years with Pearson, Renee was asked to design and implement an Operations Department for Neudesic, a highly successful and innovative Systems Integrator and Consulting Services Company with 12 offices across the US. Here Renee designed and implemented Business Capabilities focused on Business Performance Analysis and Advisement, Resource Deployment, Internal Process and Systems Development, Strategic Initiative Management, Financial Projections and Capacity Planning.

Currently, Renee is engaged with a Fortune 500 Company headquartered in downtown Phoenix where she is helping her client revolutionize how data driven innovation project work get accomplished using the skills she’s acquired through the years while helping the change she is implementing last.

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ABOUT THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

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Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

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Todd Stanton with Stanton Law LLC, Brad Weaver with Nine Labs, Darren Miller with Elite Crowdfund and Jack Curtis with Corporate Health Partners

January 6, 2016 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Todd Stanton with Stanton Law LLC, Brad Weaver with Nine Labs, Darren Miller with Elite Crowdfund and Jack Curtis with Corporate Health Partners

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Todd Stanton/ Stanton Law LLC

Founder

Building upon his decade of big law experience with the reputable firms of Fisher & Phillips and Bryan Cave (formerly Powell Goldstein), and demonstrating the same entrepreneurial drive he admires in his clients, Todd founded Stanton Law LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking to combine the quality of large firm representation with the flexibility, responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a nimbler shop, Todds practice remains dedicated to the employer side of the employer-employee relationship. From on-boarding new talent and assisting with the development of workable job descriptions, personnel policies, and compensation plans, to guiding clients through sticky disciplinary, performance, and leave issues, to executing respectful and amicable separations, Todd provides practical bottom line-oriented legal advice to small and medium-sized employers.

As legal counsel, Todd is focused on helping companies avert employment-related issues without sacrificing managerial efficiency. In most instances, a proactive approach to employment issues can prevent months of disruptive headaches down the road. When the inevitable disputes do arise, however, his litigation experience allows his clients to consider all available options to efficiently resolve the problem. He regularly represents employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies such as labor departments, equal opportunity and human rights commissions, and employee safety administrations.

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Brad Weaver/Nine Labs

Chief Experince Officer

Brad went to school to be a lawyer, then came to his senses and has spent the last 18 years as a Creative Director, User Experience Designer, Information Architect, Author, and Content Strategist. Day to day, he guides the creative team in usability, design, content strategy, product development, interactive, branding, and data visualization. He and his teams have created leading work for clients including IHG, Verizon, Bank of America, AT&T, ESPN, Disney, NATO, The PGA, and Coca-Cola.

Along the way, he’s been the big cheese, the plebeian, the middle manager, and the class clown. Not one to shy away from hard work or his blue collar upbringing, he’s also folded clothes, pumped gas, bagged groceries, sold cell phones, and climbed the Great Wall of China. In addition to serving as CXO, he is the author of Creative Truth, and regularly teaches workshops, mentors students, and speaks at conferences around the world.

His likes and loves are design, film, whiskey, Oxford commas, and Jesus, but not in that order. His superpower, naturally, would be mind-reading.

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Darren Miller/Elite Crowdfund

Co Founder & COO

Darren Miller is the Co-Founder and COO of Elite Crowdfund. He has a diverse background of operations management and digital marketing and development. As the COO Darren oversees the day to day operations of ECF and drives the planning and implementation of the company’s goals. He is also the VP of Digital Marketing for US Strategic Capital, the parent company of Elite Crowdfund. USSC is a boutique investment bank which focuses on raising capital for banks, real estate funds, VC funds and companies.

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Jack Curtis/Corporate Health Partners

Founder & CEO

Jack Curtis founded Corporate Health Partners, Inc. in 2002 and serves as its CEO. Jack has a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management from the University of Tennessee. With more than 30 years of experience, Jack offers a high-energy leadership style, analytical strength, team development and authenticity.

Prior to CHP, Jack’s systems engineering training and Quality Improvement experience taught him how to create and value strong culture, while his strategic leadership within Berkshire Hathaway prepared him to engage employees for outstanding performance. Jack also led a comprehensive physical exam start-up organization with an entrepreneurial spirit and an ignited passion to make a difference in the health and performance of employers and employees within his sphere of influence.

Over the past 15 years, Jack has demonstrated his commitment to helping employers, communities, and our nation’s health and competitiveness. He often reflects on his clients who have invested in wellness and have seen tangible results. One such client example is Couer, Inc., led by Jay Cude, who benefited from health as an integral part of their culture, while health risks and costs steadily declined.

With an ongoing commitment to influencing serious change in corporate wellness, Jack enjoys his membership and Leadership Committee chair position at an industry Think Tank of thought leaders within employee health management, called Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). Jack is also a member of the “League of Leaders”, the Institute for Healthcare Consumerism (IHC), and Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA).

Jack’s life mantra: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

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