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CHANTA ROEBUCK/OWNER OF TRULY MOTIVATED CLEANING SERVICES
Pensacola Business Radio: Spotlight Episode-CHANTA ROEBUCK/OWNER OF TRULY MOTIVATED CLEANING SERVICES
Pensacola Business Radio: 3-14-18 Guests, Gulf Coast Kids House and Realty Masters
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Pam Keen-Brantley, CAPT USNR Ret., Broker, and Owner of Realty Masters
Broker / Owner
4400 Bayou Blvd. Ste. #52A
Pensacola, FL 32503
(850) 453-9220
(850) 453-9920
Pam is a Retired Navy Captain with over 30 years experience in Real Estate. She was born and raised in Wisconsin, graduated with a BSN in nursing from Marquette University in 1977, and joined the Navy in 1978. Pam had over 26 years service in the military and fell in love with the Pensacola area. She became a licensed agent in 1978 and a Real Estate Broker in 1984. She also buys, sells and rents her own investment property and specializes in working with other investors on cash-flow investment properties in Pensacola, FL.
Pam is a member of The National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM), as well as the National and Florida Association of Realtors,and holds the NAR E-Pro designation, Certified Residential Specialist designation, the Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource and Certified Distressed Property Expert Certifications. Her daughters Christine, Nicole, and son David also work for Realty Masters.
Pam has spent her entire career helping other real estate investors to find and purchase cash flow investments. Her property management team and full staff manages a porfolio of nearly 1,000 rental properties and 20 home owners associations. Please contact her for real estate property sales in Escambia & Santa Rosa counties, including single and multi-family residences
Realty Masters Mission Statement:
At Realty Masters of FL, we have a vision: Provide all of our customers the best possible service every time. Our philosophy on rentals and sales – we will treat your home as if it were our own! As real estate agents, we vow to make ourselves readily accessible to answer any and all real estate questions, and to assist in any way possible to better our community residents and local government offices. Our goal is to provide extensive, accurate, and detailed information to ease the stress on renters, buyers, sellers, and other professionals alike during all steps in the house hunting and closing process. Realty Masters of FL is an equal opportunity housing partner and believes strongly in serving all clients exceptionally and equally. We are proud to announce that our property managers are all licensed Realtors with active membership in the Pensacola Association of Realtors.
Megan Chapman/Outreach & Development Director
Phone: (850) 595-5783
Helping Families In Pensacola And Escambia County
Gulf Coast Kid’s House is a children’s advocacy center serving Escambia County. As a children’s advocacy center, we combine all of the professionals and resources needed for the intervention, investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases under one child-friendly facility. Child victims and their families also receive mental health counseling at our center. The goal of Gulf Coast Kid’s House is to form a more collaborative response to child abuse cases so that we can improve case outcomes and minimize trauma to the children and families we serve.
Our Vision:
The vision of Gulf Coast Kid’s House is to provide a place where child protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, medical and mental health professionals’ work together under one roof to provide comprehensive services.
Our Mission:
Facilitate the investigation, prosecution, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and promote child abuse prevention awareness through community education.
Our Goals:
- Provide a child-friendly facility to serve abused children and their families in a neutral environment.
- Minimize trauma to child abuse victims by streamlining the intervention process.
- Develop formal, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary responses to child abuse, which will meet the needs of both child victims and their families.
- Educate the community of child abuse issues and enlisting support to help prevent child
Personalized Solutions with Jessica Adnani and Real World Business Coach Danny Creed
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Personalized Solutions with Jessica Adnani and Real World Business Coach Danny Creed
Personalized Solutions is a specialized concierge service provider that serves clients across the United States. We pride ourselves on our intimate approach and specialization of services for each client. Our goal is to provide our clientele with a variety of the highest quality services. We want to help you lead a stylish and organized life, so you can spend more time enjoying it.
Jessica Adnani founded Personalized Solutions in Washington D.C. and has since grown the company to include clients in cities around the United States. Personalized Solutions is a specialized concierge service provider offering business accounting solutions, schedule management, staffing, travel planning, estate management, home organization, elderly care, and event planning services throughout the United States.
Featured in The Washington Post, NPR, U.S. News & World Report, MeetAdvisors and tote, Jessica continues to impress and inspire everyone around her.
www.personalizedsolu.com
www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaadnani
www.twitter.com/personalizedsol
www.facebook.com/personalizedsol
www.instagram.com/personalizedsolutions
Danny Creed is an award-winning master business coach, entrepreneur & best-selling author. Coach Dan has logged over 14,000 business coaching and consulting hours and growing. He has done 14 successful start-up businesses and over 400 business turnarounds and is the SIX-time recipient of the FocalPoint International Brian Tracy Award of Sales Excellence. In this episode of WINNING BUSINESS Radio, Danny shares the key secrets of success for entrepreneurs in today’s world – The Foundation/Fundamental RECIPE for Success and the criteria for being an entrepreneur.
dcreed@focalpointcoaching.com
www.realworldbusinesscoach.com
ITEN WIRED RADIO: Ep 3-2018 IT GULF COAST and CSRA
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Sean O’Brien
2017 Chairman
Information Technology Association of the Gulf Coast
Promote Technology – Advance Education – Build community
Message from the Chairman
Welcome to the IT Gulf Coast web site and the first step in a very satisfying and enriching affiliation with the premiere professional association for the IT community in Northwest Florida and the Gulf Coast.
In January, the membership met and elected a Board of Directors. The Board elected me as the chairman renewed our association’s commitment to the IT Profession and our Community and refined goals for our organization. I would like to share that with you.
Vision
Become the premiere professional association for the IT community in Northwest Florida with a goal of creating educational and networking opportunities for our membership to foster the growth of the technology industry and entrepreneurship in our area.
Mission
- To provide our members with the opportunities and resources necessary to develop and advance their IT careers
- Stimulate and promote the area’s interest in Information Technologies and related Services and help attract IT professionals and IT related businesses by creating educational and networking opportunities both for and with our membership, supporting and sponsoring community IT, STEM and entrepreneurial events, competitions, educational programs and activities on the Northern Gulf Coast
- To elevate the level of IT Industry awareness in the Pensacola region and promote all that the Gulf Coast region offers within the IT industry
- Attract and seek new members to our organization
Promote Technology – Advance Education – Build community
Core Values
- Integrity – We value professionalism and are committed to the highest Code of Ethics and Conduct
- Respect – We build and inclusive environment through mentoring, delivering on commitments, working together with trust, and enjoying the camaraderie of each other
- Innovation – We learn, we share insights, and encourage our members to make a difference today and for the future
- Service – We keep current in technology, business, and academia. We contribute to our association, IT profession, and our community utilizing leadership, appropriate solutions, and community service.
Guiding Principles
Our Guiding Principles reflect ITGC beliefs about your role as a member and the impact we want ITGC to have in the IT profession and on our communities.
- We aspire to be better leaders, better people
- We excel through honesty
- We treat others with respect
- We demand ethical behavior of ourselves
- We encourage out of the box thinking
- We lead with confidence and inspire each other to achieve success
- We don’t let fear of change paralyze us in reaching our goal
- We are fiscally responsible
- We take ownership in everything we do
- We have fun
IT Gulf Coast offers a convincing slate of member benefits. If you are interested in becoming a corporate member click here. Here’s why hundreds
have joined the organization.
- Professional Affiliation
- Career Building
- Chapters: Ultimate Peer-to-Peer Networking
- Leadership Opportunities
- Industry Conferences
Professional Affiliation
Affiliation with a professional association is a boost to your resume. We know from over a decade of recent experience that employers and clients prefer to hire and retain candidates who demonstrate a tangible commitment to their personal development, who are involved in community activities and who advance their career through education. Members tell us that they prefer to work with employers and clients who value their professionalism – they get the chance to do a better job, often at better rates. That rate increase alone more than pays the membership fee.
For over a decade ITGC has built a reputation for promoting professionalism in the IT industry. When you join, you buy a piece of that reputation and the opportunity to enhance it by getting involved. It is expected that, as a member, you will make efforts to enhance that reputation further, so that your Association is seen over time to contain the best people there are in IT.
Career Building
ITGC brings to members opportunity to focus on professionalism, ethics and business skills. These are vital skills are a unique offering through ITGC and recognized as required components to developing your career. We offer several career enhancing and educational opportunities throughout the year. We host a monthly “Lunch and Learn” where we bring in industry experts and visionaries to provide talks, discussion, training and lectures based on member input. ITGC hosts a monthly “Networking Social Hour” where members and businesses can meet. Please see our events page for the upcoming events.
Chapters: Ultimate Peer-to-Peer Networking
As an ITGC member, you have tremendous opportunities to interact with other network professionals through local chapter meetings, social events, workshops, and newsletters. These opportunities allow you to share and receive information, knowledge, skills, and opportunities with your peers. The ITGC does not have Chapters in every area of the Gulf Coast, but offers help and support to even brand new members to start them up. Peer-to-peer networking (also known as “fellowshipping”) continues to be the highest-rated benefit in member surveys.
Leadership Opportunities
The ITGC encourages members to get involved and thus enhance these important leadership and professional skills. Members have opportunities to develop leadership, communication, management, marketing, public relations, and organizational skills by serving on ITGC board, committees and in community event leadership positions. The experience of starting a Chapter is known to benefit those who do it.
Opportunities for Industry Related Conferences and Community Events
Through our joint effort as volunteers, ITGC members share opportunities for industry-related conference packages and discounts, including ITEN Wired; the Gulf Coast’s premier conference for executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and educators working in technology. These conferences allow you to network with peers and learn new technology in educational labs and seminars. ITGC also sponsors regional community events that bring industry and government professionals together to promote IT, STEM and entrepreneurial events, competitions, educational programs and activities.
ITGC Member Logo
You can utilize the ITGC member logo credential in your professional correspondence, resume, and business cards. Get the industry recognition you deserve by identifying yourself as a true IT professional dedicated to continued training, development and community.
ITGC Job Board
Coming soon
Sean O’Brien
2017 Chairman
Information Technology Association of the Gulf Coast
Promote Technology – Advance Education – Build community
ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.
The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.
Pensacola Business Radio–Women In Leadership Series, Brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast, Ep 5
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Denise N Ables-PACE Center for Girls
Retired Diagnostic Sales Consultant since 2015.
Full time volunteer for 2 organizations:
PACE Center for Girls, Board of Directors, Media and Marketing Chair, Men Who Cook Co-Chair
Pensacola Women’s Alliance, Board of Directors, Chair
Mrs. Georgia Blackmon
| The Gathering Awareness & Book Center |
Mrs. Georgia Blackmon was born and raised in Pensacola, FL. She graduated from Booker T. Washing High School. She has been married to Johnny Blackmon for 56 years. They have two children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Blackmon is very active in the community. She was taught a long time ago, “If you take care of your community and children; the community and children will take of you.”
Mr. & Mrs. Blackmon are the owners of The Gathering Awareness and Book Center located in Pensacola, FL.
awarenessg@thegathering.gccoxmail
Stacey Robello-Home Instead Senior Care
In 2017, Stacy Robello, became one of the new owners at Home Instead Senior Care of Pensacola. She was a founding employee of the franchise in 1999 until late 2001. After receiving her BA in Elementary Education from the University of West Florida, she left to pursue her career as an educator in one of Florida’s top ranked systems; Santa Rosa County School District. But when the Home Instead office was granted their Home Health Agency license from the State of Florida in 2006, Stacy was inspired to return; this time as a Community Educator addressing issues specific to the aging population and as a promoter of the many home care services offered by Home Instead. She helps drive referrals and builds relationships within the provider network of home care. Some of Stacy’s affiliations are with the Baptist Women’s Board, Escarosa Senior Alliance, Santa Rosa Healthcare Advocates and the Healthcare Professionals Association of Northwest Florida, Impact 100 and Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Guild. Stacy is more enthusiastic than ever and she’s excited to continue the tradition of bringing exceptional home care and being a choice employer to the Pensacola community.
Kolleen Edwards Chesley
Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.
Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.
The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.
- Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
- Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
- Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2018, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17th and Thursday, October 18th, 2018 at Sanders Beach.
- Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.
- Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews. They share their advice on topics such as mentoring, keys to success, time management tools, personal mantras and favorite inspirations, and what men can do to help support women in business.
- Membership in Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is also available.
Contact directors@powerfulwomengulfcoast.com for more information or visit our website at www.powerfulwomengulfcoast.com or Facebook at “Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast” for all of our meeting information.
Michelle Faust with Rhino Online Strategies and eCreativity and Gordon Parkman with Achieve Results Consulting
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Michelle Faust with Rhino Online Strategies and eCreativity and Gordon Parkman with Achieve Results Consulting
Rhino Online Strategies and eCreativity serve small to midsize businesses and entrepreneur’s who want their business to grow and thrive. They partner with them to identify content and marketing strategies that best serves their target market. Their focus is on fresh, innovative and dynamic copy that effectively reaches their market through email campaigns, marketing articles, web content, blogs and newsletters. It’s all about powerful messaging for business owners that converts, so they can focus on what they do best, running and growing their business.
Michelle Faust has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public speaking, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. When she left my corporate career, she shifted into the entrepreneurial world, combining her experience, talents and passions to reinvent herself. As a marketer and copywriter, Michelle thrives on discovering what motivates people into action and what their key emotional triggers are. Michelle loves to connect people through the power and beauty of the written word. Her passion is helping people create a roadmap to success, so they can fulfill their dreams and live their destiny.
www.rhinostrategy.com
https://www.facebook.com/michellecontentandcopywriter/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-faust-64b72b29/
Gordon Parkman started Achieve Results Consulting, LLC in April 2009 after 40 years in industry. Gordon is an accomplished traveled executive with extensive experience, who is skilled in both management and operating systems. A graduate of Northeastern University, with a masters in engineering management, who has always focused on having a peer organization that is built on collaboration and
mutual respect and one that considers the importance of innovation, teamwork and the free flow of ideas. He has been particularly effective in growing operations and managing cost. One of his strengths is building management teams that value cross-functional working relationships.
Gordon was involved in two acquisitions involving the due diligence phase to managing the new acquisitions and turning them into profitable business entities. These acquisitions involved transferring of products into the new facilities and ramping up production as well as implementing Lean Manufacturing concepts using Toyota Production System (TPS) model. A self-starter, Gordon has led teams from solution concept through planning, design, development, and implementation.
Gordon provides clarity and focus in partnering with individuals and organizations, helping determine what success means to them and then developing the road map to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. He helps clients discover the way to unlock their door to success and achieve the things that are most important to them. Gordon unlocks a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them. He is a certified member of the Total Quality Institute and The Institute for Sustainability, both divisions of Resource Associates Corporation and certified for the administration
and interpretation of the Innermetrix Attribute Index, DISC and Values Index.
Gordon uses his past experiences in working with clients as they achieve improved results and sustained long term competitiveness. Gordon is active in community having been a member of three Chambers of Commerce, including serving on their Boards, and currently serves on the Board of the Kiwanis Club of Desert Ridge.
ITEN WIRED RADIO- Ep2 2018 “The Program” and JETRO Coming to Pensacola
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Jim Rhodes- Director ITEN WIRED
Keith Hoffert-eightfifty:media
Stan Harper – JETRO Influencer
ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.
The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.
- Jim has actively participated in the planning of the annual ITEN Wired Summit since 2012 and is in his 5th year serving as its director.
He is a native of Pensacola and a graduate of Tate High School and the University of West Florida, where he received his degree in finance. He moved to Charlotte, NC in 1997 with a goal of furthering his career in banking, but later developed a passion for information technology. Upon graduating ECPI College of Technology, he officially entered into the world of IT in 2001. After working several years as a network engineer, he and his family relocated back to Pensacola in 2007.
Jim has been employed by AppRiver since 2008 and currently manages the mobile solutions team which provides mobile device support for a global customer base of almost 300,000 users. He also serves as an advisor to the board of directors for IT Gulf Coast and as a board member for Innovation Coast.
He is married and has two sons. He enjoys golfing, kayaking, and fishing.
JETRO
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We hope you can join us for Japan-US Grass-Root Business Partnership Forum organized in collaboration with local authorities. This Forum will deepen the essential economic partnership between Japan and the U.S. To further that aim, the Forum will advocate the creation of new business through bi-directional Trade and investment, strengthening cooperative work between Japan and U.S. companies, as well as business expansion in other countries and regions.
By promoting Grass-Root Business partnerships, we hope to contribute to the economic prosperity of both countries and regions. The format of the Forum will be divided into two sessions, one focused upon the strategies Japanese companies have taken when expanding in the U.S. market, and the second session focusing on the opportunities that currently exist in the Japanese market as well as newly emerging ones, including advanced technology applications. We hope that you will save the date. An invitation will be issued shortly.
◆Program (tentative)
1) Opening remarks and Greeting: Hon. Ashton Hayward, Mayor of Pensacola
2) Keynote address: JETRO Atlanta Chief Executive Director, Norikazu Mori
3) JETRO function of Business Development with Japan
4) Session 1 Approaching Business in Japan (US Speakers)
- Attractiveness of Japan as a Hub for business expansion in Asia
- Challenges Encountered and Overcome Japan
- Case Studies Key Factors for Company Success in Japan
- Opinions for making Japan more investment-friendly to U.S. Companies
5) Session 2 Approaching Business in the U.S. (Japan Speakers)
- Case Studies Key Factors for Company Success in the U.S.
- Opportunities for Japanese and U.S companies alliances with advanced technology.
JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization)
Organizer of Japan-US Grass-Root Business Partnership Forum
Pensacola Business Radio- Women In Leadership Series Brought to you by Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Ep 3 2018
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Cheryl Weir, Executive Coach
Cheryl has been coaching individuals and teams in corporations committed to producing breakthrough results since 1992. Her client list includes: Pfizer/Wyeth, A Ernst and Young, World Bank, DuPont, Kimberly-Clark, Barclays Capital, IBM, Cisco, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Novartis, J&J, Jefferson Wells, Hershey Foods, Temple University Health System, Hajoca Corporation, Acme-Hardesty, and Wharton, as well as many smaller organizations. She leads team and leadership workshops designed to produce results beyond what these leaders could imagine before working with Cheryl. Recently she has been working with several organizations to uncover what sets apart the “stars” and “leaders” from those who are not and has a process to quickly identify leadership competencies to coach and develop.
Cheryl conducts public and corporate workshops and programs. Several of the most popular are: Developing YOUR Unique Leadership Style, Retaining Talented Employees, and The Executive Leadership Program for identified “high potentials” in organizations. Her workshop for sales organizations, ROCKET Your RESULTS was featured in FORTUNE magazine, “So You’re a Player: Do You Need a Coach?” where she helped her client, “blow out the numbers.”
Cheryl worked for IBM for 13 years in sales, specializing in business solutions to improve the bottom line. As Finance Industry Sales Executive for IBM she helped her clients solve business problems with multi-million dollar solutions sold to top executives.
Cheryl is a certified graduate of CoachU (a three-year program) and certified “Teleclass” Leader (an 8-month process). She was a founding member of Corporate Coaches Committee of the International Coach Federation (ICF) as well as a Host for the Internal Corporate Coaching Group.
She is certified in Hay Group’s Emotional Intelligence 360 Degree Multi-rater assessment (ECI) that identifies leadership strengths and “opportunities for development” in 18 key leadership competencies. She is certified in delivering feedback and coaching around TTI’s DISC Style and Behavior assessment. The Needs and Values Program, she developed, identifies people’s top 5 needs and values so they see the source of their upsets and orient their lives around these values/strengths. Cheryl is trained to facilitate the TKI Conflict Management Workshop that identifies the conflict modes one uses most often and provides others choices to resolving conflict. And, she is currently a contributing editor for Executive Excellence and Personal Excellence magazines.
Cheryl is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Economics and is a Hall of Famer in swimming. She lives in Pensacola, FL with her husband of 35 years and has 3 children, Sawyer, Kristin and Collin. Her passions are golf, swimming, exercise classes, traveling, reading at the beach; and watching her children take on all the new challenges that independent life offers.
Pam Hatt has more than 28 years of experience in the financial industry with more than 21 years in marketing and communications. She currently is the Director of Marketing at Pen Air Federal Credit Union, managing all aspects of marketing and public relation operations of the mid-size credit union with assets of $1.4B, 19 branch locations, including three Student Run Credit Unions, and over 99,000 members throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties in Florida and Baldwin and Mobile Counties in Alabama.
Kate Treick (Trike)
At heart, Kate is a storyteller. Since opening her photography studio in 2014, she primarily has told family stories through custom portraits. Specializing in photographing newborns, children, and families, Kate loves capturing the personality of each family she works with. She creates portraits on location at local beaches, parks, and family homes, and also at her studio at 2600 West Nine Mile Road.
Kolleen Edwards Chesley
Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.
Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.
The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.
- Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
- Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
- Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2018, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17th and Thursday, October 18th, 2018 at Sanders Beach.
- Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.
- Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews. They share their advice on topics such as mentoring, keys to success, time management tools, personal mantras and favorite inspirations, and what men can do to help support women in business.
- Membership in Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is also available.
Contact directors@powerfulwomengulfcoast.com for more information or visit our website at www.powerfulwomengulfcoast.com or Facebook at “Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast” for all of our meeting information.
Pensacola Business Radio- Spotlight Episode with Tim Martin and the Isaak Life Firm
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Dr. Tim Martin
Executive Director/Personal and Professional Coach/Motivational Speaker/Professor/Consultant
I must ask!! (No pun intended) What questions didn’t get asked in your personal or professional life and career or company in 2017 because, you or others feared what the answers may be?
Are you a situation focused leader or a solution focused leader? Situation focused leaders lean on this leadership lie. “If my situation or circumstances would change I, he, she; they, we, or it could change.” This is a limiting and disabling belief that will lead to desperate or debilitating leadership decisions. A belief, is simply a thought you have allowed to become a truth that you lean and lead on. Solution focused leaders engage the belief and act on a truth, which persuades their leadership mindset to focus on seeing any situation with many obstacles, as being a situation with more opportunities.
The conditions we find ourselves in and the positions others align with in certain situations don’t have to stand in the way of us moving and making something positive happen. Situational focused leaders are reactive and solution focused leaders are proactive. It’s the decisive difference between both leaders. The potential results can be dramatically different for one leader and the team he/she leads.
Solutions are seldom seen or found when only focusing on just what’s going on in the situation. Many solutions can become camouflaged in all the chaos that is causing or adding to the situation. Solutions are found inside people who find themselves inside the situation. A solution focused leader is willing to assess their role and responsibility inside the situation. They are not afraid to step back or away from the situation briefly, allowing time to examine things personally or professionally that may need to be challenged or changed at the time, to either help or keep from hurting the situation more. Leaders lead!! That’s a clue where to start.
The nouns (person, places or things) that surround the situation may not change but, that doesn’t have to limit what role or responsibility you take or response you make inside it. Even if things do not go your way, you can still be okay, because of the perspective, approach, action or solutions you were able bring to the situation. Will you set forth solutions to resolve some complicated situations and fail? Absolutely Yes!! However, you will discover that many mistakes are not setbacks, they are setups. You are being set up to fulfill your ultimate leadership potential, achieve a higher leadership purpose and become a more successful solution focused leader.
For any situations to be changed for the better, healthy solutions must be activated and directly applied. As you have figured out by now, this not only applies to leadership but, life as well. No matter what your situation or circumstances may be, always find the awesome inside you, live it and lead with it.
