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Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry & Company, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator

December 16, 2022 by John Ray

Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator and Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry Company & Associates

Family Business Radio

Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry & Company, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator

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Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry & Company, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator (Family Business Radio, Episode 39)

On this edition of Family Business Radio, host Anthony Chen welcomed two highly regarded business advisors to the studio. Jane Gentry discussed the three biggest mistakes she sees in the companies she consults with, issues in moving a family business into the next generation of leadership, and more. Robert Stephens shared how he works with companies as a fractional CFO, dealing with recent changes in interest rates and higher inflation, and more. Anthony closed the show with a commentary on how effective financial planning comes from a team of professionals, each of which share their own expertise.

Family Business Radio is underwritten and brought to you by Anthony Chen with Lighthouse Financial Network.

Jane Gentry & Company

Many companies have seen success from their tried-and-true approach to understanding your business and identifying obstacles, ultimately providing an action plan for your business growth. Whether your organizational gaps are in leadership development, sales or profitability, our goal is to provide leaders with a manageable and tailored action plan.

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Jane Gentry, CEO, Jane Gentry & Company

Jane Gentry has had a successful 30-year career as a CEO, Business Consultant, Executive Coach, Sales Manager, and Keynoter. In 1999, Jane formed her practice where she has partnered with her clients to improve growth, profitability, client retention, employee retention and leadership capabilities.

Jane helps entrepreneurs and senior leaders diagnose and solve gaps and weaknesses enabling profitable growth and improving sales velocity. Even HR leaders bring her in to coach managers on inspirational leadership and using Relational Intelligence to build high-functioning cross generational teams and improve employee engagement.

The world’s most successful organizations have brought Jane on board, including Assurant, The Home Depot, Milliken, Philips, Coca-Cola, Leidos Healthcare, Stryker, GSK, Transamerica, BlueCross Blue Shield and Mercedes-Benz.

Jane is considered one of the top voices in leadership and sales. She has been a guest on numerous podcasts and is a prolific speaker at high-profile meetings from Canada to the Czech Republic. She has been tapped to address topics including “Selling Value” to “Social Intelligence and Your Millennial Sellers” and “Inspirational Leadership”. Audiences and clients have described her as a woman with a vision, energetic and inspiring.

Jane holds a BFA/MFA from Kent State University/ The University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a CPI (Certified Professional Innovator) distinction from GA State University. Earlier in her career she was a professional stage actress. Jane lives in Atlanta, GA.

CFO Navigator

Taking your business to the next level requires moving beyond bookkeeping and simply counting to using your numbers to actively navigate your business.

CFO Navigator guides organizations that are not ready for a full-time financial professional, but need more strategic insight. CFO Navigator offers a powerful combination of financial insight and business foresight that simplify the numbers, clarify what is important and communicate – in plain English – which ones to watch to navigate the business and make better decisions.

CFO Navigator focuses on helping companies that have outgrown their current financial capabilities and are ready to use their numbers to navigate the business and not just keep score.

CFO Navigator designs and builds scalable financial capabilities, knows the numbers inside and out, provides confidence that they are right, interprets what they mean, and communicates what’s important; and when the time comes, will turn over the helm to a full-time CFO.

CFO Navigator offers business owners an expert sounding board with an experienced outside perspective for assessing business opportunities and obstacles.

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Robert Stephens, Managing Partner, CFO Navigator

Robert Stephens is managing partner of CFO Navigator. As a fractional Chief Financial Officer, Robert fills a critical gap for growing privately held businesses and non-profit organizations that do not have the budget or need for a full-time CFO. Having advised over 75+ organizations during his 30+ year career, Robert strives to bring “Wall Street” worthy financial expertise to local “Main Street” companies by turning his financial insight into their business foresight.

In addition to his professional roles, Robert is active in the philanthropic and business community, currently serving on the Chattahoochee Tech Foundation Board of Advisors. He has previously served as Board Chairman of the Boys & Girls Club of Paulding and the North Paulding Band Foundation. Other board service includes the Kennesaw State University Entrepreneurship Center, and Starfish Greathearts Foundation (USA).

Robert earned his BSBA in Accounting from the University of Southern Mississippi, is a member of Vistage International, Leadership Cobb, and the Georgia Society of CPAs. He has two adult sons and resides with his wife in north metro Atlanta.

Anthony Chen, Host of Family Business Radio

**Anthony Chen, Lighthouse Financial, and Host of “Family Business Radio”**

This show is sponsored and brought to you by Anthony Chen with Lighthouse Financial Network. Securities and advisory services offered through Royal Alliance Associates, Inc. (RAA), member FINRA/SIPC. RAA is separately owned and other entities and/or marketing names, products or services referenced here are independent of RAA. The main office address is 575 Broadhollow Rd. Melville, NY 11747. You can reach Anthony at 631-465-9090 ext 5075 or by email at anthonychen@lfnllc.com.

Anthony Chen started his career in financial services with MetLife in Buffalo, NY in 2008. Born and raised in Elmhurst, Queens, he considers himself a full-blooded New Yorker while now enjoying his Atlanta, GA home. Specializing in family businesses and their owners, Anthony works to protect what is most important to them. From preserving to creating wealth, Anthony partners with CPAs and attorneys to help address all the concerns and help clients achieve their goals. By using a combination of financial products ranging from life, disability, and long-term care insurance to many investment options through Royal Alliance. Anthony looks to be the eyes and ears for his client’s financial foundation. In his spare time, Anthony is an avid long-distance runner.

The complete show archive of “Family Business Radio” can be found at familybusinessradioshow.com.

The Leaping Man Executive Leadership E10

December 13, 2022 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

The Leaping Man Executive Leadership E10

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What story do you tell yourself about not being ready yet to do and be what you truly aspire to be? What becomes possible when you inquire into your “I can only…when…” limiting beliefs and let them go? How can you respond to this moment in a way that brings you peace in your heart and feeling pride in your actions?

Listen to this episode of Rooted & Unwavering and hear what John Rex, Executive Coach and former CFO of Microsoft North America, has been learning about living and leading from his core values, taking response-ability and enjoying life as it comes and helping others grow in their journeys.

Says John: “We humans tend try too hard to define what the rewards of life should be. We don’t trust enough that the journey itself is its own reward, so we fixate on a destination, or a particular achievement and we forget that the value of life is in living the journey. This present moment that we are in right now has its own merit and value just by being here. Every experience has value as it offers us an opportunity to respond, to be conscious to make a choice that brings us peace in our heart and feel pride in our actions.”

Rex Executive Leadership helps high-performing executives grow to the next level and deliver big impact, while finding joy in the journey.

As the former CFO of Microsoft North America, John Rex brings real-world perspective to the ever-increasing demands of his clients’ leadership challenges.

As an executive coach, John combines sharp insight and impactful methods with a mindset of compassion, curiosity, and courage. And as a husband and father of four, he knows what it means to juggle a leadership career with devotion to the people who matter most – all while finding joy in the journey.

Having worked worldwide and lived in Latin America for 12 years, John holds a strong personal stake in diversity and inclusivity — and he works continually to expand his understanding of people, places, and cultures around the world.

Family, spirituality, and community are central to John’s way of living. When he’s not working one-on-one with senior executives, he enjoys cycling, skiing, and planning the next adventure with family and friends.

About Rooted & Unwavering

Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.

In this podcast and radio show, Hylke Faber, seasoned transformational coach and author of the award-winning Taming Your Crocodiles series, engages in deep inquiry with leaders from all walks of life about courageously connecting with our true selves, others and the world at large.

How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?

Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.

About Our Host

For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.

Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.

When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.

He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.

He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.

His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

Realizing Your Greatness

We are a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

- Executive Coaching: we work with clients individually to help them connect to their calling and use every challenge as an opportunity to help them grow more into what makes them great.
- Team Performance: we help teams evolve to their next level of excellence, connectedness and impact by working on the root drivers of team performance.
- Culture Development: we help organizations to evolve their culture by creating clarity about where they aspire to go, and by building role models, coaches and systems that catalyze people being energized to work the new way.

Key Notes: we deliver powerful speeches at conferences and other events that help audiences become energized, more connected to themselves and each other, more open to discovery and ready to commit to the next stage of learning in their career and life journeys.

Growth Leaders Network (GLN) serves Fortune 500 companies, smaller organizations and non-profits globally.

GLN clients report that we catalyze significant business transformational impact and profound shifts in people, team and organizations at the root cause level.

Learn more about the Growth Leaders network here.

Terry Warren, Executive Coach and Author of The Art of Choice

October 26, 2022 by John Ray

Hello, Self . . .

Terry Warren, Executive Coach and Author of The Art of Choice

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From humble beginnings in Tennessee, Terry Warren was the first in his family to go to college. He went on to have a successful career and now is an executive coach, artist, and author of The Art of Choice. He shared with Patricia his story and the lessons he learned along the way, including asking for what you want, shifting your perspective, the secret ingredients he has seen in his clients that make them successful, and much more.

Hello, Self… is presented by Patricia Leonard & Associates and produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

Terry Warren, Executive Coach and Author of The Art of Choice

Terry Warren, Executive Coach and Author of The Art of Choice

Terry Warren, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach, has more than 40 years of leadership experience in the financial services and healthcare industries, and he has held senior leadership roles in sales, strategic planning, client engagement, and executive coaching. He is a member of the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management Executive Coaching Network and author of The Art of Choice: Making Changes that Count in Work and Life.

For more than 27 years, Terry served in a wide variety of leadership roles with Willis Towers Watson (formerly Willis Group), a large global insurance broker. He led the company’s client engagement and business retention efforts in North America, provided internal executive coaching to top leaders, and served as Executive Director of the Willis Foundation.

Prior to joining Willis, Terry worked for Hospital Corporation of America and other healthcare organizations, serving in a number of domestic and international corporate positions.

From that background, Terry equips his clients to see new perspectives, gain clarity, and achieve results. He leverages his reputation as a trusted advisor with his collaborative style and successful executive experience to make sure clients achieve their desired results promptly and with long-lasting results.

In addition, Terry believes in giving back. He has served as the chair of several faith-based nonprofit boards and as a mentor and consultant to nonprofits, both in the United States and abroad. He is Past President of the International Coach Federation–Tennessee.

Through his work as a coach, Terry observed that clients who made choices with intention and commitment were successful in transformational changes.

As an author, Terry found opportunity from his personal and professional relationships to share stories of experiences and successes centered around choice. Using a collaborative and compassionate approach, The Art of Choice: Making Changes that Count in Work and Life offers lessons from business leaders, along with keys for gaining perspective, experiencing clarity, and achieving results whether you are starting out in your career, facing a major life decision, or nearing retirement. Read more about the book here: MakingChoicesThatCount.com

When not working as a coach or consultant, Terry practices his passion for landscape painting. His concentrated study of art, along with his time at the easel, has equipped him to see his surroundings—and his situations—in a new light. He brings that well-rounded awareness to his work with his clients. You can see samples of his art, which evokes a sense of realism and a feeling of serenity, here: www.terrywwarren.com.

Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Terry’s Art website

About Hello, Self…

Hello, Self… is a biweekly podcast focused on inspiring stories of turning dreams into reality. Join coach and author Patricia Leonard and her guests as they share life-changing Hello, Self… moments.

Hello, Self… is brought to you by Patricia Leonard & Associates and is based on the new book by Patricia Leonard, Hello, Self.., available here.

The show is produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with Business RadioX®. You can find this show on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

Patricia Leonard, Host of Hello, Self…

Patricia Leonard is President of RUNWAY TO SUCCESS, a division of Patricia Leonard & Associates located in Nashville, TN. She is a MESSAGE ARTIST speaker, career & business coach, author and magazine columnist. Patricia consults with clients on leadership, empowerment, career management, entrepreneurship and the power of language. Her work is focused on helping clients find their runway to success!

She has a professional background in management, human resources, corporate training, business consulting and talent development. Patricia has worked with companies in the service, music, banking, manufacturing, publishing, warehousing, healthcare, academic, retail and financial industries, and has taught management classes as an adjunct professor.

Patricia has a degree in Human Resource Management, is certified as a Career Coach and Consulting Hypnotist and is MBTI qualified.

Her volunteer energies are focused on Women in Film and Television-Nashville, where she is a Board Vice President; Dress for Success as the Advisory Board President; and International Coaching Federation-Nashville where she held Board roles for several years.

Patricia is the author of Wearing High Heels in a flip flop World, BECOMING WOMAN…a journal of personal discovery, THE NOW, HOW & WOW of Success, Happenings, a full year calendar of inspirational messages and a spoken word album titled, I AM…

She enjoys songwriting, creating poetry and has written a one-woman show and artistic speech she performs titled Hello, Self…, about a woman in midlife reinventing herself, which led to her new book by the same name, available here.

On the personal side, Patricia, describes herself as a woman, lover of life, mother, grandmother, career professional and message artist; AND in that order! Her goal is to continue inspiring others, of any age, to START NOW creating and expanding their Runway to Success.

She believes that life is a gift, the way we wrap it is our choice.

Connect with Patricia:

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Conscious Collaboration E31

April 26, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Strangers meet, share an hour of meaningful conversation, form new connections, and the rest is history. This is what happens on every episode of Collaborative Connections Radio Show and Podcast. AND the guests always share some insightful tips and resources for our listeners.

This episode was no exception! Host, Kelly Lorenzen, was joined on-air by Jessica Barfield, Certified Google Developer and Paid Ad Specialist, Jon Humig, Mortgage Sales Manager, and Malcolm Avner, Leadership and Executive Coach.

Guess what?!?! All 3 of these business leaders had so much in common and tons to share about Conscious Capitalism, relationships, culture, SEO, Google, Paid Ads, Real Estate, teamwork, and business ownership.

If you want to know more, check out this amazing episode sponsored by KLM.

Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC, is a full service mortgage banker specializing in residential and refinance loans. Prosperity Home Mortgage offers a wide range of mortgage products, including fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, jumbo loans, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Veterans Affairs (VA) loans, and renovation financing.

Jon Humig (NMLSR# 542388) is Southwestern born and bred. His professional service is founded on delivering the best possible customer experience for his clients and partners.

Jon does this by setting realistic and accurate expectations with his clients.

He strives to guide them respectfully to the product that best suits their needs by really listening to their objectives and clearly communicating all the available options.

His hundreds of five-star reviews prove he is a tried and true lending professional-let Jon help take the stress out of your next big move!

Connect with Jon on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Jess Barfield Consulting helps businesses and communities find their online audience. As Google Developers, they use their expert knowledge of SEO and Google products to help businesses find their audience and grow their online presence.

Jess Barfield is a small business owner who began diving into SEO and Google due to her own frustrations turning online customers into coffee drinkers at a cafe she owned with her sister.

After diving into online resources, Jess took the plunge and put her BA in Marketing to work becoming a Google Developer on a mission to help other business owners find their online voice, affordably.

Jess started solo but now has a team of three working on website development, SEO and strategic online marketing for businesses across the United States.

Malcolm Avner’s clients are business owners and organization leaders who are driven to improve leadership performance and regain passion for work. Clients are empowered to achieve goals by addressing self-defeating patterns of behavior and thought.

Working 1-to-1 with Malcolm or in small group of company leaders, clients are able to more efficiently resolve business issues, increase leadership effectiveness, improve communication skills, and shift the culture of an organization.

On the personal side, clients acquire knowledge, tools and support that enhance their sense of well-being, personal relationships, and life experience.

Leaders who become Malcolm’s clients…

believe as he does, that business has unlimited potential to elevate humanity and benefit the planet
behave as he does, treating employees and other stakeholders with genuine caring and a win-win approach
think as he does, committed to continuous improvement and greater wisdom
feel as he did, disappointed and frustrated that the business isn’t more successful and work more fulfilling

Early in his careers – both as a professional athlete and a business builder – Malcolm’s focus was guided by conventional wisdom on how to achieve success: do it alone; follow the rules; and outwork the competition. He followed that guidance and, by most measures, found success in numerous endeavors. But something was missing: a sense of meaningful impact. He eventually realized that while hard work and following the rules can generate success, the success is hollow because the guidance is incomplete.

After experiencing some painful but necessary business lessons, and doing some serious soul searching, he discovered new guidance that led to impactful, meaningful work as a coach:

Endeavors that are aligned with a higher purpose (more than just making money or impressing people) are the most rewarding – financially, emotionally, and spiritually
Updating longstanding beliefs and behavior patterns – even the ones that seem most sacred – opens the door to better results
Having fun at work isn’t a diversion of energy – it’s a source of energy…and creativity… and motivation!

Connect with Malcolm on LinkedIn.

About Collaborative Connections

Kelly Lorenzen started the “Collaborative Connections” show to bring her clients and favorite charities together to meet each other, connect and collaborate in life and business. She hopes to build a stronger community one show at a time.

About Our Sponsor

KLM is a one-stop support shop for small business owners who are starting, growing, or trying to sustain. Our purpose is to foster the growth and prosperity of small businesses in our community.

Entrepreneurs & small business owners come to KLM for support in all areas of business. KLM clients think of us as a concierge, business snuggy, another arm, or duplicate for the business owner; They call us when they need us. Business owners can continue to do what they love while having the support they need when they need it.

About Your Host

Kelly Lorenzen, CEO of KLM, is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 15 years of business-ownership experience. She is also a certified project management professional.

Kelly’s expertise is in business development, customer service, marketing, and sales.

Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn, and follow KLM Consulting on Facebook.

Iris Grimm, Dog-Gone Leadership

April 1, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

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Iris Grimm, an executive and leadership coach for over two decades, developed a leadership program based on our relationships with dogs called Dog-Gone Leadership. She joined John Ray in the studio to share how this idea came to be, how she uses the metaphor of relationships with dogs to assist her clients, who she loves to work with, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Iris Grimm (Master Performance Inc.)

For the past 21 years, Iris has guided executives, small business owners, and leaders in a variety of capacities and industries to reach the next level(s) of their success.

Their definition of success is as unique as their paths:

be more effective in their role as a leader, hence supporting their team better and having them be more engaged
start/expand their business or their career promotion in a purposeful way,
create more balance between work and personal life,
get out of their own way and show up at a better version every day and many more.

All these goals require an upgrade on inner leadership, trust in oneself and others, as well as letting go of unproductive habits, mindsets, and approaches.

Dog-Gone Leadership

Dog-Gone Leadership is a unique and innovative approach to optimizing performance in your company by utilizing canine relationships. Stop feeling resigned to the status quo and create better outcomes and connections with ease.

Dogs are not just (wo)men’s best friends. They can mirror our behavior and thinking. They reflect our leadership and energy. They can reveal our blind spots. They uplevel our performance and commitment.

Therefore, dogs are ideal partners for creating more conscious leaders, whether they are already in an official leadership position or not.

Dog-Gone Leadership with Iris Grimm steps outside of the conventional leadership development box.

Dogs shake off their stress with ease. Great leaders shake their stress off quickly and return to an emotional state that serves the situation best.
Dogs can read the energy of a room very quickly. Great leaders can read the energy in the room and adjust their style/approach accordingly.
Dogs let go of the past quickly (unless the humans get in the middle of it). Great leaders take nothing personally and let go of any grudges and conflicts swiftly.
Dogs reflect our leadership in vivid pictures and behaviors. Great leaders surround themselves with coaches and teachers who point out blind spots and challenge them to grow.

We take the boring out of leadership development and infuse playfulness, love, mindfulness, surrender, commitment, and many more leadership principles and skills that we can learn from dogs.

Dog-gone leadership is merging leadership performance with canine guardianship – pulling out analogies, pointing out differences, and applying principles and skills with the dog that can be translated into the business world. This program is about bringing the best out of everyone – the leader, their team, and the dog.

As a result, participants transform their leadership with, from, and for their dogs – making this a win-win-win situation.

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Iris Grimm, Executive/Leadership Coach & Trainer, Master Performance, Inc. and Dog-Gone Leadership

Iris Grimm has been in the coaching and training industry for over 20 years. Whether her clients are executives in larger companies, business owners, or entrepreneurs, she loves to support them in creating richer experiences in their lives and work.

Iris is also the founder of Dog-Gone Leadership, an experimental training program where her clients transform their leadership with, for, and from their dogs. Her love for dogs and her extensive experience with dogs, combined with her devotion to support people to perform better as leaders, makes her training programs engaging, practical, and life-changing.

When she is not meeting with her clients, Iris loves to hike with her dogs and spends time in nature.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

What is the focus of Dog-Gone Leadership?
How did you come up with this concept?
With the pandemic, many people finally adopted a dog since they work from home. And once they returned to the office, they felt reluctant leaving their dog at home by themselves. What is your opinion about pet-friendly workplaces?
When you present this program in companies, does every participant have to bring their dog?
Is having a dog a requirement to participate in the Dog-Gone Leadership program?
What lessons can we learn from dogs?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked from scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

Coaching, HR and More E27

December 23, 2021 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Imagine if we all had a coach or accountability partner for every area of our lives. What if every workplace was inclusive, equitable, and diverse? What would the world be like? Check out this episode of Collaborative Connections Radio Show & Podcast to hear what these experts think about it.

Host, Kelly Lorenzen was joined on-air by Laurel Elders, CEO of Institute for Integrative Intelligence, Mary Henry, Co-Founder or AZ Talent CoOp, and Tamica Sears, The Corporate Fixer at Sears Coaching. These amazing business leaders shared their perspectives on HR, corporate America, coaching, collaboration, mindset and more.

The Institute for Integrative Intelligence is a team of masterful coaches on a mission to elevate human potential through the art and science of Integrative Intelligence®.

The Institute has a strong mission to equip professionals, leaders, and companies to dive into the core of intelligent transformations. The company values leaving a positive footprint and being a part of the solution.

The Institute offers ICF accredited coach training programs in life enhancement, leadership excellence, and human development.

Laurel Elders is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Integrative Intelligence. She began her career as a coach in 2005 after noticing that we are living in pivotal times; corporations often place profit above people, individuals are feeling lost in the “rat race” and corporate drive is leaving the largest scale impact on the future of sustainability.

Laurel observed how coaching is powerfully tapping into the next phase of human potential in ways never before experienced and is contributing to powerful solutions. She is invested in bringing the highest levels of coach training and mentoring, into a world that needs people’s gifts, talents, purpose and heart, now more than ever.

Her clients and students are torch holders for positive impact, locally and globally, in service to the success of generations to come.

Connect with Laurel on LinkedIn and follow the Institute for Integrative Intelligence on Facebook.

Sears Coaching provides leadership development, executive coaching, and HR consulting to small and medium businesses that are struggling to rise to their full potential.

Using team coaching, one on one coaching, training, and consulting techniques, they help create breakthroughs and transformations that are needed for organizations to be innovative, inclusive, and profitable.

Sears Coaching focuses on developing leaders in an effort to change the face of corporate America by shifting the ways that leaders behave and disrupting the status quo. They create a “new normal”, a workplace where everyone is appreciated and feels like they belong.

Tamica Sears, The Corporate Fixer, has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources in various industries and Fortune 500 companies. She has coached leaders, teams, and individual contributors. Her focus is on helping leaders gain a better understanding of who they are, their strengths, and development opportunities, so they can move forward with authenticity.

A self-professed HR nerd, she loves working with leaders on projects like strategic planning, org restructuring, talent reviews, and succession planning. What really makes her heart sing is coaching teams to be more cohesive and collaborative.

Identifying self-esteem as a common issue with many leaders, Tamica published “You Are Enough”, a book of motivational quotes designed to increase self-esteem in 30 days, and has a second leadership development book releasing in February, “Are You an A**hole Boss?”.

Connect with Tamica on LinkedIn and follow Sears Coaching on Facebook.

AZ Talent CoOp is a collaboration of People centered associations and their members. Our focus is professional development, board development and member experience through shared events.

Our impact is to create value by understanding how to build and maintain inclusive workplaces.

Mary Henry is a human resources consultant and recognized leader in change management, people development, and organization assessment focusing on adding bottom-line value to organizations through People Process and Profit.

Her stellar leadership background with Fortune 50 companies in the retail space has been instrumental in her being sought after for organization change assignments. As a senior human resources leader with a major pharmacy retailer, Mary was selected as the HR Partner aligned with the business in multiple acquisitions. During these lengthy assignments she used the many change models to effectively integrate the acquired companies into the organization and culture with detailed approaches, tools, and strategies.

Mary holds the SPHR, Senior Professional in Human Resource designation from the Society of Human Resource management. Mary holds the designation through TTI Success Insights International as a Certified Growth Curve Strategist, Certified Professional in Behavioral Analyst CPBA and Certified Professional Motivators Analyst. She is currently the Co Founder and Executive Director of the Arizona Talent CoOp and is an independent service provider of business services to growing companies.

Connect with Mary on LinkedIn and follow AZ Talent CoOp on Facebook.

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About Our Sponsor

KLM Consulting is a business development firm with over 18 years of award-winning business savvy. Their purpose is to foster the growth and prosperity of small businesses in our community.

Everything KLM does is to help small businesses build, grow, and sustain. They enable owners to get back to doing what they love about their business and bring them happiness.

By offering business development strategy sessions, concierge services, consulting, marketing, project management, and social media training, KLM’s clients can continue to do what they love while having the support they need when they need it.

About Your Host

Kelly Lorenzen, CEO of KLM Consulting, is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 15 years of business-ownership experience. She is also a certified project management professional.

Kelly’s expertise is in business development, customer service, marketing, and sales.

Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn, and follow KLM Consulting on Facebook.

Dawn Cook Causey, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

November 5, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Dawn Cook Causey, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

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Dawn Cook Causey, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 408)

Executive coach Dawn Cook Causey joined host John Ray to define emotional intelligence (EQ) and explain why sharpening your EQ is so vital to business sucess. Dawn also offered practices for developing self-awareness, how she coaches her executive and business leader clients, and much more. She also shared a new e-book, Every Day is an Interview, which debuts soon. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

DayBreak’s mission is to help organizations drive profits by developing their people.

They believe that better emotional intelligence (EQ) leads to better leaders which lead to better business performance. Research shows that leaders and teams with high EQ perform at a higher level, contribute to increased corporate earnings, enjoy higher morale and experience lower turnover. They like proving that research is accurate.

Although DayBreak is based in Alpharetta, Georgia and many of our clients are in Atlanta, we provide executive coaching and leadership development world-wide. Raising the bar for leadership has no limits.

DayBreak offers a variety of tools and assessments to enable you and your team to improve your success.

Developing your team drives business results by increasing skill and motivation. Superstar performance comes from individual contributors leveraging each other’s strengths in addition to their own.

Training your team to increase leadership skills will be six times more effective when it is supported by a strong framework that includes laser-focused objectives, highly engaging content and management-supported follow-up.

Dawn assists clients, teams, and organizations in increasing self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management so they are EQuipped to bring about change in themselves and their organizations.

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Dawn Cook Causey, Executive Coach, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

Dawn Cook Causey is an Executive Coach working with leaders and teams to improve their leadership bench strength, increase the speed/reduce cost of doing business through better work relationships and deliver better results.

Her mission is to help organizations drive profits by developing their people. Better emotional intelligence (EQ) means better leaders which means better business performance. Research shows that leaders and teams with high EQ perform at a higher level, contribute to increased corporate earnings, enjoy higher morale and experience lower turnover. She likes proving that research time and time again. Those ‘touchy feely’ competencies are touching and feeling bottom lines everywhere.

Dawn helps leaders who are intellectually bright and technically strong, yet struggle to maximize their own or their team’s potential because they fail to maximize the power of emotions. Her ideal client is the one who is as passionate about developing themselves as she is about helping them do it. She has an excellent track record helping leaders who need to better balance their strong, results-oriented nature with leveraging relationships.

If you or your executives are in any of these positions, Dawn can help you:

– Executive who blew the doors off their competition and rose quickly to the top, but now having to manage and motivate others is a challenge,

– Chief Information Officer responsible for technical types with ‘black and white’ thinking who need their communication styles to be as scalable and efficient as their enterprise solutions,

– Chief Engineering Officer who recognizes that their engineers need to design a better system for relating to non-engineering folks, or

– VP of Human Resources looking for ways to impact the bottom line through higher employee engagement and morale, lower turnover and recruiting costs,

Questions and Topics Discussed in this Episode

There are lots of coaches out there, we’ve interviewed several on this show. What is your niche or what makes you unique?
How did you get into coaching? What’s your journey?
Who do you coach? Describe your clients and the types of things you coach with them on.
In your bio, you say your motto is, “It’s your choice. Make it count.” Tell me about that.
And how does making a choice tie to emotional intelligence, since that is your specialty?
Can you give us an example of how you’ve worked with a client to make better choices?
You call yourself an Executive Coach. Do you ever do Life Coaching?
How has the pandemic affected your coaching business?
How can people connect with you if they want to start making better, more emotionally intelligent choices?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray, and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Executive Coach Robin Stueber

February 15, 2021 by angishields

Oahu Business Radio

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Robin Stueber delivers powerful executive and wellness coaching to business owners and leaders because the most successful executives understand that attaining the highest levels of mental fitness and physical vitality is the real secret to reaching their highest potential.

In her previous careers, Robin held multiple senior roles such as CEO, Chairman of the Board, Vice President and many more. She successfully navigated through fast-paced industries like banking, investment, technology, medical and non-profit industries including top global company Experian, and Fortune 500 companies Northwestern Mutual and Johnson & Johnson.

When she isn’t busy coaching, Robin enjoys spending time with her family and pets, and working with non-profit organizations. During her spare time, she listens to music and audiobooks, plays pickleball and tends to her home garden.

She is an ICF certified coach and seasoned business executive based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Connect with Robin on LinkedIn and Facebook.

All About Values: Markitors and PEAK Fleet E4

November 24, 2020 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

All About Values: Markitors and PEAK Fleet E4

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This was an empowering conversation of two companies leading by example and continuing to grow through the pandemic. We seem to hear too many stories about companies not making it through the pandemic, but this is not that story. These two companies are taking advantage of the opportunity to grow and expand beyond their original coverage area as well as saving budget by supporting their staff working at home. Brian and Brett discuss values, communication with staff, growing culture, diversity on teams, and kindness not getting confused with weakness.

Are you growing a conscious company during a pandemic? Are you needing to take care of your stakeholders during this crazy time? Are you interested in developing your company’s core values? Are you interested in working with an SEO to help your company grow? Are you interested in conscious capitalism and how it aligns with your company?

All of these are great reasons to listen in!

The PEAK Fleet is in the business of organizational development. Their mission is to “Help organizations succeed by creating an engaged workforce that thrives together.”

A values-based company, The PEAK Fleet was founded on four values they believe essential to any organization: Persistence, Empathy, Authenticity and Kindness. These PEAK Values® are embedded in all of their offerings and guides the approach they take for each client engagement.

PEAK Fleet Co-Founder, Brian Stinson, brings a diverse background in engineering and people systems expertise.

During his 21 years at Intel, he learned to combine the science of data and analytics with the power of empathy and authentic relationships to effectively solve real-world business problems.

In his last role with the company, Brian was responsible for the Workforce Strategy for Intel’s 60 00-person worldwide IT organization. While in this role, he decided that the balance of his career would be dedicated to Organizational Development.

For Brian, launching The PEAK Fleet represented an opportunity to help the greatest number of organizations unlock their full potential.

Follow The PEAK Fleet on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

Markitors is an SEO company for small businesses. Voted a Best Place to Work three years in a row, the mission of Markitors is to connect small businesses with customers, and have a good time doing it.

Brett Farmiloe is the Founder & CEO of Markitors, an SEO company for small businesses. He is a frequent contributor to Forbes, Business Journal, and more outlets on the topics of marketing, careers, and entrepreneurship.

He is also the Founder of Terkel, a knowledge platform the creates community-driven content featuring expert insights.

Connect with Brett on LinkedIn and follow Markitors on Twitter.

About Our People and Profit Co-Hosts

Sarah McCraren is an Arizona native with a strong sense of community. Sarah spent many years in the corporate finance world specializing in the operational analysis, measurement and accountability systems, project management and software implementations. However, Sarah wanted to do work which was meaningful and would positively impact her community.

She found that saving lives and reducing injuries through comprehensive safety programs fit that bill. Sarah currently leads the McCraren Compliance team by keeping everyone focused on their primary purpose, creating workplaces where we all watch out for each other, and balancing the needs of all their stakeholders.

Sarah serves on the Boards for Conscious Capitalism Arizona and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Tucson Chapter, and is also active with the Arizona Builders Alliance, Arizona Rock Products Association , Arizona Transportation Builders and Women in Mining Az.

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Creating Workplaces Where We All Watch Out for Each Other

Jeremy Neis is an Investment Advisor with Retirement Evolutions and a small business operator fueled by the desire to enrich the life experience. He grew up in the Chicago area and chased the sun to get a degree at the University of Arizona in human and organizational communications. After doing so, he returned to Illinois where over the next 15 years he would find joy in co-launching and growing a technology solutions company and establishing a family.

In 2014 he returned to the desert to join his current venture, Retirement Evolutions, where his focuses are: (1) Conduct planning with individuals and families so that they can maximize the likelihood of leading secure and comfortable retirements. (2) Through the business services arm, Resourceful, empower business leaders to care for the people that they will rely upon to be thriving, sustainable organizations.

Jeremy is a proud contributor to the Conscious Capitalism movement as he views it as a powerful vehicle to bring about greater prosperity and reduced suffering for our human family. Over his career he has had the privilege to work closely with hundreds of different enterprises across many markets and industries. A common theme emerges among those firms that he’s seen excel and that is to be great not just with what they are bringing to market, but also with the manner in which they are doing so.

About Our Sponsor – Conscious Capitalism Arizona

Business has the potential to be a powerful force for good.

Free enterprise capitalism has served to lift more people out of poverty than any other socio-economic system ever conceived – empowering social cooperation, human progress, and elevating humanity.

Good business is the answer to many of the global issues that humankind is facing. This is what we will dive into on the show.

We are working to change the capitalism narrative by shining a bright light on good business – telling the stories of conscious Arizona companies and encouraging others to follow in their footsteps.