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Andy Goldstrom with Midcourse Advisors

June 21, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Andy Goldstrom with Midcourse Advisors

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Andy Goldstrom and his team grow companies profitably and do it fast. Andy is an expert with B2B companies and is a sought-after business partner and speaker.

Early in his career, Andy started and built a division of a real estate brokerage company that generated 30%+ margins and grew from 1 to over 500 employees. After that, he took over an existing national recycling company and grew the top line from $70M to $100M and profit from $10M to $17M in 3 years. Both businesses were both designated as Inc. 500 companies, the fastest-growing privately help companies nationwide, and subsequently sold to Fortune 500 companies at high multiples. Most recently, he served as Global Director at a major investment bank, where he grew service capabilities over in 70 countries while saving $12M annually.

In each case, Andy led sales teams that competed efficiently and effectively to win an extraordinary amount of business. In addition, he reduced cycle times and increased the frequency of incoming sustainable business, creating incremental value that was monetized when the companies were sold.

He started Midcourse Advisors in 2016 as a way to give back to the B2B services community and now offers his knowledge and experience to organizations looking for ways to grow and improve. His new book Grow Like A Pro, available on Amazon, provides a roadmap for business owners to both sustain and propels their businesses forward.

He also offers an online course, available at www,midcourseadvisors.com/onlinecourses.

Connect with Andy on LinkedIn.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

How to sustain your business and win today
How to look forward and think different to enhance your business opportunities
How to achieve disruptive growth
How to gain high-end independence
How to incorporate humor into your day
Book and course offerings

About Our Sponsor

OnPay’s payroll services and HR software give you more time to focus on what’s most important. Rated “Excellent” by PC Magazine, we make it easy to pay employees fast, we automate all payroll taxes, and we even keep all your HR and benefits organized and compliant.

Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Christy Brown with LaunchPad2x

May 12, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Christy Brown with LaunchPad2x

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Brought to you by OnPay. Built in Atlanta, OnPay is the top-rated payroll and HR software anywhere. Get one month free at OnPay.com.

Christy Brown is President of Launchpad2X with a vast amount of previous experience in scaling and growing companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 turnaround business units. In these roles, she has held executive leadership roles over the past 20 years but in 2019, she became the Managing Executive Partner a venture capital firm focused on pairing venture capital with shared services in a studio environment to scale rapidly with services to support early-stage startups.

Prior to assuming the executive investment role, Christy was the Executive Vice President at a Fortune 100 human capital management software company where she lead the business transformation & client success organization globally. However, Christy is a rabid founder and has scaled three service-based companies focused on digital marketing and human capital services which she exited across a 12-year interval.

Following the last exit, she became a consummate innovator, futurist, and angel investor and is aligned to multiple startup incubators as a mentor and advisor focused on scaling and growing the founders alongside the business. She has also served as a board member across the Atlanta ecosystem including as a Venture Partner with Republic.co, Entrepreneur’s Organization, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, American Cancer Society, Technology Association of Georgia, and various across early and series stage startups in technology.

Connect with Christy on LinkedIn and follow Launchpad2X on Facebook and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

The partnership between Launchpad2X and TIE Atlanta
Access to the Capital for women

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Tonya Echols with ICF Georgia Chapter

May 8, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Tonya Echols with ICF Georgia Chapter

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Brought to you by OnPay. Built in Atlanta, OnPay is the top-rated payroll and HR software anywhere. Get one month free at OnPay.com.

Tonya Echols is an international Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant, facilitator, speaker, and writer. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialed by the International Coach Federation (ICF) of which she is also a Global member and President of the ICF Georgia Chapter.

Tonya was recognized by LinkedIn ProFinder as one of the standout Executive Coaches of the year for 2016 and 2017, and her writing has been featured in several publications including Forbes, HuffPost, and Training Industry.

Tonya is a faculty member of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), one of the premier coach training programs in the world and the American Management Association. She is a contributing member of the Forbes Coaches Council and an Executive/Leadership Coach for the TED Fellows Coaching and Mentoring Initiative.

Follow ICF on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What is the ICF and ICF Georgia Chapter?
The impact of coaching, especially as it relates to businesses
How to engage with members, affiliates, and the community
What International Coaching Week is and what ICF Georgia is doing to celebrate

About Our Sponsor

Follow OnPay on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

Franchise Marketing Radio: Charles Watson with Tropical Smoothie Cafe

October 31, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Franchise Marketing Radio: Charles Watson with Tropical Smoothie Cafe

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Charles Watson is a dedicated hospitality franchise professional focused on the leadership and growth of exceptional franchise systems. Watson contributed to the success of the popular smoothie brand, Tropical Smoothie Cafe for more than ten years acting as the Vice President of Franchise Development, Chief Development Officer and most recently as Chief Executive Officer.

Watson is responsible for both selling and recruiting franchisees that ultimately allowed Tropical Smoothie Cafe to become one of the fastest growing brands over the past few years. As a result of his work, the brand is expected to have 1,000 units by 2020 and 1,500 by 2023.

Prior to his tenure at Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Watson led strategic sales teams, e-commerce, corporate franchise sales systems and corporate strategy for InterContinental Hotels Group as manager of Global Sales and then as Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Watson is a Certified Franchise Executive, using his thorough experience in sales and franchising to become an ideal business executive, partner and professional mentor.

Connect with Charles on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow Tropical Smoothie Cafe on Facebook.

Scott Tekesky and Jason Smith with Bunker Labs, Terrie O’Hanlon with GreyOrange and Conrad Meertins with MyAbilities

October 15, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Scott Tekesky and Jason Smith with Bunker Labs, Terrie O'Hanlon with GreyOrange and Conrad Meertins with MyAbilities

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Scott Tekesky is Bunker Labs Atlanta City Leader. He enjoys making connections for others and building supportive communities. Scott has a strong background with talent acquisition and operations, specifically focused on the military to civilian transition process.

As a former Infantry Officer, he still prefers to be out in the woods or with people as opposed to behind a desk.

Jason Smith is Bunker Labs Atlanta City Leader. He is a Sales Expert, Business Coach, Trainer, & Military Veteran Community Leader. Jason helps businesses grow predictable revenue by applying his years of professional experience to his clients’ business development goals. He can personally augment your sales team to conduct business development campaigns.

Jason can train your sales teams to implement tailored strategies he will develop in partnership with you. He will engage his network of partners and experts to meet your needs.

Follow Bunker Labs on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

In her role as CMO of GreyOrange, Terrie O’Hanlon is responsible for global brand positioning and influencer strategies as well as for leading GreyOrange’s market development, communications and demand generation programs.

O’Hanlon brings extensive expertise to her role, including leading marketing for emerging and established companies in supply chain, healthcare, financial ecommerce, enterprise applications and cybersecurity.

Her supply chain experience includes orchestrating a successful brand transformation for Manhattan Associates, a global leader in supply chain commerce, inventory optimization and omnichannel solutions, and for Steelwedge, a supply chain planning company acquired by e2Open in 2017.

Follow GreyOrange on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Conrad Meertins attended St. John’s University in Queens, New York for his Bachelor of Science (B.S) in Computer Science and Master of Science in Mathematics (M.S). After moving to Georgia, he received his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Conrad also have many technical and leadership certifications such as Oracle DBA Masters and CCNA.

While living in New York, he was an Assistant Vice-President at Citibank/Citicorp Brokerage and Manager at Salomon’s Brothers Brokerage on Wall Street where the software he helped to write traded billions of dollars on a daily basis. In Georgia, Conrad held various leadership roles at Sprint, Center for Disease Control (CDC), Internet Security System (ISS) and HD Supply to name a few. His love for the community led him to be on the board of directors for South DeKalb Churches Federal Credit Union for many years.

As CEO of FamTeck and 25 years in Information Technology, Conrad brings a wealth of experience in disruptive technology as it relates to Database Security, optimization and doing more with less.

Conrad’s spiritual faith, love for the community and members of his family with different types of disabilities allowed him to embark on developing MyAbilities. Conrad encourages business leaders to look at ways to give back to the community outside of their core solutions. Together, we will make a difference.

Connect with Conrad on LinkedIn.

Episode 63: The One Thing You Need to Know About Delivering Difficult News – Liz Kislik

September 17, 2019 by Mike

Business Infrastructure

Episode 63: The One Thing You Need to Know About Delivering Difficult News – Liz Kislik

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As you lead your company through growth spurts, you may realize that it’s time to “level up” your business infrastructure. But how you communicate the need to upgrade people, processes and tools is just as important as the upgrade itself. Change is difficult, even in a faster-paced small business environment, and you can unknowingly create more chaos if you deliver news about change improperly. Liz Kislik has spent the past 30 years helping leaders work through change in fast growth environments. In this episode, she dons her conflict resolution hat to share best practices in delivering difficult news. One of the tools she recommends might surprise you – it’s something you likely use everyday.

Special Guest: Liz Kislik, Founder & CEO – Liz Kislik & Associates

Location: Rockville Centre, NY USA

Show Notes:

Managing Interpersonal Conversations: sign up for Liz’s free field guide when you visit her website – also includes access to her monthly Workplace Wisdom newsletter.
How to Shift from Asking for Trust to Being Trustworthy: an insightful article by Liz where she explains that “…trust can only be given.”
Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine: a book by Deepak Chopra.
Headspace: a meditation app that offers a free course on mindfulness.
Ten Percent Happier: a meditation app that includes guided meditations and teachings.
R.A.I.N. Technique for Working with Intense and Difficult Emotions: learn how clinical psychologist Tara Broch blends Western psychology with Eastern spiritual practices to teach mindfulness and compassion.
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself: a book by Christine Neff.
Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk about power poses to exude confidence:

E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

July 15, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

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E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

Listen to this episode and learn how EOS ® (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and Project Management both can help organizations successfully deliver on Strategic initiatives. We learn about EOS from Chris Spear, Founder of Traction Point and Tom Wesner, Founder of TractionSquared. We also learn about an alternative to traditional PMP certification training from Scott Payne, Founder of PM Master Prep.

Tom and Chris share their stories which include time running successful start-ups, leadership roles within large corporations and now running EOS Coaching businesses. At the core of EOS is the Traction book and the processes within. We also hear the similarities and shared leadership practices of EOS and Project Management. Scott and PM Master Prep are sponsors of Project Management Office Hours and it was great to have Scott share his story. We hear how PM Master Prep came to be and why they have a unique model with the PMP training industry. We also get to hear plans for Scott’s upcoming podcast.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker or your favorite podcast platform! Our next show will be July 18th with guests Roger Haskett and Jessica Kuhn. Thanks to our sponsors PM Master Prep and THE PMO SQUAD. PM Master Prep is offering 20% off all services by using code PMOJOE at checkout on www.pmmasterprep.com.

PM Master Prep is the world’s only case story focused PMP training company. PM Master Prep both teaches courses and partners with great companies to bolster their PMOs and provide PMP training that not only prepares students to succeed on the exam, but also improves their project management skills. PM Master Prep is offering 2 free online or live-online training seats to their groundbreaking case story focused PMP classes to any organization serious about transforming their PMP training program. Email Scott Payne (Founder PM Master Prep) directly at scott@pmmasterprep.com to receive your 2 free training seats.

Scott Payne has reinvented the process and focus of PMP preparation. Abandoning the traditional memorization focused methods, Scott created an entirely case story focused PMP training method. The power of this method is that it not only helps students learn faster and retain more, but it also drastically improves the student’s skills as a project manager.

Scott has published a best-selling PMP book, The PMP Exam Master Prep Manual, and created the world’s first case story focused video eCourse that flows in the order of a real project. In addition to his book, eCourse, and simulator, Scott leads students to success through focused Live and Live-Online classes weekly.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn and follow PM Master Prep on Facebook.

Traction Squared coaches / teaches leadership teams how to run on a holistic business system called the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®). Through EOS, your leadership team will be equipped with a simple set tools to achieve the following:

Vision. First, I’ll help your leaders to get 100% on the same page with a vision for your organization.
Traction®. Your leaders will become self-disciplined and accountable.
Healthy. Your leaders will become an open, honest and cohesive team. From there, as goes your leadership team, so goes the rest of your organization. Your entire company will become crystal clear on your vision.

People at every level will grow more disciplined and accountable in executing your vision. Your company will achieve consistent traction and drive forward as a healthy, functional, cohesive team. Our sweet spot is companies with 10-500 employees, that are open minded, and looking to get more of what they want out of their business. There are no contracts, and our time spent together is 100% guaranteed.

Tom Wesner is Co-Founder & CEO of Traction Squared, Professional EOS Implementer For over 25 years Tom’s passion has been helping people achieve BREAKTHROUGHS and take their lives to the next level – no matter how successful they already are – in the areas that matter most: doing what they love for work, with people they enjoy, making a difference in the world, being appropriately compensated and having the time to pursue other passions.

Tom has helped many people from a multitude of companies transform their lives and their businesses through his approach to leadership and personal coaching. He’s worked with CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies, CEO’s of Not-For Profit organizations and world class leaders in the entrepreneurial world. Over the past few decade, he’s developed a passion for helping small business owners, entrepreneurial leaders and not-for-profit organizations.

Most of his core strategies for creating breakthroughs have come from his work within really successful businesses. He has learned, applied and modeled the art and science of growing a profitable business from some of the most renowned leaders and businesses in the world. He uses these distinctions to help optimize and grow enterprises to new and more profitable levels.

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn.

Traction Point helps small and medium sized businesses to Create Success Faster! Every successful business needs an operating system. EOS, The Entrepreneurial Operating System, is a way of harmonizing and orchestrating all the moving parts of your business to help you run a better business and live a better life!

Chris provides professional training to give your team a proven system and the leadership skills they need to take you to the next level! They coach companies that are ready for transformation! You’re not just looking to dabble or pick up a few ideas from a seminar. You are committed to growth. Your team is willing to be open, honest and vulnerable with themselves and the people around them! You’re more afraid of the status quo than you are of change!

A few years out of college, Chris Spear did something everyone told him was stupid! He walked away from a great job and co-founded a software company. The team “bootstrapped” to $2 million dollars in revenue, a dozen employees, and was acquired in year three by a public company. This launched Chris into roles at a few really big companies.

At IKON/Ricoh, he led sales and marketing process implementation for a field sales organization of over 5000 reps. At Extra Space Storage, a real estate company, he led sales and operations process implementation as the company grew from 300 to over 700 locations. Through all this Chris learned he had a “superpower” for scaling businesses. But he didn’t want to just do something big, he wanted to do something that mattered! This is when he found a growing software company called Infusionsoft. Their purpose “To Help Small Businesses Succeed” was so compelling to him, that he joined them to lead operations and systems as they grew from $50M to more than $100M in revenue.

With a “small business success” fire in his belly, Chris happened on the EOS book “Traction.” He was truly shocked to find that everything he had learned about how to scale a business through years of painful trial and error was there in one harmonious system. Chris was hooked and is now on a mission to help hundreds of small businesses change the world and get more of what they want from their businesses!

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn and follow Traction Point on Facebook.

ABOUT THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

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!

Project Management Office Hours is powered by The PMO SQUAD

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

PM Master Prep^TM is simply the worlds best PMP^® Exam Preparation licensing system. There is no other product available to businesses and independent trainers that can offer the same premium courseware along with the rich feature set of our online exam simulator and study resources.

Our Courseware has been designed to be shorter, easier to learn for students, and easier to teach for instructors. Your students will learn faster, retain more and will pass the PMP exam!

JOURNEY RADIO Holly Waxman with Holly Waxman Homes and Holland Nance with Propel Coaching and Training

July 8, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

JOURNEY RADIO Holly Waxman with Holly Waxman Homes and Holland Nance with Propel Coaching and Training

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JOURNEY RADIO Holly Waxman with Holly Waxman Homes and Holland Nance with Propel Coaching and Training

Holly Waxman Homes is an all-inclusive Real estate service; they are a one-stop shop. They will help you sell your home for the highest dollar, and navigate through a seamless process, and successful transaction. Holly’s clients receive world-class service with proven results that exceed expectations!

“Buyer’s dream it… Holly will find your dream home and make the deal happen.”

In today’s challenging real estate market, selecting the right real estate agent is crucial. It can make all the difference in the world. Holly Waxman, Realtor at West USA realty, has created a boutique realty team serving sellers and buyers in the Scottsdale, Phoenix, and surrounding areas. As a professional, experienced realtor, Holly’s superior skills in negotiating successful transactions for both sellers and buyers allows for her to exceed client expectations. Holly has an exceptional task force of professionals that together are able to deliver world class service consistently.

She is also committed to providing cutting edge solutions for her clients needs. Holly’s dedication and diligence in continuing education keeps her well informed and ahead of the market which gives her the ability to communicate and advise her clients of the most updated information and trends.

Detail oriented and customer focused, Holly strives to provide her clients with nothing short of excellence in customer service. Originally from Chicago, Holly has a great understanding of the relocation process having gone through it herself. In addition, Holly understands the importance of education. Whether it be continuing to improve her Real Estate knowledge or working with families with children with learning differences, Holly’s personal experience and contacts can make what might seem a challenge an easy and enjoyable experience.

Buyers and sellers find comfort in Holly’s exceptional market knowledge of pricing, excellent negotiating skills, and her ability to make a stressful situation easy. She prides herself on her superior customer service and tailoring her skills to meet each clients individual needs.

Follow Holly Waxman Homes on Twitter and Facebook and contact her directly at 602-388-0319 and at HollyWaxmanHomes@gmail.com.

PROPEL Coaching & Training, LLC provides Coaching, Training, and Consulting services for individuals, groups, and businesses to help others reach new heights in life and business.

PROPEL uses innovative strategies to provide Positive Reinforcement for Occupational Preparedness, Empowerment, and Leadership through personal and professional development coaching and training. With an array of Business Consulting services, the PROPEL team is available to meet business start-up, growth and Human Resources needs.

Holland B. Nance is an Author, Coach, Consultant, and Creativity Advocate. All of that simply means that she cares about blending the right balance of knowledge, experience, and passion in authentically moving forward in life and business.

She has nearly 20 years of corporate management experience and continues with Business Consulting and coaching services. Through these years, she has experienced many successes and failures. All-in-all, she has learned many lessons and will continue to learn more.

Holland brings her years of experience, creativity, professional training, and education to provide quality services to equip and empower others to achieve even more than they have imagined.

Connect with Holland on LinkedIn and Instagram, and follow Propel Today on Twitter and Facebook.

ABOUT JOURNEY RADIO

Tune into Journey Radio to learn from successful professionals who will provide you with a roadmap for your own Journey to success. Our guests are individuals who want to share stories, tips and guidelines based on their own journey. Listeners will be encouraged to stay the course after learning that a journey that ends successfully is not a straight line but is a winding road of experiences that teaches life lessons that can be built upon, providing us grit and knowledge to complete our Journey.

Journey Radio’s mission is to ensure all listeners have the opportunity to learn from guest’s experiences, failures and successes enabling Journey listeners to complete their “Path to Success” at a faster pace, with fewer failures. Every lesson learned does not need to be through experience, but can be learned by listening and learning from other’s experience. Journey Radio connects listeners with guests who have completed the journey that the listener is on.

Journey Radio is powered by Divinity Beauty Bar

Tucson’s Leader in Extensions, Color, Healthy Hair and All your Spa Needs. Connect with Divinity Beauty Bar on Facebook and Instagram and via email.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Journey Radio’s host and sponsor Enid Moore-Cranshaw is a consummate business professional. Enid holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and Accounting from Regis University. She is the Immediate Past District Director of Toastmasters International, District 3 (state of Arizona) with a membership of over 4,000. District 3 Toastmasters is ranked seventh in Arizona’s networking and is one of the top organizations for communication and leadership development in the world. She is a Financial Professional and owner of Divinity Beauty Bar. Divinity Beauty Bar specializes in nails, hair styling, wigs, hair extensions, maintenance and growth. Enid is the Immediate Past Board President of Child Parent Centers (Headstart). Child Parent Centers is a leader in early childhood development and serves Southern Arizona’s underprivileged children. Her passion is early childhood development, community service, personal development, effective communication and empowering others to realize their full potential.