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LEADER DIALOGUE: The Power of an Engaged Workforce – Deep Dive

March 13, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Power of an Engaged Workforce - Deep Dive

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Lindel Fields/Tri County Tech

Lindel Fields, the Superintendent and CEO of Tri County Tech, is an education thought leader with more than three decades of experience instilling a love of learning in students and transforming cultures at public institutions to unshackle them from assumptions limiting student and faculty potential. As a speaker and coach, Lindel Fields helps leaders and organizations become Great Places to Work with World-Class results. As the Superintendent at Tri County Tech, he led the organization to earn a spot on Fortune’s “Great Places to Work” list four years in a row, and in 2018, Tri County Tech earned the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige award.

About SOAR Vision Group

The SOAR Vision Group mission is to: Align People with Purpose to Achieve Exceptional Results. SOAR provides best practice strategy execution, business process optimization services, and a structured organizational development approach for organizations to effectively implement the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. For more information, contact SOAR Vision Group at (888) 294-3303 or visit soarvisiongroup.com.

About the Baldrige Foundation

The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is presented annually by the United States President to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence. For more information, contact the Baldrige Foundation at (202) 559-9195 or visit baldrigefoundation.org.

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Power of an Engaged Workforce with Lindel Fields

March 6, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Power of an Engaged Workforce with Lindel Fields

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Lindel Fields/Tri County Tech

About SOAR Vision Group

About the Baldrige Foundation

Jennifer Seith with Randstad and Author Bart Fanelli

March 2, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Jennifer Seith with Randstad and Author Bart Fanelli

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Jennifer Seith leads Randstad’s talent strategy and innovation team where she is responsible for creating technological solutions to innovate the company’s talent acquisition strategy. She plays an integral role in driving candidate acquisition and engagement, employment branding and recruitment technology systems for Randstad.

As a respected thought leader, Jennifer brings over 20 years of industry experience creating technological solutions that solve talent acquisition challenges on a global scale. She resides in Atlanta, GA and holds a master’s in business administration from Brown University as well as a master’s in business administration with a focus on entrepreneurship from the IE Business School in Madrid.

How to Connect with Jennifer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-seith-mba-67b1831/LinkedIn

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RandstadUSA

Bart Fanelli is a sales leader, entrepreneur, executive advisor, and platform developer who specializes in team building, sales execution, sales leadership methodologies, and global operational efficiency. He also co-authored “The Success Cadence”.

He has deep experience in building, leading, and scaling technology teams committed to rapid growth. The hypergrowth of one of the teams he led was the subject of a 2017 article in the Harvard Business Review. He is the recipient of the Technology Services Industry Association’s STAR award for “innovation in expand selling,” and the founder and lead designer of Skillibrium, a powerful sales success execution platform.

Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

What is upskilling?
What is driving the conversation around upskilling in the business world?
What do business leaders need to know now to help future-proof their business?
What can employees do to prepare themselves now for future jobs?
How does implementing a cadence of success lead to rapid-growth sales culture?
In THE SUCCESS CADENCE, the point is made that leaders need to be willing to move outside of what is comfortable and familiar to grow at a rapid rate. What are some of those comfortable, familiar things that people always seem to cling to?
What is a “momentum revolution” and how do you expand it from your sales team to the rest of the organization?
What is the “Hockey Stick” growth pattern and why is it important?

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Value of the “QUEST for Performance Excellence” Conference – Deep Dive

February 28, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Value of the "QUEST for Performance Excellence" Conference - Deep Dive

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Kay Kendall, CEO, BaldrigeCoach

Kay Kendall is the CEO and principal in BaldrigeCoach, a consulting firm that has worked with 23 Baldrige Award recipients, 38 top-level State Award recipients, and 18 Gold Award recipients for the AHCA/NCAL Quality Award.

Kay spent more than 20 years as a quality executive leading large-scale change initiatives across diverse industries – aerospace, semiconductor automation equipment, computers and storage devices, and pharmaceuticals. She completed a five-year assignment as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

From 2002 through 2005, Kay served on the Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program after serving as an Examiner and Senior Examiner for the Program for six years. She continues to serve as a Master Examiner for the program.

About SOAR Vision Group

About the Baldrige Foundation

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Value of the “QUEST for Performance Excellence” Conference with Kay Kendall

February 21, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Value of the "QUEST for Performance Excellence" Conference with Kay Kendall

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Kay Kendall, CEO, BaldrigeCoach

About SOAR Vision Group

About the Baldrige Foundation

ATDC Radio: Michael F. D. Anaya with DEVCON and Amy Love with Invest Atlanta

February 21, 2020 by angishields

ATDC Radio

ATDC Radio: Michael F. D. Anaya with DEVCON and Amy Love with Invest Atlanta

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Michael F. D. Anaya is the Head of Global Cyber Investigations and Government Relations for DEVCON DETECT, Inc. (DEVCON). Prior to joining DEVCON, he spent approximately 14 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

He began his career as a Special Agent in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office addressing complex cyber matters for eight years, during which time he led numerous, expansive investigations including one that resulted in the first federal conviction of a US person for the use of a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. He then was named a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) for the Leadership Development Program, charged with bringing together disparate divisions of the FBI focused on a workforce development initiative.

This resulted in a more balanced and inclusive program. After the implementation of the program, Michael went on to lead a cyber squad in the FBI’s Atlanta field office. There, he led a diverse group of Agents, Intel Analysts, and Computer Scientists in neutralizing nation-state and criminal threats. He secured one of the highest performance standards given by the FBI for the entire Atlanta cyber program, and he helped the program achieve a top-five ranking amongst the 56 FBI field offices.

Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.

Amy Love leads the technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship efforts for Invest Atlanta. She leverages Invest Atlanta resources to support a robust innovation ecosystem where technology companies can launch, scale, and locate in the city, and create tech talent opportunities and community impact so all Atlantans can thrive.

Amy has spent the last decade focused on technology-based economic development, most recently at the South Carolina Department of Commerce as the state’s first-ever director of innovation, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), where she grew ATDC’s statewide program to serve technology startups across Georgia. She holds a Masters in PR and Journalism from the University of South Carolina, and a BA in English from Furman University. Amy is a South Carolina Liberty Fellow, part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Connect with Amy on LinkedIn.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

What role Invest Atlanta plays in the city’s ecosystem
How Invest Atlanta serves tech entrepreneurs and companies
Special initiatives or programs with Invest Atlanta
Observations about the criminal mind
The main threats Devcon thinks we should be aware of in the cyber arena
Concerns about the digital supply chain and current cybersecurity landscape
Why organizations should share with the government

MIYC E1: The Mitch Pisik Inaugural Show; “Leadership”

February 20, 2020 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

MIYC E1: The Mitch Pisik Inaugural Show; "Leadership"

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Mitch Pisik
Pisik Consulting Group
631-943-5275
Mitch@pisik.consulting
Linkedin.com/in/mitchpisik
Twitter: @mitchpisik (Daily tweets on Leadership)

Mr. Pisik is an Award-Winning Executive Coach, Business Consultant, Leadership Trainer, Strategic Planning Facilitator, and Professional Speaker, who has worked with hundreds of executives in dozens of companies and industries – from Fortune 100 global businesses to sole proprietors. He has been consulting for over twenty years; doing so in his full-time practice, Pisik Consulting Group, since 2016.

His approach is not the same as others in the field – as his foundation is based on his career of building successful businesses and dynamically inspired Teams. The key positive differentiation and value that he brings to clients is one of experience, inspiration, and practicality.

He is fortunate to be in a position where he can leverage the successes for fifteen years of turning-around and growing four diverse Private-Equity portfolio businesses as CEO (in New York, Texas, and Arizona); and previously for seventeen years as a Senior Executive in strategy, business development, operations, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and consulting at several of the world’s largest global companies – including Kraft, Newell-Rubbermaid, Novartis, and KPMG.

He has conducted business in over three dozen countries.

A partial list of recent awards includes:

“Innovation in the Workplace” Award from the Society of Human Resource Management.
Finalist twice for the Copper Cactus “Business Leader of the Year” Award.
Winning the Copper Cactus Award for the “Best Place to work in Southern Arizona”.
The annual Business Development Award at Novartis.

Mitch is and has been, an active Board Member of numerous public, private, and not-for-profit businesses and organizations.

He also teaches the Strategic Leadership course at the University of Arizona; is an Honorary Commander at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ.; and is an active member of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council (SALC).

A partial list of speaker topics, workshops, facilitation, break-out/panelist sessions, and professional services offered includes (though is not limited to):

Leadership
Organizational Development
Attracting, hiring, inspiring, and retaining outstanding, world-class employees.
Profitable, effective, productive, efficient networking
Change management and continuous improvement
Key Performance Indicators
Facilitator at Strategic Planning and Team Building retreats/meetings.

LEADER DIALGUE: The Importance of Literacy Rates in Pre-Kindergarten Stages – Deep Dive

February 14, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALGUE: The Importance of Literacy Rates in Pre-Kindergarten Stages - Deep Dive

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Today’s Deep Dive Episode

Hosts Ben Sawyer and Lisa Counsell continue to discuss the importance of literacy rates in pre-kindergarten stages in this “deep dive” episode with educator, researcher, literacy expert, professor, and program developer Dr. KaiLonnie Dunsmore. Dr. Dunsmore is doctorally trained and focused on grant development and deployment of Education and Community of Excellence initiatives.

About SOAR Vision Group

About the Baldrige Foundation

Exploring Arizona Advanced Manufacturing E2

February 13, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Exploring Arizona Advanced Manufacturing E2

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Exploring Arizona Advanced Manufacturing E2

SciTech Institute was established as a nonprofit organization as a conduit for collaboration among STEM industry, academia, civic, and non-profit organizations to align assets and resources to motivate individuals to pursue STEM-related educational and career paths. Together, we will build a world-class community of diverse STEM-literate workers and knowledgeable, engaged citizens.

AZ MEP is Arizona’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership and part of the National MEP Network. AZ MEP provided business and operational excellence services to Arizona’s manufacturers. The group’s mission is to help every Arizona manufacturer to be the most successful business it can be. AZ MEP is part of the Arizona Commerce Authority.

Dave Garafano is a technology and business professional who has spent more than 25 years in product and technology development and growing highly profitable businesses in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He as spent the last four years helping Arizona’s manufacturers develop and execute highly effective business strategies focused on accelerating top-line growth and improved profitability.

Connect with Dave on LinkedIn.

Mesa Community College is the largest college in the Maricopa Community College District.

Leah Palmer has established a proven record of transformative and innovative results with over 20 years of hands-on experience forging productive partnerships and collaborative solutions such as building pipeline partnerships for accelerated technician training for several hundred students learning electrical wiring for Aerospace companies like Boeing.

As the current Executive Director for the Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AzAMI), she has developed implementation strategies for Workforce Development connecting the talent supply with competency-based training in automation, electronics, machining, 3D printing, drafting, and welding programs effectively addressing the growing workforce demands. Her expertise is strategic planning, program design, managing change, and building a systems approach to collaboration by bringing together education resources and Industry partners.

In addition to leading AzAMI at Mesa Community College, Leah has served as the Director for Workforce and Community Partnerships building workforce training partnerships, Associate Director for Community Partnerships, with the Center for Public Policy – Engaging executive leadership, project management, resource allocation and supporting the East Valley Think Tank (EVTT) for delivering education initiatives, Grant Administrator for the Communities Learning in Partnership (CLIP) Grant – in partnership with Mesa Public Schools and the City of Mesa.

MCC spearheaded a successful drive to secure a nationally competitive Bill & Melinda Gates planning grant, resulting in a $250K planning grant as well as a $3M implementation grant over 3 years, for the purpose of instituting systemic change to enhance the college completion rate of low-income youth, ages 16 to 26. Mobilized community leaders identifying the change necessary to build a vision, direct action teams, facilitate community engagement and oversee the planning, writing, evaluation and submission of the grant final application. Additionally, Leah serves as a passionate Adjunct Faculty, in the Communications Department.

Connect with Leah on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

SciTech Institute™ was established as the Arizona Technology Council Foundation as the conduit for collaboration among STEM industry, academia, civic, and non-profit organizations in Arizona. Now, rebranded and named the SciTech Institute™ the goal centers around aligning assets and resources to motivate individuals to pursue STEM-related educational and career paths or find a passion while engaged in community events during the SciTech Festival.

The Chief Science Officer program highlights the 6th-12th graders that have been selected as leaders in their schools and communities to receive training to build a world-class community of diverse STEM-literate workers and knowledgeable, engaged citizens. Science For All allows for tax credit donations to provide engaging experiences for students while RAIN (Rural Activation Innovation Network) focuses on resources for the rural areas of Arizona.

As a STEM Learning Ecosystem, SciTech Institute™ focuses on collaboration and connecting individuals with opportunities! STEM Professionals are encouraged to engage with the future workforce by serving as a mentor, leadership coach, panelist, keynote and session trainer during a variety of conferences hosted or sponsored by SciTech Institute™ and The Arizona Technology Council.

Teachers and Administrators are invited to connect with the resources available while activating a large network of STEM champions for student projects, judges at events, volunteers, exhibitors and more. SciTech Festival Event Coordinators are supported during the planning and execution of community STEM events around the state by the SciTech STREET Team Members and the growing network of volunteers. The possibilities are endless! SciTech Institute™ looks forward to connecting with you today. Visit SciTechInstitute.org today for more information.

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About Your STEM Unplugged Host

After graduating from Bolivar-Richburg High School in rural western New York and joining the United States Army, Kelly Greene learned quickly to adapt to her surroundings to be successful. She attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio and played shortstop on the Tiger softball team while earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education.

After graduating from Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training, she traveled the world with the military. While stationed in Misawa, Japan, Kelly fell in love with learning about cultures around the world. Even as a deployed Soldier during Operation Iraqi Freedom for two tours, she found opportunities to connect with the local children to form the Victory Base Council Girl Scouts with her fellow servicemen.

In 2013, she was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and traveled the country by air and had the opportunity to utilize the most advanced technologies available to the tactical HUMINT operations in theater. Upon return from combat, she retired with 21 years of service and began teaching 6th grade Math.

After being selected as a Westside Impact Teacher of the Year and having her Fiesta Bowl Charities Wish Granted for a morning news studio, she was asked to begin a new class on campus – 7th grade STEM! Using her enthusiastic nature and combined with her strong classroom management she was able to design curriculum based on the Engineering Design Process to have her 7th graders complete a new project every 2 weeks!

She is excited to serve as the Director of Student Success for the rapidly expanding Chief Science Officers Program. Her goal is to push students just a bit outside of their comfort zone so they can see for themselves the power of their own ideas.