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LEADER DIALOGUE: The Importance of Literacy Rates in Pre-Kindergarten Stages with Dr. KaiLonnie Dunsmore

February 7, 2020 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Importance of Literacy Rates in Pre-Kindergarten Stages with Dr. KaiLonnie Dunsmore

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Today’s Episode

Hosts Ben Sawyer and Lisa Counsell discuss the importance of literacy rates in pre-kindergarten stages, along with opportunities to improve education in collaboration with community partners, 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

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.

Iris Grimm, Master Performance Inc.

February 4, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Iris Grimm, Master Performance Inc.

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 194: Iris Grimm, Master Performance Inc.

Leadership development and coaching was discussed on this edition of “North Fulton Business Radio” as Iris Grimm, Master Performance Inc. joined the show. A particularly fascinating part of this interview is how Iris sometimes uses her clients’ dogs as coaching partners. “North Fulton Business Radio” is hosted by John Ray and is broadcast from the North Fulton Business RadioX® studio inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Iris Grimm, Master Performance Inc.

Iris Grimm is founder of Master Performance Inc., and an internationally known coach, trainer, and facilitator. For the last 19 years, Iris has supported business leaders from various industries in the growth of their companies, and the successful integration of work and life. Her extensive knowledge, experience, and passion for self-mastery, optimal performance and leadership, allow her to work with leaders and their teams of various styles.

Iris’ love for dogs and her intensive experience of dog training sometimes gives her room to use clients’ pets as coaching partners. The results of her programs prove people who devote time and energy to their personal and leadership development are more focused, productive and satisfied – a positive enhancement to both personal happiness and professional success.

For more information visit Iris’ website. To get in touch directly, you can email Iris, or call directly at 770-428-2334.

North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. 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.

Shatha Barbour with Hera Hub and Sonny Patel with Insurmi

January 23, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Shatha Barbour with Hera Hub and Sonny Patel with Insurmi

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Shatha Barbour with Hera Hub and Sonny Patel with Insurmi

Hera Hub is a spa-inspired, shared workspace and business accelerator for business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals. This flexible work and meeting space provides a productive work environment with a mission to support women business owners, helping them to thrive!

Hera Hub members have access to professional space to meet with clients, connect and collaborate with like-minded business owners, thus giving them the support they need to be prosperous. It is also a place to find additional resources, such as training, workshops, and one-on-one support essential for their business growth.. Hera Hub also offers an accelerator program with AHA to Exit to help all industries and stages of business grow and succeed, creating growth in our local economy!

Shatha Barbour is a passionate leader with a global vision! She has a diverse background with broad experience working in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry to co-founding a nonprofit organization to being CEO of Hera Hub Phoenix. After receiving her degree in Healthcare Management & Policy from Univ of Michigan in 2002, Shatha worked with the senior executive team of a hospital undergoing a 5 yr turnaround plan. From there, she moved on to work for Eli Lilly, a fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, where she covered roles from sales operations to global access strategy, improving the reach of medicine throughout the world among Lilly affiliates worldwide.

In 2010, Shatha Barbour moved to Phoenix and took a hiatus from her corporate background. She co-founded a non-profit educational organization called Good Tree Institute, that she actively participates in still. By 2014, Shatha realized she wanted to bridge these broad experiences, from her corporate background to her non-profit startup to pursue her passion: cultivating and empowering women to fulfill their goals and business ideas in a collaborative environment!

Shatha started her journey of opening Hera Hub Phoenix in the fall of 2016. After almost 2 years in the making, Hera Hub Phoenix opened its doors in April of 2018. Hera Hub Phoenix is designed as a beautiful landing space and launching pad for the women of Phoenix in all industries and backgrounds, yet not exclusive to just women. It has already become that space with many business owners, professionals, organizations, and companies using the space as a workspace and training center.

Her ultimate vision is to build bridges between communities, especially women business owners locally, nationally, and internationally! In her free time, you’ll find Shatha hiking, working and facilitation workshops with nonprofits, and spending quality time with her husband and three kids.

Connect with Shatha on LinkedIn and follow Hera Hub on Facebook and Instagram.

Insurmi is a conversational-AI powered customer engagement platform for insurance carriers. The digital engagement platform is used by top-tier global insurance carriers to give them a competitive edge on generating new business online, streamlining customer claims, and delivering an overall better customer experience through next-generation technology.

Sonny Patel is the founder and CEO of Insurmi, an AI-based engagement platform for insurance carriers.

He started the company just three years ago at the age of 21 while working as a sales director and financial advisor at a top life insurance company where he realized the process of buying and selling insurance was unnecessarily cumbersome and outdated. He was determined to change this, and went to work to develop a solution that would simplify and take the guesswork out of the insurance buying process. That solution would eventually become Insurmi.

Now, Insurmi is being used by a number of top-tier global insurance carriers to easily generate new business online, streamline customer claims, and deliver excellent customer service through conversational AI.

Follow Insurmi on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

About Our Host

Along with being a Spartan racer, past animal trainer and magician’s assistant, Kindra Maples has experience working with diverse crowds of all sizes, ages, and backgrounds to support them with engagement opportunities.

Kindra is a dynamic and engaging community engagement specialist with 10+ years of proven excellence across senior leadership roles leading partnership development and community outreach and engagement.

As an ambassador of Phoenix Business RadioX she is able to continue supporting community engagement through connecting business professionals to others in the community.

Brian Wood with MARS Coaching Shawn Snyder with Looking Forward Consulting E4

January 17, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Brian Wood with MARS Coaching Shawn Snyder with Looking Forward Consulting E4

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Brian Wood with MARS Coaching Shawn Snyder with Looking Forward Consulting E4

MARS Coaching is passionate about supporting continuous personal growth and organizational development. MARS continues to support major corporations, professional sports organizations and municipalities. They provide confidential, professional and discreet executive coaching, online learning resources and leadership assessments with customized summaries and action plans. MARS Coaching can accommodate the learning and development needs of any organization with the emphasis on leadership, communication, organizational culture and social styles.

Brian Wood is a previous Chairman of The Board for the Tempe Chamber of Commerce. With 30 years of experience at American Airlines and Waste Management, he combines a corporate perspective with his background as an athlete and a certified professional coach to provide clients with unique support and guidance toward the next level of greatness.

Brian was certified as a professional coach (leadership, success and transition) through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. He uses a model that identifies the mindset and energy that is constructive while attacking the opportunities to convert catabolic thinking. Brian is enthusiastic about helping people find their passion, leverage their gifts while identifying and achieving their definition of success.

He is also an executive coach with the American Express Leadership Academy – hosted by the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and nonprofit innovation.

Additionally, Brian is :

* A mentor with New Pathways for Youth
* A Certified Player Agent with FIBA, the NBA and WNBA Players Associations
* A Certified Leadership Circle Profile practitioner
* A graduate of Valley Leadership
* An international Speaker
* Co-author of bestselling book – “Journey of Riches”
* Featured in the upcoming movie “Adversity”

Originally, from NJ, Brian earned his BA in Communications from William Paterson University and earned his MBA in 2014 from the University of Phoenix. He loves travel, community involvement, adventure, generating positive influence and “the experience” of life. Also loves spending time with his wife Vivian and kids – and watching them compete in sports and life.

Connect with Brian on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram, and follow MARS Coaching on Facebook.

Looking Forward Consulting is trusted by many of the worlds most successful companies to help them solve their toughest challenges through improving employee performance and leadership skills. We specialize in leadership development, employee training, learning gamification, workforce assessment, leadership coaching, and organizational development. Our proven processes will help our client’s accomplish their business objectives.

Shawn Snyder is an accomplished organizational development expert with a proven ability to develop and implement training strategies as well as organizational change initiatives. He is recognized as an expert in human performance and developing tomorrow’s leaders. He has also led multi-million dollar change initiatives for Fortune 500 companies.

Shawn is an accomplished speaker and innovator. He has traveled the world inspiring leaders at all levels. He has helped many organizations drive higher sales, increase employee morale, and reduce employee turnover. Innovation and technology are a cornerstone to Shawn’s success with clients. Shawn has several apps available in market that enable interaction with learners in new and different ways.

Connect with Shawn on LinkedIn.

About the Show

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 Consulting is a business concierge and project management firm. They help small business owners and non-profits build, brand and brag about their businesses.

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.

Naomi Harm with Innovative Educator Consulting E3

January 15, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Naomi Harm with Innovative Educator Consulting E3

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Naomi Harm with Innovative Educator Consulting E3

Innovative Educator Consulting is a professional learning technology corporation. Naomi Harm is Founder and CEO who is a passionate educational thought leader and influencer, who works collaboratively with national and international K12 schools, educational organizations, and HigherEd Institutions. We design and implement innovative learning experiences for k12 educators and administrators aligned to ISTE, Common Core, Computer Science, and Next Generation Science Standards.

Our women-led facilitator team of master educator consultants from the MidWest are best known for helping k12 organizations collaboratively build solutions focused on measurable learning outcomes, while supporting and meeting the needs of today’s diverse Generation Z and Alpha students and dynamic K12 educators.

As a collaborative edtech team, we provide an extensive list of services to support your unique professional learning needs, and customize learning experiences to meet your strategic planning initiatives. We are constantly creating and building new professional learning offerings reflective of emerging technology literacy best practices and research-based methodologies.

Be sure to check out our Professional Learning offerings for detailed descriptions of workshops/sessions and inspiring keynotes that we offer. If there is a topic you are looking for that is not listed, please feel free to contact us and we can discuss the many options and learning outcomes targeted to meet your professional learning framework.

Naomi Harm is an instigator of STEM innovation, and an edtech women in leadership thought leader and influencer. She welcomes every opportunity to share her expertise of brain-based instructional approaches, supported with technology literacy best practices with k12 students and educational leaders worldwide.

Her current professional facilitated offerings include mentoring girls and young women to pursue passion-driven STEM careers, coding and robotics theme-based activities, global engineering derbies infused with NGSS problem-solving student-centered challenges, women in leadership coaching/mentoring best practices, redesigning classroom learning spaces with the brain in mind to support the student-centered classroom, and maximizing creativity, communication and collaboration with the Google Suite of learning tools and student choice and voice media projects.

Her 20+ years in the educational learning space reflects a passion driven approach to leading and learning as a CUE STEM Educational Specialist, ISTE Faculty Instructional Coach, Google Certified Innovator, Woman in Leadership Coach and Mentor, CS for All Teacher Ambassador, Master LEGO Educator, Makey Makey Ambassador, Book Creator Ambassador and CEO and founder of her own Innovative Educator Consulting company http://www.NaomiHarm.org

Naomi’s past leadership positions have included: k12 Strategic Education Manager for Wonder Workshop, K12 Education Strategist for Dell EMC, National Intel Senior Trainer, EdTech Director for 26 Wisconsin school districts, and 4/5th grade looping teacher/technology coach in Bangor, Wisconsin.

She has spoken at over 125 National/International conferences, and her most recent keynotes and featured speaker addresses include the locations: *Canada Edtech Leadership Summit – Vancouver – British Columbia, *LEGO Education – Denmark, *FETC – Orlando, FL, *Future Ready Conference – Honolulu, Hawaii, *ISTE – Chicago, Il – *NAF NEXT Washington, D.C. and Detroit, *STEMWorks Honolulu, HI, *Tinker.Code.Make – Beaverton, OR, *CUE Palm Springs, CA, *WI SLATE, *SSLA Saskatoon, Canada – *AVEdTech Summit Palmdale, CA – *Practical Pedagogies in Toulouse, France – *NCTIES in North Carolina – and *SchoolNet South Africa in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein.

Connect with Naomi on LinkedIn and follow Innovative Educator Consulting on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

About The Lurnist Radio Show & Podcast

Join us as we discuss the latest trends, “how to’s” and the fascinating things people are doing in the course creation business!

About Your Host

Debra Hildebrand is the Founder and CEO of The Lurnist. She has over 20 years’ experience in consulting and over 10 years in corporate training and teaching in higher education.

She is one of the architects for the Project Management Certification program at the University of Washington, where she received the Team Teaching Excellence Award and currently instructs in the online portion of the program. Additionally, she developed and currently teaches two highly popular online courses at Stanford University. She has developed and produced over 200 educational videos.

Prior to building her own business, she worked as a management consultant for a boutique consulting company in the Pacific Northwest where her role included creating successful solutions for high profile, complex, cross-functional projects in the public sector.

She earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY and she serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington Project Management Certificate Program and is a National Mentor for SeedSpot.

About Hildebrand Solutions, DBA “The Lurnist

The Lurnist provides strategic solutions for online business startup, marketing and course creation. We provide entrepreneurs, small businesses and service professionals with coaching and training to help them build a successful and revenue generating business. We do this by providing real action steps that can be implemented right away and strategies for automating work that is slowing down progress. Our motto is SIMPLE and ACTIONABLE.

Follow The Lurnist on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Jeremy Neis with Retirement Evolutions Shatha Barbour with Hera Hub Phoenix and Karen Nowicki with Phoenix Business RadioX E3

December 27, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Jeremy Neis with Retirement Evolutions Shatha Barbour with Hera Hub Phoenix and Karen Nowicki with Phoenix Business RadioX E3

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Jeremy Neis with Retirement Evolutions Shatha Barbour with Hera Hub Phoenix and Karen Nowicki with Phoenix Business RadioX E3

Retirement Evolutions concentrates on “People Centered Wealth Management”. Finances are just one dynamic of wealth and so Retirement Evolutions is there to help guide you to “invest in what you value.” Many people value not creating messes for loved ones. Some people value the thought of a secure and comfortable retirement.

While other people value supporting organizations that are contributing to making the world a better place through impact / socially responsible investing and efficient philanthropy. Whatever you happen to value at this phase of life, Retirement Evolutions will help you create a comprehensive map that brings all the elements of your wealth into one clearly focused picture and help you take action toward your goals.

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. 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.

Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Hera Hub also offers an accelerator program with AHA to Exit to help all industries and stages of business grow and succeed, creating growth in our local economy!

From there, she moved on to work for Eli Lilly, a fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, where she covered roles from sales operations to global access strategy, improving the reach of medicine throughout the world among Lilly affiliates worldwide.

After almost 2 years in the making, Hera Hub Phoenix opened its doors in April of 2018. Hera Hub Phoenix is designed as a beautiful landing space and launching pad for the women of Phoenix in all industries and backgrounds, yet not exclusive to just women. It has already become that space with many business owners, professionals, organizations, and companies using the space as a workspace and training center.

Connect with Shatha on LinkedIn and follow Hera Hub on Facebook and Instagram.

Each week from the Phoenix Business RadioX® Studio inside MAC6 Workspace in Tempe, Arizona, business leaders and entrepreneurs get the word out about the great work they’re doing for their market, their community, and their profession.

Business RadioX® serves the Fortune 500,000, not just the Fortune 500, which means that small to medium businesses can have a media arm within their organization through their own radio show and podcast that shines a bright light on the relationships that matter the most to them.

Unlike paid media experiences that produce rehearsed sound bites and repetitive disingenuous messaging, Phoenix Business RadioX® helps their B2B clients reach their financial goals through authentic on-air conversations, increased visibility, and true leadership.

Phoenix Business RadioX prides itself on its relationships and partnerships with professional organizations including Local First Arizona, Conscious Capitalism Arizona, Tempe Chamber of Commerce, SciTech Institute and the Better Business Bureau.

Karen Nowicki is a successful author, speaker and the creator of Deep Impact Leadership™ and SoulMarks Coaching™. She is a two-time recipient of the prestigious national Choice Award® for her book and personal development retreat. Karen was crowned the first-ever “Mompreneur of the Year” Award in 2010 for the southwestern states. She was recognized for her leadership, business acumen, and work-life balance.

Karen has been an expert guest on regional TV and radio shows, including Fox Phoenix Morning Show, Sonoran Living, Good Morning Arizona, The Chat Room, and Mid-Day Arizona. She has been a regular contributor to many print and online magazines – publishing articles and blogs for business and education.

In addition to working with private coaching clients, Karen is also the Owner & President of Phoenix Business RadioX. The Business RadioX Network amplifies the voice of business – serving the Fortune 500,000, not just the Fortune 500. Phoenix Business RadioX helps local businesses and professional associations get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, profession, and community.

Of all the experiences Karen has had the privilege of participating in over her vast career, she shares that Phoenix Business RadioX is a pinnacle adventure!

Connect with Karen on LinkedIn and follow Phoenix Business RadioX on Facebook and Instagram.

About the Show

About Our Sponsor

KLM Consulting is a business concierge and project management firm. They help small business owners and non-profits build, brand and brag about their businesses.

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.

ATDC Radio: Edward Black with OncoLens

December 18, 2019 by angishields

ATDC Radio

ATDC Radio: Edward Black with OncoLens

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Ed Black is responsible for day to day operations of Oncolens, with a focus on ensuring successful customer onboarding and continued success in using our solution. Previous to this role, Ed held various client facing positions at Ingenious Med, a medical professional fee charge capture software solution company.

As the VP of Implementations and Training, Ed played a key role in scaling the company through an explosive growth period. He also held positions as the VP of Specialty Solutions and Strategic Account Manager.

Prior to working at Ingenious Med, Ed served in the United States Air Force where he was a C-130 pilot. He also served in various senior staff positions including at a US Embassy abroad and with the Space Shuttle Program.

Ed has a Master’s Degree in Management from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a Bachelor of Science from The United States Air Force Academy. He is a certified Project Management Professional and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

In his free time, Ed enjoys spending time with his wife trying to keep up with their teenagers, fly fishing, woodworking, and exercising.

Follow Oncolens on LinkedIn and Facebook.

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Baldrige Framework: A Systems Approach – Deep Dive

December 13, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Baldrige Framework: A Systems Approach - Deep Dive

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Ben Sawyer, Dr. George Benson, Lisa Counsell

On this “deep dive” episode of “Leader Dialogue”, hosts Ben Sawyer and Lisa Counsell continue their discussion about Systems Approach to the Baldrige Framework with returning guest Dr. George Benson, Professor of Decision Sciences at the College of Charleston and the Chairman of the Baldrige Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. George Benson/Chairman of Baldrige Foundation Board of Directors

Dr. George Benson graduated from Bucknell University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He did graduate work at New York University and earned a doctorate in decision sciences from the University of Florida. Benson taught in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, served as the Dean of the Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University, and as Dean of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, prior to serving eight years as the president of the College of Charleston, where he continues to teach statistics.

Dr. Benson serves on the boards of directors of three public companies: AGCO Corporation, Crawford & Company, and Primerica, Inc., and has been recognized for exemplary leadership in that capacity.

His service to the Baldrige Enterprise includes being appointed to the nine-member panel of national judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and serving as a member of the Baldrige Board of Overseers, including a two-year term as chair, prior to being elected to the Baldrige Foundation Board of Directors in 2007.

The Baldrige Foundation is the private-sector partner of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP), a federal program in the National Institute of Standards and Technology within the Department of Commerce. The Mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of BPEP, and to support organizational performance excellence.

About SOAR Vision Group

About the Baldrige Foundation

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Baldrige Framework: A Systems Approach

December 9, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Baldrige Framework: A Systems Approach

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On this episode of “Leader Dialogue”, hosts Ben Sawyer and Lisa Counsell discuss a Systems Approach to the Baldrige Framework with Dr. George Benson, Professor of Decision Sciences at the College of Charleston and the Chairman of the Baldrige Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. George Benson/Chairman of Baldrige Foundation Board of Directors

Dr. Benson serves on the boards of directors of three public companies: AGCO Corporation, Crawford & Company, and Primerica, Inc., and has been recognized for exemplary leadership in that capacity.

About SOAR Vision Group

About the Baldrige Foundation