LEADER DIALOGUE: The Baldrige Journey vs. The Destination

July 22, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: The Baldrige Journey vs. The Destination

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Ben Sawyer, Jennifer Strahan, Paul Grizzell

On this episode of “Leader Dialogue“, Core Values Partners President Paul Grizzell joins Ben, Jennifer, and Duffie to share experiences and tips for organizations launching or continuing their journey toward the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The hosts introduce how the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework aligns directly with the Organizational Hierarchy of Needs and drives a culture of superior quality and engagement.

Listen in to learn…

How to avoid the pitfalls of the “3-year Baldrige breakdown” commonly encountered by organizations embarking on their performance excellence framework
How leadership and culture can accelerate or elongate an organization’s journey
The most effective drivers of success for high performing organizations

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.

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 7, brought to you by Powerful Women of The Gulf Coast

July 13, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Women In Leadership Series Ep 7, brought to you by Powerful Women of The Gulf Coast

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John Rigsby/
www.theudc.org

Soft Skills Training Institute of Florida, The Urban Development Center

The Soft Skills Training Institute of Florida

Dates EmployedJun 2006 – Present

LocationPensacola, Florida Area

SSTI is a soft skills training and development company focusing on workforce, business and organizational advancement within urban communities. We specialize in curriculum, program and resource development.

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2018, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17^th and Thursday, October 18^th, 2018 at Sanders Beach.
Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews.

Tucson Business Radio- Tucson Means Business Ep.1

July 2, 2018 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

Tucson Business Radio- Tucson Means Business Ep.1

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Tucson Means Business Episode 1 Guests:

Mitch Pisik

Executive Coach and Business Consultant
631-943-5275
mitch@pisik.consulting
Linkedin.com/in/mitchpisik
Twitter: @mitchpisik

Mitch has worked as an Executive Coach, Business Consultant, Keynote Speaker and Facilitator for the past twenty years; doing so in a full-time practice since 2016.

He leverages the award-winning successes of turning-around and substantially growing four diverse Private-Equity portfolio businesses as CEO (in New York, Texas, and Arizona) over fifteen years; and previously for seventeen years as a Senior Executive in strategy, business development, operations, finance, mergers and acquisitions, consulting, and finance 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.

He is and has been, an active Board Member of numerous public, private, and not-for-profit organizations – including the Tucson Metro Chamber.

He also teaches the Strategic Leadership course at the University of Arizona.

A partial list of recent awards includes:

In 2016 winning the “Innovation in the Workplace” Award from the Society of Human Resource Management.

Finalist for the Copper Cactus “Business Leader of the Year” Award in 2016 and 2015.

In 2014 winning the Copper Cactus Award for the “Best Place to work in Southern Arizona”.

Bob Dytko

Stewart Title & Trust of Tucson
CIO, VP of Commercial
Development and Special Operations.
520-668-6697

linkedin.com/in/bob-dytko-4a1b805

Twitter: @bdytko

Bob provides today’s and yesterdays information about our industry here in Pima County along with other counties in Southern Arizona. His position is to be informed to answer your questions about our area. He has all the information you need at his fingertips. He will also share with you where to find the information to help you with your endeavor. He provides this service for his clients, potential clients, and his own employees as well.

His position VP of Social Media/Marketing Education Liaisons was created to provide you with the quality service and peace of mind, you deserve in the hassle-free, safe and secure escrow and title experience. The position does not stop after the closing of escrow but to maintain communication and excellent service for your future business endeavor.

Bob’s position has been amazing for him. He has not been happier in his life doing what he loves and that is reaching out and helping everyone he can be successful in life.

Bert Williams

Williams and Associates

logoeditems.com

Family owned since 1977 and celebrating their 41st anniversary this year.

Williams & Associates was founded in 1977, by Bert Williams, working in a small home office (the kitchen table) and has grown to include 3 locations: Tucson, AZ, Tempe, AZ and Lahaina, HI.

Williams and Associates is a multi-award winning Promotional Products company.

They have won the industry’s top award, the Gold Pyramid, three times.

Especially noteworthy is that last year they were named “National Family Business of the Year” by the

22,000-member Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI). Despite these rare accolades, owners Bert and Anne

Williams are most especially proud that their average salesperson has been with them for 29 years.

On a local level, Bert recently was named the Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce “2018 Legacy Member.”

With offices in Tucson, Phoenix, and Hawaii, they serve more than 3,000 national and international clients and are ranked in the top 1 percent in sales in the U.S.

“Marketing Solutions Through Promotional Products.”

Pensacola Business Radio: Spot Light Edition: José Ramón Arroyo, Ph.D., P.E.

June 28, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Spot Light Edition: José Ramón Arroyo, Ph.D., P.E.

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Professor
Ph.D. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus
Office SA-209
Mayagüez, PR 00680
(787) 832-4040, Ext. 3789
E-Mail: jose.arroyo5@upr.edu

Professional Affiliations

Technical and Professional Associations:
American Society of Civil Engineers
International Conference of Building Officials
Precast / Prestressed Concrete Institute
Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimensores de Puerto Rico

Professional Preparation

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, 1999.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, 1995.
B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, 1992.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Arroyo, J. and Suárez L., “Response of Multiple Horizontal Soil Layers Using Higher Order Frequency Response Functions,” Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures II, Wessex Institute of Technology, WIT Press, Southampton, UK, 1999.
Arroyo, J. and Suárez L., “Response of Multiple Horizontal Soil Layers Using Higher Order Frequency Response Functions”. Paper presented in the Second International Symposium on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures 99 (ERES 99), University of Catania, Italy, June 15-17, 1999.
Suárez, L. and Arroyo, J., “Applications of the Volterra Series to the Analysis of Nonlinear Layered Soil Deposits,” invited paper presented in the 1999 ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, on June 27-30, 1999.
J.R. Arroyo, “Response of Multiple Horizontal Soil Layer Using Higher Order Frequency Response Functions in the Frequency Domain”, FoPER ’99, RUM, October 1999.
J.R. Arroyo, “Brief History, Structural Details And Actual Conditions Of Historic Bridges Built In The 19th Century In Puerto Rico”, paper presented in the Preserving the Historic Road in America Conference, sponsored by the National Park Service, Morristown, New Jersey, April 2000.
J.R. Arroyo, “Brief History, Structural Details And Actual Conditions Of Historic Bridges Built In The 19th Century In Puerto Rico”, Proceeding of the Preserving the Historic Road in America Conference, sponsored by the National Park Service, Morristown, New Jersey, April 2000.
Arroyo, J., “Response of Multiple Horizontal Soil Layer Using Higher Order Frequency Response Functions in the Frequency Domain,” paper presented and published in the Proceedings of the EM2000 Fourteenth Engineering Mechanics Conference, American Society of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, May 2000.
J.R. Arroyo, “Response of Multiple Horizontal Soil Layer Using Higher Order Frequency Response Functions”, Proceedings of the European Congress on Computational Methods (ECCOMAS 2000), Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.
Arroyo, J., “Response of a Single Horizontal Soil Layer Using the Volterra Series in the Frequency Domain,” International Journal of Computational Engineering Science (IJCES), Vol 1, No. 2 (2000) 235-255, Imperial College Press.
J.R. Arroyo, “New Methodology to Calculate the Seismic Response of a Stratified Soil Deposit”, DIMENSION, Revista del Colegio de Ingenieros de Puerto Rico, Año 14,Vol. 4, 2000.
J.R. Arroyo, “Effects of Damping Matrix in the Response of Structures with Added Viscous Dampers”, Paper submitted for publication on the Third International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures (ERES 2001), Malaga, Spain, September 2001.
Suárez, L.E., and Arroyo, J. R., “Seismic Analysis of Soils Deposits with Moderate Nonlinear Behavior Using Higher Order Frequency Response Functions”, XXI Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SECTAM XXI), Orlando, Florida, 2002.
Suárez, L. E., and Arroyo, J. R., “Application of the Volterra Series in the Frequency Domain for the Seismic Analysis of Nonlinear Soil Deposits”, VI Congreso Internacional Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, CIMENICS 2002, Caracas, Venezuela, 2002.
Arroyo, J. R., Ebeling, R., and Barker, B., “Analysis of Full-Scale, Low-Velocity, Controlled Barge Impact Experiments at Robert C. Byrd Lock, December 1998, Using the Impulse and Linear Momentum Principle for a Single-Degree-of-Freedom Barge Flotilla Model”, Technical Report, Information Technology Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Innovations for Navigation Projects Research Program, 2002.
Arroyo, J. R., and Ebeling, R., “A Numerical Method for Computing Barge Impact Forces Based on Ultimate Strength of the Lashings between Barges”, Technical Report, Information Technology Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Innovations for Navigation Projects Research Program, 2004.
Arroyo, J. R., and Ebeling, R., “Barge Train Maximum Impact Forces using Limit States for the Lashings between Barges”, Technical Report, Information Technology Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Innovations for Navigation Projects Research Program, 2005.
Arroyo, J., “Mitigation of Seismic Hazard of Reinforced Concrete Residential Structures with Non-rigid Connections”, Final Report, FEMA – HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM – 1372 – DR – PR – RESEARCH PROJECT – PR – 0006, 2005.
Arroyo J.R. and Ebeling R., “Glancing-Blow Impact Forces by a Barge Train on a Lock Approach Wall”, Vol. 12, No. 2, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, June 2006.
Arroyo J.R. and Vazquez D., “Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Residential Structures with Non-rigid Connections, Part I – Vulnerability Analysis”, DIMENSION, Revista Del Colegio de Ingeníeros y Agrimensores de P.R., Año 20, Vol. 3, 2006.
Arroyo, J.R. and Vázquez, D., “Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Residential Structures with Non-rigid Connections, Part II – Connection Analysis”, DIMENSION, Revista Del Colegio de Ingeníeros y Agrimensores de P.R., Año 21, Vol 2, 2007.
Arroyo, J.R. and Vázquez, D., “Seismic Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Residential Structures with Non-rigid Connections, Part III – Retrofitting Techniques”, DIMENSION, Revista Del Colegio de Ingeníeros y Agrimensores de P.R., Año 22, Vol. 2, 2008.
Arroyo, J.R., “Mitigation of Landslide Hazard Based on Parametric Analysis”, Final Report, FINAL REPORT, FEMA – HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM 1552 – DR – PR – Research Project – PR – 00030, 2008.

Synergistic Activities

Principal Investigator of the research project “Improved Structural Analysis of Buildings With Added Dampers”. This research project is sponsored by FEMA with duration of two years. The project began in October 2000.
U.S. Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering (SFRE) Program of the Army Research Office, summer 2000. During ten weeks I worked with Dr. Robert Hall, director of the Geotechnical and Structures Division of the Engineering Research and Development Center of the USA Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The research was related to the development of a soil-structure interaction model of dams subjected to dynamic loads.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Research and Development Center, summer 2001. During ten weeks I worked with Dr. Robert Ebeling, ITL-ERDC in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The research was related to the development a numerical method for computing barge impact forces.
Principal Investigator of the research project “Research into a Numerical Method for Computing Barge Impact Forces”, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Research and Development Center, December 2001 to September 2002.
Principal Investigator of the research project “Mitigation of Seismic Hazard on Reinforced Concrete Residential Structures with Non-Rigid Connections between a New and Existing Level”. This research project is sponsored by FEMA with duration of two years.
Principal Investigator of the research project “A Numerical Method for Computing Barge Impact Forces Based on Ultimate Strength of the Lashings between Barges”, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Research and Development Center, 2003-2004.
Principal Investigator of the research project “Barge Train Maximum Impact Forces using Limit States for the Lashings between Barges”, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Research and Development Center, 2004-2005.
Chair of a technical session in the EM2000, Fourteenth Engineering Mechanics Conference, American Society of Civil Engineering, May 2000, held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
Reviewer of technical papers for the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Recent Advances in the Numerical Modeling of Layered Media, sponsored by the A2K05 Committee on Modeling Techniques in Geomechanics and the A2B05 Committee on Strength and Deformation Characteristic of Pavement Sections, Washington, DC, January, 2000.

Mitch Pisik with Pisik Consulting Group

June 16, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Mitch Pisik with Pisik Consulting Group

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Mitch Pisik with Pisik Consulting Group

The Pisik Consulting Group is a multi-faceted Executive Consulting and Business Consulting firm substantially focused on entrepreneurs. They are devoted to successfully assisting business owners and senior executives achieve and exceed their professional and personal aspirations.

For both companies and individuals to achieve their full potential, having a highly experienced Consultant and Coach who is solely focused on their success is invaluable. The Pisik Consulting Group, led by Mitch Pisik, is honored and humbled to have been selected by such a multitude of companies and executives over the past eighteen years.

Mitch Pisik has worked as an Executive Coach, Business Consultant, International Speaker and Facilitator for the past twenty years; doing so in a full- time practice since 2016.

He leverages the award-winning successes of turning-around and substantially growing four diverse Private-Equity portfolio businesses as CEO over fifteen years; and previously for seventeen years as a Senior Executive in strategy, business development, operations, finance, mergers and acquisitions, consulting, and finance 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.

He is, and has been, an active Board Member of numerous public, private, and not-for-profit organizations – including the Tucson Metro Chamber.

A partial list of recent awards includes: – In 2016 winning the “Innovation in the Workplace” Award from the Society of Human Resource Management. – Finalist for the Copper Cactus “Business Leader of the Year” Award in 2016 and 2015. – In 2014 winning the Copper Cactus Award for the “Best Place to work in Southern Arizona”.

Connect with Mitch on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit

June 16, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit

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Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit

Storytelling has become a buzzword in a lot of business circles lately. What’s it all about? In this episode of Phoenix Business Radio, we hear from Deb Caron with Anahata Marketing and Adrian McIntyre with StoryProfit about how important it is to craft the right messages (aka stories) as a leader and business owner. Listen in to learn about the art and science behind this fantastic and natural form of influential communication and weigh in on the conversation. We’d love to hear from you.

Anahata Marketing is a Phoenix-based marketing and strategic communications consultancy, providing brand awareness, public relations and content marketing strategies for clients offering products and services that help people live, work, and feel better. The team has been promoting clients in the Valley for more than 15 years landing features locally and nationally in many top-tier publications including Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company, Shape, Men’s Health, Refinery29, The Today Show, CNN, Redbook, The LA Times, KTLA, AZ Family, ABC 15, 12 News, CBS 5, Fox 10, and much, much more. In addition, they work with clients to establish industry expertise with contributed content, blog and website content and thought leadership pieces.

Anahata is a Sanskrit word for the heart chakra and its meanings include: infinite, unstruck, unbeaten, and boundless. Anahata Marketing works with clients on a heartfelt mission to find what’s meaningful to their audiences and craft messages and strategies that enable them to resonate with and engage with customers so they become brand evangelists. The team is made up of people people — they love to uncover what motivates others and moves them to action, and do so with an approach of seeking first to understand, and then to spark curiosity and conversation.

Deb Caron is the owner and principal consultant at Anahata Marketing. She has worked with wide array of clients spanning nearly every industry, both in B2B communications and B2C. She’s also a registered yoga teacher and holds a special passion for working health, fitness, wellness and beauty brands. She has a unique ability to harness her empathic nature to help companies see themselves from their customers’ perspective and create connections with their marketing. Deb is also fascinated by company culture and how fostering a people-first workplace helps companies prosper. She’s taking this passion to the Phoenix Business RadioX airwaves later this month as the host of the new show Culture Crush Rx. She’ll be chatting with local thought leaders, CEOs and motivational experts to highlight the companies we’re crushing on for great culture right now and uncover the secrets to crush it in your own business.

Connect with Deb on LinkedIn and follow Anahata Marketing on Facebook.

Dr. Adrian McIntyre is a cultural anthropologist, media personality, and internationally recognized authority on human communication. He has worked in over 30 countries and spent nearly a decade in the Middle East and Africa as a researcher, journalist, educator, and media spokesperson for two of the largest humanitarian relief agencies in the world.

Adrian grew up in his dad’s radio station and has been storytelling on stages and in the media since he was five years old. He reported for Newsweek during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, then traveled to Baghdad as a member of the crisis response teams for Mercy Corps and Oxfam.

When extreme violence forced aid agencies to withdraw from Iraq, Adrian moved to Sudan to work as a media officer and communication strategist. For 14 months he was Oxfam’s field-based spokesperson on the crisis in Darfur, helping to make that conflict the biggest news story of 2004. His hundreds of media appearances reached millions of people via major news outlets such as the BBC, CNN, National Public Radio, FOX News Online, and the New York Times, as well as regional newspapers and radio stations throughout North America and Europe.

Dr. McIntyre earned a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright scholar and National Science Foundation research fellow. He remained there an adjunct professor until 2012, when he left the university to teach and train in the private sector and online.

Today, Dr. McIntyre delivers speeches and workshops on high-performance communication and culture. He also trains entrepreneurs, executives, and corporate teams to harness the power of personal storytelling, digital marketing, and media to build their personal leadership brand, boost their visibility, and accelerate the growth of their business.

Connect with Dr. McIntyre on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Michael Horwitz with The CBA Group (Part 2)

June 14, 2018 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: Michael Horwitz with The CBA Group (Part 2)

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Michael Horwitz/CBA Group

With Michael Horwitz and The CBA Group, you are represented by outstanding, experienced and knowledgeable professionals who will provide you with sound financial, strategic and tactical advice to best achieve a successful transaction. The CBA Group has been helping business owners for over 17 years. The CBA Group brokers have over 175 years of collective business experiences.

Michael’s business experiences include senior management roles in Fortune 500 corporations to leadership positions with venture capital-backed high tech start-ups. Michael also brings small business knowledge through his seven years of owning and operating an independent bicycle shop in Alpharetta, where he has lived and worked for the past 22 years.

Pensacola Business Radio: Guests Campfire Boys and Girls

June 7, 2018 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio: Guests Campfire Boys and Girls

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Camp Fire offers an exciting variety of programs across the country:

SCHOOL-YEAR PROGRAMS

See why teachers, principals, and students can’t stop raving about our high-quality Out-of-School-Time (OST) and in-school programs. It’s way more than homework tutoring and supervision.

Learn more

TEEN SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

Between Teens in Action, Counselor-in-Training (CIT), Wohelo Award, and National Youth Advisory Cabinet (YAC), we not only activate teens but intentionally seek their valuable feedback in all we do.

Check it out

CAMPS & OUTDOOR EDUCATION

Overnight/resident camps, day camps, grief camps, inclusion camps, LGBTQ-friendly camps, environmental education—all are welcome, and there is something for everyone across the country.

Explore

SCHOOL-YEAR PROGRAMS

Schools across the country partner with Camp Fire when they want to offer strong, research-based programs. Schools choose Camp Fire because we are laser-focused on helping their students succeed, and are reputable partners so they can better serve their families and communities.

Afterschool

All of our programs allow for homework mentoring and tutoring, but also teach:

Conflict Resolution
Health and Wellness
Digital Literacy
Bullying/Cyberbullying
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
Creative Arts
Community Service

Every afterschool program is structured in collaboration with schools to ensure that we are supporting their goals and complementing the education that its students are getting during the school day.

Camp Fire’s highly trained, caring staff encourage every child or teen to manage their time in a way that aligns with their passions and talents. Our staff also gather youth input to incorporate in activities so they can better engage them each day.

Camp Fire Wise Kids® / Wise Kids Outdoors ®

Our health and wellness programs use the simple theory of “energy in = energy out” to teach kids of all ages how to eat healthy and live a healthy lifestyle.

InterACTION

Good communication is hard to find but critical to anyone’s success. This program focuses on developing strong communication skills with peer groups and adults as well as learning healthy ways to resolve conflict.

Club Programs

Traditional club programs are offered by some Camp Fire councils and are what most of our alumnae from Camp Fire Girls remember fondly. Club pairs a trained, volunteer leader with a group of youth who work through a Camp Fire curriculum before or after school. Clubs typically go on field trips, undertake service projects, and do other activities to earn badges and learn life skills.

ITEN WIRED Radio Ep. 6-2018: 1 Million Cups

May 30, 2018 by angishields

ITEN Wired Radio

ITEN WIRED Radio Ep. 6-2018: 1 Million Cups

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ABOUT 1 MILLION CUPS
Based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and engage with their communities over a million cups of coffee, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation developed 1 Million Cups in 2012—a free program designed to educate, engage and inspire entrepreneurs around the country. Through the power of volunteers, 1 Million Cups has grown to more than 180 communities.

As a program of the Kauffman Foundation, 1 Million Cups works with entrepreneurs, empowering them with the tools and resources to break down barriers that stand in the way of starting and growing their businesses. Mr. Kauffman believed it was a fundamental right for anyone who had a big idea to be able to bring it to life—and we’re here to fulfill that mission.

OUR CULTURE
Diversity, equity and inclusion are key to the success of our programs. Nationwide, 1 Million Cups communities aim to present an inclusive and supportive front door to their local entrepreneurial ecosystems. These qualities are essential for 1MC to fulfill its mission to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs with their communities. And they are too essential to leave to chance as the number of 1MC communities continues to grow.

ABOUT THE KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION
Founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is driven to provide uncommon ways to create opportunities and connect people to the tools they need to achieve success, change their futures and give back to their communities. We believe that if you have an idea, you have a fundamental right to start a business to make it a reality.

We also believe that opportunity lies in the fields of education and entrepreneurship. Our team is based in Kansas City and made up of connectors and doers who dream big, solve problems with the communities we serve and take calculated risks to drive results.

Kelly Reeser

Kelly Reeser serves as the Director of Entrepreneurial Development for FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance. In this role, Kelly is tasked with supporting our region’s high-growth entrepreneurs with both startup and growth strategies. She accomplishes this goal by managing the Gulf Coast Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship- an innovation and technology-based incubator, partnering with local entrepreneurs to host Startup Weekend Pensacola, ITEN Wired and by coordinating entrepreneurial efforts with community partners.

Kelly currently serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement and The Global Corner, and is a member of the International Business Innovation Association. She was a member of the Leadership Pensacola Class of 2013 and also serves as a volunteer with middle school students at Olive Baptist Church.

Kelly holds a Master of Arts degree in Development Management & Public Policy from Georgetown University and bachelor degrees in Spanish & Latin American Studies from Southern Methodist University. She is a native of Pensacola, an avid traveler and loves being a mom—she enjoys spending time with her husband, Chris, daughter, Evangelina, and baby boy, Elliot.

Jim Rhodes

Jim has actively participated in the planning of the annual ITEN Wired Summit since 2012 and is in his 5th year serving as its director.

He is a native of Pensacola and a graduate of Tate High School and the University of West Florida, where he received his degree in finance. He moved to Charlotte, NC in 1997 with a goal of furthering his career in banking, but later developed a passion for information technology. Upon graduating ECPI College of Technology, he officially entered into the world of IT in 2001. After working several years as a network engineer, he and his family relocated back to Pensacola in 2007.

Jim has been employed by AppRiver since 2008 and currently manages the mobile solutions team which provides mobile device support for a global customer base of almost 300,000 users. He also serves as an advisor to the board of directors for IT Gulf Coast and as a board member for Innovation Coast.

He is married and has two sons. He enjoys golfing, kayaking, and fishing.