Mike Sammond Archives - Page 8 of 25

Wayne Hauenstein with Learning Curve Consultants and Brian Whelan with Atlantic Capital Bank

November 13, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Wayne Hauenstein with Learning Curve Consultants and Brian Whelan with Atlantic Capital Bank

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John Ray, Brian Whelan, Wayne Hauenstein

Wayne Hauenstein/Learning Curve Consultants

Learning Curve Consultants® was founded in 2012 on the premise that, in order for an organization to be successful, it must have a skilled workforce. It is, therefore, the responsibility of both an employee and their manager to identify developmental needs and opportunities. That’s where Learning Curve Consultants® come in…

The focus of Learning Curve Consultants® is to partner with organizations to understand business needs and identify ways to make skill set development and improvement a part of their fabric. Learning Curve Consultants® is committed to identifying needs, uncovering gaps and making recommendations, taking appropriate action and assessing an initiative’s impact. Self-improvement is a team effort and a continuous process, not a one-time event.

Brian Whelan/Atlantic Capital Bank

Atlantic Capital is a $2.8 Billion Bank focused on serving locally owned, middle market companies in metro Atlanta, throughout GA and southeast TN. A true business to business bank, the company started in 2007 by raising $125 million in capital, the largest capital raise for a de novo bank in the country. Due to several acquisitions, ACB Leadership sought to fill the void for a home town business bank, with local owners and local decisions. In addition to serving locally owned commercial businesses, ACB has several specialty business areas including a national SBA program, Franchise Finance, Payments, Non-Profit, Private Equity, Private Banking, Mortgage and Treasury Management.

Dr. Alan Miller with Dunwoody Internal Medicine and Dr. Angela Wright with Peach Blossom Dental

November 1, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Dr. Alan Miller with Dunwoody Internal Medicine and Dr. Angela Wright with Peach Blossom Dental

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Dr. Alan Miller/Dunwoody Internal Medicine

Dunwoody Internal Medicine is a private practice member of the Emory Healthcare Network. Established in 2011, the Emory Healthcare Network joins together Emory-employed and private practice physicians in communities throughout metro Atlanta and the state, in collaboration with Emory Healthcare, into a single comprehensive care management system.

Dr. Angela Wright/Peach Blossom Dental

Peach Blossom Dental is a family dental practice located in Tucker, Georgia. They specialize in creating a relationship with their patients and making them feel like family. In their office, they focus on your dental health and all patients receive personalized dental care.

Live Well – Episode 4 (October 31, 2018)

October 31, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Live Well - Episode 4 (October 31, 2018)

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Welcome to the 4th episode of “Live Well”. Follow the journey of Mike and Tracy as they continue their trek to better health with the help of two experts: Health and wellness coach Stephanie Wolfe and personal trainer DeWitte Thompson.

Stephanie Wolfe/The Whole Food Health Coach

Stephanie Wolfe is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, which is the highest level of training available to health coaches and is a coveted partnership with physicians and medical practitioners. She works with clients individually or as a group through a step by step process using advanced coaching methods, offering her clients full access to resources and tools to support them throughout their health journey. As a two-time cancer survivor (now 18 years clean) she knows about body systems and the nutrition that fuels them. She calls herself a “preventionist” because it is her believe that prevention is a stronger goal than finding a cure or treatment for diseases that are robbing us from our health and happiness.

DeWitte Thompson/Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants

DeWitte Thompson is a certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and owner of Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. DeWitte has been involved in the health and fitness industry for over 12 years working with sports teams, corporate groups, and individuals helping them to achieve their health and fitness goals. He started Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. four years ago when he realized the need for personalized and convenient training that gets results.

Mary Brown with Elite Senior Placement Services and Tommy Morris with CrossFit Faded Glory

October 18, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Mary Brown with Elite Senior Placement Services and Tommy Morris with CrossFit Faded Glory

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Mary Brown/Elite Senior Placement Services

Elite Senior Placement Services looks forward to serving families with their complementary service, helping them navigate through the process. With over ten years of experience in the senior care, Elite Senior Placement Services assists in finding the appropriate care for your loved one and that is tailored to their specific needs.

Tommy Morris/CrossFit Faded Glory

At Crossfit Faded Glory they train incredibly hard, harder than most think they are capable of. Everyday their athletes set new personal records and accomplish improvements in strength and endurance. The workouts are intense, challenging, fun and never boring. They consist of varied movements (like pushing, pulling, jumping, lifting, squatting, rowing and running) executed at a high level of intensity – scalable for any fitness level. Everyday is a different workout focused on movements to help you build endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed and improvement of coordination. Groups workout together to achieve personal goals. CrossFit Faded Glory focuses on improving functional movements that are necessary and common in our daily activities. At Crossfit Faded Glory they have certified and experienced coaches who lead each workout and make sure you are using the correct form for each movement. They are here to push, encourage and motivate each member.

Dr. Jerrica Dodd with Your Pharmacy Advocate and Brittany Brown & Roger Hodge with the H & F Bread Co.

October 16, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Dr. Jerrica Dodd with Your Pharmacy Advocate and Brittany Brown & Roger Hodge with the H & F Bread Co.

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John Ray, Dr. Jerrica Dodd, Brittany Brown, Roger Hodge

Dr. Jerrica Dodd/Your Pharmacy Advocate

Dr. Jerrica Dodd is the Founder and CEO of Your Pharmacy Advocate, a concierge pharmacy consulting service specializing in direct, dedicated pharmacist support to practitioners and patients. YPA assists healthcare professionals who need to more closely monitor patient medication regimens, pharmacists looking for flexible career paths, and patients wanting to achieve peace of mind about medication management.

Dr. Dodd holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, a Masters in Pharmacy Administration from The Ohio State University, and a Masters with a focus in Applied Pharmacoeconomics from the University of Florida. She completed an ASHP accredited residency at the Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University. She also completed a Health Coach certificate from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She is currently an Institute of Functional Medicine Certification Candidate.

Roger Hodge & Brittany Brown/H & F Bread Co.

H & F Bread Co started in 2008 in an 1800-square-foot bakery and today they have two bakeries equaling over 100,000 square-feet. Their second bakery should start producing within weeks and will be able to provide gluten free and allergen friendly products.

The H & F mission statement still remains the same today: “To enhance the dining experience with artisan baked goods of the highest quality and consistency with a focus on food safety and compliance.” H & F is able to provide fresh bread and pastries daily and/or frozen items as well. As they continue to grow, H & F will add automation to their processes not to replace employees, but to improve the quality and consistency of their products. H & F wants to be recognized as a scalable artisan bakery with the ability to expand with constant improvement to Product Quality.

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: How to Finance a New Business

October 12, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

STRATEGIC INSIGHTS RADIO: How to Finance a New Business

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Jennifer Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp

Jennifer Rusz has a long career working for both corporations and as an entrepreneur. Rusz began her career, in the 90’s in market intelligence, business operations and management for companies such as Mid America Research/Fact in Focus, Lucent Technologies, Kyocera Wireless, ARS/ Current Analysis and Websense Software Solutions before starting her first company in 2004. She has since been a business consultant and now Founder and CEO of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is an award-winning full service business consulting firm with three divisions, which include business consulting, marketing consulting and strategic technology consulting. For more information about Jennifer Rusz or Sterling Rose Consulting Corp,visit www.sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com or call (470)202-8659.

About “Strategic Insights Radio”:

“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com

Lisa Tilt with Full Tilt Consulting

October 9, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Lisa Tilt with Full Tilt Consulting

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Lisa Tilt/Full Tilt Consulting

Full Tilt Consulting was born from the idea that a marketing firm can be both big picture and roll-up-the-sleeves tactical, strategic but approachable, and level-field collaborative to the degree that the best idea always wins, no matter where it originates. Its team of senior-level marketing, communications and digital experts is always in pursuit of accomplishing great work that achieves outstanding results while enjoying each other’s company. This formula has propelled Full Tilt and its clients forward since 2006.

Full Tilt provides counsel and custom marketing programs to a robust roster of clients in a variety of fields. Through constructive partnerships, it determines where clients are in their business life cycle, identify their goals, and create plans to capitalize on opportunities and solve challenges through communications.

Neal Weaver with School of Rock and Keith Ivey with Keith Ivey & Associates

October 4, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Neal Weaver with School of Rock and Keith Ivey with Keith Ivey & Associates

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Steven Julian, Neal Weaver, Keith Ivey, Mike Sammond

Neal Weaver/School of Rock

School of Rock Buford is a performance-based music instruction program. Students learn how to perform in a group setting with their peers through both one on one lessons and group rehearsal sessions. Then they perform in public. These aren’t the stuffy recitals you remember from your youth. These are full on rock and roll shows. Depending on the student’s age, School of Rock can take them from zero to onstage playing rock and roll in six months or less.

Keith Ivey/Keith Ivey & Associates

Through Keith Ivey & Associates, Keith connects you with people, places and things that matter. Keith’s purpose is to enhance the personal and professional lives of those he meets by making them aware of valuable resources.

Gregg Mooney with Leadership Max and Bill Neglia with Neglia Insurance Group

October 2, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Gregg Mooney with Leadership Max and Bill Neglia with Neglia Insurance Group

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Gregg Mooney/Leadership Max

Leadership Max provides executive and group leadership coaching, speaking, training, workshops, seminars, mastermind groups, leadership assessments, team assessments and training, and DISC assessments and consultation. Founder and President Gregg Mooney is an independent certified John Maxwell coach, trainer, and speaker. He has served as Vice President of two national engineering firms over the past 20 years and has extensive leadership experience at all levels.

Bill Neglia/Neglia Insurance Group

The Neglia Insurance Group has been in business since 1991. Their principal broker Bill Neglia has been a licensed agent since 1983. Neglia Insurance Group provides a wide variety of group and personal insurance benefit plans such as health, life, short & long term disability, long term care, Medicare supplements, dental and vision. Neglia Insurance Group also provides voluntary employee benefits through companies like AFLAC, Colonial and Humana. Bill has access to every major well-known insurance carriers as well as many niche carriers who provide products that can be as much as 70% less expensive than traditional ACA health plans. Bill is certified to offer plans both on and off the marketplace. Bill can provide group insurance to businesses with only one covered employee. He can also provide group insurance to businesses comprised of a husband and wife with no outside employees, as well as businesses with up to several hundred employees. Bill carefully analyzes each client’s specific needs and objectives and makes recommendation based on those variables. There is never a fee to utilize the services of Bill or the Neglia Insurance Group! The premium is the same whether you use the Neglia Insurance Group or you buy your insurance on your own.