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Spotlight on NAWBO

January 19, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Spotlight on NAWBO

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Nancy Chorpenning / C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder & Managing Director of Atlantabased C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice. C-Suite Advisors specialty is advising women entrepreneurs whose businesses have emerged successfully from the startup phase and who are growing their firms into profitable, professionally managed businesses prepared for selling in the future.

Nancy also leads peer-mentoring for women business owners, and offers webinars on planning, leadership, and building business value among other business topics. This January, she is starting three programs for Business Owners to support their business growth: CEO School for Women is a year-long business growth program; the Value Builder System is a 1:1 advisor-led process leading to increased business worth; and a hands-on Business Planning Workshop called Vision & Clarity Workshop. Registration for all of these events is on Eventbrite.

From strategic discovery to organization structure and operations, Nancy’s mentoring of business owners is informed by her +20- year tenure as an executive in Professional Information and Education with Fortune 500 companies (such as Time Warner’s Little, Brown & Company, Publishers) as well as high profile startups (WebMD), combined with a superb graduate Marketing education from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Chorpenning participates actively in local and national business organizations. After serving on the Small Business Council for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Nancy served on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) for 6 years, including as Chapter President. She was appointed to the NAWBO Presidents Assembly Steering Committee (PASC) in 2012 with responsibility for 18 Southern Tier NAWBO Chapters, inaugurating the Leadership Bootcamp for NAWBO, and in 2014, became its Chair. Additionally, she was elected to the National Board of Directors of NAWBO in 2013 where she presently serves. She was recently added to the Advisory Boards of the international company, “The Sellability Score” and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) in Atlanta.

Darla Beggs / Abba Staffing

Darla Beggs is the President and CEO of Abba Staffing and Consulting, Abba Parking Services and MGD Management Group. Her broad business experience includes consulting with HR, insurance and oil and gas professionals to evaluate and establish effective programs with a focus on cost effectiveness coupled with employee satisfaction and retention. Prior to acquiring Abba Staffing and Consulting, Beggs held leadership positions with, Travelers Insurance and The Principle Group in account management services, marketing, and benefits administration. Ms. Beggs is active in various women-owned and minority owned business groups and is a devoted leader in in both professional and philanthropic organizations. In 2011 Ms. Beggs was appointed to the National Board of Directors of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), where she serves on the Executive Committee as Chair. Ms. Beggs’ commitment to other women business owners succeed has gained her recognition by her peers and Abba Staffing was named the 2011 Overall Business Enterprise of the Year by the North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency, “Benefactor” and “Star” Awards by NAWBO® Dallas/Ft Worth and 2012 Done Deals Women Working Together Award by WBENC Southwest.

Additionally, Abba Staffing and Consulting was recognized in 2013 and 2014 as one of the fast growing private companies by Inc Magazine.

Ms. Beggs is active in many philanthropic organizations and devotes considerable time to these endeavors. She is the driving force behind Abba’s commitment to the community through volunteerism and financial support. Previous Board appointments include YMCA of Metropolitan Ft Worth and Mid-Cities Pacesetters Rotary Club. She is also active in many associations such as the Women’s Business Council Southwest, Society for Human Resource Management, Women’s President Organization and various Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Beggs resides in Colleyville with her husband of 30 years-Gary. They are the proud parents of Valerie and Matthew and 2 “crazy” Yorkies.

Jill Peck / Henderson Shapiro Peck

Jill serves as Vice President & COO for Henderson Shapiro Peck, a relationship driven, award winning marketing and business support company with 23 employees. Over the past 18 years, Jill and her partner, founder of the company, Debbi Shapiro have been instrumental in supporting women driven initiatives both personally and professionally.

She is the President of the National Association of Women’s Business Owners (NAWBO Atlanta), a member of the Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC) and the Metro Atlanta Chamber.

Jill has volunteered for Scottish Rite known as Children’s Healthcare of America, The Girl Scouts of America, The Council on Alcohol and Drugs, The Atlanta Food Bank, The Tolerance Education Program and was the marketing chair for Emerge Scholarships for three years.

Jill graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and a minor in marketing from the College of Journalism and Communications.

Joy Lutes / NAWBO

Tami McQueen with SalesLoft and Nancy Chorpenning with C-Suite Advisors

January 5, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Tami McQueen with SalesLoft and Nancy Chorpenning with C-Suite Advisors

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Tami McQueen / SalesLoft

As a marketing and communications strategist with over nine years of strategic experience in B2B and B2C markets, Tami joined SalesLoft to scale the marketing team and lead digital, content marketing, and inbound lead generation initiatives across multiple platforms.

Tami delivers branding insights and channels collaborative discussion among internal and external audiences. A champion for guerilla marketing and taking big risks to gain traction in a dynamic market, Tami was named the 2014 B2B Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Marketing Innovator of the Year.

A former NCAA Division 1 collegiate tennis player, Tami believes in the strength of collaboration and exudes passion for career and teammates. Rooted firmly in South African soil where she grew up, Tami now calls Atlanta home, a city she believes holds exponential potential and a distinct flavor of home.

Nancy Chorpenning / C-Suite Advisors

Special Edition: WISE Speed Coaching

November 3, 2014 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: WISE Speed Coaching

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Karen Curry Davis / ACE

Karen Davis currently serves as Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs’ (ACE) Strategic Initiatives Director. In this role, she directs ACE’s Women Investing in Successful Entrepreneurs (WISE) Initiative which is a $2.5 million revolving loan fund specifically for women entrepreneurs wanting to expand or start a business within Metro Atlanta and the North Georgia region. In addition to the loan funds, WISE offers business advisory support through individualized business consultations, business development seminars, speed coaching, and mentoring from high net-worth business owners. Karen is also the Principal Consultant of Curry Davis Consulting Group, LLC. Karen has more than 13 years of program management and community development experience and has made strides in her efforts to assist families with moving towards economic self-sufficiency, health and wellness.

Nancy Chorpenning / C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder & Managing Director of Atlanta-based C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice. C-Suite Advisors specialty is advising women entrepreneurs whose businesses have emerged successfully from the startup phase and who are growing their firms into profitable, professionally-managed businesses prepared for selling in the future.

Nancy also leads peer-mentoring for women business owners, and offers webinars on planning, leadership, profitability and strategy among other business topics. In 2014, she launched two new program series exclusively for women entrepreneurs: CEO School for Women, an Annual Business Growth Program, and Taming Technology Workshops: Today’s Technology for Women Entrepreneurs.

From strategic discovery to organization structure and operations, Nancy’s mentoring of business owners is informed by her +20-year tenure as an executive in Professional Information and Education with Fortune 500 companies (Time Warner’s Little, Brown & Company Publishers) as well as high profile start-ups (WebMD). Combined with a superb graduate Marketing education from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, she participates actively in local and national business organizations.

After serving on the Small Business Council for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Nancy served on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) for 6 years, including as Chapter President. She was appointed to the NAWBO Presidents Assembly Steering Committee (PASC) in 2012 with responsibility for 18 Southern Tier NAWBO Chapters, inaugurating a Leadership Bootcamp for NAWBO, and in 2014, became its Chair. Additionally, she was elected to the National Board of Directors of NAWBO where she presently serves. She was recently added to the Advisory Boards of the international company, “The Sellability Score” and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) in Atlanta.

LeeAnn Maxwell / Vixen Vodka

Vixen Vodka was conceived after a girls’ trip to St. Simons Island in Georgia. It was an idea that came to fruition after a few slightly dirty martinis and several sun-soaked hours lying by the pool. An idea that took root and took hold of friends who wanted to make a difference in their lives; it was their why not moment. After all, women like to hang out, chill out and drink vodka just like the boys. But research and focus groups showed that no vodka brand currently on the market tapped into targeting women. In fact, it was a boys’ club waiting for a revolution. So they decided to raise their glasses to toast an idea that eventually became Vixen Vodka. This award winning company is poised for national expansion and is the perfect marriage of a sexy flirty brand and the smoothest gluten-free vodka you’ll ever taste.

LeeAnn spent over 28 years in the financial industry and about as long in a marriage. Once both those chapters were over, she realized she wanted more out of life; to rediscover the woman she used to be and the one she wanted to become. Her varied experiences have contributed to an extremely detail-oriented work ethic along with a very savvy business acumen.

When LeeAnn sat down with a business consultant to review her initial business plan, he closed the document, told her how well written it was and then said, “You’ll never make it”. When asked why, he replied, “Because it’s the liquor industry, it’s all men, and they will eat you up and spit you out.” LeeAnn looked right back at him and said in her sweet Southern syrupy way, “Sugar, this could be a pair of pantyhose or a tube of lipstick, we’re creating a brand and we know what women want.” Intrigued? Learn how she took a brand from beach to shelf and disrupted a male dominated category along the way.

Courtney Smith / PNC Financial Services Group

Courtney I. Smith PNC Financial Services Group Vice President, Market Manager Community Development Banking, Greater Georgia Courtney I. Smith leads PNC’s community development efforts for the Greater Georgia market. In this role, Smith works with community organizations to develop programs and partnerships to support affordable housing, economic development and neighborhood revitalization. Smith joined PNC Financial in 2013. He brings many years of experience in creating community reinvestment opportunities, leading self-sufficiency programs, generating small business and micro-lending activities, and managing retail and commercial banking initiatives.

Prior to joining PNC, Smith served as vice president, community affairs with Regions Financial and as vice president, community development manager for SunTrust Bank. He is passionate about asset development initiatives and enjoys promoting financial literacy activities. Certified in the FDIC’s Money Smart curriculum, Smith regularly teaches financial literacy courses throughout the community. He is experienced in designing, implementing and monitoring Individual Development Account (IDA) Programs, including Youth and First-Time Homebuyers Programs. He previously managed a youth-based savings program with more than 1,100 participants and annual savings of over $65,000. Actively involved in the community, Smith currently serves on the board of directors for several local organizations including the United Way of Greater Atlanta’s Regional Community Investment and Community Engagement Committees (Chair); Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (Board Secretary); the Community Achievement Center; the KAPSI Foundation, and as Kappa Alpha Psi, Decatur Alumni Chapter, President.

Smith graduated from University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He received a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Memphis.

Nancy Chorpenning, Founder/Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

January 31, 2014 by angishields

Growth Matters

Nancy Chorpenning, Founder/Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

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Nancy Chorpenning – Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning [core-PENN-ing] is the Founder and Managing Director of Atlanta-based C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice supporting organizations in their quest to grow. She is Founder and Executive Director of the CEO School for Women, a year long business program starting next month, and is working on a book, “Business Whispers”.

From strategic discovery to organization structure and operations, Nancy’s work is informed by her +20-year tenure as an executive in Management, Professional Information and Education with Fortune 100 companies (e.g., Time Warner’s Little, Brown & Company Publishers) as well as high profile start-ups (WebMD), combined with a superb graduate Marketing education from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Included in Who’s Who Among American Women and Who’s Who in America, Nancy is active in local, regional and National business and community organizations. After serving on the Small Business Council and developing a CEO Roundtable program for the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Nancy served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Women Business Owners – Atlanta (NAWBO Atlanta) for 6 years, including serving as President of the Atlanta Chapter. She was appointed to the NAWBO Presidents Assembly Steering Committee (PASC) in 2012, inaugurating a Leadership Boot camp for NAWBO, and is responsible for 18 Southern Tier NAWBO Chapters. Nancy will become PASC Chair in 2014. In 2013, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the Washington, DC-based National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) where she serves on the Executive Committee as Chair for Governance.

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Spotlight on NAWBO – National Association of Women Business Owners

September 24, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Spotlight on NAWBO - National Association of Women Business Owners

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NAWBO is the National Association of Women Business Owners. It is the oldest and largest business membership organization exclusively for women entrepreneurs who own their business. NAWBO was founded in 1975 to represent the interests of women business owners particuarly in public policy matters that impact thier businesses, incuding and especially what we are discussing today, the Women’s Business Ownership Act. Today NAWBO has 5,000 members across 3 chapters nationwide. The NAWBO Atlanta Chapter was formed in 1997 and meets monthly on second Thursdays at The Buckhead Club for a business education program and lunch.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NAWBO/67883022683 AND https://www.facebook.com/NAWBOAtlanta

LinkedIn: National Association of Women Business Owners

Twitter: @NAWBONational AND @NAWBOAtlanta

Nancy Chorpenning/C-Suite Advisors

Nancy Chorpenning is Founder and Managing Director of C-Suite Advisors, a business advisory practice helping business owners, especially women entrepreneurs, grow their companies by planning and focusing on the right priorities. Nancy spent nearly 30 years in corporate America before founding C-Suite Advisors in 2006, punctuated by a 2-year stint as a midlife Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea in the late 90s. She moved to Atlanta in 1999 as part of the management team that started up WebMD, where she launched the first physician website. She is a Director on the National Board of NAWBO where she serves as Chair of the Governance Committee. She has been a member of NAWBO since she started her business, and served on the Board of the Atlanta Chapter for 6 years including as Chapter President. She is also a member of the Presidents Assembly of NAWBO, past presidents who support current chapter leaders, where she has responsibility for 17 southern tier chapters of NAWBO. Nancy is a new bride, and she and her husband Paul live in Atlanta.

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe

Dorothéa Bozicolona-Volpe is a strategic digital marketing executive who is fluent in 4 languages and specializes in developing business for international brands (Fortune 500) via initiating and integrating social media and digital strategies and enterprise social networking, as well as, building strategic partnerships and implementing marketing technologies. Dorothéa teaches marketers and business leaders how to measure, optimize and build current new media efforts to increase value and develop strong relationships between brands and fans Additionally, Dorothéa has appeared as a social media marketing strategy subject matter expert on CBS and CNN’s Ali Velshi show. Some of her clients include: Boy Scouts of America, Mashable, Ryan Seacrest, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Chrysler, The Weather Channel, AT&T, Georgia Tech, InterContinental Hotels Group, Mercer, Jewish Family & Career Services, Ogilvy & Mather, Reader’s Digest, Qualcomm, Turner Network Television, Coca-Cola. She is a new NAWBO member, and is presently leading a social media effort to engage interest in NAWBO’s upcoming Women’s Business Conference in Miami, October 3-5 this year.

Jill Peck/Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc.

Jill Peck is Vice-President & COO for Henderson Shapiro Peck, Inc., a relationship-driven, award winning marketing and business support company. Areas of practice include healthcare, bioscience, pharma, communications/technology, publishing and non-profit. She is a member of National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Certified Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBENC), Metro Atlanta Chamber, North Metro Chamber of Commerce, Roswell Business Alliance. Board of Directors (NAWBO Atlanta), Board of Directors (Emerge Scholarships), Volunteer Arthritis Foundation, Tolerance Education Program, Atlanta Food Bank.

Tonya Hicks/Power Solutions, Inc.

Tonya Hicks is founder and President of Power Solutions, Inc., a 13-year old commercial electrical contracting and engineering firm in Atlanta; Power Solutions also has a newer Maintenance Division. Tonya became the first woman journeyman electrician in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Meridian, MS in 1994. She is starting up another company “MaryAnn Works” providing work clothes designed for women in construction and uniformed services. Tonya is an avid blogger, and started “Women Do Everything,” to help women maintain, manage and renovate their homes. A single mother to two sons, aged 7 and 20, she is self-described as half Martha Stewart and half Oprah.

Linda Hughes/GreatRidge

Linda Hughes is the CEO of GreatRidge a consulting company focused on helping companies grow to meet their potential. Linda founded GreatRidge in 2008 after a 25 year career including leadership positions at companies including The Coca-Cola Company, AIG, and NorthHighland. Linda has been a member of NAWBO for over 3 years and is currently serving as the President of the NAWBO Atlanta chapter.

Tarby Bryant with Atlanta Gathering of Angels, Kashi Sehgal with Gigabark, Stuart Brady with The Business House and Nancy Chorpenning with C Suite Advisors

June 11, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Tarby Bryant with Atlanta Gathering of Angels, Kashi Sehgal with Gigabark, Stuart Brady with The Business House and Nancy Chorpenning with C Suite Advisors

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Tarby Bryant/Atlanta Gathering of Angels

Kashi Sehgal/Gigabark

Kashi Sehgal is Co-Founder and CEO of Gigabark, a mobile messaging company specializing in phone, text, and survey broadcasts and custom solutions. She serves as a Board Member of Georgia’s WIN List, and as a member of the Fulton County Career & Technical Education Advisory Council. A co-founder of two non-profits , Music For Tomorrow and Mentor Walk, Kashi serves as Executive Vice President of the Campus Community Partnership Foundation and CEO of KTrain, her consulting company. She earned her undergraduate degree from The George Washington University and a graduate degree from Georgia Tech.

Stuart Brady/The Business House

Stuart J. Brady is a Senior Business Analyst with the Business House, INC., a boutique mergers and acquisitions (M&A) firm in the southeast. Mr. Brady specializes in developing and facilitating exit plans for the business owners that are fast approaching retirement. “With over 10,000 folks in the United States turning 60 every day, there are many successful business owners who do not have a well-defined exit plan.” Mr. Brady continues, “We take the emotion out of the selling process. My goal is to help the business owner maximize their single largest asset and reap the benefits of having built a successful enterprise, so that they may now enjoy the next chapter in their lives.”

For the last 16 years, Mr. Brady has also owned and operated Kirkwood Car Wash, a self-service car wash located in Atlanta’s historic Kirkwood neighborhood.

Nancy Chorpenning/C Suite Advisors

Nancy Is a self-proclaimed “corporate refugee” having exited from Corporate America in 2005, following 6 years helping start up WebMD which brought her to Atlanta in 1999. She founded C- Suite Advisors in 2006 after detoxing from the Corporate Koolaid that prevented her from fully understanding that Small Business was the engine that powers our country and our economy, and that business owners – especially WOMEN business owners – are largely ignored and unsupported.

She has since become a Small Business Evangelist and Advocate for Women Business Founders, largely through her work first with the Metro Atlanta Chamber, where she designed their CEO Roundtable program, and subsequently with the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), where she served as President of the Atlanta Chapter and this year is joining their National Board of Directors. Her clients refer to her as “My Business Whisperer” for the advice, support and words of wisdom she imparts to help accelerate their business growth.

She is a Returned Midlife Peace Corps Volunteer and a new bride, having married Paul McCreery last year in a beach ceremony. Thursday, she is moderating a panel of 8 women entrepreneurs as they discuss Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In at the NAWBO Atlanta Chapter Program at The Buckhead Club. This Friday morning, she is presenting a half-day seminar at The Georgian Club to help Business Owners Increase their Profitability.