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Empowering Small Businesses with HR Solutions, with Dan Gladding, Vested HR Solutions

March 25, 2024 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Empowering Small Businesses with HR Solutions, with Dan Gladding, Vested HR Solutions

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Empowering Small Businesses with HR Solutions, with Dan Gladding, Vested HR Solutions (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 756)

On this edition of North Fulton Business Radio, host John Ray welcomed Dan Gladding from Vested HR Solutions, a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) that provides a suite of outsourced HR services. Gladding shared his journey in the HR industry, focusing on the growth and challenges faced by businesses across Georgia and beyond. The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including the complexities of employee benefits, health insurance, compliance issues, and the impact of remote work. Gladding highlighted the importance of understanding and navigating the evolving HR landscape for small to medium-sized businesses, emphasizing tailored HR solutions and the value of a comprehensive HR partner in fostering business growth and employee satisfaction.

John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Dan Gladding, Vested HR Solutions

Dan Gladding is a Senior Business Development Manager with Vested HR Solutions.

Vested HR is committed to providing clients with tailored Human Resource and Risk Management solutions that will enable them to focus on the success of their businesses.

In 2019, an entrepreneur set out to solve a frustrating problem consistently seen throughout the payroll industry: a lack of compassion and understanding when it comes to the real humans behind a company’s operations.

From that, Vested HR’s “human-focused” approach was born. When you contact Vested HR, you’ll never speak to a recording or an answering machine. They believe in a real, honest, old-fashioned connection with a live human being who personally knows you and your staff.

From the start, thier business consultants take time to learn the ins and outs of your company and strategize ways to promote growth for you. At Vested HR, they understand that your most valuable investment is your people.

Vested HR has a diverse staff of seasoned professionals with over five decades of leadership in the PEO industry. Their top priority is always to maintain an unbeatable level of customer support, transparency, and knowledge on the latest compliance and regulatory changes within the payroll and HR industry.

Topics Discussed in this Interview

00:00 Welcome to North Fulton Business Radio
01:21 Introducing Dan Gladding from Vested HR Solutions
01:36 Exploring the World of Outsourced HR with Vested HR
02:03 The Personal Journey into HR: Dan Gladding’s Story
02:40 Understanding Professional Employer Organizations (PEO)
03:00 The Benefits of Partnering with a PEO
04:35 Navigating Health Insurance Choices for Businesses
07:00 Attracting and Retaining Talent with Competitive Benefits
09:32 The Importance of Compliance in HR
17:13 Remote Work: Adapting to New Norms
19:25 Vested HR Solutions: Serving Businesses Nationwide
22:42 Success Stories and How to Connect with Vested HR
25:24 Closing Remarks and Additional Resources

About North Fulton Business Radio and host John Ray

With over 750 shows and having featured over 1,200 guests, North Fulton Business Radio is the longest-running podcast in the North Fulton area, covering business in our community like no one else. We are the undisputed “Voice of Business” in North Fulton!

The show welcomes a wide variety of business, non-profit, and community leaders to get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. There’s no discrimination based on company size, and there’s never any “pay to play.” North Fulton Business Radio supports and celebrates business by sharing positive business stories that traditional media ignore. Some media leans left. Some media leans right. We lean business.

John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.

The studio address is 275 South Main Street, Alpharetta, GA 30009.

John Ray also operates his own business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneurs and small professional services firms on their value, their positioning and business development, and their pricing. His clients are professionals who are selling their expertise, such as consultants, coaches, attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.

John is the bestselling author of The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has 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.

Karen Walters, Beyond Culture

May 31, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Karen Walters, Beyond Culture

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 667)

Karen Walters, Founder of Beyond Culture, joined host John Ray on this episode of North Fulton Business Radio. She discussed her background in HR that led her to where she is today, the difference between managing versus leading, how a company can boost their employer brand to attract and inspire great candidates, and much more.

Take this ten-question Culture Quiz to see how your company ranks in innovation, morale, collaboration, celebration, leaders, empowerment, initiative, higher purpose, delight, and turnover.

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

**Karen Walters, Founder, Beyond Culture**

Karen has spent decades providing expert human resource support to world-class organizations such as the Atlanta Falcons, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta United MLS Team, Unisys Corporation, and the Arthur M. Blank Foundation. She enjoys inspiring teams and helping leaders to build cultures that achieve mind-blowing results. Anxious to provide leaders with full spectrum human resources support, Karen leads her own consultancy called Beyond Culture, LLC.

Services offered include but are not limited to:

Confidential HR sounding board, advisor, and coach
Leadership development and workshop facilitation
Strategies to attract, select, inspire, and retain high-performing team members
Skill development and career pathing approaches
Reward, recognition, and benefits program design
Fun ways to build and strengthen cultures
HR compliance, handbooks, and policy creation

Karen resides in Dawsonville and enjoys time with her wonderful adult children and grandchildren.

Website | Karen’s LinkedIn

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

How did you get to where you are today?
What is workplace culture and how should companies use the power of a core values-led people strategy?
What is the difference between managing versus leading, and what is often the misunderstanding?
How can one boost their brand to attract and inspire great candidates?
How can companies reap the benefits of servant leadership?
How can employers activate care values around the entire employee life cycle?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has 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.

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN AmeriSource HR Consulting Group with Camille French and RealWorld Marketing with Jenny Lang

February 6, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN AmeriSource HR Consulting Group with Camille French and RealWorld Marketing with Jenny Lang

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LEADERSHIP LOWDOWN AmeriSource HR Consulting Group with Camille French and RealWorld Marketing with Jenny Lang

AmeriSource HR Consulting Group provides full- scale outsourced human resource services and solutions. What makes AmeriSource HR unique is our customization. We base our involvement on what works for our clients’ HR business needs. Whether we become your complete HR department, or a resource for your already amazing team of HR experts, AmeriSource is well equipped to provide anything and everything HR, from tactical to strategic initiatives. Our team of experts walk and talk our core values of being spectacular, passionate, real and doing it together!

Camille French is a senior level strategic human resources professional with many years of experience in multi-state, multi-industry environments. She is an active member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and holds a senior level professional certification in Human Resources (SPHR), SHRM-SCP as well as a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA). Spanning nearly two decades, her career has been devoted to partnering with professionals and business owners of small to medium sized organizations. She has achieved success in helping them understand how crucial human resources is to the organization’s competitive position and overall strategic initiative. With her wealth of experience, knowledge, and locally recognized expertise, Camille founded AmeriSource HR Consulting Group.

AmeriSource HR was founded to support two of her passions: one, to partner with growing companies who strive to build a strong employee culture. Companies that have a desire to maintain compliance while staying up-to-date on the HR trends and technology solutions of today, and two, to provide a platform for other passionate, educated HR professionals to get out of the day- to-day mundane role in one organization and flourish in providing an HR partnership with many organizations. Due to Camille’s leadership and business mind, AmeriSource has begun expansion of additional offices in other states.

In addition to her professional success, she is very involved in the community and proud to serve as a Board Director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Arizona as well as the Executive Association of Greater Phoenix.

Follow AmeriSource on LinkedIn and Facebook.

RealWorld Marketing is a full-service agency with a special focus on automotive marketing. As a Tier 2 marketing agency for Acura and Honda dealer associations, their clients are spread throughout the country. They always do their homework to research each new market they enter, so they can produce unique creative catered to the needs and lifestyle of each region so customers can relate to the product.

Jenny Lang is the Managing Director for RealWorld Marketing. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona. RealWorld Marketing is a full-service agency with a special focus on automotive marketing. As a Tier 2 marketing agency for Acura and Honda dealer associations, their clients are spread throughout the country. They always do their homework to research each new market they enter, so they can produce unique creative catered to the needs and lifestyle of each region so customers can relate to the product.

Jenny most currently was the Chief Operating Officer for the Henry Brown Auto Group. As well as General Manager for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Chevrolet brands. Previously, she was the General Manager for Acura North Scottsdale, part of the Penske Automotive Group.

Jenny has 27 years of experience in the automotive business. Under her leadership, Acura North Scottsdale was a 9 time recipient of the Acura Precision Team Award. Acura North Scottsdale has won one of the best places to work through the Phoenix Business Journal for several years. She had served on the Executive Board for the Valley of the Sun YMCA, as well as the committee chair for the Financial Development Committee. She had also served as the President of the Acura Dealers Association for 9 years..

Prior to the Penske Automotive Group, Jenny spent over a decade working for the Lewis Brothers, a privately family owned dealer group based out of Kansas. She started out as a car sales person and worked her way through all of the positions in the dealership to achieve her first General Management job at 28 years old.

Follow RealWorld Marketing on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and connect with Jenny on LinkedIn.

The Leadership Lowdown was created to share the REAL story behind valley leaders’ rise to the top, and the truth about what it takes to TRULY succeed in life and business. Hear the raw stories of these leaders’ journeys…the pitfalls, the victories, and all of the heartaches and triumphs in between.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Jodi Low is an accomplished corporate trainer, inspirational speaker, and the Founder and CEO of U & Improved. Jodi has trained thousands of entrepreneurs and executives on how to build a booming business, master a mindset for success, and achieve the lifestyle they desire through heart-fueled leadership.

Through U & Improved—an award-winning personal and professional leadership development company based in Scottsdale—Jodi has redefined traditional leadership training by creating a sustainable and actionable model that is personal, challenging and meaningful to each and every individual who enrolls in any of the two-and-a-half-day experiential training classes. She and her elite training team have advanced the charge in heart-based leadership
development and empower U & Improved graduates with knowledge, tools and awareness to immediately be more effective and responsive leaders at work, home and within their communities.

Among her many accomplishments as a Valley leader, Jodi launched a teen leadership program in 2014 to empower young adults to become more confident, motivated and focused stewards of our future. In 2016, she founded a non-profit arm of the company—the U & Improved Leadership Foundation—that makes the program more accessible to deserving teens.

Jodi has been recognized by industry publications and organizations for her work in leadership development and serves as a source of inspiration within the community. In 2015, she was honored as an “Outstanding Women in Business” by the Phoenix Business Journal and by the Phoenix Suns and National Bank of Arizona with the “Amazing Women” award. She has received both the prestigious “Diversity Leader of the Year” and the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce’s “Sterling Award.” She was also awarded a Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 and was a finalist for the Junior League of Phoenix’s Valley Impact Award. Jodi is a devoted single parent who volunteers her time at her daughters’ school programs and with organizations such as Angel Mamas, where she’s served on the board for three years.

Empowering Small Businesses with HR Solutions, with Dan Gladding, Vested HR Solutions