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Renasant Roots Entrepreneurial Success Series, with Antonio Henson, Renasant Bank, Mia Martin, Modern Creatif, and Trenton Carson, TC Productions

February 14, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Renasant Roots Entrepreneurial Success Series, with Antonio Henson, Renasant Bank, Mia Martin, Modern Creatif, and Trenton Carson, TC Productions

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Renasant Roots Entrepreneurial Success Series, with Antonio Henson, Renasant Bank, Mia Martin, Modern Creatif, and Trenton Carson, TC Productions (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 431)

The Renasant Roots Entrepreneurial Success Series is a capacity-building program designed to assist small business owners with business development, marketing, networking, and many other benefits. Two participants in the most recent Atlanta-based cohort, Mia Martin of Modern Creatif and Trenton Carson of TC Productions, joined Antonio Henson of Renasant to discuss how the program came to be, their experience with it, the benefits they have realized, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Renasant Roots Entrepreneurial Success Series

Renasant Bank is proud to introduce the Renasant Roots Entrepreneurial Success Series to the Atlanta market. The capacity building workshop is a four-week program customized to help small business owners sharpen their business development skills and fill gaps in their knowledge and experience to make their enterprises stronger. Renasant Roots was created in partnership with the Birmingham Business Resource Center four years ago.

With the program having great success in the Birmingham market, Renasant’s Birmingham team and the BBRC are sharing the Renasant Roots template with the Atlanta Renasant team to share with small business owners in Atlanta. “We are excited to bring the Renasant Roots program to the Atlanta market. After watching the success and growth of the program in Birmingham, we decided that it would be a great opportunity to share these business resources with the Atlanta community as well,” said Zennie Lynch, Atlanta Market President. “In addition to the skills development and powerful information these participants will receive, they will also be provided with a small business development grant of $2,500 when they complete the program.”

The workshop will focus on business development and planning, marketing and branding, accounting principles and tax preparation, funding options, and resource development. Speakers for the sessions will be provided by Invest Atlanta, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, LiftFund, and Atlanta Black Chambers.

There is no cost to participate in the program other than committing 10 hours over five weeks. 10 participants will be selected through an application process.

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Antonio Henson, MBA, First Vice President – Community Lending Relationship Director, Renasant Bank

**Antonio Henson, MBA, First VP- Community Lending Relationship Director, Renasant Bank**

Antonio Henson has over twenty years of experience in business and banking. He has facilitated training sessions for staff aimed at enhancing product & credit knowledge and regulatory procedures.

Antonio has structured project financing designed to spur neighborhood revitalization efforts in the low-income communities throughout the State of New Jersey and Metro Atlanta. This action involved community outreach and working with elected officials, government agencies, quasi-public agencies and the private sector to promote revitalization and commercial development.

He has provided expertise and assistance to various community-based organizations, to assist them with meeting the financial needs of their respective organizations.

Mia Martin, CEO, Modern Creatif

Modern Créatif was founded in 2013 by Mia D. Martin because of her passion to educate and help professionals position themselves as subject matter experts with their professional brands and businesses. Mia worked in sales and marketing for a Fortune 10 Consumer Package Goods company for 14 years. During her professional career, she developed hundreds of employees throughout the country and managed thousands of retail and wholesale relationships.

Mia is passionate about taking her professional experiences and transferring it to her clients through effective strategy development for marketing, branding, and professional presentation.

Modern Créatif takes pride in not just providing deliverables but also effective education and strategy development. To date, Modern Créatif has served hundreds of Atlanta entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs throughout the country. Modern Créatif is passionate about workforce development in Atlanta and has provided free online training resources through our free Agency Academy. We have also developed educational resources for Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs to service the NPU-V and developing businesses.

Our Mission is to provide premium-level services that empower entrepreneurs to best represent their business and brand.

Mia has worked with SBDC UGA at GSU, SCORE, the Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Project, General Assembly, Atlanta Business League, 21st Century Leaders, The Network of Executive Women, The Commerce Club-Marketing Club, Georgia Power Supplier Diversity Council, and more to help educate entrepreneurs and professionals on Professional Presentation, and Branding and Marketing Strategy as a strategist and professional speaker.

Mia is a proud member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council and a board member for the Kettering Executive Network.

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Trenton Carson, President, TC Productions

TC Productions Video Production Company is a full-service video production company that partners with marketing executives and business owners. They develop and execute highly customized video marketing campaigns focused on driving leads, awareness, brand loyalty and retention. Their focus is in Branding, Marketing and Testimonial video production.

The two areas their company specialize in:

They produce videos specifically for your intended audience – Video Production.
They get those videos in front of your intended audience – Video Marketing.

They have helped their clients:

*Build brand awareness and establish an influencing presence online
*Effectively use video as a tool in their marketing strategy
*Create evergreen content that enhances their marketing message
*Become comfortable with the growing demand the market has for videos

What they learned:
Stories are in everything you do. Your brand and the story it tells impacts people, what they believe, how they feel, and the decisions they make. The combination of visuals and sound evokes emotions more effectively than text alone. If you want to draw your viewers in, connect with them emotionally, and move them to take the next step, working with TC Productions to produce your next video will make you the company hero.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Antonio Henson
Renasant Roots and how it started
Mia Martin and Modern Creatif
Trenton Carson and TC Productions
Applications for the next Cohort

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 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.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked from scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

Becca Goldsberry, Southwestern Coaching

February 14, 2022 by John Ray

Business Leaders Radio

Becca Goldsberry, Southwestern Coaching

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Becca Goldsberry, Southwestern Coaching

Becca Goldsberry with Southwestern Coaching joined host John Ray to address why a coach can be indispensable for a business owner or executive as they strive for their professional and personal goals. Becca discussed the role of a coach in providing accountability, the value of coaching at all stages of a career, success stories, how she works with clients, and much more. Business Leaders Radio is produced virtually from the Business RadioX® studios in Atlanta.

Southwestern Coaching, a division of Southwestern Consulting

Southwestern Consulting’s story actually begins with another member of the Southwestern Family of Companies—Southwestern Advantage. Established in 1855 in Nashville, Tennessee, The Southwestern Publishing House published and sold Bibles door-to-door, allowing young people to not only learn the sales profession at an early age, but also to earn money to pay for a college education. Southwestern Advantage was developed out of that model, and today, Advantage continues to thrive as the Family of Companies’ core entity, with college-aged entrepreneurs around the world selling and promoting educational study systems.

One of those savvy entrepreneurs, Dustin Hillis, saw the opportunity to take the skills he learned in Advantage and teach them to other sales professionals and leaders, elevating the perception of sales to a true relationship-building profession. Thus, Southwestern Consulting was born. Co-founder and CEO, Hillis, along with other top-producing Southwestern Advantage alumni founded the company on the principles of sales and leadership coaching, establishing the first division, Southwestern Coaching. In the coming years, those principles would be expanded to the newer divisions, elevating events with high-quality, engaging speakers, and empowering people to reach their true potential.

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Becca Goldsberry, Elite Sales and Leadership Coach, Southwestern Coaching

Becca is an Elite Sales and Leadership Coach and an expert at recruiting, lead generation, and business development. She has led a large organization with over 300 team members. As a leader, she is recognized as a top recruiter and loves developing team members to help them achieve their goals and dreams.
She has worked with her family’s five businesses, which included a 65-year-old excavation company, a lake management and treatment company, and a farm management company. While working with the family businesses, she helped develop a family foundation, sat on numerous boards, and helped with business plans and strategies on how to incorporate the third and fourth generations.

Becca worked as a family therapist and school counselor for six years prior before moving into sales. While in sales, Becca has held sales positions focusing on new business development, territory management, recruitment, and retention.

Becca graduated from the University of Louisville with a master’s in social work and an undergraduate degree from Concordia University.

• Was in the Top 50, out of over 10,000 sales associates
• Former top producer in business development by increasing new business sales by over 170%
• Experienced merchandiser for several large Fortune 500 companies including the world’s largest retailer
• Former certified corporate trainer and trained hundreds of new consultants

You can find Becca volunteering her time raising money for cancer research, The Junior League of Indianapolis, volunteering with Church charities, traveling around the world when she can with her husband and kids, cooking up awesome meals for her family and friends to have some quality time together. Becca is an avid parrot head and you can find her at Jimmy Buffett’s concerts when they come into town.

Becca’s mission and purpose is to help others see their greatest potential and pursue their dreams. She is committed to helping people to believe in their ultimate potential in life and inspires them to live a life of excellence, joy and success.

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Questions and Topics

What is a coach, why should people in business or salespeople have a coach?
The Power of Perspective
How do you maintain perseverance and focus?
Becca’s passion for helping clients find their why, purpose, and passion for what they do.
How connecting your vision with your day-to-day activities makes you unstoppable
The importance of daily motivation
The various ways Southwestern Consulting can serve companies.

Business Leaders Radio is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. The show can be found on all the major podcast apps and a full archive can be found here.

Heather Rogers, Simply Organized

February 9, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Heather Rogers, Simply Organized

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Heather Rogers, Simply Organized (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 430)

Heather Rogers, owner of Simply Organized, joined host John Ray in the studio to discuss her packing, unpacking, and professional organizing services. Heather talked about why hiring a professional organizer saves so much time and stress, what to look for when you hire a mover, her own major lesson in self-care, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Simply Organized

Simply Organized was founded to help people simplify their lives. Their typical client usually feels overwhelmed in their home or office or wants more time in their day and less stress in their lives.

They specialize in helping people who work from home, anyone who is getting their home ready to sell, needs packing or unpacking help, and in time and routine management coaching. We serve the Atlanta metro area, including Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, North DeKalb, Forsyth, North Fulton, Gwinnett, and Hall.

The Simply Organized team has the training and skills to help you organize everything from your hectic schedule, family, home, and office in all metro Atlanta areas. We only hire experienced professional organizers so you can be certain anyone from Simply Organized knows how to de-clutter, sort, pack, unpack, pre-stage, and help with spatial planning.

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Heather Rogers, Owner, Simply Organized

Heather Rogers is a professional organizer, owner of Simply Organized and author of “A Simplified Life”. She and her team specialize in helping people decrease the clutter in their lives, create a more organized environment, manage their time more effectively, increase productivity and maintain calm in the midst of a busy life.

Her clients include professionals and entrepreneurs who work from home, anyone who is getting their home ready to sell, individuals and families who need help packing or unpacking, and busy professionals and families who need assistance with time management and space maintenance coaching.

A Georgia native, Heather has worked in the insurance and financial services industries, as well as in customer service and sales. She has a passion for helping people and a keen sense of spatial planning and organizing. Ironically, she earned a bachelor’s degree in risk management from the University of Georgia. Isn’t being disorganized one of the greatest risks in life?

She is the past president of the National Association of Professional Organizers Georgia (NAPO) and frequently speaks to groups about the benefits of time management and the costs of disorganization.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

How to take the stress out of moving
How to hire a mover
Packing and unpacking services
Certified professional organizer
National Association of Professional Organizers, or NAPO

Brian Falony, Inovautus Consulting

February 8, 2022 by John Ray

Business Leaders Radio

Brian Falony, Inovautus Consulting

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Brian Falony, Inovautus Consulting

Brian Falony with Inovautus Consulting joined host John Ray to discuss marketing for accounting firms. Brian has extensive marketing experience with multiple accounting firms, and he shared his thoughts about how accounting firms can excel by updating their marketing perspective and processes. He and John discussed how marketing in the accounting industry has evolved, the role of marketing in talent acquisition and succession, why he’s active in the Association for Accounting Marketing, his work with Inovautus, and much more. Business Leaders Radio is produced virtually from the Business RadioX® studios in Atlanta.

Inovautus Consulting

Inovautus helps firms assess their marketing and business development strategy, customize practical growth plans and guide the execution of those plans through leadership, coaching and training services.

The Inovautus Consulting Complete Professional Advisor™ offers accounting and advisory professionals the comprehensive set of programs they need to grow their practice while still providing their clients with top-quality service.
In collaboration with the Association for Accounting Marketing, the Inovautus Consulting Growth Outlook Survey takes an annual pulse check on the state of marketing and growth across the accounting firm profession.

The name Inovautus is a creative combination of the English word innovate, and the Latin word autus, which means growth. The mission of the company is to help firms grow faster and in the right direction.

They proudly represent and provide for a full range of accounting firms and work hard to stay on top of trends, while integrating best practices with practical application. All their business development consultants have worked inside accounting firms as marketing professionals with a seat at the leadership table.

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Brian Falony, Inovautus Consulting

Brian Falony is a Consultant with Inovautus Consulting. He works with clients to develop a strong market identity and brand as well as create marketing plans and strategies tailored to the client’s specific needs and capabilities. He also helps clients improve lead generation and conversion.

He has over 30 years of experience in accounting marketing. Prior to joining Inovautus, he led the marketing functions for two of the top 50 CPA firms in the U.S. and has consulted with firms across North America on improving their marketing programs. In 2013, he was inducted into the Association for Accounting Marketing Hall of Fame.

Questions and Topics

Tell us your story
What led you to choose to work at Innovatus?
What are some of the differences in marketing from the larger firms to the smaller firms?
Do you hear objections to updating marketing to include social media?
What short-term things can firms do to realize results from their marketing?
What elements does a firm need to have to take the next step in their marketing?
Talk about the shift towards being an advisory firm and what’s required to do that
Tell us about the Association for Accounting Marketing
Tell us about what Inovautus offers

Thomas Storteboom, i2e Solutions

December 10, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Thomas Storteboom, i2e Solutions

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Thomas Storteboom, i2e Solutions (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 422)

Thomas Storteboom, CEO of i2e Solutions, joined host John Ray to discuss the innovation and product development consulting he does for a variety of companies. Thomas and John talked about how i2e Solutions helps companies take their ideas to fruition, avoid stagnation, identify roadblocks and bottlenecks, assess the costs involved, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

i2e Solutions

i2e Solutions can help you clarify opportunities that impact your future.

Utilizing a holistic team approach, i2e Solutions helps explore, solve, and implement solutions to your most intriguing ideas and opportunities, from Idea to Execution.

Do you have limited resources looking for new ideas and bringing them to life? i2e Solutions has the expertise to help.

Company Website | LinkedIn

Thomas Storteboom, Founder and CEO, i2e Solutions

i2e Solutions was founded by Thomas Storteboom to help companies discover answers to questions they do not know how to solve.

Thomas brings decades of leadership experience at industry-leading companies to i2e Solutions. He built a career leading cross-functional teams that designed the future for their customers and team members.

Thomas has managed global R&D and product development teams, created innovation programs from the ground up, and re-designed nationwide processes. His experiences can help you solve your most complex issues.

Questions and Topics Discussed in this Episode

What is i2e and what do you do?
What is your background?
How do you manage risk?
How do you assist owners with the business challenges of innovation?
Spending a little to learn a lot
Success Stories

Dr. T. Ramon Stuart, President of Clayton State University

November 5, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Dr. T. Ramon Stuart, President of Clayton State University

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Dr. T. Ramon Stuart, President of Clayton State University (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 409)

Dr. T. Ramon Stuart, recently installed as President of Clayton State University, joined host John Ray to offer his vision for Clayton State University, the students it serves, and the broader Laker Nation. Dr. Stuart also shared the inspiration for his education journey he received from his mother, some of the high points from his recent “State of the University” address, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Clayton State University

Clayton State University is a public university in Morrow, Georgia. Clayton State University is a part of the University System of Georgia. The campus is located fifteen minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The University has 208 full-time faculty and 356 full-time staff.

The institution was founded in 1969 and was originally known as Clayton Junior College. When the school became a four-year institution in 1986, the institute took on the name Clayton State College. In 1996, the Georgia Board of Regents renamed many higher-ed institutions, with Clayton State becoming Clayton College & State University. In 2005, the name was changed to Clayton State University.

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Dr. T. Ramon Stuart, President, Clayton State University

Dr. T. Ramon Stuart assumed the role of Clayton State University’s fifth president on July 1, 2021. As the first African American to hold this position, Dr. Stuart joins the university after serving as the provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at Fort Valley State University (FVSU) in Fort Valley, Georgia.

During his six-year tenure at FVSU, Dr. Stuart led the academic colleges and degree programs, aspects of enrollment management such as retention, and other major administrative areas that included a sponsored research portfolio that was the fifth-largest among 26 institutions within the University System of Georgia (USG).

Under Dr. Stuart’s guidance, FVSU witnessed an average retention rate of 75%, increased enrollment, improved the graduation rate by 15% over a two-year period, and led the USG in the number of first-time, full-time freshmen who enrolled in at least 15 credit hours per semester.

Prior to joining FVSU, Dr. Stuart was a faculty member and administrator at West Virginia State University in Institute, West Virginia. His accomplishments there included developing an engineering 2+2 program, aiding in increasing retention by almost 10% over four academic years, serving on the self-study reaffirmation steering committee responsible for achieving a 10-year reaffirmation of accreditation, and helping to increase overall enrollment.

Dr. Stuart is known for his commitment to student success in the classroom and beyond. At the age of 24, he began teaching computer science at West Virginia State Community and Technical College also located in Institute, West Virginia. He excelled in this role and during his second year, peers named him Professor of the Year. Later that year they unanimously elected him to serve as the faculty senate president making him the youngest person to hold that position in the history of the institution. He held that post for two consecutive terms.

Raised in the small coal-mining town of Welch, West Virginia, Dr. Stuart realized at a very young age the transformative impact that education could have on one’s life, one’s family, and ultimately one’s community. That realization has been the driving force behind his motivation to provide opportunities for students to not only obtain their degrees but to excel in their chosen fields.

While serving at FVSU, Dr. Stuart secured over $4 million in grants and scholarship funding to reduce the cost of expenses for students and to help prepare them for careers in coveted STEM fields such as genome engineering, computational data science, and biotechnology.

Identifying the need for talent in the local multi-million dollar film industry and recognizing a shortage of financial technology professionals, Dr. Stuart developed minors in those fields to equip students with the skillsets needed to quickly fill voids in the workforce.

Committed to enhancing community partnerships, Dr. Stuart collaborated with Robins Air Force Base to develop an employment pipeline for students majoring in supply chain management; established an agreement with Georgia Power to create a 100-acre solar farm with a 9,000 square foot demonstration center that serves as a living laboratory for FVSU students and professors; fostered an articulation agreement with Grand Valley State University to offer an engineering transition program; developed 13 articulation agreements with Georgia Technical College System institutions; and worked with Atrium Health Navicent, Houston Healthcare and Phoebe Putney Hospitals to launch health science degrees.

In addition to enhancing their classroom experience, Dr. Stuart recognizes the value in providing students with mentorship and academic coaching to help them overcome challenges which lead to a 6.8% increase in the institution’s six-year graduation rate.

With a focus on the university’s strategic priorities, all steeped in the mission of providing an exceptional student experience, Dr. Stuart increased the number of full-time faculty by 20%, established training to help more than 50% of the university’s faculty develop online courses that met or exceeded Quality Matters requirements and created a Center for Teaching and Learning which increased the number of faculty development opportunities by 127%.

Dr. Stuart received his education in McDowell County Public Schools before going to West Virginia University where he earned undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources where he was a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Fellow. He later went on to earn his doctorate in higher education administration from the Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education at Ohio University where he was the institution’s first Southern Regional Education Board Fellow.

It was from his humble beginnings in McDowell County that Dr. Stuart learned the power of the words that reminds us that to whom much is given, much is expected. Those words stuck with him throughout the years and are at the root of his commitment to student success, in and out of the classroom.

Many who encounter Dr. Stuart quickly recognize his dedication to helping others to be their best selves. A true servant leader, Dr. Stuart embodies the American dream, the belief that regardless of where you are born, you can determine and attain your own version of success.

Dr. Stuart resides in south Atlanta with his wife Jamilah, a graduate of Howard University and general manager of a Hilton Hotel in Macon, Georgia, and their daughter, Kayleigh Grace.

Questions and Topics Discussed in this Episode

Why did you choose to lead Clayton State University?
How does Clayton State aim to help students find solutions to challenges?
What did you learn in the listening journey of your first 100 days?
Give a sense of what you presented in your State of the University address.
Speak to how Clayton State has evolved since its beginning.
Talk about the students you serve.
How can businesses support the work of Clayton State University?

Dawn Cook Causey, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

November 5, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Dawn Cook Causey, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

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Dawn Cook Causey, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 408)

Executive coach Dawn Cook Causey joined host John Ray to define emotional intelligence (EQ) and explain why sharpening your EQ is so vital to business sucess. Dawn also offered practices for developing self-awareness, how she coaches her executive and business leader clients, and much more. She also shared a new e-book, Every Day is an Interview, which debuts soon. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

DayBreak’s mission is to help organizations drive profits by developing their people.

They believe that better emotional intelligence (EQ) leads to better leaders which lead to better business performance. Research shows that leaders and teams with high EQ perform at a higher level, contribute to increased corporate earnings, enjoy higher morale and experience lower turnover. They like proving that research is accurate.

Although DayBreak is based in Alpharetta, Georgia and many of our clients are in Atlanta, we provide executive coaching and leadership development world-wide. Raising the bar for leadership has no limits.

DayBreak offers a variety of tools and assessments to enable you and your team to improve your success.

Developing your team drives business results by increasing skill and motivation. Superstar performance comes from individual contributors leveraging each other’s strengths in addition to their own.

Training your team to increase leadership skills will be six times more effective when it is supported by a strong framework that includes laser-focused objectives, highly engaging content and management-supported follow-up.

Dawn assists clients, teams, and organizations in increasing self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management so they are EQuipped to bring about change in themselves and their organizations.

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Dawn Cook Causey, Executive Coach, DayBreak Enterprises, LLC

Dawn Cook Causey is an Executive Coach working with leaders and teams to improve their leadership bench strength, increase the speed/reduce cost of doing business through better work relationships and deliver better results.

Her mission is to help organizations drive profits by developing their people. Better emotional intelligence (EQ) means better leaders which means better business performance. Research shows that leaders and teams with high EQ perform at a higher level, contribute to increased corporate earnings, enjoy higher morale and experience lower turnover. She likes proving that research time and time again. Those ‘touchy feely’ competencies are touching and feeling bottom lines everywhere.

Dawn helps leaders who are intellectually bright and technically strong, yet struggle to maximize their own or their team’s potential because they fail to maximize the power of emotions. Her ideal client is the one who is as passionate about developing themselves as she is about helping them do it. She has an excellent track record helping leaders who need to better balance their strong, results-oriented nature with leveraging relationships.

If you or your executives are in any of these positions, Dawn can help you:

– Executive who blew the doors off their competition and rose quickly to the top, but now having to manage and motivate others is a challenge,

– Chief Information Officer responsible for technical types with ‘black and white’ thinking who need their communication styles to be as scalable and efficient as their enterprise solutions,

– Chief Engineering Officer who recognizes that their engineers need to design a better system for relating to non-engineering folks, or

– VP of Human Resources looking for ways to impact the bottom line through higher employee engagement and morale, lower turnover and recruiting costs,

Questions and Topics Discussed in this Episode

There are lots of coaches out there, we’ve interviewed several on this show. What is your niche or what makes you unique?
How did you get into coaching? What’s your journey?
Who do you coach? Describe your clients and the types of things you coach with them on.
In your bio, you say your motto is, “It’s your choice. Make it count.” Tell me about that.
And how does making a choice tie to emotional intelligence, since that is your specialty?
Can you give us an example of how you’ve worked with a client to make better choices?
You call yourself an Executive Coach. Do you ever do Life Coaching?
How has the pandemic affected your coaching business?
How can people connect with you if they want to start making better, more emotionally intelligent choices?

Toseima Jiles, Creative Arts International, Inc.

November 4, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Toseima Jiles, Creative Arts International, Inc.

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Toseima Jiles, Creative Arts International, Inc. (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 407)

Creative Arts International, Inc., founded by Toseima Jiles, brings performing arts to companies for team-building and strengthening company culture. Toseima joined host John Ray in the studio to discuss her journey, her business consulting practice, the need for arts to support people and business, her work in the community with children who have experienced abuse, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Creative Arts International, Inc.

Creative Arts International is an arts consulting firm founded by Toseima Jiles. They use performing art alongside business consulting to help companies improve not only the lives of their employees but their bottom line as well. CAI starts with a discovery process and applies art processes, coaching, and training to meet the client’s goals.

Company website | LinkedIn | Instagram

Toseima Jiles, Consultant, Creative Arts International, Inc.

Toseima Jiles is the Master Consultant with Creative Arts International Inc. and has been a lover of the arts her entire life. For over 27 years, she has dedicated her life to the love of the arts and alongside the pursuit of that passion, business development consulting has comfortably landed as her business equivalent of ‘Beyonce’ and ‘Sasha Fierce’. She has accepted the fact that providing the experience of both has afforded a great opportunity to impact the lives of people in an authentic and unique way.

As with most people in the world, since the impact of COVID 19, recent events have forced a closer evaluation of ‘why’ in life and that inevitably allows the most essential answers to lead the Creative Arts Consulting team forward. Teaching performing arts alongside business consulting for nearly three decades has been more enriching than could ever have been imagined.

Hundreds of companies over the years have been helped, consulted, and inspired to produce more tangible results within their goals and that is truly what it’s all about.

Questions and Topics Discussed in this Episode

How did Creative Arts International Inc. come to be?
What makes your consulting firm unique?
Describe a typical Arts Consulting Service in your firm.
Describe a typical Business Consulting Service in your firm.
What is the most creative thing you have done for a client?
What is your greatest success story as a consulting business?
Why is community involvement so meaningful to you?
Where can people learn about events, partnerships, and ways to connect?

Ofer Yourvexel, Pepperi

October 26, 2021 by John Ray

Business Leaders Radio

Ofer Yourvexel, Pepperi

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Ofer Yourvexel, Pepperi

On this edition of Business Leaders Radio with host John Ray, Pepperi Co-Founder and CEO Ofer Yourvexel discussed his company’s work with medium to large consumer packaged goods, health & beauty, and other brands, and the success of the Pepperi platform in supporting and driving B2B sales both online and in-store. Yourvexel shared why Pepperi’s mobile component is so vital for the success of their customers, the flexibility of the platform, and much more. Business Leaders Radio is produced virtually from the Business RadioX® studios in Atlanta.

Pepperi

Pepperi is an omnichannel platform for both online and in-store B2B sales and retail execution. With over 1000 customers in more than 65 countries, Pepperi provides consumer goods and brand manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers with a comprehensive solution to increase sales figures, reduce inefficient processes and speed up operations.

Combining sales force automation, retail execution, route accounting and B2B eCommerce in an integrated out-of-the-box solution, their customers rely on Pepperi to plan, execute and analyze their B2B omnichannel sales:

• Online/offline order taking made easy with e-catalogs, trade promotions and full customer data

• Retail execution app for in-store auditing, merchandising and replenishment

• Direct Store Delivery and van sales powered by a route accounting app for iOS and Android mobile devices

• Web and mobile B2B eCommerce enables buyers to order anytime from anywhere

• Central management streamlines omnichannel operations across customer touchpoints

Pepperi’s enterprise-grade platform integrates seamlessly with ERPs such as SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Nav, NetSuite, and many others, making data fully accessible to field reps and buyers on all devices, on and offline.

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Ofer Yourvexel, CEO & Co-Founder, Pepperi

Ofer has 25 years of experience in international marketing, sales, business development, and management.

He was formerly an executive in multiple Nasdaq companies such as Jacada (JCDA) and Amdocs (DOX).

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