Chris Weissman/TopRight
TopRight is an Atlanta-based marketing agency focused on deepening the way customers care, listen, engage, buy, and ultimately stay. They accomplish this by crafting stories, told with ruthless consistency, and building strategies that bring them to life
Ken Fee/Business Technology Architects (BTA)
The mission of Business Technology Architects (BTA) is to meet customers where they are to simplify complex technology deployments that accelerate business objectives and enhance overall security posture. Their areas of specialization are Security Policy/Infrastructure, SDN in the Data Center/WAN/Enterprise, Automation, API Integrations, and Enterprise Routing design. They believe operationalizing technology is critical for consistent and long-term sustainability of technology business value.
Melody Astley/FinListics Solutions
For nearly two decades, FinListics Solutions has been helping enterprise sales organizations harness and leverage the power of insight-led selling to engage prospects with value-driven narratives that create competitive separation, and build trust and credibility at scale. Their award-winning sales intelligence platform ClientIQ equips advanced-level sellers with financial data, context, insights, and tools to inform a point of view and demonstrate a deep understanding of a prospect’s business performance challenges and opportunities. Finlistics is ground-zero for the research and insights that shape account planning and pursuit strategies, and an essential part of the tech stack that drives top-to-middle funnel conversion performance and accelerated pipeline development.
Seth Gilland & Gifford Pace/Fulfillment Strategies International (FSI)
Fulfillment Strategies International (FSI) focuses on helping companies, from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 corporations, get their products to the individual consumers, retail locations, or team members by specializing in inventory management, order fulfillment, subscription box management, and kitting for e-commerce.
Megan Satterlee/Effortless Mining & Vanran Communications
Effortless Mining is a company that aims to make Bitcoin mining easy for all! Interested in getting into crypto currency but don’t know where to start? Have you heard about Bitcoin, but hesitant to jump in? Let them help you! Their all-inclusive package will handle every aspect of the mining for you so that you can sit back and watch daily payments roll into your wallet!
Vanran Communications is a company offering communications systems, including VOIP, Cloud, Migration, Integration and Design. They serve large and small companies worldwide. They partner with Kandy, ATT, Avaya, Microsoft, Five9 and IBM as well as many other companies to find you the best solution. They are WOSB registered with the Small Business Administration.
Billy Gray/Gray Contracting
Gray Contracting is an owner-operated company that has been in business for over two decades. When Billy Gray started the company, he was a one-man team passing out flyers door to door. Since he opened the doors, he has grown Gray Contracting to over 250 full time employees with multiple divisions and services. His dedicated employees that started with him at the beginning are still with the company. A great benefit to working with them is the limited turnover. You will be able to have a dedicated curated team that knows and learns your property which is a huge benefit to you.
Culture is a priority for the company. Team members are not considered employees, they are considered family. They believe that success comes from working together. They foster an environment built on collaborative problem solving to improve productivity, reduce costs, and give customers the best experience possible.
The team members at Gray Contracting understand the needs of commercial buildings and the expectations of the men and women that run these buildings. They always apply best practices to ensure your projects run smoothly and swiftly.
Travis Giles/McMahan’s Clothing
McMahan’s Clothing is your premier men’s custom clothing destination. They offer custom suits, jackets, shirts, trousers, belts, and more. Their Full Canvas jacket construction and Bespoke process makes McMahan’s the best value in the custom industry.
Marty Gildemeyer/Pro Tech Mechanical & Praxis Group
Pro Tech Mechanical is a complete sales, service, installation, and automation of residential and commercial Heating & Air Conditioning Systems.
Praxis HVAC Sales & Pricing Tools provide residential and light commercial contractors the most comprehensive package of pricing tools available to help know their business to grow their business.
Beth Fleck/Brenau University
Brenau University challenges students to live extraordinary lives of personal and professional fulfillment. As students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees or non-degree programs at Brenau campuses and online, each prepares for a lifetime of intellectual accomplishment and appreciation of artistic expression through a curriculum enriched by the liberal arts, scientific inquiry and global awareness.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
Matthew & David Barranco/Barranco Enterprises
The highly skilled staff at Barranco Enterprises is trained to service and install all of your food and beverage equipment, including ice machines (both remote and air-cooled), fountain machines, bubblers, chillers, FCB/FUB, coffee, tea, cappuccino, ovens, warmers, hot cases, fryers, water filters, yogurt machines, and much more. They understand how frustrating it is to work with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do, which is why they’ve purposefully built a nationwide food & beverage service company specifically around the idea of creating an incredible experience for you and your customers.
Heather Fleming, Greg Hayes & Trent Cloer/MST
MSTiller, LLC (“MST”) celebrates its 65th anniversary this year. The firm has four offices with three located in Georgia and one in New York. They have over 130 staff members serving clients in a variety of industries. MST is noted by Accounting Today as a “Firm to Watch”; ranked as one of the “Top 25 Accounting Firms” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle; and ranked by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as “Top Work Places”.
What makes MST different? They advocate for their clients continuously. Clients view MST as problem solvers and trusted advisors that anticipate issues and planning opportunities. Their client service approach is what truly defines the firm. Resources and experience are meaningless without a desire to use those tools to help organizations achieve their goals. MST’s client service approach can best be described as hands-on, proactive and ongoing. They aim to be involved beyond the year-end services. Their client relationships typically are for the long-term, often extending over decades, and the continuity of these client relationships is the ultimate testament to MST’s service approach.
MST specializes in serving closely-held and privately-owned businesses ranging in size from $10 million to over $300 million in revenue. Their services are composed of a broad range of audit, tax and strategic consulting matters. They have substantial experience in serving as the outside accountant for a wide range of growth and mature professional service providers. Additionally, MST is a member of the Moore Global network of firms, which provides immediate access to industry expertise from similar firms throughout the United States and internationally.
