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Spark Stories Episode 2

January 23, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Spark Stories Episode 2

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Kristy West is a Certified Applied Improv Practitioner, Speaker, and Founder of BraveSpace. She has been performing, studying and teaching improv for almost two decades. Along with her improv experience, Kristy spent over 15 years in B2B Sales and Corporate Training. Today, she blends her unique experience in improvisational comedy, corporate sales, and training to help teams and individuals practice critical communication skills and team collaboration in a brave space using the methodology of improvisation. After spending many years witnessing first hand how work environments and teams can suffer when there is a lack of human connection, interpersonal skills, civility and collaboration, Kristy’s improv and professional life collided (in a good way). She developed a driving need to share the power of improvisation with the business world to help shift mindsets and cultures, and in 2009 she entered the world of Applied Improv, where she is now a Certified AI Practitioner Kristy’s work at BraveSpace is taking improv off the stage and into corp environments to help foster innovation, creativity, collaboration, new mindsets and a whole slew of critical communication skills needed in today’s ever evolving, tech driven, chaotic work climate.

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Joe Norton is the co-founder of Helium Services. Specializing in software design and development, Helium has served organizations such as Emory, Terminus Software, and The Georgia Music Educators Association. In 2018, Helium was recognized as one of the Top 3 Software Development Companies in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. As Joe puts it, “there are two things I love; solving problems and helping people. I love what I do and I am so lucky to work with such an amazing team every day.”

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Create The Life You Deserve with Clarissa J. Sparks. She is an author, speaker, brand strategist, and the founder of The She Sparks Agency. Clarissa has been featured in the Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, The Albany Herald, seen on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and heard on The Peoples Station V-103; where she has given tips and tools to her audience to gain clarity, develop a strategy and execute and authentic brands.
She’s Clear, She’s Strategic, She’s Confident, and She Sparks.

Clarissa combines the power of brand clarity, strategy, and design to support multi-passionate entrepreneurs, emerging and executive leaders to discover their purpose, define their passions, design a clear action plan, and deliver with spark – their unique gifts that can be used to literally change the world.

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Spark Stories Episode 1

January 11, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Spark Stories Episode 1

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Dr. Iyabo Ojikutu is a board certified pediatrician, fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She received her medical degree at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She has been practicing pediatrics for 26 years, since the age of 22, and currently owns, and runs her practice in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lives with er two daughters. She has been teaching and mentoring medical students for 13 years, and serving a low income, and poorly advantaged community in Georgia where her practice is located. Dr Ojikutu is also an author. Her first book is titled Permanent Happiness, which she Indie published in May 2017. Her writing began in December 2015, after her dear father passed. She wrote another book behind this one, which is not yet published, and is currently writing her third. Dr Ojikutu also writes a blog-The Peace Place Blog, which can be found on her website www.driyabo.com.

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Jamie Bennett is the Founder & CEO at The Lifestyle Group. Jamie is in the people business. She serves her clients in three capacities as a LifeStyle Strategist, HR Consultant and a Certified Life Coach. Her mission is to help her busy clients create strategies that help them delegate more effectively in their personal lives, operate effective HR practices in their business and/or move forward on the things they really want to accomplish. Jamie started her career with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York after receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. She moved on to Lehman Brothers where she developed her problem solving and organizational skills. After obtaining her Master of Business Administration Degree from CUNY-Baruch College, The Zicklin School of Business, she gained valuable operations and process improvement experience working for a financial services non-profit. Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Jamie now resides in Atlanta, Ga. She is an avid reader of business biographies and fiction, a mentor to several young professionals, as well as an active volunteer at her son’s school.

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Melanie D Ivey is the Founder at Beautifully Made. Her purpose is to awaken inner greatness and illuminate the power and passion that lies within. Melanie believes that inspiration, empowerment, and introspection are tools that help us unlock our purpose. She is excited about helping women reach their best selves so in turn they can love, serve, and empower others to do the same. As a certified Personal Development and Executive Coach (lovingly nicknamed “The Success Architect”), Melanie is passionate about helping women find and fulfill their life’s purpose with confidence, tenacity, and authenticity.

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Clarissa Sparks is a brand strategist, experienced facilitaor, and founder of the She Sparks Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. She is passionate about leveraging her experience across a wide range of industries to help multi-passionate entrepreneurs, emerging leaders, and corporations design innovative, sustainable business models and strategies. Clarissa turns ideas into visual and tangible experiences, and always brings a new perspective to the table – inspiring others to make an impact. She is the author of This Little Light of Mine, A Guided Journal of Purpose, Passion and Shine and co-author of Business & Career for the Christian Woman.

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Aron Levine with Bank of America, Burunda Prince with Boomtown Accelerator and Clarissa J. Sparks with The She Sparks Agency

October 31, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Aron Levine with Bank of America, Burunda Prince with Boomtown Accelerator and Clarissa J. Sparks with The She Sparks Agency

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Aron Levine leads a team of more than 40,000 employees responsible for helping with the financial needs of Bank of America‘s Consumer Banking and Merrill Edge® investment clients. Aron and his leadership team are focused on ensuring the organization provides an industry-leading client experience, including building and developing talent to effectively deliver solutions based on clients’ priorities and helping to drive responsible growth through effective risk management. The team, located across approximately 4,500 Bank of America financial centers and call centers Footnote *, offers clients insight on a wide range of financial products and services designed to support their banking, lending, small business and investment planning needs. In addition, Aron leads the management and delivery of Merrill Edge®, which helps clients pursue their financial goals by seamlessly providing access to the investment insights of Merrill Lynch and the banking convenience of Bank of America. Merrill Edge enables clients to view and manage their banking and investment accounts with a single sign on through advanced online and mobile platforms. Clients can also connect with licensed Merrill Edge Financial Solutions Advisors™, either in select financial center locations or over the phone.

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Burunda Prince is the managing director of The Farm, which is a corporate start-up accelerator that is part of Comcast NBCUniversal and housed at The Battery Atlanta. It focuses on providing early-stage startups with the resources, access, expertise, and advice they need to succeed. The Farm’s twelve-week, twice-yearly program provides a customized curriculum, company-building guidance, industry mentorship, and a network of startup ecosystem supporters.

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Clarissa J. Sparks is a brand strategist, experienced facilitator, and founder of the She Sparks Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. She is passionate about leveraging her experience across a wide range of industries to help multi-passionate entrepreneurs, emerging leaders, and corporations design innovative, sustainable business models and strategies. She turns ideas into visual and tangible experiences, and always brings a new perspective to the table – inspiring others to make an impact. She is the author of The Invisible Brand: A Guide to Making the Invisible Visible – How to Create A Strong Brand, This Little Light of Mine, A Guided Journal of Purpose, Passion and Shine and co-author of Business & Career for the Christian Woman. Clarissa has been featured as a ‘Side-Hustler’ by Essence Magazine, a ‘Achiever’ by Huffington Post, ‘Rising Star’ by VoyageAtl, and 2017 1st place winner of the ‘Innovate Her” SBA competition.

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