Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Brad McFall with Gammon, McFall and Villarreal Law Firm, Sam Talley with Talley Insurance, and Gregory Wooten with Communities in Schools of Rome-Floyd County
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BRX Pro Tip: Relationships Are About We Not Me
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BRX Pro Tip: Relationships are About We Not Me
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, everything we do is so focused on making better connections, building stronger relationships. But relationships really are about we, not me. Speak to that a little bit.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:19] Sure. Everything we do, we’re trying to have the client, or the guest, or whoever we’re serving have overwhelming wins. The relationship can’t be about what’s in it for me. It has to be, what can I be doing to help my partner thrive and exceed their expectations? It can’t be one sided where only I win, because then the relationship is not going to work. And a lot of folks, I think, spend a lot of time worrying about what they’re going to get out of it. And not thinking hard enough about how can I do whatever I can do to make sure my client wins tremendously, so it’s a no brainer that they’re going to resign with me, it’s a no brainer they want to continue working with me, and it’s a no brainer that they can become a customer for life. If both parties aren’t winning, the relationship just cannot last. So, everything you do, you should be doing in order to serve your client to make sure that they win.
Wayne Glover with GreyStone Power
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Business RadioX® was live at the 2022 GEDA Annual Conference in Savannah, GA. The conference is designed to give you a glimpse of what is here now, what the future looks like and the tools to help you implement strategies and tactics now to pay off years down the road.
Wayne Glover is an Economic Development Manager, Commercial Marketing at GreyStone Power based in Hiram, Georgia.
GreyStone Power Corporation is a member-owned electric cooperative dedicated to providing you with reliable electric service at the lowest possible rates.
Because GreyStone Power is locally owned and operated, customers, also known as members, receive responsive and focused service. Our mission is making life better in the communities we serve.
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Randall Toussaint with The City of Johns Creek
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Business RadioX® was live at the 2022 GEDA Annual Conference in Savannah, GA. The conference is designed to give you a glimpse of what is here now, what the future looks like and the tools to help you implement strategies and tactics now to pay off years down the road.
Randall Toussaint is the Economic Development Director with The City of Johns Creek.
Randall has over a decade of experience in the fields of urban planning and economic development.
He is a former Fellow with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development and a former legislative liaison with the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.
He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Savannah State University and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Morehouse College.
Randall lives in Gainesville, Georgia with his wife and two children.
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Mone’t Roberts with Better City
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Better City is an economic development consulting firm with offices in Utah and Texas. We take pride in offering smart insights and delivering community-specific, tangible results.
Mone’t Roberts pushes communities to grow to their full potential. She has experience in community development and engagement groups.
She coordinates public input and sets up and manages our project specific public engagement websites. Mone’t has a Masters in Public Administration and a BA in Promotional Communications.
Mone’t has a chihuahua with a big personality. She enjoys reading, writing, and exploring trails and unique foods.
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Mike Fisher with WGI
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As an Environmental Professional with WGI, Mike Fisher provides senior review of project deliverables; technical, contractual, and administrative support to Team Leaders and Project Managers; assist with planning and development of proposal budgets; and emphasize sound engineering/scientific and technical quality satisfaction while acting as a liaison to promote client success.
He is a multi-jurisdictional registered Professional Geologist (Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi) and Board-Certified Environmental Professional (by eminence) with 30+ years of environmental consulting experience working on client projects located throughout Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, the Bahamas and South America.
Mike managed, planned, and executed numerous projects involving due diligence, contamination/site assessments, and remedial/corrective actions that required routine preparation of Health & Safety Plans, Contamination Assessment/Sampling Plans, Quality Assurance Project Plans, Contamination/Site Assessment Reports , Remedial Action Plans, Remedial Action Status, and Monitoring reports.
He managed and conducted compliance audits for marine facilities, commercial, and industrial facilities and managed, prepared or participated in marine facilities, landfill, water-use, industrial wastewater, and environmental resource permitting.
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Lynn Patterson with Three Points Planning and Ralph Forbes with Thomas & Hutton
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Business RadioX® was live at the 2022 GEDA Annual Conference in Savannah, GA. The conference is designed to give you a glimpse of what is here now, what the future looks like and the tools to help you implement strategies and tactics now to pay off years down the road.
Lynn Patterson is an accomplished urban planning and economic development professional. Her love of places began decades ago when she began to travel internationally and experience various cultures and landscapes. She noticed the differences that made places unique and inviting. She wanted to travel off the beaten path – be with the locals, experience the everyday but in a way that was reflective of the local culture and what represented the people and the landscape. Lynn has traveled to over 45 countries and extensively across the United States and has found that unique places are not just found abroad – but joy and excitement is found in every community – domestic or abroad. No community is exactly the same, nor should its planning be.
When choosing her career, it was obvious, Lynn needed to be able to express her love of communities and landscapes and serve the local community. Her 20+ year career has spanned public, private and academic realms. She brings the perspective of the private developer, the public official, and the researcher into every project and place. As a former developer and site selection consultant, she understands the pressures and triggers of business decisions guiding location decisions.
As a downtown and economic development official and city administrator, Lynn appreciates the responsibility of public service, public participation and the nuances of responsiveness to investors, developers, business community, and residents. Finally, Lynn brings the discipline and forward thinking of an academic to her planning practice. She researched economic development practice and sustainability initiatives for communities in the US and abroad.
Lynn is a co-founding partner for Mango Tree Foundation, Inc. a non-profit organization that works to empower women in sustainable development endeavors worldwide. She also delivers keynote and breakout session presentations, trainings and workshops on economic development opportunities as related to sustainability initiatives.
Lynn founded Three Points Planning to help guide communities through economic development and planning to celebrate their histories, understanding their present people, natural, social, economic, and built environment, and look forward to the future.
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Ralph Forbes is a Vice President and Principal at Thomas & Hutton and serves as a Savannah Regional Director for engineering, planning, and design of large tract development and industrial/commercial sites.
He earned his Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, began his career in the construction field, and later joined Thomas & Hutton in 1991. A licensed Professional Engineer, Ralph has expertise in site selection, land analysis, infrastructure in developing industrial parks, and community development.
Ralph sits on various professional and community organizations, including Government Affairs Chair for Richmond Hill/Bryan County Chamber Board, Board Member and head of Environmental and Natural Resource Committee for Georgia Economic Development Authority, Past President for Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Past Board Member of Georgia Southern Construction Management, Past President of Georgia Tech Savannah Alumni Club, Advisory Council for Bryan County Schools, and Richmond Hill High School Booster Clubs.
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Linda Mosely with 365 Degree Total Marketing
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Business RadioX® was live at the 2022 GEDA Annual Conference in Savannah, GA. The conference is designed to give you a glimpse of what is here now, what the future looks like and the tools to help you implement strategies and tactics now to pay off years down the road.
As CEO and co-owner of 365 Degree Total Marketing, Linda Mosely oversees every client project from concept to completion.
With a master’s level education from Mercer University and Georgia State University, she has degrees in psychology and education, and she taught psychology at Clayton State College in the Atlanta area. She also worked with Texas Instruments managing a division of their marketing department before starting Great Southern Publishers in 1984.
As a marketing and branding expert, she leads the external processes and community meetings.
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Laura Linman with City of Chamblee
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Laura Linman is the Economic Development Director at City of Chamblee.
Located just 14 miles from downtown Atlanta, Chamblee is a vibrant urban city with a diverse community and international flair. The City of Chamblee began as a small rail town and was incorporated in 1908. Through multiple annexations, the City has grown to more than 7 square miles and 29,000 residents. The downtown district has experienced significant commercial development including lofts and townhomes since 2000, while maintaining its vintage buildings and architecture.
The City of Chamblee operates under a mayor and council-city manager form of government. The services provided by the City under general governmental functions include police protection, planning and development, sidewalk and curb maintenance and parks operation and maintenance. Chamblee is located in Northern DeKalb County and is bordered by Dunwoody to the northwest, Doraville to the east and Brookhaven to the southwest.
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