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IMPACT: TFI Special, John Waechter & Lee Ann Roberts

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Thank You From Impact!

John Waechter, Sales Trainer & Business Coach 
Don Zavis Sales Training
1846 E. Innovation Park Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85755
520-370-8232
jwwaechter@comcast.net

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John is a seasoned business executive, entrepreneur, and organizational consultant. With 40 years of experience with consumer and industrial manufacturing, healthcare, small business, Fortune 500 companies, and more. John’s current focus is on corporate expense mitigation, courses in sales, customer service, customer retention, interpersonal relationships, and behavioral assessments.  

John has extensive experience in the basic business disciplines of marketing, sales, operations, finance, accounting, and human resources. John holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an M.B.A. in Long Range Planning, and is also a certified Predictive Index Practitioner and a certified “Talent Optimizer.” 

John partnered with Don Zavis Sales Training in 2019 as an educator, trainer, and Business Coach. We provide clients with a large multitude of tools to help them grow their business. These include, but are not limited to, monthly face to face one on one sessions, (now mainly on ZOOM), group coaching sessions, weekly live classes for in-person attendance as well as a live stream capability, accountability partnerships, class archive access and much more. 

Lee Ann Roberts, Vice President
Dependable Personnel, Inc
700 N Country Club Ste 120
Tucson, AZ  86716
520-325-1131
info@dependablepersonnel.com
www.dependablepersonnel.com
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Lee Ann is an Arizona native with over 28 years of experience in office management, including Human Resources and full-charge bookkeeping.  Most of my experience was in the construction industry. However, I spent several years in the medical field and trained office personnel on a construction industry accounting software.  I arrived at Dependable Personnel in 2017 with the opportunity to grow the business and become a partner.   

I am fortunate to have been able to assist the community in obtaining prosperous employment and provide small business owners with payroll and bookkeeping services, thus allowing the employers and employees to focus on what they do best. 

More About the Business

Dependable Personnel originated in 1994 to provide staffing services for the Legal community.

Our original mission was to assist the Tucson legal community in their staffing needs. Our focus has since expanded to also serving the Tucson corporate community staffing their offices with administrative employees.  We have recently extended our services to include payroll and bookkeeping services.  Dependable Personnel has remained small, specialized, locally-owned, and operated to serve the local community better.

Dependable Personnel is committed to providing personalized service to both our clients and our job seekers in making exemplary matches. We pride ourselves on thoroughly screening our prospective job seekers and ensuring that our clients’ specific requirements are met.

SHOW HOST:
Barbara McClure, Executive Director  
IMPACT of Southern Arizona 
3535 E Hawser Street 
Tucson, AZ  85739                                                    
520-825-0009 / Mobile Phone: 206-915-0919 
barbara@impactsoaz.org 
www.impactsoaz.org 
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Barbara McClure wakes up each morning passionate about going to work at a place that improves lives and inspires futures every day! She has been the Executive Director of a Tucson social service nonprofit called IMPACT of Southern Arizona, for ten years. What is it that keeps you passionate about your role Barbara? 

Barbara has been a visionary and planner with decades of experience as a small business owner and in nonprofit leadership; her innovative ideas and strategic thinking, along with a talent for bringing the community together, has helped grow IMPACT five-fold in a very short time. Her talents and interests are diverse but all center around helping people, improving the community, bolstering education, building capacity and sustainability, being vocal about the rights and conditions of others, experiencing art, nurturing all inhabitants of your garden, and enjoying life to the fullest. 

And now Barbara is about to experience another exciting chapter in her life with hosting a brand-new Radio Show Podcast here on the Tucson Business RadioX Network starting in November. 

IMPACT of Southern Arizona is a 20 – year old social service nonprofit stabilizing families and seniors, and moving people out of poverty. IMPACT’s programs are designed to stretch household budgets so earned income can be spent on necessities such as improved housing conditions, fuel to get to work, utilizes, and needed medical attention and prescriptions.  Its clients are your neighbors! People come to IMPACT because it is a welcoming place where they are always treated with dignity and respect, and where they find resources, referrals, coaching, and help to attain the skills that can move them forward into self-sufficiency. 

Barbara grew up in Pasadena CA, moved to Long Beach for college, got married and started our family then moved to Seattle area ten years later. Took our youngest son on an 11-month motorhome trip to get to Tucson – Homeschooled for 10th grade. 

We vacationed at a rustic cabin when I was growing up, where we had no phone or television; and spent all our time outside fishing, hiking, horseback riding, listening to old radio shows, playing pool, reading comic books from the local small grocer, and using our imaginations all day long. I always admired the superheroes who defended people and cities like Gotham and Metropolis, so when our three boys were born, we named them after familiar character: Colin (Bryce for an overlay of Bruce Wayne, Kent, and Parker. Our first grandchild was born last year, and as in the family tradition, named Logan, after the Wolverine. I used to always tell them they were my superheroes – and they still are today! 

Barbara loves working with numbers and has always loved math and the organization of things, so accounting seemed perfect, but I soon realized that I if I became a CPA I would have to spend many months inside doing tax returns, and that did not appeal to me as a long–term career! I have a great imagination and enjoy creating things, so thought I should find a better path that might nurture that side of my personality. I was working in the shipping industry in SoCal at the time and fell in love with import and export, so shifted my majors to Marketing and International Business. Those were wonderful fits, and I imagined graduating and moving to the largest port on the planet, in Germany; then, I met my future husband and things took a different turn. 

A little bit about how Barbara got into Nonprofit work: 

All along with my husband and I were always involved in nonprofits and community volunteer opportunities, and often said it was too bad we could not make a living doing those things we loved so much. Leadership roles in PTO, Boy Scouts, Historical Societies, Junior League, Elks, Rotary and more. Then when we moved to Tucson I looked for a local opportunity to impact my community. A Board position was about to open at IMPACT, and my local bank branch manager, Peggy Smoot, suggested I would be very passionate about getting involved in the mission work there. I worked in the Food Bank. 

There are thousands of nonprofits in Tucson. What makes IMPACT Unique is that they bring the community together to stabilize families and move people out of poverty. Our true success lies in partnering with a large number of businesses, agencies, social clubs and other nonprofits. We invest $2.5 million in the community each year, and we do it all with a lean staff of amazing professionals supported by more than 170 volunteer shifts each week! We have put great systems in place to run efficiently, effectively and with a commitment to sustainability and integrity, protecting the community’s investment in our work, striving for perfect audits, being innovative, building capacity and most importantly – treating everyone with dignity and respect. We are an award-winning nonprofit with numerous nods to incredible customer service. Our clients are your neighbors… We improve lives and inspire futures of people living in Southern AZ.  

So, IMPACT is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and you have been at the helm half that time. Share with me the things IMPACT has accomplished over the years, and the things you have planned for this celebratory year.