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COACH the COACH: Hasani X with Lead Your Story

March 23, 2019 by angishields

Coach The Coach

COACH the COACH: Hasani X with Lead Your Story

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Hasani X started on the streets of Oakland California to becoming a first-generation college graduate earning an Ivy League degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He went on to found 4E Consulting, helping to grow hundreds of small to mid-sized businesses. After exiting 4e Consulting, Hasani shifted gears from developing businesses to building people as a performance consultant and leadership coach.

He is now CEO of Lead Your Story, a company that uses the power of STORY to build strong culture and brands. A father of three, dedicated husband, and modern stoic.

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COACH the COACH: Sheryl Hardin with Business Solutions Consulting

March 21, 2019 by angishields

Coach The Coach

COACH the COACH: Sheryl Hardin with Business Solutions Consulting

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Sheryl Hardin, a Consultant at Business Solutions Consulting is a passionate Organizational Change Management (OCM) professional who enjoys assisting companies as they create a business strategy, manage change, prepare for rapid growth, manage strategic projects, and improve processes. Sheryl consults with companies of all sizes who use change opportunities such as mergers, acquisitions, rapid growth, and strategic realignment to improve efficiency and effectiveness. She works with her clients to help grow revenue and reduce costs. Her experience spans a number of industries such as mortgage services, manufacturing, distribution, health care, military services, telecommunications, public transportation, transportation, and software development.

She can often be found speaking and consulting as a seminar leader, adjunct faculty instructor, and business advisor. She supports programs like the Goldman Sachs grant-funded initiative,10,000 Small Businesses (10ksb) designed by Babson College and the Institute for the Economic Empowerment of Women program Peace Through Business designed by Terry Neece.

Sheryl uses carefully planned operational analysis and process improvement strategies that inspire operational best practices. Her experience includes organization impacting activities like those listed below:

Consulted with PnewSoft startup to become the premier fire inspection software in the nation
Launched Dallas 10,000 Small Business DCCCD alumni program while serving as Operations and Process adjunct faculty
Served as mentor for Peace through Business boot camps
Developed manual and facilitation tools for Rockwell (TQM) Total -Quality Management program
Developed Technical Writer coursework for DCCCD at Richland in order to train students to write procedures
Worked with Hewlett Packard to integrate recently purchased small company and to reduce translation costs
Consulted with several businesses as they grew through acquisition
Appointed as an Advisory Board Member for Enactus of UTD
Received Francois Coty award 2017 (Global PMI Team)

Sheryl focuses on quelling the chaos that comes from infrastructures that are not properly sized to support an organization and operations that do not support best practices. Her special skill is finding the pieces of the puzzle that support rapid change and provide data-driven reporting. Her goal is to serve on Advisory Boards for small to midsized companies looking to increase revenue and reduce costs through operational best practices, carefully managed change, and constant process improvement.

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Customer Experience Radio Welcomes: Mark Michelson with CX Talks and Frank Capek with Customer Innovations

March 21, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Customer Experience Radio Welcomes: Mark Michelson with CX Talks and Frank Capek with Customer Innovations

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Aren’t we all really in the customer experience business? During the 20+ years in residential real estate and corporate relocation, the #1 cornerstone of Jill’s business has always been the experience she and her team delivers. Little did she know that this strategy that would become a leading best practice for the world’s greatest businesses to survive in the future. This inspired Jill to interview big business as well as top CX professionals who are leveraging strategies to deliver a superior customer experience, and to share their stories with the business community at large. Join Jill every third Wednesday at 10AM at CXRadio.online.

Mark Michelson has over 30 years’ experience as a marketing researcher. Mark is an expert with all forms of quantitative and qualitative research with extensive experience in designing and conducting studies that explore behavior, emotions and sentiment related to customer and user experience. With training based on classic anthropology, sociology and psychology, Mark is adept at observing people and getting them to share their stories and unique points of view whether in focus groups or in-depth interviews, in person or online.

Mark has extensive experience conducting qualitative research around the globe to help design customer experiences, products, packaging and communications for some of the worlds’ most respected brands including Walmart Stores, Sears, Target, General Motors, Ford, Goodyear, Michelin, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Microsoft, American Cancer Society, GSK, Eli Lilly, Coca-Cola, Wrigley and more.

Mark is the co-founder and executive director of the highly acclaimed CX Talks conference series and founder of three industry trade associations including the Mystery Shopping Provider’s Association (MSPA), the Mobile Marketing Research Association (MMRA) and the Social Media Research Association (SMRA). Mark also served over a decade on the board of directors of the Qualitative Research Consultant’s Association (QRCA). Mark is a frequent speaker at conferences, trade shows and universities around the globe. In his spare time, Mark enjoys songwriting and performing in various bands around the Atlanta area.

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Frank Capek is the founder and CEO of Customer Innovations, Inc. His work on CX started 35 years ago with research focused on the integration of design and cognitive science at MIT. Frank started the first CX Transformation practice 25 years ago as part of the consulting firm that developed the concept of Business Reengineering. Since then he’s worked on CX transformation projects with over a hundred organizations in virtually every industry.

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About Your Host

Jill Heineck is a leading authority on corporate relocations, and is highly sought after for her real estate industry acumen and business insights. As a published author, frequent panelist and keynote speaker, Jill shares her experience and perceptions with people from around the globe.

Jill is a founding partner of Keller Williams Southeast, established in 1999, and the founder and managing partner of Heineck & Co. Her real estate practice specializes in corporate relocations, individual relocations, luxury residential, and commercial properties. Jill’s analytical approach to problem-solving, along with her expert negotiation skills and sophisticated marketing, deliver superior results to her clients. Her winning strategies and tenacious client advocacy have earned her a reputation for excellence among Atlanta’s top producers.

While Jill has received many accolades throughout her career, she is most gratified by the personal testimonials and referrals she receives from her clients. Jill’s unwavering commitment to the customer experience, and her focus on the unique needs of each client, serve as the foundation of her success.

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Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 59

March 20, 2019 by angishields

Supply Chain Now

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 59

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Supply Chain Now Radio, Episode 59
“Disruption, Plastics Manufacturing and Risk Mitigation”
Live broadcast from the offices of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
Learn more here: https://www.agg.com/

Jeff Frankish serves as Managing Director for KRAIBURG TPE Corporation (USA). As Managing Director, Jeff has been responsible for KRAIBURG TPE’s North American division and business operations since January, 2008. After earning his college degree in Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, OH, Frankish began his career in plastics in the early-1980’s working for one of the major US chemical companies progressing through positions in sales, financial planning, product management and commercial development.

His first involvement with the TPE industry began in the early-1990’s when he accepted a business development position with a joint venture company which was spun off from the parent chemical company. Frankish subsequently hired on with one of the major North American plastics compounders in 1997 where he advanced through several different commercial management roles, ultimately to the position of commercial director for engineered compounds just prior to his joining KRAIBURG TPE in August, 2007.

With over 35 years of professional experience in the plastics industry, Frankish brings a diverse business background into his management role. Based out of KRAIBURG TPE’s regional headquarters in Buford, GA, he now manages a cross-functional staff of over 80 employees with the responsibility of expanding KRAIBURG’s business throughout the Americas as well as providing critical support to many of the largest OEM customers on a global basis. Connect with Jeff Frankish on LinkedIn and learn more about KRAIBURG TPE here: https://www.kraiburg-tpe.com/

Jeffrey “Jeff” Y. Lewis is a partner in the Business Litigation Practice at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP. Mr. Lewis practices in both state and federal courts, doing both trial and appellate work. He practices dispute resolution for large and small companies and individuals, both in the United States and abroad, in widely diverse industries.

Mr. Lewis focuses his practice on all manner of business disputes, the subject matters of which range from a breach of contract for renovation of a chemical storage tank, breach of contract for hospital linen services, indemnity claims on shipping contracts, real estate disputes, assisting a foreign manufacturer in a product recall with the U.S.  Consumer Product Safety Commission, representing a franchisor in disputes over franchise and guaranty agreements in the fast food industry, trade secrets for proprietary yeast strains in the ethanol industry, pharmaceuticals license agreements, defense of manufacturers in product liability cases, defective construction products, beer distribution rights, and representing a foreign manufacturer of equipment for the cable television industry. Other matters include a claim against a client’s health insurance provider over reimbursement obligations, inter-generational estate litigation over a will in Georgia, a defamation and tortious interference claim arising out of the World Trade Center disaster on Sept. 11, 2001, and numerous restrictive employment covenants.

In addition, he has represented a company accused of negligent inspection in wrongful death/personal injury cases arising out of an explosion and fire at a sugar refinery. Mr. Lewis has litigated cases and handled mediations and arbitrations in areas including healthcare, biosciences, pharma, logistics, building materials, business defamation and tortious interference, class action defense, commercial paper, computer hardware sales, computer software licensing, construction disputes, estate litigation, family business, false labeling, fast foods, global commerce, insurance coverage claims, labor and employment and non-competition agreements, letters of credit, secured transactions, trade secrets / computer theft and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Mr. Lewis was also a professional actor from 1985 to 1992. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and served on the Board of Directors for the Southeast Playwrights’ Project and the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Lewis has performed in the “A Courthouse Line” charitable productions of the Atlanta Bar Foundation. Mr. Lewis also served on the Vincent J. Dooley Library Endowment Fund Committee at the University of Georgia and participated in Leadership Georgia. He is a panelist on the “Neil ‘Hondo’ Williamson and The Georgia Bulldog Allstars” radio program. He is a member of the Alumni Board of the Westminster Schools, and is an elder and Sunday school teacher at First Presbyterian Church. He has also participated in the Liberty Fund, and in YMCA Indian Guides/Princesses, and as a football coach for the Northside Youth Organization. Connect with Jeff Lewis on LinkedIn and learn more about Jeff & AGG here: https://www.agg.com/Jeffrey-Lewis/

Will Haraway is Founder & Lead Evangelist at Backbeat Marketing. Will has 20 years of executive experience in B2B Technology Marketing. Will is a certified analyst relations practitioner by the Knowledge Capital Group and has helped companies including Manhattan Associates, Aptos, Atlantix Global Systems, American Software and Rubicon Global improve their brand reputations with marketing results that help increase sales. Will also serves as a member of the APICS Atlanta Executive Advisory Board.The Backbeat team includes lead generation, digital marketing, media relations and content marketing specialists with a combined 50 years of experience in their chosen disciplines. Connect with Will on LinkedIn and learn more about Backbeat Marketing here: www.backbeatmarketing.com

Scott W. Luton is the founder of Supply Chain Now Radio and also serves as Managing Partner for TalentStream. He has worked extensively in the end-to-end Supply Chain industry for more than 15 years, appearing in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Dice and Quality Progress Magazine. Scott currently serves as Executive Vice President of APICS Atlanta, was recently named a 2019 Pro to Know in Supply Chain by Supply & Demand Executive. He served on the 2018 Georgia Logistics Summit Executive Committee and currently serves as Chair of the 2019 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards Planning Committee. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and holds the APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) credential.

As a Veteran of the United States Air Force, Scott also volunteers on the Business Pillar for VETLANTA, and maintains active membership in the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance & CSCMP Atlanta Roundtable. Connect with Scott Luton on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter at @ScottWLuton. Learn more about TalentStream, a leading recruiting & staffing firm that helps companies find top talent in the Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain space, by visiting their website here: www.talentstreamstaffing.com

Upcoming Events & Resources Mentioned in this Episode
Partnership Gwinnett Movers & Makers Awards: https://www.partnershipgwinnett.com/movers-and-makers-awards/
eCommerce Operations Summit: https://www.operationssummit.com/
MRO Americas: https://mroamericas.aviationweek.com/en/home.html
Velocity 2019 Conference: https://velocity-conference.com/
AME Atlanta 2019 Lean Summit: https://www.ame.org/ame-atlanta-2019-lean-summit
EFT 3PL & Supply Chain Summit: click here
Resilience 360: https://www.resilience360.dhl.com/resilienceinsights/
Georgia Manufacturing Alliance: https://www.georgiamanufacturingalliance.com/

COACH the COACH: Tamara Parisio with Parisio and Co, LLC

March 20, 2019 by angishields

Coach The Coach

COACH the COACH: Tamara Parisio with Parisio and Co, LLC

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An award-winning advertising and marketing professional, Tamara Parisio is your fractional CMO. She will direct you in the leading role of your success. Tamara believes that the most important story you tell is the story you tell yourself. To create the most predictable outcome, Tamara assists emerging leaders and executives to take charge of the business of life with a Playbook of award-worthy actions for an award-worthy performance.

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Cassie Fields with FieldEdge, Dave Segur with GreenSky and Ashley Velez with Atlanta SEO Pro

March 19, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Cassie Fields with FieldEdge, Dave Segur with GreenSky and Ashley Velez with Atlanta SEO Pro

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Cassie Fields is currently the Vice President of Sales and Business Development at FieldEdge. Fields has been an instrumental part of the FieldEdge team since she joined in 2017, growing the sales headquarter in Atlanta to what it is today and leading her team to consistent double-digit bookings growth year after year. For her numerous achievements, Fields was recognized in 2018 as a Silver Stevie Award winner for Sales Director of the Year.

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Dave Segur is National Sales Manager at GreenSky. He has 27 years experience of successfully offering home improvement financing solutions to contractors, resulting in millions of dollars in funded loans annually.

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Ashley Velez is Co-Founder and Managing Director at Atlanta SEO Pro, a full-service digital marketing agency that helps companies build better digital experiences for their customers. Ashley’s multi-disciplined experience spans social media/digital marketing, SEO, online branding, content development, and analytics. She loves people, and loves building a community, both within an organization and beyond.

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CEO Exclusive: Dunbar’s Principle

March 19, 2019 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

CEO Exclusive: Dunbar's Principle

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One person can have a limited number of relationships. This idea is articulated by Dunbar’s principle, based on research by an anthropologist who studied the brains of primates. In this week’s CEO Exclusive, we discuss the implications for building a corporate culture.

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 58

March 18, 2019 by angishields

Supply Chain Now

Supply Chain Now Radio Episode 58

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Supply Chain Now Radio, Episode 58
“Continuous Improvement & Digital Innovation in Manufacturing”

Larry E. Fast serves as Director for the Southeast Region of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. He is also owner of the consulting firm Pathways to Manufacturing Excellence, LLC. Larry is a 35-year veteran of the wire & cable industry, with 25 of those years at Belden and 10 at General Cable. As Belden’s Vice President of Manufacturing, he led a transformation of plants in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1997, Larry joined General Cable Corporation (GCC), one of the world’s largest wire and cable companies.

As Senior Vice President of Operations, he launched a manufacturing excellence strategy in 1999 that became an enterprise-wide priority in 2001. Since the launch of this initiative at GCC, there have been 34 Industry Week “Best Plants Finalists” including 12 “Best Plants in North America” winners since 2001. Larry retired in 2007, where he’s been consulting with companies ever since. His book, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence – A Lean Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, 2nd Edition was released in September 2015 by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. The original book, a bestseller, was published in October 2011.

Larry is a long-time member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) and has served on university advisory boards including IUPUI-Richmond; the School of Applied Sciences, Miami University; and the Industry Advisory Board of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute, University of Michigan. He became a judge for Industry Week (IW) magazine’s “Best Plants in North America” competition in 2009. Since 2013, Larry writes a monthly column for the IW online magazine under the byline of “Ask the Expert: Lean Leadership & Continuous Improvement”.

Born in Winchester, IN, Larry served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force for three years of active duty and three years in the reserves. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management and Administration from Indiana University and is a graduate of Earlham College’s Institute for Executive Growth. Larry also successfully completed the thirteen week “Program for Management Development” at the Harvard University School of Business. Connect with Larry E. Fast on LinkedIn and learn more about the Association for Manufacturing excellence here: https://www.ame.org/

Blaine Mellor has spent most of the last 30 years working in Supply Chain with the last 25 working in CPG. He currently leads Clorox’s Digital Supply Chain transformation effort as their Director of Digital Supply Network. Past assignments with Clorox have includes positions in Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Planning and Business Unit Leadership. Blaine led the expansion of Clorox’s manufacturing footprint in the Atlanta area with the creation of a Laundry and Homecare products Hub. He has also been involved in other large scale product innovations on the Glad® and Brita® businesses.

Originally from the West Coast Blaine now resides with his family in the Metro Atlanta area and enjoys all things outdoors. Connect with Blaine Mellor on LinkedIn and learn more about The Clorox Company here: https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/

Will also serves as a member of the APICS Atlanta Executive Advisory Board and serves as co-host of the popular #SupplyChainCity series on Supply Chain Now Radio. The Backbeat team includes lead generation, digital marketing, media relations and content marketing specialists with a combined 50 years of experience in their chosen disciplines. Connect with Will on LinkedIn and learn more about Backbeat Marketing here: www.backbeatmarketing.com

Ben Harris is Director of Supply Chain Ecosystem Expansion for the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Ben comes to the Metro Atlanta Chamber after serving as Senior Manager, Market Development for Manhattan Associates. There, Ben was responsible for developing Manhattan’s sales pipeline and overall Americas supply chain marketing strategy. Ben oversaw market positioning, messaging and campaign execution to build awareness and drive new pipeline growth.

Prior to joining Manhattan, Ben spent four years with the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Center of Innovation for Logistics where he played a key role in establishing the Center as a go-to industry resource for information, support, partnership building, and investment development. Additionally, he became a key SME for all logistics and supply chain-focused projects.

Ben began his career at Page International, Inc. where he drove continuous improvement in complex global supply chain operations for a wide variety of businesses and Fortune 500 companies. An APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Ben holds an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration (EMBA) and bachelor’s degree in International Business (BBA) from the Terry College at the University of Georgia. Connect with Ben on LinkedIn and learn more about the Metro Atlanta Chamber here: www.metroatlantachamber.com

Scott currently serves as Executive Vice President of APICS Atlanta, and was recently named a 2019 Pro to Know in Supply Chain by Supply & Demand Executive. He served on the 2018 Georgia Logistics Summit Executive Committee and currently serves as Chair of the 2019 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards Planning Committee. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and holds the APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) credential.

As a Veteran of the United States Air Force, Scott also volunteers on the Business Pillar for VETLANTA, and maintains active membership in the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance & CSCMP Atlanta Roundtable. Connect with Scott Luton on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter at @ScottWLuton. He can also be reached by email. Learn more about TalentStream, a leading recruiting & staffing firm that helps companies find top talent in the Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain space, by visiting their website here: www.talentstreamstaffing.com

Upcoming Events & Resources Mentioned in this Episode
2019 Atlanta Supply Chain Awards: www.AtlantaSupplyChainAwards.com
eCommerce Operations Summit: https://www.operationssummit.com/
MRO Americas: https://mroamericas.aviationweek.com/en/home.html
Velocity 2019 Conference: https://velocity-conference.com/
AME Atlanta 2019 Lean Summit: https://www.ame.org/ame-atlanta-2019-lean-summit
EFT 3PL & Supply Chain Summit: click here
Lynette Mathew’s webinar on Job Search & Resume Best Practices: click here

Trusted Advisor Radio Episode 3

March 15, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Trusted Advisor Radio Episode 3

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Kiné Corder is a hypnotherapist, Financial Therapist, International Speaker, and the CEO of Presidential Lifestyle, a wellness company focused on wealth in all of it’s forms; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The mission at Presidential Lifestyle is to relieve the pain in the world by relieving the stress. They help stressed out employees and business owners reach their wealth goals without sacrificing their wellness and their relationships. They do this using a library of resources called Prosperity Club.

Using virtual courses and coaching Prosperity Club gives members the tools to stop comparing and start repair their mindset, their money, their relationships, and their lives. Members report feeling more confident personally, financially, and romantically.

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About Your Host

Christopher Seabrook is the host of Trusted Advisor Radio and serves as a Financial Representative at Country Financial. He prides himself on working hard to provide the best possible service to his clients. Being able to help people is a central part of his life, and is happy to be of service to his clients and community.

Christopher also enjoys meeting new people and building one-on-one relationships. Open and honest discussions are an easy way for him to connect with clients and ultimately help them secure their financial security goals.

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