Justin’s guest is Tom Foley with Lenovo Health. The two discuss our Health Innovation Think Tank (#HIThinkTank) and key best practices from our Value-based Care, Connected Health and Virtual Care collaborations.
Hosted by Adam Wozniak and Darren Parkinson
Whitney Turner, Founder of eXcelerate, is an experienced Fortune 500 Analyst, having worked for some of the top Fortune companies in Atlanta, GA. She has utilized her MBA education, advanced Microsoft Excel background, and sharp data analysis skills to help Fortune 500 companies increase their bottom line, increase operational efficiencies, and streamline processes. Whitney started eXcelerate to help bridge the gap between textbook and on the job training.
UHY Advisors, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest professional services firms in the U.S., delivering financial, tax and business consulting services to companies ranging from mid-sized to the Fortune 500. The firm’s innovative Management & Technology Consulting practice provides a one-stop solution for a company’s financial and operational functions, with a full suite of services to transform a company’s performance and profitability.
Christopher Bean is Senior Manager, Management and Technology Consulting at UHY Advisors. Connect with Christopher on LinkedIn.
Dave King is Senior Manager within UHY’s Technology and Risk Management consulting practice. He has over 15 years of experience in governance, risk, and compliance management. He is responsible for advising business and technology executives on Cybersecurity, PCI Compliance, and technology risk management initiatives. Connect with Dave on LinkedIn.
Michael Heilman is Senior Manager at UHY Advisors. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn.
Prolific author and nationally recognized, award-winning blogger, Matt Heinz is President and Founder of Heinz Marketing with 20 years of marketing, business development and sales experience from a variety of organizations and industries. He is a dynamic speaker, memorable not only for his keen insight and humor, but his actionable and motivating takeaways. Matt’s career focuses on consistently delivering measurable results with greater sales, revenue growth, product success and customer loyalty. He has helped organizations such as Amazon, Seagate, Morgan Stanley, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and many others create predictable, repeatable sales & marketing engines to fuel growth. Matt is a repeat winner of Top 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management and Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers. Matt is living through the renovation of a 105 year old historic farmhouse in Kirkland, Washington with his wife, Beth, three young children, dog, two rabbits, and seven chickens. You can read more from Matt on his blog, follow him on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, or check out his books on Amazon.
The work of Women in Technology has an incredible impact.
Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT COMMUNITY, WIT Also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM.
Tamika Curry Smith is the Head of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) at Mercedes-Benz USA, where she is responsible for the formulation and implementation of the company’s diversity and inclusion strategy.In this role, Tamika’sworkson aligningMercedes-Benz’s internal and external D&I initiatives, with a focus on connecting the company to its employees, customers, dealers, and communityandleveraging D&I to drive business outcomes.
Prior to her role at Mercedes-Benz, Tamika was President of The TCS Group, Inc., a firm that provides human resources and diversity and inclusion (D&I) solutionsto a broad range of clients in a variety of industries.
Tamika started her career with Deloitte & Touche, where she obtained her CPA license and performed accounting and auditing services. She then joined Deloitte Consulting, where she gained experience in both general management and retail consulting on client engagements focused on strategy, operations, supply chain, and process improvement.
Tamika then took on the role of Director of Diversity Programs for Deloitte Consulting, where her responsibilities included leading the design and execution of Deloitte’s diversity strategy in the Americas and coordinating initiatives with senior management.
After Deloitte, Tamika became the Director of Diversity at Target Cororation, where she was responsible for developing and driving the diversity strategy for Target’s corporate headquarters, stores, and distribution centers and leading the organization’s focus on diversity recruitment, retention, awareness, communication, and measurement.
Ms. Curry Smith earned a BBA in Accounting with High Distinction from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. She also obtained an MBA in Organizational Behavior, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship from the Kellogg School of Management.
Tamika has shared her expertise as a speaker and facilitator for many organizations, such as the Conference Board, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Natural Science Foundation, and the Georgia Diversity Council. In addition, Ms. Curry Smith has been quoted in numerous publications, including the New York Times Magazine, DiversityInc, and Adweek.
Tamika has received various awards, among them AZ Business Magazine’s 50 Most Influential Women in Arizona Business, Phoenix Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, the Peak Achievement Award from INROADS, and the Chairman’s Award from the National Black MBA Association. Ms. Curry Smith is an Aspen Institute Leadership Program alumna, a YMCA racial justice facilitator, a career coach for The Posse Foundation, and a lifetime member of the National Black MBA Association. She currently serves on the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Alumni Board of Governors and on the Board of Directors of Grand Canyon Bank (Proposed). She is also a former member of the Board of Directors of Teach for America – Kansas City. Connect with Tamika on LinkedIn.
Pat Hurston is WIT’s Resource Development Director. Connect with Pat on LinkedIn and with WIT on Twitter.
Jennifer Dobbs Hill, the Executive Director of ArtsBridge Foundation has a multi-faceted background, due to her belief that one should learn as much as possible and not become stagnant and siloed. She has lots of experience in higher education, nonprofits and fundraising and is extremely interested in nonprofit management, foundation programming and grant-making, and politics. She values being involved in the community, from grassroots level to top leadership and, from conversations with others to professional training to educational courses, pursues every opportunity to learn.
The mission of ArtsBridge Foundation is to educate, inspire and motivate Georgia’s K-12 youth through the arts. ArtsBridge Foundation, the education outreach arm of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, is charged with securing financial resources for ArtsBridge, the Foundation’s education and community engagement programs. ArtsBridge provides quality arts education and community engagement programming, designed to inspire creativity and foster the next generation of artists and arts supporters. Since its inception in 2007, ArtsBridge has served over 300,000 students and educators from 57 Georgia counties, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and South Carolina. ArtsBridge programs include Field Trips to the Cobb Energy Centre for performances by leading local and national arts organizations, The Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards – Shuler Hensley Awards, Master Classes, Educational Arts Experiences, Artists-In-Schools and more.
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Friday, October 6, 2017
Live2Lead, a half-day leadership, and personal growth event hosted locally and simulcast from Atlanta, GA on October 6, 2017. This event is an annual leadership gathering developed by The John Maxwell Company. For almost a decade, Live2Lead has shared leadership and personal growth principles to a live audience and over 300 simulcast locations around the world.
Attendees learn from renowned leadership experts from a variety of industries, gain a new perspective on relevant topics, and get practical tools to take home with them.
We guarantee you will leave equipped and excited to lead and create change with renewed passion and drive.
Come and experience this 3.5 hour simulcast of world class speakers followed with an enjoyable interactive afternoon session. This day will impact your organization and family as well as your influence in the community as you network and grow with the top leaders in Northwest Florida.
John Maxwell Leadership Game is a comprehensive game based on the teachings of John C. Maxwell. The game helps organizations improve their leadership intelligence and increase their effectiveness. Why? “Because everything rises and falls on leadership,” says Maxwell. “These leadership principles carry consequences with them. I’ve seen them at work in more than ninety countries around the world. Apply the laws in your organization and people will follow you. Violate or ignore them, and you will not be able to lead others. But there’s good news: every one of the laws can be learned.” How? Play the game with 6 – 12 of your most influential leaders and find out!
Leadership Game is a fun, yet challenging experience designed to help you and your team better understand core leadership principles and values. Through this game, you will be able to raise the leadership awareness of your team and introduce the timeless leadership principles that will bring about positive change through communication and connection.
Daniel Jonathan Valik, CEO of Hanako Consulting LLC, is an industry expert in Cloud Services, Platform as a Service, Unified Communications and Collaborations technologies. He also has a profound know-how and expertise in other areas like IOT, DevOps, Automation and Software Pipeline management solutions, Micro-services, Containerization, Virtualization, Cloud Native Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Hosted PBX and Cloud Telephony, WebRTC, Unified Messaging, Contact Center Solutions and Communications Enabled Business Process design.
Daniel has worked in several different disciplines like Product Marketing, Product Management, Program Management, Evangelist and Strategy Adviser in the industry and has lived and worked in different regions like Europe, South East Asia and the United States. He has a double master degree in Change- and Strategic Management and is an author of several technical and business related books about Cloud Services, Unified Communications, DevOps, Cloud Services and migration, AI and Game Development. Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Hosted by Adam Wozniak and Darren Parkinson
Dr. Elizabeth M. Boyd is an Assistant Professor of Management at Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University where she serves as the Research Director for the College’s Women’s Leadership Center. She has over 10 years of experience as a researcher, consultant and professor in the area of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Her work spans the topics of gender and diversity in organizations and the challenges people face when attempting to balance multiple life roles and goals. Her recent work explores the so-called ͞leaky pipeline within medicine, law and academia and how factors such as unconscious bias and work-family conflict may impact the underrepresentation of women and other occupational minorities within the workplace.
She is experienced at both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and survey construction and validation. Dr. Boyd has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels and has supervised dozens of graduate students. She has published many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior. Her work has been covered by a number of news outlets including Parents Magazine, FastCompany and US News. She has discussed work-life issues on radio and television programs and has presented her work at dozens of professional conferences, both national and international. Her professional consulting work has included the development and implementation of surveys of thousands of employees around the world, the development of training programs and employee manuals/policies, assisting with employee selection and placement issues, and the implementation of organizational development initiatives.
Dr. Boyd received her MA and PhD from Michigan State University in Organizational Psychology. She also received a special certification in College Teaching from Michigan State University. Connect with her on her website.
