Marc Bell/Tavern 53
More than just restaurant. Tavern 53 is a Destination! Offering great good, entertainment, and incredible friendly service! The best small music venue with food worthy of Paula Dean! Tavern 53’s culinary staff is specialized in fine dining, southern style dishes, and is lead by a 20+ year Soul Food Chef, that is eager to excite your pallet!
Dr. Alan Miller/Dunwoody Internal Medicine
Dunwoody Internal Medicine is a private practice member of the Emory Healthcare Network. Established in 2011, the Emory Healthcare Network joins together Emory-employed and private practice physicians in communities throughout metro Atlanta and the state, in collaboration with Emory Healthcare, into a single comprehensive care management system.
Dr. Angela Wright/Peach Blossom Dental
Peach Blossom Dental is a family dental practice located in Tucker, Georgia. They specialize in creating a relationship with their patients and making them feel like family. In their office, they focus on your dental health and all patients receive personalized dental care.
In part 1 of the Innovation discussion, hosts Ben Sawyer and Jennifer Strahan introduce the Mercy Health innovation case study (introductory video included). All great transformations have necessitated innovation. For example, Thomas Edison’s teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything.” And, he was fired from his first two jobs for being “non-productive.” Clearly his teachers and employers did not understand the process of innovation. As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”
Success is on the far side of failure. How can we avoid, like Edison’s teachers and employers, the potential of sacrificing innovative break-throughs due to productivity and/or budget constraints?
Listen in to learn…
About SOAR Vision Group
The SOAR Vision Group mission is to: Align People with Purpose to Achieve Exceptional Results. SOAR provides best practice strategy execution, business process optimization services, and a structured organizational development approach for organizations to effectively implement the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. For more information, contact SOAR Vision Group at (888) 294-3303 or visit soarvisiongroup.com.
About the Baldrige Foundation
The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is presented annually by the United States President to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence. For more information, contact the Baldrige Foundation at (202) 559-9195 or visit baldrigefoundation.org.
Welcome to the 4th episode of “Live Well”. Follow the journey of Mike and Tracy as they continue their trek to better health with the help of two experts: Health and wellness coach Stephanie Wolfe and personal trainer DeWitte Thompson.
Stephanie Wolfe/The Whole Food Health Coach
Stephanie Wolfe is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, which is the highest level of training available to health coaches and is a coveted partnership with physicians and medical practitioners. She works with clients individually or as a group through a step by step process using advanced coaching methods, offering her clients full access to resources and tools to support them throughout their health journey. As a two-time cancer survivor (now 18 years clean) she knows about body systems and the nutrition that fuels them. She calls herself a “preventionist” because it is her believe that prevention is a stronger goal than finding a cure or treatment for diseases that are robbing us from our health and happiness.
DeWitte Thompson/Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants
DeWitte Thompson is a certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and owner of Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. DeWitte has been involved in the health and fitness industry for over 12 years working with sports teams, corporate groups, and individuals helping them to achieve their health and fitness goals. He started Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. four years ago when he realized the need for personalized and convenient training that gets results.
Jennifer Sherer/Georgia State University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) at Georgia State University develops leaders who possess the knowledge, skills and confidence to develop, scale and deliver products, services and solutions for the benefit of themselves, their communities and global society. The Institute brings real-world concepts and experiences to those passionate about creating their own businesses and social ventures, working for a startup or bringing entrepreneurial skills to an existing organization. Through experiential coursework and a variety of co-curricular activities, students from all backgrounds learn how to address problems with creative solutions and confidently apply innovative approaches to their work regardless of their field of study.
Christy Tyldesley/CoZzzy Comfy
Founder Christy Tyldesley started the company in 2008. CoZzzy Comfy is a full-service fundraising management organization that provides support and logistics for groups large and small. As a mother of three adopted children, the organization was especially focused on families and children involved in adoption and foster care. Over the past 10 years, the business has evolved, resulting in their groups raising over ONE MILLION dollars for schools, athletic organizations and various groups. As experts in this industry, CoZzzy Comfy is poised to continue to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.
Lyn & Bob Turknett/Turknett Leadership Group
Turknett Leadership Group‘s expertise is Leadership. They are Atlanta’s premiere resource for Executive Coaching, Leadership Talent Assessment, Executive Team Development, Cultural Assessment, Executive Selection, and more. Through an approach grounded in science and guided by the Leadership Character Model, they help organizations hire the best people, identifying and developing high potentials, and creating an ethical culture.
TLG is a boutique consulting firm focused on providing personalized guidance and support to their clients. Their professional staff brings both depth and breadth to their clients by combining expertise in the behavioral sciences with practical business and executive management experience.
Tino Mantella/Turknett Leadership Group
Tino J. Mantella became the President and CEO of Turknett Leadership Group on October 29, 2018. TLG is one of the nations top leadership development companies, driven by its proprietary Leadership Character Model and grounded in science. TLG has supported hundreds of CEO’s and their teams over the last 32 years.
Mantella brings over 30 years of leading some of the nation’s largest and most distinguished not-for-profit including the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, the National Arthritis Foundation, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Leader, innovator and versatile are three descriptors that collectively provide a framework for Tino’s career. He has supervised a team of over 4,500 employees during his years at the Chicago YMCA Programs ranged from gang intervention to foster care to being the largest provider of SRO’s (Single Room Occupancy Housing) in the state of Illinois. The YMCA and Mantella, during his tenure, were one of the first not-for-profits ever recognized for the prestigious George Land award for Innovation. At the Arthritis Foundation, during Mantella’s tenure, the organization disseminated over $50 million dollars to help find cures for debilitating diseases. And, at TAG (Technology Association of Georgia), over the 12 years Mantella was at the helm, the organization grew from less than 500 members to over 36,000, becoming the largest organization of its kind in North America.
In January of 2017, Tino was appointed President and CEO of Tier4 Advisors. This for-profit company helps senior leaders optimize decisions around their IT expenditures. In 2018, Tier4 was recognized as an Inc. 1,000 company for the first time in its history. Tino will remain a partner at Tier4 and equity owner.
Mantella resides in John’s Creek, Georgia with his wife Deborah.
Benny StaRomana/UGA Small Business Development Center
Existing and aspiring business owners come to the UGA Small Business Development Center for professional business consulting to help them start and grow their businesses with maximum advantage. UGA SBDC provides consultants with a successful track record in entrepreneurship and/or corporate management and a Master’s degree in business. Consultants use premium database and information systems to supply facts, statistics, and analyses for intelligent strategies and decisions. UGA SBDC’s services are provided at no cost to its clients.
Christy Butler Eckoff/Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Christy Butler Eckoff is responsible for the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s comprehensive planned and major giving programs, Nonprofit Advantage Fund private placement institutional investment vehicle, asset-based giving, legal issues pertaining to charitable tax planning, funds, and agreements, and business development. Previously, Christy served as senior director of gift planning at Georgia State University. She is past-president of the Georgia Planned Giving Council, past-president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Atlanta chapter and a member of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council, North Carolina bar and the Junior League of Atlanta. Christy is a board member of AdNet (the Advancement Network for Community Foundations) and the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners. Christy graduated from Duke University, earned her J.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and LL.M. in Taxation at the University of Washington. Christy is a CFRE Certified Fundraising Executive and a CAP® Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy.
Evan M. Pearson/Hillside
Evan M. Pearson has been working with donors and raising money in Atlanta for over 20 years. He is currently the Director of Development at Hillside. His department is responsible for individual donor, foundation, and corporate engagement and solicitation, special events, volunteers, and community engagement. Evan earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, a master’s degree from Georgia State University, and a MBA from Kennesaw State University. Evan is a member of the Advisors in Philanthropy as well as a CFRE Certified Fundraising Executive and a CAP® Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy.
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About Gaslowitz Frankel:
Gaslowitz Frankel is an experienced trial practice firm specializing in all aspects of complex fiduciary litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeast. With a focus on representing individuals, companies, banks, and fiduciaries in dispute involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities law, their experienced and highly qualified litigation attorneys have tremendous credentials and a proven history of success.
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Melissa Gunderson/Morsels by Melissa
Melissa Gunderson, Chef and Owner of Morsels by Melissa, moved her company to Atlanta in 1999. She provides expertise to her clientele in the planning and implementation of corporate and private parties and events, wedding receptions, and intimate dinners with full range menu items including specialty cakes and sweets. Allow Melissa to design and fulfill all aspects of your next event.
Some of the finest caterers in New York – including Abigail Kirsch, Karen Lee, Taste and Robins Wolfe – helped to carefully train Melissa in her craft. She served as a Private Chef for Four Star Chef Works and The Pavilion Agency. She’s also been Party Chef and Event Coordinator for Bold American Food Company, and Proof of the Pudding in Atlanta, GA.
