Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Alli Mitchell of The United Way
Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Jeanne Krueger and Thomas Kislat
The Hardy Realty Show – Ali Booker and Chris Kerr with the Rome Area Council For The Arts
Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Courtnay Griffin, the Grant and Housing Administrator for the city of Rome, and Stacey Mullis, Manager of Mercy Care
Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Sarah Long of PSI and Rocky Shaw of JBM
Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Michele Rikard of Hardy Realty and Keith Beauchamp of KB Aerial Imaging
Michele Rikard of Hardy Realty, Keith Beauchamp of KB Aerial Imaging join Pam Powers-Smith of the Rome-Floyd Chamber and Roger Manis of Rome Business Radio on the Rome-Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight.
Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Pete Lemons and Brian Richie of Plaza Transport and Larry Alford of Rome Cleaners and Service Master
Rome-Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Elaine Abercrombie of Greene’s Jewelers and Steve Dennis of Motivation Unlimited
Elaine Abercrombie:
Elaine Abercrombie is the Owner of Greene’s Jewelers, Inc. This family business located on Broad Street has been in business 70 years. Elaine serves on the Rome Floyd Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and is immediate past Chairman.
Elaine began working for Greene’s in 1984. She received her Certified Gemologist and Graduate Gemologist titles through the Gemological Institute of America. Greene’s Jewelers has been serving our community since 1948. She is a member of the fourth generation in her family of jewelers. They have always been on Broad Street and are very proud of our great Downtown. She inherited the business from her mother, Joyce Greene Manning, when she retired in 2019. It is Elanie’s plan to continue serving our community just as she, her sister Sarah Greene Brock, and their parents, George and Thelma Greene, always have! Her family has been serving your family since 1948. Their roots are in Rome and those roots run deep.
Steve Dennis:
Internationally acclaimed entrepreneur, speaker, trainer and life coach, Steve Dennis has shared the stage with such personal development masters as John Maxwell and Jack Canfield.
In 2009, Steve founded Motivation Unlimited, an organization created to inspire positive change in the lives of people – personally and professionally. He began providing mastermind groups, lunch & learns, corporate training, and speaking engagements for individuals and organizations seeking personal growth, leadership development, customer service and teamwork.
Steve is a founding member and Executive Director on The John Maxwell Team. Steve is also a graduate of Jack Canfield’s “Train the Trainer” Program, and holds a Doctorate of Biblical Studies from Ministry International Institute.
He trains and motivates with an emphasis on strengthening leaders and helping them to maximize their skills and effectiveness and identify the potential in the individual. Steve believes that in order to build businesses, you first must build people.
Steve does keynotes, workshops and trainings all over the country in various corporations, universities, government agencies, city and county schools, and community organizations. As an internatinoal speaker, Steve has spoken to audiences in Recife, Brazil and Cartagena, Columbia. Along with the John Maxwell Team, Steve has helped to train 20,000 leaders in Ascension, Paraguay.
His workshops, training, coaching and keynote speeches help leaders and organizations achieve their desired results in record time!
Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Lamante Attaud of Tendo Technologies
Lamante Attaud, Tendo Technologies.
TENDO technologies was the brain child of Founder and CEO, Lamante Attaud. In Sept 1996 he opened his first “internet” account with pipeline.com. It was a small community of mostly nerds and programmers like himself. That year, using his background in Fortran and C++ began teaching himself HTML. Using IRC chat (a predecessor to modern messaging programs), he learned quickly creating his first web page. It was a single page, with a white background and a single burgundy rectangle placed in the center. From that day until now he has loved the ever evolving world wide web.
In 2004, he stepped out in faith with the encouragement of his first client and mentor, Phillip Gaines of Hi-Tech Signs. After eliminating all obstacles the final one was the need for a client. Phillip wrote him a check that day and TENDO was off the launch pad. Lamante became active with the Rome Chamber, serving 7 years on the board. He also served on many of its committees. He has served on several non profit boards including the Community Criminal Justice Foundation, South Rome Redevelopment Association, Domestic Violence Task Force, The Adult Prom benefiting the End to Alzheimer’s Disease, among many others.
Lamante’s mission has been to help companies and organizations of any size across to globe. From the local “insurance guy” to the New York fashion event agency to a major global manufacturer, and everything in between. His passion for puzzles and programming is the fuel that keeps the TENDO engine going strong. With the assistance of his marketing gladiators, TENDO is helping you fight off the competitors, protecting your brand, and expanding your empire.
Pam Powers-Smith, Rome Floyd Chamber
The leadership of the Rome Floyd Chamber, in conjunction with the Greater Rome Existing Industries Association, has selected Pam Powers-Smith to serve as the community’s contact for existing businesses and industries in the area. The executive search was led by The Chason Group, an executive search consulting firm providing services for chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, foundations and other non-profits. Powers-Smith currently serves as president and chief executive officer of the Opelika Chamber of Commerce in Alabama. Her new title in Rome will be Director of Business and Industry Services.
A graduate of Auburn University, Powers-Smith began her career in the economic development / chamber of commerce world in 1998 as communications coordinator for the Auburn / Opelika Tourism Bureau. In 2002 she opened her own photo business in Opelika which she held ownership of until 2016. In 2011, Powers-Smith was named director of Opelika’s Main Street program which was followed by the chamber leadership role in 2016.
