Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 3:34 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
This week on Georgia Business 
Coaches Radio we interviewed David Cohen, “the Brand Therapist”, and founder of Equation Arts, an Atlanta consultancy specializing in brand strategy and positioning.
In 1999 David co-founded AnyDevice, a mobile middleware provider, later sold to HiddenMind Inc. He is experienced in fund-raising, business planning, market strategy, brand creation, product definition, and start-up coaching. He has led creative teams on co-branded projects with CompuServe, The Weather Channel, Erols, Bigfoot, USA.net, Polygram, and American Express.
David is known to be both a left and right brain thinker and as such brings an artist’s eye and creativity to his work. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Atlanta. His award-winning web design and user interface work has been displayed in articles in PC Magazine and Internet World and used as an example in the book Dynamic HTML Black Book for his innovative use of dynamic content.
A firm believer in the power and importance of active branding, David is often called to speak on the subjects of personal branding, trust development, and the role of branding in a world of evolving technology and social media.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 3:19 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
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week on Georgia Business Coaches Radio we interviewed Kris Cavanaugh of Shift. Kris Cavanaugh is the C.E.O. Catalyst. Her background includes over 20 years of experience training and mentoring individuals. She believes the key to a successful life begins with a person’s ability to manage their life in the same way a C.E.O. manages a company. Kris is an expert strategist with an amazing ability to pull her clients through difficult challenges to obtain the life they truly want. Her company, Shift, specializes in helping people who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed take back control of their entire life through cultivating a C.E.O. mindset so their businesses, organizations, departments, and personal lives thrive. To learn how to receive Kris’ book, “Living Your Life On Purpose – Three Powerful Steps to A Thriving Quality of Life” at no charge, go to her website at www.begintoshift.com.
If you know of a Business Coach that we should know about, please email BevAnn Bonds at Info @ B- Support Solutions.com.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 3:13 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Darcy Eikenberg
Today our guest is Darcy Eikenberg of Coach Darcy, LLC. This past year, as she has worked with people across the country, Coach Darcy Eikenberg has noticed that people are beginning to ask the following question: “In the middle of all this change, how do I make the most of what I have to offer so I can keep my job OR find a new one OR be considered for new opportunities?” Coach Darcy believes that the answer lies in knowing how to communicate your unique value in your workplace. But how do you do that?In our show today Coach Darcy shares techniques you can use to tell your story of success to the right people in the right way, and make sure you are boldly taking credit for all the great work you’ve done.
Darcy Eikenberg is an accomplished coach, consultant, facilitator and business leader, with over 20 years of experience in motivating individual, team, and organizational behavior that achieves business results.
She is the president and chief creative officer of Coach Darcy LLC, which provides practical and professional coaching, mentoring, and talent development services. The company’s work aims to help aspiring leaders “make the leap to leadership” in ways that work both for them and their organizations.Before founding Coach Darcy LLC, Darcy was a Principal, Internal Coach, and Senior Communication Consultant at Hewitt Associates, a top human resources consulting firm. She also led Hewitt’s Communication Consulting business in the Southeast United States, responsible for developing successful people and teams, helping clients create better results, and managing a healthy, growing business.
Coach Darcy’s website is: www.coachdarcy.com
If you know of a Business Coach that we should know about, please email BevAnn Bonds at Info @ B- Support Solutions.com.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 3:36 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Our guests today are Joanne Victoria, of New Directions, and Mike Laudenslayer, of Simian Wrangler. Joanne will discuss finding your business destiny and Mike will talk about the effects of today’s economy on the small to medium business, and building quality into your business.
Joanne Victoria
Joanne is a 25-year Vision and Business Coach who helps entrepreneurs and solo professionals build successful lives and businesses by helping them tell their truth. She is a vision and life coach, mentor, business consultant, speaker and writer.
She is the owner of New Directions in Silverdale, WA and is the creator of VisionEtc™, a series of programs for independent professionals, entrepreneurs, and small business owners who want to achieve more and still be true to who they really are.
Joanne is the author of 3 Books including: Lighting Your Path! How To Create the Life You Want and Vision With a Capital V - Create the Business of Your Dreams.
Vision with a Capital V™ will show you that if you focus on your inner self, you will happily reveal your highest business destiny, your own Vision with a Capital V. Once this inner certainty is practiced, you will discover how to achieve lifelong abundance and prosperity.
Mike Laudenslayer
Our approach is to build quality into the business and operating processes by taking out variability and/or non-value-added steps depending upon the symptoms. This approach minimizes errors and greatly reduces the amount of steps, time and costs. Dollars fall to the bottom line and it happens quickly.
Knowing that change is never easy, we focus on results, use appropriate tools, and just-in-time training. When variations in a process are causing problems, we use root cause analysis to produce more consistent results. When excessive time, lack of flexibility, high costs, or lack of successful process outcomes are creating undesirable results we will look to eliminate non-value added steps. At times we may create an entirely new process while in other times we eliminate redundancies and bottlenecks.
Also, if you know of a Business Coach that we should know about, please email BevAnn Bonds at Info @ B- Support Solutions.com.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 7:10 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Today’s guests are Kathy Bailey of Robust Life Coaching and Michael Roby of Michael Roby Associates.
Kathy Bailey
Kathy Bailey of Robust Life Coaching is the entrepreneur’s QuickStart Coach, helping new entrepreneurs launch their business more quickly and economically with greater ease and confidence. She’s been coaching consultants, colleagues and community members for almost two decades as part of her work in state and local government, nonprofit organizations, as university faculty, and as a community volunteer. Kathy focuses on coaching entrepreneurs because she says, “I understand the spirit and drive of the entrepreneur. I enjoy working with people who are self-starters and have that can-do attitude.”
In her recent travels around the country, Kathy has been hearing a trend from folks she meets - at conferences, in trainings, on airplanes, in taxis…. Not only is she encountering more people who are starting their own businesses, they are coming out of other professions and know very little about what it takes to run their own business. To help these new entrepreneurs, she will be offering this fall her six-part teleseminar series on “The Entrepreneur’s QuickStart Success System”. She will discuss this series and other issues related to entrepreneurship on our show.
Michael Roby
Michael Roby is a sales and marketing strategist, writer, author, sales & marketing coach and noted professional speaker. Mike serves as lead columnist for Bank Advisor Magazine, and is the author of The Ultimate Small Cap Business: Building a Financial Advisory Practice. Mike also writes for Advisor Today magazine, published by NAIFA. He shares his expertise with banks, broker/dealers, wholesaling firms, and insurance companies by helping them develop sales and marketing strategy, as well as by speaking to and for groups of financial service professionals. Mike coaches some of the most successful financial advisors in the industry, two of which are #1 in their respective broker-dealers in sales. Mike is a member of the National Speakers Association and is a two-time recipient of the Minnesota Chapter’s “Member of the Year” Award. Mike and his wife, Melanie, live in Savage, MN. They are the parents of four children and have five grandchildren. In this interview Michael will examine strategies and techniques for building win-win professional relationships and focus on how incremental changes in behavior produce expontial improvement in results.
Also, if you know of a Business Coach that we should know about, please email BevAnn Bonds at Info @ B- Support Solutions.com.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 8:13 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Today’s guest is Larry Hoffman, of Accounting and Tax Solutions (ATS). Accounting & Tax Solutions, Certified Public Accountants was established in 1991 as a Georgia CPA firm to provide accounting, tax preparation and business planning to small business owners and individuals. ATS recognizes that each client is different and has their own unique set of goals, problems and circumstances. ATS tailors services to meet the needs of each particular client. The firm provides complete tax services as well as bookkeeping, payroll, incorporation services, business and tax planning. ATS provides these services to a wide variety of small businesses in the North Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Larry Hoffman, CPA
Larry has been in public accounting since 1988 and opened his own practice in 1991. He graduated with a BA in Accounting in 1968 has been a CPA for over 30 years. Prior to being in public accounting Larry was a corporate controller in the manufacturing, printing, retail and wholesale industries. He also owns several residential rental properties and has extensive knowledge in this area. Larry specializes in new business startup and business and personal tax planning. He uses his experience to in these areas to develop financial accounting and tax strategies to help his clients achieve their goals.
The website for Larry Hoffman and ATS is www.ats-cpa.com
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 5:23 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Dr. Joan Curtis
Dr. Joan Curtis is a nationally known communications coach. She has over 20 years experience as a trainer and educator. She has taught communication skills and presentation skills to leadership groups throughout the country. She is known as an energetic speaker whose knowledge spans strategic interviewing, dealing with sticky situations, developing powerful presentations, business etiquette and networking, high performance coaching, skills for speaking with confidence, image making, conflict resolution, developing high performance teams, and facilitation skills.
Dr. Curtis’s new book: Managing Sticky Situations at Work: Communication Secrets for Success in the Workplace was released by Praeger Press and debuts her proprietary communication model: Say It Just Right.
Her landmark text book, Strategic Interviewing: Skills and Tactics for Savvy Executives, provides a communication process for interviewing called POINT. She teaches groups how to interview strategically in order to find the best candidates for their companies.
Dr. Curtis produces a monthly e-zine: The Savvy Communicator and posts regularly on the Say It Just Right blog http://www.TotalCommunicationsCoach.com/blog
Her websites are http://www.TotalCommunicationsCoach.com and http://www.managingstickysituationsatwork.com
Mike Wittenstein
Through engaging keynotes, interactive workshops and inspired consulting, Mike Wittenstein helps clients and audiences create memorable, profitable customer experiences.
Mike is known for his chameleon-like ability to align with each client’s culture and is adept at working with all levels of an organization. They rely on him to think way “outside the box” and discover breakthrough solutions that are easy to understand and implement.
For more than two decades, Mike has worked on the front line leading change and innovation initiatives for hundreds of hospitality, retail and service firms like Holiday Inn, McDonald’s, Best Buy and Conner Partners. Fluent in four languages, he skillfully translates an organization’s intent into a plan everyone can endorse. Mike’s keen observational skills and articulate feedback give clients the equivalent of a front-row seat at their own company’s experience.
Mike earned his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. As an e-Visionary at IBM, he launched the company’s first global experience design consulting practice. Mike was the cofounder and CEO of Galileo, a technology communications company nationally recognized for innovation and creativity. He is the author of the upcoming book, “Go Away! How to Stop Company Processes from Dictating Your Customer’s Experience.” Mike’s strategy studio is Storyminers, where companies find and become their story. His website is: www.mikewittenstein.com.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 9:26 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Today we spoke with Executive Coach Mariette Edwards of Star Maker Coaching and her client Kim Gay, founder and CEO of MATCH Healthcare Consulting, who talk about how Kim and Mariette work together to achieve Kim’s business objectives. They discuss how pitch strategies have landed Kim key interviews for her upcoming book on ethics, positioned her for important speaking opportunities and laid the foundation for her new business initiatives.
Mariette Edwards
Mariette Edwards is an executive coach with an insider’s perspective on how businesses make people decisions. A Fortune 500 Human Resources executive for more than twenty years in NYC and Atlanta, Mariette spent eight years in hands-on small business leadership roles before starting her coaching practice in 1996. Featured in “Make A Name For Yourself” by Robin Fisher Roffer, “Wired for Creativity” by Candace Long and “201 Best Questions To Ask On Your Interview” by John Kador, Mariette’s articles on business and career strategies have appeared in print and on line around the world. Her advice has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and on CNN. Her pod casts for Business to Business Magazine are a regular feature on their website. Co-founder of the Georgia Chapter of the International Coach Federation, Mariette is a founding member of the International Association of Coaches. For more on her programs and services, visit Mariette’s web site at www.starmakercoaching.com.
Kim Gay
Kim Gay is a healthcare industry expert with more than twenty years experience as a successful entrepreneur, business owner and supplier to the Healthcare community. Founder and CEO of MATCH Healthcare Consulting, Kim knows first-hand the issues healthcare leaders face and what their managers need to achieve a sustainable fututre. Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Department of Community Health (Medicaid) by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue in 2005, Kim is the Chair of the Care Managmeent Committee. A graduate of Georgia College and State University, Kim has taken advanced courses in healthcare strategy at the Harvard School of Public Health and business strategy at the Goizuetta Business School at Emory University. She has earned certificates in the Prosci system for Change Management and in Leadership and Ethics from the Leadership Forum of the Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Character at Kennesaw State University. Kim has also completed advanced business leadership and marketing courses at Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently working on a book on ethics in business titled “After the Fall: Resurrection After an Ethical Nosedive”.
Also, if you know of a Business Coach that we should know about, please email BevAnn Bonds at Info @ B- Support Solutions.com.
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 3:21 pm
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Bev Ann Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
As President of The Boas Group (http://www.theboasgroup.com), based in Atlanta, Georgia, Bernadette Boas is “a ball of fire” who compels businesses to excel in achieving their companies’ and their personal superior financial goals. Bernadette’s energy, passion and wealth of experience characterize her business consulting practice and approach. Her clients state that working with her is like drinking a power drink, it invigorates, inspires, and motivates you to want to achieve great success.
Powered by Focal Point International, the business coaching and development organization of world-renowned speaker, author and coach Brian Tracy, The Boas Group deploys its knowledge, expertise, tools and leadership to help clients increase productivity, outperform the competition and reach new heights of success.
Two corporate decades of driving change and delivering significant revenue increases to Fortune 1000 retailers such as Wal-Mart , Federated Department Stores, Office Depot, Sears, and others, gives her a great advantage in the both the retail industry, and her primary niche; franchise organizations.
Bernadette is a member of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Business Alliance, Atlanta Women in Business, the Buckhead Business Association and the National Association of Professional Women, and a contributing writer to IMPACT TIMES magazine. She is active with the Junior Achievement’s Fellowship Program, and speaks about “Creation of the Entrepreneur,” to groups of all sizes, at colleges and universities, United Way and Chamber of Commerce events, and association meetings.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 6:03 pm
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BevAnn Bonds and Lee Kantor host each show. BevAnn is the owner of Business Support Solutions, a virtual assistance organization for entrepreneurs. Business Support Solutions works with savvy entrepreneurs who understand the value of their time and want to leverage their talents and abilities. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows.
Today we spoke with Darcy Eikenberg of Coach Darcy, LLC. Coach Darcy discussed whether you’re in the job market or concerned that you might be soon, it’s always the right time to build your personal and professional networks. In her work with up-and-coming leaders around the country, Coach Darcy Eikenberg sees all kinds of tools and habits people are using to network, and knows what’s working–and what’s not. She’ll share ways to make networking work for you, no matter who you are, where you are, and who you already know. Join us for a fresh perspective on this classic business topic.
Darcy Eikenberg is an accomplished coach, consultant, facilitator and business leader, with over 20 years of experience in motivating individual, team, and organizational behavior that achieves business results.
She is the president and chief creative officer of Coach Darcy LLC, which provides practical and professional coaching, mentoring, and talent development services. The company’s work aims to help aspiring leaders “make the leap to leadership” in ways that work both for them and their organizations.
Before founding Coach Darcy LLC, Darcy was a Principal, Internal Coach, and Senior Communication Consultant at Hewitt Associates, a top human resources consulting firm. She also led Hewitt’s Communication Consulting business in the Southeast United States, responsible for developing successful people and teams, helping clients create better results, and managing a healthy, growing business.
Also, if you know of a Business Coach that we should know about, please email BevAnn Bonds at Info @ B- Support Solutions.com.
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