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How to better execute on your goals.

Having a Positive Mindset to Fight For Your Goals

Adiba Nelson August 10, 2020

Author, screenwriter, performer, disability rights advocate, and most recently, subject of the Emmy winning documentary, The Full Nelson. Often referred to as ‘inspirational’, Adiba Nelson wrote and self-published her first children’s book in 2013, after not being able to find a children’s book that adequately and appropriately represented her daughter (African American, with special needs). Since then she has led numerous workshops/given keynote addresses around the country for parents, educators and education professionals/paraprofessionals, focusing on disability inclusion and empowerment. Adiba has also penned several articles for Huffington Post, The Washington Post, The Lily, Ravishly, and Everyday Feminism, focusing on issues […]

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Finance

How to understand your finances better or become profitable

Navigating Through SBA Funding Options or Other Funding Sources

Ami Kassar August 10, 2020

Ami Kassar, author of The Growth Dilemma, speaks nationally to entrepreneurs and business owners who desire money to grow their companies, improve cash flow and/or restructure debt. Ami is the founder and chief executive officer of Multifunding LLC, a Philadelphia based consulting firm that specializes in helping business owners across the United States develop creative, cost-saving alternatives for their business debt needs and structure. Thought-provoking, interactive and timely, Ami’s presentations address real-world cash flow problems entrepreneurs face on a daily basis. For over twenty years he has challenged people to think differently about their businesses and educated them on how […]

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Leadership

How to become better leaders in your company.

How to be a Responsible Leader Within Your Company

Dennis McIntee August 10, 2020

Dennis McIntee, a gifted keynote speaker and author, travels across the US speaking at leadership summits, management training events and healthcare conferences. So many people already know Dennis as “The Drama Free Guy.” This is because Dennis understands that if you eliminate unhealthy drama in the workplace, your teams will thrive and succeed. In addition to being a keynote speaker, he is also a leadership consultant passionate about helping leaders create high-trust, high-performance cultures. Dennis is also the author of The 8 Qualities of Drama Free Teams, The Power of Pursuit, Drama Free Teams in Healthcare, Drama Free Productivity, Drama Free Relationships. He […]

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Landscape

General landscape knowledge and principles.

Lean on the Experts Around You When You have a Weakness

Pam Dooley August 10, 2020

Pam, who grew up as an athlete and plant lover, earned the nickname “Plants” from her teammates during her collegiate volleyball years. She began working in the green industry at the age of 15, spending summers alongside her grandfather at the local nursery/garden center. When the Olympics came to Atlanta in 1996, she helped install and provide ongoing maintenance at the athlete’s welcome center, allowing her the opportunity to meet elite athletes that she grew up watching and caring for landscapes. Pam’s passion for the industry led her to a nursery management position in South Carolina for seven years and […]

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Landscape

General landscape knowledge and principles.

Look out for the Young, Emerging Leaders entering the Industry

Zech Strauser August 10, 2020

As SNH’s ‘chief inspiration officer’, Zech Strauser never runs out of ideas or passion for finding ways to do things better. Whether it’s focusing on company skills and capability development, continuous improvement in risk management, snow and ice technologies, or leadership in environmental sustainability, Zech inspires a thriving worplace that’s always looking for new ways to learn. Because Zech believes in inspiring from the top down but leading from the bottom up, employee engagement runs high, with an empowered organization that walks the talk on being a happy place to work, with work that is rigorously grounded in the betterment […]

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Work/Life balance

Strengthening habits and creating a calm enviroment are key to success

Jamie & Katty Douraghy June 8, 2020

Katty and Jamie celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary recently with a renewal of their vows. They are both entrepreneurs, and members of EO as well as forum facilitators who work together and independently to bring a variety of content to forums, teams, and groups. Jamie is a certified Strengthsfinder, Discover your Why and C-IQ coach. Katty is a certified EO Forum facilitator. They have held workshops and retreats for couples, and entrepreneurs in the US as well as Internationally in Latin America and India. During the interview Katty and Jamie talk about their wonderful marriage, what they do to […]

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Business Execution

How to better execute on your goals.

How to have a Winner’s Mindset in Business

Bruce Wilson June 1, 2020

Renown landscape industry executive and CEO peer group entrepreneur Bruce Wilson tells us that there isn’t a silver bullet that will fix what the pandemic broke and explains the simple difference between managing a crisis event and a crisis lifecycle. “The truth is, it will be over. If we spend too much time dwelling on the uncertainty and not enough time planning for when the light turns green, we’ll squander our opportunity to emerge better, faster and stronger in an economy that’s going to welcome fresh thinking.” An inspiration for generations of landscape entrepreneurs, Bruce takes listeners through his process […]

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Sales

How to increase revenue in your company.

“Hard re-set” with Rich Mulholland

Rich Mulholland May 15, 2020

What do you do when you lose 100% of your revenue overnight?