Business Leaders Podcast
197 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsListen, learn and accelerate your success by listening to Colorado’s top entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Each episode uncovers the intricate story of business success, what was done, challenges overcome, and specific steps you can implement to take action now. Featuring business leaders and experts from Colorado. Business Leaders Podcast is designed to function as your digital mentor so you can build the business you want so you can live the life you dream about. This is not just another business podcast, it features business leaders from your community that operate, overcome, and succeed in Colorado.
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Steve Urban Founder CEO of Riderflex, Recruiting, Process, Success and Video Interviews
February 19, 2018 13:30 - 47 minutes - 109 MBWhen it comes to decision-making, RiderFlex Recruiting Firm takes it beyond apps and algorithms – and meets candidates in person. Is the Denver-based company’s model still feasible in the age of virtual testing? Founder and CEO Steve Urban is changing the business landscape in Denver and beyond with a recruitment process so old, it’s redefining the future: assessing potential candidates face-to-face. Not through Skype, or live-streaming, but in the same room – physically! RiderFlex Recruiti...
Lacrosse and Hockey, Collegiate Success, Personal Adversity and Building a Business with CEO Phil McCarthy Former Owner of Breakaway Sports
February 14, 2018 15:30 - 43 minutes - 99.6 MBIn the face of paralysis and adversity, how does Breakaway Sports’ Phil McCarthy keep up the fight? As founder of the Denver-based company, McCarthy now helps professional teams conquer the world with top-notch coaching and assembly services. Breakaway Sports’ business model is similar to being in a locker room and trying to achieve success on the field through a team. Drive and passion is important. You can be sure that the guys at Breakaway Sports love those sports, coached those sports, ...
Infill Development, Private Capital, Providing Value, And Avoiding Denver Fugly with Ben Maxwell
February 12, 2018 15:30 - 40 minutes - 91.6 MBBen Maxwell founder of HCM Capital Group, is a third generation entrepreneur and has been going at it ever since entering the workforce in 1999. He started HCM Capital in 2002 as an infill real estate development firm that focuses on the Denver Metro area. HCM Capital has experience in both residential and commercial development. Ben talks about his journey and shares that he wants to be proud to drive through the communities in ten to twenty years from now and point to the long-standing pr...
Mark Newhall, CEO ESG, One Of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms (2nd Year In A Row)
February 10, 2018 13:30 - 55 minutes - 128 MBWorking in a very small office supply retail store in high school back in the mid ‘80s, Mark Newhall, founder and CEO of Execution Specialists Group, ESG, learned early on how businesses operate and how you could, as a partner to them, bring value to the products and services. Now, as CEO of a management consulting firm, he shares the day deals closed, they were the ones rationalizing the distribution footprint, putting the distribution systems, warehouse systems and order management system...
Catherine Bell, VP Flipping Females, Mentoring And Training Entrepreneurs To Fix And Flip Properties
February 09, 2018 15:30 - 24 minutes - 56.1 MBGoing to courses and seminars and reading books by so-called gurus, Catherine Bell discovered that all these gurus have a few things that are very similar. While there’s never really a cardboard cutout of them, they all have this similar three-step sales process which starts with a weekend or day training, upgrading to boot camps, and then a full-blown mentoring program. Catherine is VP of Operations for Flipping Females, a group of successful investors that mentor and train people on how t...
Jay Arthur, President KnowWare International, “The Knowware Man” using lean six sigma to solve problems of delays, defects, and deviation
February 07, 2018 15:43 - 49 minutes - 113 MBJay Arthur, President of KnowWare International, has 21 years of experience helping companies solve problems of delays, defects, and deviation using Lean Six Sigma. Jay shares it’s a journey of learning how to make improvements. To take your business to the next level, you’re going to need some data about defects, delays and deviation, which are the silent killers of productivity and profitability. Once you start to analyze and start to be able to pinpoint exactly what’s broken and where to...
Elizabeth Mirowski, CEO QalibreMD, Transforming MRI Medical Imaging Standards And Helping Reduce Diagnoses Variability
February 05, 2018 15:30 - 37 minutes - 85 MBThere’s a movement in the radiology community to become more quantitative. When you think about radiology, it’s a picture of what’s going on in your body, and those pictures very as you go from one MRI scanner to another, and they can vary from day to day but still gives you a reasonably good picture of your body. If you really want to do something quantitative, like watch how much a tumor is growing or reducing in size when you’re taking treatment, it doesn’t do very well unless you implem...
Matt Fargo, Managing Partner at Kurtz Fargo, Serving Emerging Growth Businesses & Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals With Solution Based Strategies And Planning
January 10, 2018 21:23 - 50 minutes - 114 MBThe firm’s job is to go out and find the right answer to, the best answer. Kurtz Fargo serves emerging growth businesses, with the common thread between those companies being that they are growing rapidly and they need a firm that’s helping them plan and strategize throughout their growth process. Matt Fargo’s firm also serves high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individual clients. It turns out that the planning and the strategy work that is done for a business is very similar to that r...
Anthony McDaniels CEO, Rare Petro: On Modern Tech Applications In Oil And Gas, Consulting And Building Your Brand
January 04, 2018 20:47 - 35 minutes - 80.2 MB“If you know you want to start a business or have a business one day, don’t wait until that demarcation point in your career.” Anthony McDaniels is the founder of RARE PETRO. RARE PETRO is engaged in creating oil and gas, mobile and cloud-based app technologies, along with providing petroleum engineering and consulting services. Founded in 2015, RARE PETRO is designed to be the future of oil and gas technical firms. Its main mission is to work towards modernizing the industry by using and...
Chuck Blakeman, Founder Of The Crankset Group, A Counter-Intuitive And No-Nonsense Approach To Life And Business; Focus On Purpose
January 02, 2018 23:21 - 58 minutes - 133 MBChuck Blakeman, founder of the Crankset Group, a counter-intuitive and no-nonsense approach to life and business; focus on purpose. Chuck is a successful entrepreneur, #1 best-selling business author and world-renowned business advisor who built ten businesses in seven industries on four continents, and now uses his experience to advise others. His company, Crankset Group, provides outcome-based mentoring and practical strategies. Chuck Blakeman, Founder Of The Crankset Group, A Counter-In...
Mike Connolly, CEO StrategiCopy: Helping Clients Attract & Close More Business
December 26, 2017 14:57 - 51 minutes - 119 MB“When I say turn them into customers, that’s more than just making a sale today.” As CEO of StrategiCopy, Mike Connolly creates and manages direct response marketing systems for fast-growing businesses so they can attract their ideal customers, put an iron fence around them and develop an abundant “herd” of customers for life. He has co-created and manages marketing systems using blogs, social networking sites, newsletters, e-letters, video networks, articles, multi-media follow-up system...
Lighter Charms with CEO Rob Healy Decorative Charms For Disposable Lighters That Help You Snuff Your Stuff
December 22, 2017 00:59 - 34 minutes - 79.4 MBLighter Charms are an opportunity for you to turn your best-selling lighters in the world into a billboard that you control. Lighter Charms are perfect for lighter identification and self-expression. CEO Rob Healy instructs the user to simply slide the silicone band on your lighter, pop a charm into the charm band and use your lighter as you normally would (For lighting candles. NOT if you’re an arsonist.) You can also use the charm as a ball marker, a fridge magnet – whatever you like. Jus...
Mike Gearhardt CEO 5280 Software and CTO Fathym, IoT data extraction and learning solutions applied
December 22, 2017 00:48 - 50 minutes - 114 MBFor legacy architectures, infrastructures, and technology, the business logic needs to get extracted, cleaned up, and organized in a more relevant and future-looking architecture. Mike Gearhardt, CEO of 5280 Software, helps small businesses, startups and medium-sized companies in the Denver area in maturing their technology. Mike is also the CTO of Fathym which focuses in the IoT space by helping industrial companies learn from their data and predict things they need in order to attain maxi...
Holly G. Green Teaches How To Master The Skills Required To Win In Today’s Hyper-Paced World
November 27, 2017 19:18 - 45 minutes - 104 MBHow can we leverage the things that we instinctively suck at? Holly G. Green, CEO and Managing Director of The Human Factor, Inc. focuses on the complexities of why and how humans think and behave the way they do at work. That means aligning everything in the organization so that they’re all in the same race, everyone knows what the targets are, and everybody is moving towards them. One of our deep human tendencies, the thing we’re better at than anything else in the whole world, is to prov...
Joseph Cheung and Morgan Nolan, Cyber Security mind set and education
November 21, 2017 23:36 - 52 minutes - 120 MBJoseph Cheung and Morgan Nolan / Toggle Industries LLC Cyber security experts Joseph Cheung and Morgan Nolan, from Toggle Industries LLC return to the show for an episode to discuss the current issues and the challenges within cyber-security, in broad terms, steps you can take and a wide-ranging discussion with respect to cyber security. What can you do? “All you have to do is continue to be educational within your staff, educate your clients,as well as have a good fundamental mindset, and...
Diane Simard World Class Businesswoman, Angel investor, Stage 3 Breast Cancer survivor, Founder, Corporate Board Member & the evolution of my “Why”
November 17, 2017 01:37 - 54 minutes - 125 MBA cancer diagnosis causes a trauma so powerful, it splits your life around that single point in time: the Before-Why, and the After-Why. Breast cancer survivor Diane Simard was the classic type A, small business owner, charging at 100 miles an hour when she received the diagnosis. She shaved her head before the hair fell out because she needed to be in control. Imagine spending $200 every six weeks to have your hair colored and cut for years – and now it’s on the floor. But Diane held her chi...
Diane Simard World Class Businesswoman, Angel investor, Stage 3 Breast Cancer survivor, Founder, Corporate Board Member & the evolution of my “Why”
November 17, 2017 00:37 - 54 minutes - 125 MBA cancer diagnosis causes a trauma so powerful, it splits your life around that single point in time: the Before-Why, and the After-Why. Breast cancer survivor Diane Simard was the classic type A, small business owner, charging at 100 miles an hour when she received the diagnosis. She shaved her head before the hair fell out because she needed to be in control. Imagine spending $200 every six weeks to have your hair colored and cut for years – and now it’s on the floor. But Diane held her ch...
Martha Carlin, CEO The BioCollective focused on gut health, the human Microbiome and data
November 15, 2017 20:06 - 44 minutes - 102 MBThere is a move towards probiotics that has resulted in a so-called yogurt craze: people are stocking their fridges with pints of yogurt and with bottles of Yakult, a Japanese probiotic drink. But isn’t probiotic food just traveling through your system without sticking to the wall of your gut? How do we know that probiotics is even doing anything? These are logical questions that microbio research is trying to answer. Martha Carlin, CEO of The Biocollective and Biocollective Research, says ...
Martha Carlin, CEO The BioCollective focused on gut health, the human Microbiome and data
November 15, 2017 19:06 - 44 minutes - 102 MBThere is a move towards probiotics that has resulted in a so-called yogurt craze: people are stocking their fridges with pints of yogurt and with bottles of Yakult, a Japanese probiotic drink. But isn’t probiotic food just traveling through your system without sticking to the wall of your gut? How do we know that probiotics is even doing anything? These are logical questions that microbio research is trying to answer. Martha Carlin, CEO of The Biocollective and Biocollective Research, says ...
Greyledge CEO Dave Karli MD, Biotech Startup & Optimizing the Process of Regenerative Medicine
November 13, 2017 19:59 - 1 hour - 183 MBGreyledge Technology is a biotech company that works with the patient’s own tissue samples. They take a tissue from you, typically blood or bone marrow tissue, and they manipulate that into a sample in a therapeutic that’s placed back either via injection, or as part of the surgical technique where our surgeon implants it. There are therapeutic cells within these preparations that can be used to promote and support natural healing. Greyledge CEO Dave Karli MD, biotech startup & opt...
Onlineadvisor.com Effective efficient resources and strategies to grow your business with CEO John Harris
October 03, 2017 22:05 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWhen you’re running an organization, you’re obviously going to face challenges that you’d rather delegate to an expert solutions third party. One such company is Online Advisor, which specializes in providing immediate solutions to your problems. For example, advanced bookkeeping or accounting is not a forte for many small business owners. John Harris, CEO of Online Advisor, runs the site like a streamlined online resource where folks can quickly retrieve what they need and focus on higher-...
Onlineadvisor.com Effective efficient resources and strategies to grow your business with CEO John Harris
October 03, 2017 21:05 - 51 minutes - 118 MBWhen you’re running an organization, you’re obviously going to face challenges that you’d rather delegate to an expert solutions third party. One such company is Online Advisor, which specializes in providing immediate solutions to your problems. For example, advanced bookkeeping or accounting is not a forte for many small business owners. John Harris, CEO of Online Advisor, runs the site like a streamlined online resource where folks can quickly retrieve what they need and focus on higher-...
John Kelley CEO Cerescan How we use advanced brain imaging software to provide more accurate results leading to 78% of patients receiving new diagnoses.
October 02, 2017 23:08 - 56 minutes - 129 MBPeople know about MRI, CT, SPECT and PET: all acronyms of machines that kick out imaging that makes it possible to examine what’s wrong inside the brain. And when patients do receive the bad news, they deserve no less than CereScan’s advanced brain imaging software for predictive diagnoses – arguably the best in the US. John Kelley, CEO of CereScan, leads his company in taking patient information regarding certain brain disorders and combining that with other factors in their life. With thi...
Instantnonprofit, start your IRS compliant non profit, from idea to 501(c)(3) in less than an hour with Christian Lefer CEO Yippiekiyay
September 26, 2017 00:22 - 49 minutes - 113 MBNowadays, getting your idea to IRS-approved 501(c)(3) is a pain in the a**. The unyielding bureaucratic obstacles can test the limits of those looking to process their IRS compliant non-profit. In the midst of red tape, we’re lucky to have companies like Yippiekiyay, whose mission is to ease the inconvenience as much as possible. Christian Lefer, CEO of Yippiekiyay, describes it as an attitude of empowering non-profits by fighting the bad guys. The way that translates is whether you’re start...
Contractor’s Guide to Success, “Start It, Build It, Grow It” with CEO of Elite & CJ Roofing Randy Brothers
September 19, 2017 00:42 - 48 minutes - 110 MBContractor’s Guide to Success Start It, Build It, Grow It with Randy Brothers, the CEO of CJ and Elite Roofing as well as head coach of The Roofing Academy. He’s a third-generation contractor and business owner with over 15 years of contracting experience. His company has grown 10 times in 6 years, or 10X, A 30% growth rate over the past 5 years, even when the local roofing market softened during that time frame. Elite Roofing now provides for the families of over 40 people that are empl...
Loui McCurley CEO Pigeon Mountain Industries, rope manufacturing, confidence and lessons from working safely from height
August 29, 2017 20:28 - 50 minutes - 116 MBRope manufacturing and lesson learned from working safely at height with Loui McCurley, CEO Pigeon Mountain Industries Coolest company on Earth PMI is a manufacturer of life safety ropes and soft goods, other equipment for work at height We distribute other gear from people whose products complement our own. So we’re a manufacturer and distributor, as well as an educator. How Pigeon Mountain Industries started We started down in Georgia, in the heart of what we call “TAG,” Tennessee, A...
Tony Wibbeler, CEO Bolder Industries recycling tires and alternatives to Carbon Black
August 10, 2017 01:15 - 46 minutes - 108 MBRecycling tires and what is Bolder Black? A sustainable alternative to traditional carbon black produced recycling tires that would otherwise be placed in landfills or incinerated. Early influences My first taste of entrepreneurship with my first job out of college and I worked for a guy who had invented voicemail. And he was an Indiana guy who came back home to invest in a series of companies, and I was working directly for him in one of those companies. Following your passion One of t...
Carol Schultz, CEO Vertical Elevation, effective executive search revealed
August 05, 2017 02:27 - 48 minutes - 110 MBRecruiting executives: what does Carol do? Recruiting-Carol offers a boutique talent solution at Vertical Elevation that has a unique and customized talent recruiting strategy process. As an adviser, she is in demand by executives looking to build better organizations, improve their leadership and communication skills, and advance their careers. Using her expertise as a recruitment process optimization strategist, she is able to improve the number of performers in organizations, substantial...
Bob Fleming CEO BlackSquare Technology, If it’s important, encrypt it
August 03, 2017 23:10 - 42 minutes - 96.5 MBIf it’s important, encrypt it! with BlackSquare Technologies How did BlackSquare Technologies come about, and tell us about the Enigma product. I have been in the data security field for close to 14 years now, and have observed an increase in data theft over that time. Moreover, we’ve seen data theft come into its own over the past 5 years; hackers and bad actors have stolen not only money but valuable and confidential data, surpassing trillions of dollars. Thieves access, monitor and...
Jerry Wilhite, CEO FSIC, Foodservice Supply Chain Visibility
July 28, 2017 22:17 - 46 minutes - 106 MBFood distribution clarified by Jerry Wilhite, CEO FSIC Background He worked with U.S. Foodservice for 22 years in all aspects of the food distribution business including: Corporate National Accounts, Division President, VP of Sales, Accounts Payable and Receivables, Purchasing and Operations. Jerry also was a Division President for Food Services of America. How did you feel about taking a risk to open your own company? Even today I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as,”I’ve got ...
Mike Walker, CEO Opterre, Trains consultants
July 20, 2017 17:42 - 52 minutes - 121 MBMike Walker, CEO Opterre The early influences Why did I decide to train consultants? It is a rags-to-riches-type story where I grew up in a fairly poor background. My mom was divorced. She was a single mom with three kids. We basically have to live on food stamps to augment our living. And my mom was not the type of person that really was all that keen about that, so what she wanted to do is give me the food stamps and I’d go into the grocery store, buy the groceries, come back out and go ...
Jason Jarvis, CEO Jarvis Labs, talks engineering the applications of physics for business use
July 13, 2017 23:31 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBJarvis Labs why founded and when Jarvis Labs was founded six years ago and was more or less kind of just an accumulation of lifelong work and, specifically, in the IT industry, around cloud services. We formed it with the intentions of really kind of getting to the next level in cloud and the cyber spectrum of opportunity. You know, we’ve developed some cloud technologies and built our own infrastructure. What do you do We bring an enterprise level of support and services to small and me...
Joseph Cheung, CEO Toggle Describes Cyber Security Steps for Businesses
July 13, 2017 02:41 - 52 minutes - 120 MBThere is no such thing as a safe place. Given all the recent occurrences of hacking and penetration in Yahoo, Experian and other tech giants, it’s high time we look at business cyber security as an increasingly urgent issue. Joseph Cheung talks about the issue and the broad-term challenges with cyber security. What information are you putting out there? Are you okay if a convict or some “prince” in Nigeria gets access to that information? Essentially you’re leaving little pieces of your per...
Joseph Cheung, CEO Toggle Describes Cyber Security Steps for Businesses
July 13, 2017 01:41 - 52 minutes - 120 MBThere is no such thing as a safe place. Given all the recent occurrences of hacking and penetration in Yahoo, Experian and other tech giants, it’s high time we look at business cyber security as an increasingly urgent issue. Joseph Cheung talks about the issue and the broad-term challenges with cyber security. What information are you putting out there? Are you okay if a convict or some “prince” in Nigeria gets access to that information? Essentially you’re leaving little pieces of your per...
Jim Downing USN Retired Author The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey Through Pearl Harbor and the World War
July 03, 2017 18:57 - 51 minutes - 119 MBJim Downing, USN Retired, Author “The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey Through Pearl Harbor and the World War” With greatest respect to Jim and his shipmates lost at Pearl Harbor, I included the entire transcript of the interview. Host: Today, we’re honored to have Jim Downing, author of “The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey Through Pearl Harbor and the World War.” Jim’s ship was the Navy battleship the USS West Virginia, where Jim was a Gunner’s Mate First Class and ship’s Postmaster. J...
Nidal Allis CEO Techno Rescue, Reuse, Recover and Recycle
June 13, 2017 02:12 - 44 minutes - 102 MBNidal Allis CEO of Techno Rescue, which is a veteran-owned, full life-cycle green IT company based in Colorado, specializing in computer electronics, recycling, data destruction, e-waste disposal, computer service and repair, IT support, and consulting. Not just computers- Medical equipment, have them refurbished, recertified, and remarketed to other medical facilities, whether they’re in this country or aboard, that cannot afford brand new medical equipment. Earth Month We brought in pr...
Value Innovation Strategy with Dick Lee, CEO of Value Innovations: Identifying your Most Important Customer unmet needs.
May 29, 2017 19:47 - 1 hour - 142 MBDick Lee, the CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at Value Innovations based in Castle Pines, Colorado. Dick is also the co-author of the book, “Value Innovation Works.” The driving force to everything that they do at Value Innovation is to help C-level executives address critical issues within their organization using their 10-step value innovation process. What does value innovation mean? It’s delivering exceptional value to the most important customer in the value chain all the time, every...
Business valuation and growth, (What drives both) with world traveler David Fein CEO ValuSource
May 22, 2017 18:37 - 48 minutes - 110 MBBusiness valuation, growth, what drives both with world traveler David Fein cofounder and CEO of ValuSource. David is an entrepreneur, world traveler, and adventurer at age 16 he was the second youngest person ever set foot on the South Pole. To put himself through college, David started and ran a sailboat charter business. At the age of 25, he fulfilled a longtime dream by sailing across the Pacific to Tahiti on a 34-foot sailboat. In 1986, after returning from Tahiti. He cofounded ValuSour...
Business consultant, experienced strategist, middle market expansion & growth expert, Larry Hay President Haycorp
May 19, 2017 17:57 - 45 minutes - 104 MBBusiness consultant, direction to destination, franchise master to middle market investor, Larry Hay President of HayCorp, a business consulting firm founded in 2003. Larry helps companies identify their core business opportunities and strategically position themselves to take advantage of developing business and consumer trends. Larry was named as one of the Top 100 Executives in Colorado by the Denver Business Journal. The early years Grew up in Savannah, Georgia in the south, and kind o...
Train the Brain- learn easier, think faster, perform better at any age; 80 centers, 46 countries Kim Hanson CEO LearningRx
May 16, 2017 21:10 - 41 minutes - 94.8 MBTrain the Brain- learn easier, think faster,perform better at any age; 80 centers, 46 countries with Kim Hanson CEO of LearningRx a Colorado Springs based franchise. Discover if you or your child has a learning challenge, give the gift of brain training so that they can learn better, easier, and faster. How it started- Dr. Ken Gibson, a pediatric optometrist who developed the LearningRx process. He really started out wanting to answer a question, and that question was, how can you be smart...
The Arena, Where Champions Train; coaching baseball, practicing law and making a difference with Coach Doug Goldberg
May 11, 2017 21:07 - 22 minutes - 51.5 MBThe Arena, which is a 20,000-square foot state of the art athletic training center where Doug is the current owner and head coach; Doug’s also owned and operated Goldberg Law Center for over 30 years. He specializes in the Estate and Business Planning Law practice. Doug’s played and coached baseball for more than 50 years, and is currently in his third year as a varsity baseball coach at Air Academy High School. “I really want to do this… ” And I remember the day that I signed the contrac...
ThinkTopic, excelling at tackling business problems with AI and machine learning with Jeff Rose
May 08, 2017 18:39 - 54 minutes - 124 MBThinkTopic with Jeff Rose founder and CEO. ThinkTopic is a tech firm in Boulder, Colorado that was founded a short two years ago combining the latest discoveries of machine learning with expertise and systems engineering. Rather than a typical data science company that might produce some reports or generate some insights, ThinkTopic builds tools and systems that are meant to empower the business owner. ThinkTopic …is a machine learning-focused software consultancy technology company that...
Commercial elevator maintenance business to new franchise opportunity with Randy and Garrett McGinniss
May 08, 2017 18:36 - 36 minutes - 82.7 MBCommercial elevator maintenance business from 67 units on service in 2007 to a little over 1,200 units today with a management team with over 80 years of collective experience; Randy McGinnis, CEO of PEAK Elevator, and Garrett McGinnis, Director of Franchise Development for PEAK Vertical Transportation Group reveal their new franchise opportunity available in the commercial elevator business. “Rarely do I get goosebumps anymore about a pizza joint or a sub sandwich concept. But Randy, I ha...
Growing up twice, from senior engineer to basement to success; how to grow a successful IT company with Rick Murphy
April 24, 2017 00:13 - 31 minutes - 71.5 MBStarting over; from a Senior Engineer for 25 locations across the US with a major MSP with responsibility for every deployment and every setup, how Rick grew Technowledge, an IT company, from his basement to 17 employees providing business solutions ranging from network security, deployments and management, systems backup and recovery, cloud solutions, voice-over Internet, network solutions, firewalls, as well as connected solutions to the Front Range of Colorado. The post Growing up t...
Growing an agency, doing it the right way, from 7 to 29 employees and two locations with Dan Bowers.
April 23, 2017 23:18 - 19 minutes - 43.6 MBGrowing an agency, doing it the right way, from 7 to 29 employees and two locations in Alamosa and Colorado Springs, Colorado; leadership insights from Dan Bowers owner of a top Colorado independent insurance agency CIA-Leavitt, which provides exceptional long-term value to its clients through expert advice and creative solutions and uncommon service for risk management insurance and employee benefits. The post Growing an agency, doing it the right way, from 7 to 29 employees and two locat...
128% sales growth at BAC Appliance key growth insights Ken Jensen
April 23, 2017 22:09 - 52 minutes - 121 MBAs the business owner of Builders Appliance Center from 2005 -2015 and now Managing Director at Aspenwood Capital, Ken has a strong record of spearheading change, increasing revenue, and improving employee productivity and morale as well as navigating the challenges of the 2008 housing collapse. He is skillful in creating and implementing creative marketing strategies to solidify strong customer relationships. Ken Jensen has over 30 years of management and leadership experience. His career s...
Buying or selling a business critical considerations before doing either with Dan Roth
April 21, 2017 03:39 - 39 minutes - 89.4 MBBuying or selling a business? Dan reveals key insights that owners and buyers need to know prior to selling or buying a business today. Dan co-founded a mergers and acquisitions firm, built and sold several software technology firms, was a senior executive for a fortune 500 company responsible for an online e-commerce and a catalog business which sold more than 10,000 products; he currently is the Managing Director of IBG Business in Denver, Colorado. The post Buying or selling a business...