Employee Learning Week is an awareness campaign highlighting the important connection between learning and achieving organizational results. The Greater Atlanta Chapter of ASTD is the premier community for Georgia workplace learning and performance improvement professionals, with our professional development, service and leadership recognized throughout the profession. Seth Salzman is a restaurant and franchise industry veteran with …

John Payne serves as the CEO of Zumbox. The company provides the world’s first platform for digital postal systems –connecting large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage ofdigital postal mail via the Internet. Payne is an experienced technology industry CEO with a track record in the mailing industry, …

Throughout the month, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we see many companies jump on the “pink bandwagon” simply for the month of October. Yet, about a year ago, one company in particular, The Pink Plumber, decided to change its entire corporate structure and devote its energyand financial resources to the cause. It’s now ingrained in …

Investors today face a perfect storm that threatens to make them forget Bernie Madoff. Demographic shifts. Underfunded pension plans. Inevitably less generous social security. A sour economy. Hamstrung regulators. They all add up to an environment in which investment fraud is flourishing. As much as we like to think otherwise, we aren’t born with the …

Russ Belin brings more than 14 years of entertainment, marketing and management experience to his position. In his new role, Belin will be responsible for elevating the Broadway Across America name in the market. He will handle marketing and corporate partnerships, venue relations, oversee public relations initiatives and manage financials for the brand. He hopes …

Public relations practitioners Karla Harvill, APR, and Stephen Brown, APR, shared their unique insights and stories about why PRSA Georgia has been integral to their roles as PR professionals. The Georgia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA|GA) is the second largest chapter of public relations professionals in the United States with approximately …

IntellPartners CEO Ted Mauldin is a seasoned business and technology executive with more than 20 years hands-on experience leading and delivering technology systems to both middle and enterprise market clients. His experience spans the delivery of small and large integrated project initiatives across a wide variety of Fortune 500 industries, and includes Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, and Siebel business applications …

Today we shined the light on EO Atlanta — the Atlanta Chapter of Entrepreneur’s Organization. Current President Todd Bone (CEO XS International), Incoming President David Duncan (COO Paddywax, LLC), and Past President Mike Landman (CEO Ripple IT) shared their thoughts on entrepreneurship, leadership, and described exactly how EO has impacted their personal and professional lives. …

We opened today’s show with Top FLR Executive Chef, Shane Devereux.  You can learn more about Shane and this exciting concept at at http://www.topflr.com/ Then, we turned our attention to the fun, energetic Sales & Service Duo at ROAM Atlanta . . . ROAM is the Innovators Workplace:  an innovative meeting, dining, and gathering place for …

A tremendous number of manufacturing and service professionals businesses are experiencing the adverse affects of the global recession. Growing revenue has become increasingly more difficult as customers have limited their order sizes. Retailers are reducing the number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) they carry and routinely postponing or cancelling orders. Many companies feel like they …