Enterprise Podcast Network

Faith Bandklayder, President of Welcome Home Senior Services and Placement Co., LLC offering FREE personalized services to those seeking senior living placement joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Faith Bandklayder discuss the following:

* Tell me about Welcome Home Senior Services & Placement.

* What gave you the idea to start a business like this?

* How does it work?

* How is it free to the client?

* Why should someone use a senior placement service as opposed to doing their own legwork?

Faith Bandklayder, President of Welcome Home Senior Services and Placement Company, is a seasoned veteran of the senior living industry, with over thirteen years’ experience in sales and marketing.  She began her career first as a Marketing Consultant and then becoming Director of Marketing in Miami, Florida. Her greatest reward is helping the elderly decide how to begin their new adventure in Independent and Assisted living. Her company provides FREE hands on personalized services to those seeking senior living placement.  Faith has received her Assisted Living Administrator Core license and also has her Bachelor’s Degree from SUNY at Stony Brook.

Website: www.welcomehomesenior.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/welcomehomesenior

Keith Clark, the Co-Founder and Partner at DWC ERISA Consultants joins Enterprise Radio to discuss winning new business in the 401K marketplace. He’s also an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, and he’s been named one of the Top Five Consultants by Pension Management Magazine.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Keith Clark discuss the following:

* As long time strategy consultants for the 401(k) industry – providing consulting insight on best practices for running a successful business – how did you build your business in the 401(k) marketplaces serving businesses of all sizes?

* Was there an epiphany related to moving from a brick and mortar environment to a 100% virtual environment?  What were some of the challenges and what makes this environment successful?

* How do you win new business – what is your marketing and sales strategy?

* Many of our listeners either have a 401(k) plan or are thinking of starting a 401(k) plan – what should their process be in hiring their service providers or reviewing their service providers?

* You mention fees as part of your answer – explain how some low cost providers are receiving more revenue in addition to how they sold their fee schedule?  How does a buyer know what questions to ask related to their service provider?

Keith Clark is one of the founders of DWC ERISA Consultants. He has 25 years of experience, nearly 15 of which have been devoted to molding DWC into the firm it is today. Keith received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1986 and an MBA from Auburn University in 2003. Before focusing exclusively on ERISA consulting at DWC, he honed his skills at several top firms including Coopers & Lybrand, LLP and LarsonAllen, LLP.

Keith has immeasurable academic and practical expertise in directly servicing the employee benefit industry. A well-known author and keynote industry speaker, Keith is known for his entertaining and direct presentation style. He is the author of the popular industry book, The Defined Contribution Handbook and was named one of the Top Five Consultants by Pension Management Magazine.

Today, Keith continues to share his enthusiasm as an adjunct professor teaching Executive Compensation and Taxation of Employee Benefits at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Website: www.dwcconsultants.com

Social Media Links:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/keith-clark-738ab536

Facebook: facebook.com/DWC-ERISA-Consultants-LLC

Tim Hoopmann the CEO and founder of Cornerstone, a bookkeeping business that specialises in streamlining the bookkeeping for SMBs through cloud service again joins Enterprise Radio to discuss maintaining work & life balance.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Tim Hoopmann discuss the following:

* Being a cloud business, where is your favorite place to work from and why?

* How important is a work/life balance to you?

* What are some strategies that you implement effectively manage your work/life commitments?

* How do you ensure your employees can ensure they have a good work/life balance?

* What would your advice be to business owners who are struggling to maintain a good balance?

Tim Hoopmann is the CEO and founder of Cornerstone, a bookkeeping business specialising in cloud services. Following his years of experience as a consultant and business owner, Tim is now passionate about helping other businesses make the transition to being fully digitised to allow for greater freedom and work/life balance for business owners and employees alike.

Website: www.cornerstone-group.com.au

Follow Cornerstone:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/CSGBookkeeping

Twitter: @streamlineyour

Gerald J. Leonard the author of “Culture Is The Bass: 7 Principles for Developing A Culture That Works,” joins Enterprise Radio. Gerald is currently the President & CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting practice based in the Metro Washington, DC area.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in conjunction with the Author Channel.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Gerald J. Leonard discuss the following:

* How did you get started in this field, and what do you think has made you successful throughout your career?

* What do you think is poorly understood or unresolved within this area? Why is this so?

* What challenges have you helped customers overcome recently?

* You’ve published a new book this summer, What is it about and how did you come up with the idea for the book?

* What trends do you see in your industry?

Gerald J. Leonard is the author of “Culture Is The Bass: 7 Principles for Developing A Culture That Works,” and is currently the President & CEO of Principles of Execution (PofE), a Strategic Project Portfolio Management and Culture Change consulting practice based in the Metro Washington, DC area. He attended Central State University in Ohio where he received his Bachelor in Music degree, and later earned a Masters in Music for classical bass from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. After graduation Gerald moved to New York City where he worked as a professional bassist and studied with the late David Walters, distinguished professor of double bass at both the Juilliard and Manhattan schools of music.

While living in Manhattan Gerald worked as a full-time minister for the New York City Church of Christ and also managed time to fulfill numerous music engagements. After resigning from his ministry position he was able to devote more time to his music career and spend more quality time with his family.

Several years later Gerald began his Information Technology career, focusing initially on network computing and project management. During the last 20+ years he has worked as an IT Project Management consultant and earned his PfMP, PMP, MCSE, MCTS, CQIA, COBIT Foundation, and ITIL foundation certifications. He has also acquired certifications in Project Management and Business Intelligence from the University of California, Berkeley, Theory of Constraints Portfolio Management Technical Expert from the Goldratt Institute, Hoshin Kanri with Karen Roberts, as well as an Executive Leadership Certification from Cornell University.

In his leisure time Gerald loves to play golf and, occasionally, playing his upright bass on special occasions.

Website: www.principlesofexecution.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/Principlesofexecution

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/geraldjleonard

Twitter: @geraldjleonard

 

Founder of MB2 Dental, Dr. Chris Steven Villanueva, an active practitioner who established a company facilitating doctors helping doctors, so that dentists can focus on what they do best: providing excellent dental care to their patients joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Chris Steven Villanueva discuss the following:

* How were you inspired to start MB2 Dental? And what makes you different from traditional dental practices today?

* How do you cultivate autonomy for your owners? Why is autonomy important to the success of your dentists and your company as a whole?

* Culture is a big part of what makes MB2 so unique to dentistry. As a business owner, how do you cultivate a progressive culture for your employees?

* What does the future look like for dentistry and how are you keeping ahead of the trend?

* What advice would you offer up to aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start their own business?

Understanding the Vision Behind the Change

MB2 Dental was founded by Dr. Chris Steven Villanueva, an active practitioner with a vision of promoting the best of best from both the sole-practitioner and corporate dentistry sides of the industry. Having spent time on both sides of the provider-business equation, he started his company with direct knowledge of what it took to furnish vital support without compromising the integrity of his beloved profession.

Recognizing that dental practitioners needed specialized assistance that didn’t come with strings attached, Dr. Villanueva founded MB2 Dental. Since then, the firm has supported practitioners at no less than 70 affiliated locations across six states, has 533 employees, and its close-knit leadership looks forward to continuing the trend of excellence.

MB2 Dental is Changing the Dental Industry for Practitioners and Patients

MB2 Dental was founded on the principle that doctors working together can help each other accomplish more than ever possible working individually as dentists. That, and company culture should never be left behind. MB2 offers a fresh, youthful perspective on how dental management and practice development ought to work, and it’s changing the lives of countless patients and dentists for the better.

Why Is MB2 Dental So Unique?

Typical dental practice management networks are like traditional dental practices: drab and uninspired. MB2 Dental brings something completely new to the field focusing on more than just profit margins.

MB2 is dentist-owned and focused on autonomy, support, personal growth, and having fun together.

MB2 Dental helps practices make improvements that actually benefit the patients who patronize them. These innovations promote improved operating standards that lead to happier practitioners and which facilitate healthy organic business growth.

Progressive Business Cultures Make All the Difference

* MB2 Dental prides itself on being:

* Progressive and in-tune with practice trends and standards,

* Firmly entrenched in a youthful culture backed by practical experience and success,

* An environment where dentists can learn and grow from each other,

* Wholly committed to helping dentists retain control over how they practice, and

* The expert team to help dentists overcome any legal, HR, payroll, compliance or marketing challenges they might face,

* And finally, a young, technologically-advanced company able to provide speed-to-market.

MB2’s practice owners enjoy bi-yearly Owner’s Retreats where they get to enjoy time with like-minded dentists in their field. Past retreats have featured white-water rafting adven...

Flora Pringle, a scientist, mompreneur and healthy candy innovator joins Enterprise Radio. She founded Cracked Candy which is a naturally, sugar free candy that is good for teeth.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Flora Pringle discuss the following:

* Can you tell me how you came to start your own company – what is your mission?

* What’s behind the name – Cracked Candy?

* When you say guilt-free are you referring to the sugar content in most candy?

* What’s unique about your products?

* Where can you buy Cracked Candy?

* Any tips for people thinking about becoming entrepreneurs?

Flora Pringle is a marketer, scientist, wife, mother and passionate guilt-free candy maker. She founded Cracked Candy in Brooklyn, New York 3 years ago after moving from England where she had been teaching science.

The mission of Cracked Candy is to provide a healthy, great tasting, natural candy that gives you all the taste and indulgence you want in a sweet treat without the harmful effects of sugar.

We love candy, it makes us happy. The average American consumes around 160lbs of refined sugar every year. But sugar related illnesses including obesity, diabetes, digestive disorders and tooth decay are sweeping the nation. As a mother Flora wanted to find ways to treat her family without compromising on health. So she took on the challenge of creating a truly delicious, yet totally guilt free candy that tastes great and is good for you, that does not promote tooth decay and is made from natural ingredients.

Using her scientific background, love of cooking and eye for design, Flora experimented in her kitchen and finally cracked the perfect recipe. The candy is made in sheets and hammered into hundreds of little pieces. Around 60 perfectly unique pieces are in each collectable tin. So it seemed more than fitting to call Flora’s discovery Cracked Candy.

Flora wanted to create a brand that is good in every sense, so Cracked Candy provides work for people with disabilities in her local Brooklyn community.

Flora has pioneered a whole new kind of candy that makes it healthy to eat without losing the fun and the taste – which is what makes candy such a fun part of our lives.

Available in premium grocery stores including Mrs Greens, West Elm Market, New York Whole Foods stores, Eataly and www.crackedcandy.com.

Website: www.crackedcandy.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/CrackedCandy

Twitter: @Cracked_Candy

S.T. Wilkinson, the Author of the upcoming book ‘Obstacle Buster – How to Create Big & Bold Shifts for Lifelong Success’ joins Enterprise Radio. S.T. Wilkinson is an award winning international business executive coach and breakthrough strategist and specialised in change management, facilitating top performance and highly efficient personal breakthroughs in challenging times.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest S.T. Wilkinson discuss the following:

* How do we gain force of Personality and Charisma?

* How can we create Self-Confidence and hold our nerve? How do we deal with fear?

* Why is Branding so crucial?

* How can we know the rules of the game and be ahead of the crowd and our competitors?

* Why did Trump’s approach work?

S.T. Wilkinson is the author of the upcoming book ‘Obstacle Buster ™ – How To Create Big & Bold Shifts For Lifelong Success.’ Wilkinson is a creative award winning motivator, breakthrough strategist and excellence coach, she receives outstanding international references from top-level professionals. She facilitates breakthroughs for companies and people, often in very prominent positions, achieving instant trust, open communication and tangible results in a very short period of time.

Having been to over 45 countries, S.T. Wilkinson worked with people from all over the world with diverse cultural backgrounds, languages, mindsets and religions, being an outstanding multicultural and multilingual networker and entrepreneur mentored by top-level experts from the UK and the USA.

S.T. Wilkinson’s extensive charity work over the years was appreciated and she was honored as a ‘Humanitarian Fellow’ by Rotary. She strives to contribute value wherever she goes, leaving a legacy behind.

Her own incredible life story, having overcome countless difficulties herself, has inspired many and she believes that life is incredibly rich, colorful and beautiful if we allow it to be by overcoming our obstacles, challenges and limitations. She is a living testimonial to that.

She is a recognized speaker at various conventions and a welcome guest at high profile events.

She was recently on stage as an author at the National Achiever’s Congress 2016 in Malaysia, live interviewed at the ‘2016 Women’s Business Virtual Summit’, a guest in ‘Never Ever Give Up Hope’ with Carol Graham, USA and others. She recently spoke in KL at ‘Up your Game 2016’ Singapore.

S.T. Wilkinson is a mentor to various organisations such as The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, UK, WomenWay.org , Switzerland and The Rotary Education Fund BKS in Malaysia. She is a member of LeanIn.org.

She accepts proactive clients who want to create breakthroughs in their life in a very short period of time in areas of business, finance, personal or health.

Website: www.authorstwilkinson.com

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/sharesztwilkinson

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stwilkinson1

Twitter: @stwilkinson1

Instagram: @stwilkinson1

Joel Hill, Sales Manager at Noojee Solutions, a high performance call centre software provider, supporting small to mid-sized businesses joins Enterprise Radio. Joel will be discussing the psychology of a high performing sales team.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Joel Hill discuss the following:

* Why is creating the right environment for sales people so important to driving sales?

* Let’s talk about motivation. How do you motivate a team of sales people to meet their sales targets?

* How do you make your sales team more productive?

* What does a great company culture look like?

* What were the traits of the best manager you’ve ever had?

Joel Hill has been the Sales Manager at Noojee Telephony Systems for 6 years. Noojee is a high-performance call centre software provider, aimed at small to mid-sized businesses and tailored to meet each company’s individual needs. Joel is passionate about providing the right system to the right customer to make their life easier. He also loves talking to people and finding out what makes them tick.

Website: www.noojee.com.au

Social Media Links:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/noojeetelephony

Twitter: @noojeetel

Christine Weston, the Founder of DivorceResource.com.au and designer of The Split Kit, an innovative software program helping couples to save time and money by managing their own divorce property settlements joins Enterprise Radio. Christine is also the Author of the incredibly practical resource book, ‘The First Steps through Separation and Divorce’.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Christine Weston discuss the following:

* What was the motivation for putting together all the resources you’ve developed on the Divorce Resource website?

* Does a couple need a lawyer to get through the divorce process?

* How does The Split Kit save a couple time and money?

* Can the Split Kit be used by only one person or by both parties?

* What’s the first step you would recommend for someone who has just separated?

Tip for anyone who’s considering or going through a separation and divorce:

Slow down. Don’t rush decisions but also don’t do nothing! As a priority, ensure any children are well cared for and by both parents and that both parties have access to funds to meet their living expenses. Then, be very kind to yourself. Focus on working on your emotional state so that you can get yourself to a calm enough state so you are able to compromise and negotiate towards an outcome that is in the overall best interests of everyone.  It’s far better to reach a compromise that you can live within a reasonable time frame rather than wasting years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars back and forth through the courts.

Christine Weston is the creator of DivorceResource.com.au, author of the straight talking resource book, ‘The First Steps through Separation & Divorce, and designer of The Split Kit – an innovative software program helping couples to save time and money by managing their own divorce property settlements.

She is passionate about helping others to save money and time and minimise the stress and anxiety that is so commonly experienced during the separation process.

As you may expect, the catalyst for Divorce Resource and The Split Kit was living and learning through her own drawn out and emotional divorce. After meeting in the UK and spending the first 12 years of their married life in South Africa, Christine and her Kiwi husband separated shortly after the family moved back to the UK.

It took the next four years to resolve the divorce and property settlement and involved complicated legal, financial and personal implications spanning Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa.

With her two young sons, she retreated to the familiarity and safety of home in 2010. Christine drew on deep reserves of courage and her experiences in dealing with the legal systems and moving between 3 countries to begin work on helping others avoid the mistakes she’d made.  The Split Kit was born and now skilfully guides people through the first steps into this new realm.

Separation and divorce are undeniably stressful. Most people feel vulnerable and rely on professionals to take over the reins for them.

The Split Kit doesn’t negate the need for expert advice but the real benefit is that if they do need to start paying an hourly rate for assistance from lawyers and other professionals, they pay from the outset for expert opinion and advice rather than for basic explanations of how the system works and the mandatory fact discovery admin tasks.

Christine is currently writing her second book, ‘Parenting through Separation and Divorce’.

Jodi Gaylard the Co-founder and Managing Director of Content Marketing Agency, The Revery joins Enterprise Radio to discuss how to skyrocket leads and revenue by bringing sales and marketing together as a team.

Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Jodi Gaylard discuss the following:

* You believe that there’s been a historical divide between sales and marketing, how do you think that divide occurred?

* How has the digital age changed the landscape for sales and marketing?

* What is the benefit of sales and marketing working together as a team in the new age?

* Where do you see the strengths of each department in the sales process and how can they help each other?

* What steps can businesses take to bring the 2 departments together as a team?

The Co-founder and Managing Director of The Revery, Jodi Gaylard has built the business into one of Australia’s leading B2B Tech Inbound Marketing Agencies. With positions in large creative agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather London and M&C Saatchi Australia, Jodi has designed an agency that not only uses insightful creative but also science and process to deliver out standing results in leads and revenue for companies in the technology space both locally and internationally.

Website: www.therevery.com.au

Social Media Links:

Facebook: facebook.com/TheReveryGroup

Twitter: @TheReveryAu