Junior Achievement of South Florida Recipe for Success

Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.

Let's get cooking! This episode welcomes the JA Fellows Company Program students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's Good Scents.

Good Scents started off with a citrus scented oil to help combat decreased energy and poor moods and to help improve daily functions. Their product line now includes an air freshener and they have expanded their scents to include lemongrass, peppermint, grapefruit, cinnamon and much more. These students were not only tasked with creating their product, but they also had to budget, plan, market and sell their finished product.

“JA has taught me numerous skills, including marketing a business, project management, and presenting myself professionally. It has allowed me to further enhance and develop my skills in hospitality, finance and marketing,” said Hunter Dorman, President of Good Scents.

Good Scents was one of two Junior Achievement of South Florida teams invited to participate in the JA USA National Student Leadership Summit.

For more information about Junior Achievement of South Florida, visit https://www.jasouthflorida.org.

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Let's get cooking! This episode welcomes Gregory Haile, President of Broward College.

Gregory is the seventh president of Broward College. He assumed the role on July 1, 2018. Prior to his appointment, President Haile served as the General Counsel and Vice President for Public Policy and Government Affairs for Broward College from September 2011 to June 2018. Prior to joining Broward College, he was a corporate litigator.

Gregory Haile is a public servant, community leader, and an accomplished educator. He has championed his community by serving on over 35 board or committee capacities and in over 20 Chair/President or Vice-Chair/President positions. Further, he and his family routinely volunteer their time to serve local charities and communities. He has also received dozens of recognitions for his leadership, service, and excellence in his profession. He routinely serves as a keynote speaker at events, primarily speaking on the transformational power of higher education.

As an educator, Mr. Haile takes time annually to teach a self-designed 4-credit course in Higher Education Law and Policy at Harvard University (Summer School). He previously served as an adjunct professor with Broward College, teaching Business Law and Ethics, and with Miami Dade College, teaching Business Law (self-designed).

Mr. Haile was educated at the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the National Black Law Journal and as an Editor of the Journal on Gender and Law. He received his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University, where he graduated magna cum laude and received the Most Outstanding Graduate award in his college. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Nova Southeastern University and is also a fellow of the Vanderbilt University Higher Education Management Institute.

Learn more about Broward College at https://www.broward.edu.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.

Let's get cooking! This episode welcomes the JA Fellows Company Program students from NSU University School's Germ Genie.

Germ Genie came up with an airplane tray table cover to help limit the spread of tray table bacteria and viruses. Their product line has diversified as well, and now includes a travel pack with face masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes and a head rest cover. This student company has been successful in bringing in revenue and partnering with other businesses to bring awareness to their product. 

The team won the JA Company of the Year Award locally and was one of two teams invited to compete at the 2020 JA USA National Student Leadership Summit. There, the students won 2nd Place in the National JA Company of the Year, as well as won The ICE NYSE Foundation Best Financial Performance Award and Delta Social Impact Award.

Learn more about Germ Genie at https://germgenie.com/.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.

Let's get cooking! Jessica Lerner is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Community Care Plan (CCP), the Health Plan with a Heart, and is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the company by working with the Board of Directors and management team to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies.

Learn more about Community Care Plan at https://ccpcares.org/.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.

Let's get cooking! Julia Aquino is an entrepreneur, consultant, coach, speaker, author and hard working mom. She is a breast cancer survivor, business coach, founder of All Systems Grow and SheDefined.

SheDefined offers workshops, coaching, and retreats for women to grow their businesses and live life on their terms. Workshops include The Zen of Finance (finding peace in your numbers); She Strategy - developing an aligned, realistic strategic plan to move your forward; The Power of Choice; Strategic Risk Taking; and more. She Succeeds, the membership site, is launching in November. Join us to use your voice to define your life and build success on your terms.

Julia's mission is to have a meaningful impact on other women through teaching, from her experience of our innate power, and how only through changing our thoughts and beliefs by letting go of fear and pain can we effect true, lasting change. Her intent is to combine my professional experience and education with my deep, personal work to be a guide to working and entrepreneurial women to live a consciously defined professional and personal life. And, to further bring awareness and understanding that we are imperfect and that in our acceptance of what is, we can continue to create what we want it to be. And, it all is okay.

All Systems Grow is a consulting firm that provides entrepreneurs and small to medium businesses the tools needed to create effective systems and processes, implement sound strategies, align executive leaders towards common goals, cultivate accountable cultures, and achieve operational excellence, often acting as the organizations Virtual COO.

From developing and communicating Standard Operating Procedures, to preparing for an exit or sale, to strategic planning and company-wide execution plans, All Systems Grow will help you effectively grow through the growing pains, and take your company to the next level.

Learn more about SheDefined at https://shedefined.com/.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally. 

Let's get cooking! George S. LeMieux is dedicated to serving as a trusted advisor and advocate for significant businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, their officers and boards, as well as high profile individuals in Florida and throughout the country. He focuses his practice on resolving business, and governmental disputes, and advising CEOs and C-suite executives on business, law and government from a local, state and national perspective.

George advocates for clients before state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as governmental agencies and regulatory bodies. He defends clients in enforcement matters brought by state attorneys general, advocates for clients in administrative law proceedings including bid protests, and counsels governmental bodies on public records and public meeting requirements. He has successfully litigated intellectual property and business disputes to verdict.

George leads internal corporate investigations representing boards of directors and has experience in representing independent committees of boards in related party transactions. Because of his breadth of legal experience, his practice also includes professional liability defense.

George served as Florida's 34th United States Senator in the 111th Congress. In the United States Senate, he served on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and the Special Committee on Aging. He successfully passed legislation on health care fraud, export promotion, rating agency reform, small business promotion, as well as a treaty resolution on tactical nuclear weapons.

George served as Florida's deputy attorney general overseeing more than 400 attorneys and appearing before appellate courts on behalf of the state of Florida, including the United States Supreme Court. George also served as the governor's chief of staff overseeing all state agencies and operations. In that role, he negotiated a gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

George serves as the chairman of the board of Gunster law firm. He is the founder of the LeMieux Center for Public Policy at Palm Beach Atlantic University.

Learn more about Gunster at https://gunster.com/.

For more information about Junior Achievement of South Florida, visit https://www.jasouthflorida.org. 

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.

Let's get cooking! No retreat, no surrender. Howard S. Dvorkin lives by those words. They come from his favorite musical artist, Bruce Springsteen. That’s how he approaches all his endeavors: entrepreneurship, two-time author, personal finance expert, community service champion and Chairman of Debt.com.

Howard is one of the most highly regarded debt and credit expert in the United States and has played an instrumental role in drafting both State and Federal Legislation. He is a former consultant to the Board of Directors for the Association of Credit Counseling Professionals (ACCPros) and is the past president of the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies (AICCCA).

Howard’s success in the financial industry has allowed him to be interviewed by countless media outlets over the years including The New York Times, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The American Banker, Investor’s Business Daily, and virtually every national and local newspaper in the country. He has also appeared as a finance expert on national and local television and radio programs, including the CBS Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, The Early Show, Fox News, and CNN.

Howard’s latest book “Power Up: Taking Charge of Your Financial Destiny” (published by Wiley & Sons) provides consumers with the detailed tools that they need to live debt free and regain their financial freedom. It delivers practical prescriptions for dealing with the stresses of daily financial challenges and shows how to lay a solid financial foundation on which to build a secure worry-free future. Howard’s first book, “Credit Hell – How to Dig Out of Debt” (published by Wiley & Sons, revised 2010) detailed how to rise from the debt inferno, the basics of good credit, consumer rights and the warning signs leading to credit problems.

Howard graduated from the University of Miami with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from American University. He is currently listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in the Finance Industry and is part of the premier group of CPAs that are recognized with the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation.

Learn more about Howard at https://www.howarddvorkin.com/.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally. 

Let's get cooking! Susie Levan is a spiritual warrior, author, certified non-denominational pastoral counselor, hypnotherapist, teacher of meditation, life coach, and Reiki Master/Teacher. 

For sixteen years in a male-dominated NYSE company, she enjoyed a successful career as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Susie was shaken to the core to awaken after her N.D.E. in 1988, and from that moment on, her life’s work for the last thirty years has been teaching the importance of meditation and helping women live their best lives. She channeled two meditations CD’s with Grammy nominee new- age musician, Steven Halpern. 

She founded The Work-Life Balance Institute for Women (a 501c3 non-profit) and founded and published Balance Magazine from 1999-2009—a magazine for women directed towards personal growth and self-development. For over twenty years, she has facilitated a bi-weekly Women’s Wisdom Circle to empower, inspire and guide women to amplify their greatness, and discover their destiny to create a meaningful life. 

As a transformational leader and change agent, she speaks frequently on metaphysical and spiritual principals. She lives with her husband and blue-merle mini-poodle—his name is Blu. 

Learn more about her and her book Getting to Forgiveness at http://www.gettingtoforgiveness.com/.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.

Let's get cooking!  As superintendent of the nation’s sixth largest school district – with over 270,000 students in 337 schools and approximately 30,000 employees – Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie is committed to Educating Today’s Students to Succeed in Tomorrow’s World.

Runcie knows first-hand how a high-quality education can transform a person’s life. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States as a young boy and became the first member of his family to attend college, graduating from Harvard University and earning an MBA from Northwestern University. He later founded a management and technology consulting company and held several strategic leadership positions with Chicago Public Schools, including serving as its Chief Information Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Area Instructional Officer and Chief of Staff to the Board of Education.

Runcie joined Broward County Public Schools in 2011. With the support of a dynamic School Board, Runcie developed a strategic plan for the District focusing on three key areas: high-quality instruction, continuous improvement and more effective communications.

As part of these strategic goals, Runcie spearheaded technology innovations in the classroom. Among the initiatives is the Digital 5: Pathways to Personalized Learning project, which provides a blended, personalized learning environment for students and teachers from 100 elementary schools with laptops, digital resources, online instructional materials, and other learning tools to maximize student learning.

In addition, under his leadership, BCPS became the only Florida school district selected for a unique partnership with the national non-profit organization Code.org, to increase students’ opportunities to learn computer science in schools.

Learn more about Broward County Public Schools at https://www.browardschools.com/.

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Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally.  

Let's get cooking! Zach Morrison is the Chief Executive Officer at Tinuiti. 

In 2005, when he joined what was then a two-person search marketing agency Zach couldn’t have predicted the incredible transformation that would occur. He has journeyed from starting business lines to running client service & sales and eventually serving as President & being named CEO of Tinuiti (fka Elite SEM), and member of the board in 2019.  

Zach has led Tinuiti through periods of 100% YoY growth in the early years and with its growth have maintained a steady 25% YoY growth, therefore, doubling its business every three years.  

Today, Tinuiti is one of North America’s largest independent digital marketing agencies managing over $1.5b in media spend across The Trioploy of Google, Facebook, Amazon and more. Having recently steered the agency through three major acquisitions and a rebrand, Zach prides myself on nurturing a people-focused culture that treats employees like owners. Tinuiti has maintained a world-class eNPS above 60 and is consistently recognized through accolades such as Employer of the Year, as well as his recent Top Boss of the Year Award from Digiday. Zach also continues to be involved with key clients working with executives across Tommy Bahama, Ethan Allen, Eddie Bauer, Keurig, California Closets, Etsy, and Terminix  

He is an advocate for change within the industry serving on councils such as Google Leadership Council, while also being a recurring contributor Forbes. Beyond our industry, Zach works to bring change including being a founding member of the COO Alliance and most recently joining the board of Junior Achievement of South Florida.  

Learn more about Tinuiti at https://tinuiti.com/. 

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