Junior Achievement of South Florida Recipe for Success

With the changing work environment, Junior Achievement of South Florida's Recipe for Success podcast show has evolved to a virtual, interactive interview session with President and CEO Laurie Sallarulo and various guests. Learn more about these top professionals' main ingredient in their recipe of professional and personal success.

Let's get cooking! This week's episode welcomes Arminda "Mindy" Figueroa.  Mindy is a connector, marketer, entrepreneur, author, award winning business owner, founder and president of Latin2Latin Marketing + Communications (L2L).  L2L connects brands, talent, businesses, communities, government and media partners to create winning solutions.

Learn more at http://www.latin2latin.com/.

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With the changing work environment, Junior Achievement of South Florida's Recipe for Success podcast show has evolved to a virtual, interactive interview session with President and CEO Laurie Sallarulo and various guests. Learn more about these top professionals' main ingredient in their recipe of professional and personal success.

Let's get cooking! This episode welcomes John Ray III, President & CEO of Sonitrol Security Solutions. The company provides customized, fully integrated solutions for networked access control, verified audio and video intrusion detection, networked video surveillance and fire detection. Sonitrol Security Solutions has grown throughout the South Florida region by providing innovative electronic security technology to commercial, industrial/distribution, education and governmental clients.

John is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the electronic security and industry. Skilled in Entrepreneurship, Physical Security, Fire Protection, Team Building, and Video Analytics. Strong business development professional graduated from Millsaps College Else School of Management.

For more information visit www.securefl.com.

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With the changing work environment, Junior Achievement of South Florida's Recipe for Success podcast show has evolved to a virtual, interactive interview session with President and CEO Laurie Sallarulo and various guests. Learn more about these top professionals' main ingredient in their recipe of professional and personal success.

Lets's get cooking! This episode welcomes Kim Sweers, Founder, Managing Partner and Owner of FB Marine Group. 

FB Marine Group is a family-owned and operated business, founded in 1994 by its current owners Randy and Kim Sweers. The Sweers have followed their vision to build FB Marine Group into one of America’s leading marine dealerships with locations in Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and a future HQ location in Pompano Beach, Florida offering clients new/preowned sales, service, financing, parts, charter, and yacht management.

Today, FB Marine Group has over 30 employees most of which are Mercury, Yamaha, Volvo, and Suzuki trained service technicians along with an extensive inventory of parts and accessories. FBMG also offers yacht management, complete electronics repair and installation, fiberglass and paint repair and custom engine builds and rigging. FB Marine Group has long been known for its expertise in the boating industry for sales and service of some of the top names in the business such as Contender, Sessa, Statement Marine, Intrepid, Nortech, Cigarette, Century Boats, Victory Boats among many others.

Over the past 25 years, FB Marine Group has sought to expand its sales and service business with greater emphasis on luxury yachts, cruisers, center consoles, hi-performance, and runabouts. The company, also, has a government services division that has long term service contracts with numerous agencies. FB Marine Group has a diverse team of talented individuals, many of whom have worked in the marine industry for their entire professional careers. The Sweers believe in hiring the “best of the best” and support ongoing education to keep team members on the cutting edge of technology.

For more information about FB Marine Group, visit: https://www.fbmarinegroup.com/.

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

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With the changing work environment, Junior Achievement of South Florida's Recipe for Success podcast show has evolved to a virtual, interactive interview session with President and CEO Laurie Sallarulo and various guests. Learn more about these top professionals' main ingredient in their recipe of professional and personal success.

Lets's get cooking! This episode welcomes Maureen Shea, CEO and Co-Founder of Right Management. Maureen drives Right’s growth in diverse talent management and career management services for privately and publicly owned companies throughout Florida and the Caribbean Region. Previously, she served as Chief Financial Officer since 1986.  

As a strategic resource, Maureen makes it her mission to “Guide and Inspire” her team and colleagues region wide. Recognized for helping shape and support South Florida’s HR profession, she serves on the President’s Council of the Human Resource Association of Broward County. She was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2009.  

Maureen was honored with the Enterprising Women of the Year Award, Leadership Broward’s Profiles In Leadership Award, Florida Diversity Council’s Glass Ceiling Award, and has received South Florida Business Journal’s CFO of the Year award. Recognizing her community leadership, the National Conference of Community and Justice presented her with its Silver Medallion Award, and she was inducted into Junior Achievement’s South Florida’s Business Hall of Fame. Right Management – Florida/Caribbean was named 2013’s Socially Responsible Corporation of the Year by the Casimiro Global Foundation.  

Maureen has served on the Board of Trustees and the Finance committee for Holy Cross Hospital. She is a Leadership Broward Foundation alumna, a board member of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California and a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Thomas University. She has served on the finance committee of United Way of Broward.  

A prominent insurance and HR executive before joining Right Management, Maureen was director of Recruiting for Mass Mutual Life Insurance Company and Lincoln National Life. Among many honors, while at Lincoln National Life she earned the “Recruiter of the Year” Award as the top recruiter in the nation. Her undergraduate degree is from Kean College in New Jersey.  

For more information about Right Management, visit: https://www.rightflorida.com/

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

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With the changing work environment, Junior Achievement of South Florida's Recipe for Success podcast show has evolved to a virtual, interactive interview session with President and CEO Laurie Sallarulo and various guests. Learn more about these top professionals' main ingredient in their recipe of professional and personal success.   

Lets's get cooking! This episode welcomes Andrew Koenig, President of CIty Furniture. Andrew graduated with degrees in Finance and Accounting from Elon University in 2005 and received his MBA in Entrepreneurship from Nova Southeastern University – Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship. Andrew began his full-time career with City Furniture in January 2006 in the Receiving Department unloading furniture on containers, and has worked his way up through the company and in almost all divisions of the company. He spent a significant time streamlining the Operations Department in the first 8 years of his career to become one of the industry’s best.   

Currently, Andrew is serving as President of City Furniture, overseeing all departments of the business. Shortly before joining City Furniture, Andrew studied Lean Philosophy at Toyota’s headquarters in Toyota City, Japan. After learning from Toyota and other Lean companies in the United States and abroad, Andrew introduced Lean Thinking to City Furniture in 2007. Ever since, City Furniture has been on a Lean Journey to create a culture of mutual trust and respect, teamwork and a deep sense of urgency to continuously improve.   

Since the implementation of Lean, the company has seen many major breakthroughs in turnover reduction, operational process improvement, customer experience, safety, associate satisfaction, strategic planning, financial success and much more.   The journey is never over and Andrew & Sr. Team are working very hard to implement Lean Thinking throughout the company which is now been renamed as “The City Furniture Operating System (CFOS).”   

Andrew is extremely lucky to have 1 amazing wife Deana (who he met during his MBA) and 3 beautiful kids (Aaron 3, Daya 2, & Christian 1). Andrew is the son of Keith Koenig & nephew to Kevin Koenig, the founders of Waterbed City in 1971 which ultimately converted to City Furniture in 1994. Andrew currently serves as the Vice Chair on Junior Achievement's Board of Directors.  

For more information about City Furniture, visit: https://www.cityfurniture.com/   

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

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With the changing work environment, Junior Achievement of South Florida's Recipe for Success podcast show has evolved to a virtual, interactive interview session with President and CEO Laurie Sallarulo and various guests. Learn more about these top professionals' main ingredient in their recipe of professional and personal success.   

Lets's get cooking! This episode welcomes Alan Garcia, Ernst & Young (EY) LLP Boca Raton Office Managing Partner. In this role, Alan leads a team of 190 professionals and is responsible for developing and engaging the firm's people, creating high-performing teams, driving market leadership across service lines and enhancing the EY brand.  

Garcia has more than 22 years of experience serving SEC registrants and multinational clients, in addition to 12 years of experience serving software, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and technology clients. He is also the firm’s US-Central Region Technology Media and Telecommunications Assurance Market Segment Leader. 

Garcia and his wife Kim have a six-year-old son, George, and live in South Florida. Garcia earned a Bachelor of Administration in Accounting and a Master of Accounting from the University of Miami. He is a certified public accountant licensed in Florida and Georgia and is also a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.  EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available via ey.com/privacy. 

For more information about our organization, please visit https://www.ey.com/en_us.  

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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 Jack Harris, President & Chief Executive Officer of 3DE Schools, an organization focused on transforming high school education to significantly expand economic opportunity. Through integrated public/private partnerships, 3DE uses case methodology to re-engineer learning and create academic environments that are more relevant, experiential, and authentically connected to life beyond the classroom walls.

In 2015, Harris spearheaded the pilot launch of the first 3DE high school in one of metro Atlanta's highest-poverty and lowest-performing high schools, leading to a 47 percent increase in graduation rates and a 30 percent reduction in transiency in four short years. 3DE was incubated within Junior Achievement of Georgia, where Jack was President & CEO for 10 years, after initially joining the JA Worldwide organization as the Director of International Operations in 2002. Harris is currently leading the $55 million effort to expand 3DE to 55 schools by 2024, building to the long-term goal of 500 schools by 2030.

Jack holds a degree in Politics and a certificate in Political Economy from Princeton University, and spent parts of his early career in both education and business. He serves on the Board of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and is a member of YPO Southern 7. Harris often speaks on the role of public/private partnerships in education, and has been recognized for his work in education and economic development, being named one of Atlanta Business Chronicle's 40 under 40 in 2009 and one of Atlanta's Most Admired CEOs in 2017.

Learn more about 3DE at https://www.3deschools.org/.

Recipe For Success is filmed live every Wednesday afternoon at 1 pm in the Huizenga Catering Kitchen at JA World Huizenga Center at the Lillian S. Wells Pavilion. It is hosted by Laurie Sallarulo, President & CEO of Junior Achievement of South Florida. The show appears live on video on Facebook and Instagram. The audio is posted two days later on JA’s YouTube Channel and various podcast sites.

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 Bill Feinberg. Family owned and operated by Bill & Joe Feinberg, along with their two brothers, Allied Kitchen & Bath is your trusted kitchen and bathroom design and remodeling firm in South Florida.  A company built on trust, quality and customer service, Allied is a highly respected, true one-stop destination for the best in kitchen, bathroom, home design and remodeling.  Allied has been serving homeowners in the Tri-County area for over 35 years.  As a professional, licensed and insured Residential General Contractor with over 65 employees, we are well equipped to complete any home remodeling project from start to finish.  While having the most Certified Kitchen and Bathroom designers and Certified Aging in Place Specialists in all of Florida, Allied is a leader when it comes to innovation, style and design.  Our showrooms feature innovative kitchens, bathrooms, outdoor living space, appliances, decorative hardware and plumbing, as well as a complete tile and stone showroom.  Allied is well established in the community and is a strong industry partner throughout South Florida.  We serve homeowners, designers, builders, architects and contractors, and the culture of our company is to continuously “pay it forward” and give back to the community in which we serve.

Philanthropy / Community - Bill Feinberg underwrites and hosts numerous charities in his 2 locations. Allowing the charity to raise monies that go back to those they serve and at no cost to the nonprofits. For close to ten years, Bill has hosted over 100 charities with hundreds of guests and has helped raise over 5 million dollars going directly back into the community. Bill proudly sits on many nonprofit boards.

Learn more about Allied Kitchen & Bath at https://www.alliedkitchenandbath.com/.

Recipe For Success is filmed live every Wednesday afternoon at 1 pm in the Huizenga Catering Kitchen at JA World Huizenga Center at the Lillian S. Wells Pavilion. It is hosted by Laurie Sallarulo, President & CEO of Junior Achievement of South Florida. The show appears live on video on Facebook and Instagram. The audio is posted two days later on JA’s YouTube Channel and various podcast sites.

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 Rob Kornahrens, CEO & President of Advanced Roofing Inc. Rob was born in Long Island NY in 1957; he is the youngest of 4 boys. During High School he worked with a commercial roofing contractor, Triple M Roofing from Long Island. Every summer he would come back to Triple M Roofing and work on the roofs, until graduating in 1979 from the University of Arizona with a BS in Business Administration. This is where he became a rugby player. Upon graduating from the University of Arizona he had to make a decision to go into family business on long island manufacturing refueling equipment for airports or take a position with Triple M Roofing to open the new branch in Atlanta Georgia. Doing some research, he found out Atlanta had the Atlanta Renegades Rugby Club, one of the best rugby clubs in the Southeast United States, thus the decision to go to Atlanta.

Rob was successful in Atlanta and the owner decides to move him to Fort Lauderdale to take over an existing operation. He was successful there as well, and in 1983 he decided to borrow $15K form his dad and buy a pick-up truck to start his own business. From that point on he focused on customer service in the commercial reroofing business and it has grown steadily for the last 35 years. They have been in the top 10 Commercial Roofing Contractors in the United States and #1 in Florida. Today Advanced Roofing has 7 branches throughout the State of Florida and employs approximately 500 people.

In 2002, he was a Founding member of Roof Connect. Roof Connect is a National Organization of Roofing Contractors Independently owned and have their own service regions. There are 120 branches nationally serving many national accounts like; Walmart, Home Depot and Dollar General, etc. Rob presently sits on the Board of Roof Connect.

In 2007 he started Advanced Green Technologies (AGT) as a solar distributor for a thin film solar panel, he also started his solar contracting business at the same time. Today AGT is the top commercial rooftop solar contractor in the State of Florida and recently completed two 2 Mega Watt Solar carports at Lockheed Martin (approximately 600 cars). The succession planning with Kevin and Michael is under way and they have purchased 2 roofing companies in the State of Florida to expand their geographic footprint and grow the Service, Air Conditioning, Lightening Protection, Roofing and Solar Business. Rob has positioned the company along with all his associates to have the best brand in the State.

Learn more about Advanced Roofing Inc. at https://www.advancedroofing.com/

Recipe For Success is filmed live every Wednesday afternoon at 1 pm in the Huizenga Catering Kitchen at JA World Huizenga Center at the Lillian S. Wells Pavilion. It is hosted by Laurie Sallarulo, President & CEO of Junior Achievement of South Florida. The show appears live on video on Facebook and Instagram. The audio is posted two days later on JA’s YouTube Channel and various podcast sites.

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 Harry S. Patten, the Owner, Chairman and Founder of National Land Partners, LLC, a successful land sales company, which to date has sales in excess of more than $2.5 billion in land and NLP Finance, LLC, a mortgage servicing company.  

As the foremost buyer and seller of rural and recreational land in America, Mr. Patten has generated billions of dollars in land sales over the course of his career, which began in 1962.  

Mr. Patten learned to love and value land from his father, who was a land trader in the early 1900’s. In 1965, he founded Patten Realty Corporation based in Stamford, Vermont. In 1966, Patten Realty Corporation restructured to become Patten Corporation and developed a series of partnerships throughout the Northeast. He served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President. The highly effective sales techniques and programs innovated by Mr. Patten are still used by most major land development companies in America.  

Mr. Patten also played a major role in the development of JA World Huizenga Center at the Lillian S. Wells Pavilion. Each year, 20,000 8th graders from Broward and south Palm Beach counties discover financial literacy and budgeting skills, as well as career opportunities in the Patten Family Foundation JA Finance Park.  

Learn more about Patten Family Companies: https://www.pattenfamilycompanies.com/index.html

Recipe For Success is filmed live every Wednesday afternoon at 1 pm in the Huizenga Catering Kitchen at JA World Huizenga Center at the Lillian S. Wells Pavilion. It is hosted by Laurie Sallarulo, President & CEO of Junior Achievement of South Florida. The show appears live on video on Facebook and Instagram. The audio is posted two days later on JA’s YouTube Channel and various podcast sites.