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Economic development is always an exciting topic, especially as it relates to the Lansing region.

On this episode on Bottom Line IT, host Mike Maddox of ASK sits down with Keith Lambert of the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) and Haochen Sun of Continental Oceans Technology Company (COTC).

COTC was born out of the desire to support international students coming overseas to the United States.

Economic development is always an exciting topic, especially as it relates to the Lansing region.

On this episode on Bottom Line IT, host Mike Maddox of ASK sits down with Keith Lambert of the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) and Haochen Sun of Continental Oceans Technology Company (COTC).

COTC was born out of the desire to support international students coming overseas to the United States.

Economic development is always an exciting topic, especially as it relates to the Lansing region.

On this episode on Bottom Line IT, host Mike Maddox of ASK sits down with Keith Lambert of the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) and Haochen Sun of Continental Oceans Technology Company (COTC).

COTC was born out of the desire to support international students coming overseas to the United States.

Chuck Embs, President of Chesme Capital Management and Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve has served, led, and given in many great ways. After transitioning from active duty to the Air Force Reserve, Chuck founded Chesme Capital Management in 2003 on the basic principle of providing prudent investment advice and fiduciary counsel that is free from the many conflicts-of-interest inherent to the financial services industry. Today, Chuck continues to set the strategic direction of the firm and oversees all operations and compliance efforts.

Chuck continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve and he is the Co-Founder of Zero Day, a not-for-profit organization serving military Veterans through education, vocational training, counseling, and housing assistance.

Listen in for a great perspective on leadership and his thinking on the foundational elements of business... Strategic, Operational and Tactical processes. A great mind and a humble leader!

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Rob Scott, Regional Administrator for Region 5 of the U.S. Small Business Administration, overseeing the delivery of the agency’s financial assistance, technical assistance, and government contracting activities throughout Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, along with SBA Michigan District Director Constance Logan made several stops across Michigan last week. Chris Holman caught up with them during the middle of that tour.

Rob and Connie were in the midst of a 3-day Michigan listening tour finding out from small business about

(1)Disaster Relief,

(2) Economic Development, how public-private partnerships have or can work going forward,

(3) Feedback on the PPP loans

(4) Feedback on other loans

business listening tour was in

Grand Rapids Wednesday 9/2/20.

Thursday 9/3 Sanford, Midland, and Saginaw, Michigan.

Friday 9/4 Rochester Hills, MI.

Chris Holman connects with Steve Klaver, Co-Owner, Vice President, C.O.O. of DBI.

They discuss a periodic update on how things are for DBI, especially how the company that deals in office supplies, office furniture, design and installation has been navigating circumstances during the COVID19 era.

Steve shares that they're doing great, COVID definitely affected them leading to the furloughed of a bunchof workers, the company is bringing some back, and those workers are following social distancing, selling lots of PPE equipment.

Office supplies, office furniture, occurs mostly business to business, however, there's the retail outlet in Lansing that's seeing people setting up home offices - quite busy. These furloughs are a mix of different slowdowns of their customers,... constructions slow, local schools not doing the same set of supplies, work from home, and competition from folks at home who simply make Amazon orders,...

Design of offices transitioning, and being mindful of the offices of the future, cubicle designs with low panels, going back to high panels or plex-glass, providing a barrier, masks, hand sanitizer, right-sized for the time being, initially thought we'd be closer to normal by now, but that hasn't happened. But by the new year hopefully will put us closer to normal.

Jeffrey Mosher welcomes Dave Heisey back to the Michigan Business Beat, discussing another Crestcom module.

For August 2020 Personal accountability seems to be on the decline around the world. Just listen to the evening news or read social media for a few minutes, and you can pretty quickly see rocks flying through the air in a world filled with glasshouses. But outside of the highly visible world of broadcast television and social media, you can still find people who believe that their future, their success or failure, their happiness, and the impact they make is within their control.

Learn about three pillars of performance and eight rungs on a ladder describing levels of accountability.

Coming to the capital from the east side, people can't help but to notice the large new seven story building taking over the skyline. Exciting times for Mid-Michigan! Over $450 million dollars in new construction. It takes many great people to build a health system for so many. Meet Lynn Griffor, executive director of the McLaren Lansing Foundation.

New to Lansing, Lynn started out at the McLaren Port Huron Foundation in 2015. She worked with that Foundation’s board of trustees to develop and successfully implement a strategic plan that raised over $5 million to support an inpatient tower expansion, as well as the creation of a Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute cancer center. When it comes to supporting McLaren Greater Lansing’s replacement hospital, Griffor announced in June that the Foundation has set a goal of $10 million to be raised during the next three years.

Lynn is passionate about the cause, she cares deeply for the McLaren team and has a commitment to the people the hospital serves! Listen in to hear all the great news and what it means to help build legacies...the kind of stuff dreams are made of!

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Senator Gary Peters joins Chris Holman to talk about the importance of protecting small businesses during COVID. He shares his experience with PPE and its current status as well as providing other assistance for small businesses in Michigan. He also shares his concerns with the U.S. Post Office and some of the issues it has been having. Listen to the full interview with Senator Gary Peters now!

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On this episode of Bottom Line IT, host Mike Maddox of ASK sits down with Phil Sponsler who is the President of Orbitform. Together, they debunk the most common myths surrounding cybersecurity and reveal some sobering truths that might be the wakeup call your organization needs.

As a business leader, the threat of data breaches and ransomware attacks is something Phil understands extremely well. In fact, Orbitform has been the subject of three separate cyberattacks themselves.

In this episode of six interviews hear Phil and Mike discuss several misconceptions surrounding cybersecurity.