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Jeffrey Mosher speaks with Foster Swift's Senior Attorney Stephen W. Smith, he will be the August co-host of the company's virtual coffee break held the second Wednesday morning of each month.

Moderated by Practice Group Leader Patricia Scott, real estate attorney Steve Smith will discuss the topic “What Unit Owners and Buyers Need to Know”. Steve will share his knowledge and experience representing and counseling Michigan condominium associations to enlighten and inform unit owners and potential buyers of key aspects of condominium ownership and management.

While not a substitute for legal advice, ‘2nd Wednesday Morning Break’ will give individuals, business owners and managers an opportunity to gain insight in this changing legal environment. Meeting registration and details are listed below.

What: 2nd Wednesday Morning Break with Foster Swift

When: Wednesday, August 12 from 9:00-9:30 am

Fee: Free to attend

Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvd-6gqjMqGNbZvIqKH_8DLH_fuzJ9qvlr

Jeffrey Mosher speaks with Bob Taylor, Founder, CEO, Owner, Alliant Healthcare, as Michigan Medical Manufacturer Offers COVID-19 Antibody Test Kits Amidst Return to Work

Grand Rapids-based Alliant Healthcare now distributes a rapid, 10-minute antibody at-home test kit available to the public, which tests for both IgM and IgG strands.

Hear about the kits and how they can help companies.

Jeffrey Mosher speaks with Wade Halma, General Manager, GP Reeves, Holland, MI. Seven companies are collaborating on a project and product line that can assist in businesses and schools returning to operation.

• Holland-based company, GP Reeves, has launched a line of hand sanitizer dispensers in collaboration with other Michigan businesses to ensure schools and businesses can reopen safely amid the pandemic.

• GP Reeves partnered with several local companies including, New Holland Brewing Company for bulk quantities of sanitizer as well as Cusack Manufacturing and Primera Plastics to increase production capacity.

• The Defense Dispense™ product line includes several models designed to improve on the design flaws of existing products in the market.

• As the pandemic persists, GP Reeves continues to expand the Defense Dispense™ product offerings to meet growing local and national demand.

• GP Reeves built upon their nearly 50 years of dispensing experience to launch the new product line. About Defense Dispense Systems™:

• Defense Dispense™ systems provide the largest supply containers available to serve a large number of individuals with fewer sanitizer refills or battery changes.

• This, in turn, is easier to maintain and means sanitizer is more readily available.

• Due to increased demand, competitor products are experiencing a shortage of hand sanitizer replacement bags or cartridges for their basic wall mounted units. 834DESIGN.COM 616.288.0470

• Defense Dispense™ includes several systems to mount the touchless dispenser which can be powered 3 different ways: battery, wall plug-in, or a 12-volt direct wire to a vehicle or production line.

• When looking at one gallon of sanitizer per month, the GP Reeves Defense Dispense™ systems’ average prices are far lower than the leading competitor.

• Sanitizer refills for the Defense Dispense™ line range from 32 ounces to 55 gallons, making them the perfect solution for a wide range of consumption.

• Businesses and schools interested in learning more about the Defense Dispense™ Systems can find more information here: https://defensedispense.com/ About GP Reeves:

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

For July 2020 Mastering Negotiations. In business, it’s very easy to become focused on wanting exactly what we want. We’ve brought our team together to collaborate on an idea, we’ve done some initial investigation of options and strategies, and now we hit the execution phase - time to go make stuff happen. We reach out to vendors and suppliers to pull together the resources we need, in the timeframe we want, but we begin to encounter some challenges - the timing won’t work, the preferred methodologies are not supported by specific vendors, or the vendors begin to insert their “expertise” into our plan and things begin to get bogged down.

Give their interview a listen.

Raised in the upper peninsula as a proud "Yooper" Ann Sherman has made an incredible journey. She has learned a variety of lessons that translate into critical cornerstone principles to manage and lead by. As the Vice President of Business & Finance at California State University, Chico, Ann shares several noteworthy leadership concepts. In this fun and engaging interview, she will explain the 6 key leadership duties that help to clarify the leadership clutter that busy managers get caught up with.

Join the fun as we "welcome home" our yooper friend and get some real wisdom from a great thought leader and Michigan native.

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In a lead-up to the 2020 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Gala Celebration Jeffrey Mosher spoke with several winning companies from this cycle. Due to the COVID-19, this year’s gala will take place on July 28th online! Please visit https://michigancelebrates.org/

Here, he speaks with Nate McFadden who is President and Owner of Elevated Technologies, Inc (ETI). Elevated Technologies was nominated as SBA’s Small Business Person of the Year.

About Elevated Technologies, Inc (ETI)

Elevated Technologies, Inc (ETI) has been exclusively focused on maintaining, modernizing and installing elevator systems for over 32 years. They offer 24/7 support on all services, including maintenance, modernization and repairs. Their team reduces cost and risk for facility managers by using highly trained, highly experienced IUEC elevator technicians familiar with all manufacturers’ makes and models. They have maintained, modernized and repaired over 2000 elevators over this 32 year period at some of the nation's most prestigious public and private institutions. - https://www.elevatedinc.com/

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In a lead-up to the 2020 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Gala Celebration Jeffrey Mosher spoke with several winning companies from this cycle. Due to the COVID-19, this year’s gala will take place on July 28th online! Please visit https://michigancelebrates.org/

Here, he speaks with Tobi Moore who is CEO of Ngage Management. Ngage Management was nominated as a Michigan 50 Company to watch for 2020.

About Ngage Management

Ngage Management is a full-service multi-client association management company. They work in partnership with boards of directors to provide high energy leadership, operational and event management. Thier clients are primarily small to mid-size state and national associations, non-profits and professional societies.

Ngage Management is staffed by a team of experts who provide the personal service your members expect. Best of all, we are passionate about the power of association.

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Chris Holman talks with the newly appointed Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, Trevor Pawl. This interview covers Governor Whitmer's plans for this new position, the scope of the role as Chief Mobility Officer, and the current status of PlanetM.

In the video above, Chris congratulates Trevor on the new position and new child. Trevor shares that Governor Whitmer wants a stronger MI economy, expand that, unify the efforts of the wide-ranging mobility under one common vision to compete globally, changing the way we move over the next 2-3 decades.

Trevor emphasizes how mobility is wide-reaching, beyond auto, there are drones, autonomous logistics, trains, all intended to speed up the pace of the economy. In light of COVID-19, they are seeing supply chains becoming more regional, such as seen with PPE.

While not a direct report this position is dotted-line to the governor, MEDC, as well as LEO, have ownership stakes along with MDOT and EGLE, a lot of great people across departments.

PlanetM shifts in the new arrangement, as they will double-down on projects that worked, like assisting the elderly in the U.P., projects assisting in Detroit, and helping start-ups.

Trevor sees them working with MICHauto, and other organizations across the state, however, mobility is shifting from basic robo-taxi efforts and mindset to the movement of goods, trucking, smart-infrastructure, what you can do with roads to help make longer time decisions, safer for the decade to come.

Chris Holman catches up with Anum Mughal, Manager of New Ventures, Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP), which is being recognized as the Capital Area Michigan Works! MVP (Most Valuable Partner) for July 2020.

Chris's topic to cover with Anum was One&All Inclusive Entrepreneurship Initiative

Anum's key points:

- Explanation of what inclusive entrepreneurship is and why it matters

- Explanation of ALICE and why One&All focuses on this

- Describe how the program works and timelines, mention partners and funders and where to go to apply

- Solicit mentors

Anum shared about new and better ways to do a lot of work, busy every day helping those who need LEAP's support SBDC capitol region and Piper and Gold, 2-month program of mentoring for entrepreneurs, $2500 grant after graduation from the program, lower barriers for starting new businesses, working with Fledge, and refugee center, market trying to reach, those not usually comfortable coming to LEAP, ... getting above the ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed), threshold, partnerships with MEDC, working people who are still asset limited and income constrained, those making more than poverty but not household needs, inclusive group.

Chris Holman talks with Glenn R. Stevens, Executive Director, MICHauto and Vice President, Automotive and Mobility Initiatives, Detroit Regional Chamber, Detroit, MI. They cover what MICHauto has been up to during COVID-19 and next month's CAR Management Briefing Seminars.

In that video above, Chris asks Glenn how COVID-19 has been for MICHauto, and it has actually been quite a ride, there was the abrupt shutdown, a pivot in the industry to contribute to manufacturing PPE, questions on what are safety protocols, recovery, and launch. Folks and companies are working smart and playing smart outside of our working environment.

Chris remarked how members of his CEO Networks are experiencing the same things of how to contend, how transition, how coming out. MICHauto has along with the Detroit Chamber supported the Mask-up pledge connected with safety protocols.

While a big event on the year is next month with CAR Management Briefing Seminars, before then MICHauto along with CAR will be hosting a webinar on July 30th to talk about the industry, auto manufacturing continues to have a ripple effect more information available at michauto.com.

From their perspective the Michigan Mobility Initiative sees the state striving to be a global center, governor's appointment, Trevor in the new role, working through PlanetM it's a next step. Michigan put the world on wheels, electrification, collaboration, legislative caucuses can focus on the future and they're seeing good enthusiasm levels.