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Episode #51 featuring Steven Zanetos, a consultant for Workscapes. Workscapes is a full-service office dealership offering furniture, walls, flooring, architectural products, and space planning. In 25 years, Workscapes has evolved into a multi-million dollar, multiple location enterprise.
Listen to James Ontra and Steven Zanetos talk about what has grown Workscapes into the multi-million dollar enterprise that it is and also their experience being a part of Leadership Tampa Bay’s Class of 2023 as it comes to an end.
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Episode #50 featuring Leah Del Percio, Founder and CEO of Trustate. Trustate is Automated estate operations & trust funding in an easy-to-use platform. Trustate takes care of your estate operations, so you can focus on what matters most... your clients. Leah uses her experience as a lawyer prior to launching Trustate to help build the company into the life changing machine that it is.
Listen to James Ontra and Leah Del Percio talk about the commonly unknown importance behind a company like Trustate and why more people should be prepared to use it.
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Episode #49 featuring Neil Vaswani, Founder and CEO of Corestream. Corestream transforms voluntary benefits for the human resource management industry to increase employee engagement and satisfaction. With more than 14 years of experience in the benefits industry, Neil installed and managed voluntary benefit solutions for numerous organizations, including Pfizer, CVS, Samsung, etc.
Listen to AlexAnndra Ontra and Neil Vaswani talk about the key differences when presenting to a board room versus a bar room.
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Episode #48 featuring Fabrizio Zambrano, Founder of Fabrizio & Sons Marble & Granite Restoration. Fabrizio is a world class granite and marble retailer with decades of experience in perfecting his craft. Frabrizio took his knowledge within the field and turned it into a powerful second generation family business.
Listen to James Ontra and Fabrizio Zambrano talk about the evolution of modern day marketing and what it took to keep a business afloat before social media.
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Episode #47 featuring Logan Higuera, Founder of Open Ocean. Open Ocean helps streamline the way entrepreneurs navigate the journey by making sure they’re aware of the support and resources that are available to them. Open Ocean is “built to enable organizations to deliver inclusive and easy support more efficiently and effectively”.
Listen to James Ontra and Logan Higuera talk about what defines true entrepreneurship and how Open Ocean is a tool every Entrepreneur should use.
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Episode #46 featuring Katie Trott, who is a partner at Foundry Commercial. Foundry Commercial provides both strategic and tactical advisory services to office and industrial occupiers of commercial real estate.
With over 20 years of commercial real estate experience, listen to Katie Trott and James Ontra talk about why now is the time to be in Tampa.
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Episode #45 featuring Jake Henry, CEO and Founder of Lectra Tech. Lectra Tech is a wearables company that is helping pave the path to recovery through conductive therapeutic tape, and recovery analytics. Through personal motivation, Jake’s mission with Lectra Tech is to revolutionize muscle rehabilitation by providing accessible and connective solutions
Listen to Alexanndra Ontra and Jake Henry talk about what motivated him to pursue Lectra Tech and the impact it will have on the world by speeding up the recovery process.
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Episode #44 featuring Billie Shepard. Billie is a coach for corporate speakers and runs her own company “Billie Shepard & Associates”. Billie has been a presentation coach, professional actor, and acting coach for decades. As founder of Billie Shepard & Associates, she has leveraged her unique presentation training, transforming corporate executives, engineers, financial analysts, HR professionals and all types of public speakers into influential presenters and communicators.
Listen to AlexAnndra Ontra and Billie Shepard discuss Billie’s “Presentation Method” and the four fundamental components of presenting in the present moment
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Episode #43 featuring Kamran Malik, otherwise known as “Mr.Kamraman”. Kamran has been a self-taught professional photographer for over 20 years now. His passion for photography started when his father bought him a camera at the age of eight. Since then, he’s established a well known brand for himself in portrait photography throughout the Tampa Bay Area. Kamran specializes in Athletic Portraits, Branding Portraits, Senior Portraits, and Headshots for Artists and Professionals.
Listen to James Ontra and Kamran Malik talk about the importance of being passionate in their work and how crucial that passion is for them to stay motivated
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Episode #42 featuring Frank Mattes, author of “Lean Scaleup”. Frank has decades of experience in corporate innovation and he used his knowledge to put together his book “Lean Scaleup”. The book serves as a guide for corporate practitioners to learn how to build new businesses.
Listen to James Ontra and Frank Mattes discuss how today's companies are only replicating past success stories but are unable to create new ones of their own and how this problem impacts the world we live in
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Have you ever felt like poking your eyes with needles when creating a slide deck? Felt humiliated and deflated after given an important presentation. Or maybe just embarrassed in front of your…
Then you’ve been to Presentation Hell.
Post pandemic, we are all making more presentations online than ever before. So, we need new, better skills to raise our presentation game. And, since there are fewer opportunities to speak and meet in person, the stakes are higher. We can’t afford to make a mistake, fall on our face and lose that one precious opportunity to make a 5 star impression.
Even from our phones, we are carrying social media posts, pictures, videos, documents everywhere we go. Every time we pull out our phone to show and tell, we are giving a presentation. It’s another chance to make a great impression. All the world is a stage. All the world is a presentation.