Working Without Waste

Vistage is the world’s largest executive coaching organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 60 years we’ve been helping CEOs, business owners and key executives solve their toughest challenges through a comprehensive approach to success. At the heart of our proven formula is confidential peer advisory groups and executive coaching sessions.

Our podcast guest is George Satula, Chairman at Vistage. As a Vistage Chairman, as well as in his private management consulting practice, George's fundamental belief is that business is all about great leadership, developing people, innovation, and operational excellence. Without these core concepts, nothing changes and nothing improves. 

George's Point of View: Business leaders need to have an entrepreneurial mindset, which means superior competency as a strategic thinker and operational planner, be results driven, and be motivational and inspirational for your team. 

Equally important, is having a great culture where people are first, who work with proficient processes, and proudly provide products and services that are meaningfully differentiated, serve a need, and delivers value to customers. 

Doing this, and doing it really well, positions organizations on the best path of business success. 

What George does: Simply stated, he helps build leaders who build organizations. As a Chairman with Vistage Worldwide, he provides business leadership coaching and facilitates progressive leadership groups. George also help business leaders engage in the deeper thinking needed to be more structured and opportunistic. It is his purpose to help leaders “see” the truth (and deal with today’s reality), find simplicity (out of complexity), and engage in enlightenment (to learn more, do more, and be a better leader).

To contact George directly and learn how Vistage can help you - visit his LinkedIn profile: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgesatula

OnSite Waste Technologies is a Newport Beach California-based company dedicated to reducing the cost, risk, and environmental impact of medical waste processing and disposal.

Our podcast guest is Don Suxho, National Account Executive at OnSite Waste Technologies.

Onsite Waste Technologies developed the TE-5000, an innovative desktop-sized processing unit that converts regulated medical waste like syringes into sterile garbage that can be placed in a practice’s regular trash. The TE-5000 reduces the liability associated with the traditional method of hauling waste to a central location by reducing or eliminating the time waste sits in a practice.

It's the future of medical waste processing and it's happening right in practices across the country. The system converts both sharps and red bag waste to non-biohazardous, non-infectious solid waste that can be disposed of as regular trash.

​This smart system monitors itself as waste is processed and automatically sends all required documentation to our cloud-based system. So, compliance documentation is never out of reach.

Not only is the TE-5000 easy to use, it meets or exceeds all EPA, CDC, state and local guidelines.

For small waste producers, The TE-5000 is a greener, cheaper and safer option for handling medical waste disposal than typical haul-away services.

Learn more about the TE-5000 and OnSite Waste Technologies at www.onsitewaste.com

Contact Don Suxho directly at [email protected]

Jeff VanVoorhis, VP at Symbiont Science, Engineering & Construction, Inc. Symbiont is a nationally recognized full-service engineering, design-build, construction firm utilizing innovative engineering technologies that optimize environmental and sustainability goals to enhance our communities and our world. Symbiont’s core business includes wastewater treatment, waste-to-energy, construction, manufacturing production process, and environmental projects. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the company also has a presence in Atlanta, Georgia; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Nashville, Tennessee.

Symbiont’s diverse team includes civil, environmental, chemical, mechanical, structural, electrical, and controls engineers as well as hydrogeologists, construction project managers, environmental compliance specialists, GIS analysts, and technicians.

Jeff has a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Marquette University. He’s been with Symbiont for more than15 years, during which he’s worked on projects like Renewable BioGas Systems at Landfill, Wastewater Treatment and Food Manufacturers; Industrial Wastewater Pre-Treatment Systems. Aerobic & Anaerobic Digesters, Storm Water Management, Brownfield Assessments–and a lot more.

Connect with Jeff
Symbiont LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/symbiont/
Symbiont Website - https://www.symbiontonline.com

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Jason Byer is the marketing and partnerships manager for Crowdspring, a Chicago based branding company that helps businesses, agencies and non-profits of any size start, run and grow their business through great design and naming. Crowdspring dramatically simplifies the design process by handling the complexity so that you can focus on getting great results. Crowdspring was started to address a fundamental problem with the design process, that most clients had little choice and most designers had few opportunities to find clients.

Since launching in 2008, Crowdspring has helped to democratize design around the world. Over 220,000 Crowdspring creatives from 195 countries have helped more than 60,000 of the world’s best entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, and non-profits with logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and naming.

You can listen to Crowdspring's CEO and Founder, Ross Kimbarovsky on the How'd It Happen Podcast, episode 136.

In addition to learning more about how Crowdspring works and the benefits it can provide businesses of all sizes, Jason will also be sharing details on a free special Brand Review offer that Crowdspring is making available to ERC Midwest clients and Working Without Waste listeners.

**Special Offer–Free Website Review and Feedback**

Crowdspring is offering listeners a free website branding review. Taking advantage of this free offer is as easy as it gets. 

1. Email your website link to [email protected] using the Subject Line “WWW Listener Website Review.” 
2. Jason will review your site and send you back a video that details his thoughts on where you are and where you might want to consider going. This is a no strings attached offer. The review is absolutely FREE and there is NO OBLIGATION to work with Crowdspring
3. You will receive a website feedback video from Jason, similar to this example he did for another client - check it out here:  https://share.vidyard.com/watch/HmexoP6Cg5jLweK4Pq1vnZ

Guest Contact Info:

[email protected]

www.Crowdspring.com

Manufacturing has a labor problem. Skilled talent has never been tougher to find. Stagnating wages have driven workers to other industries, while the rise of automation is driving more jobs to be highly skilled.

 Factory Fix decided to fix that problem. They’re building the industry’s largest marketplace, connecting skilled professionals with opportunities to earn more while developing their skills and manufacturers with the right people to get the job done.

 Because of its laser focus on manufacturing, Factory Fix's industry-specific expertise enables the company to best understand the problems facing skilled workers and manufacturers today and into the future.

 Traditional staffing platforms are expensive and slow. @FactoryFix does things differently. Utilizing technology to make the recruitment experience smarter, faster, and cheaper.

Tune in to the Working Without Waste Podcast Episode #19 with guest @ChrisMcCarthy. Chris founded @EarthPaint in 2013 to solve three big problems. The first was a resource problem. There wasn’t a readily available option for reusing the thousands of containers of perfectly good latex paint left over from construction and remodeling projects. The second problem was environmental. Most unused latex paint ended up in landfills. And the third problem was a lack of employment opportunities for people living with disabilities. Earth Paint designed an elegant, comprehensive solution that solves all three of these problems in an amazing way. From their location in Wood Dale, IL Earth Paint upcycles latex paint, improves our community’s environment, and provides meaningful & important vocational work. 

For all its advantages, increased connectivity brings inherent risks of theft, fraud, and abuse. As we become more reliant on modern technology, we also become more susceptible to hacking, security breaches, phishing, social media fraud, privacy infringement, ransomware, identity theft the list is quite long indeed.

In Episode #18 of the Working Without Waste podcast, we learn how Total Digital Security (TDS) disrupts and defeats cybercriminals with Personal Cybersecurity Products and Services. The TDS network security experts, with a deep understanding of the technologies and vulnerabilities malicious actors are targeting, effectively respond to, fend off and protect against cyber incidents. 

TDS helps you accomplish two things; protection from harm getting at your technology and anonymizing the information you send and share online. 

Tune in and get protected.

Working Without Waste Episode #17 guest is Tim Repas, President of Fixed Earth. Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. Fixed Earth rebuilds ecosystems using microscopic tools to do everything from removing difficult pollution all the way to enhancing the growth of forests and improving water quality. Thinking small to overcome big challenges is how they put a visual to the work they do. Better microbes for a cleaner tomorrow. Fixed Earth specializes in four focus areas: Remediation, Ecosystem Restoration, Agriculture and Client Driven Research. They are making rapid advances in the global challenge of PFAS remediation. 

 Recently, Fixed Earth won the Global Water Council’s Fall 2020 Technology Challenge using their PFAS [also known as forever chemicals] degrading microbes to tackle one of the newest and potentially widespread risks to our drinking water supply. Their remediation solutions also target organics, halogenated organics, salinity and inorganics. 

Tim can usually be found where he is most at home: In the lab working to develop new solutions or brainstorming with other experts in the environmental industry.He is passionate about the environment and responsibly mining for resources and a firm believer that we can utilize the resources we require as a society while still acting responsibly towards the environment and the people who interact with that environment.

Episode #16’s guest is Mike Altmayer. Mike is the Safety &Training and Hazardous Waste expert at ERC Midwest. He's a guy who knows hazardous waste. With Mike's guidance, ERC Midwest recently launched an online RCRA Hazardous Waste Training course. This course satisfies the annual training requirements for Federal and State RCRA training mandates for hazardous waste personnel. Whether that's on their desktop, laptop or mobile phone, folks needing training and certification can complete it at their own pace and on their own schedule. Organized in 3 modules, the certification test is administered once the third module is complete and a RCRA training certification is sent directly to the participants email address. All for only $79!  Avoid costly EPA penalties, satisfy annual training requirements, protect personnel, and prevent releases and register today.When you need thorough, convenient and cost-effective hazardous waste training, go to https://rcra.ercmidwest.com/training/register/ and you'll be on your way!  

Guest Contact Info: [email protected]

Episode #15’s guest is Zach Marlin. Zach is the Transportation & Treatment Group Director at ERC Midwest and the author of ERC Midwest’s Newest eBook titled “The Lifecycle of Wastewater”. In this episode, we talk about industrial wastewater treatment. Specifically, Zach will walk you through how ERC manages our client’s wastewater, a process that his book covers in great detail. 

 We cover all of the steps involved in the preparation, removal, treatment, and recycling of industrial wastewater.

 Zach sheds light on the aqueous discard that results from substances having been dissolved or suspended in water, typically during the use of water in an industrial manufacturing process or the cleaning activities that take place along with that process.

 Tune in to learn what happens after treatment. The treated industrial wastewater may be reused or released to a sanitary sewer or to a surface water in the environment which is a common misconception.

 If you’d like a copy of The Lifecycle of Wastewater eBook, you can find it on our website at www.ercmidwest.com.