Rick Mayo founded a personal training business, Alloy Personal Training Center, in 1992. In the past decade, he and his team began helping major brands and independent gyms, health clubs, and fitness businesses around the world deploy personal training systems through a licensing model under the Alloy brand. A subject matter expert on health and Read more about Embracing Change and Staying Focused with Rick Mayo[…]
Growing Your Business with Bryan Gray Bryan Gray became an entrepreneur at the ripe old age of 14 and later led two companies onto the Inc. 500 List. Today, Bryan serves as Chief Executive Officer & Neuro Selling Practice Leader for the Revenue Path Group (RPG). He is also President of MediaSauce, a contributing member Read more about Growing Your Business with Bryan Gray[…]
Eric CoryelI helps organizations identify their strategic position, move accountability down into the organization, and most of all create accountable teams that deliver results. To support these efforts, he also helps individuals and teams establish meaningful metrics, problem solve, deal with their real issues by having difficult conversations, and become accountable to each other. A Read more about Team Leadership & Accountability with Eric Coryell[…]
This is a true story. At the end of the ride, I pinched myself to make sure this wasn’t just another business fantasy of mine… A week ago I was in Detroit, Michigan to speak to a Vistage group on Financial Management. It’s been almost a year now since I retired as a Vistage Chair Read more about The Candyman Can[…]
How often are you in a business position where you are trying to determine if what you are hearing from a stranger is the truth? Maybe a job interview? A prospective new customer? New vendor? I’d guess we find ourselves trying to determine whether a stranger is honest a dozen or more times a day. Read more about Book Review: Talking to Strangers[…]
President of Home Town Mortgage in Alpharetta, GA, Steve Beecham is also an author and popular keynote, Vistage, and motivational speaker in greater Atlanta. Never afraid to start a new business, Steve began his entrepreneurial career in retail as the owner of a men’s and women’s clothing store. Over the years, Steve honed his personal Read more about Earning Referrals, Understanding Buzz, and Blue Skies with Steve Beecham[…]
Many of us are living in the final third of our lives. It’s past halftime. The sound of the marching bands playing at mid-life is a distant memory. As we enjoy this final portion of life there are also a number of fears. Fear of financial well-being. Will we outlive our savings? Fear for our Read more about Book Review: Younger Next Year[…]
Halloween has always been one of my favorite times of the year. I can remember as a kid dressing up in a costume and trying my hardest to scare people as we walked our neighborhood gathering treats. It was fun to frighten others and also to feel frightened from time-to-time as we encountered scary-looking creatures Read more about Five Scariest Moments for a Small Business CEO[…]
Radio disk jockey turned business owner and Vistage Founder, Bud Carter has had a successful and colorful career. Arriving in Atlanta during the 80s, Bud was the owner and general manager of a corporate outplacement company. He was also the founder of Vistage Georgia (known then as TEC) and became the first Vistage Chair in Read more about Founding Vistage, the Changing Role of CEOs, and great BBQ with Bud Carter[…]
Steve Jones is a third generation owner of a beef processing plant in Atlanta, Georgia. For many years, his business has produced some of the best burger patties in the entire Southeast U.S. With his burgers served at many of Atlanta’s best restaurants, he is as close to an expert on hamburgers you’ll ever find. Read more about Where’s the Beef?[…]