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PRESENTS FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 17 | 7:45AM JANUARY 31 | 7:45AM
Vicki Morris
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I2C Building - UAH 850 Ben Graves Drive Huntsville, AL 35806 J A N U A R Y
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SUSTAINING SUPPORTERS EVENT MANAGEMENT BY This event is brought to the North Alabama Entrepreneurial community by the team at Face To Face Marketing, led by Vicki Morris, president and founder. A Public Relations and Project Management firm. Want to connect with them, click the logo for a link to their website.
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Invention to Innovation Center at UAH
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Accommodations for several morning events have been graciously provided by the brand new I2C Center at UAH and the wonderful team at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Click the images for a direct link to their websites.
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EVENTS & INFO Information about networking events, business seminars, and other opportunities to grow your business. Please contact event organizer for more details on tickets, dates, locations, audience.
ENGAGE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP Begin building your community of support and discover the importance of communicating your business effectively. Whether you are just starting or already established, this workshop provides you the assistance and resources you need to be successful at any stage of the business lifecycle. Fri, January 10, 2020 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
INNOVATE HSV Stay tuned for details on the 2020 Schedule of events and seminars. This will mark the 5th anniversary of this North Alabama entrepreneurial ecosystem event. Updates on Facebook, and www.innovatehsv.com Dates are Feb 21 - Feb 29, 2020
BREAKFAST & BIZ Breakfast & Biz is an excellent way to network in a facilitated, structured environment. Individuals are placed in groups of 4-6 and are given one minute to share their organization's benefits and services with the group. Tables rotate at least five times during the event, giving attendees a tremendous opportunity to initiate new business contacts in a short period of time. Be sure to bring plenty of business cards! January 28 , 2020 | 7:00AM - 9:00AM
R.I.S.E. 2020 Morning Schedule January 17 - I2C January 31 - I2C February 21 - I2C February 28 - I2C March 6 - I2C March 20 - I2C April 17 - I2C May 1 - I2C June 5 - HudsonAlpha June 19 - HudsonAlpha July 10 - HudsonAlpha July 24 - HudsonAlpha
August 7 - I2C August 21 - I2C September 18 - I2C October 2 - I2C October 16 - I2C November 13 - I2C December 11 - IC2
Each RISEÂ event is completely free to attend, always. However, we need your financial support to help us bring a quality event to you time and time again. www.therisegrouphsv.com
R.I.S.E. has a new Video Series!! R.I.S.E. has always valued bringing the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem quality content and information. We are proud to expand upon that through our NEW Video Series. This series will cover local business owners and details their struggles, success, and how they are impacting the Huntsville/Madison area.
Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel here: R.I.S.E. Youtube
We are always seeking new and interesting ways to add value for our loyal audience!
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Legacy Health Chiropractic owners Dr. Brandon Hart and his wife Rashida Hart, for the new R.I.S.E. Video series!!
The Harts share their startup story, tips they found useful on funding, and the told us about why they do what they do! Being business partners and husband and wife can have its challenges, but the Harts have found a winning balance. Their story is fun, exciting, and you can't help but get caught up in their energy, and excitement for each other and their business!
Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel here: R.I.S.E. Youtube
e l o C About Cole Wasdin is the CEO of Verity Consulting, where she helps clients create clarity and purpose in the employee experience. She loves to use HR Strategy to improve organizational culture and effectiveness. Cole's focus is connecting culture, strategy, and leadership to yield significant and sustainable results for clients. She leads organizational culture change projects, lending her passion for stakeholder involvement to the process and providing clients with recommendations for transformation that sticks. Cole works with team leaders to make sure that their policies, words, and actions are expressing the team's priorities and values, from recruiting to off-boarding and all that happens in between. She brings a unique lens to HR with her background in sociology, start-ups, and performance arts. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX and is an Everything DiSCÂŽ Authorized Partner.
Presents 01.17.20 Morning Event
I2C | 850 Ben Graves
cole@verityhsv.com
About Timo Presents 01.31.20 Morning Event
I2C | 850 Ben Graves
Sandritter, a serial entrepreneur, currently serves as Chief Operation Officer of Haufe, an innovative enterprise human resource and talent management software company. In that role, Timo is responsible for the firm’s strategic direction and its internal capabilities, including talent management, legal, operations, finance, and corporate development Sandritter is also a Co-Founder and President of Rippleworx, a technology focused software offering that provides professional sports teams, military units, and corporations with a performance accelerator platform. Sandritter is an expert in building and running companies and was the Executive Partner of Cygnus Strategy Group, a management consulting firm which he helped to found in 2012. In that position, he utilizes his experience with both multinational corporations and start-ups to deliver a holistic approach to business improvement and transformation. Timo also helped to build Digium, a communications technology company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of communications hardware and telephony software. At Digium Sandritter served as Chief People Officer. Timo is an avid learner with multiple master and doctoral degrees including a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. In addition to his business accolades, Timo serves as an adjunct professor at The University of Alabama, Huntsville, is a frequent industry speaker, and serves on multiple boards of directors.
timo.sandritter@haufe.com
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“THE ONLY PERSON YOU ARE DESTINED TO BECOME IS THE PERSON YOU DECIDE TO BE.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
WANT TO BE HAPPY? THEN SERVE!
An Authentice Leadership Article By Dr. Kreslyn Kelly-Ellis
Some people experience fulfilment when completing their job-related duties while others feel little-to-no satisfaction reporting to work every day. For some, their sole purpose for showing up is to make a living provide for their families, maintain healthcare benefits, as well as for other security reasons. In fact, in a 2013 Forbes magazine article, a Gallup poll was summarized reporting that only 30% of U.S. workers enjoy their jobs, 52% implied having no feelings at all, 18% are simply not happy, and 90% of workers, worldwide, are more frustrated with than fulfilled by work. Furthermore, The Washington Post (2019) reported that there has been a constant decline in personal happiness, in general, which was indicated by a 50% increase in the number of people saying they are “unhappy” in 2018 than in 1990. I'M GETTING
One may find these stats interesting since Positive Psychology suggests that people desire and attempt to be happy and to live meaningful and fulfilling lives through human flourishing. “Flourishing”, according to Dr. Seligman, founder of Positive Psychology, is comprised of five components: positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment also referred to as the acronym, PERMA, by which people aim for a state of wellbeing, specific and unique to their individual values and interests. With that in mind, why are people reporting lower levels of happiness, especially in the socially connected world in which we live, work, and play?
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An Authentice Leadership Article By Dr. Kreslyn Kelly-Ellis
Research would probably note a myriad of answers to that question. However, another 2014 Gallup report provides a peep into what many Americans attribute to their happiness. The article informed us that people who “actively engage in bettering their communities” reported higher levels of wellbeing than those who do not; and the same was true for those who shared being recognized for their work in the community versus those who did not report such acknowledgements. Therefore, maybe the (M) in PERMA, which has been explained as one’s sense of purpose and serving something greater than oneself could actually be an answer. Perhaps, disconnecting from virtual social connections and making real life human connections in a way that brings internal fulfillment could contribute to people’s happiness again. Although some find this fulfillment at work, there are other places and situations it can also be realized like, religious activities, community services and projects, social justice issues and other special causes. Either way, as we enter the year 2020 and begin to think about how to make our lives better, maybe we should start by: 1) Continuing to aim for personal happiness 2)Personalizing our own PERMA; 3) Giving special thought to the (M) when determining what community involvement brings us the most fulfillment; 4) Researching community entities that specialize in our area of interest; 5) Creating a plan action to contact the organization, share our interest in serving, and then get busy being happy. There is much work to be done in our local and global communities; if doing the work can contribute to well-being and human flourishing, why not give it a try?
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT STEVE LEVY | BUSINESS ADVISOR
It is crucial for all business to be known for what they do and what they value. Your customers need to know these things as it helps differentiate your business from your competition. It is also important for your employees to know these as well, as they are the ones providing the product or service you offer. Just as important as these are, there is a third item your business needs to be known for. This is what you have passion about. In our local market, your customers and employees want to know that you are giving back to the community.This can range from having a charitable organization that is set up by the company, to supporting one or more existing charitable organizations in the community.
The support can be in the form of financial contributions, product or service donations, and/or time donation from your employees. It is an opportunity to be seen as a company that has passion for something that helps make the community better or by helping to solve a visible problem. If your product or service can be made visible as part of giving back, it will help reinforce your brand at the same time. For example, a Heating and Air conditioning company might donate a unit for an organization building affordable homes for low-income / homeless individuals. Giving back is not only good for the community, it will help your image and brand, and will also help you attract and retain employees.
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R.I.S.E. Afternoon Series Join us for our first R.I.S.E. event of the year where Brice Perez, of GoogleCloud, will give a hands on demonstration on how to utilize Google Cloud services for your business.
R.I.S.E. 2020 Afternoon Schedule January 8th February 26 March 25 April 8 May 20 June 10 August 26 September 23 October 21 November 18 R.I.S.E. introduced it's afternoon series in 2019. These presentations will be on Wednesday and include lunch. RISE hopes to give  a more in depth workshop teaching business owners new skills to thrive.
Afternoon Speaker Spotlight
Brice Perez
Presents 01.08.20 Afternoon Event
BizTech | 515 Sparkman Drive
After graduating from Oakwood University with a Masters in Management Information Systems, Brice Perez started his career as a Software Engineer for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. Four months prior to graduating with a Masters in Business Intelligence from Full Sail University, a new job opportunity relocated Brice and his family to Nashville, TN to work as a Business Intelligence Analyst with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After obtaining multiple cloud certification in Amazon Web Services, Brice worked as a Lead Cloud Architect for Deloitte. Now his most recent role is as a Cloud Customer Engineer for Google's Global cloud Business. Brice now holds a total 8 cloud certifications with the top cloud providers and is a huge advocate of cloud technology adoption, education and digital transformation.
briceperez@google.com
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Happening February 24-29, 2020 Details at innovatehsv.com
Regional Innovators Sustaining the Ecosystem Vicki has managed and hosted the program since 2015. She continues to provide valuable content, collaboration opportunities, and an affordable option for all small businesses in the North Alabama area! All events are FREE to attend. Register on EventBrite for bimonthly morning events and monthly afternoon lunch events. Contact her office to find out about speaking opportunities, and how you can connect with R.I.S.E. Vicki@FaceToFace-Marketing.com
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