Business Leaders Podcast

Jim Downing, USN Retired, Author “The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey Through Pearl Harbor and the World War” With greatest respect to Jim and his shipmates lost at Pearl Harbor, I included the entire transcript of the interview. Host:  Today, we’re honored to have Jim Downing, author of “The Other Side of Infamy: My Journey Through Pearl Harbor and the World War.” Jim’s ship was the Navy battleship the USS West Virginia, where Jim was a Gunner’s Mate First Class and ship’s Postmaster. Jim retired from the Navy with 24 years of service, at rank of Lieutenant, and has remained a utility player during his 27 years, full-time staff with the Navigators, serving in positions ranging from Deputy President to Chair of the Board of Directors. Jim was married for 68 years to Morena, who passed away in 2010, and is parents of 7 children. Jim is still known as Navigator #6. Jim, welcome to Business Leaders podcast. We’re honored. Jim: No, sir. I’m honored t

Nidal Allis CEO of Techno Rescue, which is a veteran-owned, full life-cycle green IT company based in Colorado, specializing in computer electronics, recycling, data destruction, e-waste disposal, computer service and repair, IT support, and consulting. Not just computers- Medical equipment, have them refurbished, recertified, and remarketed to other medical facilities, whether they’re in this country or aboard, that cannot afford brand new medical equipment. Earth Month We brought in probably somewhere in between 400,000 and 500,000 pounds. And most of that was in the last two and a half weeks of the month during Earth Week. Guinness Book of World Records We do an event with 9News, and this year we’re doing it on http://www.9news.com/news/outreach/community/9news-e-cycle-event-to-recycle-old-electronics/274705776 (September 9th) at Coors Field. Last year in a five-hour period we picked up 378,000 pounds in five hours. So much so that this year the Guinness Book of World Records is goin

Dick Lee, the CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at https://valueinnovations.com/ (Value Innovations) based in Castle Pines, Colorado. Dick is also the co-author of the book,https://www.amazon.com/Value-Innovation-Works-Sustainable-Exceptional/dp/1470020572/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 ( “Value Innovation Works.”) The driving force to everything that they do at Value Innovation is to help C-level executives address critical issues within their organization using their 10-step value innovation process. What does https://hbr.org/2004/07/value-innovation-the-strategic-logic-of-high-growth (value innovation) mean? It’s delivering exceptional value to the most important customer in the value chain all the time, every time. And I’m going to highlight a couple of things. The first one is for a company in the B2B space that value chain is fairly long and your direct customer is probably not your most important customer. The second thing is, and I’m a scientist by training so I ten

Business valuation, growth, what drives both with world traveler David Fein cofounder and CEO of https://www.valusource.com/ (ValuSource). David is an entrepreneur, world traveler, and adventurer at age 16 he was the second youngest person ever set foot on the South Pole. To put himself through college, David started and ran a sailboat charter business. At the age of 25, he fulfilled a longtime dream by sailing across the Pacific to Tahiti on a 34-foot sailboat. In 1986, after returning from Tahiti. He cofounded ValuSource. For over 30 years, ValuSource has been the leading provider of business valuation software, data, and services. South Pole at 16 When I was about 14, I stumbled Sea Cadets, which is like Navy reserve for young guys. And it’s the same exact program that an enlisted Navy guy goes through. You take the same courses, you take the same tests, you learn the same kind of things. You go to an abbreviated boot camp in San Diego. And you also spent time…I was spending summers on tugbo

Business consultant, direction to destination, franchise master to middle market investor, Larry Hay President of HayCorp, a business consulting firm founded in 2003. Larry helps companies identify their core business opportunities and strategically position themselves to take advantage of developing business and consumer trends. Larry was named as one of the Top 100 Executives in Colorado by the Denver Business Journal. The early years Grew up in Savannah, Georgia in the south, and kind of, you know, grew up out in the country on the lake. My dad was a barber, you know, and didn’t really necessarily come from business background. My dad did his own his own business, my mother actually owned her own business. She had a Sears distributorship, a Sears store, and a flower shop, and a few other things like that. First jobs Wound up getting a job at Radio Shack back in the days when Radio Shack was exploding all over the place. I grew up through their system, so I was the store manager for a while, a

Train the Brain- learn easier, think faster,perform better at any age; 80 centers, 46 countries with Kim Hanson CEO of LearningRx a Colorado Springs based franchise. Discover if you or your child has a learning challenge, give the gift of brain training so that they can learn better, easier, and faster. How it started- Dr. Ken Gibson, a pediatric optometrist who developed the LearningRx process. He really started out wanting to answer a question, and that question was, how can you be smart and still struggle to read? As a child, himself, he was off the charts when it came to, like, logic and reasoning, and a lot of things that we look at today and know what IQ is, but he really struggled to read. And so, there was this mystery as to how can you be smart and yet struggle? He is a genius at systems and taking research and wisdom from the field, but then making it practical and putting it into, like, this system that he devised. When did Kim become involved? When I was two years old, he put me in a high

http://www.thearenacs.com/ (The Arena),  which is a 20,000-square foot state of the art athletic training center where Doug is the current owner and head coach; Doug’s also owned and operated http://www.forbushgoldberg.com/aboutUs-Doug-Goldberg.php (Goldberg Law Center) for over 30 years. He specializes in the Estate and Business Planning Law practice. Doug’s played and coached baseball for more than 50 years, and is currently in his third year as a varsity baseball coach at Air Academy High School. “I really want to do this… ” And I remember the day that I signed the contract to buy this property and we were just leaving to go on a spring trip with my Air Academy baseball team and thought, “Holy smokes, what have I done?” I got down to New Mexico and I thought, “Huh. This is going to be a real thing.” What had started as a little dream of having the baseball field inside where my kids could hit and take ground balls turned into a 20,000-square foot state of the art trai

ThinkTopic with Jeff Rose founder and CEO. ThinkTopic is a tech firm in Boulder, Colorado that was founded a short two years ago  combining the latest discoveries of machine learning with expertise and systems engineering. Rather than a typical data science company that might produce some reports or generate some insights, http://www.thinktopic.com (ThinkTopic) builds tools and systems that are meant to empower the business owner. ThinkTopic …is a machine learning-focused software consultancy technology company that works in a broad range of different types of problems, some computer vision, data science, signal processing, doing some work in biotech, financial tech, kind of real wide range of areas. …when you create a machine learning model, in essence what you’re doing is writing a program that’s taking in some data and adjusting its parameters based on what data it’s been exposed to so far, with the goal of sort of modeling that data to kind of understand it. Meaning what are the set of

Commercial elevator maintenance business from 67 units on service in 2007 to a little over 1,200 units today with a management team with over 80 years of collective experience; Randy McGinnis, CEO of https://peakelevator.com/ (PEAK Elevator), and Garrett McGinnis, Director of https://peakelevatorfranchise.com/ (Franchise Development) for PEAK Vertical Transportation Group reveal their new franchise opportunity available in the commercial elevator business.  “Rarely do I get goosebumps anymore about a pizza joint or a sub sandwich concept. But Randy, I have to tell ya, I’ve got goosebumps. Because I believe that the timing is right for your pioneering concept within your industry.” Dave Hood, International Franchise Group The franchise opportunity affords elevator professionals–that’s mechanics, sales associates, and other elevator professionals–the opportunity to own their own elevator business. “Look, rather than just hire a consulting firm right off the bat, let

Starting over; from a Senior Engineer for 25 locations across the US with a major MSP with responsibility for every deployment and every setup, how Rick grew Technowledge, an IT company, from his  basement to 17 employees  providing business solutions ranging from network security, deployments and management, systems backup and recovery, cloud solutions, voice-over Internet, network solutions, firewalls, as well as connected solutions to the Front Range of Colorado.   The post http://businessleaderspodcast.com/grow-successful-it-company-basement-success-rick-murphy/ (Growing up twice, from senior engineer to basement to success; how to grow a successful IT company with Rick Murphy) appeared first on http://businessleaderspodcast.com (My podcast website).

Growing an agency, doing it the right way, from 7 to 29 employees and two locations  in Alamosa and Colorado Springs, Colorado; leadership insights from Dan Bowers owner of a top Colorado independent insurance agency CIA-Leavitt, which provides exceptional long-term value to its clients through expert advice and creative solutions and uncommon service for risk management insurance and employee benefits. The post http://businessleaderspodcast.com/danbowers-cia-leavitt/ (Growing an agency, doing it the right way, from 7 to 29 employees and two locations with Dan Bowers.) appeared first on http://businessleaderspodcast.com (My podcast website).

As the business owner of Builders Appliance Center from 2005 -2015 and now Managing Director at Aspenwood Capital, Ken has a strong record of spearheading change, increasing revenue, and improving employee productivity and morale as well as navigating the challenges of the 2008 housing collapse. He is skillful in creating and implementing creative marketing strategies to solidify strong customer relationships. Ken Jensen has over 30 years of management and leadership experience. His career started in the financial industry as a Bank Manager and Loan Officer. Then, as General Manager of the largest branch of a large international company, his team had the highest sales and profit numbers in the industry.     The post http://businessleaderspodcast.com/cfo-buying-selling-business-key-insights-ken-jensen/ (128% sales growth at BAC Appliance key growth insights Ken Jensen) appeared first on http://businessleaderspodcast.com (My podcast website).

Buying or selling a business? Dan reveals key insights that owners and buyers need to know prior to selling or buying a business today.  Dan co-founded a mergers and acquisitions firm, built and sold several software technology firms, was a senior executive for a fortune 500 company responsible for an online e-commerce and a catalog business which sold more than 10,000 products; he currently is the Managing Director of IBG Business in Denver, Colorado. The post http://businessleaderspodcast.com/buying-selling-business-dan-roth/ (Buying or selling a business critical considerations before doing either with Dan Roth) appeared first on http://businessleaderspodcast.com (My podcast website).