Article Author: Heather Baker

We sat down with Jeremiah Smith, CEO/Owner/Operator of Coin Express, to hear his thoughts on leadership, travel essentials, and more. Define leadership. Vulnerability, honesty, transparency, planning, strategy … with a bit of focus, and goals. If you merge all those things together, you can really do some great things, because you’ve got to get people […]

When it comes to a career, it’s never too early to start preparing. When he was named president of Humphrey Products in April 2016, Dave Maurer inherited the desk of his recently retired predecessor. Within its drawers, Maurer found a sheaf of papers from 1998 describing a group of industry partners trying to solve a […]

Define leadership. Learning from others. Guiding others. Mentoring others. Listening to others. Who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? My grandma, Martha Parfet. She is a modest, quiet leader, and she has made a tremendous impact in the community and continues to so every day in a caring way. What excites […]

We sat down with CEO of Mno-Bmadsen, Troy Clark, to hear his thoughts on leadership, routine, and more. Define leadership. Establishing trust among a group of people that you are doing the best you can to carry forward under a given vision. Who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? There’s no […]

We sat down with Jamie Clark, President of Clark Logic, to hear his thoughts on leadership, lunch, and more. Define leadership in 10 words. Thinking, understanding, listening, developing, working. Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? My dad, because I got to work with him every […]

More than an apple a day at Schultz Fruitridge Farms and Texas Corners Brewing Company. Not much says “Michigan” better than a crisp apple in the fall or, increasingly, a craft brew. Fortunately for the region, the Schultz family has found a way to provide both and a whole lot more. Schultz Fruitridge Farms is […]

We sat down with Amy McLain, Manager of Community Engagement and Events at Stryker Corporation, to hear her thoughts on leadership, motivation and more. Define leadership in 10 words. A leader is committed to an organization’s goals and vision. Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you as a leader? […]

People are not your greatest asset. Talented people are! When your company or organization is ready to face the “talent” issue, you must decide whether you are building a house, doing an extreme makeover or putting on an addition—meaning you have something great in “one room” and are ready to expand to another “room,” department […]

From creating mindsets to sustainability…the work is never done. Every executive and business owner sets out to achieve immediate results for accelerated performance and lasting change. A few make it big, some lose what they gain, and some never even come close to achieving desired results. Culture is the key to moving an organization from […]

In any successful economy, we must work to harness our most important tool: Human capital. BusinessDictionary.com defines talent as (1) a natural ability to excel at a duty or action or (2) a group of people who have a particular aptitude for certain tasks. Albert Einstein spoke to talent in a more plain-spoken way, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its […]

HOP ON-BOARD JON GORDON’S ENERGY BUS The science of physics explains energy as the capacity or power to do work. It can be seen by the human eye when one object makes another move or change with the application of force. Energy cannot be created or destroyed as Sir Isaac Newton pointed out for us, […]

Belinda Tate’s passion for art led to finding home in Southwest Michigan.  Belinda Tate Executive Director Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 South Park Street Kalamazoo, MI 49007 www.kiarts.org Where did you move from? Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I was Director of The Diggs Gallery of Winston-Salem State University. Before that I was a corporate banker for […]