In light of all of the disruptions that the Coronavirus crisis thrust upon us globally, we wanted to focus specifically on leaders that represent the best in business resiliency and diversity & Inclusion

PALM BEACH, Fla. (PRWEB)
September 03, 2020

Leading Research Consortium Best Practice Institute is inviting nominations from all over the world for its esteemed Best Practice Awards 2020. The most coveted award in leadership and management, the BPI Awards aim to honor executives, innovators, CEOs, practitioners, and consultants who have been able to create a remarkable positive impact on their organizations despite upending cultural and economic norms brought on by Coronavirus.

“In light of all of the disruptions that the Coronavirus crisis thrust upon us globally, we wanted to focus specifically on leaders that represent the best in business resiliency and diversity & Inclusion,” said Louis Carter, CEO, and founder of the Best Practice Institute. “Presently, we are inviting all interested nominees from all over the world, to apply and show the world how they brought a positive impact on their workplace and the world overall.”

Award categories include:

CEO Award – For CEO leaders that have been committed to developing top talent and have a track record of success connecting business strategy to talent management

Practitioner Award – for director or executive level leaders that have successfully implement a program that includes a clear process beginning with a business need, engagement of users, and evidence of its success.

Company Founders Award – for entrepreneurs that have demonstrated success in the development of a product that contributes and serves its customers with great care and innovation

Thought Leaders Award – For leaders that have built a substantial pool of followers around published articles or works in the field.

Nominations for BPI Awards 2020 can be found at https://www.bestpracticeinstitute.org/best-practice-awards.

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Several past winners have gone on to join BPI’s Senior Executive Board including KeyBank’s Chief Human Resources Officer, Brian Fishel and H.W. Kaufman’s CHRO Christine Tricoli, among others.

100s of CEOs have received BPI’s CEO Award including Dow Chemical Company CEO Andrew Liveris, former Genentech CEO and current Apple Chairman Arthur Levinson, Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy, FedEx CEO Fred Smith, and others.

Nominations for all awards will close by 5 PM Eastern Time on September 18th, and all the finalists will be announced by October 16.

What separates BPI Awards from most of the awards is that this elite program extends a huge range of marketing and networking opportunities for all the applicants. The nominees get their own pages onsite to leverage their SEO and social media presence. The application fee is minimal and the applicants also have the ability to add extras like press release writing & distribution and so on. Like every year, this year, too the BPI Awards will be included in the company’s Modern Talent Magazine, newsletters, and other materials.

All applicants registering for Best Practice Awards 2020 will receive-

• 1 listing and profile on the BPI Awards website
• Nomination logo which might be used on websites and social media pages
• Mention on Modern Talent Magazine which reaches more than 100,000 directors, managers, and executives in leadership development and talent management of big companies to SMEs worldwide.

BPI Awards nominees may apply in 4 different award types-

• Practitioner Award,
• Company Founders Award,
• Thought Leaders Award and
• CEO Award.

Best Practice Institute is an award-winning third party professional association/research institute that also acts as a product development incubator, peer network, solutions provider representing over 42,000 individual & corporate learning members from all across the globe. The Best Practice Institute Senior Executive Board represents over 400,000 employees throughout the globe. The organization is backed by top C-level members from Fortune 500 companies including the likes of Kimberly Clark Corporation, The Federal Reserve Bank of NY, J&J, Goodyear, Aramco, and more.

Louis Carter, the founder, and the driver behind BPI is a veteran social/organizational psychologist, thought leader, entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author. The Best Practice Award is based on the “best practice method” developed by Carter himself in 1998. Carter had written about it in his first book, “Best Practices in Leadership Development”, which he co-authored with Warren Bennis. Carter’s method defines the gold standard for evaluating “best practices” deployed by professionals and practitioners in leadership & management and today has grown into a continuously evolving and sustainable system.

“Our BPI Awards champions the ‘best of the best’ in the global leadership and talent management scene. We celebrate those practitioners and professionals who have brought a ‘real’ change in the world.”

For more information on Louis Carter, visit: https://louiscarter.com/

For more information on Best Practice Institute, visit: http://www.bestpracticeinstitute.org

For the Video Series on Youtube see: https://www.youtube.com/c/LouisCarterChange

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We love the website and feel thankful to have found Witmer Group! We recommend them with full confidence.

DALLAS (PRWEB)
September 03, 2020

Witmer Group, a Dallas Digital Marketing Agency serving the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Atlanta markets, is pleased to announce their completion of a vibrant new website for Dallas Heritage Village.

The robust new site includes interactive forms, online payment features, and a calendar event management system built on the WordPress platform.

Dallas Heritage Village and the land on which it sits has a long and storied connection with Dallas history. A historic site of many firsts, this piece of land became Dallas’ first city park in 1876. At that time, it was simply called City Park. Nowadays, it serves as an educational resource and historic reminder of the pioneers who laid the foundations of this unique and amazing city.

Sydney Abdo, and Sarah Hambric worked closely with Witmer Group President Kristina Witmer and her talented team members to tell a story by creating a kaleidoscope of history-meets-modern-day.

Sydney: “We recently worked with Kristina and her team to create our brand-new museum website. It’s fantastic, and we loved working with them. They were communicative, attentive, and made sure that we were kept in the loop and well-informed. Our new site offers far more value to our visitors and has made our daily jobs much easier.”

Sarah: “Witmer Group worked very closely with us to create a website that closely mirrored our vision, and we’re very impressed with it! We love the website and feel thankful to have found Witmer Group! We recommend them with full confidence.”

About Witmer Group

Witmer Group is a Dallas based digital marketing team made up of a diverse group of talented individuals with a broad range of experience in advertising, marketing, data science, content creation, social media, and project management. Our process is a well-planned collaboration with our clients and our internal teams to create integrated marketing strategies that support our clients’ digital marketing and branding efforts. Our approach is the ultimate combination of inventive, flexible, and functional.

About Dallas Heritage Village

The mission of Dallas Heritage Village is to collect, preserve, and teach the history of Dallas and North Central Texas. Located in historic Old City Park, the museum uses its collections of historic buildings and furnishings, representing the period 1840-1910, to sponsor research, publications, and exhibits, and to present educational programs and special events for diverse audiences of children, families, and adults.

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Surge elevates the gifts that have always been ours, the stories that can only be told by us, and the love that only we can continue to give each other among all the hate, violence, and oppression.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
September 03, 2020

The Surge Institute, a national non-profit organization, whose mission is to elevate and invest in leaders of color who create transformative change in urban education, has selected 15 leaders for the 2021 cohort of their signature program, the Surge Fellowship, within their Chicago branch.

Since its inception, the Surge Institute has worked with 184 leaders of color across the nation, all of whom have since joined Surge’s nationwide alumni network of mission-driven leaders. Though several aspects of Surge’s work have shifted this year due to the pandemic, the national Surge movement has traversed and persevered. The 15 Black and Latinx geniuses of the 2021 Chicago cohort come with vast experience as leaders in the education and youth-serving landscape and are connected by the collective goal to reimagine and rebuild systems so that they best serve youth, families, and communities of color in Chicago and beyond.

“During this unprecedented time when communities of color are facing two pandemics – COVID-19 and racism – cultivating a safe space for leaders of color to tap into their collective power, to enhance their skills and knowledge to navigate and change complex systems, and to focus on personal growth and healing is more critical than ever,” shared Surge Chicago Executive Director, Tamara Prather.

The following is a list of the 2021 Chicago Surge Fellows:

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  Cindy Agustín Peña; Director of Community and College Engagement, Chicago Scholars
• Quiaria Asiedu; Director of Matriculation and Onboarding, Teach For America
• Dalonte Burns; Resident Principal, Noble Network of Charter Schools – Rowe-Clark Math & Science Academy
• Jessica Cañas; Postsecondary Manager, Enlace Chicago
• Liz Gutierrez; Program Director, The Posse Foundation
• Shelby Hildreth; Director of Program Design, AUSL
• DeMarco Hughes; Director of Culture and Climate, Chicago Tech Academy
• Danielle McConnell; Director of Program, One Million Degrees
• Rigo Padilla Pérez; College and Career Coach, Chicago Public Schools – Solorio Academy High School
• Jessica Ramos; Senior Community Engagement Associate, Advance Illinois
• Marshana Roberts; Portfolio Growth Manager, A Better Chicago
• Miguel Rodriguez; Assistant Principal, KIPP Chicago – Bloom College Prep
• Jessica Sullivan-Wilson; Outreach Director & Policy/Partnerships Lead, Educators for Excellence (E4E) – Chicago
• Ángel L. Vélez; Research Associate, Office of Community College Research and Leadership – University of Illinois
• Naomi Wilfred; Teacher, Chicago Public Schools – National Teachers Academy

The Surge Fellowship is a best-in-class, spirited experience for emerging leaders of color in education. For this program, the Surge Institute identifies and elevates promising education leaders to dream big, focus inward, know the landscape, and make an impact to transform the education ecosystem. Traditionally, the fellowship has transpired through monthly in-person sessions held at Chicago-based organization venues focused on generating social impact for the surrounding communities, such as Chicago Scholars, Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts, and NEIU El Centro. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all Surge sessions will be held virtually to ensure the safety of the community, but the gatherings will remain sacred community spaces for building critical leadership skills, collective and personal healing and galvanizing systematic shifts rooted in justice and liberation for communities of color.

There exists a common narrative amongst Surge Fellows and Alums, one of an uphill battle and of having to navigate a white supremacist system that casts off the genius present within them. Yet, they have continued to be in the fight because it is necessary for the well-being of Black and Latinx communities. This October, the Surge Institute will be celebrating five years as a national movement, which originally began in Chicago. Their ongoing story of resilience and community continues to write itself, and with the welcoming of the seventh Chicago cohort into the Surge Fellowship, the Surge team is excited to continue elevating and championing leaders and visionaries who are already having a multigenerational impact with their communities. Liz Gutierrez, 2021 Chicago Surge Fellow and Program Director at The Posse Foundation, explains what this experience will mean for her:

“My hope is to walk the Surge journey with intentionality and grace. Transformational change is not always easy; it forces us to recognize privilege, to explore where intentions are rooted, and demands that we name anti-indigeneity, racism, classism, ableism, and everything else that lies deep in the darkest parts of ourselves and our communities. Surge invites us to process that discomfort while thinking about ways Black, Latinx, and professionals of color have immense power. It asks us to think about liberation not through the eyes of white culture, but through the lens of those we aim to serve and those whose chains are the heaviest. Surge elevates the gifts that have always been ours, the stories that can only be told by us, and the love that only we can continue to give each other among all the hate, violence, and oppression. This is what Surge is to me.”

About the Surge Institute:

The Surge Institute was established in 2014 with a simple but important mission to develop and elevate leaders of color who create transformative change for children, families, and communities. Founded by Carmita Semaan in 2014, the organization’s signature program, the Surge Fellowship, was designed to empower emerging diverse leaders to change the landscape of education by providing them with a unique, authentic leadership development experience.

To learn more about The Surge Institute, please visit: https://www.surgeinstitute.org/

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“He brings extraordinary passion, energy, and devotion to his work, and is well suited to lead NMS Labs as the company continues growing in volume and importance in the market,” said Slone Partners CEO Leslie Loveless.

SOUTH RIDING, Va. (PRWEB)
September 03, 2020

Slone Partners, a nationwide executive search firm for life sciences, biotechnology, and diagnostics companies, has announced the placement of Dan T. Monahan as President and Chief Executive Officer of NMS Labs. Monahan will build upon NMS Labs’ record of success, providing leadership in advancing the organization’s strategic growth and expansion initiatives.

Monahan has extensive experience in various leadership positions during the past nine years with Thermo Fisher Scientific. Most recently, he served as Vice President and General Manager within Unity Lab Services, where he led a $200 million global services business line with 1,100 employees. Prior to that, Monahan served as Vice President and General Manager of a $1.3 billion global distribution business. Earlier in his career, Monahan held positions in various functional areas including commercial operations, marketing, business development, finance, and product development.

Founded in 1970 under the direction of experts renowned throughout the medical, forensic, and legal fields, NMS Labs provides a unique and impressive menu of more than 2,500 tests—all readily available to clients ranging from hospitals and universities to law enforcement, attorneys, and medical examiners. The company is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

“Dan Monahan is an accomplished industry executive with extensive experience in commercial and business operations,” said Slone Partners CEO Leslie Loveless. “He brings extraordinary passion, energy, and devotion to his work, and is well suited to lead NMS Labs as the company continues growing in volume and importance in the market.”

“Daniel Monahan has a strong analytical mindset and compelling vision for the future of our company. We are confident in his ability to build upon the many successes NMS Labs has already achieved and look forward to his leadership in advancing our strategic growth initiatives,” stated Michael F. Rieders and Eric F. Rieders, owners of NMS Labs.

“It is a great honor and incredibly humbling to have the opportunity to lead a successful, purpose-driven organization,” said Monahan. “NMS Labs has tremendous expertise and is poised for growth in the industries we serve. When you couple that with our accomplished colleagues who have a passion for the work they perform, we will achieve true success together.”

Monahan earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and a Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

ABOUT SLONE PARTNERS

Slone Partners delivers the leaders who build amazing scientific healthcare organizations – People Are Our Science®. Since 2000, Slone Partners specializes in delivering world-class C-suite leadership, executive, and upper management talent to the most promising and established life sciences, biotech, diagnostics, precision medicine, CRO, and laboratory services companies. With coast-to-coast presence in the most active healthcare industry hubs of Boston, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, Research Triangle Park NC, and Washington DC, Slone Partners uniquely and precisely provides an array of executive search and advisory services to innovative scientific healthcare companies. To learn more about Slone Partners’ value proposition and processes, visit http://www.slonepartners.com or call 888.784.3422.

ABOUT NMS LABS

NMS Labs is a leading bioanalytical toxicology and forensic sciences laboratory providing esoteric clinical and forensic services to physicians, attorneys, the criminal justice system, clinical reference labs, pharmaceutical companies, and consumer products manufacturers. As part of our services, NMS Labs’ professionals interpret our laboratory testing results to resolve client-specific issues and provide expert witness testimony and consulting support for both civil and criminal judicial proceedings. To learn more, visit http://www.nmslabs.com.

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Alcatraz CRO Tina D’Agostin

Tina’s deep enterprise security experience, business acumen, and leadership skills will help guide Alcatraz as it innovates a traditional market.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (PRWEB)
September 02, 2020

Security industry leader Tina D’Agostin has joined Alcatraz as Chief Revenue Officer. D’Agostin brings deep enterprise security and building technology experience that will accelerate Alcatraz’s go-to-market strategy for its revolutionary facial authentication platform for physical access control. D’Agostin will oversee sales, marketing, and customer success for Alcatraz’s enterprise customers.

“I am thrilled to have Tina D’Agostin join Alcatraz as CRO,” said Alcatraz Chief Executive Officer and Founder Vince Gaydarzhiev. ”Tina’s deep enterprise security experience, business acumen, and leadership skills will help guide Alcatraz as it innovates a traditional market. Her successes and leadership with the largest security company and system integrator in the world – as well as her work with startup and F100 environments – are an incredible asset to our team.”

Tina D’Agostin comes from Johnson Controls, where she most recently was the General Manager of Building Technology & Solutions for Northern California. In her tenure with Johnson Controls, D’Agostin continually grew annual revenues, while expanding profitability and working with leading Silicon Valley companies across a multitude of verticals. She has held management positions at other security companies, including Niscayah (now part of Stanley).

“It’s exciting to be on the ground floor of such an innovative company like Alcatraz that’s truly disrupting the industry by delivering technology that will create a new category of autonomous access control,” said D’Agostin. “I’m drawn to solutions that deliver intelligent buildings, integrated infrastructure, and next-generation access control systems that work seamlessly together to deliver on the promise of smart cities and buildings. Our Alcatraz Rock edge device, powered by AI, is a solution that delivers in these areas and in so much more.”

Alcatraz, founded by Apple alumni, has changed the way that companies leverage access control systems, by providing a facial authentication solution that leverages 3D, artificial intelligence and analytics to modernize their existing access control technology. Enterprises are choosing to deploy the Alcatraz Rock as their first line of defense against unauthorized access – to deliver effective and secure autonomous access control.

Because Alcatraz’s platform also detects masks, it has become the perfect post-COVID solution for businesses that want to deliver touchless security in their buildings while observing state and local mask mandates.

D’Agostin has studied innovation and entrepreneurship at Stanford University and international business from Regent’s University London. She holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree from Rockford University.

For more information on the Alcatraz Rock and touchless access control solutions, visit the newly-revised website at http://www.alcatraz.ai or contact sales directly at sales@alcatraz.ai.

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Jarrett Adams is Fortress Building Products’ new Director of Fencing

Jarrett’s wealth of knowledge and experience in the building products industry make him the ideal candidate to lead the Fortress fencing product category.

GARLAND, Texas (PRWEB)
September 02, 2020

Continuing its product category expansion efforts, Fortress Building Products has appointed Jarrett Adams to Director, Fencing Category, effective August 17. In his new role, Adams will oversee the brand strategy and development of the company’s most diverse building product category.

Formerly the Director of Building Accessories for PrimeSouce Building Products, Adams will leverage his 12 years of building products industry experience to propel the Fortress® fencing category to new heights. As Fortress continues to expand its manufacturing and supply chain footprint, Adams will be responsible for building and sustaining the fencing portfolio. His efforts will focus on driving product success, increasing profitability and commercializing multiple fencing product lines.

“Jarrett’s wealth of knowledge and experience in the building products industry make him the ideal candidate to lead the Fortress fencing product category,” said Toby Bostwick, VP of Product & Brand. “His exceptional track record will help us achieve our ultimate goal of expanding product offerings and scaling to meet demand.”

Fortress Building Products provides smart solutions for perimeter fencing. They offer an innovative breadth of versatile and durable fencing product lines for residential, commercial, high-security and industrial applications. For more information, please visit fortressbp.com/fencing.

About Fortress Building Products

Fortress Building Products is a leading manufacturer and solution provider in the residential, multi-family, industrial and commercial building products industry. With more than 50 years of experience pushing the boundaries to “Defend Against the Ordinary,” Fortress Building Products forged a family of refined, resilient products that are the pinnacle of beauty and durability. Based in Texas, the Fortress family of products, which includes decking, framing, fencing, railing, lighting and fastener systems, is a complete collection that delivers the full Outdurable Living™ experience. Learn more at http://www.fortressbp.com.

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Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant David Wegner

TUCSON, Ariz. (PRWEB)
September 02, 2020

Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant David Wegner has been named to the External Advisory Committee for the Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) at the University of Arizona. The WRRC is part of the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) network, which addresses water-related concerns for individual states and the nation. The NIWR network is governed by the U.S. Geological Survey and represents the only federal-state program focused on applied water resources research, education, training and outreach.

Wegner is a biological scientist based in Tucson, Ariz., and is a member of the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. He has served as senior principal investigator or the equivalent on dozens of water and environmental studies conducted on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program and has provided scientific and engineering support as a member of the senior staff for the U.S. House of Representatives.

His oversight concerned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Power Marketing Administrations within the Department of Energy, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Wegner said this appointment to the WRRC will provide opportunities to address water-related issues facing the nation and to support Woolpert’s long-term goal of integrating engineering expertise with public policy.

About Woolpert

Woolpert is committed to a vision to become the premier architecture, engineering, geospatial (AEG) and strategic consulting firm, and one of the best companies in the world. It’s a vision we’ve been fine-tuning for decades. It guides our decisions and investments, provides our clients with optimal solutions and offers our employees unrivaled opportunities. Woolpert is recognized as a Great Place to Work by its employees and is America’s fastest-growing AEG firm. With more than a century of experience, close to 1,000 employees and 30 offices, Woolpert supports public, private, federal, and U.S. military clients nationally and around the globe. For more information, visit woolpert.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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In my many years of volunteering for local communities, working with the underprivileged has been especially rewarding and fulfilling. I am looking forward to being involved with Touch-A-Life to help spread kindness and awareness of the TALGiving platform.

CUPERTINO, Calif. (PRWEB)
September 02, 2020

Touch-A-Life Foundation, a non-profit organization to support the needy and underprivileged, today added Roopa Sunku as Chief Evangelist for the TALGiving Mentorship Program.

Roopa will bring her 35+ years of leadership and technical experience from Oracle’s HCM division, to help develop and lead the TALGiving Mentorship Program. As a corporate leader and mother, Roopa has previously worked with underprivileged communities, children, and women for Rotary International and the Oracle Women’s Leadership program.

The TAL Mentorship program will work to connect individuals looking for guidance with strong mentors who can help develop skills and achieve goals. Roopa plans to create a network of TAL mentor volunteers across industries, backgrounds, and in various geographic areas that will be matched with mentees based on common goals and interests utilizing the TALGiving platform.

Built on blockchain and AI technologies, TALGiving is designed to facilitate a transparent connection between those in need and those that can provide help and support, through easy-to-use mobile and desktop apps. TALGiving enables both individual and corporate donors to provide educational, food, medical, shelter, and clothing assistance to citizens of all ages—from students to seniors—with just a few taps or clicks.

“In my many years of volunteering for local communities, working with the underprivileged has been especially rewarding and fulfilling. I am looking forward to being involved with Touch-A-Life to help spread kindness and awareness of the TALGiving platform,” said Roopa Sunku.

“We are honored to have Roopa lead Touch-A-Life’s Mentorship Program and help empower the underprivileged to become leaders within their own communities,” said Tej Gundavelli, CEO and Co-Founder, Touch-A-Life Foundation.

To download the TALGiving app, and for more information on the Touch-A-Life foundation, visit http://www.touchalife.org

About Touch-A-Life Foundation

The Touch-A-Life Foundation is a non-profit organization (please view IRS approved exemption document 501(c)(3)), founded in 2012, to support the needy. We are built on the principle that helping others is good for the society. Our mission is to create one-to-one connections between donors and recipients, matching them based on needs. By utilizing technologies such as blockchain, social media networks, cloud, and mobile applications we are bridging the gap between those looking to make a difference and those with need of assistance.

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