Heart-repreneur® Radio | Episode 275 | Development Tactics to Build Happier Teams with Benjamin Preston
08/09/21 • 32 min
Benjamin Preston is an award-winning business consultant and career strategist. As a consultant, he works with businesses to support initiatives in marketing, business strategy, operations, employee development, and human resources. He also offers one-on-one coaching for young professionals to create the career of their dreams.
He encourages clients to uncover the unique strengths and passions of employees and build roles around them instead of taking job descriptions and fitting employees into them, He helps professionals to discover what opportunities will bring them happiness and excitement as they develop their career. His online course, Career Accelerator, is also tailored for young professionals to find freedom and excitement in the trajectory of their careers.
He is the author of Harness Your Butterflies: The Young Professional’s Metamorphosis to an Exciting Careerand has been featured on Ditch the Job, the Offer, Human Capital Innovations and Certifiably Unemployable for his strategic career advice.
With his experience and an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Benjamin can offer insightful and practical advice to his clients. Before starting his own consulting company, he worked as a marketing and business strategist for numerous companies, including native American economic development firm Ho-Chunk, Inc., NYC real estate start-up EDG/Life Coded, and Publicis Health, a billion-dollar communication conglomerate and one of the largest media companies in the world.
In addition to Benjamin Preston, LLC, Benjamin is the co-founder of the Hereditary Cancer Foundation. Committed to saving the lives of individuals with cancer-causing hereditary genetic mutations, The Hereditary Cancer is a community-centered organization working to educate and support families with hereditary cancer and the physicians that combat it.
Benjamin received an ELITE Entrepreneurship Award from PM360 Magazine and served as a mentor for the PRSSA chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he now lives in Arlington, Virginia.
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Benjamin Preston is an award-winning business consultant and career strategist. As a consultant, he works with businesses to support initiatives in marketing, business strategy, operations, employee development, and human resources. He also offers one-on-one coaching for young professionals to create the career of their dreams.
He encourages clients to uncover the unique strengths and passions of employees and build roles around them instead of taking job descriptions and fitting employees into them, He helps professionals to discover what opportunities will bring them happiness and excitement as they develop their career. His online course, Career Accelerator, is also tailored for young professionals to find freedom and excitement in the trajectory of their careers.
He is the author of Harness Your Butterflies: The Young Professional’s Metamorphosis to an Exciting Careerand has been featured on Ditch the Job, the Offer, Human Capital Innovations and Certifiably Unemployable for his strategic career advice.
With his experience and an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Benjamin can offer insightful and practical advice to his clients. Before starting his own consulting company, he worked as a marketing and business strategist for numerous companies, including native American economic development firm Ho-Chunk, Inc., NYC real estate start-up EDG/Life Coded, and Publicis Health, a billion-dollar communication conglomerate and one of the largest media companies in the world.
In addition to Benjamin Preston, LLC, Benjamin is the co-founder of the Hereditary Cancer Foundation. Committed to saving the lives of individuals with cancer-causing hereditary genetic mutations, The Hereditary Cancer is a community-centered organization working to educate and support families with hereditary cancer and the physicians that combat it.
Benjamin received an ELITE Entrepreneurship Award from PM360 Magazine and served as a mentor for the PRSSA chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he now lives in Arlington, Virginia.
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Heart-repreneur® Radio | Episode 274 | How a DJ Set Is Very Similar to Growing a Business with Amani Roberts
Amani Roberts is a Washington DC born and bred creative, graduate of Howard University,
who has been a DJ since 2008. Amani’s hospitality career has spanned over 25-years holding jobs such as Hotel General Manager, Director of Sales & Marketing and Regional Director of Sales & Marketing with Marriott International.
Amani currently lives in Los Angeles, California and is the Chief Musical Curator for his company, The Amani Experience. This company specializes in providing music for corporate events, social events, virtual events, team-building experiences, creating original music for commercials or videos, and teaching students of all ages how to DJ. Amani has produced remixes of artists such as Sade, Kehlani, Ellie Goulding, Jazmine Sullivan, Little Big Town, Alessia Cara, and Hoodboi for his music collective known as A Starter Jacket.
DJ AmRo hosts a weekly podcast called “The Amani Experience Podcast” where he interviews creative professionals from all over the world about why they took the leap from corporate life to the creative life. Amani is an adjunct professor at Cal State University - Fullerton (CSUF), teaching Entertainment Money Management in the Mihaylo School of Business & Economics as well as the Co-Director for the Center for Entertainment & Hospitality Management. He has been active on the board of Meeting Professionals International - Southern California for over five years and is currently the President-Elect for the chapter.
In July, Amani became the first African-American President for MPI Southern California in 44 years. Amani is currently attending the world-renowned Berklee College of Music and studying to get his Masters in Music Business with an expected graduation date of December 2021. Amani’s first book, “DJs Mean Business: One Night Behind The Turntables Can Spin Your Company’s Success” was released in April of 2020.
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Heart-repreneur® Radio | Episode 276 | Leading as an Entrepreneur with Adam Mendler
Adam Mendler is CEO of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, a leading office furniture e-tailer; Custom Tobacco, a one-of-a-kind cigar customization e-commerce platform; and Veloz Solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice.
He is also the creator and host of the business and leadership podcast Thirty Minute Mentors, where he regularly elicits insights from America's top CEOs, founders, athletes, celebrities, and political and military leaders. Adam has written extensively on leadership, management, entrepreneurship, marketing and sales, having authored over 70 articles published in major media outlets including Forbes, Inc. and HuffPost. Adam’s Lessons in Leadership series in Thrive Global and other media projects total more than 500 one on one interviews with America’s top leaders. Adam draws upon his insights building and leading businesses and interviewing hundreds of America's top leaders as a keynote speaker to businesses, universities and non-profit organizations on leadership and related topics.
Adam’s unique professional background includes experiences working for D.E. Shaw & Co., then the largest hedge fund in the world; for Credit Suisse, then a Fortune Global 150 company; for the strategic planning groups at William Morris Endeavor and Universal Pictures; at TWC Sports Management, a leading sports agency; and on a successful presidential primary campaign. Adam has served as the Executive Producer of Virtually Israel; as a Strategic Partner and Advisor to Here Media; and has been an advisor to the accelerator Fusion LA since its inception.
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Website: https://www.adammendler.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amendler
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammendler/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammendler/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adammendler
Podcast: https://www.adammendler.com/podcast
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