Leisa Fox
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Late in Life Career Pivot to Manufacturing – Just What She Needed!
It takes a lot of bravery to begin a business. I think the bravery required to pivot to an entire industry later in life is even greater. Kris Howard with KSH Design Studio left a lifelong career in health care to pursue a manufacturing career a couple of years prior to the pandemic. Fortuitously, however,…
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Tapping Into One of Your Most Valuable Resources – Your Commercial Bank
Often underestimated as a major force in economic development, especially in manufacturing, the right banker is an invaluable asset. Listen to this enlightening episode where Mike Helak, retired President of US Bank in Central Iowa was Skilled in Commercial and Corporate Lending, Banking administration, Retail, Credit Analysis, Wealth Management and Sales Management. His strong business…
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Local Des Moines Company Flipping Transportation Logistics on its Head
At Toggle, they ensure the customer knows what’s going on with your freight at each step of the journey. When you work with Toggle, they make sure you don’t miss a step in managing your freight business. They’re with you from the day you make your inquiry to the day the final invoice is received.…
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Finding the RIGHT People is Critical to Building and Maintaining a Great Culture
Getting the right people on the bus is just as critical today as it was in 2001 when Jim Collins released “Good to Great.” I’m not sure he knew what the workforce climate in a post-pandemic world would look like, though. It is more difficult to recruit ANY employees today, even more so to recruit…
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Non-Profit beats Iowa’s 90% Graduation Rate by almost 10%
iJAG is a long-standing and ever adapting non-profit organization connecting business and education to provide the most cost-effective dropout prevention and school to career solutions in Iowa. Students in the iJAG program have challenges in a conventional classroom because of the distractions and barriers at home, outside the classroom or even inside the classroom. Relying…
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Tapping into Immigration Talent Critical for Technical Role
Dentons Davis Brown assists foreign clients in procuring and regularizing immigration documents such as business permits, Subject To Regularisation (STR) visas, Residence Permit Applications (or extensions), temporary work permits / cable visas, expatriate quota positions and all other documents that would ensure the smooth operation of any foreign business venture and stay of expatriates in…
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DMACC Creates Powerful Partnership to Create an Edge for Central Iowa Manufacturers
Kim Didier with DMACC Business Resources, digs deep on DMACC’s solutions for manufacturers in Central Iowa. I’ll never forget a conversation I had with DMACC President Rob Denson years ago in which he revealed that he considers business and industry leaders his customers and his students his product. Without a close, deep relationship with business…
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Deep Experience will Create Amazing Resources for Central Iowa Manufacturers
The value of best practice sharing, collaborative problem solving and leveraged resources has never been greater. With the reverberations of the pandemic still rumbling, the latent supply chain issues and disjointed workforce, manufacturers need a resource they can turn to. Marni Hockenberg, founder of Gears and Gadgets in the Twin Cities, created and facilitated a…
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The Iowa Soybean Industry is a manufacturing force to be reckoned with
Whether you’re building with it, making food out of it, using it as fuel to haul your freight, or rubber in your tires, the future looks bright for the 40,000 soybean producers in Iowa. Trailing only Illinois in soybean production, Iowa is on the forefront in growing, distributing, making scientific advancements and selling soy products…
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LifeServe – Manufacturing Life Saving Products in Three States
In the throws of Covid, Stacy Stime and her team had no idea what to do or how to do it. Hear how they took all the information they had to make the very best decisions they could to serve as many people as possible. In times of crisis, you really get to see your…