Episode 305: Technology and Creativity

Episode 305 originally broadcast on April 09, 2011

The BusinessMakers interview the founders of iOffice, a facilities management company that offers the next generation of integrated workplace management solutions. Then, Russ has a return visit with Julia Rhodes, a classroom teacher turned entrepreneur and founder of KleenSlate Concepts. We will hear from PKF’s Greg Price, and Leisa Holland-Nelson sends us another Women Mean Business vignette.

School of Business 04/09/11

Russ and John present the show for those who make businesses and make business happen: the entrepreneurs and the innovators. Includes: the BusinessMakers Quote of the Week—an olde saying from an anonymous source; This Week in Business History includes innovations that changed our lives like Ivory Soap, the typewriter, the Rand McNally Road Atlas and the Human Genome Project; the Jargon Challenge Round—trendy technospeak that YOU should know; and Dumb Moments in Business History—Nintendo’s 3DS Console has a problem.

The Founders of iOffice Inc.

Russ interviews the principals of iOffice, a facilities management company that offers integrated workplace management solutions, relocation management services, and sustainability and LEED Certification consulting. Co-founders Elizabeth Dukes, Dan Sudduth and Don Traweek established a company 10 years ago to offer services not well known or understood at the time. It’s not your father’s facility management company!

Julia Rhodes - KleenSlate Concepts

Russ hosts a return visit with Julia Rhodes, a classroom teacher turned entrepreneur and founder of KleenSlate Concepts. Ten years ago, she invented a product she needed in the classroom; she took that product to market and never looked back. Today, she holds seven patents, two trademarks and oversees distribution of educational products that sell faster than she can get them out the door.

Women Mean Business - Bambi McCullough

WMB host Leisa Holland-Nelson, president of ContentActive, interviews Bambi McCullough, co-founder of leadership and performance consultant Chrysalis Partners.