Watch this 2-minute video from one of the leading experts on transitioning from a bad culture to a good one. Patrick Reynolds, the CEO of Cross Link Consulting in North Augusta, gets us all ready to tackle 2022 the right way!
Here’s four quick tidbits you may not know about with CSRA businesses! University Hospital and Piedmont What ABD is hearing, is that final details are getting worked out on government regulations etc. to conclude the transaction for Piedmont to take over University Hospital and begin to pump $1 Billion into the local hospital system. The first noticeable change you’ll see is the retirement of the name “University Hospital”. The UH brand will be known as Piedmont Augusta (much like branding shown in photo) and I’m told this could happen as
Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional. Is it just me, or… Marketing and Your Brain Don’t you hate it when something you took as gospel for a lifetime turns out not to be true? Who knew that the old chestnut of right-brain, (creative) left-brain (accountant type with pocket protector) had been discredited in this century? There just seem to be folks among us determined to take the fun out of everything. And it was such a comforting theory, too.
College is a major financial burden for many students, but a local credit union wants to help ease that burden for some CSRA college students. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Peach State Federal Credit Union has pledged to donate $60,000 to Paine College over the next five years. The college plans to use the donation to fund student scholarships. With the help of matching grants from various sources, including the Methodist Foundation and the Paine College Foundation, the donation has the potential to grow to $240,000 (see photo above), according
Longtime, successful CSRA financial planner, Woody Merry brought on a new advisor in 2021. In today’s member spotlight, Neil Gordon learns she may “teach” him a thing or two, as well as the rest of us!
In Part Two of our series with Coach Darin Myers, the TAB CSRA facilitator shifts from the 2021 into the New Year’s planning for 2022.
This week is the first full week of 2022. Everyone is back to work and ready to row the boat in the same direction to “win” for our companies. In today’s Vodcast, Darin Myers says now is the time to recap what went right and wrong in 2021.
After founding two local agencies that provide services for those with disabilities, and now running a successful private equity firm, Allan Soto (see photo above) has developed a new way to give back. Soto – Chief Executive Officer of Vinea Capital in Augusta – recently created the Vinea Foundation, which has pledged to donate $250,000 annually to local nonprofits. The foundation was created as a donor-advised fund in partnership with the Community Foundation for the CSRA. Of that amount, $100,000 will be awarded in grants to nonprofits that focus on
Editor’s Note: ABD: I know your esteemed Economics Professor Simon Medcalfe won’t be upset that you are looking into your crystal ball! What do you see as a positive for jobs moving forward? Rick: Less people will be on the sidelines, out of work. Last week, I participated in an economic development group. 99,000 eligible workers in our area are still taking a break from working. 2021 was closer to normal than 2020 numbers, but still muted. My prediction is because of omicron—our pandemic is more of an endemic—which had
This week is the first full week of 2022. Everyone is back to work and ready to row the boat in the same direction to “win” for our companies. In today’s Vodcast, Darin Myers says now is the time to recap what went right and wrong in 2021.
