Next week on Connect and Collaborate (July 4-8)

July 4 – Emily Schromm – Unleashed Fitness
Find out how to incorporate fitness into your workplace, to build a better business. Healthy employees are happy, productive employees. In addition to Emily’s thriving fitness training enterprise, she is also an inventor and entrepreneur. We will talk about her experience moving her idea from prototype to manufacturing a quality product locally. 

July 5 – Doug Krug – Institute for Unlearning  
Doug Krug and Christine Kahane, Resultants from the Institute for Unlearning, help leaders find solutions to effectively motivate the people around them. We'll talk about Leading Change without Resistance: The psychology beyond resistance.

July 6 – Rick Barrera – Heart Led Leadership
Rick Barrera joins us to share his network of incredible leaders and speakers from the Center for Heart Led Leadership. His guest is Dr. Tony Alessandra, Founder and CVO of Assessments 24X7. Tune in and find out how to receive a free e-book, People Smart in Business. 

July 7 Meg Sagaria-Barritt – Poverty Hack-a-Thon
For the second year in a row, the Posner Center for International Development is bringing together Posner organizations, the Colorado international development community, entrepreneurs, members of the tech community, and educators to create collaborative, innovative solutions to international development challenges faced by Posner Center Tenants. We’ll talk with Meg Sagaria-Barrit about the event coming up July 10-12.

July 8 - Owen Loftus – Colorado Priority  
Colorado is one of the fastest growing states with one of the best economies in the country, yet falls behind in funding for education and transportation, and fails to meet the growing demand for mental health services and senior services. We will talk with Owen Loftus of Colorado Priority about a proposal to allow Colorado to keep and invest funds into education, including pre-school through twelfth grade education, vocational education and higher education, as well as transportation and other projects.

Next week's Line Up on Connect and Collaborate (June 20-24)

June 20 – Anthony Lambatos – Footers Catering    
Anthony Lambatos shares his experience running a second generation business. He also introduces us to other food industry titans in Colorado to discuss company culture, hiring, and other workplace strategies.
 
June 21 – Rick Barrera – Heart Led Leadership
Rick joins us to share his network of incredible leaders and speakers from the Center for  Heart Led Leadership.  His guest is Rick Tetzeli, co-author of Becoming Steve Jobs. He’ll share his perspective on the infamous Apple creator from various interviews from Steve Jobs’ life and career.
 
June 22 – Rebecca Laurie – DORA  
Connect & Collaborate has formed a partnership with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) to promote the many resources in place to help businesses run more smoothly and in keeping with state laws and regulations. Today, we’ll discuss the DORA Insurance division and the many ways they help businesses and consumers.
 
June 23 –  Jeff Krebbs – Make-A-Wish Colorado   
Make–A–Wish Colorado helps grant more than 4,400 such wishes to deserving children throughout the state. Jeff Krebbs will introduce us to Brent from Loveland Products, a locally owned company that makes wish granting a part of their employee engagement.
 
June 24 – Holly Green – The Human Factor  
Holly Green is a consultant, speaker, entrepreneur, business leader and mom. As CEO and managing director of the Human factor, Holly helps business leaders and their companies achieve excellence. We’ll discuss an AMA survey which suggests that may C-level executives are stuck in a leadership bubble – and how to break out.

Next week's Line Up on Connect and Collaborate (June 13-17)

June 13 –  Pat Maley – Vistage   
Pat Maley, Chair of Vistage, a CEO Peer Group that encourages business executives to do better business, make better decisions and help fellow CEOs in managing executive level decisions. Once a month Pat introduces us to CEO Peer Group Members, Chairs and speakers.  

June 14 – Mark Schneider - President of College Measures partnership with American Institutes of Research and Lead Researcher for LaunchMyCareerColorado.org. Launch My Career Colorado will help students, working adults and businesses connect in novel ways for a sustainably-thriving workforce and economy. Colorado was selected as the first state in which to debut this resource. LaunchMyCareerColorado.org, is a project of U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Center for Education and Workforce; Gallup, Inc.; and the American Institutes of Research College Measures partnership. Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI) is leading the charge in Colorado. 

June 15 – ADAPT Center at Colorado School of Mines
Alliance for the Development of Adaptive Technologies is a consortium of academic, industry and government institutions with a unified goal of making the promises of Additive Manufacturing a reality. We will talk with Heidi Hostetter and Aaron Stebner about the potential of a third industrial revolution, starting here in Colorado. 

June 16 – Paul Bergman – U.S. Department of Commerce  
Paul Bergman, Director of the United States Commercial Service – Denver Export Assistance Center introduces us to key players in Denver who help make exporting easy and profitable for businesses of all sizes. 

June 17 - Peter Moore – VITAL for Colorado  
Peter Moore, President and CEO of VITAL for Colorado is a regular contributor to Connect & Collaborate, discussing the importance of energy production in the state. VITAL for Colorado is a coalition of industry leaders throughout Colorado is a coalition of industry leaders throughout Colorado who support a rational, well-regulated and competitive regulatory environment for energy production. 

Next week's line up on Connect and Collaborate (June 6-10, 2016)

June 6 –  Doug Krug – Institute for Unlearning
Doug has built a career helping leaders find the solutions they need to effectively motivate the people around them. We will talk about unlearning habits that hinder leadership and more. 

June 7 – Elise Van Dyne, Colorado Maker Hub

Elise Van Dyne, who runs the Colorado Maker Hub, joins us along with two designers/ entrepreneurs who will be displaying their work at the upcoming Makers Faire June 11 and 12 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

June 8 – Chancellor Mike Martin, Colorado State University
Chancellor Mike Martin of CSU talks about the Hispanic Higher Education Attainment Gap: how it impacts the success of the Hispanic community, the challenges and solutions for better education.

June 9 – Edgar Johansson, Colorado Space Business Roundtable  
The President of the Colorado Space Business Roundtable introduces us to major players in our state’s thriving aerospace industry.

June 10 – Greg Bashaw, Colorado MicroBusiness Alliance  
Greg introduces us to Adam Melnick, Chief Entrepreneurship Officer and General Counsel for Colorado Lending Source. Colorado Lending Source has loaned more than $4 million to Colorado small business owners. They use unique “character based” criteria for assessing an applicant’s credit worthiness. Colorado Lending Source also provides the famous Ice House Entrepreneurship training.

Connect and Collaborate Guests May 16-20

May 16  Brenda Morrison - Engaged Public
Engaged Public partners with citizens, civic leaders and public and private stakeholders to tackle complex public challenges head on. We will talk with Brenda Morrison, partner with Engaged public about some of the tools and resources they have developed to educate the public about tax and budget issues.   

May 17 -  Stephanie Veck - Colorado Workforce Development Council  
As one of COBRT’s partner agencies, CWDC joins us monthly to discuss progress in growing our state’s talent pipeline for a strong workforce. We’ll talk about Colorado STEM Roadmap, the collaborative approach to ensuring that every student in Colorado has an opportunity to learn STEM competencies and explore careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; as well as how these skills apply across all industries and occupations. 

May 18 - Brittany Evans - Clear Intentions
Clear Intentions takes recycling seriously. Brittany Evans has developed a system for recycling glass bottles, which are often missed in the single stream recycling efforts. To prevent glass, which can be re-used, re-shaped and re-purposed from ending up in landfills, Clear Intentions offers a variety of programs to intervene.

LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST!
May 19 - Paul Bergman - Department of Commerce, U.S. Commercial Service
We will bring you live conversations from World Trade Day Denver at Infinity Park. Paul will have guests from among the many influential speakers and participants of the event.   

May 20 - Peter Moore - VITAL for Colorado
Peter Moore joins us to discuss issues concerning oil and gas production in the state of Colorado, and introduces us to important players in the industry. 

Connect and Collaborate Guests for April 11-15

Listen from 4-5 PM Monday through Friday on Denver's Money Talk 1690 AM or streaming at www.cobrt.com/live. 

April 11 – Pat Maley – Vistage
Pat Maley, Vistage Chair, introduces us to CEO Peer Group members and Kathleen Quinn Votaw discussing a new book on Peer to Peer Groups and Solve the People Puzzle. Vistage is a CEO Peer group that encourages business executive to do better and to help fellow CEOs in managing executive level decisions. 

April 12 - Make-A-Wish Colorado

Teresa Davis Pusztau and Jeff Krebs tell us about Colorado-based Wish activity and how you can help make wishes come true through charitable donations, or simplly offering the right gift at the right time.! 

April 13 – Lauren McIntosh – Women in Manufacturing
Kristen Muzzy, EVP Business Development for Leading2Lean and Board Member of CO WIM, introduces us to Lauren McIntosh, Plant Manager for Priority Plastics and the Colorado Chapter President for WIM (Women in Manufacturing).  We will discuss events coming up this year for WiM; career building day in July including profile building, career coaching, multi plant tours and Executive WIM panel event in October. 

April 14 – Quarterly Forum and The Leaders Initiative
Ryan Heckman joins us to discuss a Colorado-based leadership organization that connects, enriches and inspires the state’s best emerging leaders. Meegan Moszynski will update us on the Leaders Initiative working to engage leaders in applying their skills across private and public sectors. 

April  15 – Peter Moore – VITAL for Colorado
Peter Moore joins us to discuss ballot issues that target oil and gas production in the state of Colorado with his guest, Chris Hansen at hansenforcolorado.com.

Connect and Collaborate Guests for March 21-25

Listen from 4-5 PM Monday through Friday on Denver's Money Talk 1690 AM or streaming at www.cobrt.com/live. Podcasts are added with each show as the become available, or you can find the entire podcast archive at connectcollaborate.podbean.com.

March 21– Anthony Lambatos – Footers Catering
Anthony shares his experience running a second generation business and his thoughts on company culture.

March 22  – Stephanie Veck - Colorado Workforce Development Council
As one of COBRT’s partner agencies, CWDC joins us once a month to discuss progress in growing our state’s talent pipeline for a strong workforce. We will talk with Ellen Golombek, Executive Director of CDLE and co-chair of the BEL Commission.  

March 23 – Joe Daly – Gallup
We’ll talk with Joe Daly about Entrepreneurial Profile 10 Matrix  – a program developed by Gallup to identify and assess the aptitudes and skill sets of youth for entrepreneurial endeavors. Gallup is meeting with Denver leaders to explain details of a new program that has already launched in three U.S. and three international cities.

March 24 – Greg Bashaw – Colorado Microbusiness Alliance  
Greg Bashaw, Executive Director of the Colorado MicroBusiness Alliance will tell us about the group’s efforts to develop a legislative voice for small businesses, and help identify and change some of the regulatory rules which are burdensome to smaller companies.

March 25 – Patrick Kelly – Change Point Consulting
We’ll discuss generational differences in the work place, specifically the traits of millennials and how employers can better engage with this much-talked-about group to prepare them manage business in the near future.