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Strategic Hospitality Search

SHS practices THE CRAFT OF CURATING TALENT. Our Illinois-based agency provides expert talent-acquisition for businesses nationwide. SHS’s mission is to transform excellence-driven companies that deliver a high degree of service in food and beverage verticals such as restaurants, hotels, manufacturers, and distributors. We empower leaders to achieve higher levels of success by solving cultural challenges […]

It’s Really About Core Values

Walker Sands Communications is a PR company focused on delivering results for their clients. The president, Mike Santoro, shares with us why communication is always important especially as the president of a company. He says it is important to push past all the “can’t do’s” and work really hard in order to grow. Santoro shares with […]

10th Magnitude

We opened our doors in 2010, when “cloud” was a new whisper on the tech breeze, and since our start all we have ever done is enable cloud. But for us it was never a whisper, always a roar—we’ve never known anything else. Our DNA is imprinted with the cloud ethos. Literally, we’ve never owned a server. But that physical freedom means our organization has developed organically […]

It’s About Harmony, Not Just Balance

Henson Consulting is a PR and marketing firm located in Chicago that works with many local brands and has also has a PR Firm of the Year award under its belt. Kathleen Henson, Founder and CEO, started the company out of her basement with no funding or back up plan to leave the big agency world. […]

Give People The Opportunity To Scale Their Career

alligatortek specializes in developing custom software applications to solve business challenges. Sid Bala, the President and CEO, finds ways to set long term goals for the company and get them done before he sets his short-term goals. His mantra is to find your purpose and achieve it. Find out why Bala says that a primary focus […]

Be 100% Committed Or Don’t Do It

Hireology simplifies the hiring process by providing start to finish services in the employment process on their hiring management software. By helping companies position themselves better to job candidates, Hireology automates the hiring process. Adam Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO, practices what he preaches when it comes to hiring the right people. As a business scales, […]

Connect People To Opportunity

CKL Engineers is a professional civil engineering firm and consulting companies that provides consulting for other municipalities or architect engineering firms, primarily in the transportation space. Mae Whiteside, President and CEO, shares what inspires her in the business which is connecting people with opportunity. She shares her personal story as to why she got started […]

Mae Whiteside

As President/CEO, Ms. Whiteside develops and maintains client relationships for the firm. She directs all engineering and planning projects acquired by the organization and oversees the development of innovative project ideas for community areas in blight. Ms. Whiteside manages projects in the areas of civil engineering, aviation, public infrastructure, utilities and site development with Engineering […]

You Need A Bit of Naivety

Weiss & Company is a public accounting firm that provides a full range of public accounting services. Frank Lee, Partner, shares his insights by saying if you make mistakes, it’s important to fix them. He shares a story of an experience making a mistake with a client, and what fixing that mistake did to help […]

Promote Diversity of Thought

Esquify is a productivity application in the legal space that helps document reviewing attorneys do their jobs more efficiently and effectively. Drew Stern, Co-CEO of Esquify shares a tip on starting a business-it is all bout connecting, engaging and selling. He goes on to say that not all employees should think the same way, so […]