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Alyssa Rapp

As of January 2018, Alyssa was named the CEO of Surgical Solutions by private equity firm Sterling Partners. Within six months, she was named one of Crain’s Chicago’s “Notable Women in Health Care” (June 2018). Starting in 2014, Alyssa joined the ranks as a lecturer-in-management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. As of June 2019, she was also named […]

Be Ruthless

Michelle Hayward, CEO at  Bluedog Design business consultancy is ruthless and she explains what being ruthless as a business leader means to her. Hint, it has something to do with being a strong leader.  A leader that holds her company up when it needs it and does the same for her clients. Ms. Hayward talks […]

Bluedog Design

Bluedog Design delivers clear and enabling strategies that grow markets, businesses and the most highly valued brands in the world. Bluedog’s repeatable, scalable methodologies are rooted in the principles of Design Thinking. While delivering decades of returns for our clients, we’ve mastered the art of uncovering insights, the discipline of iterative design and innovation, the […]

Michelle Hayward

Michelle Hayward is CEO of the award-winning, innovative brand and growth consultancy Bluedog Design. Featuring practice areas in company purpose, growth strategy, innovation and brand, they advise companies and executives on leadership effectiveness, culture change and integrated growth strategies. She was named one of the Top 22 Conscious Business Leaders of 2019 by Conscious Business magazine:  (https://consciouscompanymedia.com/social-entrepreneurship/success-stories/top-22-conscious-business-leaders-of-2019/) […]

Oil-Dri Corporation of America

Oil-Dri is a leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality sorbent products for the Pet Care, Animal Health, Fluids Purification, Agricultural Ingredients, Industrial & Automotive, and Sports Fields markets. Oil-Dri is vertically integrated which enables the company to efficiently oversee every step of the process from research and development to supply chain to marketing and sales. […]

Dan Jaffee

Mr. Jaffee graduated from Georgetown University in 1986. Mr. Jaffee joined the Company in 1987 after a year with the accounting firm now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.  He was a product manager in the Industrial and Agricultural divisions of the Company until 1989. In 1990, he became Chief Financial Officer of the Company, a position he held until 1995. […]

Trust and Friendship are the Keys to Success

Jason Lobel CEO and Co-Founder at SwiftIQ shares the benefits to an unexpected early pivot that helped to build SwiftIQ into the company it is today. Mr. Lobel talks about important elements that guide the success of the brand in the industry, including the reason they absolutely must demo their product. That reason? The SwiftIQ […]

SwiftIQ

SwiftIQ is the only retail insights & activation platform enabling retailers and their vendors to generate growth by accessing highly granular basket-level insights. SwiftIQ uses high scale on-demand processing and artificial intelligence to convert billions of records of retail transactions into prescriptive and predictive analytics to optimize store-level execution, such as category management initiatives, promotions, […]

Feature Innovative Work To Attract Top Talent

One of Mark McHugh, President and Chief Executive Officer of Envision Unlimited ‘s biggest challenges is talent acquisition.  The issue goes deep for a nonprofit public services organization because of the limited budgets but a yet, Mr. McHugh describes the serious need for people that are dedicated Direct Service Professionals.  Watch this leader talk about […]

Mark McHugh

Mark McHugh is an experienced senior executive with an established track record of achieving successful growth and positive outcomes for a number of innovative human service nonprofits.  Under his leadership as President and Chief Executive Officer, Envision Unlimited has experienced significant growth in service delivery breadth and depth, including expansion of programming into Central Illinois, the addition of innovative […]