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  • July 26, 2019
Executive learned business from ground up

At Home-Tech, Pam Marino is leading a new generation of up-and-comers.

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  • Grier Ferguson
  • July 5, 2019
New CEO of Goodwill Industries International brings experience from government, private sector leadership to role

The challenge for Steven Preston? Further the Goodwill mission while making both donors and shoppers happy.

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  • July 5, 2019
Former media, health care exec finds passion in grooming future CEOs

Getting to know Marty Petty, a St. Petersburg, Florida, business consultant whose bold, risk-taking career has seen her pivot from being a trailblazing female journalist to newspaper CEO and health care executive.

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  • July 5, 2019
Students get an early taste of business success

A student-operated benefit corporation that doubles as a business training program is giving teens a rare education opportunity. Some big business growth challenges are the next obstacle.

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  • June 21, 2019
Poker princess parlays life story into key business lessons

Molly Bloom bottomed out — in business and in life. Now she offers sound advice for entrepreneurs: Kindness matters. So to does a moral code.

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  • May 31, 2019
Retired video game guru urges budding execs to embrace fears

Reggie Fils-Aime also tells college graduates — and business executives — that keeping options open for alternative, previously unforeseen solutions is a big key to success.

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  • May 17, 2019
Entrepreneur: Employees and employers can benefit from confidence, negotiation training

Even Fortune 500 executives have gaps in confidence when they doubt their worth. There are ways to get it back.

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  • May 17, 2019
College president's success stems from dumping the ego

Kent Ingle relies on servant leadership, good listening skills to lead growth at Southeastern University in Lakeland.

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  • May 3, 2019
Utility executive blazes new path on way to the top

Nancy Tower, behind a never-stop-learning ethos, worked her way to the top of major Florida utility. She has more she wants to do — and learn.

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  • Brian Hartz
  • April 5, 2019
Double vision: Baseball executive tries his hand, er, foot at soccer

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld is also serving as vice chairman of the Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer club in St. Petersburg, Florida, following the baseball team's purchase of the soccer team.

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  • March 22, 2019
Course correction: Region looks to finally move forward on traffic solutions

The Tampa Bay, Florida, transportation situation could not get much worse. But a new source of tax-driven funds, between $13 billion and $16 billion, depending on population growth, will help shape a new transportation model for the region for generations

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  • February 15, 2019
A new BEginning for 21st Century Oncology

In one year, new CEO Kimberly Commins-Tzoumakas transformed the formerly legally challenged, bankrupt cancer care company from the top on down.

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  • February 8, 2019
Potentially scary company news can be easy to break

Establishing and maintaining two-way channels of communication is how Tervis President Rogan Donelly builds trust with employees for the delivery of any kind of information.

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  • January 18, 2019
Joyce Owens disrupts architecture on both sides of the pond

Architect Joyce Owens of Fort Myers uses modern design to complement the elements.

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  • January 18, 2019
'The People's Mayor' is also all business

Naples Mayor Bill Barnett has helped lead the business resurgence of Naples with a smart growth approach

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