Tina Weede I CITP, CIS, CRP
President & CEO
What motivates you?
People are why I wake up each day! Every day I get to enhance the quality of people’s lives; whether this be in our for profit or non-profits…it is amazing way to go through the day!
What does success mean to you?
Giving more than you take, loving with all your heart and helping others find success, whatever that looks like.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I enhance the client experience by ensuring our associates have a great culture within to work; If our associates are happy and fulfilled we will exceed our clients’ expectations. Through building a solid connection with people and understanding what is important, we can have a positive effect on the client or participant experience.
What is your passion?
My passion are people, my family, associates, business partners, clients, our two non-profits and my church. My daughter and I teach Sunday school for 4-year old’s and it is my favorite time of the week! I also have a passion for painting, traveling and cooking.
People are why I wake up each day! Every day I get to enhance the quality of people’s lives; whether this be in our for profit or non-profits…it is amazing way to go through the day!
What does success mean to you?
Giving more than you take, loving with all your heart and helping others find success, whatever that looks like.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I enhance the client experience by ensuring our associates have a great culture within to work; If our associates are happy and fulfilled we will exceed our clients’ expectations. Through building a solid connection with people and understanding what is important, we can have a positive effect on the client or participant experience.
What is your passion?
My passion are people, my family, associates, business partners, clients, our two non-profits and my church. My daughter and I teach Sunday school for 4-year old’s and it is my favorite time of the week! I also have a passion for painting, traveling and cooking.
Kevin Gergel
VP of Incentive Sales / C.A. Short Company
What motivates you?
I'm motivated by several things: fear of failure, achieving goals, helping others, and creative storytelling.
What does success mean to you?
With a background as an athlete and as a salesperson, it’s very easy for me to want to equate success with winning. While winning is certainly important, time and experience taught me true success comes only when you follow your passions, stay true to yourself, and go “All In” in every area of your life.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
Remembering that it’s not about us! If we can provide insights and ideas to help our clients exceed their objectives and move their business forward, we can add value every day.
What is your passion?
Passions include faith. family, friends, All Elite Wrestling, skin cancer awareness, pugs, baseball, & my blog Gimmick Dad.
I'm motivated by several things: fear of failure, achieving goals, helping others, and creative storytelling.
What does success mean to you?
With a background as an athlete and as a salesperson, it’s very easy for me to want to equate success with winning. While winning is certainly important, time and experience taught me true success comes only when you follow your passions, stay true to yourself, and go “All In” in every area of your life.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
Remembering that it’s not about us! If we can provide insights and ideas to help our clients exceed their objectives and move their business forward, we can add value every day.
What is your passion?
Passions include faith. family, friends, All Elite Wrestling, skin cancer awareness, pugs, baseball, & my blog Gimmick Dad.
LeeAnne Canecchio
Account Director
What motivates you?
Constantly focusing on creating new goals for myself motivates me to be better. I feel it is very important to feel like you have a purpose and that you are achieving things. Having goals keeps me moving forward and generating new ideas.
What does success mean to you?
Success is making new personal connections in all aspects of my life. Relationships help keep me grounded, keep me learning and exploring new things, and help me to be an overall happier person.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I am open to new ideas and I love to listen. I believe that truly listening to people solves most challenges. Give people a voice and a listening ear and great results happen naturally.
What is your passion?
My passion is helping to create inclusive, trusting, and cheery workplaces that encourage growth, both personal and professional. I truly believe everyone should enjoy their work and be able to have fun while getting work done. It helps to SPREAD JOY throughout all aspects of life!
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Constantly focusing on creating new goals for myself motivates me to be better. I feel it is very important to feel like you have a purpose and that you are achieving things. Having goals keeps me moving forward and generating new ideas.
What does success mean to you?
Success is making new personal connections in all aspects of my life. Relationships help keep me grounded, keep me learning and exploring new things, and help me to be an overall happier person.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I am open to new ideas and I love to listen. I believe that truly listening to people solves most challenges. Give people a voice and a listening ear and great results happen naturally.
What is your passion?
My passion is helping to create inclusive, trusting, and cheery workplaces that encourage growth, both personal and professional. I truly believe everyone should enjoy their work and be able to have fun while getting work done. It helps to SPREAD JOY throughout all aspects of life!
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R Scott Russell, CRP, CEP
Director Engagement Strategies / C.A. Short Company
What motivates you?
I am motivated to help others succeed and find their inner voice through recognition and appreciation. That “thank you” that we say today may be the only one that a person hears so let’s make it awesome and heartfelt.
What does success mean to you?
Success comes when all the parts of the engine are working in sync to achieve great things. For me, personally, I am a pretty driven person so I look for success all along the way of my journey. Little successes build and become the great ones. My motto is: “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I add value to the client experience by helping organizations understand the importance of engagement/recognition in the workplace and how to maximize on it. By helping clients sift through best practices, I assist in research and knowledge to bring the most powerful options to the table.
What is your passion?
I am passionate about engagement. I am passionate about appreciation. I believe that you can change lives by showing appreciation and that you can change performance by engaging with your employees and others around you.
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I am motivated to help others succeed and find their inner voice through recognition and appreciation. That “thank you” that we say today may be the only one that a person hears so let’s make it awesome and heartfelt.
What does success mean to you?
Success comes when all the parts of the engine are working in sync to achieve great things. For me, personally, I am a pretty driven person so I look for success all along the way of my journey. Little successes build and become the great ones. My motto is: “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I add value to the client experience by helping organizations understand the importance of engagement/recognition in the workplace and how to maximize on it. By helping clients sift through best practices, I assist in research and knowledge to bring the most powerful options to the table.
What is your passion?
I am passionate about engagement. I am passionate about appreciation. I believe that you can change lives by showing appreciation and that you can change performance by engaging with your employees and others around you.
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Cokkie Eaker
Program Operations Specialist
What motivates you?
Helping others succeed. There is no bigger payoff than seeing someone smile and you know you had something to do with that, whether they know it or not. Meaningful conversations, either I learn or they learn Setting a good example. You never know who is paying attention to what you do, sometimes you find out much later.
What does success mean to you?
The compound effect of consistent efforts, and how you enrich others with the lessons learned along the way. That time when people cross the road just to say hello.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
Being born and raised in Europe, I tend to think differently. I try to walk a mile in your shoes. I have the ability to see the big picture, cut it up in smaller pieces and manage both. I'll dress up or down for a cause. If you need an objective opinion, ask me.
What is your passion?
Hosting: my house full of a diverse group of people, exchanging ideas and life lessons learned; a dinner that organically lasts 3 hours. Travel, experiencing new cultures.
Helping others succeed. There is no bigger payoff than seeing someone smile and you know you had something to do with that, whether they know it or not. Meaningful conversations, either I learn or they learn Setting a good example. You never know who is paying attention to what you do, sometimes you find out much later.
What does success mean to you?
The compound effect of consistent efforts, and how you enrich others with the lessons learned along the way. That time when people cross the road just to say hello.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
Being born and raised in Europe, I tend to think differently. I try to walk a mile in your shoes. I have the ability to see the big picture, cut it up in smaller pieces and manage both. I'll dress up or down for a cause. If you need an objective opinion, ask me.
What is your passion?
Hosting: my house full of a diverse group of people, exchanging ideas and life lessons learned; a dinner that organically lasts 3 hours. Travel, experiencing new cultures.
Barbara Wiegmann
Travel Concierge Specialist
What motivates you?
I'm motivated by a challenge. My job is to create exciting and memorable trips for my clients. Each one is a challenge.
What does success mean to you?
Success is a job well done, simple thank you from a happy client, or going the extra mile to create something amazing.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I'm a people-person. I love getting to know my clients and giving personal attention to details so that I create their dream trips.
What is your passion?
My family, travel, photography, animals, cooking, scrapbooking ... so many passions, so little time
I'm motivated by a challenge. My job is to create exciting and memorable trips for my clients. Each one is a challenge.
What does success mean to you?
Success is a job well done, simple thank you from a happy client, or going the extra mile to create something amazing.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I'm a people-person. I love getting to know my clients and giving personal attention to details so that I create their dream trips.
What is your passion?
My family, travel, photography, animals, cooking, scrapbooking ... so many passions, so little time
Barbara Nindos
Chief Development Officer
What motivates you?
The people I am around on a regular basis motivate me. My family, friends, co-workers all inspire me, challenge me and push me spiritually, emotionally and intellectively towards my next journey.
What does success mean to you?
Success is many things to me. It is having courage, not being afraid to try new things (no matter your age), determination not to give up, doing the right thing no matter how hard, resilience, tenacity, perseverance, being patient, being humble and at the end of the day being true to yourself.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I believe that we are all responsible for creating a culture centric company where a remarkable client experience is possible. I try to have honest engagement and communication, real interaction and connection with my internal and external clients. I feel these are basic elements of the human experience which create trust and adds to the client experience.
What is your passion?
I am passionate about my family, faith, friends and my work. All of these things bring my life great joy! And true happiness only comes when you do what you are most passionate about.
Debbie Kizzar
Senior Accountant
What motivates you?
Helping my clients understand their financial position.
What does success mean to you?
Each month collecting all of the pieces and parts of a client’s financial position and organizing it all into a report is like putting a puzzle together. When it is done it is like a gift box with a pretty bow on top.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
A client’s trust is the most important thing I offer and keeping that trust is the main goal in my career.
What is your passion? Being a positive and kind person.
Helping my clients understand their financial position.
What does success mean to you?
Each month collecting all of the pieces and parts of a client’s financial position and organizing it all into a report is like putting a puzzle together. When it is done it is like a gift box with a pretty bow on top.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
A client’s trust is the most important thing I offer and keeping that trust is the main goal in my career.
What is your passion? Being a positive and kind person.
Jennifer Fowler
VP of Culture Engineering and HR
What motivates you?
My motivation in life comes from working with and helping people in both my personal and professional life. I have a strong internal motivation, based on faith, to lead a positive and productive life while helping others.
What does success mean to you?
Success means feeling joy, peace and satisfaction in all aspects of my life. It means that I begin and end my days with a sense of accomplishment.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I add to the client experience by taking a soft approach and listening to what they need to achieve success. I take the time to understand each client individually and help them resolve issues and achieve success through our partnership.
What is your passion?
My passion in life is my family from a personal perspective and helping others through Human Resources from a professional perspective. I always find it interesting when the skills I have learned in all aspects of my life can overlap and provide a resource for others.
My motivation in life comes from working with and helping people in both my personal and professional life. I have a strong internal motivation, based on faith, to lead a positive and productive life while helping others.
What does success mean to you?
Success means feeling joy, peace and satisfaction in all aspects of my life. It means that I begin and end my days with a sense of accomplishment.
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I add to the client experience by taking a soft approach and listening to what they need to achieve success. I take the time to understand each client individually and help them resolve issues and achieve success through our partnership.
What is your passion?
My passion in life is my family from a personal perspective and helping others through Human Resources from a professional perspective. I always find it interesting when the skills I have learned in all aspects of my life can overlap and provide a resource for others.
Luis F. Valdes, Ph.D.
CEO, Psychogenyx, LLC,
www.psychogenyx.com
What motivates you?
To be involved in a process, project, team, or organization that seeks improvement toward high-performance. I also seek to integrate my skills with the skills of other people to achieve and even go beyond what we thought was possible.
What does success mean to you?
I like what the legendary John Wooden says “Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I apply my experience of formally studying human behavior for over 40 years with curiosity, commitment, and compassion.
What is your passion?
Solving challenging puzzles because life is a series of challenging puzzles that demand that you use your intelligence, creativity, judgment, and intuition to survive and thrive. If you are fortunate, you just might be able to do that with grace, humility, gratitude and integrity.
To be involved in a process, project, team, or organization that seeks improvement toward high-performance. I also seek to integrate my skills with the skills of other people to achieve and even go beyond what we thought was possible.
What does success mean to you?
I like what the legendary John Wooden says “Success is peace of mind that is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
How do you feel you add to the client experience?
I apply my experience of formally studying human behavior for over 40 years with curiosity, commitment, and compassion.
What is your passion?
Solving challenging puzzles because life is a series of challenging puzzles that demand that you use your intelligence, creativity, judgment, and intuition to survive and thrive. If you are fortunate, you just might be able to do that with grace, humility, gratitude and integrity.
