Vote For Best Of Think 2016
December 5, 2016We’ve narrowed down to our favorites, and we want you to help us choose the shows we’ll hear during “Best of Think Week,” Dec. 26-29. Voting ends Dec. 16.
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Heather Kreager, Sammons Enterprises
Learn what types of companies Heather Kreager says Sammons Enterprises looks for to diversify the holding company’s investments. With over $75 billion in assets, Sammons is one of the largest privately held companies in the country. Kreager traces the firm’s roots back to 1938 when founder Charles Sammons started his life insurance business.
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Kim Houlne, Working Solutions
Kim Houlne tells how she built a network of agents to provide customer support for clients in industries from healthcare to travel. Working Solutions developed analytics to track productivity of thousands of home-based agents working across the country.
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Willie Velasquez Documentary Screening
August 24, 2016In this special documentary, Willie Velasquez: Your Vote is Your Voice, meet the man who led the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and paved the way for the Latino voice in American government.
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Sarah Palisi Chapin, Hail Merry
Sarah Chapin discusses Hail Merry’s passion to promote higher health by making plant-based, refrigerated snack foods that are vegan, non-GMO and gluten-free. Learn how founder, Susan O’Brien, cooked up the concept by testing recipes in her Dallas home and how the team continues to grow the brand – now available in 3,500 stores across the country.
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Jack Matthews, Matthews Southwest
Canadian real estate developer Jack Matthews tells why he decided to relocate his business to North Texas in the late 1980s. With projects from Calgary to Dubai, Matthews Southwest is best known for Dallas’ Southside redevelopment – an area many once avoided, now in high demand.
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Keith Cerny, The Dallas Opera
Keith Cerny says offering artistically diverse productions and programs like the Institute for Women Conductors draws talent from around the world.
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Marvin R. Ellison, J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
Marvin Ellison tells how JCPenney is mounting a comeback. Learn how prior leadership tried to reinvent the company and how it has responded to lessons learned.
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Jim Lentz, Toyota Motor North America
Jim Lentz tells how the world’s top automaker is consolidating operations to Toyota’s new North American headquarters in Plano, Texas – scheduled for completion in early 2017. Learn how the design of the campus aims to promote social interaction with a focus on collaborative work. Lentz shares lessons learned when Toyota faced critical safety concerns with cars suddenly accelerating.
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Robert Kaplan, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
In part two of a two-part series, Rob Kaplan discusses the role of The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and how it helps shape the nation’s monetary policy. Kaplan says that while big banks have rebounded, smaller community banks continue to face challenges
