Before Facebook and Twitter, there was Arkadium. CEO Jessica Rovello and her husband started Arkadium in 2001 as a gaming platform and have grown their business to 100 employees who provide interactive content for top-tier clients. Arkadium is committed to work/life balance for all of their employees and it shows through the way they’ve chosen to… Read More
Creating an Environment Safe for Dissent
For the last fifteen years, Paul J Daly has been building two businesses in Syracuse, NY: Image Auto LLC, a reconditioning services company, and Congruent Story, a media firm. Paul describes himself as a people person and is all-in on the human side of business, stating “I believe that if you put the people first… Read More
Great Company Culture is a Differentiator
At Bateman Group, they know their company culture is a business strategy that helps them win clients. When Founder and CEO Fred Bateman founded the company in 2003, he set out to start a different kind of PR company, one where employees want to stick around and build a career, not just use the job as… Read More
Get the Right Person in the Right Seat
In two years, Smashtech has grown from zero to forty employees, all while being a bootstrapped company. Not only have they had incredible growth, but they’ve maintained a winning culture along the way. Co-founders, CEOs, and brothers, Omar Imani and Anwar Husain, say that it’s harder to scale people than it is to scale profits, so they… Read More
How to Inspire a High-Performance Work Culture: An Interview with Chuck Runyon, Anytime Fitness Co-Founder and CEO
Chuck Runyon and his business partner founded Anytime Fitness in 2002 and since then the franchise has grown to over 3000 locations in over 30 countries. Anytime Fitness is one of the largest and fastest growing franchises in history and Chuck shares the secret to their success: it’s all about the people. In this episode of The… Read More