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Mahan Tavakoli – Servant Leader, Strategic Leadership Ventures and Leadership Greater Washington

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Mahan Tavakoli on connecting and networking in Our Town region~

Leadership Greater Washington . . . brings people from different backgrounds, different industries, and different parts of our region together. But there’s also a connection to meaning . . . All of us want to connect and network, want to do good and have meaning in our work lives, in our networking. So Leadership Greater Washington allows for the senior leaders in the region to address those issues and have meaning in terms of their involvement.

Mahan Tavakoli, Servant Leader, Strategic Leadership Ventures and Leadership Greater Washington, and host Andy Ockershausen
Mahan Tavakoli, Servant Leader, Strategic Leadership Ventures and Leadership Greater Washington, and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen. This is Our Town, and I have the opportunity to talk to a wonderful, wonderful man who means so much to this [Read more…] about Mahan Tavakoli – Servant Leader, Strategic Leadership Ventures and Leadership Greater Washington

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Deborah Marriott Harrison – Global Cultural Ambassador Emeritus Marriott International

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Deborah Marriott Harrison on Marriott’s culture of putting people first~

And my grandfather started it by making a sign he put over the kitchen doors in the Hot Shops that says, “If you take care of the employee, the employee will take care of the customer and the customer will come back again and again.” And we really pride ourselves in taking care of our associates.

Deborah Marriott Harrison – Global Cultural Ambassador Emeritus Marriott International and Andy Ockershausen in-studio
Deborah Marriott Harrison, Global Cultural Ambassador Emeritus Marriott International (r) and host Andy Ockershausen (l) in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town. And I’m so delighted to have in one of the most important people in representing the families and I could probably, the number one family in Washington was the Marriott family, and I’m so delighted to have [Read more…] about Deborah Marriott Harrison – Global Cultural Ambassador Emeritus Marriott International

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Caroline Carter – Founder and CEO, Done in Day, Inc. | Author, Smart Moves

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Caroline Carter, Author of Smart Moves, and Founder and CEO of Done in a Day, Inc., on the process of transitioning from home to home~

“But the reason I wrote the book was to allow people to say, okay, I get it. We all dread this process but we don’t have to. Okay. There is a way that we can go through this and make very solid emotional, financial and physical decisions that will affect us over time.”

Caroline Carter, Founder and CEO, Done in Day, Inc. | Author, Smart Moves and Andy Ockershausen
Caroline Carter, Founder and CEO, Done in Day, Inc. | Author, Smart Moves with host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town and this is Andy Ockershausen to talk to a friend of many years who has shocked me beyond belief because I lost track of her, what, 10, 15 years ago in our neighborhood and now she’s turned out to be a fabulous [Read more…] about Caroline Carter – Founder and CEO, Done in Day, Inc. | Author, Smart Moves