(SOS) Sharing Our Success

In this section we will feature the success stories of our member consultants. Finished a project? Won an award? Let us know. Share your success with others and inspire everyone to reach new heights!

March 2008

03/03/08 - 2007 was a busy year for Inner Element’s founder, Rebecca Evans. She was a nominee for the National Association of Business Women’s, Business Women of the Year Award.

Inner Element brought on three new Empowerment Coaches to help with their outreach community programs and services to organizations and individuals: Lorene Oates, Suzi Boyle and Tammie Krammer join Inner Element’s ranks as powerful women changing lives one person at a time.

Inner Element also launched its own radio show, Live on Purpose!, Which airs every Saturday at 3 p.m. on KBXL, 94.1 FM.

December 2007

12/30/07 - Sustainable Innovations, is featured in two current publications: the December issue of Packaging World: The Business of Packaging magazine, (North American readership and circulation) and IQ Idaho.

The Packaging World article reflects Sustainable Innovations' involvement in implementing sustainability into packaging design, material make-up and handling after use. The IQ Idaho article describes the services performed by Sustainable Innovations for clients including energy conservation, waste diversion, process efficiency and reducing a business’s carbon footprint.

See the directory profile for Sustainable Innovations.

July 2007

07/05/07 - Award-winning Seattle, Washington-based web developer Peak Systems, named as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Top 10 Web Developers for 2007, has finalized its purchase of ABD Insights of Boise, Idaho. ABD Insights was a charter member of TVCNet.

Boise becomes the fourth city in which Peak Systems maintains an office, joining Seattle, Albuquerque and Denver. With this purchase, Peak Systems strengthens its already substantial presence in the western United States, immediately adding approximately twenty current clients and a total portfolio of nearly seventy clients including the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Qwest Communications and Boise State University.

Aaron Day and Andrew Hahn, principals of ABD Insights, will continue working from their office in Boise. This ownership change will provide tangible benefits for their clients who will gain access to over twenty project managers, programmers and designers at Peak, as well as the company’s comprehensive Seattle testing facility. Integration of the two companies is expected to be complete within a matter of weeks.

May 2007

05/25/07 - Dan Bobinski of Center for Workplace Excellence had one of his recent blog posts, Ten Universal Principles of the Workplace, picked up by Fox News.

See his directory profile for more information on this TVCNet member.

January 2007

01/22/07 - LifeQuest is now Price Associates to reflect the growing demand for consulting services in the Treasure Valley. Ron Price, president & CEO of Price Associates, says "Our desire to help individuals excel, coupled with our success in organizational development, gradually made it obvious that we had outgrown our original name. Business owners and executives would say LifeQuest sounds like a life coaching company, but what you have brought us is so much more!"

In addition to the name change, Price Associates has launched a new website. See their directory profile for more information on this TVCNet member.