03
Sep
Three Successful Entrepreneurs
By: Ray Montie
Three Successful Entrepreneurs
It isn’t something you can do by accident. It requires effort, dedication, creativity and a good dose of wisdom. Each of these elements cannot exist without the other. In order for success to materialize, you must first be able to identify opportunities, act on them and manage them so they become a success in their own right. Leaders with proven success are those who can identify opportunities and act on them. They also know the importance of mentoring others. Successful entrepreneurs have an abundance of information at their fingertips regarding various facets of their businesses.
Only you are responsible for the success of your business. Only you are accountable for the success or failure of your company. Ambit Energy requires that you lead and be led just like any other business. With a proven leadership model and the support of an experienced founder, there is no reason why Ambit Energy cannot achieve great success. Here is the profile of Success as it pertains to mentoring and leadership development.
Dan Palladino is the founder of ambit energy, a Dallas-based company. For more than 30 years, he has been playing professional poker. He retired in 2007 and founded his own marketing company. The company now offers an innovative nutritional supplement line, health and lifestyle products and personal care products. Dan Palladino is a firm believer that everyone should have the power to manage their own health and lives. He wants people to be able to do that.
Dan Palladino believes that anyone can be a leader but those who are champions of greatness will become leaders. As the founder of an entire company and health and lifestyle products line, Dan Palladino understands the need to develop leaders, which is not an easy task. In an effort to develop his team of leaders, he hired a number of people, including a few well-known speakers and writers, a marketing guru and an entrepreneur. They are helping him build a network of people who support his beliefs and vision about alkaline food, energy and health.
Julia B. Ambit Energy’s leaders include Julia B. Flowers Julia started as a sales associate with a company that specialized in mail order and retail sales to home decorators and was eventually promoted to ceo. Her rise to the top of the company’s ladder was made possible by the help of her newly acquired marketing mastermind, Grant Wise. Julia B. was promoted to the top of her industry in a very short time. Flowers was appointed the president and ceo of the company.
Dr. Danielle A. Mckeaigg is the founder of the company and responsible for its impressive sales figures. However, Dr. Mckeaigg did not start as a business owner until the year 2000, having founded the nonprofit charity, Environmental Health Care Services. Dr. Mckeaigg was responsible for increasing revenue and reducing greenhouse gasses. At the same time, he was busy trying to better serve the people of Jamaica using his knowledge about the island’s people and its natural resources. His time and effort has been devoted to improving the lives of the many stray cats in Kingston’s slums.
Ambit Energy’s vice president and general manager is Carlton Wehmeyer (PhD). His background lies in ecological management and engineering. He is an expert in environmental consulting and science and has been invited to consult for the government agencies on their quest to find more sustainable energy sources and alternatives.
Glen Hunter, who is also a co-founder of Ambit Energy and serves as the president and general manager. He is a geoscientist and works with a number of private, governmental, and non-profit organizations. Before founding Ambit, Hunter was president and chief executive of Global Eco Systems (a consultancy firm he founded in 1998). He has been an important adviser to the national green building initiatives of the United States.