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About Ryan Turner:

Ryan Turner is a founding partner of Unsukay Restaurants, whose first concept is a popular neighborhood restaurant in Smyrna, GA. The partners now oversee a portfolio of eight restaurants and private dining clubs, including Muss & Turner’s, Eleanors, Local Three Kitchen & Bar, Warhorse Investments, Seahorse Advisors, The Arbitrage Room, MTH Pizza, and Roshambo. 

In 2011, The Georgia Restaurant Association recognized Unsukay Restaurants as Restaurateurs of the Year. The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Business Chronicle acknowledged Turner’s contributions to the business landscape by naming him Business Person of the Year in 2014. A founding member and board chair of the Giving Kitchen Turner and still serves on the board’s Executive Committee. In 2015, the Unsukay partners were awarded the National Restaurant Association’s highest honor, the Cornerstone Humanitarian Award, for their role in founding Giving Kitchen. 

In 2019, Giving Kitchen was named the James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year. Turner was honored to represent the organization and share his thoughts with a national audience.

Before opening Unsukay’s first concept in 2004, Turner was the food and beverage manager at East Lake Golf Club. The Georgia Restaurant Association elected him to their board in 2012, and later, he served the organization as board chair. 

Originally from Maine, Turner graduated from the University of Vermont in 1994. After that, he served with AmeriCorps in Arizona along the border of Mexico. In 1995, he moved to Atlanta, where he met his wonderful wife of 25 years, Shelley, née Standard (UGA 1993). They reside in Smyrna with their two teenage children and dog, Baxter. In his free time, Turner loves to learn, write, cook for his family, and play golf.

Featured Resources (Links):

Meta-Leadership by Constance Dierickx

TheGivingKitchen.org

https://unsukay.com/

About Nikki Blacksmith:

As an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and Co-Founder/CEO of Blackhawke Behavior Science, Dr. Nikki Blacksmith has worked across industries, helping organizations attract and select high-quality employees, entrepreneurs, and leaders. Her research and consulting focuses on understanding the way personality and cognitive ability predict decision-making and job performance in startups and other organizations.

She has published over 60 different conference papers, book chapters, and journal articles. Her scientific research has been published in top-tier publications including the Journal of Business and Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and Journal of Personality Assessment and Intelligence. Her research has also been featured in many media outlets including New York Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, and Bustle.

Dr. Blacksmith is currently a research fellow at the Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences and an adjunct faculty member at American University in Washington, DC.

Featured Resources (Links):

Meta-Leadership by Constance Dierickx

Data-Driven Decision Making in Entrepreneurship: Tools for Maximizing Human Capital by Nikki Blacksmith and Maureen E. McCusker

Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

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About Peter Sandeen:

Peter Sandeen is a marketing expert known for his strategic and integrative approach to marketing. With a background in conversion optimization and copywriting, Peter has helped countless businesses, from small enterprises to large corporations, refine their marketing strategies to achieve consistent and measurable results. 

His unique ability to see the bigger picture and identify the most impactful opportunities has made him a sought-after consultant in the marketing world. Peter is also a respected speaker and the author of Creating Business Growth: 21 Successful Marketers Reveal Their Top Business Marketing Secrets, sharing his insights on effective marketing tactics and decision-making processes. He currently operates from Helsinki, Finland, where he continues to influence the marketing landscape with his innovative ideas and expertise.

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About Danny Iny:

Danny Iny is the founder and CEO of Mirasee and best-selling author of nine published books, including Teach Your Gift, Leveraged Learning, Teach and Grow Rich, The Audience Revolution, and Engagement from Scratch!. He is the host of the Business Reimagined Podcast and is also the creator of the acclaimed Course Builder’s Laboratory training program, which provides all the instruction, coaching, and support that entrepreneurs need to build and launch a profitable online course.

Danny has maintained a passionate commitment to learning and transparency, freely sharing lessons learned from great successes, major challenges, and even his personal life to support the online entrepreneurial community as a teacher, speaker, trainer, and advisor to many of the top leaders in our industry.

His study, research, and unflagging drive over the years have culminated in this latest work, Leveraged Learning, which aims to sow the seed of education’s transformation in the coming years. Leveraged Learning shares the opportunity and transmits the vision to those who will boldly rise up and claim it.

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About Dorie Clark:

Dorie Clark has been named three times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Columbia Business School, and she is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Long Game strategic thinking self-assessment at dorieclark.com/thelonggame.

Why do smart people make bad decisions? This question haunted Constance Dierickx, so she dug into the science of decision-making, leadership, and behavior to find the answers. She has advised over 500 executives on 5 continents in 28 industries and has observed excellence in leadership and management, some bad strategic decisions, and helped leaders in crisis. Now she and her guests will share stories from their experience and Constance will offer science-based advice that anyone can use to get unstuck and make the right decisions when the stakes are high.

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