April 9th, 2009

Gerald Coury, President Coury Consulting

ReachingForCharacter.com

Do I give energy, waste energy, or take energy from others?

                               President, Coury Consulting, 11212 N. May Ave., 

Oklahoma City, OK 73120, ( 405) 751-7323

Gerald received his BS in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University and his Master of Commerce from the University of Richmond.

He owned and operated Coury Distribution Center, a wholesale beverage corporation in central Virginia for 18 years.  He also was a part-time instructor at Richard Bland College, a branch of William and Mary.

He joined the Character Training Institute in 1996 and became a director in the business division.  Later he became the director of the International Association of Character Cities.

Gerald presently owns Coury Consulting, Inc. and Reaching for Character, a company that consults and trains in character development in businesses, schools, sports and athletics, churches, government and law enforcement agencies, as well as families.

Gerald Coury was raised in Hopewell, VA.  He and his wife Maureen and their four

Children currently reside in Oklahoma City, OK.

Host Site Bolero's Restuarant,

Chef Curtis Bramlett

John Gillespie, Carved In Stone & Access Financial Group, Inc.

John Gillespie has a magnetic personality as he genuinely cares about people and they know it.  John's life of integrity has become the definition of his character.  Gillespie is the president of Access Financial Group, Inc. and Founder of Access Charitable consultants. 

 Randall Christy, President, The Gospel Station Network will also join us.  It will be an afternoon of fun, food and music!

Home Instead Senior Care

www.homeinstead.com

Lloyd R. Smith, Jr., MBCP
Business & Government Continuity Services
P.O. Box 1706
Oklahoma City, OK., 73101
405-286-1649, Fax 405-741-7424, Cell 405-627-8456
e-mail LRSBGCS@aol.com www.businesscontinuity.info

Promoting & Enhancing Corporate & Govt. Disaster Prevention & Recovery

Lloyd R. Smith, Jr., a retired Air Force Colonel has 25 years experience in Information Systems and 22 years in Disaster Recovery. 


Contact Information:
Lloyd R. Smith, Jr., MBCP
Business & Government Continuity Services
PO Box 1706
Oklahoma City, OK., 73101
405-286-1649, 405-627-8456 (cell), 405-741-7424(fax)
www.BusinessContinuity.info

 

 The Gospel Station Network

Lead, Motivate, Create!

www.thegospelstation.com, 800-557-8815

 

Host Site: Reaching For Character, Gerald Coury, 11212 N. May, Suite 101, 751-7323

November 13th, 2008

Kathy Holman, CAAVA , (no photo available)

Autumn Life Center

Edmond Medical Center

Classroom 1

Ambulatory Pavilion, Connie Goodpasture, 405-359-5256

 

Kathy shared ways that CAAVA is able to help senior citizens who cannot help themselves.

October 9th, 2008

Linda Dobson, Executive Director of Sales, NAI Sullivan Group

Linda K. Dobson

Executive Director of Sales

NAI Sullivan Group

4045 N.W. 64th Street, Suite 410

Oklahoma City, OK 73116

tel (405) 840 0600 (Ext. 303)

www.naisullivangroup.com

"Distractions from your Destiny"

"Many people just flounder and let distractions get in the way of their destiny."

Come to learn new ways from Linda Dobson to keep from derailing on your way to your destiny.

 

 

Linda is the Executive Director of Sales for the NAI Sullivan Group in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she coaches and mentors 12 commercial real estate brokers. 

 

After retiring as Corporate Vice President for Commercial Federal Bank in 2003, she developed her own successful company, Dobson Mortgage Corporation, which specialized in financing commercial real estate.  In the fall of 2007, Linda felt a need to get back to helping others to become all they can be and sold Dobson Mortgage Corporation to a great group of local people, took a reduction in salary to become a coach and mentor for NAI Sullivan commercial real estate company. 

 

Linda and her husband, Lindell, live in rural Piedmont, are members of the First Baptist Church in Piedmont, and are the parents of four grown children and 6 grandchildren. 

 

Hobbies include big game hunting, fishing, gardening, reading, and grandchildren.

 

 

            September 11, 2008

Presentor: Captain Renda Brumbeloe: "Why The Airlines Work, Sometimes"

 

Captain Renda Brumbeloe was born in Alabama and raised in a Nazarene parsonage, the fourth of seven children.  He holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in music (piano performance) from the University of Alabama. 

 

In a multi-vocational career, Renda taught and adjudicated high school choral music in Alabama and Florida and for 22 years, has served churches as ministry of music in Alabama, Florida and Bethany, Oklahoma until 1987.    

 

He began an aviation career while in college, earning flight instructor and commercial airline pilot ratings, and instructed at FlightSafety International.   In 1987 he was hired by United Airlines and is now a retired Captain from United Airlines with over 20 thousand flight hours.

 

Renda has served as an adjunct music professor at Southern Nazarene University, church board member and Sunday school teacher.   He is an avid reader and student of the Bible and has written a Men’s Bible Study curriculum entitled “Scripting Our Lives”.  

 

Renda has written articles for several aviation industry and religious magazines and authors a religious blog at www.rendabrumbeloe.org.   He is currently preparing a book about spiritual perspectives of an airline pilot. 

 

A free subscription of his weekly Morning Musings email is available upon request at rendaual@aol.com. 

 

Renda and his wife, Sharon, an RN, have two married daughters, four beautiful grand girls, and live near Oklahoma City

 

August 11, 2008 Artist Bert Seabourn

"Living with Art"

Bert Seabourn

405-722-1631

seabournart@cox.net

 

     Internationally acclaimed American Expressionist Bert Seabourn is a painter, printmaker sculptor, author and teacher, who experiments intensively with creative vitality.

    Born in 1931, Seabourn sold his first piece of art, (a cartoon) to King Features Syndicate in 1946, while in the eight grade at  Purcell, Oklahoma.  After graduating from high school, he joined the Navy and served several years as a Navy Journalist-artist.  After being discharged in 1955, Seabourn and his family returned to Oklahoma, where he worked for Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company for 23 years as artist and art director.  During the mid fifties and early sixties, Seabourn was enrolled in evening classes at Oklahoma City University where he attended for six years majoring in art.  In 1978, he resigned from OG&E to pursue a full-time career as a painter of fine art.

    Seabourn is the recipient of several notable honors.  In 1976, he was designated a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes in Muskogee, OK, and in 1981, Oklahoma Governor George Nigh awarded him the Governor’s Art Award.   In 1986 his sculpture, “Wind Walker”, a 23-foot bronze was unveiled at Southern Bell Telephone Company’s State Headquarter in Oklahoma City, (the sculpture is now located at the Attorney General Office Building , Oklahoma State Capitol Complex) and in 1997, Oklahoma City University honored him with the University’s highest honor, the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.  In 2004, Seabourn received Oklahoma’s Living Treasure Award.

July 10th, 2008

Eunyoung Kim and Michael Soderstrand, Synapse International, LLC

         

Eunyoung Kim is the C.E.O. of Synapse International, L.L.C. and Michael Soderstrand is the Director of Product Development for Synapse International, L.L.C.  The company was started in 2002 primarily to sell the new environmentally-friendly ground-source heat pump technology in Korea.  Synapse International is the exclusive representative for Florida Heat Pump in Korea and does about $750,000 business in Korea each year.

 Recently Synapse International has deliberately expanded its market.  In our commercial lines we have added rooftop mounted wind turbines and solar panels and a complete line of heat-pump related products.  We recently added an online store with retail products.  It is these new retail products that will be the main focus of our presentation.  These products include:

 

1.  Home composter units (automatic in-kitchen units and solar-powered outdoor units),

2.  Energy monitoring equipment (simple wireless monitoring that can assist you in saving electrical energy at home),

3.  LED lighting products including highly-efficient LED study lamps.

405-334-8329,  http://synapse-int.com, soderstrand@synapse-int.com

June 12th, 2008

Joshua Jantz, Chief Stone Age Rescuer, 405-570-6998, www.CaveMan Websites.com

May 8th, 2008  Dr. Dawn Holsted, Vice-President of Clinical Services of TLC Laser Eye Centers

TLC Laser Eye Center

405-842-6308

www.LASIK.com

TLC LASIK eye procedures are changing the family photos all over the world

Tiger Woods counts on his TLC Lasik procedure!

 

April 10th, 2008  Dr. Andrea Mears

Andrea Mears, AuD, CCC-A Audiologist

Hearts For Hearing, 405-548-4300, Andrea.Mears@heartsforhearing.org, www.heartsforhearing.org

Listen For A Lifetime

Hearts for Hearing, 3525 NW 56th, Suite A-150, OKC 73112

 

 

March 13, 2008  Debbie Miller, Spanish Cove

Topic: Six Dimensions of Wellness

 

February 14, 2008  Trish Carruth

Trish Carruth, Oklahoma Family Policy Council, 787-7744, trishcarruth@sbcglobal.net

Trish will be sharing with us about:

"What's Love Got To Do With It?"

Trish knew she wanted to be a teacher in the sixth grade. She also loves learning, and is working on her Master's Degree in Administration at SNU.  Another great passion of hers is serving the homeless and working poor through the work of Trinity Legal Clinics.  Her full time work is with Oklahoma Family Policy Council- the state affiliate of James C. Dobson's Focus on the Family.  Additionally, Trish is acting as an associate faculty member at Oklahoma Christian School where she had been teaching for the last eight years.  As a gifted multi-tasker, Trish also maintains her home, serving the needs of her husband and their three teenage daughters.  The other thing on her plate is speaking to women across the state, encouraging them to stay near to God.  Take a break, come be encouraged.  Trish is an energetic speaker with a wealth of ideas to help you become all that you need to be.

 

Ron Moore, January 10th, 2008

Ronald Moore, formerly "The K-LOVE GUY" and author of "Life Happens, How To Keep On Swinging When You've Taken More Hits Than A Louisville Slugger"

Author: Life Happens

Touch-A-Life Productions, P.O. Box 32114, OKC, OK 73123, RonMooreOKC@SBCGlobal.net, 405-789-7523

 

December 13, 2007

Randall Christy, President, The Gospel Station Network.

 

Randall Christy, The Gospel Station Network, 580-332-0902, email@thegospelstation.com, PO Box 1343, Ada, OK, 74820

Pastor of 22 years at Union Valley Baptist Church grew from the purchase of a 300 watt station to a network of 8 radio stations and several affiliates.  Randall shared ways to overcome disappointments and to be encouraged about challenges.

November 8th, 2007

Presenter: Greg Pruitt, King's Limo and Private Jet

405-733-LIMO (5466)  gpruitt405@cox.net

www.kingslimook.com

1) Stepping out on your own venture

2) Starting a new business in today's financial world (and still have time to sleep)

3) OKC - The best market to start your new business!

 

October 11th, 2007

Deborah Brunt

Author / Speaker, www.keytruths.com

"Focused Living in a Frazzled World"

Deborah Brunt founded Key Truths, Open Gates LLC for the purpose of investigating truth and instigating bold living. A trailblazer, she believes that key truths do indeed open gates. She helps people see what they haven’t seen and go where they haven’t gone. The author of four books, Deborah has contributed to six others and has written more than 1,500 published articles. Her newspaper articles appear often in the Daily Oklahoman. Her newest book, Focused Living in a Frazzled World: 105 Snapshots of Life, has also been released as an audio book. A speaker with a passion for unlocking truth and going wherever it leads, Deborah challenges audiences to pivotal involvement in things that really matter.

 

 

September 13th, 2007

Lillian C. Brejda

Juice Plus

787-2570

abrejda@cox.net

Lillian Brejda with Juice Plus+ will be sharing health benefits

Lillian Brejda moved from the Midwest to Oklahoma City in 1965 with her husband and children and promptly fell in love with Oklahoma.  When she graduated from high school she wanted to go to college to become a dietician but life got in the way.  She married and raised a family.  However the dream was still there to share concepts of healthy living.  She heard about Juice Plus+ and liked the concept.  When she saw how much it helped her she decided to become a representative for the company

 

August 9th, 2007

Joshua Jantz

www.Cavemanwebsites.com  405-201-5110

 

Joshua is married to his lovely wife, Kelley.  Joshua and his family are active members in their church and community. Joshua serves for several nonprofit organizations including the Character Council of Central Oklahoma, Inc., and the Oklahoma Ethics Consortium.

He recently started a new company dedicated to helping small business persons easily obtain a website.  Caveman Websites believes that price or technical knowledge should not be a limiting factor for small organizations to have their own web presence. 

Joshua built his first website over six years ago at the age of 21. 

July 12th, 2007

 

Aubrey Iasiello of Panera Bread, www.panerabread.com

 

June 14th, 2007 Speaker is

Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas of Accent Innovations

Learn about Terry Meek and Richard Thomas ability to customize concrete driveways, sidewalks, countertops and even desktops.

Accent Innovations

"Increasing Curb Appeal"

 

May 10th, 2007 Speaker

Dean Powery

KSBI TV  Chan 52 / Cable 9  www.ksbitv.com

Topic:  Growing your business.

April 2007 Guest Speaker

Vera Radley

Del City Church of the Nazarene

405- 677-2330, vradley@coxinet.net

Topic:  Experiences as a young widow

 

March 2007 Guest Speaker

Jeff Seyfert, M.B.A.

Graduate Studies in Management

Jeff is the Interim Director of Graduate Studies in Management at Southern Nazarene University.  He will be talking to us about adult education.

Click here for bio.

405-491-6671, jseyfert@snu.edu

February 2007 Guest Speaker

Anita Kelley

Tealridge Christian Retirement, www.tealridgeretirement.com

405-425-1000  anita.kelley@oc.edu