Smart Business Magazine, June 2016

June 2016 Smart Business Akron Canton 5 MARK SCOTT EDITORS NOTE Smart Business Akron Canton 835 Sharon Drive Suite 200 Cleveland OH 44145 O 8009884726 F 4402507001 Smart Business Magazine Events PRESIDENT MAGAZINE EVENTS Joe Artiste PUBLISHER CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Dustin S Klein GENERAL MANAGER John Lotenero VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Janet K Valore Joanna Reese Roz Taylor TaKeysha Cheney SENIOR EDITOR April Grasso EDITOR AT LARGE Dennis Seeds SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Mark Scott ASSOCIATE EDITOR Jayne Gest PRODUCTION MANAGER Mary Kay Bukowski CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jim Mericsko DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGER Adam Burroughs PROJECT MANAGER EVENTS Danielle Catteau SALES MANAGER EVENTS Meredith Rankin SALES EXECUTIVE EVENTS Lisa Walker CUSTOMER SERVICE AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Somer Karim AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Tammy Frank Smart Business Magazine Events are a division of Smart Business Network Inc PRESIDENT CEO Fred Koury MANAGING PARTNER CONVERO Lee Koury MANAGING PARTNER CONVERO Michael Marzec CONTROLLER Kathy Deutsch EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Jill Brown ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE ACCOUNTS PAYABLE Marilyn Homolak Smart Business Magazine is published in Akron Canton Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Florida Houston Los Angeles Northern California Orange County Philadelphia Pittsburgh St Louis SMART BUSINESS The first step Canton program gives people the chance to make a fresh startto get it It has to be what they want more than what I want for them They have to want it for themselves Sometimes it takes a little bit more time In this months Building Stronger Communities I spoke with James and Dina Silver Pokedoff senior manager of branding and communication at Saint Gobain the worlds largest building materials company and a partner in the YouthBuild USA program James says she and her team work hard to model the behaviors they want to see from the students and remind them that no one is perfect There are a lot of life lessons in the staff and the people that work for me James says We dont know it all but were going to figure it out Its important that my students see that they dont have to have all the answers They just need to have that resourcefulness to figure out how to find the answers The program is a great opportunity for young adults who have had tough times at home in school or have faced some other unfortunate circumstance to get their lives at least started down a new path We have building scientists who are experts in how to combine products to make buildings as sustainable as possible Pokedoff says So we bring that building science expertise to all of our projects that we partner on with Youth Build We provide a donation of products and most importantly we bring volunteers people who can help the students They take out of work out of school youth and give them a chance to rebuild their lives while also rebuilding their own communities They put sweat equity into a project Joanna James wants to help all the young people who come through the YouthBuild Canton Project REBUILD program get their lives turned around but she knows its not that easy Are we 100 percent effective asks James executive director of the sustainable building and job training program for disadvantaged youth Were not but I feel like were planting those seeds We might not see it now but we feel like its going to be two or three years when that young person is finally going MARK SCOTT Senior Associate Editor Smart Business Akron Canton 800 988 4726 ext 216 mscott@ sbnonline com www sbnonline com