The Strategic Business Forum with Jeff Gallimore, Cofounder & Partner of Excella Consulting - June 16th
- Ranked as one of the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work for the third consecutive year.
- Their corporate band, Detached Retina, was the runner up at FORTUNE's Battle of the Corporate Bands in Cleveland, OH.
- Listed in the Inc 500|5000 for the fifth consecutive year.
- Won the 2013 DC-area Jefferson Award for corporate philanthropy.
Join business owners and the area’s top business leaders on Monday, June 16th, at the Tower Club as we eat a nice lunch and welcome Jeff as the next guest of the Strategic Business Forum!
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Jeff leads Excella’s Corporate Services Strategy and oversees their service and specialty areas, as well as their Centers of Excellence. That includes building their capabilities and thought leadership in software development, business intelligence, program management, business analysis, and Agile.
Excella leads or sponsors over 17 different organizations in the DC-area technical community. Jeff personally oversees the firm’s Extension Centers and Training Program. Excella’s Extension Centers at Virginia Tech and University of Maryland provide low cost and high quality remote services to their clients while developing unique STEM opportunities for students. Excella’s Training Program offers a variety of courses to help organizations get the knowledge and certifications they need to transform their businesses with Agile and business analysis, as well as learning how they apply to software development, business intelligence, and program management.
Jeff has played many roles over the course of his 20+ years in information technology and consulting. He’s been a developer and architect, building systems with various technologies, platforms, and methodologies. He’s also provided day-to-day and strategic support for high profile, complex technology programs. Throughout it all, Jeff has maintained a passion for technology and how it can be used to support the business and achieve results.
Before founding Excella, Jeff worked as a developer and architect for Perspective Technology Corporation and Idea Integration. Before that, he was a programmer analyst for AMS.
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About the Strategic Business Forum:
The purpose of the Strategic Business Forum is to educate and inspire business owners and other leaders to create remarkably successful enterprises. We do this through interviewing founders who have grown their businesses above at least $3M in revenue or CEOs of larger companies that have led their companies through growth periods. The forum is run at breakeven, there are no sales pitches, and there is nothing to join. The Strategic Business Forum is a pure lunch and learn, with some light networking thrown in, for the express purpose of enabling business owners to learn from the great successes of others.
Using an interview format, questions are typically along the lines of:
The purpose of the Strategic Business Forum is to educate and inspire business owners and other leaders to create remarkably successful enterprises. We do this through interviewing founders who have grown their businesses above at least $3M in revenue or CEOs of larger companies that have led their companies through growth periods. The forum is run at breakeven, there are no sales pitches, and there is nothing to join. The Strategic Business Forum is a pure lunch and learn, with some light networking thrown in, for the express purpose of enabling business owners to learn from the great successes of others.
Using an interview format, questions are typically along the lines of:
- General background (where the speaker grew up, went to college, etc. Basically any interesting aspects of his/her formative years,etc.)
- How he/she started or took over the business
- How did he/she grow the business to where it is today (or where it was when he/she exited). Looking for events, strategies, key hires, key fires, etc. Whatever were the key building blocks to getting him/her there.
- What were some of his/her most exciting victories (war stories)
- What were some of his/her biggest failures? Things that if he/she had a chance to do over again, he/she would do it differently (common items here are waiting too long to fire someone, micromanaging, etc.). Again, looking for war stories.
- What are the key takeaways that the speaker really wants the audience to know (ANYTHING that is important – lessons learned, processes, key advisers, hires, fires, leadership, marketing, tenacity, facing reality, etc., etc.)
- Anything else the speaker wants to share with the group? Any words of wisdom? Who is/was his/her mentor? Where does he/she go for encouragement? What book is he/she reading? Etc.
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