Exceptional performance in direct sales is not the result of talent or luck—it is the product of specific, learnable habits practiced consistently over time. Grit Marketing’s leadership team has identified the behavioral patterns that distinguish its top performers from average ones, and it has built its training culture around developing those patterns in every representative…
Basel Holding’s growth from a focused entrepreneurial venture into a multi-market financial services group reflects the strategic vision of its founder. Burak Basel, who has built the company across London, Malta, Lithuania, and the UAE, understood early that serving sophisticated clients in global finance would require a presence in multiple regulatory environments—not just a headquarters…
Vanessa Getty’s philanthropic career did not begin with a foundation or a named initiative. It began with driving dogs out of Sacramento shelters and finding them homes in the Bay Area. That was the work before the work—years of hands-on rescue activity that preceded any institutional structure and gave Getty an unusually granular understanding of…
Finance has no shortage of quantitative benchmarks. Return rates, asset growth, client acquisition costs, and portfolio volatility are all tracked with precision. Justin Nelson, a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank with nearly 30 years in the industry, believes these measures are useful but ultimately incomplete. Connecting Financial Decisions to Human Lives Nelson heads…
Karl Studer: Building a Family Enterprise Designed to Last Generations The ambition to build something that outlasts you is one of the more demanding forms of entrepreneurship. It requires a different kind of discipline — the willingness to plant trees whose shade you may never sit under, to make decisions whose benefits accrue to people…
The growth of Energy Transfer under Kelcy Warren was not accidental. It was the product of well-timed acquisitions, disciplined capital allocation, and a willingness to move fast when competitors hesitated. Over more than two decades, Warren assembled a portfolio of midstream assets that now stretches across 44 states and includes close to 125,000 miles of…
Judd Zebersky closed nearly three decades at Jazwares on March 20, 2026, stepping down as CEO of the company he founded after leaving a career in law. David Neustein, who served as Chief Operating Officer for 14 years, assumed the CEO role on March 23, 2026, taking over a business with roughly 1,400 employees and…
When Kelcy Warren and Ray Davis started Energy Transfer in 1996, the company had roughly 200 miles of pipeline and ambitions that outpaced its balance sheet. Twenty-seven years later, Energy Transfer operates nearly 125,000 miles of pipeline, generates revenue approaching $90 billion annually, and moves product to 93 countries. The gap between those two snapshots…
Being featured in Atlanta Style and Design Magazine’s ‘Looming Large’ profile series is a form of industry recognition that reflects editorial judgement about which designers are doing work of genuine significance in the American market. Debby Gomulka’s inclusion in this series — described as celebrating a ‘designer’s renaissance’ — acknowledges a career that has entered…
Kelcy Warren stated in a Hart Energy interview that the idea of rapidly phasing out hydrocarbons does not align with current market realities or infrastructure limitations. As chairman of Energy Transfer, he highlighted consistent demand for midstream services as strong evidence of the sector’s durability and long-term relevance. Kelcy Warren emphasized that pipeline infrastructure remains…