16 - Moira Quinn, Charlotte Center City Partners

Moira Quinn

Charlotte Center City Partners

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

As chief operating officer and senior vice president of communications for Charlotte Center City Partners, Moira Quinn oversees daily operations, budgeting, facilities, human resources, and the organization’s contractual relationship with the City of Charlotte. She also manages internal and external communications, and media relations. 

Wearing many hats is nothing new to Quinn. During her 26 year career at Jefferson Pilot and WBT, she worked as studio camera operator, news photographer, reporter, anchor, executive producer, and host of the nationally-syndicated show, PM Magazine. Quinn is a graduate of Queen’s University of Charlotte, where she is trustee emerita. She is past president of Temple Beth El, where she remains an active member. Always busy and always learning; Moira Quinn is our guest on this episode of The @Work Podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden.
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15 - Clark Goodman - Partner at Latitude Legal

Clark Goodman

Disputes Attorney, Business Leader. Mentor and Educator

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Clark Goodman is founding partner of the Charlotte office of Latitude, a flexible legal staffing agency. Prior to joining Latitude, he was the Charlotte office Managing Partner at Womble Bond Dixon, where he also served as an elected member of the Firmwide Management Committee, Chair of the Budget Committee, and Business Litigation Team Leader for the Charlotte Office from 2021 to 2023.
Clark was also named to Business North Carolina Magazine’s Power List. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Clark now serves as an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law. Clark Goodman is our guest today on The @Work Podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. 

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Latitude – Charlotte Office

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14 - Jim Keffer, Owner and Investing Partner at Keffer Auto Group

Jim Keffer

Owner and Investing Partner at Keffer Auto Group

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Jim Keffer is the owner and investing partner at Keffer Auto Group; a dealership group offering Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, RAM, Ford, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Genesis, and exotic car brands in Charlotte, Albemarle, and Columbia. A second generation leader in the car sales industry, Jim is also a board member of the Greater Charlotte Auto Dealers Association. In addition, he participates in the Hyundai Hero program, which gives vehicles to military veterans, law enforcement officers and teachers, among others. In his spare time, he’s an endurance athlete and an accomplished potter. Jim Keffer is our guest on this episode of The At Work Podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden.

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13 - John Hood, President of the John William Pope Foundation

John Hood

President of the John William Pope Foundation

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

John Hood is the President of the John William Pope Foundation, a Raleigh based grant maker. He also serves on the board of the John Locke Foundation, the state policy think tank he helped found in 1989 and led as its president for more than two decades.
Hood has written a syndicated column on politics and public policy for North Carolina newspapers, appearing often as a radio and television commentator. He is the author of seven nonfiction books on subjects such as business, advertising, public policy and political history. His most recent books are titled Mountain Folk and Forest Folk; both are historical fantasy novels set in early America. John Hood is our guest today on The @Work Podcast.

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John William Pope Foundation 

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12 - Daniel Coston, Independent Photography Professional

Daniel Coston

Independent Photography Professional

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Daniel Coston started taking photographs in 1995. His credits include work with Johnny Cash, the Everly Brothers, Wilco, Son Volt, Andrew Bird, Drive-By Truckers, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, and the Down from the Mountain Tour, and many, many others. His photographs have been included in nearly every major publication in the United States and Europe, and several TV networks.
He is also the author of five books, including North Carolina Musicians: Photographs and Conversations, and There Was a Time: Rock & Roll in the 1960’s in Charlotte and North Carolina. His photographs have been exhibited at the Earl Scruggs Center, the Charlotte Museum of History, and the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. Daniel Coston is our guest today on The @Work Podcast.
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11 - Dan Hooks, Party Reflections

Dan Hooks

Party Reflections

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Founded in 1958 by Wayne and Sue Hooks, Party Reflections started in a rented garage with a small inventory of tables and chairs. Now, over 60 years later, Party Reflections has expanded to four locations in North and South Carolina, being led by the second generation and employing the third generation in the successful family business.

The event business isn’t just the reels and stories that you see on Instagram. It’s hard work that takes plenty of human capital to pull it off, right?

Dan Hooks is our guest today on the At Work podcast.

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Party Reflections

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10 - Bill Bartee, Jesse Brown's Outdoors

Bill Bartee

Jesse Brown's Outdoors

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Growing up in scouting and passionate about the outdoors as a college student, Bill Bartee has led a company focused on promoting the value of an outdoor lifestyle for over 40 years. In 1994, with the help of his father, Bill purchased Jesse Brown’s Outdoors. Four decades later, Jesse Brown’s Outdoors thrives as a small retailer because it has built a loyal tribe of customers who find community with fellowship ventures through the store and Bartee’s unique approach to leadership of his workforce has been instrumental to the creation of this loyal adventuring community of customers from a multi-state retail chain with multiple locations to a single flagship store that produces events such as the beloved Storyteller Nights and the Fly Fishing Film Festival to a long standing AM radio show that is now a podcast. Marty has crafted a uniquely successful business that has stood the test of time. Bill is our guest today on the @Work Podcast. Bill Bartee, welcome to the @Work podcast.

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Jesse Brown’s Outdoors

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09 - Stuart Hair - Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Stuart Hair

Charlotte Douglas International Airport

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Stuart Hair serves as the city of Charlotte’s Aviation Department’s director of Economic and Community Affairs. He is responsible for planning, directing, managing and overseeing the activities and operations regarding commercial development, community engagement, real estate and airplane noise at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. His primary duties include identifying corporations and business facilities that are targets for recruitment to relocate on or near the airport and marketing the airport to those organizations.

Hair has been on the job since 2015. Since 2006, Hair has worked in economic development throughout the Charlotte region with local and state organizations. Stuart Hair is our guest today on the @Work podcast.

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08 - John Tosco, Tosco Music

John Tosco

Tosco Music

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

John Tosco is a man of many talents, musician, guitar teacher and businessman. But if I had to put a single label on John’s great contribution to the Charlotte, North Carolina music scene, it would be as impresario. More than 30 years ago, Tosco music was born out of a love of two things music and community. What started with a circle of friends gathering in his living room to share songs has grown into a nonprofit organization that has substantial community impact across six distinct programs, the Tasco Music Party, FabFest Beatles Tribute, the Tosco Open Mic, musicians support, community outreach and scholarships. In any given year, the Tosco organization produces over 100 live events at 27 locations throughout the city, putting more than 300 performers on the stage. More than half of those performances are for seniors in our community. Another 200 performers take the stage through the open mics and the Tosco Scholarship Fund Awards nearly $15,000 to several dozen youth and adult musicians.

John Tosco is our guest today on the @Work podcast.

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Tosco Music

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07 - Keith Poettker, Poettker Construction

Keith Poettker

Poettker Construction

This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Founded in 1980, Petrie Construction is an award winning family owned business that specializes in construction services, with the objective of exceeding the client’s expectations through building relationships and buildings in the safest and most cost efficient way possible, all the while maintaining the highest degree of quality and emphasis on sustainable design solutions. Keith Tucker is our guest today on the At Work podcast.

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Keith Poettker on LinkedIn

Poettker Construction

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