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Archives for March 2023

It’s Business Drive Time® in Kansas City

2:26 am By Dave Anderson

Kansas City is jumping. We’ve been through alot over the past few years, but things are getting back to normal. Companies are expanding. New organizations are finding their beginnings in the city. Employers hiring. They are looking for great people, and they are finding them in Kansas City! With all the changes in the market, and turmoil on the coasts, people and companies are looking from better markets. Better places to live.  Better places to locate companies and employees. And, there are opportunities, especially in tech, for remote positions.  As a result of this, and Kansas City’s overall reputation, KC is developing a notable spot on the national map.

The Spirit (and vibrancy) of Kansas City.

A recent study by the Brookings Institute ranked Johnson County, Kan., the key suburban county of the Kansas City metro, as one of the most vibrant counties in the nation. https://bit.ly/2EmCBmq Kansas City City is feeding off that energy, and the city’s future is as bright. Kansas City based events like the 2023 NFL Draft, a recent Super Bowl Win and the awarding as a host city for the FIFA World Cup 2026 are all nods from national influencers that Kansas City is on the map.

Kansas City is on the Move!Fresh Octane

What is Kansas City’s secret sauce? What makes Kansas City a great place to live and work? Why is it an attractive metro to own and run a company? Kansas City has become a hotbed for innovative new companies, new technologies and new business growth. We will discuss why!

Alpha Board Leaders: We are addressing these topics and more in the Kansas City segment of our Alpha Board National Business Leadership Tour. We are featuring a select group of area professionals as a part of the national tour. Join us as we showcase Kansas City leaders and newfound Kansas City growth! www.AlphaBoardTour.com

The national Alpha Board Tour is featuring some of the hottest markets across the nation. We’re reviewing the cities where business leaders, families and companies truly want to live. Fresh Octane® cities like, Kansas City, Denver, Minneapolis, Phoenix-Scottsdale, Nashville, Dallas, Austin and Raleigh-Durham all have a number of things in common. They are vibrant and growing. They are great places to locate businesses. Technology companies are thriving, plentiful and welcome in each city. And their livability indices far exceed the livability and affordability ratings of their coastal peer cities.

Alpha Driven GrowthAlpha® Driven Growth: As a part of our tour, we’re looking for the finest drivers to help us tell the best business stories! If you are distinguished business owner, CEO advisor, a noted business development professional or a recognized leader in the Kansas City region (or another Fresh Octane City,) we’d love to include your story in our national tour!  To learn more, call Dave Anderson at 612 810-4000; email Dave@AlphaBoard.com.

About Alpha® Board

Word Cloud Banner for Alpha Board TourAlpha Board is CEO power hub and National Business Leadership Exchange™ for leaders of high growth companies.

Alpha Board is designed to enhance the reputation, learning and market reach of CEO’s, Alpha Grade™ executives and the companies they lead. The Alpha Board Tour includes a series of regional industry visits throughout the U.S. This will involve news interviews, company visits and a market study on the topics of leadership, tech development, business growth and new product innovation. Other Alpha Board programs feature national speakers, executive exchanges, corporate profiles, leader roundtable discussions and open-house events at leading companies. Alpha Board works in collaboration with NeuVision Group, a 20-year-old new business development firm, as well as local,regional and national participants throughout the U.S.Past efforts have benefited owners across the U.S., Alpha Boardand gained the attention of noted business media outlets throughout two continents. More information about Alpha® Board, NeuVision® Group and the Fresh Octane® Tour can be found at www.AlphaBoard.com.

Seeking the Finest Business Drivers in America

4:39 pm By Dave Anderson

Alpha® Board 2025-2026 Fresh Octane® Tour

National Business Leadership Exchange™

Executive Overview

Join the conversation!  Are you a great business driver?  We’ve working with some of the finest Alpha® Grade leaders in American business, and we’re looking for additional standout leaders to be involved.  Which business leaders in your market do you believe are creating the greatest regional, national and global market impacts?  What industries, companies, people and products are moving business forward?  Got Drive?  Let’s talk!

MarketFacing-featAlpha® Board Fresh Octane® National Business Leadership Tour:

  • Fresh Octane® Tour: Showcasing innovative new products, Alpha® Driven companies, Alpha® Grade CEOs, and outstanding business leaders throughout major growth markets across America.
  • It’s about creating excitement, gaining visibility and driving inbound leads.
  • Helping to grow the reach, reputation and revenue of the region and nation’s finest business leaders.
  • A chance to place the great business drivers’ stories on the national stage.
  • Alpha Board Fresh Octane® Tour is a field tested system with well-designed, unique and powerful approach.
    • Proprietary, centralized system to drive marketplace attention
    • Innovative design based on rock-solid product launch/market acceptance techniques
    • Proven exponentially more efficient and powerful than comparable single company initiatives
    • We have market partners committed and participating from across the U.S. and globally.
    • CEOs, CEO advisors, business developers, celebrity guests.

Alpha Board Fresh Octane Executive Programs

  • Centralized visibility system for leaders:  executives, companies, products and services
  • Leverages two decades of experience creating visibility and market adoption for new products
  • Alpha Board Portraits of Leadership Executive and corporate showcase interviews and profiles
  • Alpha Board News Reel: Video shorts and comprehensive news film (local, regional and national video)
  • Alpha Board Fresh Octane CEO/Business Leader Roundtable discussions
  • Alpha Board Exchanges: Newsworthy leader exchanges among other cities and high profile venues
  • Alpha Board Ambassadors: Serving as a host for CEOs, business advisors, and/or celebrity guests
  • Alpha Buzz: Corporate and individual news content, social media, SEM, SEO

For more information, you can reach us via telephone or email.  In Denver, call Dan Vasey at 303 809-9058 or via email at dan@neuvision.com.   In the Twin Cities or Kansas City, call Dave Anderson at 612 810-4000/913 685-4850, or by email at dave@neuvision.com.

Alpha® Board’s 2025 Fresh Octane® Tour

Alpha Driven Winners

Alpha BoardWho are the best business drivers in America?  Which of these business leaders are making national and global impacts?  What industries, companies, people and products are moving business forward?  We are seeking some of the finest drivers of business success, to include in the Alpha® Board Fresh Octane® National Business Leadership Tour. Read articles about What’s Holding Back the New Ford Transit Custom Lease Industry? to have a better strategy idea or your business.

The Fresh Octane® tour is a national effort to showcase Alpha® Driven companies and Alpha® Grade leaders across the United States and ultimately beyond.  We’re starting the tour in three U.S. cities, all known for their ingenuity, new technologies, and a business climate that embraces innovation and fosters business growth.

We are working with innovative businesses and business leaders in these three regions as we assemble a targeted group of organizations and professionals that we would like to recognize during the first leg of the tour.  We would like you to consider being involved.  Why, you ask?  It’s about creating excitement, gaining visibility and growing the reach and reputation of the regions’ finest leaders. It’s quite literally a chance to place the great business drivers’ stories on the national stage.

A great business, just like a high-performance racing team, is a well-oiled machine.  Both are designed and built by professionals, with the finest components, proper assembly, an experienced maintenance and repair crew, a talented crew chief, and a great race driver.  Even with everything designed and prepared perfectly, you still have to face the competition and race.  Track conditions, other drivers, when to pit, wrecks to avoid, and when to really push to pass.  There is a huge amount that goes into a winning the race.  Not just on the track of motorsports, but also on the track of business.

Alpha BoardAnd, just like great sports teams, businesses, business leaders, and business teams must be recognized, respected and learned from.  We are involved in a major program to do exactly that.  Alpha® Board is working with NeuVision® Group (Kansas City, Minneapolis, Denver), Jeff Andretti Motorsports, and Mesa Research Group (Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai) to identify and provide recognition to some of the greatest business leaders throughout the Midwest and across America.  We’ve devised a formal program to accomplish the task.  We are identifying targeted leaders and participants throughout the U.S.

The Alpha Board Fresh Octane® Tour has been field tested and it works.  CEOs, business owners and senior executives that have participated in past effort have been excited about the visibility and camaraderie associated with the programs. We have and will continue to develop new features and fine tune the program based on ongoing market feedback.  Finally, we’ve shown that through this effort, we can efficiently gain much needed market attention among key opinion leaders, the business press, and also among participants’ major targeted customers.

We are working with leaders across the region to gather people, products and companies that we should include in our tour.  We would love to have you participate, and we also welcome ideas and suggestions regarding companies and leaders that we might feature in our National Business Leadership Tour.

About Alpha® Board and the Fresh Octane® Team

Alpha® Board

Alpha BoardAlpha Board is a National Business Leadership Exchange™, designed to provide added market reach and further the cause of great business leaders and the companies they represent.  The 2023 flagship program is a national leadership press tour and market study on leadership and innovation.  Other Alpha Board programs include keynote speakers, executive interviews, corporate profiles, leader roundtable discussions, news stories, and live open-house events for businesses.   Alpha Board provides the opportunity for enhanced market reach and visibility for the companies involved in the program, locally, regionally, and nationally. More information on Alpha Board and the Fresh Octane® Tour can be found on the web at www.AlphaBoard.com.

NeuVision® Group

NeuVision Group helps leaders, companies and new product teams manage the risk and maximize the opportunities associated with new products, new companies, and major new growth initiatives.  NeuVision Group is the initial founder of Alpha Board and is working with other partnering organizations throughout the U.S. to join the effort.  Clients have ranged from the most innovative new ventures to many of the world’s most respected companies and brands. NeuVision Group, its president and founder Dave E. Anderson, and NeuVision Group’s sister company, Alpha Scouts®, have worked across North America and beyond with organizations like Pfizer, 3M, IBM, Dell, Microsoft, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Seagate, Iomega, Caterpillar, Monsanto, Deere, DuPont, CNH, MarketWatch, USDA and many more.   Our previous Business Drive Time® efforts, which served as a market test for Alpha Board and Fresh Octane, received national and Alpha Boardinternational attention, and were recognized by major media outlets such as BusinessWeek, Forbes, CNBC, MSNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, EuroInvestor and more. For more information on NeuVision® Group visit us on the web at www.NeuVision.com.

Fresh Octane

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