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Jeff Bergerson – Northstar Financial
Jeff helps families, individuals, and business owners plan for and work through life’s many challenging and exciting transitions. He is committed to helping everybody he works with prepare for their future, protect the people they care about, and grow their wealth. He is dedicated to providing value to all of his clients and having trust-based, long-term relationships in order to see them accomplish their goals
Jeff is a recognized speaker and provides educational financial seminars and workshops to corporations, community organizations, and individual groups. He helps coach his audiences to take better control over their financial lives with practical and easy to understand principles and solutions.
Contact Jeff to learn more about Northstar Financial
Marc Mallory, MBA – Leander Limited
Marc Mallory is a business coach with Leander Limited. Marc grew up in Plymouth, MN and attended St. Cloud State University for his undergraduate degree in Accounting. Marc received his graduate degree from Hamline University earning a Masters of Business Administration (MBA).
Leander Limited strives to provide value added Business Coaching and CFO roles to its clients. This entails working with their clients to improve business structure and profitability. Business Coaching uses compliance work, described below, for useful information to position your business for the challenges ahead in your particular industry.
In addition to Business Coaching and CFO work, Leander Limited offers a broad range of accounting services. Some clients may use just one of these services, while other will use all of them. Tax and compliance work usually involves doing a monthly review of the financial statements as well as annual tax returns.
As a small business owner, you may find yourself spending a lot of time on day-to-day tasks rather than working on tasks the improve your business efficiency and profitability. Leander Limited is here to help you refocus on growing your business.
Marc is looking for long term relationships with his clients. This allows Marc enough time to perform value added services aimed at improving business operations. Marc wants business owners who are looking for growth, opportunity, open to suggestions, change and taking their business to the next level!
Contact Marc to learn more about Leander Limited
Shelby Christiansen – Edina Realty
Shelby Christiansen is a residential real estate agent with Edina Realty in their Minnetonka office. Shelby grew up in Plymouth, Attended college in West Palm Beach, Florida. She graduated with a degree in Communications and a business minor.
Homebuying is a fun and exciting process with many moving parts. She enjoy educating clients on the process and how to navigate it smoothly, especially with first-time homebuyers! her Minnetonka office normally does between 8 and 10 million dollars in sales a month. Shelby is a member of the National Association of Relators and the Minneapolis and
Minnesota Area Associations of Realtors. Edina Realty typically specializes in residential real estate but currently they have quite a bit of commercial space available also, she is able to help clients with that transaction as well. Shelby enjoys meeting new people and new clients who are looking to buy, sell or rent real estate in the Twin Cities!
Contact Shelby to learn more about Edina Realty
Chris Cleveland – Keystone Media
Chris joined Keystone Media in 2002 shortly after conception, prior to that Chris grew up in Roseville Minnesota and attended Minnesota School of Business and graduated with honors in the field of Multimedia/Computer Graphics.
Keystone Media does it all when it comes to the web, offering solutions for web design, search engine optimization, flash, e-commerce, hosting, domain registration, web tracking and statistics, pay-per click management and social media marketing.
Chris is an experienced web designer who enjoys meeting with clients to open their eyes to the opportunities and solutions that the ever changing web offers to their business. Chris has worked hard to become a dynamic Social Media Marketer having free lanced with several companies to establish their presence on this very powerful platform.
Contact Chris to learn more about Keystone Media
Laura Linneman – ADP
Laura Linneman is a Senior District Manager with Automatic Data Processing (ADP). Laura grew up in Shoreview, MN and attended college at the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire. She majored in Chemistry with a Business Emphasis and has been working with ADP for going on 3 years.
With nearly 9 billion in revenue and 570,000 clients ADP has grown to be one of the largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging 60 years of experience, ADP offers the widest range of HR, payroll, and tax solutions from a single source. Laura specializes in small business clients from 1-49 employees. She continues to provide quality service and value through ADP’s technology and payroll solutions at a competitive rate.
Contact Laura to learn more about ADP
Nick Atkinson – American Family Insurance
Nick Atkinson has been an insurance agent with American Family Insurance for nearly six years. While his office is in Prior Lake, he meets his clients at a location convenient for the client. Nick grew up in Bloomington, MN and currently resides in Belle Plaine with his fiancé Lacy.
Nick understands that you are looking for a relationship with a stable and trustworthy company. He also knows that you want an expert and caring adviser who works towards making your insurance experience easy and convenient. In your time of need, Nick ensures that there are no unwelcome surprises and that you have piece of mind. He specializes in auto, home, life, health, and business insurance, as well as farm and ranch insurance.
Nick’s American Family agency has been recognized for customer satisfaction excellence under the J.D. Power and Associates distinguished Insurance Agency Program for the past three years.
Contact Nick to learn more about American Family Insurance
Jeff Olson – Summit Mortgage Corp.
Jeff Olson is a Mortgage Professional/Loan Originator working out of the Wayzata branch of Summit Mortgage Corporation. Jeff grew up in western Minnesota, attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with BA in Economics. Jeff lives in Edina with his wife Nadine and boys, Hunter and Spencer.
Robert and Diana Carter founded Summit Mortgage Corporation in July 1992 and it is currently one of the Midwest’s leading mortgage bankers. The Carter’s founded Summit Mortgage to offer their customers more personalized service and a wider selection of competitively priced products. Their goal is to enhance production with premium investors, offer a broad product menu, improved prices, strong administrative support and technological innovation. Summit Mortgage’s philosophy and business style are based on integrity, service and innovation. Summit Mortgage is headquartered in Plymouth and continues to grow.
Contact Jeff to learn more about Sumit Mortgage
Trent Scheidecker DC – ChiroWay
Trent Scheidecker, D.C. is a family chiropractor who specializes in infant, child and adult chiropractic care. He has a gentle technique that allows him to help all ages with chiropractic. His technique involves advanced training in muscle palpation to locate misaligned bones in the spine that disturb nerve communication between the brain and the body. The technique removes nerve disturbance which affects every area of body performance including health, work and everyday activities.
Trent dedicates significant amount of time and energy into educating people about the philosophy behind chiropractic and how it relates to performance in all areas of life. He enjoys giving community health talks and workshops. He lives in Woodbury, MN with his wife Laura where they enjoy to run the miles of trails that Woodbury has to offer. Trent and Laura have ran Twin Cities Marathon and Grandma’s Marathon and plan to run their third together in the near future.
Contact Trent to learn more about ChiroWay
Heather Johnson – Law Offices of Heather Johnson
Heather Johnson focuses her practice on representing, defending and advising business owners. She has extensive litigation experience and brings an in-depth knowledge of commercial litigation, employment laws, and business practicalities to her representation of business owners.
Heather has helped business owners with a variety of issues, including drafting and negotiating contracts, representing businesses in a wide variety of claims in state and federal courts, advising businesses as to employment related issues, drafting and revising handbooks and assisting businesses in collecting upon past due debts.
Contact Heather to learn more about The Law Offices of Heather Johnson
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