Podcasts about green creative

Today in Lighting is brought to you by Current. Minimize energy in your data center with Current's advanced lighting and controls. Learn more. Highlights today include: A New Issue of designing lighting global (dlg), Your Guide to LEDucation 2025, Challenging the Narrative, Microlens Manufacturer, Brightview Technologies Closes $7M in Funding Round, EXCYL Outdoor Cylinders from GREEN CREATIVE, Versatile Functionality Built in a Robust and Stylish Design.

Highlights today include: Electrical Trends: Key Insights from Pulse of Lighting Report, Signify Partners with Mercedes Formula 1 Team, Optimizing Lighting for Food and Beverage Facilities Seminar, Light Bites, NOVA Wall Wash Track from GREEN CREATIVE, Versatility Meets Wider Horizons.

If you want to REALLY become technically proficient about lighting, get on grow lighting. Taylor Schaberg has been in the business for quite awhile and he tells us he's still learning. You want to light a warehouse, throw up some high bays. You want to light a cannabis greenhouse? Wait a minute, what strain of cannabis is it? How strong do you want it to be? Then there are the controls that you need to set to mimic night and day. And then there's the heat and moisture controls! Taylor is all for educating lighting professionals who want to get into the grow lighting business. After you listen to this episode, check out Taylors podcast, Get Up & Grow (activegrowled.com/en-ca/pages/the-get-up-and-grow-podcast). Taylor is the Founder and CEO of Active Grow. He started working in lighting back in 2011 when he lived in a factory in Nanjing, China. This was during the time when commercial LEDs were starting to flood the American and European markets. He then got a job with Green Creative in Shanghai during their early days, as a product manager. He was always intrigued by how spectrums can manipulate organic life, and the idea of sustainable food and medicine production. So he designed and built an LED prototype to test on a friend's cannabis farm in California. The tests were successful so he drove a beat up van full of samples from Eau Claire, WI to Seattle, WA and started Active Grow. In the early days of the company he lived on a cannabis farm, did hands-on research and learned what it takes to grow healthy and thriving plants. Today Active Grow offers a variety of grow lights not only for cannabis growers but microgreen businesses, mushroom farms, vertical farms, plant-based food production facilities and more. 

Highlights today include: The Latest Issue of designing lighting global Out Now! Legrand 2023 Full-Year Results, A Candid Conversation with Deco's Bob Sinai, Designplus Award by Light + Building: Nominees for Outstanding Design Innovations Announced, Explore Commercial Lighting Rebate Trends with BriteSwitch, Cree Lighting Adds New OSQP™ Pathway Bollard to OSQ Family of Luminaires Expanding Reach and Value Delivered to Site Lighting Applications, AdjustaPAR from GREEN CREATIVE, Access Beam Angle and CCT Selections at Your Fingertips.

Check out episode 246 from March of 2022. Forest and Zach were on the verge of launching Parspec. Well now they've been at it for a year-and-a-half and it sounds like it's going pretty well. With AI, customer feedback and a host of talented employees, Parspec is ready to provide you better access to data and to make your product search faster and easier. They're dangerously good at this and they're getting better and better. Forest Flager pursued a PhD and spent some time on the research and teaching team at Stanford University, followed by a stint at the technology driven off-site construction company Katerra, where he led the company's software and design automation efforts. Forest founded Parspec Inc. in 2020 with the mission of simplifying the process of discovering and sourcing the best available construction products and materials. Zach Mix leads Sales and Business Development for Parspec. After spending the past decade working for lighting & electrical companies including Green Creative, WattStopper, & ElectroRep, Zach is energized by providing top-tier software technology to help lighting & electrical companies perform their best. When he's not working, Zach switches to Dad-mode and enjoys time with his family. 

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Bourbon & Breakthroughs Series, and today we welcome award-winning mixologist, Karla Green, who is the Creative Director of Watch Hill Proper. Karla's focus is now squarely on menu design, creative drink ideas, education, training, and testing, and she brings 20 years of bartending experience into her current position. Karla also helped imagine and design the impressive bar at Watch Hill Proper, which boasts the world's largest collection of American whiskeys. On the menu today is the Hemingway Rye First Edition, and we have a great time tasting and reflecting on this rather rare item, with Karla sharing her best tasting practices and the different ways she likes to serve it up. From there, our guest delves into some really interesting professional ideas, talking about her belief in taking ownership, setting a good example for her team, her quality control practices, and her prioritization of great communication. We get the inside perspective on her growth-oriented mindset, and listeners will come away with a fresh appreciation for the world of whiskey, and the need to trust the journey of life. So make sure to tune in and hear all that Karla has to say! Key Points From This Episode:First impressions of today's whiskey, Hemingway Rye First Edition. Karla talks about her tasting protocol and the best ways to experience a new whisky. Unpacking Karla's role at Watch Hill Proper, and her proudest moments so far. How Karla approaches maintaining the integrity and standards of her recipes. Thoughts on customer complaints and how the team manages issues like this.  Management and leadership strategies that Karla finds helpful and effective. The film that Karla featured in recently, highlighting women in the whiskey industry!  Karla's philosophy towards recipe development, and exploring the idea of 'destroying to create'.Some thoughts on the state of bourbon culture and perceptions at present.  The evolution of the Old Fashioned, and how it differs across states.Karla shares the recipe for her personal cocktail, The Devil's Advocate! How to find and connect with Karla online.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Hemingway Rye First EditionKarla Green on InstagramKarla Green on LinkedInWatch Hill ProperHeaven Hill DistilleryEvan Williams BourbonChris GoodmanGoodman Coaching ApplicationGoodman Coaching Inc Get to know Chris - Connect on Instagram Coach with Chris Learn more about Goodman Coaching

Highlights today include: IES Annual Conference 2023, JUMP into STEM '23-'24 Student Competition Opens for Applications, Recolight: CIBSE Releases TM65.2: Embodied Carbon in Lighting Equipment, Lighting Buildings of Faith, GREEN CREATIVE announced six products that have been selected in this year's IES Progress Report.

Highlights today include: 2023 IES Annual Conference, Visualizing Light Pollution at Your Location with a Groundbreaking Simulation, What Companies Do to Retain Parents with Brittany Lynch and Lisa J. Reed on August 4th, Dept. of Homeland Security Designates Landscape Architecture a STEM Discipline, August 2023 Energy Watch Newsletter From Bill Attardi, GREEN CREATIVE is proud to introduce NYX, Sales Manager, Culture Cluster – ERCO.

Highlights include: Barron Lighting Group celebrates its 50th anniversary, INNOFIT Plus: an upgrade from Green Creative, 2024 Light + Building's Programme of Events, 2023 Russell Cole Lighting Design Competition, Pacific Science Center's Retrofit.

Time - something we all wish we had more of. Unfortunately, we only have 24 hours in a day to work with. Zach Mix and Parspec will make you feel like someone added hours to your day. They will take away the tedious work of looking up data sheets and part numbers with their machine learning and AI. And we all know what that means - saving money! Zach Mix leads Sales and Business Development for Parspec. After spending the past decade working for lighting & electrical companies including Green Creative, WattStopper, & ElectroRep, Zach is energized by providing top-tier software technology to help lighting & electrical companies perform their best. When he's not working, Zach switches to Dad-mode and enjoys time with his family. 

Randy discusses Erol Kirilmaz leaving LEDVANCE, Nichia released the study of its Dynasolis™ solution done by Fraunhofer IBP, Green Creative introduces the PinFit PL Omni, the Let's Talk About Light and Health series continues 26 SEP, American Lighting introduces ACE, Inter-lux introduces Habitat, and SPI Lighting is looking for a President.

Randy discusses ArchLIGHT Summit's hospitality events, Lumlieds' Luxeon HL1Z outperforms brighter competitors, two Green Creative products were included in the 2022 IES Progress Report, and DLC released the second installment of the Responsible Lighting at Night series.

Randy discusses the Jonathan Speirs Scholarship Fund, IES and PNNL will have a webinar on Taming Sustainable-Design Complexity, Green Creative teams up with three new agencies, Strand Lighting's bankruptcy creates questions, and McWong International has an opening for a Product Manager.

Hey lighting folks who put together luminaire schedules and specification packages listen up:  Zach and Forest tell us about their startup, Parpec, which is designed to “automate part number entry, datasheet lookup and annotation tasks to eliminate hours of tedious and error-prone work.”  Through machine learning and AI, Parspec will save you hours of tedious data entry for each item on your spec sheet.  Enter a part number and - bing bang boom - Parspec fills in the rest.  But hold your horses - Parspec is still a start-up, so go over to their website and check it out before it goes live.Forest Flager pursued a PhD and spent some time on the research and teaching team at Stanford University, followed by a stint at the technology driven off-site construction company Katerra, where he led the company's software and design automation efforts. Forest founded Parspec Inc. in 2020 with the mission of simplifying the process of discovering and sourcing the best available construction products and materials.Zach Mix leads Sales and Business Development for Parspec. After spending the past decade working for lighting & electrical companies including Green Creative, WattStopper, & ElectroRep, Zach is energized by providing top-tier software technology to help lighting & electrical companies perform their best. When he's not working, Zach switches to Dad-mode and enjoys time with his family.  

Randy discusses smart streets, NLB is accepting submissions for the 2022 Tesla Awards, Green Creative launches a series of HID replacement bulbs, and Espen Technology 8' TLED Recognized with IES Progress Report Inclusion.

Randy discusses Seoul Semiconductor's victory over a patent troll, LEDucation publishes their conference schedule, Southwire has acquired Topaz Lighting, NEMA welcomes creation of Congressional Electrification Caucus, and Green Creative launches the REFINE MR Lamp series.

Randy discusses KSA Lighting selling their Iowa business, The Lighting Agora is launching The Last Watts, Green Creative launches PXCYL, ERCO brings the Domus Aurea to light, Bridgelux has a video on their Thrive product, congratulations to Christina Halfpenny, now a Environment and Energy Leader, and please welcome our latest sponsor: Citizen Electronics.

Randy discusses LightFair and IES SALC requiring all visitors to be vaccinated, EdisonReport has named their 2021 Lifetime Achievement Awards Nominees, and Green Creative has two products included in the 2021 IES Progress report.

Randy discusses the New York mask mandate, Green Creative offers improved driver technology for linear LED lamps, Lumileds expands their color portfolio and extends their phosphor conversion program, and recipients have been announced for the Pat MacKay Diversity in Design Scholarship.

Randy Reid discusses the pick of Sam Koerbel as the 2020 Person of the Year, IALD's election, the NLB Make a Difference Campaign, and fixtures made in Mexico with Meth. Green Creative launches their 3N1 surface mount downlight.

Randy Reid discusses Giving Tuesday and a touching story by Frank Grobmeier of Plusrite. Green Creative just refreshed their 4 foot double-ended bypass T8 lamps. IES has an opening for Director of Membership and DWM Holdings is looking for a partner ambassador.

Randy Reid discusses the postponement of Lightfair, Lumileds' partnership, and a new product by Green Creative.

Randy Reid discusses Signify's sustainability efforts, the creativity of lighting design students from the University of Illinois, Green Creative's recognition by the IES Progress Report, and the stock market. 

Cole Zucker is the Co-Founder and former Co-CEO of Green Creative, a company that offers a comprehensive line of high-performance LED lighting solutions that have been widely adopted by some of the largest companies in the world. After graduating from college, Cole moved to Shanghai, China where he met his business partner, Guillaume Vidal. In 6 years, they took the company from $0 to $60 million in revenue and eventually decided to sell the business. Cole and his wife Katie have since started a new venture, influencer platform Hey Hero, offering a solution for people who want a better way to communicate directly with influencers—and for influencers who want to better monetize that connection. Platform users can search for their favorite influencers and ask questions or request personalized recommendations for a fee. Then influencers can accept the offers, and respond on their own time—via video, voice chat, or text. Connect with Cole Zucker Green Creative Green Creative on LinkedIn Green Creative on Facebook Green Creative on Twitter Hey Hero Hey Hero on Facebook Hey Hero on Instagram cole@heyhero.com Some of the Topics Covered by Cole Zucker in this Episode How Cole and his business partner Guillaume Vidal started Green Creative in Shanghai Why Cole moved to China after college Cole's entrepreneurial spirit and inspirations Cole and Guillaume's napkin business plan Figuring out roles and responsibilities as co-founders and co-CEOs Getting Green Creative off the ground and the challenge of getting their first customers How Cole was eventually able to move past door-to-door sales How their product development and manufacturing evolved How learning from mistakes led to growth Building out a team Standing out against the competition by becoming fast integrators The process of deciding to sell the business What Cole would've done differently looking back Deciding to start another business and what is Hey Hero The customer discovery process for Hey Hero Cole's book recommendations How Cole recharges Cole's advice for entrepreneurs Links from the Episode The Outsiders by William Thorndike

In 2007, Cole Zucker made what might have seemed like a risky decision. After graduating college, he purchased a one-way ticket to Shanghai, China, checked into a hostel, and started searching for work.   This life-altering experience eventually led to Cole co-founding Green Creative, a multi-million dollar commercial LED lighting company. He’s since exited Green Creative and started Hey Hero, a platform that enables influencers to offer personalized, expert advice to their followers. In the latest episode of College of Influence’s podcast, we talked with Cole about how he started Green Creative, lessons he discovered along the way, and how influencers can benefit from his learnings. Guest: Cole Zucker More on Cole Zucker: https://fortune.com/2018/04/22/cole-zucker-green-creative-lighting/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colezucker/ Sign up to join Hey Hero: https://heyhero.co/ [ For the access to our learning community and lessons our favorite College of Influence interviews and more, sign up at collegeofinfluence.com ]

Turnip Green Creative Reuse (TGCR) is based out of passion and research started in 2010 by founding board members. They have visited other creative reuse centers across the country bringing her knowledge to the business plan for TGCR. TGCR is being built based on a model out of Durham NC, The Scrap Exchange. The board and program committee of TGCR is diverse, including environmentalists, nonprofit executives, several artists, and community members. With the wide range of expertise, TGCR has been able to do a lot in our community in a short amount of time. TGCR has 4 areas of service: a retail donate what you wish ($) store, education/outreach, artist support, and a green gallery. It provides a welcoming and neutral place for artists, educators, and any creative person to connect. We hold a high priority to serve the art community as well as work with children in our community, bringing them ways to create from what they see going in the trash everyday. Core Values Everyone deserves access to education & materials. Valuing teachers and artists. Foster, educate and inspire reduce, reuse then recycle. Everyone deserves the opportunity for a creative experience and to be inspired in a safe and welcoming community Learn more: http://www.turnipgreencreativereuse.org/

Cole Zucker turned a sudden job loss into a BIG opportunity. He booked an eight-week stay at a hostel in China that turned into a three-year fact-finding and networking mission. Eventually, Cole spotted a market that he thought was ready to explode in the US: LED lighting. Green Creative was born, and five years later, Cole was riding a rocket ship from $0 to $40 million in growth that landed him a significant exit. On today’s show, Cole Zucker discusses those early years of explosive growth in terms of what he learned and what he would do differently. He also shares a couple of great insights on what he did to overcome a major challenge that he hit in the company's early days.

Kevin Green, Creative Director at RAPP, shares his inspirational career path, practical advice for asking for what you need, and how he gives back via the Marcus Graham Project. Hear about how he turned his internship into a full-time job, becoming a Creative Director at 30 and how to accelerate your own growth, co-running the day-to-day operations at the Marcus Graham Project, and his advice for those who feel beat down by the industry.  Applications are live for the Marcus Graham Project's 2019 iCR8 Summer Bootcamp. Apply here! Heads up: Take our 2019 User Feedback Survey for a chance to win one of four $50 Amazon gift cards! Your input helps us make We Are Next better, so thank you for taking a sec to tell us about you.  

Hey everyone, in today’s episode I share the mic with Guillaume Vidal and Cole Zucker, co-founders of Green Creative, which provides high-performance LED lighting solutions to some of the largest companies in the world. Tune in to hear Guillaume and Cole discuss the turning point that enabled Green Creative to go from $300K to $40M in sales in 5 years, the secret to their successful customer acquisition, how they base their commission structure, and why you should never underestimate industry relationships. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave Some Feedback: What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed  Connect With Eric Siu: Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @ericosiu

Cole Zucker is co-CEO at Green Creative (www.gc-lighting.com), a company focusing on LED lighting products for mass retail stores. Today, Cole will share an amazing entrepreneurial journey that started when he got laid off from his job. More at www.bemovingforward.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn @Bemovingforward The Corporate Cliches Adult Coloring Book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble online: Just go to Bit.ly/corporatecliches

Segment 1: Guillaume Vidal is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GREEN CREATIVE, an LED lighting manufacturer. Vidal started the business with Cole Zucker in 2010 following their chance encounter in Shanghai.Segment 2: Dr. Jamie Reynolds is recognized on an annual basis as one of the top orthodontists in metro Detroit. He is the author of the book World Class Smiles Made in Detroit.Segment 3: Dr. Christopher Croner is a Principal with SalesDrive, LLC, a firm that specializes in the selection and deployment of high-performing salespeople. Dr. Croner is co-author of the book, Never Hire a Bad Salesperson Again, detailing his research and practice in identifying the non-teachable personality traits common to top producers.Segment 4: Joey Coleman helps organizations retain their best customers and turn them into raving fans. He is the author of the new book “Never Lose a Customer Again”.Segment 5:Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Sponsored by Nextiva.

Guillaume Vidal fait parti de ces profils rares qu’on ne rencontre pas assez à Shanghai et jamais il n’aurait cru arriver ou il est aujourd’hui en se lançant dans la fabrication de LED en 2010 et passer les 65 Millions de dollars de CA 7 ans plus tard… Le chemin a été mouvementé et c’est ce dont nous parlons dans ce nouvel épisode de BackStage. En écoute dès maintenant -> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/backstage-by-nextstep/id1315210696?mt=2

Do you dream of building something BIG?   Today we’re sharing the story of two young men with a dream, Cole Zucker and Guillaume Vidal, who are disrupting the lighting industry with their new business, Green Creative Lighting. They are taking on companies like Philips and GE by offering high-performance LED solutions – and winning.   Cole and Guillaume were only able to accomplish this so quickly, because they established clear goals, took massive action, and focused on forming the right relationships so that they could recruit the right people into their world.   The ONE Thing to Implement From This Episode: Out of everything that you’ve heard in this episode, what’s the ONE thing you can do that will make everything else easier or unnecessary? What’s the ONE action you can take that will guarantee the time you invested in this episode will have an amazing return on the investment of your time?   In this episode you will learn... [8:00] Why speed to implementation and execution is so critical for small businesses. [13:00] How you can build strong business relationships. [15:10] Why you need to resist shiny object syndrome when scaling a business (and what happens when you don’t). [19:40] How assembling the right team will allow you to stop focusing on the day-to-day and start focusing on the vision. [21:30] How you can make finding people a priority.   Links & Tools From This Episode Learn more at gc-lighting.com Connect with Cole on LinkedIn Connect with Guillaume on LinkedIn Will you help us get to know you better? Go to the1thing.com/podcastquiz Get more support & accountability: Join the Living Your ONE Thing Community --   Get your FREE audiobook copy of Shoe Dog or Total Recall!   If you enjoy listening to podcasts, you probably also enjoy listening to audiobooks, and that’s why Audible is sponsoring this episode.   If you go to audible.com/onething, you can create a free account and get a free credit for your first book, which could be Shoe Dog or Total Recall.   We are HIRING!   We are hiring an amazing Community Manager, and we would love for that person to come from this community.   If you are someone, or know someone, who loves to create amazing content, engage with a community, and wants to manage all of the content for the business, please go to the1thing.com/jobs. --   Production & Development for The ONE Thing Podcast by Podcast Masters

Cole Zucker started his entrepreneurial journey buying a one-way plane ticket to Shanghai China just after he was fired from a job that he hated in New York. Everything he owned was shoved into 2 duffel bags, he had $3,000 to his name and he knew no one in the city and didn't speak the language. After landing a job at a lightbulb manufacturing company, he recognized a market that was primed for disruption. That market was the LED lightbulb market. This conversation takes us through the early development days and of Cole being homeless in San Francisco chasing down lighting trucks for leads with nothing but a box of lightbulbs and a big idea. 7 years after hitting the streets of San Francisco, Cole is the C0-CEO of Green Creative that he founded with his partner Guillaume Vidal, a $60 million LED lightbulb manufacturing company with 80 employees across the U.S. and China. [caption id="attachment_2937" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Guillaume Vidal and Cole Zucker, photo credit Timothy Archibald for Forbes.[/caption] In this episode we discuss... Being the worst in his training class at the first job he ever had. Getting fired from his first job within a first year for poor performance. Buying a one-way ticket to Shanghai China. Landing in China with 2 duffel bags, $3,000 and not knowing anyone or the language. How he landed a job at a lightbulb manufacturing company. Recognizing the pending disruption in the lightbulb industry with LED lightbulbs that started his entrepreneurial journey. How him and his partner developed their first Minimum Viable Product...that looked terrible but worked. Living out of his car and on people's couches to save money while cold-calling business selling his new product. Show Notes Green Creative website: gc-lighting.com Twitter @GCLightingLED Facebook @GreenCreativeLED Sponsors PrintDirtCheap.com – Rockstars in printing with over 30 categories of printing products doing it FAST and doing it CHEAP. Use promo code ‘LIFEHUNTER’ for $10 off of your print job or request a free sample of their work. Check out clickplacement.com to design your search engine marketing strategies and launch an epic PPC campaign. Support the Go Hunt Life show by making a donation to help keep the life hunter stories coming at Patreon.com/gohuntlife