We received some great news this week. We made it to the next round of the Business Impact NW Impact Pitch Competition - the video round. https://businessimpactnw.org/annualevents/impact/
We made the cut from 50 to 23 for this round. Now we have to submit a no more than 4-minute video. Then from September 4 to September 12 people can vote once a day on their favorite video out of the 23. The top vote-getters will pitch their business on October 4. The winner receives $10,000. We will be sending the link to our video to everyone and asking for their vote.

We took part in the webinar from BINW that covered the rules of the video and gave some general advice on making the video.

We completed course 8 of the HelloSign Digital Transformation Course. This one talked about
how your customers can force your company to digitally transform your company. This has been
a great and very informative course. https://www.hellosign.com/digitalstrength

We spent some time looking at possible pitch competitions for us to enter the rest of this year and in 2019.

We gave a webinar on HR laws for companies with less than 50 employees, EO and how to handle difficult employees. The webinar was sponsored by Business Impact NW. About 20 people attended the webinar. There were some great questions at the end.

If you would like the slides, send an email to jasoncavness@cavnessHR.com

We took a trip to Portland for a few days with SM Diversity http://smdiversity.com/ We met some great people doing some great things. We are going to list them below along with their LinkedIn profile link and a quick blurb about them. Take a look and see if you would like to connect with any of them. They are all doing great things.

Ping Khaw https://www.linkedin.com/in/ping-khaw-2b0256a/

Ping Khaw has more than three decades of long-standing experience collaborating with multi-cultural communities. With her private and non-profit sector background, she understands the importance of the culturally rich ethnic contribution to the foundation of our society.

Kyle Sawyer https://www.linkedin.com/in/kpsawyer/

Kyle takes what he does, and put his name on his marketing with a passion. It’s hands-on, social & catered to my clients' audience with strategy and care.

Dr. Drew Brasier https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdrewbrazier/

Helps leaders increase impact while dominating the margins is what he loves to do.
But above all, watching companies grow because their people are flourishing is what flips his switches.

Marisa Trujillo DeMull, EIT https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisatrujillodemull/

She works to integrate policies of racial equity and social justice into Active Transportation Engineering.

Andrew Brice https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbice/

Andrew translates the Technical into language executives and managers understand, building trust and consensus through collaborative groups.

It was especially great talking to Andrew as it turns out we served in the same Army unit at Fort Hood waaaay back in the day. When I said our motto "Can Do" and our mascot "Lobos" It was as if we were transported back in time. Andrew said some names I had not heard in a while. It was great catching up with him.

As usual, we continue to recruit and network for cavnessHR.

We ended the week with a great 3 hour call with Steven Matley of SM Diversity of how we can continue to help our companies grow among other items of discussion