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‘Doubling Down: The Secret Sauce for Dual-Career Families’ by Ilene Gordon and Bram Bluestein, Now Available in Hardcover Edition

‘Doubling Down: The Secret Sauce for Dual-Career Families’ by Ilene Gordon and Bram Bluestein, Now Available in Hardcover Edition

Learn Rewirement and Work-Life Integration From the C-Suite Couple Who’s Done It for 45 Years

Ilene Gordon and Bram Bluestein, the C-suite couple that has been practicing rewirement and work-life integration for 45 years, has released the hardcover edition of Doubling Down: The Secret Sauce for Dual-Career Families. For anyone who desires to excel in a big career, sustain a loving relationship, and raise children who grow up to be happy and healthy adults, this is the playbook that reveals the new elixir to making it all work in 2023 and beyond. 

“The ability to model all that an enriching, fulfilling life can be for your children while also managing rigorous work schedules as high-level executives is nothing short of heroic,” said Elliott Wislar, CEO of Clearbrook. “Bram and Ilene are modern role models for us all, in fact, epitomizing a grand American dream. I’m inspired by the many examples in their book but also, fueled to be more self-aware and intentional as a leader and parent. This is quite a unique guide.” 

Examples in Doubling Down are poignant and timely, with loads of research underscoring their advice. Both authors shaped rigorous careers and crisscrossed the world in their roles while “doubling down” on their family needs in sometimes creative ways. They learned to be supportive partners, agree on compromises, and evolve in their professional identities while keeping family first. 

Ilene Gordon served as CEO of Ingredion, a Fortune 500 company, and was named five times to Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” U.S. list, and twice to Fortune’s international list. Bram Bluestein held senior leadership positions at several of the most respected consulting firms in the world, including Boston Consulting Group, Kearney, and Booz Allen Hamilton. Since the release of their first edition of Doubling Down, Ilene and Bram have brought their message to Chicago Finance Exchange, The Wharton Club, MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School, Loyola University’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise & Responsibility, Stanford Law School, and many others.

Purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Doubling-Down-Secret-Dual-Career-Families/dp/1737885026/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1685399643&sr=8-2

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Sweeten the Moment With Chike Nutrition’s Newest Flavor – Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee

Sweeten the Moment With Chike Nutrition’s Newest Flavor – Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee

A sweet but balanced flavor of rich creaminess with a buttery vanilla finish and 20 grams of protein

Sweeten the Moment With Chike Nutrition’s Newest Flavor – Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee
Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee

20 grams of protein, 2 shots of espresso, 2 grams of sugar

Chike Nutrition is welcoming the Summer months with their newest flavor, Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee, launching May 30 — a refreshing protein iced coffee to sweeten each moment.

Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee was introduced as an exclusive, seasonal flavor for grocery store customers last summer. After vast popularity and many customer requests to make it available everywhere, Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee officially joins the list of flavors that Chike Nutrition offers online

Each sip offers a sweet but balanced flavor of rich creaminess with a buttery vanilla finish and an unmistakable kick of creamy protein coffee. Every serving has 20 grams of non-GMO whey protein, two real espresso shots, two grams of sugar, and an irresistible taste. Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee is perfect for breakfast, a pre-or post-workout boost, an afternoon snack, or in recipes.

“We love meeting our customers where they are in their health journey, and every new flavor gives us a new opportunity to do just that! We’re pretty obsessed with Chike Sweet Cream, and it’s exciting that it’s now available everywhere. Chike Sweet Cream hits the (sweet) spot, and is the perfect addition for Summer,” said Mac Mascorro, Brand Manager of Chike Nutrition. 

One of the perks of being a part of Chike Nutrition’s Subscribe & Save program is that every subscriber receives a sample of each new flavor before it is released. Jaime N., a verified subscription customer, commented, “This is my favorite flavor! I’ve never downed an iced coffee THAT fast.”

Warmer days are upon us and ahead of us, so cool off and sweeten each moment with Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee. Chike Sweet Cream Protein Iced Coffee can be found in grocery stores and online.

About Chike Nutrition

Chike Nutrition is based in Abilene, Texas, and proudly manufactures and produces all nine (and counting!) of their current flavors, ensuring the quality and consistency that Chike Nutrition demands in their products. You can find all the flavors on Chike Nutrition’s website and follow new and exciting recipes, flavor launches, and more on Instagram and Pinterest. Learn more about Chike in their exciting new overview video.

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Mac Mascorro

Brand Manager

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Thematic’s Leading AI-Driven Platform Incorporates Generative AI, Embracing Large Language Models for Customer Feedback Analysis

Thematic’s Leading AI-Driven Platform Incorporates Generative AI, Embracing Large Language Models for Customer Feedback Analysis

Global feedback analytics leader levels up its own proprietary AI algorithm with the latest large language models to deliver the most thorough, transparent customer feedback insights for clients.

Thematic, a unique AI-powered platform for analyzing customer feedback, announces Generative AI integration, expanding their analytics toolkit to incorporate large language models that offer more thorough and transparent insights.

Founded in 2017, Thematic employs its proprietary AI algorithm to evaluate customer feedback analysis collected through sources such as customer satisfaction surveys, reviews, social media, and contact center logs. By aggregating insights from these sources in one place, clients can perceive the needs of their customers, without the need for training a language model or manual coding, in order to make informed decisions based on insights to improve products and customer experiences.

Thematic is the brainchild of co-founders Alyona Medelyan and Nathan Holmberg, both experts in computer science, big data and business. Medelyan, CEO of Thematic, holds a doctorate in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, and her peer-reviewed research articles have been cited by more than 3,000 academics.  

Holmberg, Thematic’s Chief Technical Officer, was VP of Engineering at Entopix and Chief Architect and Lead Developer at Serato Inc. He has a degree in computer science and international business and as a developer and software engineer focused on computer graphics, interprocess communications and live-performance entertainment software, specializing in concurrency and real-time performance considerations. 

The idea of Thematic came out of Medelyan’s work in NLP consulting. Three companies recruited her for help with the same problem: understanding what drove their NPS performance. Medelyan collaborated with the companies to develop an NLP algorithm that harnessed unstructured customer feedback from surveys, analyzed the textual data, identified themes and tied them to metrics to explain what drove the responses.

Thematic now incorporates Generative AI, and their first feature using this technology, Theme Summarizer, can provide an instant understanding of any theme in a client’s customer data. Advances in Generative AI using large language models (LLMs) allow Thematic to create easy-to-read summaries of each theme.  

“Thematic has the unique ability to distill the common themes hidden in the ocean of text coming through the many, many avenues where customers give their opinions of products and services,” Medelyan said. “Simply put, we help our clients understand their users, save time, improve customer loyalty and satisfaction, and make the right product decisions.”

The Thematic platform provides visualizations and reports that help inform product roadmaps and clearly show trends in customer feedback. Insights and product teams use Thematic to understand feedback at scale, work more efficiently and make the right product decisions.  

“What our customers need is not just a summary but trusted analysis that they can trace to the context,” Medelyan said. “Rather than simply adding LLMs, we have embedded them in our platform, still giving customers the ability to trace analysis to its source and edit themes. This ensures that customers continue to get a trusted, accurate analysis. Just 1000x faster, and with readable summaries.”  

Thematic developed a system to leverage its proprietary AI to create guardrails for LLMs, to guarantee a summary that is thorough, readable, accurate, and provides quick snapshots of volume, sentiment, and trends for the selected theme. Relevant examples contribute further context and reporting purposes.  

“Our clients often ask, ‘What does this theme mean?’ or ‘What specifically do people say?’ when reviewing analyzed customer feedback. They want to understand the heart of the feedback without reading all the comments,” Medelyan said. “LLMs have the power to provide that insight, but as we know, they also can generate inaccurate responses as well. And accuracy in insights is essential to your business.”

This adds more capability to a platform that is already delivering powerful results for customers and incorporates an LLM that is grounded in Thematic’s analyzed data. “What makes it amazing is that it has a human-like ability to understand language and develop reasoning,” Medelyan said. “Thematic allows your product, operations, and insights teams to be aligned on priorities and issues to fix.”  

A new Forrester Total Economic Impact Study showed Thematic delivered a 543% return on investment by helping companies deliver incremental profits.

To learn more about what Thematic can do for your business, please visit getthematic.com

About Thematic 

Thematic is a powerful feedback analytics software platform that helps companies make sense of customer feedback at scale. The platform analyzes unstructured feedback data from a wide range of sources, including surveys, reviews, chat logs, and support tickets. cutting-edge AI, the analytics model transforms this data into insights so that companies can eliminate customer pain points and identify opportunities.

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Madeleine Moench

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LaMar’s Donuts Partners with The Salvation Army to Celebrate National Donut Day on June 2nd

LaMar’s Donuts Partners with The Salvation Army to Celebrate National Donut Day on June 2nd

The National Donut Day celebration will pay tribute to WWI’s historic Donut Lassies through free donuts, community engagement, and donations to the Salvation Army

LaMar’s Donuts Partners with The Salvation Army to Celebrate National Donut Day on June 2nd
LaMar’s National Donut Day

Images of Donuts and Text Reading \”National Donut Day\”

National Donut Day is Friday, June 2, and LaMar’s will be partnering with The Salvation Army to host an annual fundraising and community engagement event. Each participating LaMar’s location will also be giving away free donuts to everyone who visits a store.

National Donut Day is celebrated on the first Friday of every June — a tradition dating back to 1917, when Salvation Army volunteers known as the “Donut Lassies” made donuts for soldiers on the front lines of World War I. In celebration of this tradition, LaMar’s will be partnering with The Salvation Army to host its 9th Annual National Donut Day fundraising campaign. The campaign will be hosted by various LaMar’s locations nationwide, and it will include free donuts, donations to The Salvation Army, and community engagement with local police and fire departments. The goal of this campaign is to spread joy and give back to the community, just like the Donut Lassies did over 100 years ago.

This year’s National Donut Day fundraiser will be a celebration unlike any other. In addition to raising funds for The Salvation Army through donations, LaMar’s will match all online donations made during the week of May 28th. Each participating location will be handing out free Ray’s Original Glazed donuts to customers, along with LaMar’s National Donut Day t-shirts, while supplies last. LaMar’s will be partnering with local police and fire stations, who will volunteer their time to hand out the free donuts and t-shirts to community members at select participating locations.

In addition to celebrating the holiday at LaMar’s stores, The Salvation Army will be delivering thousands of LaMar’s donuts to the Denver and Aurora Police Departments as well as locations in Kansas City, MO, Omaha, NE, and Wichita, KS, for National Donut Day. Staff and members of the Army, along with Aurora police officers, will also hand deliver donuts to veterans at the VA Medical Center in Aurora, CO. The Salvation Army brass band will be at the medical center at 10 a.m. to perform and celebrate the national holiday.

“The Salvation Army’s tireless mission to keep children clothed, sheltered, and fed is an enduring reminder that we need to do what we can to support our community members,” shared Temi Osifodunrin, LaMar’s Director of Marketing and Advertising. “LaMar’s is thrilled to be spreading joy to our communities on National Donut Day, just like the Donut Lassies did for soldiers during World War I.”

To receive a free Ray’s Original Glazed hand-made donut on National Donut Day, LaMar’s customers must simply visit their local store. For customers who can’t make it to a LaMar’s location on National Donut Day, LaMar’s will also be mailing out “Share the LaMar’s Donut Day Love” cards to community members in surrounding neighborhoods. These cards can be used to redeem one free donut with a hole and a small coffee. Specialty donuts & coffee will be available but will incur an upcharge when used with the card. 

For more information about LaMar’s National Donut Day celebration, or to make an online donation, please visit www.donutday.com

About LaMar’s Donuts – After developing his original donut recipe as a teenager in 1933, Ray Lamar opened the first LaMar’s Donuts in Kansas City, Missouri, on Linwood Boulevard in a converted gas station. Today, the franchised chain has 25 stores in five states. LaMar’s has won numerous awards and has earned favorable reviews by such publications as The New Yorker and Gourmet magazine. LaMar’s donuts were also the first to be reviewed and acclaimed by Zagat, the world’s most trusted guide to restaurants. Visit us at LaMars.com.

About The Salvation Army – The Salvation Army, an evangelical part of the Universal Christian Church established in 1865, has supported those in need in His name without discrimination for more than 130 years in the United States. Nearly 30 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year across 5,000 communities nationwide. For more information, please visit imsalvationarmy.org.

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Temi Osifodunrin

Director of Marketing and Advertising

[email protected]

303-771-9999 x. # 7001

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