CONTRIBUTORS

Jay Nesbit Peter Diamandis Melissa Ambrosini Scott Stratten Wayne Nesbit Julia Tate

4 HR EXECUTIVE PARTNERS Julia Tate

6 HOW XPRIZE WORKS Peter Diamandis

8 HOW TO AVOID BURNOUT Melissa Ambrosini

10 SALES CLOUD Scott Stratten

12 FLEET SAFETY

14 BUILDING BRIDGES Jay and Wayne Nesbit

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Jay Nesbit

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Welcome to the autumn 2021 issue of Risk & Business Magazine .

I am pleased to present several articles to you in this issue including a spotlight on HR Executive Partners — a valuable client of our agency in addition to being a valuable vendor that has assisted our business develop and maintain up-todate human resources best practices .

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Like many businesses in early 2020 , we had to adapt quickly to allow the majority of our staff to work remotely . Fortunately , we had been given insightful advice the prior year to start making investments in technology and developing procedures to allow for flexible work arrangements . Having these pieces in place was essential to the survival of our business and a reminder of why emergency plans are so important to have in place , even though you hope you never need to use them .

As business is beginning to move to a more normal environment , we plan to continue to utilize technology and flexible work arrangements as a competitive advantage for our business and something we hope our staff continues to find a rewarding benefit .

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