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The Leaders Shaping Tomorrow’s Leaders
Unleashing Leaders
The leadership and business consulting firm Unleashing Leaders provides trusted agents and practical techniques to accelerate the changes their clients seek. Founder and Chief Change Agent Lee Scott started as a solopreneur in 1997.
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Los Rios Colleges
Anthony Hopkins was six years out of high school and hadn’t been able to make college “stick.”
He gave part-time and full-time jobs a try, leading to dead ends. So he was 24 years old when he returned to Sacramento City College (SCC) to give it one last shot. He had his sights set on learning and needed a confidence boost to make it happen.
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Bizhaven
Alex Wicks is looking to the future with Bizhaven, revolutionizing the HR and safety services space with a Software as a Service (SaaS) component.
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![Pictured (L-R): Carolyn Hopkins-Vasquez, Director of Client Services; Christie Pierce, Director of Media; Kara Fiscus, VP of Operations; Jamie Von Sossan, Managing Partner, President + CEO; Taylor Toledo, Planning Director; Jeff Ackler, Director of Relationships; Sara Crackel, Director of Client Services.
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Stacking a Team of Hungry, Human and Humble Young Professionals
3fold Communications
Talk to any member of the 3fold Communications team and you’ll immediately see the same characteristics. They are hungry for opportunities to learn and support their clients. They are human, working towards a healthy work-life balance. They are humble, eager to support their team and community.
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![Pictured (L-R): Jyoti Mehta, SVP, Commercial Lending Regional Manager; Janelle Hopps, SVP, Commercial Lending Division Manager; Stephen Cairns, VP, Commercial Lending Regional Manager; Gretchen Hritz, SVP, Commercial Lending Division Manager](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/tri_counties_0622_photo_1500x795.jpg?1656434396)
Improving The Financial Success of Businesses Throughout California
Tri Counties Bank
Tri Counties Bank offers comprehensive financial solutions rivaling those of larger banks, but with the flexibility and superior level of service expected of a community bank.
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Art Exposed: Gioia Fonda
How an artist and Sacramento City College professor teaches imagination
Gioia Fonda, an artist and professor at Sacramento City
College since 2006, takes every opportunity to combine art with
teaching.
![Dr. Sukhpreet Sandhu of HM.Clause presented the $10,000 Food and Agriculture Sector Award to the Chilk team, which is creating a healthy, vegan boba milk tea. Chilk’s CEO Leo Liu (second from right) is a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at UCLA.](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/image_12_0.png?1654535247)
Startups Make a Splash at the UC Davis Big Bang Business Competition
Prizes worth more than $100,000 were distributed at the 22nd annual awards ceremony
The competition’s inventions included a medical device that detects fetuses’ oxygen levels, a machine-learning tool that analyzes livestock health and a healthy take on boba milk tea.
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Empowering Communities and Changing Lives
Greater Sacramento Urban League
The Greater Sacramento Urban League (GSUL) has been committed to empowering communities and changing lives in the Greater Sacramento region since 1968.
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Work Study Program Benefits Students and Businesses
Cristo Rey High School
Established in 2006, Cristo Rey High School Sacramento helps prepare our region’s future workforce.
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Transformative Arts Education Elevating Life Skills
Northern California School of the Arts
“Theater arts can represent all the business community’s desirable traits,” says Michele Hillen-Noufer. “The personal skills needed for business — communication, collaboration, creativity — can be gained in theater arts. People must communicate and work well in teams, and have self confidence and self-knowledge, and that’s what theater arts teaches.”