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Working toward a more productive workplace through leadership

By Mike Switzer

Published October 4, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Misty Janks, CEO of the Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities in Fountain Inn, S.C.

Are you happy at work? Do you feel fully engaged in the job you are doing or do you do just what is needed and then head out the door? Our next guest says that recent research involving the answers to these questions is showing a disturbing trend and that’s why her organization is conducting leadership training in an effort to reverse that trend. Mike Switzer interviews Misty Janks, CEO of the Chapman Foundation for Caring Communities in Fountain Inn, S.C.

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Mike Switzer

After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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