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BATL Brews – Veterans Day Celebration
November 4, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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Join us as we celebrate two amazing business innovators: Michael J. Coles and Jim Balkcom!
Be sure to register for attendance, space is extremely limited! Parking is validated at the reception desk in the Buckhead Club.
Jim is all about:
Board Service
Mentoring/coaching
CEO/leadership development
Finance
Start ups
Turn arounds
Organizational development
High performance teams
His goal: To help others as I was helped
Michael is focused in many areas:
After a successful 19-year career in the clothing business, Michael Coles co-founded Great American Cookie Company in 1977 with an investment of only $8,000. Shortly after starting the company, he was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident. He was told by doctors he would never walk again unaided. As Coles recovered through a self-designed rehabilitation program, he took the company from its first store in Perimeter Mall in Atlanta to hundreds of stores nationwide. At the same time, he set three coast-to-coast bicycling records.