Exceptional Excellence!
Corp! Honors top professionals, young professionals and entrepreneurs.
Every year, the Corp! Most Valuable Professionals, Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs awards honor those who, through their careers, community involvement and passion, have made Michigan a better place to live and work.
MVP honors those deserving members of the community who are creating job opportunities, driving economic growth, nurturing community advancements or leading successful companies.
MichBusiness President and CEO Jennifer Kluge said the organization believes “it’s important to celebrate” the people who are moving Michigan forward.
“It’s important to recognize their new ideas, products and services, all of which make our state’s communities stronger,” Kluge said. “That is the focus of these awards … to truly recognize achievements among a diverse group of professionals in a variety of areas.”
Here’s a shout-out to the dozens of winners of this year’s awards, including:
Alba Contreras Rodriguez is president of FONS, LLC, a woman-owned business that provides executive coaching and team coaching for leaders and organizations to excel and enable transitions and transformations, focused on human readiness.
Rodriguez helps and enables leaders and teams to recognize and achieve their highest potential, to better serve and add value to their stakeholders.
She has coached C-suite and senior leaders across almost every industry to help them navigate VUCA business environments.
Among the key lessons she says she’s learned: The importance of focusing on the humans; any transformation starts from within the leader; and the importance of knowing “who we are and what we do to be able to walk the path of entrepreneurship.”
Her advice to budding entrepreneurs? Identify what problems you can help solve for people, what differentiates you from others who are doing something similar, what is your unique value proposition, what is your calling or purpose.
“Once you are clear about purpose, take the time to define a strategy and plan for what you want to offer the world and go execute,” she said.
