USF SP: Marking a historical moment for the city of St. Petersburg

You can always determine the end of a thing by examining how it begins.

On April 18, 2019, the Beck Envision Tampa team hosted the Kickoff for our Mentor-Protege Program Tampa class. During this event, Fred Perpall, CEO of The Beck Group, shared his heart on how he believes the Beck Envision team has fully embraced the mutual exchange of partnerships more than the “greater than-less than” connotation associated with “mentors” and “proteges”. Because of this, our team has decided to honor his sentiments by changing the program’s name from “Mentor-Protege Program” to the “Beck Envision Partners Program”.

The power of this program is one that allows the community and its resources to come together to serve one cause; a cause to simply strengthen our community by empowering the small businesses that reside within it.

During the 2019 Partners Program Kickoff, some of the most recognized organizations within our community came together to support the new participants of the program and their journey towards growth. It is through these organizations and the opportunities that they provide, that gives the businesses and individuals of our Partners Program the inspiration that they need in order to endure the growth pains sustained as they navigate through their programmatic class sessions.

In addition to these organizations providing opportunities for the program participants and their businesses to apply what they’ve learned, they also provide the Beck Envision team with the canvas needed in order for our mentorship to take place so that real sustainable growth can occur.

As we continue to evolve, the region of Tampa Bay will stand as proof that more can always be accomplished when done together.

#StrongerTogether

Through the Beck Envision relationship, it is our intention to not only build buildings, but most importantly, to build our community.

One of the ways that we actively do this is through the Beck Envision Mentor-Protege Program (MPP), where we intentionally engage the proteges of the program, even beyond the classroom.

Reginald Clark, owner of what was once known as “Reggie’s Affordable Heating & Cooling” is one of those proteges.

Through actively engaging Reginald one-on-one, our team has been able to discover more about who Reggie is and the desired areas of growth within his business. Through this discovery, the Beck Envision team saw great potential in Reggie’s company and was able to successfully connect him with our MPP marketing resource, Robert McNair of Church Brand Guys, in order to involve him with a full rebrand of Reggie’s company.

Along with this, the Beck Envision team has also had the pleasure of connecting Reggie with Brian Wilkinson of BCH Mechanical, who has had a tremendous amount of impact in Reggie’s business, acting as a mentor to him and showing him even further ways to expand his company.

At Beck Envision, it is our goal to not only extend resources to our proteges to prepare them to conduct business on larger scale construction projects, but in addition to this, it is our plan to play our part in ensuring that every business we touch is a moving part in making our community stronger alongside with us.

Max Volmar of M&G Janitorial Services is a partner of the, now, Beck Envision Partners Program with a heart to see others grow and succeed, who has begun extending his reach as a mentor to another like-business within our community.

Similar to what took place within the Beck Envision relationship, Max saw the opportunity to lend his knowledge and subject matter expertise to another business who had the potential to be great, but just needed the extra guidance and push to become the business that he aspired to be.

Dedrick Jones, who currently owns his own janitorial services company is interested in learning more about cleaning floors, however, he does not have access to the proper equipment required for commercial flooring clean-up. Because of Max’s expertise and access to the appropriate equipment, however, he not only offered to train Detrick on how to properly use the equipment, but he has also allowed Detrick to utilize these materials and equipment when needed.

To see the fruit of the Beck Envision relationship move down within the roots of our community as our partners begin to follow suit in pursuing purposeful partnerships is both rewarding and inspiring.

With our community’s overall economic development in mind, there is so much that can be accomplished from the “Big Brother, Little Brother” approach.  In short, we reach people so that they can reach more. It is truly a never-ending cycle that has the power to make unmatched change within our community as we continue to lift up others & extend the chain of growth from business to business.