Want to find out how to cruise through financial crossroads and business roadblocks and make bigger things happen? Welcome to Success Builders.
The Oxford Leader is happy to provide a new column for Citizen readers young and old, business owners and worker alike.
William H. Langdon, Jr., and Christine A. Zwicke will bring you tips to help unravel your personal financial knots and some tools to quiet those annoying business hiccups. These columns will be written by Langdon and Zwicke — not “canned copy” from corporate headquarters out east somewhere.
Langdon and Zwicke will rotate on a monthly basis. The first Success Builders column will appear next week and be authored by Langdon. He will present you with an easy checklist designed to help you organize, plan and simplify your insurance, annuities and retirement plans for your peace of mind.
For those who are interested in maximizing their dollars, or you who have a business to run – we know there just aren’t enough hours in the day to balance work, home life and find better ways to stretch an income or grow the bottom line. If this sounds all too familiar, read on.
Every four weeks, the column will alternate between one of these two areas: Financial Well Being by Langdon or Business Health and Efficiency written by Zwicke
Readers will find easy-to-understand ideas targeting those who don’t have the time for deep detail or the desire to decode complex jargon. You’ll get the latest on boosting your personal financial fitness, and improving your small business performance.
We are cooking up a number of practical and useful pieces for the upcoming year that will help guide you on such subjects as updating your beneficiaries, barriers to business success, retirement plans, insurance, vehicles, community involvement, business strategies and a lot more.
Whether you are looking for a refresher course or how to get started, there is something for everyone who wants to more effectively manage personal finances or grow and improve business performance and profitability.
We welcome your feedback, questions and/or suggestions.
Writer bios . . .
William H. Langdon, Jr., RFC CFS, BCM, RFP, is founder and principal of Langdon Capital Management, Inc., an independent and full-service financial and consulting firm providing a vast array of financial solutions for both companies as well as individuals.
With more than 15 years in the field, Langdon is a 1988 graduate of Arizona State University He also holds a board certification in Life, Health and Disability Insurance from Michigan State University, and is a graduate of the Institute of Business and Finance, La Jolla, Calif., where he was board certified in Mutualand Retirement Funds administration.
Langdon’s professional affiliations include active membership in the International Association for Registered Financial Consultants; Practitioner’s Division of Financial Planning Association; the Clarkston, Rotary Club; and Board Member and Ambassador of Clarkston, Area Chamber of Commerce. Contact Bill via E-mail at: lcmmi@aol.com
Christine A. Zwicke, is president of CZ Communications, LLC and has more than 20 years of business experience in the Fortune 500.
For the past three years, Zwicke has run her own company serving as a business development coach and executive consultant with an extensive knowledge of corporate and small business strategy development, executive-level Communications, staff and individual performance coaching and integrated marketing development.
She participated in the MBA program at Marquette University and earned her Bachelor’s degree in business management from Alvemo College in Milwaukee, Wis. Zwicke completed her graduate-level work in senior public relations from the prestigious San Francisco Academy, in affiliation with the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
She is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), International Association of Business Communicators ([ABC) Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Toastmasters International, Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC), Coachville, International Coaching Federation, Business Networking International (BNI) and the Detroit Women’s Economic Club. Zwicke is also active in the Clarkston Area Chamber of Commerce.
Contact Christine via e-mail at: caz@cazbiz.com