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Business Upturn
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
The Poling Group Celebrates Over 25 Years of Excellence and Enduring Commitment to Leadership Impact
Asheville, North Carolina, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Poling Group, Inc., celebrates a significant milestone, serving the business community for over 25 years. Led by President Terry L. Poling with over three decades of consulting experience, including more than 20 years dedicated to executive coaching, the company shows no signs of slowing down. It continues to serve as a trusted advisor to companies across sectors. Advertisement The Poling Group, Inc. The North Carolina-based firm was built on the belief that leadership is a responsibility to influence systems, people, and outcomes with clarity and purpose. Since Poling's background includes decades of experience in corporate strategy, leadership development, and international consulting, the firm's vision has always remained focused on enabling clients to lead with greater awareness, intentionality, and impact. The Poling Group has become known for blending executive coaching, strategic advisory, and organizational transformation work. Clients turn to the firm during periods of transition, expansion, or cultural change, when leadership alignment and clarity are most critical. Its tailored approach helps organizations shift from reactive management to proactive, purpose-driven leadership. The 'Integral Leadership' model is integral to the company's methodology. It involves developing the whole leader and not only their skill set or performance metrics. The firm partners with executives and leadership teams to create new definitions of success, strengthen organizational capacity, and generate meaningful, sustained change across sectors. This work is supported by the firm's proprietary 5 C's model. The first three C's represent the foundational 'what' of change leadership. Context refers to the vision and rationale for change. Conditions pertain to the environment and resources necessary for success, and Capacities revolve around the skills, knowledge, and experiences required. Meanwhile, the final two, Consciously and Collectively, represent the 'how.' Changes must be implemented with mindfulness and intention, and they must engage stakeholders at every level. Poling aims to extend The Poling Group's impact with his long-anticipated personal development book, a product of years of thought leadership, field experience, and journaled insights. It will expand on the 5 C's Model, and potentially introduce new frameworks that reflect his evolving philosophy and the lessons drawn from his global coaching practice, all of which are embedded within the company's operations. The Poling Group's impact stems from a profound understanding of how leadership shapes organizational ecosystems. It stands as a partner and catalyst for meaningful, measurable change, whether through advising an executive team on strategic alignment, coaching a new CEO through a high-stakes transition, or supporting a cultural reset following a merger or acquisition. Poling brought a global perspective and cross-industry expertise to the launch of The Poling Group in 2007. Since then, the company has grown, drawing on its founder's earlier experience in Fortune 100 environments and complex systems consulting. After closing his earlier firm in 2022, Poling dedicated himself fully to The Poling Group's mission, returning to more hands-on executive engagements that remain at the core of the business today. Poling's motivation behind this venture stems from his desire to catalyze change that ripples outward. He was influenced by the saying 'Be the change you wish to see in the world,' associated with Mahatma Gandhi. 'Leadership isn't a mere function of business,' says Poling. 'It's a conduit for societal betterment. I built my coaching style around conscious leadership because I believe that by helping leaders grow in awareness and intentionality, they are empowered to positively influence hundreds, even thousands of people within their organizations and communities.' Terry L. Poling As The Poling Group celebrates over 25 years in elevating leadership, Poling remains dedicated to his mission. In fact, Poling states that, 'My aim is to continue helping leaders achieve greater wisdom, effectiveness, integrity and fulfillment for themselves, their organizations, and the world-at-large.' Media Contact Name: Terry L. Poling Email: [email protected] Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The Poling Group Celebrates Over 25 Years of Excellence and Enduring Commitment to Leadership Impact
The Poling Group commemorates over 25 years of consulting and coaching excellence, continuing its mission to cultivate conscious, impactful leadership globally. Asheville, North Carolina, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Poling Group, Inc., celebrates a significant milestone, serving the business community for over 25 years. Led by President Terry L. Poling with over three decades of consulting experience, including more than 20 years dedicated to executive coaching, the company shows no signs of slowing down. It continues to serve as a trusted advisor to companies across sectors. The Poling Group, Inc. The North Carolina-based firm was built on the belief that leadership is a responsibility to influence systems, people, and outcomes with clarity and purpose. Since Poling's background includes decades of experience in corporate strategy, leadership development, and international consulting, the firm's vision has always remained focused on enabling clients to lead with greater awareness, intentionality, and impact. The Poling Group has become known for blending executive coaching, strategic advisory, and organizational transformation work. Clients turn to the firm during periods of transition, expansion, or cultural change, when leadership alignment and clarity are most critical. Its tailored approach helps organizations shift from reactive management to proactive, purpose-driven leadership. The 'Integral Leadership' model is integral to the company's methodology. It involves developing the whole leader and not only their skill set or performance metrics. The firm partners with executives and leadership teams to create new definitions of success, strengthen organizational capacity, and generate meaningful, sustained change across sectors. This work is supported by the firm's proprietary 5 C's model. The first three C's represent the foundational 'what' of change leadership. Context refers to the vision and rationale for change. Conditions pertain to the environment and resources necessary for success, and Capacities revolve around the skills, knowledge, and experiences required. Meanwhile, the final two, Consciously and Collectively, represent the 'how.' Changes must be implemented with mindfulness and intention, and they must engage stakeholders at every level. Poling aims to extend The Poling Group's impact with his long-anticipated personal development book, a product of years of thought leadership, field experience, and journaled insights. It will expand on the 5 C's Model, and potentially introduce new frameworks that reflect his evolving philosophy and the lessons drawn from his global coaching practice, all of which are embedded within the company's operations. The Poling Group's impact stems from a profound understanding of how leadership shapes organizational ecosystems. It stands as a partner and catalyst for meaningful, measurable change, whether through advising an executive team on strategic alignment, coaching a new CEO through a high-stakes transition, or supporting a cultural reset following a merger or acquisition. Poling brought a global perspective and cross-industry expertise to the launch of The Poling Group in 2007. Since then, the company has grown, drawing on its founder's earlier experience in Fortune 100 environments and complex systems consulting. After closing his earlier firm in 2022, Poling dedicated himself fully to The Poling Group's mission, returning to more hands-on executive engagements that remain at the core of the business today. Poling's motivation behind this venture stems from his desire to catalyze change that ripples outward. He was influenced by the saying 'Be the change you wish to see in the world,' associated with Mahatma Gandhi. 'Leadership isn't a mere function of business,' says Poling. 'It's a conduit for societal betterment. I built my coaching style around conscious leadership because I believe that by helping leaders grow in awareness and intentionality, they are empowered to positively influence hundreds, even thousands of people within their organizations and communities.' Terry L. PolingAs The Poling Group celebrates over 25 years in elevating leadership, Poling remains dedicated to his mission. In fact, Poling states that, 'My aim is to continue helping leaders achieve greater wisdom, effectiveness, integrity and fulfillment for themselves, their organizations, and the world-at-large.' Media Contact Name: Terry L. Poling Email: tpoling@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lima Memorial Day Parade to return with surprises
May 20—LIMA — A few special things will be in store for attendees at this year's Lima Memorial Day Parade. The event will start at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26, moving from Northland Plaza toward downtown along North Main Street and featuring a full military section, national anthem singers and a larger celebration afterward. "We're really focused on why the parade takes place," Friends of Lima organizer Aaron Poling said. "I don't want to lose sight of why we're doing the Memorial Day Parade. So we have a full military section that is very serious and it will be very impactful for those that have served so we can show them honor." Poling and his wife Adena said it is important to them to follow in the tradition of her father Mark Moore, who organized the parade for 30 years. "He had lost his leg in Vietnam and we went three or four years without having a parade because he never chose his replacement and we'd never done a parade before," Aaron Poling said. "We figured we had gone too many years with it and we jumped in with two feet and we'd do it the rest of our lives. We wanted to do it as an homage to Mark Moore and those who had the privilege to serve." The parade will line up at 9 a.m., but when it will start an hour later when singers at each intersection along the route break into the national anthem. About 20 minutes later, there will be a military flyover. "This year is different from last year," Poling said. "We'll have an after-parade party at the Central District Building where they've got all the construction done. There will be lots of parking and we will be roasting two pigs at The Social House." The band Never Again will perform from 1 to 5 p.m. at the event and a wreath-laying ceremony will take place at the American Legion Post 96. The party, set to start at noon, saw 10,000 people attend in 2024, but Poling said he anticipates that number to increase by 50 percent. To apply to be in the parade, visit Reach Jacob Espinosa at 567-242-0399. Featured Local Savings
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
China claims an island in the South China Sea. Satellite images show Beijing's growing power-hungry struggle in the region.
Tensions continue in the South China Sea, most recently between China and the Philippines. China has been extending its reach in the South China Sea by building artificial islands atop reefs. China's claims over these islands is unlawful and many countries are fighting back. Tensions between China and the Philippines are heating up over tiny sandbars and coral reefs in the South China Sea, and the US could get caught in the middle. "We should be worried about it," Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, told Business Insider. The satellite images below show China's massive expansion across the South China Sea, which has turned open waters into a looming battleground that could rope the US in. Over the last decade, China has expanded hundreds of miles south by building artificial islands over underwater reefs in the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. This has been a yearslong power struggle between China and many countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan, for control of dozens of disputed reefs, islands, and sandbars in the South China Sea. Up to $5 trillion in goods are shipped across the sea a year. The problem is that China's claims of sovereignty over these artificial landmarks are unlawful, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Mischief Reef is one of China's largest artificial islands in the Spratlys, spanning 1,380 acres, enough to fit 1.5 Central Parks. Both the Philippines and China, as well as Taiwan and Vietnam, claim the reef as their own. However, a UN tribunal ruled in 2016 that no territory can claim it. That didn't stop China from building an impressive military base there. Satellite images show that China has militarized Mischief Reef with missile systems, fighter jets, naval ships, and more. In recent months, multiple Chinese vessels in the South China Sea have threatened to collide with Philippine ships in a region called Scarborough Shoal, north of Mischief Reef. Also in Scarborough Shoal, a Chinese Navy helicopter flew dangerously close, within 10 feet, of a Philippine patrol plane in February, AP reported. Meanwhile, another recent conflict has flared over a disputed series of sandbar islands in the Spratlys called Sandy Cay. Sandy Cay isn't an underwater reef. The islands remain above ground at high tide, which grants them legal status as a "rock" (or land surrounded by water) under UNCLOS. This means that whoever is the rightful sovereign can also claim 12 nautical miles of the waters around it, Poling said. Last week, Chinese state media released a photo of the Chinese coast guard holding the Chinese flag on Sandy Cay, claiming ownership. Both China and the Philippines claim sovereignty over Sandy Cay, but neither has it legally. Several days later, the Philippine coast guard responded, releasing a photo of its national guard holding a Philippine flag on Sandy Cay. The photo-off on Sandy Cay is more of a stunt than a threat, Poling said. However, if matters escalate in the South China Sea, particularly in Scarborough Shoal, the US has a mutual defense treaty with the Philippines, agreeing to come to its aid in the event of an armed attack. It hasn't reached that point and will likely deescalate before that, Poling said. Subi Reef is another one of China's artificial islands outfitted with a military base. "It is illegally occupied unless China can claim the territorial sea in which it sits," Poling said. About 100 miles southwest of Subi Reef is Fiery Cross Reef. While China, Vietnam, and the Philippines all lay claim to the reef, China's military presence gives it effective control. However, China is no longer the only nation building artificial islands in the South China Sea. Vietnam has greatly developed part of the Barque Canada reef over the last several years. Vietnam is also developing on Discovery Great Reef, another underwater region in the Spratly Islands. At 118 acres, though, it's nowhere near the scale of some of China's developments on Mischief, Subi, and Fiery Cross Reefs. "The Philippines, Vietnam, even Malaysia and Indonesia have done a pretty good job holding firm," Poling said, adding that, "I think China just believes it can outlast the other claimants, and that if it keeps up this persistent cycle of pressure, eventually they'll all crack." Learn more about what's been happening in the South China Sea in the video below: Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
China claims an island in the South China Sea. Satellite images show Beijing's growing power-hungry struggle in the region.
Tensions continue in the South China Sea, most recently between China and the Philippines. China has been extending its reach in the South China Sea by building artificial islands atop reefs. China's claims over these islands is unlawful and many countries are fighting back. Tensions between China and the Philippines are heating up over tiny sandbars and coral reefs in the South China Sea, and the US could get caught in the middle. "We should be worried about it," Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, told Business Insider. The satellite images below show China's massive expansion across the South China Sea, which has turned open waters into a looming battleground that could rope the US in. Over the last decade, China has expanded hundreds of miles south by building artificial islands over underwater reefs in the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. This has been a yearslong power struggle between China and many countries, including the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan, for control of dozens of disputed reefs, islands, and sandbars in the South China Sea. Up to $5 trillion in goods are shipped across the sea a year. The problem is that China's claims of sovereignty over these artificial landmarks are unlawful, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Mischief Reef is one of China's largest artificial islands in the Spratlys, spanning 1,380 acres, enough to fit 1.5 Central Parks. Both the Philippines and China, as well as Taiwan and Vietnam, claim the reef as their own. However, a UN tribunal ruled in 2016 that no territory can claim it. That didn't stop China from building an impressive military base there. Satellite images show that China has militarized Mischief Reef with missile systems, fighter jets, naval ships, and more. In recent months, multiple Chinese vessels in the South China Sea have threatened to collide with Philippine ships in a region called Scarborough Shoal, north of Mischief Reef. Also in Scarborough Shoal, a Chinese Navy helicopter flew dangerously close, within 10 feet, of a Philippine patrol plane in February, AP reported. Meanwhile, another recent conflict has flared over a disputed series of sandbar islands in the Spratlys called Sandy Cay. Sandy Cay isn't an underwater reef. The islands remain above ground at high tide, which grants them legal status as a "rock" (or land surrounded by water) under UNCLOS. This means that whoever is the rightful sovereign can also claim 12 nautical miles of the waters around it, Poling said. Last week, Chinese state media released a photo of the Chinese coast guard holding the Chinese flag on Sandy Cay, claiming ownership. Both China and the Philippines claim sovereignty over Sandy Cay, but neither has it legally. Several days later, the Philippine coast guard responded, releasing a photo of its national guard holding a Philippine flag on Sandy Cay. The photo-off on Sandy Cay is more of a stunt than a threat, Poling said. However, if matters escalate in the South China Sea, particularly in Scarborough Shoal, the US has a mutual defense treaty with the Philippines, agreeing to come to its aid in the event of an armed attack. It hasn't reached that point and will likely deescalate before that, Poling said. Subi Reef is another one of China's artificial islands outfitted with a military base. "It is illegally occupied unless China can claim the territorial sea in which it sits," Poling said. About 100 miles southwest of Subi Reef is Fiery Cross Reef. While China, Vietnam, and the Philippines all lay claim to the reef, China's military presence gives it effective control. However, China is no longer the only nation building artificial islands in the South China Sea. Vietnam has greatly developed part of the Barque Canada reef over the last several years. Vietnam is also developing on Discovery Great Reef, another underwater region in the Spratly Islands. At 118 acres, though, it's nowhere near the scale of some of China's developments on Mischief, Subi, and Fiery Cross Reefs. "The Philippines, Vietnam, even Malaysia and Indonesia have done a pretty good job holding firm," Poling said, adding that, "I think China just believes it can outlast the other claimants, and that if it keeps up this persistent cycle of pressure, eventually they'll all crack." Learn more about what's been happening in the South China Sea in the video below: Read the original article on Business Insider
