Adam Dorfman & DMC Atlanta

DMC Atlanta President, Adam Dorfman, with Jen and her team moving to Tampa On Monday, March 17th, 2014, DMC Atlanta proudly promoted  Jen Hemelgarn  from Assistant Management to Management - a major milestone and one of the highest levels one can reach in the DMC Atlanta  Management Development Program . Jen joined the DMC Atlanta team as a  sales and marketing account manager  in November of 2010, earned Assistant Management in 2013, and will be relocating with a team to Tampa, Florida as a senior partner. Jen will be running her own office, representing Verizon on DMC Atlanta's expanding retail program.  As with any management promotion that involves a relocation, the moment was bittersweet. Since DMC Atlanta is a people-centered program where strong personal relationships among coworkers is highly encouraged, the friendships Jen has formed over the last three years make it difficult to see her leave - but the team could not be happier for ...

With 2014 being well-underway and with an outstanding start to the year under our belts here at DMC Atlanta, I have started planning some summer travel.  In addition to DMC Atlanta's annual manager's trip (which will be in the Bahamas this year!), I have scheduled several trips to the beach with my family. We'll be heading to Charleston with my wife's family, Florida with my mom, and Atlantis in the Bahamas with some friends. While I travel a good bit for work and play, this summer is going to be extra special. This will be my first set of vacation trips with my kids that my older daughter will be able to commit to memory. As with many people, some of my greatest memories of childhood revolve around trips with my parents and grandparents.  We are very fortunate to have a large family with multiple generations on both sides, and this summer will be the beginning of some incredible memories for my family. In my preparation for these trips, I began thinking of all...

In November of 2010, I moved from South Florida to Atlanta. From oranges to peaches, Georgia was somewhere new and exciting! It was also a place where I could not find a teaching position. I graduated from UCF with a degree in Elementary Education and taught elementary school for 6 years. Teaching was a profession in which I thought I would never have difficulty finding a job and much to my dismay and ultimately my luck, I had to find something new to do. So I thought “why not sales?”  My initial goal was to get some sales experience, seek out an entry level position, and then I would go and get a fabulous pharmaceutical job! Not so much…I had no idea what was in store for me on my amazing journey with DMC Atlanta. What I initially fell in love with were the people. Never had I been in an environment where people were so positive, welcoming, helpful and truly interested in me. My goals were no longer just important to me, but to every person in the office. I walked in hearing u...

  IN BUSINESS, MARKETING, AND SALES - AS IN SPORTS - CHARACTER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN VICTORY. ADAM DORFMAN - PRESIDENT & NINJA TRAINER DMC ATLANTA   ON   FEBRUARY 03 2014 So often people focus such a majority of their energy on the results and outcomes from their efforts that they forget to remember and appreciate the work that put into the efforts in the first place.  Not so with constant class-act Peyton Manning.  Even after suffering a crushing defeat in last night's Super Bowl, Manning remained true to form in his answers to reporters' questions and in response to his adoring fans. People love and respect Manning for a reason - he is a true gentleman and a man of class and  character . I found this article on Yahoo Sports this morning and wanted to share.  Enjoy. AD (Connect with me on  LinkedIn! ) Peyton Manning Leaves Crushing Super Bowl Loss With Reputation Intact Back to the Blog at DMC Atlanta

You're never too Young to Give Back! I clearly remember being about eight years old, and my father,  +Larry Dorfman , taking me to the Atlanta Union Mission to help prepare food for the homeless.  The morning of the visit, I remember being annoyed - I wanted to watch cartoons and hang out in my PJ's after a "hard week at school." When we arrived, my complaints quickly stopped. I looked around and saw what I had never seen before - people who were grateful just to have a roof over their head and food to eat. Whatever struggles we may had faced as a family paled in comparison to the day to day lives of the people around me. I am fortunate to have been raised in a family that, as they became successful, they stayed focused on giving back at every level. I saw a great example of charity, philanthropy, gratitude, and humility, and I vowed to pay it forward. At  +DMC Atlanta , giving back to the community is a deeply-rooted core value - something so ingrained that, ...

I have always considered myself to be a "realist." I like to think that, whether times are good or bad, I have the capacity to rise above, take an unbiased view, and give accurate feedback on my own situation. My go-to thought process was that overly-optimistic people, those who constantly saw the glass as half-full, those who believed in "The Secret" and read self-help books - were only like that because they either were too stupid to know that bad things happen or too oblivious to care. As it turns out, there is a very fine line between realism and pessimism, and, if you're not careful, you will end up on the wrong side of the line more times than not. My grandfather, Bob Krasnoff, once told me - "Worry is the misuse of imagination." (I'm assuming he heard it somewhere, but, since he's my grandfather and one of my mentors, I'm giving him the credit for the quotation.)  I'm not sure why, but, when he said this - I took it on a...

When something is this good, it is a crime NOT to share it! By  Mark Cuban At age 24, I left  Indiana  and hit the road in my 1977 Fiat X19. I was on my way to  Dallas . The car had a hole in the floorboard. It needed oil every 60 miles. Some college buddies of mine had told me to come to Dallas–that the weather was great, that there were jobs and that the women were amazing. I didn’t hear the first two pieces, but I definitely heard the third. But let me back up a bit. I’d been in Indiana for a few months, working at a place called Tronics 2000. Before that, I’d been in  Pittsburgh , my hometown, where I joined Mellon Bank after graduating from Indiana University in 1980 at 22. Back then a lot of smaller regional banks still did everything on paper. Mellon had a department that went in and converted them to computerized systems. That’s what I did. A lot of my peers at Mellon were just happy to have a job. I wanted to be more entrepreneurial. I ...