Business Notes: Dec. 19, 2021

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week's promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Information and photos can be submitted to Business Notes by email to businessnotes@thegazette.com, or on our site at thegazette.com/businessnotes.

New Hires

Delaney Novy joined Skywalk Group in Cedar Rapids as sourcing specialist.

UScellular named Joshua Olbricht as its director of sales for Eastern Iowa. Olbricht previously served as the company’s strategic initiatives and operations manager for the Iowa and Nebraska region.

Bailey Cichon will start this month with The Gazette as social video producer. Erin Murphy has been hired as Des Moines bureau chief.

Workshop

The Restoration Project, which launched its first quarterly Courageous Leadership Workshop this past week, brought more than 120 Corridor leaders from 64 organizations together to develop leadership practices. The topic of the next workshop, to be held Feb. 14 at Indian Creek Nature Center, 5300 Otis Rd. SE, Cedar Rapids, will be "Regroup and refocus to live, lead and work with more intention.” For more information, go to the-restorationproject.com/events.

INSIGHTS

You can watch The Gazette Business Breakfast panel, “Working Through Workplace Tangles for 2022,” at thegazette.com/businessbreakfast. Panelists are Brandon Blankenship, SEC Midwest and ProCircular; Terri Davis, Shuttleworth and Ingersoll; Talinda Pettigrew, University of Iowa; Samantha Rogers, Skywalk Group; and Becky Streff, ESP International.

And watch interviews with 2021’s Gazette Business Award recipients — plus the keynote interview with Rand Corp. economist Kathryn Anne Edwards — at thegazette.com/businessawards. Award recipients discuss decisions they made over the past year and what they see to come.