Press

2018

9/24/18

Tom Walter featured in Daily Herald article, “A ‘Great Game’ You’ll Want to Win”

2017

12/8/17

Tom Walter featured in Crain’s Chicago Business article, “Food Delivery Takes Bite Out of Caterers’ Business”

8/6/17

Tom Walter featured in BizCast HQ podcast, “Generation Integration is Important”

7/10/17

Tom Walter featured in Forbes article, “How Family Taught This CEO How To Be A Leader – Twice”

4/3/17

Tom Walter featured in Forbes article, “5 Ways To Build A Culture Of Ownership”

1/25/17

Tom Walter featured on Growing with Purpose podcast, “Episode 1. Tom Walter”

2016

11/15/16

Tom Walter’s speech at TedX Normal, “Change or We Are Leaving!”

10/13/16

Tom Walter featured in Chicago Family Business Council panel, “Intrapreneurship Takeaways: Creating Business Growth Through Intrapreneurship”

6/17/16

Tom Walter featured in Chicago Tribune article, “The Older Entrepreneur: Taking Charge of Change”

6/8/16

Tom Walter featured in Elk Grove Village Strictlybusiness Podcast, “EP 3: How the Entrepreneurship Model is Changing”

6/7/16

Tom Walter featured in Forbes Magazine article, “How Tasty Catering Is Serving Up A New Generation Of Entrepreneurs”

3/31/16

Tom Walter featured in the Business Magazine article, “Thomas J. Walter: Lidership – Jo Menaxhim”

3/28/16

Tom Walter featured in The Angus Report video, “Small Giants Special Edition: Entrepreneurs in Rural America”

3/16/16

Tom Walter featured on the Business Builders Show with Marty Wolff podcast, “We Treat Them Like People, Just Like We Are”

3/14/16

Tom Walter featured in Elk Grove Business Journal article, “Tasty Catering’s Recipe For Success”

2/26/16

Tom Walter featured in Huffington Post’s article, “Are you Mentorable? How to Prepare to Receive Guidance in Your Business”

2/25/16

Tom Walter featured in Forbes’ article, “From Command-And-Control To Employee Engagement: How Tasty Catering Communicates Its Values”

2/22/16

Tom Walter featured in Lenconnect.com’s blog post, “Author featured speaker at Siena Heights University lecture series”

2015

10/30/15

Tom Walter featured in Executive Coaching Connections’ blog post, “No Office Required: Culture and Virtual Teams”

9/11/15

Tom Walter featured in The Junto Institute’s blog post, “Solid Interactive A Story Of Open-Book Management And Open Leadership”

7/1/15 – 9/1/15

Tom Walter featured in Organizational Dynamics article, “Employee Engagement and Positive Psychological Capital”

9/24/15

Tom Walter featured in Forbes article, “9 Creative Ways To Find Books That Will Make You A Genius”

9/1/15

Tom Walter featured in Business Magazine “Spotlight Interview” (article is on page 7)

8/6/15

Tom Walter featured in Strategic HR Review article, “Creating and Sustaining a Highly Engaged Company Culture in a Multigenerational Workplace”

3/27/15

Tom Walter featured in Elk Grove Village BizHub article, “CEO of Tasty Catering Discusses the Importance of Mentoring”

3/19/15

Tom Walter featured in EntSun News article, “Chief Culture Officer of Tasty Catering to Speak at Kent State’s College of Business Administration”

2/24/15

Tom Walter featured in Cincinnati.com article, “INC’s Small Giants community comes to Cincinnati”

2/9/15

Tom Walter featured in Business Lending Exchange blog post, “Company Culture: What Does It All Mean?”

2/4/15

Tom Walter featured in Restaurant Unstoppable podcast, “107: Tom Walter Says Surround Yourself with Great People and Have an Exit Strategy”

2/2/15

Tom Walter featured in Lead Change Group “February 2015 Leadership Development Carnival”

1/29/15

Tom Walter featured in TINYhr blog post, “4 Proven Employee Recognition Ideas To Motivate Your Team”

2014

12/24/14

Tom Walter featured in The Great Game of Business blog post, “Catering Company Survives Tough Times by Teaching Employees to Think Like Owners”

12/16/14

Tom Walter featured in a Press Release, “Tasty Catering Demonstrates Links Between Culture and Performance with Culture Assessment”

11/19/14

Tom Walter featured in Daily Herald article, “Student Entrepreneurs Face ‘Sharks’ at ECC”

10/13/14

Tom Walter featured in Daily Herald Business Ledger article, “Walter Family Aims to be Serial Entrepreneurs to Create Companies, Jobs”

9/19/14

Tom Walter featured in Daily Herald Business Ledger article, “Suburban Business Owners Honored”

9/18/14

Tom Walter featured in Corp Magazine article, “The Best Diversity Practice: Inclusion”

7/28/14

Tom Walter featured in Daily Herald article, “Entrepreneurs offer tips for business startups”

5/31/14

Tom Walter featured in faithmarketplace podcast

5/5/14

Tom Walter featured in BenefitsPro article, “Healthy minds, healthy profits”

2013

9/23/13

Tom Walter featured in Under30CEO article, “If you Could Choose One Entrepreneur to Join Your Startup Who Would it Be?”

9/11/13

Tom Walter recently sat down with CEO for an interview. Listen to the interview here.

9/11/13

Tom Walter to speak at the 2013 CEO National Conference

8/27/13

Tom Walter featured in the Success Magazine article “How to: Create a Culture”

7/1/13

Tom Walter is featured on the Management is a Journey blog as a guest blogger with the post titled “Handling Change: By a Boomer Entrepreneur”

3/11/13

Tom Walter tells his story on mo.com. Click here to read the full interview.

1/21/13

Tom Walter and Molly Meyer (co-author of It’s My Company Too! and Creative Director at nuphoriq) were featured on Robert Tanner’s blog, Management is a Journey.

As Walter explains, “Baby Boomers (I’m guilty here) have a lot to say about how to work effectively with the youngest generation in the workplace (Gen Y or Millennials). But, to really get powerful insights on Gen Y, it’s important to hear from some thoughtful members of this generation itself.”

The article featured was written by Meyer and is titled “Understanding the Younger Generation”.

1/9/13

Tom Walter and Tasty Catering were featured in an article on the AP titled “Small Businesses Basing Pay More on Performance”. Read the article here.

1/7/13

The Daily Herald features Tom Walter in an article titled Successful Entrepreneurs Tell What They Would Do Differently . To read the article and Tom’s thoughts click here.

2012

12/14/12

Tom Walter and Tasty Catering were featured on the Nightly Business Report on Thursday December 13, 2012. Tom discussed how the Affordable Care Act would impact Tasty Catering. Watch the segment here.

12/8/12

It’s My Company Too! was featured in the November/December issue of Catering Magazine. The feature can be seen here.

12/4/12

Tom Walter was featured in a Small Giants Community exclusive interview. SGC Executive Director Raul Candeloro sat down with Tom to learn more about his book, his career and what it takes to create a great workplace culture. Read more here.

12/4/12

Tom Walter was featured in an article from Investors.com titled “Tell about Failed Mistakes and Projects”. Read more here.

12/3/12

The Executives Breakfast Club has posted a recap from November meeting that featured Tom Walter and Rich Panico of Integrated Project Management. To view some of the takeaways from this meeting, click here .

11/29/12

Upstart Business Journal features Tom’s latest article, “Entangle your employees, no ropes required.” Read more about how entangling employees is pivotal to making them feel like they have ownership in a company’s success, here.

11/7/12

Tom share’s his 5 key steps to gaining company-wide discretionary thinking in an article published by Small Business Digest. Learn more here.

10/24/12

Forbes shares 100 Founders Top “Aha” moments. To learn about Tom Walter’s Aha moment, check out #86 here.

10/19/12

NBC.com features a Tom Walter article titled “How to Encourage Innovation from All Levels of Your Organization”.

10/11/12

Tom Walter is featured on the Great Leadership blog as a guest blogger with the post titled “Walk the Talk: Four Tips to be an Extraordinary Leader.”

10/5/12

Yahoo! Small Business Advisor article titled “Small Company Owners Weigh in on Hiring, Debate” share’s Tom Walter’s view on the October 4th presidential debate.

9/5/12

Tom Walter was featured in a blogpost by Fedor Ovchinnikov titled, “Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice.”

8/22/12

Tasty Catering and Tom Walter inspire a blog post on HRBoost, LLC Blog. Read more about author Debi Lusk’s visit to Tasty Catering and her thoughts on employee engagement.

8/1/12

“Love you, love you not”, an article by Tom Walter and Molly Meyer, was published in Sustainable Industries. Click here to read the article.

7/31/12

Tom Walter featured in Center for Values Driven Leadership video on exploring the relationship between culture, values and business success. The Return on Values (ROV) research initiative is a three year partnership with the Small Giants Community. This intensive, evidence-based research will result in case studies, measurement instruments, data, and insights that will help equip entrepreneurs and business owners to lead companies that perform well in the marketplace and care for employees, customers, and communities.

Click here to view the video.