Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | September 19, 2022 | Worcester Business Journal 11 To learn more visit our website, or to set up a no-obligation consultation. Email or call us at (617) 412-4640 today. ROCG is the business exit and value growth expert, and our proprietary 'end-in mind' business roadmap helps owners take control of their destiny with strategies to improve profit and performance, implement change and build business value. We know how to drive the results and guide you in successfully executing the plan. "When You Don't Know Where You are Going, Any Road will Get You There..." -Lewis Carroll Navigating Through Uncertain Times Strategic Planning is Essential in Building Your Business and Sustaining Long-Term Growth We Help Business Owners: 617-412-4640 • americas.rocg.com ROCG - Shepherd & Goldstein Consulting Group, LLC Terry Shepherd Founding Partner Terence.Shepherd@rocg.com Matthew Allison Partner In Charge of S&G's Consulting Division Matt.Allison@rocg.com • Develop strategic plans to meet long-term goals and financial lifestyle needs • Plan out tactics - action items to successfully execute the plan, setting milestones that work towards achieving the end goal • Facilitate accountability, guiding the successful execution to meet stated goals COMING SOON... Terry Shepherd's The Graduate Level of Business Ownership A book that shares decades of research into the secrets of business success and personal happiness Can you describe the film projects you are the most proud of? e stuff that we're probably most proud of is not public yet. ey are part of these growing campaigns, so you're taking a longer period of time to develop some really special things for some really special clients. We just recently partnered with Jordan and Julian Peterson; they're launching a soware company. So, we were very pleased to be able to work with him and his son on this endeavor. en we have plenty of examples of really solid documentary storytelling. ere's a school down in New York called University Prep Charter High School; we have a really cool project that we worked on with them. en we have two episodes done in a documentary series about lean transformation or regenerative transformation we worked on with FLEXcon, which is a local company in Spencer. We create originals just for our passion. One is a documentary about Major Taylor, who was a famous Black cyclist from Worcester. He won world titles in 1899, when he wasn't even allowed to race as a Black man. People jumped through hoops to help him race, and he would just mop the floor with competitors and win races; but he went through a lot of adversity to get to where he really achieved, so it is a really cool documentary. What made you establish a film company in Worcester? My wife is from here, and we live in Auburn. I knew in the early mid-2000s the film production scene was growing in Massachusetts, so I was like, "Alright, let's go there, and see if we can jump in on some of these indies that are being made here." is has been a wonderful place; this is home to me now. In my early life, I moved around a lot, and so I never really had a sense of where home was, until we put down roots here. Worcester and New England became our home. As a filmmaker, what is your take on the film industry in Worcester County? Being a lover of movies and film, I love seeing movies being made here in New England. e reason why they're made here is strictly because of the tax credit; the commonwealth has a very specific tax credit really favorable for filmmakers. It is kind of up for debate whether it really is helping the economy the way that they want it to, and I don't have enough data to have an opinion on whether it is or isn't; but I certainly will take advantage of that tax credit as a filmmaker, because it is very helpful. I have a lot of friends in the industry, and I like the jobs it creates for them. It creates a buzz, and there's certainly a sense of fun to seeing different film productions happen around here. All in all, I do love the movie industry, but I don't love how challenging it is for independents. It is still very much kind of a closed system; but there are ways of getting things made independently, and that's kind of our next move. We do all this work with different organizations, brands, and companies, but our real passion is craing stories you would see on Amazon Prime, or Netflix, or any one of these big platforms. Projects like that take quite a bit of effort to get off the ground, but when you do, it's super gratifying. is interview was conducted and edited for length and clarity by WBJ correspondent Sloane M. Perron. W

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