Are you a trained/seasoned public speaker, or do you have extensive knowledge of a particular field or practice? Are you looking for a new way to position your company as an industry leader? Complete a Speaker Proposal Form to gain exposure and build your professional reputation across the region.
Partner, Tax Services Group at Heffler, Radetich & Saitta LLP
Topic:
How to Maximize Profits in Real Estate.
Objectives:
-Evaluate the Value of Real Estate Holdings, Acquisitions or Sales
-Gain an Understanding of Tax Saving Techniques
-Generate Maximum Cash Flow
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn techniques for maximizing profitability in today's volatile real estate market.
Trial Attorney, Partner at Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich
Topic:
Employment Law - New EEOC Regulations under the ADA Amendments Act
Objectives:
Participants will learn the overall effects of the new EEOC regulations and understand how to assure compliance with these revised laws and defend against unwarranted claims of discrimination.
Benefit to audience:
Understand the effects of the new EEOC regulations, implemented to make it easier for employees to prove they have a "disability" and are entitled to protection under the ADA. While the intent of widening the definition of “disability” was to broaden coverage for persons with health issues such as cancer, these new regulations may also have the unintended effect of making it easier for workers with a substance abuse problem to remain on the job.
Partner at Newmark Knight Frank Smith Mack
Topic:
Phila commercial Real Estate market
Objectives:
Understand the supply & demand dynamic of commercial RE in Phila. They will also learn current information on which companies are growing/moving within the market.
Benefit to audience:
Commercial RE as economic indicator for Phila economy; real time information on some growing local companies.
Principal at j. Burke Advisors, LLC
Topic:
Leverage Individual and Organizational Strength for Business Success
Objectives:
Understand the Positive Psychology Methodology
Practiced the method
Created a plan to test the method in their organization
Benefit to audience:
Ability to improve the business environment.
Gain a new perspective on the power of Appreciative Inquiry.
Potential to produce more and allow people to leave everyday knowing they made an impact.
Executive Director/Educational Diagnostician at The Reading Clinic, Inc.
Topic:
Learning and Reading Deficits
Objectives:
Participants will learn that 90% of children with learning disabilities are referred for special education services as a result of reading deficits. They will learn that 80% of children labeled learning disabled are Dyslexic; and gain an understanding of how Dyslexia negatively affects reading comprehension, spelling, writing and mathematical development.
Benefit to audience:
*Screening and diagnostic services for specific reading deficits that are not offered in public, private or parochial schools
*Early intervention and literacy acceleration methods that enable fragile learners to progess in reading and overall academic achievement
*Tips for parents/guardians
*Benefits of print-rich home environments
President & CEO at Markitects, Inc.
Topic:
Let's Do Launch
Objectives:
1)Understand what makes product and company launches different from traditional awareness building campaigns; 2) Be able to determine and plan which marketing elements are essential/most effective for a launch; 3) Be able to incorporate the unique role that public relations plays; 4) Have a working knowledge of their company's value proposition; 5)Be able to intelligently evaluate competitors
Benefit to audience:
For Fortune 1000 companies, this workshop will help decision makers and product managers create a template for product launches. For entrepreneurs, the information is essential to developing the marketing section of their business plan and go-to-market strategy. For middle market companies, the information will help them differentiate their products and services prior to a launch.
President at DWC INTERNATIONAL
Topic:
September 11, Building Safety, Real Estate Brokerage & Management
Objectives:
I specialize in four things really, so you would have to pick one
1) Participants that would like to get more in depth information about the September 11 th event from someone who survived it
2) Participants that would like to get more information about how to make their buildings safer and manage their buildings more safely
3) Participants that would like to know more about commercial real estate and building
4) Doing business in China
Benefit to audience:
More Information about the different topics
President at CompuData
Topic:
Internet Security
Objectives:
None
Benefit to audience:
Inspire increased risk taking, more innovative problem solving, personal and professional alignment, reduced judgment and fear, and a sense of community with increased trust.
President at 24K Marketing
Topic:
Growth Strategies at Each Stage of the Category Lifecycle
Objectives:
- Understand and view their company or brand within a category life stage (introduction, growth, maturity, decline)
- Be able to align the appropriate marketing tools to support profitable growth
- Build competitively differentiated marketing plans
- Be compelled to make the tough decisions to grow their business profitably
Benefit to audience:
Participants will gain a senior management strategic view of marketing's role in the organization in achieving profitable growth.
VP of Operations and General Counsel at Concorde Inc.
Topic:
Employee background screening, and employee health services
Objectives:
participants will be able to understand the importance of employee background screening and grasp the concept of negligent hiring practices, and how to avoid them.
Benefit to audience:
participants will experience an entertaining presentation that explains the ins and outs of the employee background screening process, and the positive impact it will have on a business. Listeners will have a new understanding of how background screening employees can facilitate a positive work environement, and productive business.
Mr at Roger Colley
Topic:
The true nature of the global warming debate and offering a practical solution
Objectives:
Learn what the global warming debate is really about;understand why the Congress is divided and the public confused; understand what is really happening with climate change; learn of a practical rational solution to the controversy.
Benefit to audience:
Leaving aside divisive politics, ideology,and emotion, they will better know how to position their companies and themselves for the future. They will appreciate the one thing they really need to know through an entertaining and enlightening presentation.
President at Univest Capital, Inc.
Topic:
Small Business Finance
Objectives:
Appreciate what is involved in obtaining financing for small businesses in today's environment.
Benefit to audience:
Understanding of how small businesses obtain financing, types of financing available, pros and cons of various financing options.
Vice President at Clarify
Topic:
We have developed a small business class that revolves around credit
Objectives:
Understand the process to obtain financing, obtain referral information on loan packaging, learn how to read a credit report and an understanding of their own personal credit and how it affects their business.
Benefit to audience:
Helps small business owners clean up credit and get information needed to apply for financing.
Advertising VP at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Topic:
Advertising and Motivational
Objectives:
have an understanding of the impact and possibilities of advertising. They will have a firm grasp of the implications and the flexibilities that exists by understanding the playing field and who they are trying to reach.
On the motivational front attendees will be challenged to dare look at themselves and face their biggest enemy in a positive and inspiring way.
Benefit to audience:
Advertising: Understanding their power to capitalize on ad opportunities with a small budget
Motivational: Using what they have within themselves to win at whatever the endeavor
Executive Director at Good Shepherd Mediation Program
Topic:
Transforming Workplace Conflict into Cooperation
Objectives:
Participants will be introduced to a variety of dispute resolution processes that can help them transform workplace conflict into an opportunity to improve communication, strengthen relationships and cultivate a climate of cooperation and productivity.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn about mediation, conflict coaching, facilitated dialogues, appreciative inquiry and various hybrid dispute resolution processes: what they are; how they work; and how they can be used in a workplace setting and as part of the organization's EAP.
Principal at Soni Dimond Media, SDM
Topic:
Discover the secrets to success in Media, Networking Skills and Customer Service
Objectives:
Master Your Media Message and Learn from the PUBLICITY PRO! Discover how to BECOME YOUR OWN PUBLICIST with Media Training with SONI DIMOND, a nationally recognized Public relations and PROMOTE-ability expert. Schmooze it or Lose It! NETWORKING SKILLBUILDERS-Learn to make your ‘net ‘WORK for you.
Network for targeted access to information, insight and interesting individuals
CAN-DO Customer Service training-CLIENT DELIGHT! Get rave reviews!
Benefit to audience:
----You will learn practical ways to make positive, memorable first and lasting impressions.
----You will take control of your image in the media, with clear definition of
your mission and your message and your positive brand.
---You will be given tips to succeed in almost anything and
discover how to possess the priceless power
of self confidence and unique, personal style.
Has presented on: 2/18/2011
Shareholder at Drucker & Scaccetti, P.C. at Drucker & Scaccetti, P.C.
Topic:
Business Succession Planning
Objectives:
Identify the key issues in formulating your exit strategy.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will gain an understanding of the business, legal, and regulatory challenges relevant to succession planning.
Shareholder at Drucker & Scaccetti, P.C. at Drucker & Scaccetti, P.C.
Topic:
US Manufacturers Selling Abroad
Objectives:
Understanding and leveraging the Research & Development Credit and Interest Charged Domestic International Sales Corporations (IC-DISCs).
Benefit to audience:
Reduce taxes and create the optimum structure for manufacturing.
CEO at Recovery Networks, Inc.
Topic:
The Forecast is Cloud(y)
Objectives:
How some companies are using the cloud today and, moreover, how we expect you to use it in the future. We will also underscore the downside to cloud computing and cloud storage and the issues which need reconciliation from a technical and/or a policy perspective.
Benefit to audience:
Much like the Internet in its early stages, those who learned its value in the early days were best able to capitalize on its assimilation. The “cloud” has the potential to relieve some of the headache and cost of long term storage as well as short-term computing. As such, there is a compelling nature to the cloud and the advantages that it can bring to any computing organization.
Manager, Emergency Planning at Compliance Management International
Topic:
Business Continuity Planning
Objectives:
Businesses should be prepared to continue operations during and after a disaster. Epidemics, floods, fires and other interruptions can suspend operation of your business. Only 75% of businesses having a disaster survive. Clients are beginning to require that vendors have a Business Continuity Plan and/or a Disaster Recovery Plan in place in order to do business with them.
Benefit to audience:
Be prepared for emergencies, disasters and other types of buiness interruptions and keep your business operating.
Director of Development and Marketing at EducationWorks
Topic:
Nonprofit
Objectives:
Greater understanding of operations, challenges, needs, functions and impact. Nonprofits are a huge business in the area.
Benefit to audience:
Greater understanding of operations, challenges, needs, functions and impact. Nonprofits are a huge business in the area.
President at Sharla Feldscher Public Relations
Topic:
Public Relations
Objectives:
Have new information that is practical and useful to build the profile of their company.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will widen their understanding of public relations and marketing to expand business opportunities.
Has presented on: 5/7/2007
Vice President at LC ADvisor, LLC
Topic:
Deferred Compensation: Key Elements Plan Design that Retains/Attracts Top Talent
Objectives:
Understand benefits and differences of qualified and nonqualified plans. Value of a passive index strategy; reduced costs. Over time Active Investment Managers a majority of the time cannot outperform the market. Understand the recordkeeping and administration of nonqualified plans. Develop a Fiduciary Framework that includes criteria for evaluating appropriate investment options as well as employee education.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will increase their knowledge and understanding of qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. Provisions in the deferred compensation plans include flexible payment options that meet short-term and long-term savings and retirement objectives. Benefit security issues will be reviewed. This awareness will empower participants to design these plans to attract and retain their talented employees.
Partner - Tax Services Group at Heffler, Radetich & Saitta LLP
Topic:
How to Administer Qualified Settlement Funds under IRC Section 468B
Objectives:
Present an Overview of the Claims Administration Process for Securities Class Action & Anti-Trust Cases.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn about the rules of administration, requirements for filing income tax returns, requirements for depositories and related tax compliance and planning issues.
Director, Corporate Solutions at Dale Carnegie Training
Topic:
Leadership Engagement, Strategic Business Execution, Customer Service Excellence
Objectives:
Be energized to try different approaches to challenging situations; learn tried and true processes proven to increase leadership effectiveness; enhance people skills to get the results in the workplace today; Discover ways to gain commitment from others and increase team commitment and customer loyalty.
Benefit to audience:
Increased sales; increased team member commitment; new processes that really work in today's business environment; greater team member retention; enhanced team work that leads to increased productivity; enhanced leadership skills; greater retention of clients and customers
Has presented on: 8/11/2011
Chief Operating Officer at International SOS
Topic:
Duty of Care of Employees Toward Their International Travelers and Expatriates
Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will have a better understanding of the risks organizations and employees face while traveling or living abroad as well as how companies can utilize existing and new resources to build an integrated risk management program, thus effectively fulfilling its duty of care.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will benefit by gaining in-depth knowledge and tools to help them effectively prepare and manage your globally mobile employees. Participants will also realize how an organization's internal stakeholders can collaborate on this issue and build an effective program with existing resources.
Director of Marketing at Flaster/Greenberg PC
Topic:
Dirty Dozen
Objectives:
In this interactive seminar, three experienced labor and employment attorneys will present 12 of the most common pitfalls in employment law today, and how employers and managers can avoid becoming a casualty of these "danger zones."
Speakers
Ken Gilberg, Esq.; Michael Homans, Esq., Paul Russionello, Esq.
Benefit to audience:
Program will cover: (1)Best Practices for documenting performance issues.
(2)How to fire a problem employee and not get sued.(3)Rules for handling medical and family leave. (4) Easy guidelines for determining if you
must pay overtime.(5)What to do when employees complain.(6)Investigating and successfully resolving sexual harrasment claims(7)How to adopt and enforce non-compete and non-solicit agreements. Plus 5 more that don't fit this text box
Director at Academy for Scientific Investigative Training/Keystone Intelligence Network
Topic:
Pre-employment/Forensic Interviewing; Dealing with Angry People; Retail Security
Objectives:
INTERVIEWING: Better understanding of nonverbal and verbal behavior that differentiate truthful from non-truthful people. DEALING: How to handle and defuse angry people/employees. SECURITY: Have a better understanding of crimes against business and services available for employers in combatting them.
Benefit to audience:
Better understanding of how to deal with people at various levels, how to obtain more informaiton from interviewees and assess the truthfulness of the communication.
Chief Development Officer at Exude Benefits
Topic:
212- Giving the Extra Degree of Effort; Building a Brand on a Limited Budget
Objectives:
Be motivated to find ways that they can get better in all aspects of their life. Participants will be challenged to think outside the box to help take their careers and/or their businesses to the next level.
Benefit to audience:
Engaging, energy packed and fun presentation that is geared towards entrepreneurs, management, salaried employees or commission-only sales pro's.
Has presented on: 7/1/2008
Managing Member at Griesing Law, LLC
Topic:
Effective Counsel: How to Resolve Business Disputes and Stay Out of Court
Objectives:
Learn how (1) to draft clear agreements and avoid disputes; (2) to work effectively with lawyers to protect confidential and privileged information; (3) to evaluate the reasonable costs and expenses of litigation; (4) to resolve disputes economically through mediation and other alternative means; and (5) to assure getting maximum value for your legal fees.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will reduce their risk of litigation and save money on their legal spending.
Partner - Audit & Assurance Services Group at Heffler, Radetich & Saitta LLP
Topic:
How to Protect Your Business Against Accounting Fraud
Objectives:
Present an overview of the Sarbanes Oxley Act and explore fraud prevention techniques for both privately-held and publicly owned entities.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn about the impact of the Sarbanes Oxley legislation on businesses, how to identify potential fraud and methods for preventing fraud.
SVP, Research at Finch Brands
Topic:
Branding, What the Customer Wants, Branding & Current events
Objectives:
Participants will have better understanding of Branding (level of depth based on audience sophistication), grasp the rules of building effective brands (with examples)and understand the value and how-to of "seeing the world through the eyes of the consumer". They may also learn how branding and image
strategies overlap with current events from the worlds of politics,
culture and commerce.
Benefit to audience:
These topics will help participants understand the importance of becoming an essential part of their consumers's lives, and what steps are needed to bring their company or organization to the next level of success.
Director of Business Development, Co-founder at Ridaroo
Topic:
Entrepreneurship,start-ups,transportation,sustainability,software,technology
Objectives:
Learn more about the start up community and software/technology space. More specifically, how to do business with large organizations both in the private and public sectors.
Benefit to audience:
Getting a glimpse of the start up world.
President at Take Charge Consultants
Topic:
Mindful Leadership: Unlocking insight, potential & Change in self, others an org
Objectives:
Attendance at this session will enable you to identify your mindful leadership strengths and areas on which to focus, use a new approach for aligning and engaging people with change, and the identification of 1-2 profound and powerful leadership actions that unlock passion, energy, commitment, change and satisfaction at work.
Benefit to audience:
This session will unlock the mysteries of deep and profound personal and organizational change. Learn how mindful leaders transform themselves, their followers, and their organizations through the use of awareness, deep insight and informed action. The content provided in this session is based on experience with countless mindful leaders and current research conducted by the session presenter.
Advisor, Commercial Insurance at Lacher & Associates
Topic:
Insurance, Risk Management, Workers Compensation
Objectives:
Have a better understanding of the types of risk that the face within their personal and professional lives through 3 main categories - Hazard, Business, and Strategic. Most if not all companies will transfer hazard risk through the purchase of insurance policies, but how are they addressing or mitigating risks associated through business or strategic problems that are often times more common?
Benefit to audience:
They will have the ability to identify areas of risk in their own businesses, as well has have ways to help their customers understand risk in a way they may not have thought before.
C.E.O at Surrogate Services International
Topic:
Surrogacy and Egg Donation.
Objectives:
Have a full understanding of the surrogacy and egg donor process.
Have an understanding of all the associated legal issues.
Have an understanding of all costs involved with surrogacy and egg donation.
Benefit to audience:
Gain an insight to the world of surrogacy and egg donation and all the legal issues associated.
Partner at Duane Morris LLP
Topic:
Employment, Benefits, Labor and Immigration Law
Objectives:
Gain a better understanding on monitoring employee attendance, FMLA compliance, medical and religious accommodations, leaves of absence policies, harassment and discrimination prevention, responding to harassment and discrimination claims, FLSA and wage and hour compliance, including employee misclassification, business diversity, termination of employees, hiring practices, performance appraisals and performance management.
Benefit to audience:
All participants will come away with practical knowledge to use in the workplace.
President at Patricia Berkly LLC
Topic:
Diversity, education, leadership
Objectives:
Participants engage workshop material in interaction scenarios. Lectures are often inspiring and accessible to all audiences.
Benefit to audience:
Will learn something new and feel inspired
CEO at BioFuel Advance Research and Development - BARD, LLC
Topic:
Algae : The Race for New Oil
Objectives:
participants will understand the need
of alternative fuel.
In the beginning, there was algae, but there was no oil. Then, from algae came oil. Now, the algae is
still there, but oil is fast depleting. In the future, there will be no oil, but there will still be algae. When oil prices are low, there seems to be no incentive to develop alternative fuels. How often is the US economy going to be held captive by the price of oil?
Benefit to audience:
Understand that algae will become major source of power around the world.
Algae is capable of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, thus facilitating the reduction of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, which is now considered a global problem.
Algal oils are produced through either biological conversion to lipids, hydrocarbons or thermo chemical liquefaction of algal cells.
Esquire at Flaster/Greenberg P.C.
Topic:
What Businesses Can Do To Avoid Litigation
Objectives:
Have an understanding of the steps they can take to avoid having their businesses involved in costly and time-consuming litigation.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn very simple things that they can do to avoid business disputes that lead to litigation.
Principal at Chatsworth Consulting Group
Topic:
Numerous topics around professional and personal development
Objectives:
The specific objectives obviously depend on the specific topic - however, in each session I offer participants insight, "aha's", new ideas, greater perspetive and understanding, actionable tools and ideas, systems to make sure they take action on the actionable ideas, etc. Participants are always engaged, informed, inspired, and armed to move forward and do something differently.
Benefit to audience:
Again - similar to above. We always make sure participants walk out with one or two things they are going to do differently/act upon, as well as a system to hold themselves to their commitment. We make sure the information we share is relevant, actionable, and realistic/practical. We make sure participants enjoy the process of learning, because this makes them more likely to actually do something with whatever they've learned.
President/CEO at DaBrian Marketing Group
Topic:
Internet Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, SEO, Web Analytic, Social Media
Objectives:
Increase knowledge on best practices and strategies of Internet Marketing & Methods for measuring to improve results.
Benefit to audience:
best practices
new tracking methods
stay up-to-date on the latest trends
improve industry knowledge
Senior Associate at Griesing Law, LLC
Topic:
Keeping Social Media From Becoming A Legal Liability
Objectives:
Learn ten ways to protect your company from exposure created from online social marketing including suggesting simple company policies that can be implemented that can protect you or your company from being held liable for defamation or copyright infringement. The pointers will also highlight the risk of employees disclosing confidential company information and company trade secrets on social media and ways to reduce that risk.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will leave the training having the tools to create a framework for internal policies that will protect their company from legal exposure as a result of online social media marketing. Participants will also be provided with “Best Practices” for using social media as a marketing devise while still reducing the future risk of litigation.
Business Psychologist & Executive/Leadership Coach at Equilibria Coaching and Consultation Services
Topic:
Attracting, Engaging, Managing, Developing and Recruiting Generation Y
Objectives:
Have insight into the psychological, cultural, environmental and social influences that have shaped Generation Y’s attitudes, values and behaviors in the workplace. They will also have a toolbox of applicable strategies to attract, engage, manage, develop and retain top Generation Y talent. Additionally, participants will learn strategies for managing intergenerational issues and leveraging the strengths of all generations in the workplace.
Benefit to audience:
Transitioning Generation Y into the workforce and learning how to manage and lead them effectively is imperative. Participants will not only learn how to effectively attract, engage, manage, develop and retain Generation Y employees for their company, they will learn how to leverage the generational capital that exists and learn strategies to develop their top Generation Y talent.
CEO at CEO Solutions
Topic:
Staging your business for growth, funding or selling
Objectives:
1) Understand how staging can optimize return & reduce time for success.
2) Appreciate how each business path effects the others.
3) Understand how prospective customers, investors or buyers of their business will view them.
4) Be able to measure their business against the 33 elements that determine success in growing, funding and selling their business.
5) Get a total examination of their busines' overall health.
Benefit to audience:
1) Reduce the time to achieve the businesses vision.
2) Optimize the financial return of their efforts.
3) Substantially improve their chance of success.
President, Expert Technology Associates at Expert Technology Associates
Topic:
SMB Leadership/Cost-Effective Business Communications
Objectives:
1. Learn how building and sustaining a culture of accomplishment and accountability can drive rapid and sustainable growth in your organization. 2. Understand how to leverage the latest developments in business communications technology to improve productivity, enhance efficiency, and make smarter use of your IT budget.
Benefit to audience:
1. Executives will learn how to grow their business by creating and sustaining a culture driven by self-directed behaviors and continuous achievement. 2. Gain expert insights on best practices to design and implement forward-thinking business communications strategies that improve operating efficiency, cost management, and customer experiences.
Managing Partner at Mobicize
Topic:
Mobile Marketing: How to leverage SMS, mobile websites and mobile apps
Objectives:
-Understand the three pillars of mobile marketing
-Understand how mobile is changing the marketing landscape
-Why an integrated mobile marketing plan is necessary
-Understand how large enterprises are leveraging mobile technologies
-Best practices for SMS marketing
-Best practices for mobile website development
-Best practices for mobile app development
Benefit to audience:
It will educate them on an emerging marketing channel that promises to be an essential piece of every digital marketing plan in the next 2 years.
Principal Partner at 5G Health Marketing Group
Topic:
How to grow your business with Google AdWords
Objectives:
Participants will gain the knowledge and skills they need to cost-effectively grow their business with Google AdWords. They’ll learn the key elements of successful AdWords advertising and come away with essential “how-to” tips they can use to create their own basic campaign.
Benefit to audience:
Google AdWords lets businesses promote their products and services in the Sponsored Links section of Google.com search results. They can reach over 80% of internet users with this paid online advertising, while targeting the customers and clients in their area most likely to do business with them.
Entrepreneur, rehab occupational therapist by back at Unforgetable Meetings & Events by Linda
Topic:
Caregiving 101 -- How Busy Working Professionals Care for Aging/Sick Relatives
Objectives:
1)Know the various levels of rehabilitation facilities, and the types of therapy services provided at each level.
2)Know key terms (vocabulary) to use when interacting with the patient's case maanager, in order to advocate for the highest possible level of professional care and services.
3)Know the vital functions performed by each practitioner on the clinical team, e.g., roles of the nurse, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, etc.
Benefit to audience:
Empower caregivers of aging or ill or disabled loved ones, with knowledge and tools. Many caregivers are also busy working professionals, some of whom are in the "sandwich generation" (caring for both children and aging parents) who may find the current health care system to be overwhelming.
Clinical Managing Director at The Poison Control Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Topic:
The Top Management Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Objectives:
- Be able to describe common management pitfalls including inadequate interviewing, failure to hold staff accountable, ineffective performance evaluations and others.
- Cite some common reasons for these pitfalls.
- Describe remedies for these pitfalls.
Benefit to audience:
- A basic overview of management strategies and tools for both the new manager and the seasoned manager
- Those thinking about moving into a management position would also benefit from this program.
- This is a short program that gives succinct information and specific management scenarios for the most common pitfalls.
Executive VIce President at First Financial Group
Topic:
BusinessKillers
Objectives:
Know that there are financial vehicles available and strategies to avoid succession issues:
Business valuations/buy/sell funding
Succession planning/funding estate taxes*
Disability income insurance protection
Replacement income/asset allocation
Diversified investments/asset allocation
Tax strategies/ investments/ alternative
retirement plans
Benefit to audience:
You’ve never seen anything like businessKillers®. It’s a program, designed to help an individual or business owner avoid the six common mistakes that can kill the value of a business and/or impair an effective transfer of ownership.
There are no slides, graphs or charts used. This powerful businessKillers® educational workshop will teach you the steps necessary to help eliminate these mistakes and give you information you can utilize immediately
Senior Marketing Representative at Philadelphia Regional Port Authority
Topic:
The Port of Philadelphia and World Trade: Sell to the other 95% of the Planet
Objectives:
Understand Greater Philadelphia's Seaport and the role it plays in the regional, national and global economies. Gain ideas on how to use the Port to grow their business. Understand the basics of supply chain management.
Benefit to audience:
In an increasingly global economy, you should "go global." In a slow growing US economy, you must "go global." Learning more about the Port of Philadelphia's services can help manufacturers, farmers, retailers, traders, and entrepreneurs survive and even thrive in the new global reality.
Chief Knowledge Officer at Online Trading Academy
Topic:
Globalization 3.0 Financial Markets
Objectives:
Understand the impact of globalization on financial markets, and the need for financial self-direction.
Benefit to audience:
Understanding of historical trends applied to today's global financial markets.
Account Executive at mindSHIFT Technologies
Topic:
Hosted Voice over IP and Your Business
Objectives:
They will understand hosted Voice over IP technology for business. They will have a good education on the technology and how it will affect thier business. They will be able to understand what is needed for a functional Voice over IP solution for business.
Benefit to audience:
Free education on Voice over IP.
Cost vs benefit.
Owners, CFO/President/CEO/CIO and IT related staff will be able to ask questions and get good solid answers about hosted Voice over IP.
Vice President at Sovereign/Santander
Topic:
Financing your business in good times and bad - What's the difference?
Objectives:
Understand how to approach financial institutions; how they should prepare in order to achieve the best outcome when meeting with their bankers; ensure that during bad times and good times, their relationships with their bankers are strong.
Benefit to audience:
One of the most critical aspects to the success of any business is to ensure that their capital base is sufficient, and that they have access to capital. Many business owners wait until they desperately need capital to learn about how to approach bankers, how to structure their financial condition for long term viability, and how to manage through down times. My session will focus on the key factors that go into credit decisions.
Director at The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University's School of Business
Topic:
Corporate Leaders Serving on Nonprofit Boards of Directors
Objectives:
*Understand the benefits of placing key employees on the boards of community and other nonprofit organizations
*Appreciate the true roles and responsibilities of board membership
*Be able to choose an appropriate board on which to serve.
Benefit to audience:
*By being better informed about how nonprofits operate and what questions to ask before agreeing to join a board, individuals will have more satisfying experiences providing this kind of volunteer community service.
Advertising Consultant at Steen Outdoor Advertising
Topic:
Out of Home Marketing
Objectives:
Understand the benefits of out of home marketing in the modern marketing mix. They will be given an opportuntiy to ask questions about existing and emerging technologies as well as learn about the production side of the billboard business.
Benefit to audience:
Be able to go back to their respective marketing departments and recommend out of home as part of their future advertising spend. Have a greater knowledge of how outdoor advertising really works and how new products are launched using our medium.
Executive Chef at 1st & Fresh Catering
Topic:
Surviving In The Restaurant Industy, Events, Catering, Local Corporations
Objectives:
Have a vast knowledge of:
-the event industry in Philadelphia
-how to be sucessful as a chef based in Philadelphia
-how to run a successful business
-how to get into the corporate world
Benefit to audience:
Learn from one of the warmest and most down to earth corporate chefs in Philadelphia
Vice President of Marketing at Furia Rubel Communications
Topic:
Social Media for Professionals & the Principles of Engaging Online
Objectives:
• Why does social media matter today?
• Is social media marketing a professional and respectable endeavor?
• What are the different forms of social media and which outlets make sense for me?
• What are the benefits to using social media?
Benefit to audience:
This program provides practical tips about where professionals should focus their energy in order to reach the right audience and achieve their public relations, marketing and business development objectives.
Director at Nason Construction
Topic:
Design & Construction, Sustainability, Design-Build, Construction Management
Objectives:
Learn about trends in the design and construction industry related to sustainability, construction management, Building Information Modeling, Design-Build, Construction Law, or indegrated project delivery. Markets including higher education, senior care, healthcare, governement, pharma, corporate, religious, warehouses, parking garages
Benefit to audience:
Learn how current industry trends affect business practices in the design and construction market.
Has presented on: 4/19/2008
President at WebMarCom
Topic:
How To Use The Internet And Social Media For Business Development And Branding
Objectives:
Gain an understanding of the new rules of marketing and public relations.
Develop greater insight into social networks could how they influence business.
Understand the various channels and evaluate which make sense for their organization.
Examine whether their current social media marketing strategy and web presence is helping or hurting their company.
Benefit to audience:
Gain market share by positioning their company or brand to be found by prospects.
Develop their web presence to become a lead source.
Increase business despite a down economy.
President at WebMarCom
Topic:
New Rules of Marketing or How To Use the Internet Effectively
Objectives:
Understand why the Internet is a critical component of any successful marketing plan,
Why traditional marketing methods no longer work,
How to develop an effective website,
How to evaluate whether their website is "Optimized", as well as what does "Optimized" mean,
Develop strategy for Internet Marketing that includes Social Media,
Understand what Twitter is and why it's important
Understand Facebook, Linked In, YouTube
Understand Blogs
Benefit to audience:
Tangible tools to determine why their website is not working
Greater understanding of how to build their business using free media
Tools to evaluate their online credibility and improve their score
Technology Advisor at SecurElement
Topic:
Use IT to Boost your Business Productivity
Objectives:
Learn how to operate your business more efficiently and profitably, how an integrated suite of business productivity and management solutions can drive your company forward, how to protect your business and customer information and how to address the concerns small and mid-sized business decision makers face on a daily basis.
Benefit to audience:
Attendees will take away real “how-to” action items to begin boosting their business productivity through the use of technology.
Has presented on: 1/14/2010
Partner at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
Topic:
Workplace Harassment & Misconduct Investigations--Learning from HP?
Objectives:
Understand the importance of properly conducted internal investigations of workplace harassment and misconduct from the legal perspective as well as from the "employee relations" perspective, including the impact on employee morale and productivity and the process of "workplace healing"; recognize the tell-tale signs of workplace issues that require an investigation and be able to strategically plan/carry out an appropriate internal investigation
Benefit to audience:
Participants will be just that, "participants." The program will be a high energy, engaging and interactive presentation. Questions and discussion will be encouraged and supported by the interjection of real world examples and role play. The focus, though based on a "legal" perspective, will focus on practical, business points and goals.
Has presented on: 1/10/2005
Principal at Leadership Recruiters
Topic:
Innovative Board Leadership
Objectives:
Have the opportunity to examine and rethink their perspective on board leadership; learn best practices for organizational effectiveness and the explore keys to strategic stewardship between professional and executive leadership.
Benefit to audience:
Every organization is looking for the perfect board chairperson who can excel at every aspect of leading the organization to the next level. Accepting the responsibility of leading a board, not just serving as a figurehead, requires leadership competencies, endless energy and undivided attention and commitment. Success depends upon effective, innovative leadership, productive board/staff relationships and anticipating and planning for the future.
Chief Executive Officer at Concorde, Inc
Topic:
How to create a bullet proof substance abuse testing program.
Objectives:
Stephen Rosenzweig’s entertaining discussion of “How to create a bullet proof substance abuse testing program” provides a wealth of useful knowledge for supervisors and managers alike. By the end of the session, you will begin to understand the “Best Practices” in creating a company-wide substance abuse policy, implementing rigorous disciplinary procedures, and reducing your legal liability; all while addressing your employees’ rights to privacy.
Benefit to audience:
In attending Stephen Rosenzweig’s speaking session, participants will grasp a better understanding of the truth behind banned substances, which will allow them to apply their knowledge in critical situations. By the end of the session, participants will learn how to confront subtance abuse in a constructive manner, determine if reasonable suspicion exists, and learn how to react to situations so that you do not make the problem worse.
President at Fox Run Group, LLC
Topic:
Branding Yourself for Success
Objectives:
Understand how to get started on branding "you" the individual. In a competitive work place it is more important on how to reach customers and potential customer by branding yourself to be first class, memorable. How to define yourself as a brand, where to promote the new Brand You and get noticed. This has become more important today with unemployment so high and new grads in the market.
Benefit to audience:
Will be provided clear direction as to how to get started on defining the new “Brand You”, what marketing can be done to promote you as a brand and be different and memorable from the competition to stand out and succeed.
Comments from previous events are available.
President at Fox Run Group
Topic:
Branding Yourself for Success
Objectives:
Understand what it means to brand yourself for success in business as a representative of a company or as a small business.
Participants will learn how to be memorable and different in a tough economy.
Benefit to audience:
This is a how to so all participatants will leave with "how to" tips to get started and suceed at branding themselves.
This is a diffrent approach during different times!
Managing Director at EN-POWER GROUP
Topic:
Energy procurement, energy efficiency and renewable energy -solar, CHP
Objectives:
Participants will have a complete idea of there energy scope pertaining to their business or property. They will understand the different facets of energy efficiency and the opportunities that exist to conserve energy and save money. Through our years of experience in energy procurement, we can help people find the best way to navigate this field, find the right product and save money. We also can touch on renewable energy's like solar.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will leave feeling extremely educated in regards to energy efficiency and energy procurement. They will learn what are the next steps to achieve there energy goals and have a clear understanding on how to save money, what rebates are available through the state, how to purchase energy and what renewable energy options are available.
Partner at Duane Morris LLP
Topic:
Employment, Benefits, Labor and Immigration Law
Objectives:
Have a greater understanding of employment and labor issues at hand, and have timely solutions to potential problems in the workplace.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will take away new practices to implement in their workplace that will keep employees happy and the company compliant.
President at Shapiro Communications
Topic:
Communication in the workplace; Interpersonal and Intercultural communication
Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants will have the skills necessary to begin to successfully navigate through the various interpersonal and intercultural challenges present in the workplace. Participants will also gain a deeper understanding as to the nature of these challenges, along with the resources with which to uncover these challenge before they turn into problems.
Benefit to audience:
Increased interpersonal and intercultural communication competence; Less stress; More influence; Greater credibility; More friends; Improved business relationships; Heightened sensitivity to potential problems.
President at MTM LinguaSoft
Topic:
Effective Global Communication: Planning for Language and Culture Differences
Objectives:
know more about the major types of cultural differences that can interfere with effective communication and learn some communication and design tips that will make their communications more widely acceptable on a global level.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn practices that will help them to avoid misunderstandings in their dealings with business colleagues and partners from other countries and communicate their own ideas most effectively.
Has presented on: 2/15/2006
Professor of Marketing at Saint Joseph's University
Topic:
Why They Buy: Tracking a Moving Target
Objectives:
*Discover how many widely used products — from bath oils to blue jeans — are linked to rituals,
sacred beliefs, myths and magic.
*Learn how identity marketing strategies can help harness these “deep meanings” to drive
marketing strategies and impact your bottom line.
*Understand how new trends in
technology and lifestyles are changing the ways relationships between consumers and companies are formed, maintained — and dissolved.
Benefit to audience:
*See how emerging consumer trends relevant to your industry, such as
product simplification, disintermediation, time poverty, ethnic diversity, and the rise of a global youth culture will change how
you speak to today’s customer.
*Learn about state-of-the-art consumer research techniques that
will help you to stay ahead of a moving target.
*Identify emerging consumer trends before your competitors jump on them.
President at Practical Energy Solutions
Topic:
Energy Efficiency for Businesses, Institutions, and Municipalities
Objectives:
Understand more about how they use energy and how to take the first step in an energy initiative. Also discussed will be the most cost-effective elements of an energy efficiency initiative, and the financial and environmental benefits of engaging in an energy conservation program. In addition, the impact of deregulation will be discussed.
Benefit to audience:
Better understanding of financial benefits to energy programs and upgrades, better decision making tools for engaging consultants and/or contractors to assist with developing and implementing energy strategies. Establish realistic expectations for what can be accomplished in energy programs.
Has presented on: 12/8/2009
Managing Shareholder at Flaster/Greenberg P.C.
Topic:
Partnership/Shareholder Agreements.
Objectives:
Understand the importance of having a properly structured partnership agreement and have gotten an overview on the issues addressed in the typical agreement.
Benefit to audience:
Learning about the components of a properly structured agreement between participants in a privately held business.
President at AREUFIT Health Services, Inc.
Topic:
Exercise is Medicine
Objectives:
...Understand the Exercise is Medicine (EIM) is a collaborative effort through the American College of Sports Medicine and the AMA on how exercise can be used to treat and prevent over 40 chronic diseases and improve quality of life.
Benefit to audience:
...Understand that health care for inactive persons costs $1,543 per year more than active ones.
...Begin to ask for and expect Physicians to discuss physical activity during each office visit.
President at Price Communications
Topic:
Brands, brand development
Objectives:
Have a clear understanding of what a brand is, its role within an organization and its value as it relates to the balance sheet. There are several different ways I can drill into the subject of brand to appeal to various audiences.
Benefit to audience:
The ability to look at their own brand and identify where it needs to be strengthened, retooled, or supported to maximize value.
President/CEO at Totally Organized, LLC
Topic:
Clear Desk-Clear Mind; Fitting It All In; Plan,Prioritze,Organize
Objectives:
1. Identify and find solutions for time wasters
2. Learn how to effectively manage multiple projects
3. Identity and find solutions to organize office
4. Hold productive meeting effectively
5. Manage business paperwork and information including email
Benefit to audience:
1. Maximize time and effectively manage projects
2. Techniques to conquer common time wasters
3. Importance of workplace organization
4. Basic paper management and how to end each day with a clear desk.
5. Time saving ways to balance time between work and home.
6. How to pace meetings, importance of advance preparation and tips to holding a successful meeting. Walk away with the skills to hold meetings participants will want to attend.
PROFESSOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, SMEAL Colleg at Devine & Powers Communications Group, LLC
Topic:
ethical leadership, values-based leadership, leadership impacts on voice in orga
Objectives:
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Benefit to audience:
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Senior Advisor at CRESA Partners
Topic:
Manage your companies largest fixed expense. Real estate decisons for business
Objectives:
Understand the dynamics of the relationships between Landlords and tenants. Have some key points for considering buy vs rent scenarios. Know what are the three mistakes users make when occupying their real estate. Know the difference between renatable square feet and useable square feet. The pitfalls of being represented by a Landlord broker. Negotiating tactics that optimize your leverage.
Benefit to audience:
Real estate is typically a company's largest fixed expense. Users will know the benefits of negotiating at arm's length and signing a lease that supports the business. Learning lease negotiating tactics
CEO at Volpe and Koenig
Topic:
Intellectual Property Law; legal considerations for small and emerging business
Objectives:
Have a understanding of intellectual property rights and the roll they play in business; how to develop strategies that maximize the value of an IP portfolio; how to generate revenue from licensing and litigation; overview of legal issues facing small business owners.
Benefit to audience:
By understanding the value of intellectual property rights, business owners can generate revenue from licensing and litigation; make sound business decisions that align IP strategy to achieve business objectives.
Chairman & CEO at Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson
Topic:
Trends in Executive Hiring, Corporate Board Diversity, Executive Leaders
Objectives:
Participants will receive a 'big picture' understanding of the topics presented from the perspective of an experienced executive recruiter who is on the forefront of these issues.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will receive the latest information and have a richer understanding of the key issues affecting corporations today. A knowledge and understanding of these issues can positively impact a participant's career and their company by enhancing the participant's perspective on corporate issues.
Miller Heiman Sales Consultant at Miller Heiman
Topic:
2010 Miller Heiman Sales Best Practices Study
Objectives:
have compelling insight into:
-Key areas where top-performing sales organizations focused their attention in 2009
-Top sales activities that generated the greatest impact on key performance metrics last year
-Informed points of view from Miller Heiman executives about what these lessons can mean for your sales in 2010
-Perception Gaps among C-Level Executives, Sales Leaders, and Sales Professionals
-Future summaries for various industries
Benefit to audience:
Results and analyses are valuable benchmarks, for all functions, as you implement your business development, revenue growth, and client retention activities this year.
-You will see yourself and your company reflected in this material.
-You will confirm those activities that are working for you.
-You will recognize those activities that are missing in your efforts and you will see a path forward to make them happen.
President at JW Strategic Advisors LLC
Topic:
Trust Revives and Drives Business Success
Objectives:
YOU WILL LEARN:
1. A more useable definition of trust.
2. Ways of calling out and dealing with distrust.
3. Better tools to use to repair and nurture trust.
4. Ways to use moods and emotions effectively.
5. How “being physical” can help you say, “No”, and mean it.
6. Leadership skills for generating and maintaining trust.
Benefit to audience:
YOU WILL DISCOVER:
• How sustainable revenues and maintaining trust go together.
• Why restoring employee morale and trust improves cash flow.
• How trust can restore, repair and strengthen relationships with customers, vendors and investors.
• That when gratitude and openness replace resentment, resignation and anxiety, tough business decisions can become the right decisions.
• You will become a role model of courageous leadership.
Director, Consulting Services at EisnerAmper LLP
Topic:
Improving efficiency in business from the warehouse to IT
Objectives:
Gain an understanding of how asking a series of questions of their employees they can begin to understand where process bottlenecks may exist.
Benefit to audience:
Attendees will learn to approach their employees and gain an understanding of what may be preventing them from maximizing their investment in people and technology.
Has presented on: 4/24/2009
Partner at Kelleher Associates, Inc.
Topic:
Career Transition, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development
Objectives:
Have an understanding of the goals and complexity of preplacement examination programs, drug abuse testing programs, and other aspects of occupational medicine.
Benefit to audience:
Improved on the job performance and personal satisfaction in their current position or a new position.
Director of WORKNET Wellness at WORKNET Occupational Medicine
Topic:
Corporate wellness and the many benefits
Objectives:
Participants will be informed on the many avenues of corporate wellness and how it can affect their employees. They will also see the financial benefits in providing a corporate wellness program for their employees.
Benefit to audience:
In depth information in how to set up and run a wellness program and the benefits they can expect to see from such a program. It will provide a forum for Q&A to answer any and all questions.
Co-founder at Technically Media
Topic:
How to build audience online
Objectives:
(a) understand the value of online content creation to grow audience to convert into customers, donors, volunteers and/or supporters
(b) have practical steps for both website copy, social media strategy and philosophy around audience development
(c) have an appreciation for niche communities online being able to drive traffic and awareness
Benefit to audience:
Practical, actionable steps based on data-driven experience in building multiple properties on multiple platforms around content growth
Director, Environmental Services at Compliance Management International
Topic:
New Greenhouse Gas Regulations - Feeling the Heat Yet?
Objectives:
This 2 hour presentation is intended for owners, facility managers, and others responsible for compliance and will provide:
? An overview of the applicability of these regulations to your business
? The potential cost impacts
? How to comply
? Methods you can use to minimize their impact
? What’s on the horizon for GHG regulations
Benefit to audience:
Understand how Green House Gas regulations will affect their facilities
Instructor at Integrative Mindbody Health
Topic:
Stress reduction and weight loss for working professionals
Objectives:
Have learned about the modern epidemic of stress and its effects on personal health and wellbeing, the national economy, and the workplace.
Have learned the fundamentals of wellness: diet, exercise, sleep, positive psychology and a relaxation technique.
Have experienced a group guided relaxation session.
Have learned how to use this relaxation technique themselves.
Benefit to audience:
Stay current on the state of public health and how it effects the workplace.
Learn practical interventions for your workplace.
Learn effective and evidence-based stress reduction techniques for personal health and wellbeing.
President at Temple Solutions Inc.
Topic:
Image is Everything
Objectives:
Realize that your image says far more than much of what your resume/CV will. Why it is important to maintain your health and optimal fitness. The bottom line of many employers is affected by unhealthy employees and that direct and indirect costs are now becoming a factor in many decisions.
Benefit to audience:
The benefits of improving your image, developing an attitude that will keep wellness and being more fit as an important priority for the individual and for employers.
Partner, Healthcare Services Group at Heffler, Radetich & Saitta LLP
Topic:
Whistleblowers & The History of the False Claims Act
Objectives:
-Identify Compliance Techniques to Guard Against Fraud.
-Determine whether a Fraud has been Committed & if a Case can be Proven.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will learn about the False Claims Act and the history of Whistleblowers in modern-day corporate America. Those interested in protecting their business against potential whistleblowers will be introduced to compliance techniques for controlling fraud. Those interested in the Plantiff's perspective will learn how to evaluate whether a fraud has been committed.