Speakers & Sessions
Tuesday, October 18: 8:00 – 9:15 a.m.
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Putting Humor to Work for More Success and Less Stress
SPEAKER: Michael Kerr, Hall of Fame Speaker, best-selling author and Humor Expert
Discover why more and more inspiring leaders and successful entrepreneurs are putting humor to work to create more dynamic workplaces and to grow their businesses. Michael Kerr will keep you laughing as you learn simple but effective strategies for using humor to help you manage stress, communicate more effectively, increase sales, boost your customer service and achieve all your business growth goals – even on a Monday morning! You’ll learn three simple R’s of using humor effectively, and discover how tapping into your sense of humor can help you maintain a more positive attitude, brand your business and help your business stand out from the herd!
Mike has presented at the National Speakers Association Conference where his audience (all national speakers – the best of the best) were on the floor laughing out loud!
ABOUT MICHAEL
Hall of Fame speaker, Michael Kerr, hails from spectacular Canmore, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies, and is one of North America’s most in-demand speakers and a leading expert on how to create truly inspiring workplaces. A recovering government manager, Michael’s presentations have taken him from Iran to Honolulu and hundreds of fabulous places in between (like, say… Boulder, Colorado!). Michael appears frequently in the media talking about the topic of creating great workplaces. He is a bestselling author of five books, including, “Putting Humor to Work,” and “Inspiring Workplaces – Creating the Kind of Workplace Where Everyone Wants to Work”.
Tuesday, October 18: 9:15 – 10:25 a.m.
The Fine Art of Small Talk
SPEAKER: Debra Fine, Business Networking Expert and best-selling Author
Would you like to turn every networking event, business meeting, and interaction with a client/customer into an opportunity for success? Then join best-selling author and nationally-recognized conversation expert Debra Fine for her fast-paced, interactive and entertaining presentation where you’ll laugh, learn and leave with insightful and informative conversation skills, mingling tips and business networking techniques. You’ll learn how to master introductions and remember names, strike up conversations and keep them going, and avoid conversation “killers”. You’ll learn how to become “active” listeners, how to exit conversations with grace, and how to develop business relationships and enhance your personal and business visibility.
ABOUT DEBRA
Debra Fine is a former engineer who developed her programs to teach technically oriented professionals conversational skills and business networking techniques. Debra’s programs are held regularly for Fortune 500 firms as well as financial, legal, health care, real estate, government, engineering and entrepreneurial organizations. Her best selling book The Fine Art of Small Talk (Hyperion) was published to excellent reviews and feature stories in USA Today, Entrepreneur Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. Debra’s new book The Fine Art of the Big Talk focuses on winning clients, delivering great presentations and solving conflicts in the workplace. Her recent media appearances include the Today Show, the Early Show, CNN and NPR Morning Edition.
Tuesday, October 18: 11:00 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
Breakthrough Your Challenges…Experience 3-Second Success!
SPEAKER: Terri Norvell, Best-selling author and Expert in leadership development
Positioning you and your company at the front of your market is essential today. Yes, change and challenges exist. It’s your ability to recognize and define what is hindering progress that’s a key first step. And the answers are at your fingertips whether in sales, service or management. In this motivational program you and your team members will literally and symbolically break through obstacles to discover new opportunities and new ways of thinking. It’s results-focused, confidence building and filled with breakthroughs. It’s not only powerful…it’s fun.
You’ll leave this session ready to put new beliefs and ideas into action. This remarkable process is guaranteed to kick-off a whole new way of thinking…in 3-seconds!
ABOUT TERRI
Terri Norvell’s expertise includes +20 years of business up-and-down market cycles from the corporate office to the front line. She is the go-to performance trainer for shifting thinking and turning obstacles into opportunities that drive results. Her background includes serving as VP of marketing & training for a $1.2 billion management & development firm, GM for a 900 unit temporary housing company and 20 years of energy psychology research. She is founder of the Further Performance Group and co-author with Jack Canfield and Ken Blanchard of the highly-acclaimed book, The Masters of Success. Terri is a high-energy, high-impact presenter for organizations and associations across the continent.
Tuesday, October 18: 1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
The New Rules of Business Success
SPEAKER: Jon Schallert, Destination Business Expert and founder of Destination University®
Learn why large Fortune 100 companies are now repositioning themselves as small companies in their marketing, and how consumers of today seek out independently-owned businesses to spend their money. Jon shows audience members the critical mistakes that most leaders and businesses make when trying to project their uniqueness, their differences, and their advantages in their marketing and advertising.
You’ll come away with a new strategy to maximize your “smallness” and know better how to leverage your uniqueness to create a huge competitive advantage.
ABOUT JON
Jon Schallert is the only consultant in the world teaching businesses and communities how to reinvent themselves into Consumer Destinations. Jon speaks to thousands annually on his proprietary 14-step Destination Business strategy, which he developed after more than 25 years of on-site consultations with small business owners in over 500 communities in North America. When owners and community leaders employ Jon’s methodology, businesses can draw consumers from outside their immediate marketplaces, keep more local consumers shopping locally, and compete with larger, better-capitalized competitors.
Publications from The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to Entrepreneur Magazine have recognized the value of Jon’s insights. He is the only speaker who has earned Potentials Magazine’s “Top Motivator” Award, and his company’s online rich media training network, Destination University® has received an international webcasting award for helping small business owners around the world succeed.
Tuesday, October 18: 2:45 – 3:55 p.m.
Redefining Humanly Possible: Energizing Your Leadership Abilities
SPEAKER: Andy Core, Wellness Expert and President of Core Wellness
Today’s work culture can have you constantly running 90 mph, with your hair on fire, and tomorrow is just going to be faster. The good news is that what you yearn for, more balance in your life, is actually a solution to your “more-with-less-time” dilemma. Andy will illustrate how to better fit work-life balance, health, connection and sustained motivation into your daily life while boosting your bottom-line results at the same time.
Improving your work-life balance is the foundation to improving everything. In this fast paced session, Andy will teach you skills that yield your energy to be 47% more productive, how to be at your best more of the time, how to recharge mentally, physically, and emotionally so you don’t burn out, how to sleep deeper longer, and more.
ABOUT ANDY
Andy Core is the world’s only entrepreneurial wellness expert. He works with organization, individuals, and entrepreneurs who want to maximize their health, and boost their overall productivity. Andy Core’s primary focus is understanding “why do we not change when we know it is the right thing to do?” Specifically, Andy addresses how to overcome the barriers sabotaging our motivation to living healthier and achieving better work-life balance.
Andy Core has a Master’s Degree in the science of human performance and performed research and understands how men and women respond to stress, stress testing, and what it takes to change your health behaviors for the better. With the high energy style of a stand up comic and the latest research, Andy will ignite your motivation and show you how to execute a better way of life and boost your business performance at the same time.
Tuesday, October 18: 4:25 – 5:15 p.m.
What a Great Idea! Putting Creativity to Work in Your Business
SPEAKER: Michael Kerr, Hall of Fame Speaker, Humor Expert and best-selling author
Mike presented our Opening Keynote and is going to finish the day with another session filled with great information and laughs. If you are a business leader, then you are in the business of ideas. Learn why it’s critical for you to create an inspiring workplace culture that fosters an environment of continual creativity and innovation. You’ll discover what blocks ideas at work and what keeps ideas flowing, how creating a creative workplace can help you keep your employees and your customers engaged, and why HA + HA = AHA!
Wednesday, October 19: 8:30 – 9:40 a.m.
PrimeTime WomenTM : How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders
SPEAKER: Marti Barletta, Worldwide expert on selling to women and best-selling author
Baby Boomers who said, “Never trust anyone over 30,” are turning 60. Research shows they are eager to embrace new experiences and just as willing as younger consumers to try new brands and products. Is your brand evolving to appeal to the women who live in households with per capita spending 2.5 times the national average? If not, Marti will show you how and why you must.
ABOUT MARTI
Marti Barletta is the world’s foremost speaker on marketing to women. Her groundbreaking first book, Marketing to Women is now available in 17 languages. She co-authored with Tom Peters the book Trends. Her third book, PrimeTime Women, shows how marketers can tap the unprecedented buying power of women in their prime to drive sales and marketshare. A Wharton MBA, Barletta founded The TrendSight Group to help companies get smart about women. Her consulting clients have included Allstate, Deloitte Consulting, Ford, Frito-Lay, GE Appliances, Logitech, Volvo and Wachovia. As the recognized international authority on women, Barletta has been quoted on CBS, ABC and NPR, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Fast Company and TIME, among others worldwide.
Wednesday, October 19: 9:40 – 10:50 a.m.
Write It Down, Make It Happen. Knowing What You Want, And Getting It
SPEAKER: Henriette Klauser, Leading authority on writing productivity and best-selling author
Write It Down, Make It Happen is a dynamic, life-changing presentation about taking command of your professional world. This workshop will inspire you to come up with new ideas and imagine a brighter future. It will help you to identify your goals, even the ones you don’t know yet that you have, and get the rest of the world to cooperate to make those goals a reality. Expand your business, make your company’s revenues grow, attract consumers, formulate a new vision: it’s yours for the asking. In this workshop, you will learn how to define your goals, aiming high to reach the unreachable; focus on the outcome for meaningful results; use your Reticular Activating System to stay sharp and alert to business opportunities all around you; polish coconuts and bring business to your door; identify blocks and get unstuck; raise the bar by stacking goals. Come and be inspired to know what you want and get it.
ABOUT HENRIETTE
Henriette Anne Klauser, Ph.D. is one of America’s leading authorities on communications and writing productivity, and the president of Writing Resources, a seminar and consulting organization in Edmonds, Washington. She is the author of the best-selling books: Writing on Both Sides of the Brain, Put Your Heart on Paper, Write It Down, Make It Happen, and With Pen in hand, The Healing Power of Writing. Her workshops have taken her around the world, including London, England, Cairo, Egypt, and Greece.
Dr. Klauser has been featured in such diverse publications as Ladies Home Journal, Prevention, Redbook, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, The New Age Journal, and O! The Oprah Magazine. She has been interviewed by The London Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post.
Wednesday, October 19: 11:20 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
What Are You Broadcasting? How to Leverage the Media and Get Free Publicity
SPEAKER: Shawne Duperon, International publicity strategist and EMMY award-winning TV producer
Shawne has trained thousands across the globe how to exponentially grow their businesses through word of mouth marketing and media relationship building strategies. In this fun, interactive session you’ll gain a new perspective on media and you will leave this class with new marketing tools, regardless of your skill level. You will master how to build and expand your sales, fame, and influence by building and deepening relationships in traditional media using free publicity strategies.
ABOUT SHAWNE
Six-time EMMY® Award winner Shawne Duperon has been in the television business for nearly 20 years. During this time, she has taught thousands of leaders and entrepreneurs how to capture free publicity and how turn good gossip into invaluable media exposure. Shawne has interviewed presidents, and hundreds of celebrities and sports stars. She works with corporations, universities, government agencies and business owners teaching you how to strategically create epidemics in traditional and social media that exponentially grow your business or career.
Shawne knows that tapping into the Media is the ultimate network, and how to create media relationships is the secret to unlimited marketing power. Her presentations show business owners how to position themselves as experts in their field and how to get reporters, producers, assignment editors and bloggers flocking to them.
Wednesday, October 19: 1:50 – 2:50 p.m.
Social Media: Relationship Marketing in a New Economy
SPEAKER: Shawne Duperon, International publicity strategist and EMMY award-winning TV producer
Using relationship marketing strategies and tactics, Shawne reveals the critical components that must be implemented effectively to supercharge your social media marketing efforts. This non-techie interactive session is perfect for everyone, regardless of their role or level of tech experience. You will get to the root of creating long-term on-going relationships in social media, strategies that cause consumer engagement, high visibility and growth for your company. You’ll learn to avoid the biggest social media mistakes and discover how to create strategies that help you grow your business, increase your sales and create a following.
Wednesday, October 19: 2:50 – 3:45 p.m.
Manifest Your Future
SPEAKER: Marti Barletta, Worldwide expert on selling to women, best-selling author
Marti returns to the stage to present her newest presentation, Manifest Your Future. Learn why now is the time to take those monumental steps in your life that you’ve been dreaming of taking. Marti will show you why this time in your life is the perfect time to live your dreams and achieve the goals you’ve been putting on the back burner. Manifest Your Future has been receiving standing ovations from major audiences around the world. Don’t miss it!
Wednesday, October 19: 3:45 – 4:15 p.m.
It’s Time to Climb
SPEAKER: Jon Schallert, Destination Business Expert and founder of Destination University®
Before attendees leave the Summit Business Conference, Jon will wrap up the two-day event with the steps every attendee must take to grow their businesses using the lessons of the previous two days. This will be the perfect way to gain focus after this one-of-a-kind event.
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Featured Sessions
Make it Happen | view details ›
Speaker: Dr. Henriette Klauser
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Speaker: Marti Barletta
How to Leverage the Media | view details ›
Speaker: Shawne Duperon
