Thursday, October 23, 2008
Michael Lee Stallard
His topic will be: "Fired Up Leadership - Why Your Company Needs A Connection Culture to Thrive and the Best Practices of Companies that Have Them." This will be held at Tuscany Pasta and Steak Restaurant from 7:30 - 10:00 am.
Stallard is a leading authority on employee and customer engagement. He is the president, CEO and a co-founder of E Pluribus Partners, and author of Fired Up or Burned Out. Michael was chief marketing officer for businesses at Charles Schwab and Morgan Stanley. He was formerly an executive in investment banking, marketing and finance at Barclays PLC, Van Kampen Investments and Texas Instruments.
I want to share something with you Ive learned over the last decade of my life that I believe can be as helpful to you as it has been to me. In a nutshell, one of the most powerful and least understood aspects of business is how an emotional connection between management, employees and customers provides a competitive advantage. Unless the people who are part of a business feel a sense of connection an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation and esprit de corps they will never reach their potential as individuals, nor will the organization."
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Michael Schatzki
His topic will be the "Art of Negotiating". This will be held at Tuscany Pasta and Steak Restaurant from 7:30 - 10:00 am.
Schatzki is an experienced professional negotiator. His firm Negotiation Dynamics conducts seminars and workshops for businesses, nonprofit organizations and professional groups throughout the country and provides consulting services to organizations on specific negotiating problems. He is the author of Negotiation: The Art of Getting What You Want. Mr. Schatzki delivers powerful negotiation training with REAL results - Mr. Schatzki designs and conducts every Negotiation Dynamics training. He has directly trained thousands of participants in seminars worldwide. His real-world expertise translates into real results for your business.
Negotiation Dynamics clients call again and again. Why? Because Mr. Schatzkis powerful training course, in-depth research, and interactive exercises produce extraordinary results that can immediately improve your profitability.
Michael Received his B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from Haverford College, and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Dr. Daniel McQuiston
Dan has been fascinated with all aspects of sales and marketing since his days in sales in the 1970s. This fascination led him to first complete his MBA and then his Ph.D. in marketing from The Ohio State University. As a marketing professor first at Indiana University and now at Butler University, he has won teaching awards at all three institutions as well as similar awards from a number of executive development programs.
Dr. McQuiston had a tremendous impact on our management team. He got them interested in looking at our products and services in a way that would satisfy our customers secondary demands. Our managers started to recognize how possible changes in processes could benefit both customer and company bottom lines. Dans message was clear: increase customer loyalties by improving their processes to make them more profitable
LandAmerica Financial Group
Thursday, April 02, 2009

Robert Wendover
His topic will be "Been There, Done That! Best Practices in Managing Age Diversity". This will be held at Tuscany Pasta and Steak Restaurant from 7:30 - 10:00 am.
Robert W. Wendover has been researching and writing about workforce trends for more than 20 years. He currently serves as Managing Director of the Center for Generational Studies. Mr. Wendover has authored the Centers training curriculum, Generations: Understanding Age Diversity in Todays Workplace. His nine books include Crossing the Generational Divide, On Cloud Nine: Weathering the Challenge of Many Generations in the Workplace and Two Minute Motivation: How to Inspire Superior Performance. His first book, Smart Hiring, first published in 1988, has just been released in its sixth edition.
Mr. Wendover is regular guest on radio & TV across the U.S. His credits include CNN, CNBC, The Wall Street Journals National Business Employment Weekly,
Supervisory Management, Human Resources Professional, Womens
Wear Daily, Entrepreneur and Money magazine. In addition, he has
written monthly columns for both retailers and Realtors.
2007-2008 Events
September 12, 2007 - Breakfast Meeting with speaker Nancye M. Combs, AEP-SPHR her topic "Errors and Ommissions in Managing People."
September 27, 2007 - Building a Better Board - The first session of the 2-part series discussed policy development, governing the executive board, board responsibilities, and executive director responsibilities.
October 04, 2007 - Building a Better Board - The second session of the 2-part series discussed how the board operates: meetings, board leadership, committees, and the administration of board; and how to be an outstanding director.
October 11, 2007 - Social "Spotlight Millikin"- Celebrating 12 years of MDEA with Millikin Tabor School of Business, President Doug Zemke spoke and the founding members of MDEA were recognized. This Social event hosted by MDEA shined a "Spotlight" the Arts & Entrepreneurship of Millikin University.
December 6, 2007 - Breakfast Meeting with speaker Kelly Lyons, his topic "The 1% Difference, Small Change - Big Impact!"
February 12, 2008 - Breakfast Meeting with speaker Bryan Arzani, his topic "Hiring Producers - Not Pretenders".
May 6, 2008 - Breakfast Meeting with speakers Marc Compeau and Dan Davis, and the topic "Gaining an Affordable Competitive Edge that every Leader can use to Build a Culture around Customer Service."
May 22, 2008 - Social "Creating Leadership"- This Social was a means for you to say thanks to your key executives. MDEA's mission is to build entrepreneurship within the business community and we realize that your Key Executives play a vital role within your Companies and that this would be a great venue for you to say thanks, and to also allow them to network with other key executives with high growth tendencies.
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