The Panel discussion will cover:
What is the National Speakers Association?
What does the designations CSP and CPAE signify?
How do Speakers Bureaus select and work with Speakers?
Creative ways to leverage your speakers to market your event.
Maximizing speakers while they are onsite.
What are the differences: Keynote Speaker and Breakout Speaker?
What Speakers expect from Meeting and Event Planners.
What Meeting and Event Planners can expect from Speakers.
Dealing with Professional Agreements.
Selling Products and use of Trade Show Booths in agreements
Here are the panelist:
Panelist: Richard J. Avdoian, CSP, Founder/CEO, Midwest Business Institute, Inc.
Tuesday, May 19 |Concurrent Breakout Session | 10:30am-11:30am
Richard Avdoian is Founder/CEO of the Midwest Business Institute, Inc. a business consulting and coaching firm, located in Metro St. Louis. Richard works with businesses and corporations committed to training, and retaining highly motivated productive employees.
He is an employee development expert who specializes in enhancing employee potential and maximizing capabilities to provide exemplary customer service, and increase productivity and profitability.
He worked in the health care field for over 25 years and with clients in over forty different industries providing programs and services in the area of teamwork, leadership and employee development.
In July, 2003 he received the designation of Certified Speaking Professional (C.S.P.) from the National Speakers Association and International Federation for Professional Speakers, the highest earned level of excellence attainable in the industry and a distinction representing the top 10 percent of all members of the profession.
In October, 2006 he was honored by Niagara County Community College and inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Gallery in recognition for his personal and professional accomplishments and community service.
Richard has been a frequent guest on local business radio stations. His column “Smart Business” appears in the St. Louis Small Business Monthly Magazine. He authored numerous articles and has been a contributing author to countless publications throughout his career.
Clients include: United States Postal Services, Illinois Academy of Family Physicians, American Bankers Association, National Association of Orthopedic Nurses, Corning Glass Company, Illinois Society of Respiratory Care, National Insurance and Financial Advisors Association, Illinois Health Care Association, Associated General Contractors of America, Monsanto, Clinical Laboratory Management Assoc., Illinois City Management Association, United Meat Cutters Union, United States Air Force and Meeting Professionals International.
Panelist: Cathy Sexton, Productivity Expert & Coach
Tuesday, May 19 |Concurrent Breakout Session | 10:30am-11:30am
Productivity speaker, coach, and author Cathy Sexton helps individuals and organizations I.G.N.I.T.E. their performance. Delivering high impact principles through speaking, training and special resources, Cathy empowers people to achieve their life and business goals.
Cathy founded The Productivity Experts in 2003 after winning her own battle with workaholism and a stress-induced life threatening illness. Cathy is committed to helping people accomplish more, with less stress. Professionals can now advance their careers, avoid burnout and spend more quality time with their family and personal lives.
Cathy’s Easy Processes are taught through her seminars and her unique I.G.N.I.T.E. programs. Attendees and participants learn how to take control of their thoughts, processes and tools to achieve better results, faster.
Host of “Ignite Your Productivity Radio”, Co-author of “Focus, Organization and Productivity,” “Exploring Productivity” and “7 Point Impact,” Cathy is now working on two more books and delivering remarkable value through her productivity membership website.
Panelist: Lethia Owens – Personal Branding Speaker
Tuesday, May 19|Concurrent Breakout Session | 10:30am-11:30am
Known for her unparalleled ability to educate and inspire people from every walk of life Lethia Owens is a branding expert, market domination strategist and transformational keynote speaker. Having once been a high school drop out and now a successful serialpreneur, Lethia knows how far hard work, determination and a “never quit” attitude can take you.
Lethia’s a little geeky, magnetically motivating and oozing with brilliant business strategies. She is the founder of Next Level Branding & Marketing, Inc., where she and her team help companies accelerate their branding and marketing results by using influence and value as their competitive advantage. Lethia is ranked #8 among the top 30 brand gurus in the world and she has completed a 6-country tour for her best selling book Your Brand Influence: The Art and Science of Building an Influential Personal Brand.
Lethia has a bold dream of creating a new generation of female millionaires. Her philanthropic project empowers high school girls by teaching them Internet marketing skills and providing them with a 9-month internship and mentorship followed by an international missions trip during the summer where they get to serve others and use their skills on a global level. They are then empowered and equipped to go on to college with new highly sought after skills they can use to earn great money on their own terms.
Lethia’s message of reinvention, courage and self-empowerment has inspired audiences on Fox, CBS and NBC affiliate networks.
