America’s Economic Future: The 6 Unstoppable Trends
Dr. Barry Asmus

Dr. Asmus identifies the "Six Unstoppable Trends" that are impacting America’s business and its economy. Some results of these powerful trends are: a strong stock market, low unemployment, low inflation, high labor productivity, record economic growth, and consumer net worth at all-time highs. Currently, 75 million Baby Boomers are in the high spending category and most productive stages of their lives. The Boom continues. Companies of the 21st century must be positioned to capitalize on these trends.

Dr. Barry Asmus speaks, writes, and consults on political and business issues facing America. Recognized for his views on making the U.S. a world-class competitor, he was twice voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year, as well as honored with the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Award for Private Enterprise Education. Dr. Asmus is a Senior Economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis. The NCPA promotes private sector, market-based solutions. With over 25 years experience on the speaking platform, Dr. Asmus presents a powerful picture of America’s future, both here and abroad.

What Happy Coaches Know: How The New Science of Happiness Increases Senior Leader Skills
Cathy L. Greenberg, PhD
h2c, LLC
Happy Companies, Healthy People

Based on a best selling  book  series What Happy People Know, What Happy Companies Know and What Happy Women Know  this session will demonstrate how  the power of positive emotions has the potential to enhance every senior leaders coaching success- and their life.  The research is irrefutable; positive emotions significantly enhance overall health even more than diet and exercise. Learn how the new science of happiness can improve your coaching success as a senior leader immediately. Senior leaders will learn that coaching done right leads to greater performance which elevates happiness and that equates to profit. 

An internationally recognized authority on leadership and human behavior, Cathy Greenberg is a sociobiologist and former managing partner in two of the world’s largest consulting firms, Accenture and CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), and she holds a doctorate in the behavioral sciences. Most recently, she was the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Strategic Leadership, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University. Currently, a founding partner in a new venture, h2c: Happy Companies Healthy People, What Happy Brands and the h2c Leadership Foundation.

Multi-Unit Leadership: 7 Stages of Building High-Performing Partnerships and Teams
Jim Sullivan
Sullivision.com

Explore the 21st Century role and challenges facing the industry's 90,000 multi-unit managers relative to developing foodservice brands and profits at the territory and unit levels. Based on brand new 2007 research involving 480 high-performing Area Directors and Regional Managers across  industry segments, we’ll detail the do’s and don’ts of hiring, grooming, and growing your multi-unit leaders to the next level. 

Today's multi-unit managers and franchise business consultants are effectively "Area CEOs" responsible for as much as $30 million in sales in their individual territories. What differentiates high-performing multi-unit managers from average ones? How do the best "Brand Ambassadors" get great and stay great by building high-performing units, GMs, and customer counts in their regions? What should multi-unit managers be doing during store visits to get the most profitable results? This multimedia presentation will answer those questions and share over three dozen strategies and tactics to better select, develop and enhance the leadership skills of your multi-unit managers.

Presenter Jim Sullivan is the CEO and founder of Sullivision.com, a company whose clients include Panera Bread, Walt Disney Company, Starbucks, Applebee's, McDonald's, The Cheesecake Factory, Denny's, and Target Stores. He's the author of two books that have sold over 400,000 copies worldwide, and a visiting professor at Purdue University, Penn State, the University of Delaware, Cal Poly and the Culinary Institute of America.

Shut Up, Stop Whining, & Get a Life
Larry Winget
The Pit Bull of Personal Development

“Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life! How to Create the Life You Want” will shake you up, wake you up, and possibly make you mad. Larry wants to make you sick of accepting less than the best for yourself. His approach is that when you are disgusted with your life, he can create in you an intense desire to have more, do more, and most of all, become more. He wants you to have it all—but in order to do that he may have to kick your butt and tick you off a little along the way.

Larry Winget, author, New York Times bestselling author, the Pitbull of personal development and  # 1 WSJ best-selling author of 2004’s Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get A Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life and 2007's It's Called Work for a Reason: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault, teaches universal principles that will work for anyone, in any business, at any time, and does it by telling funny stories. Winget can currently be seen on A&E's reality series Big Spender and in his appearances on CNBC's The Millionaire Inside.

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