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Convention
> 2005
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Austin, Emory - Professional Speaker
Emory Austin presents motivational keynote and seminar presentations to increase leadership abilities by dealing with change and building loyalty with teams and customers. Her exceptional gift as a storyteller allows her to access humor, poignancy, relationships, current news and mythology to captivate her audiences. Emory has addressed almost every industry from aviation to undertaking. Her work for the government includes presentations to the Departments of Agriculture, Treasury, Energy and Labor. Austin is recognized internationally as one of the few great women keynoters. Her speaking career was featured in Industry Week, along with General Colin Powell (Ret.), Margaret Thatcher and Terry Anderson. Her book, “Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul,” appeared on best-seller lists in USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly.
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Brazeal, Mickey - Marketing Professor, Roosevelt University
Mickey Brazeal has worked for advertising agencies in Chicago for 28 years - first as an account executive, then as a writer, and more recently as a creative director. He spent ten years as Executive Creative Director at LOIS Chicago, where he managed a department of thirty-six writers, art directors and productions people.
Mickey has taught at Northwestern University, The Stuart Graduate School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology and at Roosevelt University. He holds a BA in Journalism from Nebraska and an MS in Marketing Communications from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
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Brooks, Bill - CEO, The Brooks Group
Bill Brooks is one of the world’s premiere resources for sales and business leadership. Known for his success as a corporate coach, sales visionary, consultant, speaker and entrepreneur, Bill brings real-world advice, carefully researched facts, memorable humor and powerful stories to the platform in order to shake up, wake up and motivate audiences in ways that produce lasting results. His goal? To give individuals and organizations the tools and vision they need… whether it be in sales, leadership, management or change… in order to succeed in the diverse marketplaces of the world.
Bill speaks from a lifetime of accomplishments and first-hand experience. Besides his award-winning career as a speaker for over two decades, he has a wealth of industry knowledge and skills to draw from after delivering programs in over 350 different industries. During a 25-year career, he has been CEO of a $300 million corporation, top sales producer in an 8,000 person sales force, business award winner, corporate board member, a winning football coach for fourteen seasons and CEO of an international consulting firm. Bill knows what it takes to motivate and lead teams to victory. An inductee of the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame, he is an acclaimed communicator, coaching such top firms as Andersen Consulting, BMW, Hewlett-Packard and hundreds of others. Bill also holds the CMC and CPCM, the two highest designations awarded to management consultants.
Bill is the author of nine books, including the best-seller, High Impact Selling. This book is a powerful sales tool that has forged the careers of tens of thousands.
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Buttrey, Don - Sales Trainer, Sales Professional Training, LLC
A passionate and dynamic instructor, Don Buttrey will energize you with his drive for sales success. He has worked for 22 years for a manufacturing company that was built and dependent on distributors. Buttrey is now an expert in selling skills training. He has extensive sales and marketing expertise in inside/outside sales, international sales, industrial distribution, product engineering and manufacturing. His broad scope of involvement allows an insightful perspective to the key roles of salespeople, sales support, and leaders in the complex, dynamic marketplace.
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Freiberg, Kevin - Speaker and Best Selling Author
Dr. Freiberg helps business leaders better understand the impact of their attitudes and behaviors on corporate culture and organizational performance. Since beginning his career in 1986, Kevin has challenged corporate leaders all over the world to create unmatched productivity, customer service, and profitability by becoming faithful, devoted, hardworking servants of the people they lead. Kevin has a global practice working with firms in Europe, Japan, India, Central and South America, as well as companies throughout the United States and Canada.
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Friedman, Mark - President, The Velos Group
Mark Friedman is an experienced, results - oriented executive with over 20 years of proven success in managing Sales, Sales Lead Management, Telemarketing, Marketing and Customer Service.
Notably, world-renown consulting giant Accenture and the Distribution Research and Education Foundation have recognized one of his programs as a Wholesale Distribution Industry Sales "Best Practice"; the program overview was published in "Maximum Sales Velocity: How to Build a World-Class Sales Organization" by David P. Woodrow. Mark possesses the outstanding ability to assess a company’s current Sales Chain and make recommendations for dramatically improving sales results and productivity while providing the infrastructure to determine ROI for each Marketing activity. Among his accomplishments was revamping a moribund program generating a mere $175,000 in revenue per year and increasing the "top line" to over $113 Million in 3 years.
Additionally, he has increased sales volume by over 50% in call center environments at several companies by integrating Out-Bound Telesales capabilities with the In-Bound Customer Service group. Mark has proven that he is a high-energy achiever and team builder in an often – neglected area.
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Goodner, Gregg - President of Hytrol Conveyor Co., Inc.
Hytrol is a major manufacturer of conveyors, conveying systems, and conveyor accessories. Since its beginnings in 1947, Hytrol has grown into one of the largest manufacturers of conveyors and conveying hardware in the world.
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Hollmeyer, Louie - Director of Distribution on Demand
Initiative Sponsored by FORTE
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Lawrence, Barry - Professor in Industrial Distribution/Director, Supply Chain Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M University
Dr. F. Barry Lawrence, Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution at Texas A & M University has been sponsored by the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association to serve as a committee member for CICMHE, the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education. Dr. Lawrence also serves as Director of the Supply Chain Systems Laboratory of Texas A & M.
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Marks, Mike - Principal, Indian River Consulting Group
Mike Marks is widely recognized for his expertise in one- and two-step distribution channel strategies, compensation systems, sales & marketing management, strategic planning, organization design, and the practical application of technology for distribution companies.
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Miller, Scott - President, Enterprise Services, Inc.
As an entrepreneur himself, Scott understands closely held and family-owned businesses. He balances that perspective with years of corporate experience, starting his career at a national public accounting firm, going on to serve as a VP of Finance and plan fiduciary for a large ESOP company. He then served as a principal in several family businesses, and founded ESI in 1993.
At ESI, he’s helped hundreds of businesses though transition planning, including valuations, strategic planning, financing, fairness options, terminations and litigation support.
As a nationally recognized authority on business valuations, he’s published widely in professional journals and is a sought-after speaker for professional and industry groups. He’s authored technical seminars for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. Scott’s educational background includes an undergraduate degree from Kenyon College and an MBA from the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is a CPA with additional business valuation accreditation from the AICPA and NACVA.
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Nader, Gary - Principal Consultant, Total Quality Associates
Gary Nader is Principal Consultant of Total Quality Associates. He consults with companies, large and small, in various industries with special emphasis on customer satisfaction, management leadership, business excellence and cultural change. Gary has helped many manufacturing, distribution and service companies, including material handling, improve their customer satisfaction and their business performance. He has received awards for quality excellence and innovation. He was one of the early leaders of ISO 9000 certification in the US.
Gary has extensive hands-on experience in all aspects of the customer satisfaction process. He has provided consulting services in this area for organizations such as Dow Jones & Company, Mobil Chemical and Maybury Material Handling, as well as for operations with less than 25 people.
Gary has given numerous presentations throughout North America on business performance improvement. His paper "Applying Quality Methods in Non-Manufacturing Areas" received the Best Paper Award at the International Quality Congress in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gary has authored many articles, including a series entitled "Quality Corner" for an international trade journal.
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Rae, Scott, Ph.D. - Professor of Christian Ethics, Biola University
Ph.D., University of Southern California; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; B.A., Southern Methodist University. Author of numerous articles and books includingThe Ethics of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood, Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics, Brave New Families,and Beyond Integrity.
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Vandiver, Hal - Executive Vice President of Business Development for the Material Handling Industry of America.
Hal has been engaged in market analysis and forecasting in the material handling industry for over thirty years and currently authors the MHEM History and Forecast.
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Wendover, Bob - Managing Director of The Center for Generational Studies
Robert Wendover is the Director of the Center for Generational Studies. Over the past 17 years he has worked with organizations in industry, education and government on intergenerational challenges and other management issues.
His publications include From Ricky & Lucy to Beavis & Butthead: Managing the New Work Force, Smart Hiring, Two Minute Motivation, and Handpicked: Finding and Hiring the Best Employees. He has written or contributed to more than 200 articles for national and regional publications. He is a regular guest on radio & television across the U.S. His credits include CNN, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly, Supervisory Management, Human Resources Professional, the American Management Association's Presidents' Letter and a host of industry trade publications. He has written columns for both the retail and real estate industries and currently serves as Editorial Director for GenTrends, the Center's monthly newsletter.
Mr. Wendover's education includes degrees in psychology, education and industrial arts. He has served on the management faculty of the University of Phoenix for the past ten years. Along with being a past president of both the Colorado Speakers Association and The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, he is a two-time chair of the National Meetings Industry Council.
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