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Melissa Giovagnoli, Founder and President, Networlding

Previous Consummate Speaker of the Year Award

I have been professionally speaking for 15 years. My keynote and panel talks focus on the new world of publishing, thought leaders marketing, social networking in the enterprise and optimizing the use of online social networking tools like blogs and sites like LinkedIn where I have provided training for more than 4000 professionals over the past nine years. I address the overarching question of what is the 20% online that can yield the 80% return. I have extensive experience and unlimited creativity to help organizations harness web 2.0.

Featured Speech of the Month – FutureNet: How to Use Social Media for Innovation

SPEECH OVERVIEW

In this presentation you will learn:

• Noteworthy social networking strategies companies have used to innovate new products and services.
• The realities and myths involved in using social networks to innovate.
• The key components required to make social networking innovation successful.
• How to keep the “social” in social networking. The top strategies for social networking that are also easy to implement and cost effective.
• What the future holds in social media.

Jack Trytten, Insight Directions

With over 25 years of front-line marketing experience helping a wide variety of companies such as Kraft, Amoco and the Amoco Chemical subsidiary, Ingersoll-Rand, Schlage Door Hardware, Arthur Andersen and a host of companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, Jack Trytten has touched most of the product categories and markets. He brings this wealth of knowledge to lunch and dinner occasions and has expanded these talks to workshops and seminars.

Keynote Speech/Principle Points

• What is a Growth Machine – how they differ from most companies?
• How you must look differently at your market.
• The one marketing goal for every company
• How to get your customers to drive your sales.
• How to think about change and use it to drive your markets.
• Case studies of the companies who have “cracked the code” and become Growth Machines

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Mary Winingham, CEO, Mirror Consulting

Mary Winingham brings the same energy to the speakers podium as she does to her corporate consulting. Her passion is her unique ability to dial in on universal challenges and identify simple, yet effective ways to manage through them. Her new book, Cracking the Value Vault does just that.

Mary has more than 20 years of highly successful leadership experience in marketing, sales and business development in the banking and electronic transaction industries. Mary has held top tier positions with First Data and Fifth Third Bank prior to starting her own consulting business. A respected speaker at industry and client conferences; panel participant and moderator, Mary speaks on a variety of topics emphasizing value creation, establishing long term relationships and strategy initiatives.

Mirror Consulting, initially founded in 2004, is built upon the personal involvement and a customized approach to drive long term value to each client.

Speaking Topics

Cracking Your Value Vault: Keys to Unlocking Your Personal Value Statement

Based on Mary’s book “Cracking the Value Vault” in this presentation you will discover the power of your life stories and their impact on your personal narrative. A practical and simple process to uncover your unique characteristics; Creation of your personal value statement; a guide to incorporating your personal value statement into your daily life. If you are looking to identify that element that brings resonating focus to your life, this is your opportunity to begin your journey. A personal exploration focusing on what makes each individual unique.

The Value of Value: Understanding and Creating Your Corporate Value Proposition

• History, background and definition of the Value Proposition
• Types of Value Propositions
• The Value Cliché
• Process to Develop your corporate Value Proposition

In this presentation you will understand what it takes to separate yourself from the crown and the true meaning of Value.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines: Strategies to Keep Moving Forward During Difficult Times

In this presentation you will learn four specific, simple strategies to help you through difficult times. We will explore concepts from various thought leaders ranging from the ancient Chinese to contemporary motivational icons; offer practical recommendations and results oriented techniques that you can incorporate in your daily life. Click here for Mary’s full speaking page.

Peter Balbus, Managing Director of Pragmaxis, LLC

Peter joined our Networlding ThinkTank faculty almost a year ago and since then has been busy working with me. Drawing from his more than 25 years as an innovation consultant, strategist and interim executive, Peter will address a broad range of compelling topics concerned with the successful creation, management and commercialization of market-disrupting innovations. Prior to launching his independent executive consulting and advisory practice in 2000, Peter held senior practitioner and national practice management roles with top-tier consulting firms including Anderson Consulting, KPMG Strategic Services and CSC Index, culminating in his position as a vice president with Booz Allen & Hamilton. Peter is also an active speaker and panel moderator at industry conferences, serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations, and is the founder and executive director of the international Business Innovators Group, Netwon.

“I have known Peter Balbus for more than seven years after first meeting him at an MIT Enterprise Forum meeting where he was entertaining the audience as a featured speaker with his wit and style. Peter has always been one of the best keynote speakers at MITEF meetings and events over the years that I have attended. This year I invited him to speak at the Second International Business Innovation Conference and the Global PANIIT 2009 in October. At both conferences Peter’s presentations were very well received by the audience. Peter presents his conviction in the topic of innovation with a great knowledge of the subject, a disarming sense of humor, and an engaging and compelling delivery style.”

Praveen Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Innovation Science, and published author of 9 books on business peformance improvement and Six-Sigma methodologies

Sarah Miller Caldicott, Best-Selling Innovation Author

Sarah is an innovation champion who works with companies to ignite the innovation process, bringing a world class innovator’s toolkit to individuals, teams, and leaders. She is also a great grandniece of Thomas Edison, an innovation author, and an MBA with 25-years of domestic and international marketing expertise.

Her best-selling book (Dutton Penguin) on Thomas Edison’s innovation methods was endorsed by the New York Times, Fortune Small Business, USA Today, 800-CEO-READ, and Investor’s Business Daily. The book, entitled Innovate Like Edison: The FIve-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success reveals Edison’s systematic yet timeless approach to innovation in a format that allows any employee, in any industry, with any level of experience to begin implementing what I call Edison’s Five Competencies of Innovation(tm). The book was researched over a 3-year period, and endorsed by the world’s leading expert on Edison today, Dr. Paul Israel at Rutgers University. Edison’s Five Competencies bring innovation best practices within reach of any organization. The competencies offer a roadmap for how to generate an innovation mindset within every employee – not just teams in R&D, Engineering, or Marketing. All leaders and employees today need to “think like innovators,” helping to move their companies to the leading edge in their industry. For more information on Sarah, visit her website.

Adam Hartung, Author, Managing Partner of Spark Partners

Adam helps companies innovate to achieve real growth. He began his career as an entrepreneur, selling the first general-purpose computing platform to use the 8080 microprocessor when he was an undergraduate. Today, he has 20 years of practical experience in developing and implementing strategies to take advantage of emerging technologies and new business models. He writes, consults and speaks worldwide.

His recently published book, Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition (Financial Times Press, 2008), helps leaders and managers create evergreen organizations that produce above-average returns.

Jill Konrath, Best-Selling Author on Selling

Jill delivers fresh strategies that actually work in today’s business environment. SNAP Selling, her new book on selling to frazzled customers, has already achieved #1 sales book on Amazon. To read two chapters and download four FREE sales tools, visit www.SnapSelling.com. Jill is also the author of Selling to Big Companies, a Fortune magazine “must read” and Amazon Top 25 Sales book since 2005. She’s a frequent speaker at sales meetings and professional conferences where she helps sellers crack into new accounts, speed up their sales cycle and win more business.

SPEECH OVERVIEW

Selling to Crazy-Busy Buyers Working with overwhelmed, stressed out prospects requires fresh thinking.They make quick decisions based on relevance and urgency. They see minimal difference between competitors and seem to only be concerned about pricing.

What does it take to capture their attention and get their business? In this session based on Jill Konrath’s new book, SNAP Selling, your salespeople will discover numerous strategies they can use throughout the buying process to:

• Simplify the complexity that drives them to a screeching halt.
• Become an invaluable resource that customers willingly pay more for. Align with key organizational objectives and priorities.
• Maintain momentum despite a prospect’s tendency to default to the status quo.

By following SNAP Rules, your salespeople will find themselves at the top of their game. They’ll be irresistible and irreplaceable, winning more sales at higher margins and with less competition.