Are you a trained/seasoned public speaker, or do you have extensive knowledge of a particular field or practice? Are you looking for a new way to position your company as an industry leader? Complete a Speaker Proposal Form to gain exposure and build your professional reputation across the region.
Partner at Cozen O'Connor
Topic:
Risk and Reward: Building Blocks and Legal Risks In the Manufacturing Industry
Objectives:
Participants will have an enhanced appreciation for recent updates to the law that effect their business with clear proposed solutions for how to address those changes both proactively and as incidents arise.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will come away knowing how and why certain institutional changes must be made to keep up with the changing legal landscape.
Partner at WithumSmith + Brown
Topic:
Law firm practice management issues (i.e. cash flow, billing, A/R collections)
Objectives:
Be prepared to implement a plan of attack on their issue.
Benefit to audience:
Real life application to solve problems.
Partner at Duane Morris LLP
Topic:
Employment, Benefits, Labor and Immigration Law
Objectives:
Have a greater understanding of employment and labor issues at hand, and have timely solutions to potential problems in the workplace.
Benefit to audience:
Participants will take away new practices to implement in their workplace that will keep employees happy and the company compliant.
President at Shapiro Communications
Topic:
Communication in the workplace; Interpersonal and Intercultural communication
Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants will have the skills necessary to begin to successfully navigate through the various interpersonal and intercultural challenges present in the workplace. Participants will also gain a deeper understanding as to the nature of these challenges, along with the resources with which to uncover these challenge before they turn into problems.
Benefit to audience:
Increased interpersonal and intercultural communication competence; Less stress; More influence; Greater credibility; More friends; Improved business relationships; Heightened sensitivity to potential problems.
Leadership Catalyst at Tier 1 Group
Topic:
How to Cultivate a Leadership Culture
Objectives:
What is a leadership culture? It’s a culture based upon aligning all employees with the organization’s vision, and implementing strategies to achieve that vision. A leadership culture also nurtures an environment where all employees are encouraged to be leaders in their own right, and feel a sense of ownership in what they do to make great things happen.
Benefit to audience:
I help business leaders apply the framework for Preeminent Growth to business development and strategic visioning—ensuring you and your organization are properly positioned to attract the right emerging opportunities while developing and maintaining high impact client and champion relationships.
Has presented on: 10/25/2014
Attorney at Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Topic:
"Help Wanted" - Employer Hiring Practices Under Fire
Objectives:
Learn about the ever-increasing risks of what for many years seemed to be well-accepted hiring and background check practices, receive practical tips to help balance business needs with those risks, and understand ways that businesses can armor themselves against claims that their hiring and background check practices now violate the law.
Benefit to audience:
Hiring practices have come under fire from all ends, and employers need practical guidance on navigating the minefield of new challenges:
* lawsuits alleging employers owe millions of dollars for technical errors in background check consent forms and processes under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
* EEOC guidance that criminal and credit background checks may be unlawful;
* "ban the box" laws;
* the "wild west" of using social media in hiring
Professor of Marketing at Saint Joseph's University
Topic:
Why They Buy: Tracking a Moving Target
Objectives:
*Discover how many widely used products — from bath oils to blue jeans — are linked to rituals,
sacred beliefs, myths and magic.
*Learn how identity marketing strategies can help harness these “deep meanings” to drive
marketing strategies and impact your bottom line.
*Understand how new trends in
technology and lifestyles are changing the ways relationships between consumers and companies are formed, maintained — and dissolved.
Benefit to audience:
*See how emerging consumer trends relevant to your industry, such as
product simplification, disintermediation, time poverty, ethnic diversity, and the rise of a global youth culture will change how
you speak to today’s customer.
*Learn about state-of-the-art consumer research techniques that
will help you to stay ahead of a moving target.
*Identify emerging consumer trends before your competitors jump on them.
President at Practical Energy Solutions
Topic:
Energy Benchmarking Legislation for Buildings in Philadelphia
Objectives:
Have an understanding of the City of Philadelphia "Energy Benchmarking and Disclosure" law, including:
1. Who is subject to the law
2. When companies must comply
3. How to comply with the law
4. How to improve the energy performance or score that is reported to the City
5. What are the penalties for non-compliance
Benefit to audience:
Assistance in legal compliance with a Philadelphia ordinance, and a path to improved energy performance for buildings that are owned, managed, or occupied by the participants.
Has presented on: 2/8/2013
Managing Shareholder at Flaster/Greenberg P.C.
Topic:
Partnership/Shareholder Agreements.
Objectives:
Understand the importance of having a properly structured partnership agreement and have gotten an overview on the issues addressed in the typical agreement.
Benefit to audience:
Learning about the components of a properly structured agreement between participants in a privately held business.
Executive Vice President at Think Company
Topic:
Improving Business & Culture Through Design Thinking
Objectives:
Have you ever wondered what Design Thinking really means, or how it affects business goals and human experiences? Russ Starke, CEO of Think Company, will share a high-level overview of Design Thinking in action. By the end of the session, you'll learn some practical rules of thumb for non-designers, providing a different lens through which to consider and solve for challenges.
Benefit to audience:
You'll learn what Design Thinking really means and how you can directly apply the principles of Design Thinking to leadership, business goals, and human experiences (including organizational culture).
President & CEO at BFW Group, LLC
Topic:
Economic Development & Revitalization; Philadelphia Real Estate; Leadership
Objectives:
• In Real Estate – participants will have knowledge of how markets work, how real estate is financed and how we can utilize real estate to improve neighborhoods
• In Leadership – participants will have knowledge of how to lead with confidence by leading from the front, leading by example, and being comfortable in their own skin while being a positive change agent.
Benefit to audience:
• Understand real estate markets; how they work & how real estate can improve quality of life
• Understand gentrification & how affordable housing can balance gentrifying neighborhoods in terms of diversity & culture
• Understand basic principles of leadership & how to apply them in everyday situations
• Accept the that everyone is a leader in their own circle of influence & we must be deliberate about what we say & how we interact with others
President at AREUFIT Health Services, Inc.
Topic:
Exercise is Medicine; The Science of Sedentary Behavior; Wellness 101; & others
Objectives:
The above 1 hr sessions are presented in Power point or Prezi formats. The audience will have a better understanding of the science behind these topics and walk away with information and tools that they can use to improve their health and well-being.
Benefit to audience:
Information, tools and techniques to improve health & well-being.