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Saturday, March 23, 2013
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Our Guest:
Kenneth W. Gronback
President
KGC Direct, LLC
The Importance of Demography –
Ken is President of KGC Direct, LLC and author of the current bestselling book The Age Curve: How To Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm. He is an internationally respected demographer who has been able to forecast societal, commercial, economic, cultural, and political phenomena with uncanny accuracy. His unusual blend of marketing savvy and common sense demography, based on 17 years of proprietary demographic study, set him apart. He keynotes all over the United States and does customized demographic research.
You will find that his steadfast position that the United States is the best nation on earth and his firm belief that the country’s best days are ahead season his spirited presentations with an unmistakable pro-American enthusiasm.
Mr. Gronbach built KGA Advertising, Inc., a $40 million consumer/retail advertising agency, from the ground up in the 1980s and 1990s. One of his clients, a fashion apparel retailer, grew from $10 million in annual sales to over $400 million in annual sales on Mr. Gronbach’s watch.
His first book, Common Census, the Counter-Intuitive Guide to Generational Marketing, was released in 2005. His book, Decades of Differences, Making it Work, is a comprehensive guide to coping with three generations in the workforce and was released in 2011 by HRD Press.
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 2pm
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Guests:
Carrie E. Baker
Senior Account Executive
Norton Financial
Affordable Care Act –
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Carrie came to Norton in July of 2011 through an acquisition of her firm, C. Baker & Associates.
Carrie has been an employee benefits broker for 14 years and enjoys providing creative solutions and a high level of service to her clients. As a classical violinist, Carrie plays with the MidCoast Symphony.
She loves sports and is an avid golfer and tennis player. Carrie resides in Falmouth with her husband, Peter, and son, Tyler.
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James Baumer
Director
Maine Business Leadership Network (BLN)
Disabilities in the Workplace –
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The director of the Maine Business Leadership Network (BLN).
He brings 10 years of workforce experience and a passion to help others succeed to his role with the BLN.
In addition, he’s an entrepreneur, a sought-after speaker, a writer and blogger, as well as an independent publisher with three books in print and new ones on the way.
Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 2pm
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Josh Fifield
Clark Insurance
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My title at Clark Insurance is Account Executive. I am responsible for the continued successful growth of Clark Insurance as an employee owned company by providing comprehensive business insurance services.
I joined Clark Insurance in 2008. Our excellent reputation and our commitment to our customers has driven the success of the agency since 1931. My unique background in workers’ compensation allows me to assist my customers in proactive ways to control their insurance cost through claims management, safety training, and awareness as well as negotiating competitive insurance premiums.
I tie in offering to review any contracts my clients enter into to ensure their insurance program meets or exceeds the requirements of the contract. I pride myself on product knowledge and the ability to identify gaps in insurance coverage along with reasonable solutions. Clark Insurance is a full service insurance agency. We offer business and personal insurance as well as employee benefits and bonds.
We have a dedicated in house claims department as well as an employed loss control consultant. We believe in providing our customer with the tools to be proactive as well as the support for when a claim does occur. Our motto is “Covered with Confidence” and we take that to heart when working for our clients.
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Murray Johannsen
The Leadership Site: www.legacee.com
The Learning Site: webleadershipclasses.com
LinkedIn
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Murray is a part-time professor and a full-time entrepreneur. On the university side, he teaches leadership classes in both Asian and American universities such as UCLA and Korea University in Seoul.
Besides classes on leadership, he also teaches live and online classes in the areas of psychology and entrepreneurship. On the business side, Murray Johannsen is the president of Legacee, a Los Angeles-based coaching and training firm specializing in the leadership foundation skills and transformational leadership – a critical style for entrepreneurs and executives to master.
Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 2-3pm
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Martin Snyder,
President
Main Sequence Technology
Recruitment Trends –
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Mr. Snyder has been President of Main Sequence Technology since 1998. Main Sequence is the vendor of PCRecruiter, one of the most widely used recruitment database platforms for third-party, direct hire, and non-profit organizations around the world and across business models.
Founded in 1998, Main Sequence Technology, Inc. provides talent acquisition solutions wherever and however teams are built. PCRecruiter, our flagship solution, has been selected over 2,700 times by a diverse array of corporations, staffing firms, third-party recruitment firms, educational institutions, and other types of organizations. The company is a closely held, private Ohio corporation. There are four shareholders, each active in the management and operation of the company, and approximately 40 employees.
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Bud Bernstein
CEO
The MaineHR.com/Law Publishers
Bud is the CEO of a Portland, Maine company that produces the Maine HR Convention, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Summit, and the Strategic HR New England retreat. An attorney and writer by training, he has turned his focus in recent years to creating unique conferences and alliances that promote the role of human resources.
His motto is, “Everyone thrives when HR is on top of its game, because HR is the bridge to all parts of an enterprise.”
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Heather Bassett
Northern New England Law Publishers
Heather manages marketing and PR at Northern New England Law Publishers – producers of the Maine HR Convention, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Summit, Strategic HR New England Retreat, and the Maine Employer’s Handbook.
Heather’s experience includes over twelve years in the field of human resources and recruiting. She earned her BS in Allied Health and Medical with a minor in Anthropology and Sociology at Johnson State College in Vermont.
When Heather is not organizing conferences for the HR community in New England, she can be found snowboarding on the slopes of Sugarloaf, playing with her toddler Carra Bassett, running with her Border Collie, and having fun with her family.
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