Thought Leaders In Business – Page 4 – Thought Leaders in Business

Commercial Banking and Crowd Funding: Vital Resources for Capital in a Rebounding Economy

Something old, something new … to borrow a phrase, has relevance to today’s investment opportunities.

Companies seeking investment funding to grow their business have viable and attractive choices of capital sourcing.

Commercial banking, perceived in recent years as somewhat stodgy, is making a resurgent return. Traditional banking provides the funds required for companies to invest and enhance business outcomes. This formula is being rediscovered as commercial banks are single minded about this approach.

Crowd funding, originally seen as serving artists and emerging musicians, has recently taken a star turn for credentialed investors. The investment community has noticed that crowd funding is no longer an adolescent and instead, is an adult, offering significant value to those who understand it.

Ed Sirlin, Senior Vice President of Signature Bank, a commercial bank, and Scott Miller, Partner of Kantor, Davidoff, Mandelker, Twomey, Gallanty & Olenick, P.C., a law firm, which advises companies about capital raising transactions, including crowd funding.

They will lead a discussion of trends in sourcing capital and how these resources can positively impact corporate and economic growth cycles.

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Fast-Track Workshop: 10 Innovative Ways to Transform Your Business Challenge

Mitchell Rigie, innovation consultant, corporate trainer, speaker and coauthor of the book, SmartStorming: The Game-Changing Process for Generating Bigger, Better Ideas, will share 10 proven ways you can innovate your product, service or business process in 2014.

Come prepared for an informative and interactive evening. You are encouraged to bring a real-world business challenge and discover new ways to improve, evolve, or transform it using the same types of creative problem-solving approaches that innovation-driven leaders like Apple, Google, and Nike use to stay on the cutting edge of their industries.

What you will learn in the workshop:

What makes innovation so essential to your business success
Why innovation is the “New Darwinism” in business
Understand the 3 most common types of business or product innovation
10 ways you can innovate your product, service or business process
How to think and act more innovatively every day

Mitchell is a partner in SmartStorming LLC, a groundbreaking innovation consulting and training company that has worked with many of today’s most innovative companies, including: Google, Under Armour, NBCUniveral, Siemens, Diageo and Omnicom. Their SmartStorming Brainstorm Leadership training has been taught to MBA candidates at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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The Collapse of the NY Publishing Industry and the Rise of Self-Publishing

Michael Levin, President of Business Ghost, a prominent ghost writing firm for business professionals, has extensive experience in the publishing industry.

The publishing industry, historically based in six major companies in New York, has experienced significant dislocation in recent years, as the balance between writer, publisher and reader has shifted. The Internet as a means for distribution has placed much more power in the hands of online retailers and writers.

Some will argue that readers reap huge benefits, as books, whether digital, print-on-demand or standard printed format, are offered at a fraction of traditional costs. The traditional publishing business model, once unassailable, is proving to be pivotal in creating the industry’s decline.

Michael sees enormous opportunities for writers, nimble enough to change the way they conduct business and for readers whose shopping experience is vastly enhanced, defined by choice, browsing, access and price.

In Michael’s view, publishing is not over even as traditional publishing is receding rapidly into memory.

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Networking 2.0: Next Steps In Maximizing Outcomes From Your Contacts

Leslie Grossman
Management Consultant, co-founder of Women’s Leadership Exchange

Monday, November 11, 6:00 pm
Yale Club, Room TBA

Leslie Grossman, author of author of Link Out: How to Turn Your Network into a Chain of Lasting Connections, has discovered how we unlock the key to a successful use of our networking efforts. Whether you are an entrepreneur or corporate executive, you have the opportunity to take control of your business and career path. Leslie has found that today success depends on the application of leadership and connection strategies used by the business world’s greatest leaders.

In addition to being an author, Leslie is a management consultant, inspirational speaker, founder of an integrated marketing agency and co-founder of Women’s Leadership Exchange.

Please join us for a rare opportunity to listen to a new way to network and build trusted relationships.

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Becoming Ginger Rogers: Business and Life Lessons from the Ballroom

OCTOBER 1, 2013 (Room TBA), 6:00pm

Patrice Tanaka
Author

Patrice Tanaka, author of Becoming Ginger Rogers: How Ballroom Dancing Made me a Happier Woman, Better Partner and Smarter CEO has found an unexpected resource for personal and business growth.

Through the experience of ballroom dancing, Patrice has learned invaluable life and business lessons. The top five are:

Be fully present in body, mind and spirit
Perfectionism is overrated – and inhibiting
Practice failing so you can succeed more quickly
How to partner for success
Visualize your goals as the first step toward achieving them

This talk will turn ballroom dancing inside out and leave us with information to use as we drive to success in our own personal and professional lives.

In addition to being an author, Patrice is the Chief Counselor & Creative Strategist of Padilla CRT, a New York and Minneapolis-based public relations agency. She is a veteran of startups, acquisitions and multiple corporate mergers. She is now poised to share what she’s learned with others who seek to expand their approaches to business growth.

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The Affordable Health Care Act:
Current Prognosis and our Health Care Future

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 (Room TBA), 6:00pm

Kyle Healy
Vice President Group Benefits – Lenox Advisors

The media continues its voracious buzz about the pros and cons about The Affordable Health Care Act. Politicos and pundits debate what should have been, what should be and what will be as we all try to understand the impact of Obamacare.

Kyle Healy, Vice President Group Benefits at Lenox Advisors, a top financial management firm, has extensive experience with benefits and labor issues. He is uniquely qualified to address this timely and profoundly important topic.

Many managers, in both public and private sector organizations, are unsure about how to proceed in the era of health care exchanges, or marketplaces, that offer choices of plans and options. The exchanges promise corporate efficiency versus the often-criticized inefficiency of the current health plan protocols. But the questions are many, and the path very complex.

Please join us to hear how Kyle, sees how Obamacare will impact virtually every American company and individual in both broad and narrow ways.

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Women Leading Now

July 2nd – Room TBA – 6:00pm (Promptly!)

Deborah Rosado Shaw & Ken Mandelbaum
Business Performance Experts

For several years now, key studies have demonstrated a link between gender diversity and corporate performance. Many forward-thinking companies have put in policies and practices to promote gender diversity, yet women are leaving corporate America in greater numbers each day.

With the ongoing disruption of many traditional industries and increased global competition, how do we make sure we get the full yield of women’s leadership in advancing corporate and organizational growth?”

It will take a new model and this model is available. It is one that leaves men and women with expanded performance, fulfillment and impact.

Join us for an insightful, engaging and eye-opening conversation led by business performance experts Deborah Rosado Shaw and Ken Mandelbaum: “Women Leading Now – A New Model Of Performance.”

Deb Shaw is a trusted advisor to the Fortune 100, an award-winning entrepreneur, a best-selling author and founding partner of Prime Insights, a career success training and development company helping leaders discover insights that generate uncommon results.

Ken Mandelbaum is a Senior Consultant and Strategy & Performance expert at VSA Consulting and a c-suite veteran and partner of several national retail, finance and real estate companies.

Come and discover this emerging model and how it works for you and your enterprise.

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What’s In Store for the Future of Print Media?

June 4, 2013 (Room TBA), 6:00pm (Promptly!)

Jack Griffin
Principal, Empirical Media Advisors

Print media has been facing strong headwinds from the digital world, with the public consuming media online and getting their news, information and reviews from blogs and subject-driven web resources.

Club member Jack Griffin of Empirical Media Advisors, is a veteran of print media and print media crises. He has worked for Meredith Publishing and Time Inc., among many others where he has lead breakthrough initiatives as a publisher.

Jack will address the disruptions in the media landscape with some publishers moving entirely to a digital presence, others selling their assets and still others seeking to re-engineer their business to maintain both online and offline presences.

The implications for print media extend beyond that industry to include retail, entertainment and consumer product marketing. There is much that weighs in the balance and Jack will offer his perspectives on what is ahead.

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The Future of Broadway

Join us on Aprl 2nd (Room: TBA) at 6:00pm at The Yale Club of New York for:

Manny Azenberg
Broadway Theater Producer

Manny Azenberg, veteran producer who received a 2012 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, has produced 65 shows, receiving 25 Tony Award nominations and 8 Tony Awards. He has produced more than 20 Neil Simon shows as well as the Billy Joel-inspired dance musical Movin’ Out, Sunday in the Park with George, Ain’t Misbehavin’ , Rent and Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme.

Manny will present his views on American theater, his vision for the future, and address questions like:

Is Broadway a crucible of art or commerce? Has it become Las Vegas East?
Is there room for innovation on Broadway or is that a goal for Off-Broadway?
Has Broadway priced itself out of the marketplace for New Yorkers, leaving tourists as the prime audiences?

This is a rare opportunity to listen to an industry leader who has been called the gold standard of Broadway theater.

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The New PR Revolution: How Digital Public Relations Puts the Power in Your Hands

March 5^th 2013 (Room TBA), 6:00pm

David Kalson
Senior Partner, Post and Beam Public Relations

Time was when public relations was a rarefied communications tool reserved for companies fielding big PR agencies looking to gain positive coverage in the news media. Enter the digital age! A revolution is underway in PR that has democratized and changed the playing field forever – for all size companies: Big and small.

While pitching one’s stories to reporters continues to be a solid approach, strategies built on sharing information online via social media, news and information web sites are now available as leading choices for many communications experts.

David Kalson is a veteran PR professional and is a senior partner at Post and Beam, an innovative public relations, design and software development agency with expertise in a wide range of product and service industries. David will address how current technologies have spurred the ability of business managers to fuel their own communications plans on their terms. And, as every front page, digital or print, now attests, the digital world also brings new vulnerabilities to business.

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