All Topics in Chicago
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Riding the Wave
David R. Nielsen, President, Big Wave Advisors
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Can the study of ocean waves can help forecast financial markets? As with waves on the ocean, financial market activity ebbs & flows in cycles that repeat. David developed a method that forecasts financial markets with proven precision. This talk will debunk traditional investment principals and give you a completely new insight into investing.
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Start On The Road To Better Health!
Scott Cabrera, DC, Clinic Director, Higgins Sports & Spinal Rehab, SC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Hit the ground running on your way to better health. This entertaining presentation will give you simple and valuable techniques designed for you to reach your optimal level of health.
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You Are What You Think! P.O.W.E.R. Strategies to Overcome Negative Thinking
Cassandra Lee, Author ● Speaker ● Trainer ● Coach, President, SSANEE Career Growth, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
The way you think affects your personal growth and your career success. In “You Are What You Think! P.O.W.E.R. Strategies to Overcome Negative Thinking,” you will learn the reality of thinking, four triggers to thinking, and five P.O.W.E.R. strategies to help you shift your thinking from negative to productive. Be ready to walk away from this interactive workshop putting into practice what you learned for the benefit of your life and career. MORE >
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Interpersonal Skills
Bette Lawrence-Water, Founder and Principal Consultant, Spectrum Strategic Solutions
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
We've all met that dynamic, charismatic person that just has a way with others, and has a way of being remembered. Participants will identify ways of creating a powerful introduction, remembering names, and managing situations when you’ve forgotten someone’s name.
The Interpersonal Skills discussion will help participants work towards being that unforgettable person by providing communication skills, negotiation techniques, tips on making an impact, and advice on networking and starting conversations. Bette will help audience to identify skills needed in starting a conversation, moving a conversation along, and progressing to higher levels of conversation. MORE >Discussion Objectives:
• Understand the difference between hearing and listening
• Know some ways to improve the verbal skills of asking questions and communicating with power.
• Understand what is ‘non-verbal communication’ and how it can enhance interpersonal relationships.
• Identify the skills needed in starting a conversation.
• Identify ways of creating a powerful introduction, remembering names, and managing situations when you’ve forgotten someone’s name.
• Understand how seeing the other side can improve skills in influencing other people.
• Understand how the use of facts and emotions can help bring people to your side.
• Identify ways of sharing one’s opinions constructively.
• Learn tips in preparing for a negotiation, opening a negotiation, bargaining, and closing a negotiation.
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Internet Marketing: SEO & PPC
Lyndsey Maddox, Director of Business Development, Digital Third Coast
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
This presentation will cover basic to advanced tactics for search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click marketing (PPC) and developing online marketing strategies to provide a measurable difference in business.
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Becoming An Innovator
Stephen A. Di Biase, Ph.D., President, Premier Insights, LLC.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
"10 Keys To Unlock Your Innovative Self" offers the reader a short, simple, easy and fun treatment teaching anyone how to use the basics of innovative behaviors for becoming a more effective problem solver leading to a higher quality of life. Specifically, this treatise touches on why every human being is an innovator at birth, how we can maximizes, this natural trait, the importance of curiosity, imagination, inquiry, methods of learning, the importance of play and passion and how to use the scientific method while being careful of formal education. MORE >
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The World Today
Dr. Cliff Brickman, Doctor, Therapist, Researcher, Wellness Clinic, The Still Soft Voice
TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous
Dr. Brickman will explain how the primary solution to the world’s woes is not a military one, but rather a psychological and cultural one. He will discuss how better military equipment by itself won’t do it.
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Developing a Revenue-Based Approach to Digital Marketing
Franklin D. Rivera II, Founder/CEO, The V2M2 Group, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Many small businesses struggle with how to start marketing their businesses online. They know that it is the future and the right thing to do, but are confused with where to start. Agencies are telling them that they need social media, or SEO or a new website. But how do you know what you need and how do you know what to spend to reach your goals? MORE >
Franklin has taken his 20+ years of sales and marketing experience with Fortune 100 companies and combined it with his knowledge of business and finance to create a model for digital marketing that has helped many companies achieve double-digit growth through online efforts. Franklin will share this process with you to help your business develop a laser-focused online marketing strategy that will generate real results. -
Experiential Marketing
Edwin Goitia, Founder and Visionary, I Am A Brand
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
What do you do when your marketing tactics are not getting straight to the consumer? Edwin tells how you can bring your ideas, services or business straight to consumers and create something unforgettable. He’ll also discuss how experiential marketing has played a role in today’s economy and how anyone can utilize it today. MORE >
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Enhance Your Communications Skills
Karin McNicholas & Dennis McNicholas, Mediation Services
TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous
This husband/wife team has been successfully training individuals, families and groups in effective communications for 12 years.