Stay tuned for more Featured Speaker announcements!
Breakout Session speakers include (subject to change):
Harley Gordon- Long Term Care - CE Credit
Barbara Wisnom -Time:Who’s in Control Anyway?
Barbara Taylor - Portraying Confidence & Courage (Even) When You’re Neither
Holly Buchanan - Selling to Men and Women
Jennifer Borislow - Turning Your Vision into Reality
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - State of the Economy
Kristin Andree- Social Media Marketing for the WIFS Professional
Sally Mulhern- Estate Planning to Die For
Don't miss these special sessions!
Chapter Success- the Essentials - new! This session is just for chapter leaders, and will focus on chapter board succession planning, securing sponsorships, chapter finances, event planning, and membership development. Chapter board members are strongly encouraged to attend this session, being held on Thursday afternoon.
Top Producers and Top Managers panels
Leaders Recognition Society workshop with Jennifer Borislow
About the Featured Speakers:
Patricia Sellers- As editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune’s most talked-about cover stories including Can Meg Whitman Save California?, The $100 Billion Woman (Melinda Gates), MySpace Cowboys, I Cannot Be Destroyed (Martha Stewart), Gone with the Wind (Ted Turner) and Oprah, Inc. Every year since its launch in 1998, Sellers has been Fortune’s point editorial person on its annual “Most Powerful Women in Business” package. MPWomen is now Fortune’s second-largest franchise, after the Fortune 500.
Sellers chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the premier gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia and the arts. She also oversees the various extensions of the MPWomen Summit, including: the Fortune -U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, the National Math + Science Young Leaders Program and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs initiative.
Sellers grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players do it—how they lead, manage and navigate their careers.
Barbara Corcoran- Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed the loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business and sold it in 2001 for $70 million. She has also heavily invested in income-producing property in the New York City area.
Barbara is the real estate contributor for NBC’s TODAY Show where she comments weekly on trends in the real estate market. Barbara is an investor/shark on ABC’s reality hit Shark Tank. In the first season, Barbara bought eight young businesses which she’s shepherding to success.
Barbara is the author of Use What You’ve Got, an entertaining business book that has become a national best-seller, as well as Nextville, Amazing Places to Live Your Life.
As a speaker, Barbara brings her front-line experience and infectious energy to every group she addresses. Motivational, inspirational, and sometimes outrageous, Barbara Corcoran’s tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a refreshing approach to success.
Jennifer Borislow-Jennifer Borislow is the founder and principal of Borislow Insurance. The agency, established in 1982, is committed to providing consultative solutions to meet the personal and business needs of their clients. As the strategic coach of the organization Jennifer specializes in the analysis, alternative funding mechanisms, plan designs, and implementations in the area of executive and employee benefit planning. For more than 28 years, Jennifer has provided business owners, executives and professionals with a business plan for their benefits offering.
Today, Borislow Insurance serves more than 400 businesses providing benefits for thousands of employees throughout New England. The company mission is providing creative benefit solutions with a personal touch. Borislow Insurance is a recognized leader in the employee benefit space and is respected by strategic business partners as a dedicated and experience professional organization that goes above and beyond for their clients. Being recognized as a “top producer” among the insurance carriers affords Borislow Insurance the ability to assist their clients in meeting their overall benefit objectives both financially and administratively.
Jennifer co-authored a book with Mark S. Gaunya titled “Bend the Healthcare Trend” and has been quoted and published in Advisor Today, Round the Table magazine, Selling Magazine, Business Week, Life Insurance Selling, Lawrence Eagle Tribune, Boston Globe, Harvard Pilgrim’s annual report and other trade journals and publications.
Jennifer is a Life Member of the Million-Dollar Round Table (MDRT) and Top of the Table (TOT) and is past chairman of the Top of the Table. She is currently the Second Vice President of the MDRT Executive Committee and her term will culminate with her 2012 MDRT Presidency.
Jennifer is a graduate of Dickinson College and is an active participant on industry and insurance companies advisory boards. She has been the featured speaker at industry conferences and national events. In addition, Jennifer also serves on several charitable boards and is involved in many community activities.
Loretta LaRoche-Loretta is an international stress management and humor consultant whose wit, and irreverent humor, has, for over 30 years raised the humor potential in all of us. She is on the Mass General advisory council for anxiety and depression and was recently awarded the National Humor Treasure Award. Loretta writes a weekly newspaper column called, 'Get a Life'. She is also featured as a stress management expert on www.LLuminari.com, a community wellness website, and www.Eons.com, a website celebrating life on the flipside of age 50.
Loretta is founder and president of The Humor Potential, Inc, a company offering programs and products for life style management. Her special brand of optimistic psychology has an incontestable positive effect on the health of all that are exposed to her. Organizations worldwide use Loretta's prescription for laughter to manage stress in the workplace and improve morale. Loretta's energetic meeting openings, trainings and keynotes serve to improve learning skills and put a room in an enthusiastic frame of mind. Clients such as IBM, The New York Times, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, and NASA, just to name a few, have used her material to defeat stress in the workplace. She has had six one-woman television specials air on 80 PBS stations across the country. She has been nominated for local and prime time Emmy Awards, has appeared on CNN, ABC and NBC affiliates. Loretta has authored 7 books: The Joy Journal, Happy Talk, Relax: You May Only Have a Few Minutes Left, Life is Not a Stress Rehearsal and, Life Is Short- Wear Your Party Pants, Squeeze the Day and her latest book Kick Up Heels Before You're Too Short to Wear Them. Her newest book, Lighten Up... was released in 2009.
Stu Schlackman-After more than 20 years in corporate sales, Stu Schlackman created Competitive Excellence, an organization dedicated to Superior Sales Results. Leveraging his competitive nature and winning results, Schlackman’s firm focuses on training and coaching sales and service teams to turn them into top performers.
Before starting his own company, Schlackman was instrumental in increasing revenue and growing the client base of large corporations such as Capgemini, EDS, and the former Digital Equipment Corporation. In addition to closing large contracts and leading sales teams throughout his career, Schlackman also spearheaded sales training initiatives. These initiatives powered his sales teams to exceed sales projections by an average of more than 30% percent annually.
Today, Schlackman uses his Sales Intelligence System to help companies build high performance teams and increase sales through understanding the four different personality styles as defined in his Personality Perspectives Process. Knowing the client’s personality will help sales professionals close business by understanding why they make decisions. The foundation of personality styles emphasizes what the person values, how they prefer to communicate, how they make decisions and what will motivate them to take action.
As author of Don’t Just Stand There, Sell Something and Four People You Should Know, Schlackman imparts wisdom, technique, and practical advice for corporate executives, sales professionals, corporate trainers, and others who have the desire to compete and win in business and life.
Schlackman holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Kennedy Western University. He is involved in teaching and mentoring in the Business division of Dallas Christian College; sits on the Board of Directors for the Richardson Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Richardson and Prevent Blindness Dallas. Schlackman is also the incoming Vice President/Marketing of the National Speakers Association/North Texas.
Recent clients include: AT&T, Verizon, Banctec, Riverstone Residential, Cisco Systems, New York Life, Goldman Sachs, Holmes Murphy, Hub International, University of Dallas, Texas, BancTec, International Business Brokers Association, Fujitsu, NEI, Ebby Halliday, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Penn Mutual and Lennox International
Jennifer Borislow is the founder and principal of Borislow Insurance. The agency, established in 1982, is committed to providing consultative solutions to meet the personal and business needs of their clients. As the strategic coach of the organization Jennifer specializes in the analysis, alternative funding mechanisms, plan designs, and implementations in the area of executive and employee benefit planning. For more than 28 years, Jennifer has provided business owners, executives and professionals with a business plan for their benefits offering. 
