Bob Burg
Bob Burg is a highly sought-after speaker at corporate, financial services and direct sales conventions. Combining humor and entertainment with easily applied, proven systems for personal marketing, audiences come away ready to immediately profit from Bob’s instruction and coaching.
Sharing the principles contained in his bestselling books, Bob has addressed audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000, sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities athletes and government leaders including cabinet secretaries and a former United States President.
His critically acclaimed book, Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales has sold over 200,000 copies and continues to be used as a training manual for top sales organizations throughout the world. His latest national bestseller, The Go-Giver has been heralded as a new business classic. It’s been translated into 14 languages and has already topped the 100,000 mark.
Bob is a staunch advocate, supporter and defender of the free enterprise system and seeks to empower individuals and organizations to thrive and grow by putting its principles to work.
He also puts his networking and go-giver abilities to use for charities, being a former Palm Beach County/Brooks Brothers Leukemia Society Man of the Year for his fundraising efforts on their behalf, and currently serving on the Board of Directors of Safe Harbor, the Humane Society of Jupiter, Florida.
Chuck Wilsker
Chuck Wilsker is President, CEO, and Co-Founder of the Telework Coalition (TelCoa), a not for profit association headquartered in Washington, DC, and he has specialized in telework and telecommuting for over 10 years. TelCoa supports and enables the advancement of virtual, mobile, and distributed work through research, education, technology, and legislation. Chuck’s interests also include the benefits of telework as a means of providing employment opportunities for older and disabled workers, including service disabled veterans, as well as workers in rural locations.
At TelCoa, Chuck and his team have assisted with the development of telework programs for such organizations as McKesson Health Care, KP (Kaiser Permanente) OnCall, and Conagra foods. On the Federal side, the TelCoa team collaborated on the Telework Enhancement Act, which passed into law, and they were also involved in additional telework-favorable legislation proposed by Congressmen Udall and Terry.
He is currently a member of the Internet Society, the Association of Contingency Planners, and the National Council on Readiness and Preparedness. Additionally, Chuck has written numerous articles on teleworking and has been quoted in local and national press, including the Washington Post, USAToday, the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Government Computer News, ABCNews.com, and CNN.money.com, and has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News.
Christopher Justice
Christopher Justice is a serial small business entrepreneur specializing in marketing, new media and business strategy. Combining wisdom and humor with common sense, Chris is a featured speaker and is a master at building better businesses through a combination of face-to-face and online marketing techniques. Chris has developed local, national and international marketing programs and events that capture the imagination and generate an undeniable sense of opportunity from attendees, customers, partners and employees. Chris also participated as an architect for the Small Business Development Center's SBDCNET which seeks to provide SBDCs and entrepreneurs with market, industry, demographic information resources, as well as geographic information services (GIS).
Christopher Justice is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Sparksight, a small business-marketing agency based in Austin, Texas. Chris advises small businesses and entrepreneurs with marketing and financial plans and has help found over dozens of companies throughout the United States. Chris is an advocate of new marketing and social media strategies and is an expert in online marketing tools and technologies.
Chris previously held key management positions in the areas of customer-relationship management, sales and marketing technology and process improvement in leading companies and organizations like Computer Associates, IBM, Vignette, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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