A Conference for Small Business
Positioning your business for the futureSeptember 28, 2011
Early Bird Registration Extended through Friday September 16th
Longwood University Small Business Development Center is excited to host the inaugural Southern Virginia Business Expo on September 28 at the STEPS Centre in Farmville, Virginia. This daylong event is designed to give business owners and managers opportunities and knowledge to grow their small business. The agenda includes a day filled with trade show style networking, informative discussions on economic trends affecting small businesses, an energetic lunchtime presentation, and afternoon breakout seminars. We have allowed ample networking time in the trade show area to allow you to network with exhibitors and hundreds of small business owners from throughout Southern Virginia. For exhibitor and attendee cost and other information, please download the forms linked in the column on the left. Stay tuned for additional information via newsletters and the web!
For now, let us introduce you to our featured luncheon speaker and trainer in our breakout sessions: Gayle Turner of Catch Your Limit Consulting.
Gayle Turner is the managing consultant of Catch Your Limit's Richmond office. In addition to being one of the most genuine and fun loving people you will ever meet, Gayle is an experienced consultant, nationally recognized brander, resident film director/producer, actor, our team's all-star petanque competitor, backgammon, cards and chess player, Richmond's most loyal native son, chef, father, grandfather and music lover. And, to add to his long list of things he's passionate about ...we would have to rank facilitation, strategic thinking and idea generation right at the top.
A recognized brand authority in the United States, Gayle is a powerhouse advertising and communication speaker and has been a featured speaker regularly on the subjects of branding, marketing, sales and account service for ADWEEK Conferences. He has consulted with some of the largest ad agencies in the world including Grey Global, Marc USA, Leo Burnett, BBDO, and Foote Cone Belding helping them install new business systems, in many cases providing them with a process for clarifying their own brand and enabling them to strengthen the services they offer. He has been credited with creating ad campaigns that not only built brands and brand equity, but also delivered the highest sale days in the history of the advertisers' existence.
As a senior consultant and facilitator for Catch Your Limit, Gayle guides organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to national associations, to "catch their limit" in areas such as leadership development, creativity, innovation, teaming and positive change.
Excited yet? Let's move Southern Virginia Businesses forward! See you at the EXPO!
Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the SBA.
