New Jersey PBL has won the March 15 deadline for largest percent increase in PBL membership by the deadline of March 15. This entitles their state to obtain preferred seating at this year’s PBL Opening Session and Awards Program at the National Leadership Conference.
On April 15, the second and third place winners will be announced.
Download Interview with Power Presenter Bob Beaudine (mp3)
Bob Beaudine, CEO of Eastman & Beaudine, manages the nation’s leading executive search firm in sports/entertainment. Bob, the author of The Power of WHO, has helped shape the leadership teams of some of the world’s most innovative and dynamic businesses- NBA, Major League Baseball, Hockey, Tennis, Rodeo, PGATOUR, Arena Football, US Olympics, NASCAR, Horse Racing, and Ultimate Fighting Championships. He has interviewed & coached Senators, Governors, Generals, CEO’s, University Presidents, Top Athletic Coaches and Studio Presidents. Sports Illustrated recently named Beaudine the “Top Front Office Matchmaker in Sports.”
Bob also works with major college athletic programs and has placed 33 Athletic Directors at major universities across the country as well as 24 Head Coaches in Football and Basketball.
Bob’s leadership also extends into the local community. He recently served as Chairman of the “Doak Walker National Running Back Award”. He is a graduate (1977) of Southern Methodist University with a bachelor of business administration degree. He is on the Board of SMU’s Cox School of Business. His wife Cheryl and he recently celebrated their Twenty Fifth Wedding Anniversary and have three daughters.
Download Interview with Power Presenter Jerry Weissman (mp3)
Jerry Weissman is the world’s number one corporate presentations coach. His private client list reads like a who’s who of the world’s best companies, including the top brass at Yahoo!, Intel, Intuit, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dolby Labs, and many others. Mr. Weissman founded Power Presentations, Ltd. in 1988. One of his earliest efforts was the Cisco Systems IPO road show. Following its successful launch, Don Valentine, of Sequoia Capital, and then chairman of Cisco’s Board of Directors, attributed “at least two to three dollars” of the offering price to Mr. Weissman’s coaching. That endorsement led to more than 500 other IPO road show presentations that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market. Mr. Weissman’s focus widened from coaching IPOs to include public and privately held companies. His techniques have helped another 500 firms develop and deliver their mission-critical business presentations.
State Senator Kenneth Corn was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate in 2002 at the age of twenty-five making him the second youngest state senator in state’s history and the current youngest serving senator. Prior to his election to the senate, Corn served two terms in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He was elected to the House at the age of twenty-two which made him one of the youngest Oklahomans to serve in state’s history.
Corn was born in Poteau, Oklahoma in 1976 to Elester and Katy Corn. He graduated from Howe High School in 1996 and the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science in 2005. He was a member of the OU President’s Leadership Class, a Ruth Norman and United State Senate Youth Scholar. Corn is the only person to serve two terms as the State President of Future Business Leaders of America and one term as National President.
How did serving as an officer of the FBLA prepare you for your role as State Senator?
The opportunity to serve as a national officer gave me the skills necessary to be an effective communicator and the ability to set goals and establish a plan of action. I have often used my ability to think critically about issues and always factor the human element into the solutions we seek. I learned that from FBLA.
Rita’s has been serving happiness to their guests since 1984. Everybody loves Rita’s because there, you can treat yourself to delicious Italian Ice, rich Frozen Custard, Slenderita Fat-Free Soft Serve, and so much more. Rita’s guests come to escape the pressures of daily life, take a moment for themselves, and enjoy a taste of happiness!
FBLA-PBL has partnered with Rita’s to provide chapters with a fun, unique and delicious fund-raiser called Celebrity Scoop. Rita’s will help raise money for your chapter while also giving you a behind the scenes peek into how they make their delicious frozen treats. Participating chapter members will help scoop and serve Rita’s Italian Ice and receive 15 percent of the profits for their efforts. For more information and to find your closest participating Rita’s, please call Victoria Vaynberger, Marketing Manager, in their Cool Support Center at (215) 876-9355.
Download Podcast with Social Networking Guru Melissa Giovagnoli (mp3)
Melissa Giovagnoli is a social networking guru, keynote speaker and bestselling author, who founded Networlding in 2000, based on her seventh book on the science and practice of social networking. Networlding is a marketing and management consulting firm helping individuals and organizations achieve a “network effect” in their marketing, communications or sales initiatives.
She has been a guest on shows like the Today Show on WGN, CNBC, and has had a book discussed on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She received an “Outstanding Woman of the Decade Award” by The University of Chicago Women’s Business Advisory Council. She is currently working her twelfth book, Convergence, which focuses on the trend of the merging of media and entertainment, internet, television, education, music and publishing. Her clients have included companies such as AT&T, Disney, UBS, Motorola and Hewitt as well as hundreds of entrepreneurial organizations.
Resources:
Networlding for Teens: A Guide to Building Relationships and Opportunities for Success
101 Great Tips for Building Relationships and Opportunities in the Age of the Network
Download Interview with SBA District Director Adalberto Quijada (mp3)
J. Adalberto Quijada, a former FBLA-PBL member, is the District Director of the Santa Ana District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration with service responsibility for the counties of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino in Southern California. As District Director, Mr. Quijada is responsible for the delivery of SBA programs and services to approximately 6 million people in the tri-county area, which covers over 28,000 square miles. Small businesses in the geographic area comprise in excess of 600,000, representing 16% of the total California business population. Quijada is also responsible for the management and oversight of SBA Resource Partners including four Women’s Business Centers, three SCORE chapters and a Regional Lead Center with a network of three Small Business Development Centers and three satellite locations.
Before coming to SBA, he led the marketing department of the U.S. Postal Service in Los Angeles and held an executive position as a member of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs promoting programs related to NAFTA and other programs of bilateral interest.
Mr. Quijada holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University, respectively.
Download Interview with marketer, business blogger, and author Seth Godin (mp3)
Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and agent of change.
Godin is author of ten books that have been bestsellers around the world. His most recent titles include The Dip and Meatball Sundae. Free Prize Inside was published in early May, 2004 and All Marketers Are Liars was published in 2005. His books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the BusinessWeek bestseller list. It also appeared on The New York Times business book bestseller list.
Unleashing the Ideavirus is the most popular ebook ever written. More than 1,000,000 people downloaded the digital version of this book about how ideas spread. Featured in USA Today, The New York Times, The Industry Standard and Wired Online, Ideavirus hit #4 on the Amazon Japan bestseller list, and #5 in the USA.
Seth is a renowned speaker as well. He was recently chosen as one of 21 Speakers for the Next Century by Successful Meetings and is consistently rated among the very best speakers by the audiences he addresses.
Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry’s leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998.
He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by BusinessWeek.
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