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TOPICS
1. Thriving through Recession: Hope Leadership
The current economic downturn is like no other recession before it: a worldwide shakeout that will sweep away businesses that are weak or merely average. How will your company survive? National business columnist Rick Spence (Financial Post, PROFIT Magazine) offers a multi-part formula that will focus everyone in your organization on thriving through the recession: value-based innovation; inviting the customer into your company; embracing measured marketing; and practicing Obama-style “Hope Leadership.”Using lessons from past recessions and current business success stories from across Canada, Spence combines big-picture strategies with practical, easy-to-manage tactics that you can put to work right away in your business.
2. Learning from Canada’s Top Growth Companies
From sales to HR and innovation, the executives behind Canada’s leading growth companies have developed their own unique tactics for success. Here’s how today’s growth leaders succeed – with easy-to-implement lessons for managers and executives in big business and small business alike.3. 10 Trends that will Rock Your Business
From RFID and nanotechnology to semi-retiring boomers and “crowd-sourcing,” Rick examines 10 key trends that will influence our business and personal lives over the next decade.4. The Future of Entrepreneurship
Why entrepreneurship is exploding in this country, and 10 reasons why this revolution will only grow. Plus: the three greatest challenges facing Canadian entrepreneurs.5. TO BOLDLY GROW: Great Canadian Success Stories
How three of Canada’s unlikeliest entrepreneurs have built successful and lasting businesses. Rick Spence provides all the details you need to adapt their strategies to your business challenges. (This content can be fully customized to the needs of each audience.)6. Hire People You Hate... and Other Creative Cues for Managing People
How today’s top business leaders find and keep the best people. Based on research with winning entrepreneurs and collaboration with an executive search firm, Rick Spence offers real cases and proven ideas for recruiting, assessing and motivating.7. Entrepreneurs’ Idea Exchange
In this interactive session, Rick Spence shares the latest ideas for management success – and then challenges members of the audience to share their own best tips with each other. Guaranteed to raise the roof with the energy and buzz!
RICK SPENCE
Business Strategist, Writer, Speaker and "Growth Guru"
Rick Spence is a Toronto-based writer, speaker and marketing consultant who specializes in helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. His clients include government and economic-development agencies, professional service companies, marketing firms, manufacturers and software developers.
Spence is the long-time former editor and publisher of PROFIT, The Magazine for Canadian Entrepreneurs. He currently writes regular columns on entrepreneurship and related issues for the National Post, PROFIT and MoneySense magazines. He has also been published recently in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and Corporate Knights and Alberta Venture magazines.
As a speaker, Spence specializes in presentations that get people excited about the untapped opportunities in their businesses and motivates them to strive for excellence, quality and results. He is also a sought-after emcee for business functions and award events.
He wrote the first Canadian book on growth business (Secrets of Success from Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies, published by John Wiley & Son, 1997) and is now working on the much-requested sequel.
Spence has taught “New Venture Start-up” at the undergraduate level and currently sits on the board of directors of a Toronto-based geophysical software company. His weblog, Canadian Entrepreneur (canentrepreneur.blogspot.com), is must reading for Canadian business owners.
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COMMENTS FROM AUDIENCES
"Thank you for helping us make the “Thinking the Unthinkable” seminar a tremendous success. We really appreciate you agreeing to be our MC for the second year in a row. As always, you did a great job of keeping the day running smoothly and in pulling the presentations together for our attendees.
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Family Service Association of Metropolitan Toronto
"On behalf of our members and guests, I wanted to thank you for sharing your insights and ideas with our group. Your presentation was informative and thought-provoking, and was the topic of a great deal of informal discussions after the event. I personally came away with ideas that have immediate application to my industry.
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Sales and Marketing Executives of Toronto Inc.
"I have produced many corporate events over the years with various MCs at the helm. I can honestly say that Rick Spence is the best MC of a business awards show I have ever seen. He is always smooth, engaging and well prepared. He keeps things moving with his upbeat style, while his humorous ad-libs keep audiences grinning. Not bad for a print guy.
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Ontario Global Traders Awards
