IMCNE Dinner Program

Pick a Pack of Perfect Panelists

Succeed as an event moderator and
deliver a lively program

Thursday, January 24, 2008
5:00 - 8:30 pm
Hilton Garden Inn, Waltham, MA
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Event starts promptly at 5:00 pm.

Pre-Dinner Seminar

What Lies Beneath: 
Uncover the real truths to boost business results

• Do you wish you had a simple, quick way to uncover the real challenges in your client’s business?
• Are you looking for ways to effectively grow your business?
• Would you like complete control and the power to customize how you perform assessments?

Used appropriately, an assessment can help you improve your client’s business quickly while effectively growing yours. But to achieve this you need to be able to dig deeply across a wide range of areas in your customer’s business with minimal effort. In What Lies Beneath, you will learn creative ways to use an assessment, to open a dialogue with prospects and clients that leads to real business results.

Ronna Cohen, the founder and president of Business Breakthrough Performance, LLC, combines over 20 years of successas a small business owner, instructor and consultant on the topics that matter most to small business owners, corporate managers and nonprofit organizations. Her firm has recently launched a new assessment development solution called Breakthrough Assess™.

Before establishing Business Breakthrough Performance, Ronna was the founder and president of The 20-20 Group, as well as Daycare Referral Services, Inc., a work/family service firm serving Fortune 500 corporations. Ronna's clients have included Reebok, IDG, Mass. Financial Services, New England Power, Prime and Stratus Computer. Ronna has also managed highly effective support programs and provided results-driven executive training for regional nonprofit organizations, such as the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Massachusetts Department of Education and The Center on Work and Family at Boston University.

Panel Discussion

Engaging, informative panel discussions – online and in-person – require planning, pacing and control. It’s an honor to be asked to moderate a group discussion, and it can be an effective business development tool. But it’s critical to determine what the audience needs and ensure they get the information they want and not a sales pitch or rambling war stories. The difference between being a host and an effective communicator means profiling your panelists, managing their agendas and reining in some strong personalities.

This program presents the keys to successful preparation and delivers a “panel of panelists” to show how it’s done.

Moderator

Bob Feldman
HPC Marketing
An Emmy-nominated TV broadcaster and marketing/sales consultant, Bob Feldman is an experienced public speaker. For more than 20 years he has been a presenter, producer and voice-over artist. He directed the award-winning series "The Right Way to Manage," hosted by Sir David Frost and has worked with such clients as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, National Semiconductor, Dow Chemical, Lucent, Thinking Machines, Sequent/IBM and the Army National Guard.

Speaker Bios

Kevin Carroll
Executive Search Practice Leader in Life Sciences
Phillips Dipisa, Inc.
Kevin has spent years recruiting senior executives and interviewing C-level officers for commercial, medical and sales roles. He also trained sales teams at Bristol-Myers Squibb. At Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he teaches a course titled "Assembling the Management Team” for the Medical Device Management Certificate Program.

Jeff Govendo
The Innovative Edge
Jeff specializes in leading discussions on corporate innovation and creative thinking in industries ranging from high technology to consumer products for clients pursuing new products and businesses and planning for the future. He has designed management conferences with creative approaches for addressing difficult corporate issues.

Dick O'Brien
Nagog Hill Partners
In 2004, Dick founded a marketing consultancy addressing business development and growth issues for emerging companies in medical device, biotech and pharmaceutical companies. He is frequently asked to moderate and arrange panel discussions at the WPI Venture Forum and Merrimack Valley Venture Forum.

Carol Bergeron
Bergeron Associates
Carol is a human capital & organizational performance consultant and coach working with medium and small companies since 1998. Her practical talent solutions are grounded in strategic goals and created collaboratively with executives for increased organizational fit and commitment. She has served as speaker & panelist including at the WPI Venture Forum, Medical Development Group, Mass Bio Tech Council and arranged programs for IMCNE.

Agenda

5:00 - 6:00 pm - Seminar
6:00 - 7:30 pm - Networking and Dinner
7:30 - 8:30 pm - Panel Discussion

Investment

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