Su 5 – Lunch/Keynote: How to Thrive in Any Economy
Speaker: Alan Weiss CMC FIMC
Host: Norm Eckstein CMC FIMC
The Confab 2009 opening keynote speech will be by Alan Weiss CMC FIMC, consulting rock-star and author of the best-selling book Million Dollar Consulting. Consultants who have heard Alan speak always come back for more. If you haven’t yet heard Alan, get ready to be energized, motivated and inspired to grow your consulting practice and to thrive in any economy!
About Keynote Speaker Alan Weiss
Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc. has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times, and over 400 other leading organizations. He serves on the boards of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony-Award-winning New England regional theater, and the Newport International Film Festival.
He is a 2006 inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame® and the concurrent recipient of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers Award of Excellence, representing the top 1% of professional speakers in the world.
His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 25 books, including his best-seller, Million Dollar Consulting (from McGraw-Hill). His newest is The Million Dollar Consulting™ Toolkit. His books have been on the curricula at Villanova, Temple University, and the Wharton School of Business, and have been translated into German, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese.
