A big THANK YOU to Dr. Jeff Cornwall of Belmont University for a great presentation today. Also a big THANK YOU to WholeCare Connections for sponsoring this luncheon.

Please join us on Thursday, October 13th from 11:00am-1:00pm at Maggianos Little Italy on West End Ave for the 2nd session of our NAWBO Business University series. This session will be lead by a panel.

Social Media 101

Our panel consists of Kimble Bosworth-President and COO of Proforma Printelligence, Courtenay Rogers-Marketing Coordinator for Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC, and Kate O’Neill-Founder and Ceo [meta]marketer.

Kimble, Courtenay & Kate will discuss real stories about using social media to grow your business, provide tips & outline a 13 step program on how to use it for business, as well as provide tools to track metrics for social media. Join us to learn from 3 women who have implemented this into their businesses and seen results.

Click on the link below to make your reservation and pay online.

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

We had a GREAT August Luncheon– big thanks to Jennifer Brinkman with Advanced Payment Solutions for her presentation and to GrowthPointe Strategies for their generous Luncheon Sponsorship. Please see below for our September Luncheon information.

NAWBO Business Luncheon
September 29th, 11:30-1:00pm

Please join us on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at Maggiano’s Little Italy for our September luncheon.

11:00- Networking with Speaker and other Business Owners
11:30-1:00 pm – Lunch & Program

Using Bootstrap Marketing to Grow your Business

by Dr. Jeff Cornwall

Do you want to understand the principles of bootstrapping as well as recognize the importance of it in the current economy and within your business? If so, then join us to hear Dr. Cornwall share his knowledge and help you build a stronger business.

Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.  He also serves as the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.  He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky.  

In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC.  ABHS operated a variety of health care facilities and programs throughout North Carolina.  After nine years of rapid growth, he negotiating the sale of most of his corporations’ business interests, and returned to academics.  

He has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching.  The Belmont entrepreneurship program has been named a Top 25 Undergraduate Program in the nation by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.  Belmont University received the 2008 National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Award from the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  In 2010 Fortune magazine featured the Belmont as one of five universities to study entrepreneurship.  Dr. Cornwall is a Fellow of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

He has published six books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship. 

His blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, is among the most popular with a focus on small business and entrepreneurship.  The Entrepreneurial Mind is part of the Forbes blog network and was named by that magazine as a “Best of the Web.” It is also syndicated by The Christian Science Monitor and Business Insider.

Click on the link below to make your reservation and pay online.

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

We had a GREAT Networking luncheon last Thursday! Many women made new business contacts and enjoyed a great lunch! We hope to see you at our next luncheon, which will be Thursday, August 25th at Maggiano’s on West End. Networking is from 11-11:30am and our program will be 11:30-1pm. Please check back soon to find out more about our program!

NAWBO Business Luncheon
July 28th, 11:30-1:00pm

Please join us on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 at Maggiano’s Little Italy for our July luncheon.

11:00- Networking with Speaker and other Business Owners
11:30-1:00 pm – Lunch & Program

Getting to Know You and Your Business:
NAWBO’s Summer Networking Luncheon

Could your business benefit?

• If 40 other Women Business Owners know what you do?
• If you knew how 40 other Women Business Owners could help you grow?
• If you had an opportunity to clearly articulate what sets your business apart from your competition?

If your answer to any of these questions is yes,
then NAWBO’s July Networking Luncheon is for you!

Bring a friend as we spotlight your business, your friend’s business and our business.

Be ready to stand and tell us what you do and how you do it better than anyone else in your industry.

Click on the link below to make reservations and pay online.

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

A big Thank you to Autumn Gentry & Julie Hamner Johnston with Dickinson Wright, PLLC for a great presentation at our June Luncheon! Also want to say a Big Thank You to our outgoing board members for all of your hard work and dedication over the past year, as well as a warm welcome to our new Board! Please make plans to join us on Thursday, July 28th 2011 for our next luncheon. This will be a great Networking Event, so have your “Elevator Speech” prepared!

Our June Key note speakers are Autumn L Gentry and Julie Hamner Johnston. They are attornerys with extensive knowledge of legal matters affecting the small business owner. The speakers have a combined total of 25 years experience to discuss the legal concerns of the small business owner.

Here are some of the topics that will be discussed in the presentation: 

• Workers’ Compensation
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Tennessee Corporations Business Act
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Family Medical Leave Act
• as well as … employment discrimination; trademark, copyright and intellectual property issues.

Autumn L Gentry has been practicing business law for 11 years.  She has extensive knowledge in the areas of Business Torts; Consumer Protection; Insurance; Labor & Employment; Product Liability & Personal Injury; Workers Compensation.

Julie Hamner Johnston has been practicing business law for 14 years.  She has extensive knowledge in the areas of Commercial & Business Litigation; Estate, Trust & Probate; Intellectual Property & Trade Secrets Litigation; Libel & Slander; Music, Sports & Entertainment Litigation; Non-Compete & Anti Solicitation Agreements; Product Liability & Personal Injury. 

Come at 11:00 AM and network with other business women owners and our speakers.

As always, Nashville NAWBO meets the last Thursday of each month.  This month our meeting will be on Thursday, June 30th from 11-1 at Maggiano’s Little Italy.  Bring plenty of business cards and get ready for some great networking, fun company, and terrific learning . . . not to mention the fabulous food! 

East Tennessee Business Matchmaking is coming to Knoxville on July 21^st, 2011 at the Rothchild Catering & Conference Center in West Knoxville from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Back by popular demand and building on the tremendous success of the event the past two years, business matchmaking matches small- to mid-sized businesses with government organizations and major corporations that have significant buying power and contract opportunities for a wide variety of products/services. Upon registering, businesses will be matched to organizations seeking similar products/services in 10-minute, individualized appointments.

This year’s event will focus on the Fundamentals for Successful Bidding. 

Registration begins May 26^th and closes on June 17^th.  Participants can register online at www.etpanews.org or by contacting Penny Owens at 865-215-2648, email address powens@cityofknoxville.org. Participants must register by June 17^th so ETPA can match their products and services to organizations with similar needs. 

Admission and parking are free of charge and light refreshments will be served. Some of the governmental entities and private corporations available for appointments are: 

Pilot Travel Centers; Knoxville/Knox County Community Action Committee; Tennessee Valley Authority; B&W Y-12; KUB-Knoxville Utilities Board; Vaughn & Melton Consulting Engineers; City of Johnson City; S & ME; City of Chattanooga; City of Knoxville; KCDC – Knoxville’s Community Development Corp.; The University of Tennessee; Knox County Government; COvenant Health; Public Building Authority; Knoxville News-Sentinel; SunTrust Bank; Trane; Pellissippi State Community College; Knox County School Nutrition; Ameresco 

Finally, new to this year’s event, ETPA will hold a VIP breakfast from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. where a limited number of businesses can meet with at 15 procurement directors from local governmental agencies. The cost to attend is $35 and registration for this event is also required, beginning May 26^th at www.etpanews.org. Registration will be first come first served basis and will close when the maximum number of vendors registers.

A big Thank you to Nancy Reece for a great presentation at our May Luncheon! Please make plans to join us on Thursday, June 30th 2011 for our next luncheon. Please check back soon for details of this luncheon!

Our Keynote speaker, Nancy Reece, will address the following topic at this luncheon.

Lessons from Cinderella – Becoming a Leader Women Want to Follow

Three fourths of women in a recent study preferred working for men over women. Become part of the movement dedicated to changing this statistic.  You will be challenged to:

• Stop the three behaviors that harm your integrity
• Begin three leadership competencies that will build trust

Nancy Reece is an integrity fanatic, passionate about helping people know the right thing to do, and then DOING the right thing.   She intuitively knows how to challenge and coach people to make a powerful impact as leaders, while creating a warm, transparent, and open atmosphere for learning and growth.  As Sr. Consultant with the Human Capital Group, Nancy specializes in values based leadership consulting, dynamic training and coaching around emotional intelligence, integrity, appreciation and organizational culture.

Nancy is a highly requested keynote speaker with a warm, engaging style that has challenged audiences around the globe.   As an emerging thought-leader, she encourages her audience and clients to achieve business results while placing integrity first.  Her insights on integrity and the ethical use of power have developed responsible leaders that people want to follow.

Prior to joining the Human Capital Group, Nancy was the first woman elected National Board Chair of the Association of YMCA Professionals in its 130-year history.  Her career includes service as Senior Vice President for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee and national consultant for YMCA of the USA.

As adjunct faculty, she teaches Leadership Perspectives at Lipscomb University’s Graduate Business School and has taught at Belmont University.  Nancy is a talented writer, and has authored the book, The Dichotomy of Power® – Using Power with Intelligence and Integrity, and co-authored / edited the book Strengthening the Organizational Heart.  She is the Integrity First columnist for the Nashville Business Journal.

She earned her B.S. degree from the University of Evansville and her M.S. degree from Indiana University, and has continued her lifelong learning at Harvard University and the Center for Creative Leadership.

Come at 11:00 AM and network with other business women owners and our speaker, Nancy Reece.

As always, Nashville NAWBO meets the last Thursday of each month.  This month our meeting will be on Thursday, May 26th from 11-1 at Maggiano’s Little Italy.  Bring plenty of business cards and get ready for some great networking, fun company, and terrific learning . . . not to mention the fabulous food! 

What a great NAWBO luncheon today for business and non-business owners! It was an awesome combination between Kelly Cox and Letha Edwards! Thank you both!!!

Sincerely,

Lynn Taylor
Taylor Made Plans, LLC
Site: www.taylormadeplans.com