ISPI-LA Presents:

Beverly Macy Photo Saturday, September 18, 2010

Beverly Macy

Presents:
  Leveraging Social Media
  for Personal Branding

Social media has magnified the importance around a certain type of brand – the brand called YOU! Whether you like or not, you have a personal brand. How can you turn your personal brand into a powerful real time marketing tool? Be a source for attracting and retaining clients real-time to generate sustainable, profitable growth? Improve your perceived value in the marketplace?

Macy, an early adopter of social media, shares her insights and expertise on how YOU can leverage social media to build and manage your personal brand strategically, consistently and effectively.

  • Define and establish your personal brand
  • Effectively communicate your personal brand using LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Blogs
  • Avoid common branding mistakes

About Beverly Macy:

Macy is the CEO of Gravity Summit and Managing Partner of Y&M PARTNERS, a strategic advisory firm located in Beverly Hills, CA. She also lectures at USC and teaches Executive Marketing courses for the UCLA Business and Management Extension Program. Macy's newest course, Social Media Marketing, was launched in the Fall 2008 Semester. She received the Distinguished Instructor Award for 2010 from Cathy Sandeen, Dean of Continuing Education and UCLA Extension.

Recently, Macy signed a book deal with McGraw Hill to publish "The Power of Real-Time Marketing" with co-author Teri Thompson. This book will feature real world social media case studies from companies like EMC, USAToday, Dell, Bing, Kodak, American Red Cross, Domino's Pizza and others.

Prior to Y&M PARTNERS, Macy spent 13 years at Xerox Corporation in sales and marketing positions. She has been active in community service for the past 20 years and served as President of the Board of Directors for the Friendly Hand Foundation in Los Angeles. Macy is a published and accredited business author and regularly speaks and lectures on strategic business initiatives.

Visit Macy virtually at www.twitter.com/beverlymacy

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AND

Susan Gerke Photo Susan Gerke

Presents:
  Unleash the Full
  Potential of Teams

Are you forming a new team? Experiencing a breakdown in team communication? Looking for new ways to run more effective team meetings? Need to build team trust? Looking for a new tool for your clients?

Whatever your situation, join us as Gerke introduces us to GO team, training delivered via a series of short modules – simple, flexible, and bite-size!

In addition to learning more about the GO team training approach, experience the “Building Team Trust” training module, which provides tools to:

  • Create a team's "trust model"
  • Identify the behaviors that can kill or enhance trust
  • Gain an understanding of what trust looks like
  • Complete action plans to increase team trust

About Susan Gerke:

Gerke is the president of Gerke Consulting & Development and "helps people work better, together." Susan has been in business since 1998 following 21 years working for IBM. She was a manager for IBM as well as a technical support representative and a management and leadership development professional.

Susan's focus since 1989 has been in designing, customizing and implementing leadership and teamwork programs meeting the needs of executives, managers, and employees in a wide number of companies and industries. Her clients include Bank of the West, Blizzard Entertainment, BHK Accountancy, City of Anaheim, Human Options, Orange Coast College, The Irvine Company, University of California at Irvine, Warner Bros. and Zebra Technology.

Application of her skill and knowledge has been in facilitation, consulting, curriculum development, and coaching. Susan has developed and delivered experiential programs in the areas of group dynamics, team development, mentoring, and facilitation skills. She is the coauthor of the groundbreaking GO Team product.

A recognized expert on remote leadership and teaming, Susan is the co-author of The I in Team …Accelerating Performance of Remote and Co-Located Teams and Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Working Remotely. She is also the co-author of Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Time Dynamics.

Susan is certified for SYMLOG, Herrmann Brain Dominance® (HBDI), Element B, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), the Interstrength Method and the Management Team Roles Indicator™ (MTR-i). She is a faculty member at Brandman University and an Affiliated Consultant at the Volunteer Center of Orange County.

Susan has a B.S. degree in Statistics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is a graduate of University Associates Human Resources and Organizational Development Intern program.

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