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General Session Speaker:
Blake Thompson
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain
Lance, Incorporated
Lance, Inc. produces single-serve, multi-pack, and family-sized packages of bakery products and sweet and savory snack foods, including cookies, crackers, nuts, and potato chips. Its products are sold primarily under the Lance, Cape Cod, and Tom’s brand names at food retailers; mass merchandisers; and convenience, club, and discount stores. It also supplies products to foodservice operators and it manufactures private-label and branded-label snacks for other manufacturers. Hear Blake Thompson, Lance’s Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and incoming Chairman of the Snack Food Association, describe how this company has achieved continued success since it’s beginning in 1913.
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Effective Communication Practices
Deborah Pearce
Pearce-Communications Group, LLC
This session examines the four communication skills that are essential for building and maintaining effective relationships at work. The take away from this learning event will enable attendees to execute a perception-checking statement, respond non-defensively to criticism, offer a reflective listening response and speak in specific behavioral terms when appropriate. Deborah Pearce serves as a communications consultant to businesses, schools, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations.
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Brands are Built Brick by Brick
Steen Kanter
Chief Business Consultant, Kanter International
With nearly 40 years of leadership experience, which includes building the IKEA brand in five countries, Steen Kanter guides Kanter International as the Chief Business Consultant. Steen’s expertise at transforming brands into category leaders was honed in the retail industry while building IKEA’s home furnishings business in Denmark, Germany, Austria, Canada and the United States. He is recognized for masterminding IKEA’s store in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which was named Money Magazine’s Store of the Year in 1990 and remains one of IKEA’s most successful stores worldwide. Kanter International is a sought after resource by consumer focused companies looking to grow and has built a reputation for successfully leveraging hands-on experience, knowledge and common sense from past successes into consumer focused brand strategies that are decisive, deliberate and creative. In this session, attendees will hear about some of the strategies and the importance of building a successful brand, from Steen Kanter. |
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