Event Details
Business Growth Expo 2011
Thursday, October 27th
Doors open at 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cahaba Grand Conference Center
For more information, contact Emily Lansdell at (205) 443-5610 or elansdell@bizjournals.com
Your all-access pass gives you admission into all Expo booths and activities, including the Disney Leadership Institute's acclaimed professional development courses throughout the day. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, interactive and musical entertainment PLUS networking with Birmingham's top professionals...all in ONE DAY! Ask about student and bulk discounts!
Schedule
| 7:30 am | Registration and exhibition space opens with breakfast buffet (served until 8:45 am) |
| 8 am | Welcome |
| 8:15-9:45 am | Disney Institute: Disney's Approach to Business Excellence |
| 10:15-11:15 am | Laura Turner Seydel: Reduce. Reuse: A Strategy for Best Practices in the Workplace |
| 11:00-12:15 pm | Lunch and Exhibition Time |
| 12:10-1:10 pm | Generating Growth: The State of Economic Development in Alabama |
| 1:45-3:15 pm | Disney Institute: Disney's Approach to Brand Loyalty |
| 3:15 pm | Closing Remarks and Door Prizes |
Entertainment
While at this year’s Expo, we’ll have lots of interactive and team building activities during exhibition time! Grab your colleagues and have some fun!
Get Rhythm! With John Scalici
This team building exercise is a great way for you and your colleagues to express themselves through the power of the rhythm, facilitated by internationally renowned facilitator and award-winning teaching artist, John Scalici.
Get Rhythm Drum Circles are used to teach team building, group participation and self-expression through a fun and unique “jam session”. You don’t have to have rhythm to have fun!
For more information, visit http://getrhythmprograms.com/.
Photo Booth
Grab a few friends, dress up and smile! At the Business Growth Expo’s photo booth presented by Total Entertainment.
Disney Institute presents "Disney's Approach to Business Excellence" and "Disney's Approach to Brand Loyalty"
Also featuring: "Reduce. Reuse: A Strategy for Best Practices in the Workplace" with Laura Turner Seydel.
Also featuring: "Generating Growth: The State of Economic Development in Alabama" with Brian Hilson, Troy Wayman, Ellen McNair, & Greg Canfield.
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