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Management Consultants Forum
Program Schedule 2010
Management Consultant’s Forum / Chapter
meeting
Held the third Monday of each month, September through May (except for
December when it is held the second Monday) at Crowne Plaza Hotel at
14315 Midway Road in Addison between 635 and Beltline. Meetings begin
with networking session followed by a sit-down dinner and program on
topics of current interest to management consultants and clients.
The Forum is an excellent place to
meet independent management consultants working in a wide variety of
disciplines including business strategy, finance, marketing, human
resources, risk management, information technology, training, logistics,
and many other specialties. We focus on topics of interest to experienced
consultants in the Forum.
NEW Location
Crowne Plaza Hotel 14315 Midway Road, Addison, TX
(between I-635 and Belt Line).
Click here for interactive map
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May
17th,
2010
5:30 pm - 6:30
pm
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Members:
$30 – 3 business day advance
$35 – 1 business day advance
$37 – same day / at door
Visitors and Guests
$40 – 3 business day advance
$45 – 1 business day advance
$47 – same day / at door
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Credit Cards accepted through link on event
 
Reservations
Register Online:
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HERE
Ken
Langley - 214-256-3279
Ken.Langley@SchooleyMitchell.com
For confirmed seating, please make
reservations
no later than two working days prior to meeting.
Past Meetings
April 19th,
2010
How Consultants Can
Use
Search Engine Optimization to Attract Clients
- Best Practices from Search Engine
Marketer Mitchell Davis
March 15th,
2010
Beyond Standard Customer
Satisfaction Reports -
Using VOC and Operational Data to Create
Meaningful and Actionable Insights
February 15th,
2010
Winning in a Downturn:
The Breakthrough Imperative
January 18th,
2010
Jumpstart Your New Year’s Business
with
Expert Network Consulting Brokers
December 14th, 2009
Amazon's and
Business Week's Best-Selling Author Ziad Khoury
Helps Find Profitability
for Your Clients
November 16th, 2009
Consulting
From The Clients View
October 19th, 2009
Tweet, Click, Link, Post, Blog or Die
September 21st, What Can Consultants Learn from a
Successful Turnaround Artist?
May 18th, Future Shock 2009 - The Business World is
Flattened
April 20th,
Shut
up And Start Listening!
March 16th,
On-Demand Leadership in an On-Demand World
February 16th,
Mentoring Leadership Power of Two
January 19th,
Meeting the Demands of Today's New Talent Market
December 15th,
Information Overload... Surviving the
Google World
November 17th,
Why
the Credit Crisis is Only the Tip of U.S. Financial Woes
October 20th,
Ingredients for a Successful Turnaround
September 15th -
Five Proven Strategies To Win Clients and
Grow Your Business
May 19, 2008:
The Great
Offshoring Debate!
April 21, 2008:
Dramatic Effects of Company Culture on
Strategic Efforts
March 17, 2008:
Panel Discussion:
Venture Capitalists Discuss
What Keeps Their CEOs Up at Night?
February 18, 2008:
Strategic
Talent Management
January 21, 2008:
“The Perfect Labor Storm 2.0”
December 17, 2007:
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
November 12, 2007:
Turning Data
into Action and Sales
(2nd Monday)
October 15, 2007:
Counter
Intuitive Marketing - Building a
Network of Referral Support Underneath Your Practice
September 17th, 2007 Getting Linked- In -
Using the Web for Effective Business Networking
May
21, 2007: Special challenges: Consulting to family owned
companies
April 16, 2007: How to make money consulting to small companies
March 19, 2007: Keeping your pipeline full
February 19, 2007: Productizing your practice
January 15, 2007: Collaboration: Making it
Work
December 18, 2006: Another wonderful Holiday Party
November 13, 2006: (2nd Monday) New tactics & Strategies to
enhance your consultancy
October 16, 2006: Overcoming Call reluctance.
Trelitha Bryant, VP of Field Testing & Research for Behavioral
Science Research Press speaks about getting "Beyond the Fear of
Rejection".
September 18, 2006: Our first meeting of the year will feature Ken Lizotte, IMC
National Board Member from Boston
May 15, 2006:
The 10 Secrets of Neuromarketing
Is there a "buy button" inside
the brain ?
April 17, 2006: Power Solutions Thinking: The Anatomy of a
Breakthrough
March 20, 2006: Consulting Opportunities in Business Process
Outsourcing
February 20, 2006: Topic related to current legal activities
January 16, 2006: Convergence of Technology
December 19, 2005: Festive event
"COULD SANTA CLAUS BE A CONSULTANT?"
INQUIRING CONSULTANTS WANT TO KNOW!
November 21, 2005:
BUILDING SUCCESS –
Principles We’ve Learned
in 60 Years of Consulting That Can Help Build Your Business
View Presentation Materials - 60 Years of Consulting
Ed A. Stone, CMC, FIMC - Dallas Marketing Group - Powerpoint

Rollie Waters, CMC - Waters Consulting Group - Powerpoint

October 17, 2005: A Fresh look at Strategy: The Blue Ocean
Phenomenon A hot
trend in American business made the cover of Business Week Magazine:
the "Knowledge Economy" is evolving to something new. It's about
Creativity, Imagination, and above all, Innovation.
View Presentation
Materials - The Blue Ocean Phenomenon
Bart Kohnhorst - Growth Strategy Partners, Jim Stewart - Executive
Smarts - pdf
September 19, 2005: Blogging -
Learn about this new tool and how to harness its potential
May 16th, 2005
Managing Client Expectation One of You Needs to Do It!
Explore some of the
dimensions of this critical aspect of successful consulting using a
framework of the normal (and sometimes abnormal) lifecycle of the
consulting engagement.
April 18th, 2005
Demand
Creation for Independent Consultants
A powerful technique for winning new business. Presented
by Dave Smethers, International Sales Consultant
March 21st, 2005
Consulting Best Practices The Client's View
Hear top executives formerly from companies like J.C.Penney
International and AT&T Global Information Solutions/NCR will share
insights about what drives a successful consulting engagement.
February
21st, 2005
SPONTANEITY ! Experience it; enrich any engagement
A fabulous, value rich
and ENTERTAINING program featuring acclaimed local celebrity
MAXINE SHAPIRO showing you how to harness SPONTANEITY
as a powerful tool for your next engagement.
January
17th, 2005
Opportunities in 2005: A Consultant’s Forecast
Get the inside scoop on the Texas economy from Dallas Federal
Reserve Regional senior regional economist
December 13th,
2004
No Meeting
November 15th, 2004
Managing your health on a 7/24 consultant’s schedule
Hear Dr. Camron E. Nelson, staff physician
at the Cooper Aerobics Center, speak to us about staying healthy.
October 18th, 2004
Get Engagements With Larger
Organizations
Listen to a distinguished panel of experts share practical ways
to Get Engagements with Larger Organizations!
September 20th, 2004
Global Outsourcing: Opportunities for consultants?
An Insightful Discussion with Two
International Players
Ashok Desai and Lothar Katz
May 17th, 2004
Get Business !! Applying Cialdini's
Principles of Persuasion
Speaker: Edward Stone CMC, FIMC
April 22nd, 2004
Special Event
Influence and Persuasion
Speaker: Robert B. Cialdini
March 15th, 2004
Leadership Can Be Learned!
Register Now
A practical path to leadership skill that enhances business results
and personal relationships
Speaker: Tom McGaffey
February 16th, 2004
Navigating
the Media Maze
How Consultants Can ‘Get Known’
Alice Dykeman, Dykeman Associates, Inc., Dallas,
Tom Chenault, Chenault Systems, Carrollton
January 19th, 2004
Meaning, Money, and Morality -
Dealing with Continuing Corruption in a Post-Enron Business Climate
Dr. Al Gini, Loyola University Chicago
December 15th, 2003
"Consulting with Client Project Teams...Thrill of Victory or Agony of Defeat?"
Speaker: Sue Freedman, Ph.D.
November 17th, 2003
How to
Hire a Management Consultant – and Get the Results You Expect!
Speakers -
Ken Goldstein, PE, CMC; Jim Webb, CMC; and Gerald Turner, PhD
October 20th, 2003
"THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE – new
technologies that will influence tomorrow’s business landscape.”
Speaker - Michael Egan
September 15th, 2003
Dallas
Federal Reserve Regional Economic Overview
Speaker - Mine Yϋcel
May 19th, 2003
Raising the Ethics
Bar in the 21st Century
March 17th, 2003
How Coaching Fits in Management
Consulting Engagements
February 17th, 2003
"Upstarts & Stuffed Shirts –
What’s with Generation X?"
Speaker - Rebecca Ryan
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