Bill Boggs – our June 2010 Speaker

Frederick Key Notes is the region’s premier business speaker series.  Key Notes is intended to elevate the professional capacity and acumen of business and community leaders in the Frederick region through exposure to internationally recognized talent on topics critical to the success of managing and growing an organization or business.

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Beyond talent, what factors have determined and defined the careers of well known and highly successful individuals?: timing, contacts, risk taking, willpower, training, self confidence, the determination to prevail in hard times, the ability to defeat insecurity.

In this entertaining and inspirational presentation, he shares the secrets he has amassed both in his book and during decades of interviewing people about their lives and the patterns of behavior that empowered their success and created happiness. Boggs includes unique video clips from a few of his tv shows to underscore key points.

Bill Boggs is a four-time Emmy Award winning television interviewer, inspirational story teller, and author of the Harper/Collins book, “Got What it Takes? Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top.”

Beyond talent, what factors have determined and defined the careers of well known and highly successful individuals?: timing, contacts, risk taking, willpower, training, self confidence, the determination to prevail in hard times, the ability to defeat insecurity.

In this entertaining and inspirational presentation, he shares the secrets he has amassed both in his book and during decades of interviewing people about their lives and the patterns of behavior that empowered their success and created happiness. Boggs includes unique video clips from a few of his tv shows to underscore key points.

Bill Boggs is a four-time Emmy Award winning television interviewer, inspirational story teller, and author of the Harper/Collins book, “Got What it Takes? Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top.”

To RSVP for this event  please visit – http://bit.ly/alCUg7 or call 302-600-6360

Steven B. Wiley – Leadership Development

Steven B. Wiley is a proven entrepreneur, author, and highly acclaimed speaker who has influenced and entertained tens of thousands of top executives from around the world. Without exception, he receives the highest ratings possible from his audiences.

His business experience includes the founding of three companies: two international franchise organizations and a national chain of fleet management centers. He has successfully negotiated multi-million dollar funding agreements for his own companies with some of the top venture capital organizations in the world.

Steve continues to bring a wealth of knowledge in the areas of leadership development, marketing, negotiation, sales and business development. His lucrative and varied high-ticket consultative selling and negotiating experience began over twenty years ago and includes tens of millions of dollars in the sales of companies, divisions, hardgoods, and services. His strong leadership ability has earned him recognition in top publications including Venture Magazine, USA Today, and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Steve’s speaking experience includes three years as National Spokesperson for the Quaker Oats/Pritikin Longevity Centers for whom he has been featured in television commercials and advertisements in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Over the past ten years he has conducted thousands of seminars on negotiation, sales leadership and wellness for numerous public and private sector organizations.

He is the President of The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg and the founder of the Institute’s Communicating with Executive Presence program as well as their Transformational Journey from Gettysburg leadership development experience.

David Rusk – Urban Planning

“David Rusk is the hottest urban expert in the nation today,” the Baltimore Sun commented in reviewing Baltimore Unbound. Cities Without Suburbs, the Congressional Quarterly wrote, has virtually become the Bible of the regionalism movement.” The Government Finance Review called Rusk’s most recent book, Inside Game/Outside Game, “a must-read for all practicing local government officials, elected or appointed, working in a metropolitan area.”
Rusk combines strong analytical skills with practical political experience. He is a former federal official, New Mexico legislator (1975-77) and mayor of Albuquerque (1977-81), the USA’s 36th largest city.

Rusk is now an independent consultant on urban and suburban policy. Since 1993 he has spoken and consulted in over 120 US communities. Abroad, Rusk has lectured on urban problems in England; Berlin, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt, Germany; and in Toronto and Victoria, Canada. In 1997 he served as an advisor to the government of South Africa on metropolitan governance in Johannesburg, Capetown, and Durban. During 2000 he was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and Delft Technical University in The Netherlands.

Rusk attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa as the outstanding undergraduate student in economics (1962). From 1963-68 he was a full-time civil rights and anti-poverty worker with the Washington Urban League. He then entered the U.S. Department of Labor, serving as the Manpower Administration’s legislative and program development director.

Jack Schultz – Economic Development

Jack Schultz, CEO of Boomtown Institute is a premier authority in economic development recognized for his ongoing research and vast knowledge of rural America.  In his book, Boomtown USA: The 7 1/2 Keys to Big Success In Small Towns and the popular presentation by the same name, jack exposes the well-hidden truth of America’s hometowns that he fondly calls, the agurbs®.  Jack established Boomtown Institute to better share his continuous research and sought after knowledge.  The Institute’s mission is ‘To provoke innovative thinking, encourage leadership and foster involvement in communities across the U.S.A.  Jack says, “Vision is the difference between a ghost town and a Boomtown!”   Through Boomtown USA, Jack inspires communities to construct their own vision deliberately, not waiting on the inevitable to happen.

Aniban Basu – Economics

Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Basu is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers and law firms. On behalf of government agencies and non-profit organizations, Mr. Basu has written several high-profile economic development strategies, including co-authoring Baltimore City’s economic growth strategy.

In recent years, he has focused upon health economics, the economics of education and economic development. He currently lectures at Johns Hopkins University in micro-, macro- and international economics.

Mr. Basu is involved with numerous organizations in a voluntary capacity, including serving as a Baltimore City Public School System board member. Mr. Basu is also on the boards of Union Memorial Hospital, the MedStar strategic planning committee, Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity and the Maryland Business Council. He is also chairman of the Baltimore County Economic Advisory Committee and economic advisor to the Baltimore-Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Basu earned his B.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1990. He earned his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Master’s in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Juris Doctor was earned at the University of Maryland School of Law in 2003.

Rick Segel – Retail Sales and Marketing

Rick Segel, CSP, Author of Retail Business Kit for Dummies and The 5,000 Best Sale and Promotional Names and Ideas

He has over 25 years experience as a successful retailer, speaker, and author.  Provocative, interactive and outrageously funny, Rick delivers substance in a very unique style.  He uses humor, anecdote and every day allegories to make it easy for people to absorb messages that are vitally important to your company.