Thriving Through Recession: Hope Leadership

The Business and Professional Women of Durham Dinner Meeting: April 29, 2009
The current economic downturn is like no other recession before it: a worldwide shakeout that will sweep away businesses that are weak or merely average. How will your company survive? National business columnist Rick Spence (Financial Post, PROFIT
Magazine) offers a multi-part formula that will focus everyone in your organization on thriving through the recession: value-based innovation; inviting the customer into your company; embracing measured marketing; and practicing Obama-style “Hope Leadership.” Using lessons from past recessions and current business success stories from across Canada, Spence combines big-picture strategies with practical, easy-to-manage tactics that you can put to work right away in your business.

Rick Spence is a Toronto-based business writer, speaker and consultant dedicated to helping businesses grow. His expertise includes marketing, finance, best management practices, startups and green business. Rick is the former editor and publisher of PROFIT, The Magazine for Canadian Entrepreneurs. He currently writes regular columns on entrepreneurship for the National Post, PROFIT and MoneySense magazines. He wrote the first Canadian book on growth business (Secrets of Success from Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies, 1997). Rick has taught “New Venture Startup” at Ryerson University and sits on the board of directors of a Toronto-based geophysical software company. He blogs regularly on entrepreneurship issues at Canadian Entrepreneur (http://www.canentrepreneur.com).

This month we are donating to: Girls Inc. For more info go to: http://www.girlsinc-durham.org

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Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 9PM

Costs:
Members: $25.00/person
Guests: $35.00/person

Location: The New Globe Restaurant
60 Athol Street East, Oshawa
Directions: One block south of King Street, East of Simcoe Street and West of Mary Street. Free Parking