On February 23^rd, many attended a SCORE class: “Starting and Growing a Consulting Business” at Greater Seattle SCORE in Seattle, led by John Martinka. I was honored to be a panelist along with Dave Shapiro.

Last week I attended the “Getting the Deal Done Breakfast Conference” in Bellevue, WA. The topic was: “The Importance of Strategy and Culture in Middle Market Companies and Deal Making.”  The conference was outstanding with 100 attendees benefiting from the expert panel, keynote and networking.

This week, please join me at a CAMPS special event for small & mid-sized manufacturing companies and the professionals who support them. This conference is the industry's premiere education & networking event for small & mid-sized manufacturers & the professionals supporting them.

You will learn how high profile companies are creating an innovation culture, leading communication technology solutions, and engaging and executing "intelligent operations" from these business leaders.  You can see old friends, make new ones and network with the Puget Sound's business leaders & support professionals.

CAMPS Manufacturing Conference 2016

Innovation and Looking to the Future
Leveraging Your Full Organization and Supply Chain

“Fire the sales & marketing team” may be heard behind closed doors from unhappy and frustrated leadership. The simplest solution is to remove the marginal team and dig into the “deep well” to hire and train fresh candidates.

Before you borrow the infamous phrase “Your fired!” to chop up the sales & marketing team into small pieces, consider how the difficulty and change the role of a CMO is undergoing.

After serious consideration and research, I recently joined the CAMPS organization. CAMPS is the acronym for Center for Advanced Manufacturing Puget Sound. We quickly realized the benefit of being associated with CAMPS and the high caliber individuals and companies who are members.

An upcoming event with
CAMPS members as award winners.

CAMPS has seven companies or individuals who will be recognized in front of over 300 regional business leaders and organizations at the upcoming Washington Manufacturing Awards event by Seattle Business Magazine.  I am looking forward to April 28, 2016 to join the celebration.

The video below is a kick-off to the recognition and celebration of the accomplishments of all those recognized at the upcoming manufacturing awards event. 

The Executive Network of Seattle upcoming event includes a presentation from Kevin Wilhelm - "Driving Business Value Through Sustainability". Kevin Wilhelm is an author and leading authority on creating and implementing sustainable business practices that increase profitability and business value.