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Carr Hagerman
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Rather than follow the path of MBA into the corporate world, Carr Hagerman took his talent to the streets - literally. Over 30 years ago he bean his career as a professional street performer when he created a gritty, smart. irreverent, and irresistible character called the Rat Catcher for a festival in Minnesota. The Rat Catcher's innate ability to release the Natural Energy in his audiences made him an instant hit and attracted corporate America.
For 15 years Carr has been a business speaker, film producer, writer and leadership consultant, translating his streetwise wisdom into insightful provocative and humorous live performances that energize audiences and leave them filled with instantly usable ideas. In 1998, he began working with Charthouse Learning, an educational documentary film company, and their film Fish! Fish! has become an international phenomenon and lead to his collaboration with author Steve Lundin, in writing "Top Performer" (released by Hyperion in 2007) an allegory about the ideas of street performing applied to sales and service. On stage, as well as in the the Top Performer book, and in his breakthrough DVD, Top Performer, Carr presents a lively and accessible new paradigm for connection and engagement based on lessons from the street, and the corporate stage.
With an eye on "what's next" for business, Carr's presentations focus on building thriving environments rich in collaboration, engagement, and the power of human connection.
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Brian Parsley
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Brian Parsley is a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst who speaks to companies on sales, customer loyalty, and employee retention. Pulling from his experience as Chairman of a national online recruitment site, his extensive background in the temporary staffing business; and as COO of BuyGitomer, Inc., Brian knows what it takes to create environments that increase revenue while keeping employees and customers loyal.
Brian's seminars provide real-world insights into the connection between employee behavior and bottom-line results. He travels the country educating managers and employees on the importance of sales, customer loyalty, and employee retention
and how it affects their organizations. Brian's clients include BMW, Ferguson Enterprises, Inc., Liberty Mutual, Principal Financial Group, Bank of America, Centex Homes, Met Life, Principal Financial, Snelling Personnel, Glaxo Smith Kline, John Deere, Blockbuster, VPD, Trader Publishing, and many more.
Brian's passion for serving is evident in all aspects of his life. He has spent over six years volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Brian was also recently named one of Charlotte, North Carolina's Top 40 Executives under 40 years old.
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Stavros Cosmopulos
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Stavros was born in Dorcester, MA, and has been a nationally and internationally recognized advertising creative director for more than three decades. He has created and produced award winning, humorous, provacative advertising and graphic designs from television commercials, magazine and print ads to corporate identity programs. His awards include Andys, Hatch, Addys, Clios, One Show and a bronze lion from the Cannes Film Festival. His clients have included: Dexter Shoes, Dodge Automobiles, Dunkin' Donuts "Munchkins", Fenway Franks, Charleston Chews, Spaulding, John Hancock, Liberty Mutual, New England Life, Fleet Bank, Bank of New England, Bank of Boston, Brighams, Data General, Wang, Polaroid and his favorite: the "Me" campaign for the state of Maine tourism. He started his career at an advertising agency in Detroit and moved to New York City, then lived on a 38' yawl in Florida and founded his first agency in Palm Beach. Following creative stints at BBDO and Kenyon & Eckhardt, he founded Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopolous in 1968 in Boston, where he served as chairman of the board and co-creative director. Today that agency has over $250 million in billings. |
Douglas Fry
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The talented Douglas Fry, executive director of the Southeastern Advertising Publishers Association
(SAPA), will be on hand to lead a graphics session with a focus on "What Went Wrong With This Ad." He'll have plenty of examples of things that can go wrong from design to print. Bring your own tough examples and make it even more fun for everyone.
He'll also moderate the Graphics Roundtable on Saturday morning.There should be time at the end of the afternoon session for a participant-driven Question & Answer/Troubleshooting session. Graphic artists are invited to participate in the shaping of the sessions by submitting particular issues, questions or problems to Douglas prior to the conference via e-mail at info@sapatoday.com.
Well known in the industry as a graphics and computer expert, Douglas has a varied background in
the free paper industry. He started in display sales at Ad-Pak in the early 1980's, becoming its
publisher 16 months later. Three years later he moved to The Exchange in Fayetteville (Tenn.) as
assistant to the publisher, where he worked from 1986-97 before moving to a sister company to manage its prepress operation for three years. He then worked as ad manager and start-up engineer for Tennessee Home & Farm magazine before taking on SAPA's executive director position in 2002. |
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