Bocce Event: Campo di Bocce

Bocce Event: Campo di Bocce

campodibocce[1]Join us an evening of fun and networking!

On May 14th TVCF will be hosting an evening of bocce at Campo di Bocce in Livermore. This is a super fun venue and will be an excellent opportunity for the Tri-Valley’s best consultants to come out and have a great time. If you’ve never played before, not to worry! It’s a ton of fun, easy to learn, and doesn’t require any particular athletic ability. Bring your can-do attitude and you’ll be ready to go!

Even though this will be a lot of fun, you know the Tri-Valley Consultants Forum means business, so this will also be an excellent opportunity to network with some of the other top consultants in the area. Be sure to bring those business cards and get ready to make some great new contacts.

Event Details:
Campo di Bocce (Google Map)
175 East Vineyard Ave
Livermore, CA 94550

Date of Event: Tuesday May 14, 2013
Court time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Fee $20 at the door (cash please!)

Your fee covers the cost to play. There is a full no-host bar at the venue where you’ll be able to order your choice of beverages, as well as a great restaurant with all your Italian favorites in case you work up an appetite on the courts and want to continue the conversation with your new contacts over some pizza or pasta.

Dashboards: Turn Data into Roadsigns not Roadblocks

Dashboards: Turn Data into Roadsigns not Roadblocks

Steve PetersonManaging data can either be a time consuming roadblock to efficient and effective decision making or a competitive advantage by providing roadsigns that can indicate what lies ahead.  Successful emerging businesses use dashboards to improve decision making, manage costs and identify new business opportunities. This session will provide an overview to business owners and entrepreneurs on dashboards, business intelligence and key performance indicators.  It will also focus on how to efficiently navigate through multi-dimensional data, and demonstrate how data visualization, aka Dashboards, is a powerful tool in making sense out of a “sea of data.”

Key take-aways will include:

  • Identify what information is critical to your business (building and operation), your Key Performance Indicators.
  • How to create dashboards.
  • How to support your decision making process.
  • How dashboards can help identify your business’s opportunities.
  • Build a personal stock of verifiable and sustainable business intelligence.
  • Maintain your competitive edge with a repeatable business intelligence process.

Steve Peterson has over 30 years of accounting and financial management experience for public companies as well as internet start-ups. Leveraging his passion for improved financial reporting and business knowledge, Steve started webKPI with Steve Sweeney in 2007. Prior to webKPI, Steve was the CFO for divisions of American Broadcasting Corporation (Television and Publishing); CFO at News Corporation’s Harper Collins San Francisco and GM for GST Telecommunications .

In addition, he raised over $20 million in venture funding for several startups, plus co-founded SentryTrack Systems to provide municipal infrastructure monitoring. Steve launched the largest QuickBooks Business Coach network in the country and has been a speaker at UC Berkeley and the Sleeter Conference. Steve holds a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University, a BS in Accounting from Villanova University and is a CPA.

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Where: Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526 (Google map link)

When: Wednesday May 8th from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. (10:00 for open networking)

Cost: $25 if you pre-register ($20 for Charter Members), $35 CASH at the door (fee includes buffet breakfast)

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Where thought leadership can take you…One woman’s journey to something called Gamification

Where thought leadership can take you…One woman’s journey to something called Gamification

02566abJoin us in April to learn about the adventures that can ensue from pursuing thought leadership on behalf of your clients!

One of TVCF’s four pillars of success is Learning…to provide innovation and thought leadership to our clients. Our speaker and TVCF’s co-founder, Rosemarie McKenney, will entertain us with the story of one such effort to provide thought leadership and where it led her – to something called Gamification, a trendy new approach that brings gaming and business together.

You will have fun learning about Gamification during Rosemarie’s highly interactive talk. And you will have a chance to learn from other consultants, as well as share your own stories, about how you have integrated thought leadership into your own consulting practice.

Rosemarie, principal of R-Squared Leadership Advisors, LLC, brings appreciative business practices to her clients. She helps her clients build strategic plans, collaborate with their clients, and engage their employees by using positive-focused, strength-based techniques. Her deep corporate experience as a senior executive at companies such as Hewlett Packard and EDS coupled with her master’s degree in Organization Development give her work a solid and practical foundation.

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Where: Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526 (Google map link)

When: Wednesday April 10th from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. (10:00 for open networking)

Cost: $25 if you pre-register ($20 for Charter Members), $35 CASH at the door (fee includes buffet breakfast)

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Legal Tips for Business Consultants and Their Clients

Legal Tips for Business Consultants and Their Clients

Kristen Hayes Kuse

Kristen Hayes Kuse will be sharing important considerations for consultants and our clients to keep in mind.

Ms. Kuse is the founder of Integrated General Counsel. She has thirteen years of experience practicing law both as part of in-house counsel teams for large corporations to small companies and as a litigator for major law firms. She has many years of experience handling a variety of corporate matters and litigation in state and federal courts. Her current practice includes general counsel representation for her clients, which comprise a variety of small and medium-sized companies. Ms. Kuse is a licensed member of the State Bar of California, practicing law in the San Francisco Bay/Tri-Valley Areas.

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Where: Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526 (Google map link)

When: Wednesday March 13th from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. (10:00 for open networking)

Cost: $25 if you pre-register ($20 for Charter Members), $35 CASH at the door (fee includes buffet breakfast)

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Secrets of Selling to Multicultural Clients

Secrets of Selling to Multicultural Clients

michael_soon_lee_photoAs business becomes more global consultants are increasingly faced with building trusting relationships with decision-makers whose culture is different from their own. Unfortunately, in the first thirty seconds most untrained consultants will unintentionally insult a multicultural client at least three times. In this thought-provoking presentation from our guest speaker, you will learn how to avoid rapport-killing behaviors so you can close more deals with all your clients regardless of their culture.

Learn to:

  1. Become aware of how differences between cultures can affect your business.
  2. Build cross-cultural rapport quickly and easily.
  3. Develop trusting relationships across cultures.
  4. How culture can affect how clients implement or ignore your advice.

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Michael Soon Lee, MBA, is an award-winning salesperson and sales consultant. He has taught multicultural marketing and sales at universities and consulted with over 1,000 companies around the world. He is the author of seven books including, “Cross-Cultural Selling for Dummies” and “Black Belt Negotiating.”

Where: Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526 (Google map link)

When: Wednesday February 13th from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Cost: $25 if you pre-register ($20 for Charter Members), $35 CASH at the door (fee includes buffet breakfast)

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Give Your Way to Success

Give Your Way to Success

Teri BachLearn how a small shift in focus from getting to giving; in this case meaning constantly and consistently providing value to peoples’ lives, is not only a more fulfilling way to live life, but a very financially profitable way, as well.

During this presentation, you will learn how to apply each of The Five Laws to effectively build your business and create more income, while enjoying the process more than ever before.

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  1. Learn the difference between price and value.
  2. How to build solid trusting relationships personally and in business by applying the Five Laws.
  3. Why learning to receive is as important as learning to give.
  4. What is selling really about?
  5. What is the Law of Left Field and why is it important?

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Our presenter for this thought-provoking experience is Teri Bach. Teri has been a psychotherapist for more than 20 years. She uses this background in coaching to help people expand their businesses and income by implementing the 5 Laws of Stratospheric Success of the Go Giver teachings. She is a Certified Go Giver coach, having been trained and mentored by the Go Giver himself, Bob Burg. He is the co-author of the Go Giver series. Teri is also trained in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or Tapping) and uses this with clients to help them with issues such as physical pain, anxiety and blocks to financial freedom.

Cultivating Success by Finding Your Ideal Clients

Cultivating Success by Finding Your Ideal Clients

Five tips to turbocharge your online presence

Isn’t it time you learned how to:

  • Create a professional image that rocks
  • Show people you have the solutions they need
  • Build SEO campaigns that blow away your competition
  • Promote yourself as the best in the business
  • Get the right people to hire you

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Presented by Mark Anthony Germanos, Social Media Director at YourSEOWizard.com. Mark uses Internet tools to help your ideal customers find you, your products and your services.

In today’s uncertain economy, money is not moving as freely as it used to move. You have to be good at what you do and your marketing has to be great. If so, you get to stay in business. If not, you become a statistic.

Fasten your seatbelt. Mark challenges you to adopt new ideas early and use them to blow away your competition. In Cultivating Success…, Mark shows you how to promote yourself as the best in the business and build Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaigns that will knock their socks off. You will be on page one of Google searches.

Mark is a small business owner too. He restarted his business in California with a cell phone and a Honda Civic. An avid triathlete and yoga student, Mark has a life, a dream wife and a dog.

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Save the Date: January 2013 Networking Event

Save the Date: January 2013 Networking Event

Come join the Tri Valley Consultants Forum as we kick off the new year!

On January 15, 2013 TVCF will be hosting a networking event at the beautiful Pasta Primavera Ristorante & Bar in San Ramon. This should be a great opportunity for folks to get the New Year off to a great start and network with some of the Tri Valley’s top consultants!

Your $10 contribution covers the venue and appetizers. We know how you can work up a thirst doing all that networking, so there is also a no-host bar where you can purchase your favorite networking libations.
Get your new year started off right and come make your next great connection!

Event Details:
Pasta Primavera Ristorante & Bar
3124 Crow Canyon Place
San Ramon, CA 94583

Date of Event: Tuesday January 15, 2013
Court time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Fee $10

Your fee covers the cost of the venue and some appetizers. There is a full non-hosted bar at the venue where you’ll be able to order your choice of beverages, as well as a great restaurant with all your Italian favorites in case you work up an appetite networking and want to continue the conversation with your new contacts over some great Italian cuisine.

Accelerating Client Access to Capital

Accelerating Client Access to Capital

We are pleased to have secured another great speaker for a hot topic. If you would like to position your company for investment, or help your clients do the same, this is a great opportunity to get the scoop from an insider.

Please note that, like last month, the breakfast meeting will be held at the Crow Canyon Country Club. This meeting is being held on November 14, 2012. Click “Register Now” for further details.

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As the saying goes, money makes the world go ’round. Startups and mature companies alike often need access to capital in order to pursue new markets, develop new products, or re-tool company infrastuctures for success. In this talk, we will learn strategies for improving our clients’ access to capital.

Our speaker: Dave Mosby
Executive Director, Keiretsu Forum Academy, Author, and CEO

Dave is a pioneering software technologist and business leader skilled at uncovering and developing hidden assets that enable rapid growth in early stage and underperforming software and services companies. As CEO, he led three profitable software and services companies; at the public company, grew revenues from $1m to $16m and public market cap. 60-fold in less than 3 years; negotiated license agreements with industry leading software companies, trade association, and export licenses with Department of Commerce and NSA. In each unique situation he attracted results-focused leadership teams and innovative enterprise strategies that enabled access to capital (public and private placement), relationships (industry and thought leaders), and customer advocacy that powered growth. These experiences have paved the way for a highly acclaimed book, The Paradox of Excellence: How Great Performance Can Kill Your Business, and his bookings as a keynote speaker through BigSpeak.com.

In recent years, Dave has worked with CEO’s of companies in transition in industries as diverse as logistics, building supply, elearning and financial services. His volunteer activities with Gideons International help touch lives around the world. For fun, he and his wife Ginny enjoy riding their sport motorcycle throughout the back roads of Northern California and beyond.

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A Mayor’s View of the Tri-Valley Business Opportunity

A Mayor’s View of the Tri-Valley Business Opportunity

The Honorable Newell Arnerich, Mayor of Danville, will be our guest speaker for our October breakfast meeting. Mr. Arnerich is both a long time business leader and community leader in the Tri-Valley area. We are pleased to have him both address our group and join in our networking breakfast.

Please note that in order to accommodate a larger attendance this month, the breakfast meeting will be moved to the Crow Canyon Country Club.

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