Lunch
and Keynote Speaker Louis
Barajas, Author and Wealth and Business
Planner
The Journey to Financial Greatness™ Details>>
Workshop
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Workshop
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Workshop
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1:30pm
- 3:00pm
Professional
Development:
The Right Fit?* Details>>
This
workshop ends at 3:30pm
Finance
& Investments:
From Institutional Management to Real Estate
Investments* Details>>
Entrepreneurship: Financing Your Vision Today
and Tomorrow* Details>>
Education
and Career Fairs 1:30pm - 4:30pm
*There
wil be a 10 minute break 45 minutes into the
workshop
Session Details:
Destination MBA: Full MBA Cycle
Is an MBA your destination? Come
and listen to what admissions officers have
to say about getting into an MBA program. Learn
effective strategies to navigate your way through
the admissions process. Ask the experts and
a current student what you can do to make the
most of your MBA program. Learn the benefits
and opportunities an MBA brings. Come discover
how to prepare for the graduate business entrance
exam from a Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
representative.
Speakers: Dr.
Rachelle Katz, Ph.D., Associate Dean and
MBA Director, Loyola Marymount University Krysta
Rinke, Graduate Programs Coordinator, Argyros
School of Business and Economics, Chapman University Michael
Raben, Full-Time Faculty, Kaplan Test Prep
and Admisssions J.
Marcella Ayala, MBA, Johnson School of Cornell
University Genaro
Bugarin Jr., MBA Student, USC
Ernesto Morales, Director of Corporate Relations, Pepperdine University
This
interactive networking workshop focuses on why
your relationships are critical in achieving
your professional goals. 75-80% of business
deals are made through referrals.
Networking
is about creating an extended family. It's about
developing connections, caring about people,
increasing and enhancing your relationships.
Networking
is that dynamic skill set that high achievers
use in order to create that win-win situation.
Like so many skill sets, it needs to be practiced
over and over and improved with experience.
Networking is actually FUN!
Speakers: Seth
Sherwood, Executive Director, Family Reading
Inc
Three
books will be given away at the conference:
"How to Make Friends and Influence People"
by Dale Carnegie
Negotiations: Getting to Yes by Focusing on Mutual Gain
Can't seal the deal? Are you
negotiating for an employer, business, or you
and can't get to yes? This workshop will explore
the do's and don'ts of negotiating. How to prepare
for the negotiation, recognize a hard vs. soft
bargain, make the most of your assets when the
other side is more powerful, use objective criteria
in your favor, influence the other side, and
protect yourself from a bad deal will be discussed.
If you can't reach an agreement without giving
in, this workshop will help you recognize when
to walk away.
Speakers: Bill Gil, CEO and President, Facey Medical Foundation
Marketing & Branding: Best Practices for
Cutting Edge Marketing and Branding
Want to take your company's products to the
next level? Learn how to brand beyond marketing.
This may involve re-positioning or revitalizing
existing identities, creating new identities,
or aligning brand portfolios. A strong brand
is invaluable as the battle for customers intensifies.
Your brand is the source of a promise to your
consumer. It's a foundational piece in your
marketing communication and one you do not want
to be without.
Louis Barajas, Author of The
Latino Journey to Financial Greatness, and Small
Business, Big Life, will present an inspiring
workshop on the 4 steps to achieving Financial
Greatness™. Financial Greatness is the concept
of creating, leveraging, and using money to
help express your full potential and live your
highest purpose as a human being.
Mr.
Barajas will teach you the principles of achieving
financial and life success that he learned from
working with billionaires and multi-millionaires.
Mr. Barajas will demonstrate in his presentation
how our limiting cultural beliefs get in the
way to achieving prosperity in our lives. He
will help you learn financial abundance principles
that will help you attract wealth for you and
your family through the use of the four pillars.
Finally, Mr. Barajas will inspire you to find
the courage to go after your dreams no matter
what obstacles lay ahead of you.
Speakers: Louis Barajas, Author and Wealth Business Planner
If
your current professional situation is the wrong
fit, you have two choices: fix it or leave.
The Right Fit Workshop will teach you how to
identify, dissect and evaluate the components
of your current situation to determine whether
you can transform the wrong fit into the right
fit.
Speaker:
Arlene
R. Barro, Ph.D., President & CEO of
Barro Global Search, Inc., and Author of "WIN
Without Competing!"
The
workshop will be limited to 16 people.
Join
Dr. Barro for a book signing of "WIN Without
Competing!," which will be on sale after
the workshop.
Finance & Investments: From Institutional Money Management to Real Estate Investments
Want
to acquire and build wealth for you or your
company? Are you interested in becoming an institutional/portfolio
money manager or a savvy real estate investor?
You can learn how at this workshop. The workshop
offers effective strategies for acquiring and
building wealth in both the financial and real
estate markets. Learn what it takes to succeed
in financial services careers from experienced
and successful professionals.
Learn
how to take advantage of an up, down or sideways
real estate market. Find out the condition of
today's real estate market and what to expect
in the near future. Who are the players and
how they contributed to the subprime loan fiasco
and the current boom in foreclosures. Most importantly,
learn successful strategies and investment opportunities
that can create wealth through this current
cycle. There is great opportunity in the current
real estate market.
Speakers: Fernando Inzunza, CFA, Managing Director Senior
Portfolio Manager, Lombardia Capital Partners,
LLC Henry
Nunez, President, Henry Nunez Real Estate
Co., Inc.
The Entrepreneurship: Financing Your Vision
Today and Tomorrow
Ready
to start or grow your business? In today's fast-pace
environment, the market is more competitive
than ever. Learn practical approaches to develop
a strong business plan that allow you to finance
your business today and sustain it tomorrow.
Effective strategies that focus on new ventures,
growing divisions of the organization, acquiring
existing firms, and exiting successfully will
be discussed. Attend this workshop to learn
what investors want in return for their investment.
Learn what entrepreneurs and investors have
to say about today's start ups.
