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SUMMARY:September General Meeting - Attracting\, Incubating\, and Holding Businesses
LOCATION:REI - 222 Yale Ave. N\, 2nd Floor Conference Room
DESCRIPTION:http://www.sluchamber.org/Default.aspx?pageId=120818&eventId=78703&EventViewMode=EventDetails\n\n\nSeptember General Meeting: \n\n Attracting\, Incubating\, and Holding Businesses\n\n \nGuest Speaker:  Carol Sanford\, CEO of InterOctave\, Inc.\n\nTopic:  NextGen Sustainability—Using the concept of regeneration to build and sustain businesses and communities\nRegeneration is a concept with a track record for attracting\, incubating\, and holding businesses through up and down market cycles and it creates significant business growth.\nFor a neighborhood\, regeneration leads to discovering the patterns that represent its ‘Story of Place’ (TM).  For a business\, regeneration means discovering its unique identity. Regeneration avoids layering on generic templates and fosters that which is distinctive and “attracting\,” thereby drawing companies\, talent\, and buyers to it. \n\nMost amazingly\, when business and economic development are integrated\, there is a multiplier effect that tends to future-proof and competitor-proof both the neighborhoods and the businesses in them. \n\n    * Five things you can do to simultaneously improve the economic health of your business and neighborhood economics \n\n\n    * Why not everything “local” is sustainable (and vice versa) and how to “do local” regeneratively\n\n    * Stories of three businesses/communities that have proven the effectiveness of simultaneous regeneration.\n\n\nThe businesses to be discussed are: Seventh Generation Inc. in Burlington\, VT\; Brattleboro Coop\, in Brattleboro\, VT\; and DuPont Inc. in Wilmington DE/Delisle\, MS.  The community that will share the spotlight is McAllen\, TX\, for a downtown neighborhood development project (residential\, commercial\, and open space) that stabilized and grew businesses at double their typical rate. \n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n    * Carol Sanford has more than 25 years of global experience helping businesses and organizations position themselves strategically.\n\n    * She has led major consulting efforts in both Fortune 500 and new economy businesses.\n\n    * She was the keynote speaker for The Competitiveness Institute Global Conference on Creating Healthy Businesses while achieving Economic Development\n\n    * She’s been a featured speaker for MIT/Sloan Management School Review Excerpts from this talk can be viewed on YouTube \n\n\n    * Carol’s been a consultant to Fortune 100 and New Economy Businesses on Strategic Business Growth and Corporate Responsibility http://www.interoctave.com\n\n    * She’s the Program Director and lead faculty member of Antioch University Seattle’s certificate program\, "Corporate Responsibility 3.0 - What the Vanguard is Doing Now."\n\n---\n\n*Meeting Location:  REI - 222 Yale Ave. N\, 2nd Floor Conference Room\nContact (206) 547-2577 or info@SLUChamber.org to learn more.  Non-Members welcome!\n\nTypical Meeting Structure:\n11:30 am to 12:00 - Network/Eat/Hello\n12:00  to 12:10 - Introductions and announcements\n12:10 to 12:45 pm - Main Program\n12:45 to 1:00 - Questions\, Raffle\n- End of Meeting -\n \n**Preregistrations are encouraged.  Walk-ins (member and non-members) will be charged $20 at the door cash or check**\n\nYour email address must be associated with a member profile to receive member discounts.  Please email info@SLUchamber.org if your email is not recognized by our system.\n\nMeeting Location Provided by \nREI\n\n\n\n 	
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