2021 First Friday Breakfast-May 7th (EXPO)
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Join us for our First Friday Breakfast at the EXPO!
The Breakfast program will feature our 3rd Annual Workforce Signing Day Program & Keynote Speaker Jon Harrison.
After the breakfast concludes, make plans to visit the EXPO Floor featuring over 80 exhibitors.
Looking at the workplace through a different lens
Whether you are a seasoned ?manager? or a new entry-level employee, Jon Harrison will challenge you to look at the workplace through a very different lens; one that can pay huge dividends for society as a whole.
Keynote Bio:
Jon Harrison is a former executive at Caterpillar Inc., who, at the peak of his 25-year career, left due to a calling to serve people who are often overlooked and under-appreciated. Jon?s responsibilities as a global leader included several domestic and overseas leadership assignments including managing director roles in Australia and Japan. Jon was most often tasked with leading teams to turn around underperforming large entities within Caterpillar. In his last assignment for the company, Jon led the startup of the newest and largest manufacturing facility of the company at that time (located in Little Rock, AR).
Jon?s definition of success has always been unique, both in his personal and professional life. To Jon, success goes well beyond improving the bottom-line success of an organization ensuring that the lives of the people in the organization also improve (at work and at home). He refused to believe that a positive, values-based work environment and a successful bottom line were mutually exclusive. In fact, he discovered the opposite was true. Jon has proven that long-term sustainable success is driven by establishing high expectations (both behavioral and performance) for everyone, hiring and investing in a team of values-driven, informed and passionate (VIP) people who align with those expectations, holding everyone accountable to the expectations, and measuring the impact of the work culture on an ongoing basis. Jon now refers to this simple, but powerful approach as the VIP Way and it has proven successful in organizations which have adopted it with his and his teams assistance.
People spend the majority of their waking life at work, yet studies show that roughly two-thirds of our society is disengaged at work. The negative impact this has on the economy, on communities, on individual organizations, and especially on families is incredibly significant. Jon has dedicated the rest of his life to boldly surface this issue, but more importantly, to help individuals and organizations make the VIP Way a reality in their lives at work and at home.
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Date and Time
Friday May 7, 2021
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CDT
Friday, May 7th, 2021
7:30-8:30a.m.
Program begins at 7:30 AM, doors open at 7:00am
Networking before and after the program
Location
Fort Smith Convention Center
Hall A
55 S. 7th Street
Fees/Admission
$10 Exhibitor Add-On Tickets Payments for less than $20 will not be invoiced.
$18.00 per member
$20.00 non member
You may pay with a credit card through the registration link or cash, check, or credit card payments will also be accepted at the door.
Contact Information
Lindsey Trantham
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