Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce
2016 Business Building Symposium
presented by
HBKS Wealth Advisors & HBK CPAs & Consultants
The third annual Business Building Symposium presented by HBKS Wealth Advisors and HBK CPAs & Consultants, includes a selection of informative presentations and panel sessions, and features a keynote luncheon with nationally-acclaimed speaker, Bill Capodagli, author of “The Disney Way,” with insight into how businesses of any size can apply Disney’s success principles.
The breakout sessions take their inspiration from the keynote topic and tie the Disney themes to business success, with Be Our Guest, Tomorrowland, and Imagineering.
Breakout speakers:
Be Our Guest
Michael Wynn, President, Sunshine Ace Hardware
Michelle L. Reed Spitzer, MaidPro of SW Florida
Panel: Mark Blust, The Prawnbroker Restaurant Group, Margie Byers, Lee County Library System & Amanda Stirn, Florida SBDC at Florida Gulf Coast University
Tomorrowland
Christin Collins, Lee Memorial Health System
Kathy George, Spherion Staffing
John Hillman, Kitson & Partners
Imagineering
Q&A Session with: Kellie Nolan, Be Brilliant! and Phil Stalnaker, B2 Solutions
Reema Bhatia, Stickboy Creative
Ray Higdon
We are excited to have the GATOR CAGE® as a bonus session again this year. Sometime in your entrepreneurial career you will have to make a presentation to raise funding whether it’s your family, friends, bank, angels, venture capitalists or investors and 98% get turned down! Do you know of an entrepreneur that would like to pitch their idea for possible funding? Present to the GATOR CAGE® and learn how to get it right.
Click Here to Apply for the Gator Cage®
Thank you to our sponsors:
HBKS Weatlh Advisors
LeeSar Inc
Enterprise
IBERIABANK
Minaya Learning Global Solutions LLC
FSBDC at FGCU
Be Brilliant! Brilliant Lens
Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A.
Gulfshore Business
Thrive at Beachwalk
Additional sponsorship opportunities are still available!
Please contact Tracy Siekmann at Tracy@fortmyers.org for more information.