Our after-dinner speaker is Joe Williams, President of Jordan’s Marketing in St. Louis. Joe will speak about Workplace Resilience and his encounter with a Grizzly Bear.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Engineers' Club of St. Louis
4359 Lindell Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63108
- 5:30 - 6:00 pm: Registration and Social/Networking
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Extended Networking
- 7:00 - 7:30 pm: Dinner & Section Business
- 7:30 - 8:00 pm: Resilience for Individuals and Organizations, presented by Joe Williams - President, Jordan's Marketing.
Section members who register and pre-pay online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for members paying at the door and for guests is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15.
You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.
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Driving Directions
From Lambert International Airport to Engineers’ Club of St. Louis
- Head toward the I-70E entry ramp and go onto I-70E - go 0.7 mi
- Take exit 238B to merge onto I-170 S - go 7.9 mi
- Take exit 1A to merge onto I-64 E/US-40 E toward St Louis - go 4.7 mi
- Take exit 36B for Kingshighway N - go 0.2 mi
- Merge onto S Kingshighway Blvd - go 0.9 mi
- Turn right at Lindell Blvd - go 0.7 m
- Arrive at 4359 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108
September 16, 2008 Membership Meeting Highlights
Before-Dinner Activity
Extended Networking Session
Before-Dinner Activity
Extended Networking Session
We are organizing this networking session based on the excellent feedback we received for the March membership meeting, which also included a speed networking session. It is an excellent opportunity for our members to meet fellow attendees to make potential business contacts. You can talk to other individuals about your business and hear about theirs. Bring lots of business cards!
After-Dinner Presentation
Resilience for Individuals and Organizations
Presented by Joe Williams, President of Jordan Marketing, Ltd.
Resilience for Individuals and Organizations
Presented by Joe Williams, President of Jordan Marketing, Ltd.
Resilience - the ability to bounce back from adversity and misfortune – is a critical attribute of successful individuals and organizations. Some people are able to overcome the most horrific personal tragedies and succeed against overwhelming odds. Others are devastated by relatively minor occurrences and never regain their composure. One company will weather the storm of disaster and emerge stronger than ever, while another firm facing the same challenges will collapse faster than a house of cards. How is it that some individuals and organizations are able to weather the storm and others are not? The reasons can be summarized in one word – resilience.
In this presentation, you’ll meet Joseph Lisle Williams who, at the age of twenty, was attacked by a grizzly bear while taking an evening hike through Glacier National Park. Through a terrifying forty-five minute ordeal, he drew upon his innate resilience to survive. Subsequently, he has continued to develop and enhance the skills that are critical to achieving individual and organizational resilience in the face of any crisis. He also stresses the importance of applying these principles to the minor irritations of everyday life – as a way to keep them from becoming major catastrophes. This presentation offers an engaging, humorous, and practical approach for understanding and developing this essential attribute.
Presentation Objectives:
- Learn the seven components that make up the resilient character
- Understand the need for resilience to deal with both crisis situations and daily challenges
- Learn how to identify opportunities to build individual resiliency skills
- Understand how to use resiliency to manage stressful situations
- Learn how to build organizational resilience
In addition to holding the distinction of being one of the few people who has actually been eaten by a bear, Joseph Williams is President of Jordan Marketing, Ltd, a St. Louis-based food brokerage firm. During his career as an executive in the food industry, Mr. Williams has held senior management positions with such firms as Banquet Foods, Con-Agra, and Golden Valley Microwave. He lives in Chesterfield, Missouri.
Section members who register and pre-pay online are entitled to a $5 discount, which brings the meeting fee down to $25. Meeting fee for members paying at the door and for guests is $30, while students and members between jobs pay $15.
You can also send an email to registration@asqstlouis.org, call the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis at (314) 533-9333 or send a fax to (314) 533-9336.
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