Don’t Miss this Max Talk Event
Are you ready to be inspired? Come hear three great speakers share their creative ideas and stories that will provoke, inspire and excite at SMPS CT’s first MAX talk event on February 15, 2017 from 3:00-6:00 PM at the Spotlight Theaters, Front Street Stadium 4 in Hartford. After the program, join us at the networking cocktail hour for an opportunity to connect and engage with the speakers and other attendees. For more information, or to register for this event, please visit us at www.smpsct.org. This year’s topics include:
‘The Right Mindset to Life’s Challenges” – Gina Bedoya, FSMPS |President, Bedoya Business Strategies, Inc.
Life Happens: As marketers, it is our nature to plan—plan our work, plan our personal lives, plan for the future. But what happens when change enters the picture? Do we bury our heads and ignore it? Or do we embrace it? Unanticipated change, if negative, can cause doubt, frustration, and insecurity This talk focuses on turning negative events into positive challenges by recognizing past fears and insecurities and taking steps to overcome them to o improve our present situation and work on developing positive outcomes.
“Volunteerism and Advocacy leads to Satisfaction and Opportunity” – David Barkin AIA, Chief Architect | State of Connecticut, DAS | Division of Construction Services
When the recently completed Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven, Connecticut was proposed, there were two distinct paths it could have followed: that of elevated roadway or signature bridge. The existing bridge was, unfortunately, the former. In this MAX Talk, David Barkin will discuss his love of bridges and large public works projects – and how successful and inspiring results can be achieved when you have a vision and advocate for it. Hear his story about how group and individual advocacy led to the completed bridge receiving the 2016 grand prize in America’s Transportation Awards competition!
‘The Best Worst Things” – Marissa Dionne Mead, RA, LEED AP | Svigals + Partners
Economic recessions typically hit the architectural industry hard. Everyone knows someone or is someone who has found themselves without work. Despite being somewhat unavoidable, losing a job can feel devastating. Being forced back out into the job market requires us to question our motives, and examine our weaknesses. There can also be the temptation to give up—many architects have left the profession after such a setback. There is also a temptation to, in a sense, ‘wait it out’ until the time is right to jump back in and pick up where one left off.
There is another approach, however, and that is to form a plan of action, which turns the unlucky nature of a circumstance on its head. This is the story of how Marissa Mead used her misfortune as fuel to propel herself forward to the point where she can now look back and say that losing her job turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to her.
What is MAX? MAX is “Market”, “Act”, and “Exchange”. MAX is about you! Bundled into a series of awe inspiring, 15-minute discussions, the program focusses attention on each presenter’s ideas about current issues, lessons, tips and tricks of the trade.
The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) was created in 1973 by a small group of professional services firm leaders who recognized the need to sharpen skills, pool resources, and work together to create business opportunities. Today, SMPS, nationally, represents a dynamic network of 7,000+ marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction, and specialty consulting firms located throughout the United States and Canada. The Society and its 60 chapters benefit from the support of 3,250 design and building firms, encompassing 80% of the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and Top 400 Contractors.
For further information, please contact: Samantha VanSchoick, SMPS Communications Director, [email protected], (860) 627-1927
