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What's Next? Evolving With Relevance
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Thu, Sep 9 2010 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT
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What’s Next? Evolving with Relevance
Many of our communication entrepreneurs are finding themselves at a stage in their career where they’re asking, “What’s next?” This is the question that three senior communicators, each with a slightly different approach, will discuss at the September 9 ESIG program.
Giving back to the community: Jim Boyles, Sr., founded Artisan Field in 1968, growing it into a major Houston marketing and design firm with national recognition. The company became the family business as Jim’s children applied their creative talents to the thriving company. In 2005, Jim and Artisan Field began St. Basil’s Coffee, a non-profit coffee company whose proceeds promote social justice and provide help for impoverished people in Latin America. Jim retired from Artisan Field to become a full-time president to St. Basil’s and manage this important family project.
Adapting to a country home: Elaine McCasland Thomas, ABC, began her career in 1980 with Enron predecessor Houston Natural Gas and stayed until 1999 when she resigned to start her own company, Calla Communications, Inc. She moved to an 80-acre farm at the end of a dead end road in Fayette County south of La Grange to join her husband, Emil, who also had fled Enron. In the last 11 years, Elaine has been instrumental in the birth of a new county hospital, written more than 165 columns for the local newspaper, worked as a writer and public relations consultant for organizations in Fayette County and Houston, and recently started a new venture that involves recording, writing and producing family stories.
Giving back to the profession: Mark Schumann, ABC, says he’s been communicating since birth but only in a professional manner for 33 years. He began his career as the Director of Employee Communications for Denver-based Frontier Airlines, then, became a Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson) consultant and leader, spearheading major change communication/brand/merger and acquisition assignments for ExxonMobil, American Express, and JPMorgan Chase, to name just a few.
For the past year, as Chair of IABC, International, he traveled over 110,000 miles to five continents to share conversations with business communicators about the profession, its future, its challenges, its essentials. Recently retired from Towers Watson, Mark is an independent consultant and looking at the world from A Communicator’s View, sharing his thoughts on the countless opportunities for us all to continue to learn what it takes to effectively connect people, organizations and nations through effective communication.
Come hear this spirited and inspiring panel, then participate in a discussion on how you might take the next steps in your career, with relevance.
Join us at the fabulous LaGriglia, Thursday, September 9, at 11:30 a.m.
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Note that the deadline for registration is 11am the day before this event.
Guests may either pay online or provide cash or check at the door. No credit cards can be accepted at the door. No shows will be billed.
We thank the following members of the Issues Task Force for organizing this program: Alice Brink, ABC, APR, A Brink & Co.; Beverly Freeman, APR, Freeman Communications; Beth Miller, ABC, Beth S. Miller Marketing Communications; and Mark Schumann, ABC, A Communicator's View.
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What's Next? Evolving With Relevance
Sponsored by ESIG - Entrepreneurs Strategic Interest Group
Thu, Sep 9 2010 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT
Speaker Panel Presentation
Biography
Introducing our Panel
Jim Boyles, Sr., founded Artisan Field in 1968, growing it into a major Houston marketing and design firm with national recognition. The company became the family business as Jim’s children applied their creative talents to the thriving company. In 2005, Jim and Artisan Field began St. Basil’s Coffee, a non-profit coffee company whose proceeds promote social justice and provide help for impoverished people in Latin America. Jim retired from Artisan Field to become a full-time president to St. Basil’s and manage this important family project.
Elaine McCasland Thomas, ABC, began her career in 1980 with Enron predecessor Houston Natural Gas and stayed until 1999 when she resigned to start her own company, Calla Communications, Inc. She moved to an 80-acre farm at the end of a dead end road in Fayette County south of La Grange to join her husband, Emil, who also had fled Enron. In the last 11 years, Elaine has been instrumental in the birth of a new county hospital, written more than 165 columns for the local newspaper, worked as a writer and public relations consultant for organizations in Fayette County and Houston, and recently started a new venture that involves recording, writing and producing family stories. 
Mark Schumann, ABC, says he’s been communicating since birth but only in a professional manner for 33 years.For the past year, as Chair of IABC International, he traveled over 110,000 miles to five continents to share conversations with business communicators about the profession, its future, its challenges, its essentials. Recently retired from Towers Watson, Mark is an independent consultant and looking at the world from A Communicator’s View, sharing his thoughts on the countless opportunities for us all to continue to learn what it takes to effectively connect people, organizations and nations through effective communication.What's Next? Evolving With Relevance
Sponsored by ESIG - Entrepreneurs Strategic Interest Group
Thu, Sep 9 2010 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT
The Fabulous La Griglia
2002 West GrayHouston TX 77019
Google Maps | Hotels Near | Yahoo! Maps | Weather Forecast
What's Next? Evolving With Relevance
Sponsored by ESIG - Entrepreneurs Strategic Interest Group
Thu, Sep 9 2010 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT
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