2008 WSBDC Business Counselor Training - August 12th - 15th

Tentative Agenda
12-Aug 13-Aug 14-Aug 15-Aug
7:30 A.M. Registration/Check in
8:00 A.M. Get Acquainted 8:00 A.M. Financial Analysis 8:00 A.M. Business Plan Development 8:00 A.M. Sustainable Business
Anya Peterson-Frey Leonard Holler and Bruce Morse Diane Wolverton Diane Wolverton

Starting a Business-Core Four

Jill Kline 9:30 A.M. Product Development
Diane Wolverton
Human Resources Counseling Skills
Jill Kline 11:00 A.M. Research Products Center Mark Atkinson
Davona Douglass
11:30 A.M. WSSI Code of Professional Conduct
Kelly Haigler Cornish Diane Wolverton
12:00 P.M. Lunch 12:00 P.M. Lunch Speaker 12:00 P.M. Lunch Speaker - Jon Schallert 12:00 P.M. Lunch
1:00 P.M. Web 2.0 Marketing 1:00 P.M. Financing a Business Panel 1:00 P.M. Government Legislation 1:00 P.M. Wrap Up
Aliza Sherman Options for Small Businesses Regs and Services
● WBC Overview - Ben Avery Paul Howard
● SBA Overview - Bob Auflick 2:00 P.M. Public Speaking & Conducting Training Homework
● WWBC Overview- Andrea Presse Anya Petersen-Frey
3:00 P.M. Marketing Plans/Market Research Center 3:30 P.M. GRO-Biz 3:00 P.M. Adjourn
Mike Lambert Shannon Howshar and Justin Hansen
4:00 P.M. Resources for Wyo. Entrepreneur
Diane Wolverton
4:30 P.M. Wyoming Energy Program for Small Business
Announcements Tom Fuller
5:00 P.M. Adjourn 5:00 P.M. Adjourn 5:00 P.M. Adjourn

Poor Richards
Dinner on Own Dinner on Own 6:30 P.M. Dinner with Thomas Frey
Aliza Sherman Bio: Panel Participants: Thomas Frey Bio:
Aliza Sherman is the Original Cybergrrl - WBC Ben Avery As part of the celebrity speaking circuit, Tom continually pushes
an Internet thought leader, highly sought-after SBA Bob Auflick & Steve Despain the envelope of understanding, creating fascinating images of the
online marketing expert and passionate evangelist WWBC Andrea Presse world to come. His keynote talks on futurist topics have
for the Internet, particularly as a valuable and Jonah Bank Cindy Madie captivated people ranging from high level government officials
useful tool for our personal and professional WSSI Kelly Haiger Cornish to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA,
lives. She is a motivational and inspirational IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, First Data,
speaker who has spoken around the world about Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Visa, Ford Motor Company,
the Internet, social media, virtual worlds entrepreneurship. Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, International
Named by Newsweek as one of the "Top 50 expert Council of Shopping Centers, National Association of Federal
People Who Matter Most on the Internet," Credit Unions, and many more.
Aliza Sherman is a Web pioneer, online marketing www.davinciinstitute.com
published author, international speaker and regular
contributor to national magazines and web sites.

2008 wsbdc counselor training tentative agenda

08/12/2008