Speakers
Hear from experts in the profession and gain valuable knowledge that you can put to work in your practice today and going forward!
Jon Baron
President, Professional Software & Services, Tax & Accounting
Thomson Reuters
Conference Opening Keynote - Thursday, 8:00 am to 9:30 am
Kickoff Keynote Address
Jon Baron, a leading visionary in the accounting profession, will present the latest technologies available to firms and offer a detailed explanation on how you can easily take advantage of innovations in technology to increase process efficiencies, reduce costs, and achieve zero-time data entry. He'll also discuss the ways recent changes in the tax and accounting profession are causing traditional single-product solutions to be replaced with advanced technology systems and processes.
Sandra Wiley
COO and Senior Consultant
Boomer Consulting, Inc.
Luncheon Keynote - Friday, 12:20 pm to 12:50 pm
Distinguishing Yourself as a Unique and Dynamic Leader
Sandra Wiley will help you uncover the unique talents, strengths, and gifts that will propel you to the next level of your dynamic career. A certified trainer, Sandra directs Boomer Consulting, Inc.'s annual Human Capital and Training Symposium™ and offers her services as co-director of the Performance3 Management Program™. She is also a popular author whose work frequently appears in many trade journals, and is regularly invited to speak at national conferences, where she empowers audiences with new ideas and a sense of humor.
T. Scott Gross
Motivational Speaker and Management Training Consultant
Conference Closing Keynote - Saturday, 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Positively Outrageous Service
T. Scott Gross will show you how to create outrageous customer service that will generate compelling, positive word-of-mouth—and give you an insurmountable advantage over your competitors. Scott, who has helped some of America's best-run organizations design video-based training programs, handles the day-to-day operations of one of the nation's most unique service training companies, and has also turned his skills as a script writer and platform performer into several fun-to-read books.
Here's what 2007 conference attendees had to say about the CS Users' Conference experience:
"This conference helps my practice more than anything else I do."
-Richard L. Petrucha, Troy, MI
"Thomson Tax & Accounting [now Thomson Reuters] continues to surpass the expectations of attendees with the quality of the program."
-Peter S. Sharamitaro, Jr.
St. Louis, MO
"As a first time attendee, would recommend this to any user. Will attend again."
-Stuart G. Lang, Baldwin, NY
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-Gail Paquette, Healdsburg, CA
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