Presenter: Emily Crawford, Treo Marketing

Topic: Tips and Tricks for creating evergreen content to keep your social channels buzzing with activity. Everyone wants it but you don't have time to post it.

Sponsor: Bank of Grain Valley

Since we are coming out of a very stressful world event (the pandemic) coupled with extremely politicized national and local governance issues we are a nation of stressed-out people. The two-hour session with 3 sections starts with an individual stress measurement test with a body heat monitor for each participant, discuss psychological definitions of stress, symptomology and physical and mental health manifestations and end with learning prevention and treatment strategies that can be useful in our personal and work relationships. The outcome will reflect self awareness of your current stress level, what causes stress and what strategies you can use to prevent and combat stress when it occurs.

Sponsor: Lovell Insurance Group

Speaker: Becca McConville, ReNourish

Topic: Fueling your Brain for Success

This presentation is intended to provide nutrition tips on how to optimize the performance of your brain leading to a more productive, efficient work day. We will discuss how the brain is also the hard-drive to a top down approach to physical health.

Sponsor: Heritage Companies

The Basics of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) What good is a website that looks good, but can’t be found easily on search engines for your targeted keywords? Ben Seidel, CEO and Founder of Igniting Business (www.ignitingbusiness.com), will guide you through the basics of website SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in this interactive seminar including how search engines index and rank websites and what you can do to improve. You’ll walk away from this seminar with tangible takeaways that you can start implementing immediately!

Sponsor: Retirement Plan Advisors, Mike Allen

Speaker - Rachel Hilton

Topic - Health and fitness goal setting, taking action to stay healthy in the cold months and beyond!

Sponsor - American Family Insurance - Brian Hubert

As we come into the new year, it is time for business owners and professionals to be thinking about what they want to accomplish in 2022, but we know it is sometimes difficult to know where to start. That's why we have invited Jeff Driskill of Driskill Business Development Group to facilitate our first Recess for Success in 2022.

Jeff Driskill is an experienced executive level leader accustomed to building and growing teams expected to produce results - sales, profits, enrollments, strong customer relations, renewals and retention.

As we come into the new year, business owners are working on establishing their goals and what they will need to do to accomplish them and make 2022 a huge success. To help with this we are excited to have Kevin Oldham, owner of Diffactory and Smoothie Shop and serial entrepreneur, with us today who will be presenting on ways of ramping up and reinvesting in your business.

Speaker: Barrett Evans, Kansas City Business Solutions

Topic: Quickbooks 101 - Master the Basics! At the root of success lies a solid foundation in bookkeeping and financial organization. The presentation is designed to get people to think outside of the tax accounting box and include the variety of valuable financial data that belongs to your business.

Sponsor: Checklist Media

Speaker: Jeremy Springer, Stone AMP SEO
Topic: Measuring the cost of acquiring customers online and how to interpret marketing strategy to determine the highest ROI.
Sponsor: Edward Jones-Office of Joel Wilson, Financial Advisor

To Be or Not To Be Strategic: Demystifying Strategic Planning
Speaker: Denise Mills, The LeaderFuel Center LLC
Sponsor: Heritage Companies

Successful companies and organizations dedicate enormous time and energy to developing thoughtful and actionable strategic plans that guide them into the short- and medium-term future. There are many methods for designing these roadmaps, but the robust ones are built upon a repeatable, bottoms up, outside in approach that aggregates meaningful data and insights. Strategic planning skills can be learned and sharpened. Join us for a robust conversation with Denise Mills, Chief Mindset Officer at The LeaderFuel Center. Denise will share tools and methodologies to make this historically daunting process a more approachable and effective activity.