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On this page is listed the 12 most recent Breakfast With Fran Tarkenton Monthly Small Business Owners Breakfast Club Events.

Guest Speakers

Thursday Feb. 16, '12 — Fran's guest Ken Burkeen, Our guest Renée Henriques, RN, BA.

Fran's guest details: Mr. Ken Burkeen, Founder and President of Huetiful, a unique hair care solutions company. Mr. Burkeen was a West Point graduate, a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble, and is now a successful entrepreneur.
Fran's topic: With more than 22 years of expertise in brand management and logistics, Mr. Burkeen will share his entrepreneurial story and things to consider when starting and growing a business.
Our guest's details: Renée Henriques, RN, BA.
Owner, Managing Director
ComForcare Home Care (Toronto-Central)
2 College St. #205
Toronto, ON M5G 1K3
Phone: 416 966 2100
Mobile: 416 277 0544
toronto-central.comforcare.ca
Our topic: Renée Henriques has more than 20 years of experience in health care. She is currently the owner and operating manager of ComForcare Toronto Central, which is dedicated to providing quality non-medical in-home services to seniors and others requiring in-home care. Renée was inspired to open ComForcare Toronto Central by her experience caring for her father in his declining years.

Thursday Jan. 19, '12 — Fran's guest Craig Binkley, Our guest Andrew Anderson

Fran's guest details: Mr. Craig Binkley is the Chief Consulting Officer for Core Strategy Group. Mr. Binkley brings more than 24 years of marketing expertise to our event.
Fran's topic: Fran and Craig discusses branding and several key strategies to help small businesses build their brand.
Our guest's details: Andrew Anderson
Andrew is an independent representative for Ardyss International
Website: www.ardysslife.com/slimwithoutagym
Phone: 416-566-8658
Our topic: Andrew talks about A humorous look at working less and earning more.

Thursday Dec. 15, '11 — Fran's guest Fran Tarkenton, Our guest Kerry Seebachan

Fran's guest details: Fran is a former professional football player, TV personality, and computer software executive. He also founded TARKENTON FINANCIAL and GOSMALLBIZ.COM
Fran's topic: Join us, as we wrap up our Small Business Breakfast Club series for 2011. The holidays are here, and the New Year is fast approaching. What better time than now to reflect on the past year and look forward to the year to come? Fran talks about how to close 2011 on a strong note, as well as some ways we can all get better in 2012. We hope you'll join me for our final networking event of the year!
Our guest's details: Kerry Seebachan
Kerry Seebachan
Branch Manager, TD Canada Trust
2623 Eglinton Avenue West,
Toronto, Ontario, M6M 1T6
Tel: 416 653 2790 Ext. 250
Fax: 416 658 8203
 
Nine months ago Kerry joined the neighbourhood branch of TD Canada Trust with a team of 14 who are committed to exceptional customer service. The bank is located at the south west corner of Keele St and Eglinton Ave. W. He was the Manager of Financial Services at the Bloor and Bathurst Branch where he was fortunate enough to work with and support a Small Business Community in growing area in the GTA.
 
Kerry is married for almost 4 years to Sonia who works as a Registered Nurse. His hobbies includes playing and watching sports... Anything related to golf and football and you have his attention!
Our topic: Kerry talks about the requirements obtaining financing from the bank for Small business projects and goals. There will handouts. He is looking forward to the Q&A.

Thursday Nov. 17, '11 — Fran's guest John Perry, Our guest Barry Shainbaum

Fran's guest details: We're excited to be joined this month by Mr. John Perry; President and CEO of Capital Payments, a leading payment services provider.
Fran's topic: With over 20 years of experience in the electronic payments field, Mr. Perry is an innovative leader with a wealth of insight on the challenges facing entrepreneurs and small businesses today. We hope you'll join us for this great call and dynamic networking event.
Our guest's details: Barry Shainbaum
Professional photographer, author, speaker and radio broadcaster.
174 Spadina Avenue
Suite 604
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 2C2
Tel. (416) 362-8028
www.barryshainbaum.com
Our topic: Dare To Dream - Overcoming adversity can be a springboard to successes. Learn how to turn problems into stepping stones!

Thursday Oct. 27, '11 — Fran's guest Stuart Finestone, Our guest Evan Pleet

Fran's guest details: We're extremely excited to be joined this month by attorney Stuart Finestone, partner at Finestone & Morris in Atlanta, Georgia.
Fran's topic: attorney and author, Mr. Finestone is an authority on corporate and transactional law, and has a wealth of knowledge about the common challenges faced by small business owners and entrepreneurs regarding contracts, leasing and collections. We hope you'll join us for this informative call and exciting networking event.
Our guest's details: Evan Pleet
ELP Designs and Space Planning
suite 122 - 1881 Steeles Avenue W.
Toronto, ON
M3H 0A1
416 565 7801
www.elpdesigns.com
ELP Designs and Space Planning provides a full service interior design plan and implementation to create your dream space.
Our topic: Evan talks about how space planning may increase your workspace efficiency.

Thursday Sep. 29, '11 — Fran's guest Dr. Timothy Mescon, Our guest Boszenna Nowiki

Fran's guest details: We're excited to be joined this month by Dr. Timothy Mescon, President of Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Previously, Dr. Mescon served as Dean of the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, where he held the Tony and Jack Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Entrepreneurship.
Fran's topic: As an author of more than 200 articles and four books, Dr. Mescon is an authority on entrepreneurship and business. Please join us for an insightful conversation on principles of entrepreneurship!
Our guest's details: Boszenna Nowiki
647.221.6388
www.CatsAreRascals.com
Our topic: Boszenna talks about her Cats Are Rascals series of children's books and what prompted her to write them.

Thursday Aug. 25, '11 — Fran's guest Deborah Sweeney, Our guest Monica Willie

Fran's guest details: Deborah Sweeney, CEO of MyCorporation.com. Deborah's entrepreneurial journey is an interesting one, from business attorney to operations manager to owner and entrepreneur. MyCorporation is a leader in legal and business filing, specializing in serving the needs of entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Fran's topic: Deborah shares her insight and expertise on entrepreneurship and business start-ups.
Our guest's details: Monica Willie
Founder of Choices Mathieu Da Costa Centre and Yes We Are Women.
2524 Eglinton Ave. W.
Toronto, Ont.
Phone #: 647-859-0438

Our topic: Monica talks about helping folks with immigration and empowering women.

Thursday Jul. 28, '11 — Fran's guest Bob Burg, Our guest Jacqueline Isaac

Fran's guest details: This month's Breakfast with Fran speaker will be Bob Burg, best known as author of Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts into Sales. In his book, The Go-Giver, which has now sold over 200,000 copies.
Fran's topic: Bob shares 5 key principles that will help you dramatically increase your business.
Our guest's details: Jacqueline Isaac
Best Life Coaching
Jacqueline Isaac is a trained and certified Life Coach, certified Master Hypnotherapist, and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT-II) practitioner. Additionally, she has specialized hypnosis certifications in HypnoFertility and Past Life Regression. Jacqueline (Jackie) is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) and the International Medical & Dental Hypnotists' Association (IMDHA). In addition to her professional certifications, Jackie holds an Honours BA from Laurentian University, a Masters degree, and most of a PhD from the University of Toronto in the field of religious studies and history of religion.
Our topic: Jacqueline discusses A Sharper Focus on Success
One of the jobs of a coach is to help clients to shift their perspective and sharpen their focus on what they want. In this introductory talk, Jackie will offer some ideas and tools for sharpening your focus to help you achieve greater success in your business and in your life.

Thursday Jun. 30, '11 — Fran's guest Bill Wade, Our guest Denise Feltham

Fran's guest details: Bill Wade, founder and CEO of Company.com, started his first business in his basement with $10,000. He sold it ten years later for $300 million.
Fran's topic: Bill Wade shares his insights and experiences in growing a successful business from humble beginnings. His story will inspire and inform your own entrepreneurship. Bill will detail the challenges, sacrifices, successes, and building blocks of developing a successful company.
Our guest's details: Denise Feltham
Denise Feltham is the sole proprietor of D.I.C.E. Assessment and Employment Counselling Services. She developed the D.I.C.E. assessment in response to her own experiences with barriers to employment due to an invisible disability. Denise has a Bachelor of Social Work Degree from Ryerson and a Career & Work Counsellor Diploma from George Brown College. She also acquired her Life Skills Coach certification offered by YWCA Toronto.
Our topic: Denise speaks on why she developed the D.I.C.E. assessment in response to her own experiences with barriers to employment due to an invisible disability.

Thursday May. 26, '11 — Fran's guest Tamara Knechtel, Our guest Cheryl Rankin

Fran's guest details: Social media is one of the fastest-growing forms of marketing in today's business world. Understanding and using social media effectively is vital in creating brand awareness and building customer relationships
Fran's topic: Tamara Knechtel, founding partner of BeEverywhere.tv, a leading social media marketing firm, will share how embracing social media can help you build your brand and grow your business.
Our guest's details: Cheryl Rankin
Fit For Business
647-287-0320
email
Fit For Business Blog
www.FitForBusiness.ca
Our topic: Cheryl talks about using Social Media for low cost marketing.

Thursday Apr. 28, '11 — Fran's guest Not available, Our guest To be announced

Fran's guest details: Please note Fran's breakfast will be held as usual but we will be not be holding it on Thursday April 28 because of Jilian campaigning for the Canadian general election. The date of our Breakfast With Fran meeting will be announced later.
Fran's topic:
Our guest's details: To be announced

Our topic:

Thursday Mar. 31, '11 — Fran's guest Bill Wortman, Our guest Hirbod Chehrazi

Fran's guest details:
Fran's topic: Tax season is upon us! Learn valuable tips as you prepare to file your 2010 taxes. With over 40 years of business experience spanning across various industries as a CPA, CFO, and entrepreneur, Bill Wortman will discuss topics affecting your 2010 tax returns.
Our guest's details: Hirbod Chehrazi
Advisor
Customized Insurance and Investment Solutions.
Affiliate with Simon Jackson Insurance Broker Ltd. (est. 1981)
a PPI Solutions company
235 Yorkland Blvd. Suite 1200
Toronto, Ontario, M2J 4Y8
Tel.: 647.267.5678
Fax: 416.495.7611
www.ppisolutions.ca
Our topic: Living Locally

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