December Holiday Social & Sponsor Recognition
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Your ticket to the AzBL December Holiday Social includes entrance into Las Noches de las Luminarias and Chihuly in the Garden, hors d’oeuvres and one hosted beverage. The Garden will come to life with the soft glow from more than 8,000 hand lit luminaria bags, thousands of white twinkle lights surrounded by Chihuly’s vibrant works of… Read more
EVENT PARTNERS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Hyrum Smith, FranklinCovey
Co-Founder
PRODUCTIVE, INSPIRED, AND MOTIVATED That’s what you’ll be at AzBL’s first meeting of 2014. We are very excited to kick-off the year with Hyrum Smith, a World Class Motivational speaker and former CEO and Vice Chairman of the highly-recognized and esteemed FranklinCovey. He has been motivating individuals for more than 35 years to gain better… Read more
Ambassador Donna Hrinak, Boeing Brazil
President
Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems, Boeing supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. The company employs more than 170,000 people across the United States and in 70 countries, and leverages the talents of hundreds of thousands more… Read more
The Arizona Business Leadership Association, Inc. provides its members with the opportunity to pursue excellence through its people and programs.
TOP TIER SPEAKERS SAMPLING
David Lenhardt, President & Chief Operating Officer, PetSmart
Rhoda Olsen, Chief Executive Officer, Great Clips
Robert Meyer, President & Chief Executive Officer, Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Dean Kamen, Founder of DEKA Research International, Founder of FIRST
Rick Smith, Cofounder, CEO and Director, Taser International
Barry J. Giarraputo, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, Apollo Global Management, LLC
Doug Parker, Chairman & CEO, US Airways
Scott Davis, Senior Vice President & Chief Concept Officer, Panera Bread Company
Click Here To View Our Complete Top Tier Speaker HistoryFROM OUR BLOG
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Core Values And The Holiday Spirit
On the evening of December 12th AzBL will celebrate our annual holiday spirit and sponsor recognition at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Holiday social events like this are special times to enjoy the company of friends, reflect on the past year, and consider the New Year close at hand. One of the remarkable aspects… Read more
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Can Showrooming Help Bring Back The Local Shopper?
All of us (especially our children) are retail shoppers at some point. This is particularly true during the holiday season. In this light, you may not be familiar with showrooming, but have probably done it at some level. Showrooming is visiting a traditional brick-and-mortar store to obtain hands-on data about a product, then going online… Read more
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Is There Really A Such A Thing As A Stupid Question?
Business executives have often been coached to encourage employee contributions by stating that there is no such thing as a stupid question. The intentions are good but I think the executive coaches and consultants miss the point. Since the pioneering linguistic work of Gregory Bateson and others, we have learned that people primarily communicate to… Read more
MEMBER PROFILE
Greg Linnenbach
Chair / Arizona/CONVENE
After selling my company, Alpha Group, which served people with disabilities for many years, I had a choice about my next career direction. While retaining a real estate company and financial industry interests the question was: “What do I want to do when I grow up?” The answer came pretty easily and my focus is… Read more