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MBE Input Committee News

2010 Growth Through Partnership Conference: Get Connected!

Dynamic Workshops Designed for Minority Business Enterprises and Corporate Members

The Rocky Mountain MSDC would like to thank The City and County of Denver

for its generous facility contributions toward Growth Through Partnership 2009.

35 Years in Service

Rocky Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council

About the Keynote Speaker

What is the

Greatest Version of You?

William Sumner has extraordinary gifts

combined with an unusual mix of

experience and knowledge.

While most other coaches come

from one or two silos of expertise,

William's unique background

combines military special operations,

social work and mental health,

Fortune 500 and small start-up

executive business, along with

ancient and new-age techniques

and technologies. Such varied silos

of knowledge seldom overlap -

yet all come together to lead him

on his powerful creative path of healing

and teaching.

His vast experiences and tools all blend to provide him with astute awareness from a variety of angles. He has combined his knowledge, experience, and skills with his gift of intuition to create a distinctly unique system, with an extremely high rate of success, to guide people to the outcomes they want.

William specializes in people who want to change and transform their lives. His innovative use of newer technologies such as NLP (neural linguistic programming) has helped his clients make quantum shifts in their lives or their businesses - and these shifts stick. He is well known for taking on difficult challenges and helping people create their ultimate destiny.

William speaks to a wide variety of audiences and has a large diverse client base. In addition to the seminar experiences he offers, he was selected, by invitation after a world-wide search, by a well known prestigious motivational speaker to present seminars on his behalf; he has done this successfully throughout the United States, Asia, India, and Indonesia. His trademarked coaching system Embrace the Inevitable You™ involves the best-of-the-best within the self-help and motivational fields.

What truly sets William Sumner apart from other life coaches is his intuitive gift for helping people over that hump of resistance to live the life of their dreams. Most people who go to seminars, read books, or try coaching are not successful in maximizing the potential gains and possibilities. He provides precisely what they need to create truly profound, stunning, and incredible shifts in the lives of their loved ones as well as in their own.

Credentials and Details

William Sumner graduated with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He served overseas in difficult assignments in the Infantry. He returned to the US as a special operations officer assigned to the Rangers. He was a camp commander and lead instructor for Ranger training upon his departure from the service.

He worked in various capacities within the high-tech industry for almost 20 years. He held sales, operations, engineering, and business development roles for several key companies, including MCI, MediaOne, and 360networks. He was the third employee in MFS Telecom which was the most successful local phone company of the telecom era. He served in senior executive roles beginning in1996.

In 1992 during his tenure in Chicago, William began practicing counseling and therapy work. He has worked at an in-patient adolescent psychiatric ward, at schools as a social worker, and at an out-patient clinic in south Denver. He obtained his Masters in Social Work advanced degree from George Williams College at Aurora University in 1995. His thesis was published in a prestigious journal within his field. He has worked as a psychotherapist in Colorado since 1995 where he opened a thriving side practice.

In 2001, he shifted the focus of his practice to full-time Life and Business Coaching and has enjoyed highly successful growth. He specializes in people who want to grow, change, and transform their lives. His innovative use of newer technologies such as NLP (neural linguistic programming) as well as hypnosis and other neural science techniques coupled with other more traditional tools has helped his clients make quantum shifts in their lives, and have these shifts stick permanently with relative ease.

He is currently focused on completing his first book. William's varied interests include biking, hockey, martial arts, yoga, and horses. He has four children and currently resides in Littleton, Colorado, with his lovely wife Barbara.

Quick Facts About William Sumner

Main Areas:

Neural - Linguistic Programming (NLP) Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Children of Divorce, Counseling, Coaching.

Career Focus: Motivational Speaker, Business Coach, Neural Practitioner

Affiliation: The Inevitable You, Honor and Integrity

International Speaker, Success Coach, Media Personality, and Neural Intuitive: William Sumner is a full-time Executive Business and Personal Life Coach. His practice has enjoyed highly successful growth since 2001. He specializes in companies and individuals who want to grow, change, and create even more success both professionally and personally. His innovative use of newer technologies such as NLP (neural linguistic programming), hypnosis, and other neural science techniques coupled with more traditional tools has helped William's clients make permanent, quantum shifts in their lives with relative ease

Masters in Social Work: In 1992 during his tenure in Chicago, William began practicing counseling and therapy work. He worked at an in-patient adolescent psychiatric ward, at schools as a social worker, and at an out-patient clinic in Denver. He obtained his Masters in Social Work advanced degree from George Williams College at Aurora University in 1995. He worked as a psychotherapist in Colorado beginning in 1995 where he opened a thriving side practice to his telecom career. Telecom: William worked in various capacities within the high-tech Telecom industry for almost 18 years until 2001. He held senior executive positions in sales, operations, engineering, and business development roles for several key companies, including MCI, MediaOne, and 360networks. William was the third employee a founder in MFS Telecom which was the most successful local phone company of the telecom era. West Point Graduate, Ranger, and Special Opns: William graduated with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He served overseas in difficult assignments with the Infantry. William returned to the US as a special operations officer assigned to the Rangers. He was a camp commander and lead instructor for Camp Darby Ranger training upon his departure from the service. William experienced West Point's most significant-to-date Honor and Integrity training during his college experience. West Point set new standards for Honor and Integrity with intensive ethic training sessions, on-campus discussions, and interactive debate.

Corporate Workshops:

Advantages of Outsourcing to MBEs

Many corporations find that outsourcing (in such areas as manufacturing, facilities management, call centers, etc.) is a faster, cheaper and smarter business solution. Panelists will discuss successfully implemented outsourcing deals and strategies to ensure the MBEs are including in outsourcing plans.

Denise Coley

Cisco Systems

Sustainability/Sustainable Development

Maintaining a sustainable environment in the work place and establishing sustainable goals for business operations and practices. Learn the latest views on how to maintain a sustainable environment in the work place and how to establish sustainable goals for business operations and practices. Additionally, information on the process for LEEDS Certification will be shared with attendees.

Eva Milko MillerCoors

Kathee Roque National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Conflict - A Positive Asset: 1 NAPM / CPU Credit

Gain a strong understanding of what conflict resolution is and how to better manage conflict escalation.

Learn to effectively deploy the 3 strategies on how to make conflict a positive asset:

Perception (P): Learn how to control emotions, gain trust from others and really understand yours and others' needs and wants;

5 Conflict Styles (S): Have a strong grasp of the top 5 styles of how people react to conflict. Be proficient on how to better manage and deploy these 5 conflict styles with the purpose of having a positive outcome. Understand how these styles can be used as strategic techniques in meetings and during any conflict;

Communication (C): Learn how to become a more effective communicator via the use of active listening and the "I" messaging. Have the opportunity to practice with other participants using on real life examples.

Also learn how to identify skillful conflict resolution ways to become an effective leader.

Elizabeth Suárez

MBE Workshops:

Are You Corporate Ready?

Learn some of the soft skills and resources every small business owner needs to confidently and successfully build a relationship with corporate representatives. Don't make them guess what you do - tell them clearly! And demonstrate your company has the solutions to help them be successful!

Soft skills, capabilities statement, approaching corporate America and public speaking.

Presented by Jamie Borromeo

National Institute of Asian American Business Associations (NCAABA)

Protecting Your Business

Panelists will share critical information on how to ensure you

have the resources and tools to protect your business -

ensuring continuity and planning for the unexpected

realities in today's environment.

Insurance, termination, I-9, NDA, IP protections

Melissa Edelman

Wes Garnett

Chad Orvis

Moderated by Regina Edmondson

Cashflow

What are the opportunities for creating financing? Panelists will share options to increase cash flow, such as factoring, accounts receivable management and other programs along with the real facts on what it takes to secure these opportunities.

Mark Martinez – Solera Bank

Lisa Romero – Wells Fargo

Small Business Administration

An informative workshop that will cover key components in business growth and development.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) will be on hand as a key partner in providing insight on "how to connect" and pursue government opportunities.

Jose L. L. Martinez of the SBA