Speakers & Sessions
Keynote Speakers
Amanda Vega - Opening General Session
Bob Prosen - General Session
Mike Rayburn - Closing General Session
Chairman Debbie Matz - Membership Address
Amanda Vega: CEO, PR Maven, Social Media Expert
Social Media: How the Web Connects People
Wednesday, April 7, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Many think of social media as a bunch of online tools that the "kids" play with. In this talk we will speak to the realities of social media and how it applies to your industry. We will uncover the truths you may not know such as the fact that Twitter users are 80 percent over the age of 40, and how companies can actually add to their bottom line using social media the correct way. Let's get out of the technology and geek speak, and get into the actual realities of social media. Let's put the social in social media and show you how credit unions have a particularly large opportunity to capture new customers.
About Amanda Vega
Amanda Vega began her career at AOL as a chat moderator 17 years ago. During her tenure at AOL she directly helped to develop and rollout Instant Messenger and Love@AOL (now Match.com’s technology.) Amanda has an MBA from Columbia University, and is known industry-wide as an insightful and honest speaker that doesn’t talk at people, but instead talks with them. After selling her second interactive agency to Ogilvy in 1999, she moved to New York City and opened Amanda Vega Consulting, a firm of over 120 people in 15 countries in four languages which works with agencies and clients directly helping them optimize and integrate the ongoing stream of new technology and marketing options growing in the online space while also more effectively integrating those into their traditional programs.
Amanda is the CEO of Amanda Vega Consulting, technically the oldest social media management company with engagements in the industry dating 10 years, a published author of “PR in a Jar” and contributor to the bestselling book “The Social Media Bible.” She’s a frequent industry expert speaker at such conference as Search Engine Strategies and Ad:Tech. She has additionally been featured on “Oprah” and spoke for the White House Press Core about social media. She is a board member for many local and national non-profits and professional organizations. Amanda was one of the first bloggers on the Internet and helped shape many of the “social media” tools we have today – well before they had a name. She’s a pink Porsche owner, pug lover, popstar fan and she graduated from JJ Pearce, right here in Dallas!
Bob Prosen: President/CEO, The Prosen Center for Business Advancement
How to Connect with your Team & Win During Tough Economic Times
Thursday, April 8, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Bob provides a unique combination of inspiration and practical advice that you can use immediately to rapidly increase performance and profit. Prepare to engage in a high-energy, information-packed leadership presentation about what it takes to deliver real results in today's business environment. Bob has been helping business leaders deliver exceptional business results for more than a quarter-century. His no nonsense approach gives leaders the tools they need to connect with their staff, attract and retain top talent, effectively handle performance problems, increase accountability so you get the results you need and align everyone on meeting the organization's top objectives.
About Bob Prosen
Bob Prosen is a visionary leader with a pragmatic grip on the reality of what it takes to deliver extraordinary bottom-line results. Bob is president and CEO of The Prosen Center for Business Advancement, whose mission is to help business leaders execute and achieve results that count. Bob is also the world’s leading authority on The Five Attributes of Highly Profitable
Companies™. Today, Bob applies his powerful system for getting results across all industry sectors – from financial services to technology to retail, healthcare, not-for-profit, education and professional services. His speaking, workshop and problem-solving engagements take him around the world and into companies that are committed to achieving extraordinary operating results.
Bob is nationally recognized as the business expert who helped such companies as AT&T Global Information Solutions/NCR, Hitachi Data Systems, Sabre, Sprint, and Data Return Corporation achieve unprecedented financial and operational success. He has held posts ranging from senior vice president and managing partner to COO. Bob earned his MBA from Georgia State University and holds post-graduate certifications from MIT, Duke University and The Wharton School. He has received numerous awards for professional excellence and serves on the University of North Texas School of Marketing Advisory Board; is a member of the Worldwide Executive Council and is listed in The International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs. In addition to his management training programs, he speaks nationally and internationally to a wide range of organizations including Young Presidents‘ Organization (YPO), Rotary International, The Executive Committee (TEC) and Business Marketing Association.
Mike Rayburn, CSP: The World's Funniest Guitar Virtuoso
What If and Why Not?
Friday, April 9, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Mike Rayburn is an award-winning speaker and entertainer with a truly unique presentation. Known as the World's Funniest Guitar Virtuoso, Mike uses his astounding guitar creations, uproarious songs and presentation skills to encourage, challenge and inspire his audiences to step beyond their perceived limitations. Mike draws from a wealth of life experiences as an adventurer, comedian, published songwriter, author, philanthropist, and father, to deliver a keynote presentation which is completely energizing and entertaining.
About Mike Rayburn
He was born breech with six fingers on his left hand. Mike’s parents, being from a long line of glove salesmen, never saw the potential. They had the finger removed. However, what the scalpel couldn’t change was Mike’s fate to be a little odd and work with his hands. (It’s all true but the glove salesmen part). Now, fulfilling his birthright, Mike has actually been called, “The World’s Funniest GuitarVirtuoso.” (He’d settle for Cleveland’s Funniest Guitar Virtuoso but... whatever). Mike currently performs over 120 shows per year and cuts from his “Mike Rayburn at Carnegie Hall” CD are in current rotation on XM Comedy, Sirius Comedy, and on countless morning radio shows nationwide.
Concert promoter Mark Johnson described him like this: “If Victor Borge played guitar (and drank too much coffee), he’d sound like Mike.” The Aspen Daily News raves, “A comic genius... enough wit and talent to jumpstart a pacemaker.” His “Questions” bit and self-effacing commentaries are funny and wonderfully-warped. But what sets him apart is his masterful guitar work. Mike is also known for combining musical artists and styles in ways God never intended. “Bob Marley sings Garth Brooks.” “Led Zeppelin sings Dr. Seuss.” “Dan Fogelberg sings AC/DC,” “Bruce Springsteen sings Green Acres,” etc.
Mike has recently been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, Billboard, Gig, American Entertainment, and Campus Activities Today magazines. He has performed at Carnegie Hall eight times and performed more than 4,000 shows worldwide. In the 90’s and early 2000’s Mike was voted “America’s Campus Entertainer of the Year” three times in four years.
Mike does after-dinner and award-show entertainment as well as opening/closing keynotes, using his unique guitar skills and hilarious songs to illustrate three tools attendees can use to step beyond perceived limitations. It is a keynote presentation unlike any you’ve ever seen. Mike teaches the tools which as he says, “...took me from playing for seven people in a bar to Carnegie Hall.”
Chairman Debbie Matz, NCUA
Membership Address
Thursday, April 8, 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
About Chairman Debbie Matz
Debbie Matz was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the eighth board chair of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). After confirmation by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 7, 2009, she was sworn in on Aug. 24, 2009. Matz is no stranger to NCUA and credit unions having served as a board member at NCUA from January 2002 to October 2005. As Chair of the NCUA Board, Matz is the spokesperson for the agency and oversees the regulation of federal credit unions and the administration of the federal insurance fund covering approximately 8,000 credit unions with over $800 billion in assets. Prior to becoming NCUA board chair, Matz served on President Obama’s Economic Transition Team.
From 2006 until June 2008, Mrs. Matz was the executive vice president/COO of a federal credit union serving 90,000 members with branches in the United States and Europe and was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve in the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1993 to 2001. As deputy assistant secretary for Administration, she oversaw the administrative arm of the 100,000-employee agency. Matz has extensive experience on Capitol Hill. She served for nine years as an economist with the Congressional Joint Economic Committee where she advised members of Congress on a wide range of domestic policy issues including state and local government finance, economic development, and housing and infrastructure financing. Matz has been published extensively on these issues. Previously she served as a project director in the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, as a legislative assistant to Congressman Peter Peyser (R-NY), and as a community development representative for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.