Meeting

Tuesday, April 20, 2009

Please join us for our April professional development meeting. This is a joint meeting with the Purchasing Management Association of Louisville (PMAL).

Speaker: Robert W. Turner

Bob Turner is a long time member of the Purchasing Management Association of Louisville. He has over 40 years of practical business experience in a variety of capacities and industries. He retired from UPS airline in 2009 where he was a financial analyst and procurement specialist. Bob has a BS in business and an MBA. He is writing a book on supply management and developing training solutions that organizations can use to self train internally. Both will be published later this year.

Bob is a devout family man who is married to his lovely wife Wenda. They have two sons and two granddaughters that keep them young at heart. He believes in the importance of life time learning and has devoted himself to helping others understand business concepts and the role they play in an organizations health and success.

Topics:

How to Identify, Manage, and Mitigate Risks

Pre-Dinner session, 5:30-6:30 PM

There are risks present in everything we do. How can you identify what those risks are, determine alternative solutions and then manage them effectively? Learn the techniques to do all of these things at the Purchasing Management Association of Louisville's April Professional Development Meeting. We will be discussing risk identification and management using a hands-on, interactive learning session.

Strategies For a Down Economy

Dinner meeting, 7-8 PM

Where you can learn valuable strategies to help cope with these trying times? The current recession has negatively affected and impacted many individuals and businesses. Business closings, layoffs and cutbacks have had a huge impact to our economy. What can we, do to help our organizations weather this storm and even excel?

Please note that this meeting is on Tuesday which corresponds to PMAL’s meeting schedule.

Place: Masterson’s Restaurant -- 1830 S 3rd St., Louisville, Kentucky
Date: Tuesday, October 20th

Dinner and Professional Development Meeting

Social: 5:00 - 5:30 PM
Pre-dinner session: 5:30-6:30 PM
Dinner: 6:30-7 PM
Dinner speech: 7-8 PM

Cost: $20.00 Members & Non-members $5.00 Students (ID Required)