University of Phoenix & CareerBuilder present Stedman Graham at the Build Your Career Event in Chicago
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (CT)
Chicago, IL
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The University of Phoenix and CareerBuilder have teamed up on a national touring event to provide job seekers tools to equip themselves for the changing employment landscape. Themed Regroup, Refresh, Rebuild these events introduce job seekers to hiring local employers, and provides learning sessions to help prepare for a successful job search. The University of Phoenix and CareerBuilder are excited to add New York Times Best Selling Author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker, Stedman Graham to amplify our commitment to supporting the communities we serve.
Join us on December 8, 2009 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown, for an interactive discussion centered around Stedman's 9-Step Success Process. The conversation will focus on your need as an individual to be the leader of your life by building a foundation based on understanding who you are (identity), having a vision for your life and a plan to achieve it. Stedman teaches that in the 21st century your talent and skills will define your value and give you the freedom to achieve your full potential.
Space is limited , please register today.
Doors will open at 3:00pm with our Key note beginning promptly at 3:30 p.m.
About Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates (SGA), a management and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets. Clients include Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, The Apollo Group, Manpower, Harvard and Wharton Business Schools, the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor and many more.
As a businessman, educator and speaker, he presents, consults and conducts training with corporations, organizations and nonprofits on the topics of maximizing leadership, achieving success, growing a business, embracing diversity, achieving optimal health, and personal and professional branding. His corporate seminars are driven by the proprietary Nine-Step Success Process™. In addition, Graham educates individuals and industries on using Success Circles™ a work-life balance tool he developed to make information and experience relevant to personal, professional and business growth.
Graham has authored ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success. Build Your Own Life Brand explores the concept of personal and professional branding. Move Without the Ball is a collection of principles that teaches students that sports are a part of life, not life itself. Who Are You? Building Your Life’s Foundation focuses on success through self-discovery. And his latest release, Diversity: Leaders not Labels shares his unique approach to eliminate barriers to success.
Actively involved in education, he is a former adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago where he taught a leadership course based on his Nine-Step Process. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a management strategy course entitled “The Dynamics of Leadership.” He also founded and directed George Washington University’s Forum for Sport and Event Management and Marketing – the first of its kind in the country. Graham is a current adjunct professor for Temple University.
Graham has shown a lifelong commitment to youth and community. In 1985, Graham founded AAD Education, Health and Sports, a nonprofit organization of athletes and other civic leaders committed to developing leadership in underserved youths. An organization with over 500 professional athletes, AAD has served over 15,000 students through scholarships and education. Graham serves on several boards to include the national board of Junior Achievement (JA) and the 7-Eleven Education Is Freedom Foundation, and he is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.
Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University. He received a master’s degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College.
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