2024 Annual Meeting & Luncheon
Welcome to the 2024 Annual Meeting & Luncheon!
Theme years theme is “Elevate & Innovate: Thriving in a Digital Era!”
Elevate & Innovate: Thrive in a Digital Era
Good day SSSBA Members and Friends,
Let's tell you a little about our esteemed teacher for our Online Only June 6th event through Zoom.
Robert I. (Bob) Scales, Jr. is Global Director with Growth Development Associates (GDA). For over 33 years, in 40 countries using innovative sales, coaching and management training GDA has helped many recognizable companies like Apple, American Express, Siemens, Microsoft and others in numerous industries achieve record level sales growth.
Bob is also Certified as a Professional DISC® Behavioral and Values Analyst with Target Training International. Bob has amassed numerous years of Fortune 500 professional experience in sales, marketing, management and training with IBM, Steelcase, Johnson & Associates and with DRZ Enterprises.
Bob previously volunteered for nine years as a SCORE Business Consultant (a not-for-profit association consisting of about 13,000 volunteer mentors and consultants nationwide), helping small businesses grow by providing highly experienced support.
Join our noon Zoom meeting to discover innovative strategies to boost your sales and streamline your operations. Our session is designed to equip you with practical tools and insights that will help you achieve your business goals. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from our industry expert Robert Scales and connect with like-minded professionals. Let's work together to drive success and growth in your business.
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21st Annual Summit Awards
Please join us for our 21st Annual Summit Awards honoring leading business people and organizations who have contributed to the economic and cultural growth of the region. Enjoy a delicious breakfast, great networking and discover who our 2023 Awardees are.
Award Categories
Small Business of the Year
Training Excellence
Creative Arts
Young Entrepreneur of the Year
SSSBA Business After Hours at Chicago Southland Convention and Visitors Bureau
Please join us for an fun evening at the Chicago Southland Convention and Visitors Bureau in Olympia Fields. We will have refreshments, raffles, networking, fellowship and a presentation by Jim Garrett, President and CEO of Chicago Southland Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Summit Awards
Honors leading business people who have contributed to:
Economic Development
management ability, contribution to the community and region by working toward continued growth and viability of the region, efforts made to build good, strong relationships with business.
Small Business
business' management ability, continued growth, innovation of their product or service and contribution to the community or others.
Creative Arts
ability to offer top-caliber talent to the community, the use of local talent representing the diversity of the communities it serves, demonstration of continued growth and success as an organization and its willingness to engage in collaborative efforts with other creative arts organizations.
Training Excellence
recognizes a person or a business that is striving to provide innovative programs or to maintain and upgrade employees' or students' skills, contribution to the community or others, value added from the training process and recognition of enhancing the readiness of the participants for new or changing technologies or processes.
Young Entrepreneur
innovation and hard work of high school juniors and seniors; their contribution to the community or others; raises awareness in the communities and among the youth of the critical role that private enterprise and entrepreneurship play in the building of America.
Network Event
SSSBA + Opulence Gallery
We’re Hosting a Network Event
Come hear the amazing story of Opulence Gallery and its success in the midst of the pandemic!
Four Part Webinar Series-Part 4
En español: Es Sabio Lanzar un Nuevo Negocio Durante una Pandemia.!
Orador: Alfonso Barrera, The SCORE Chicago Vice Chairperson of Diversity and Inclusivity and Founder of HispanicPro.
Four Part Webinar Series-Part 3
Did you miss the webinar on October 21? Then, we invite you to join Vicki Brown for an encore presentation.
Tune in and learn how to access resources and technical expertise to help your business weather the pandemic, and get deeper insights into your lingering questions.
Four Part Webinar Series-Part 2
Pivoting: Assessment and development of a new value proposition of your current product.
Speaker: Sherard Jones, Senior SCORE Chicago Mentor, founder of VYYABLE, and President of Strategic Futurist Consulting.
Four Part Webinar Series-Part 1
Shore Up Your Business Now! Learn how Southland businesses are getting the help they need.
Speaker: Vicki Brown, Center Director of the Illinois SBDC at Southland Development Authority.
23rd Annual Meeting and Luncheon
Our annual meeting luncheon is coming and this year it’s virtual! There will be networking, awards and information on how to make it through these challenging times.