Think Strategic: Partner for Success – Chris Reagan, Get Ahead Pro Speakers Bureau
Think Strategic: Partner for Success – In our competitive and challenging industry it often feels like our business is a poker game. You never know what cards the other player is holding. Combine that situation with worldwide economic turmoil and it is easy to see why many planners and suppliers feel on edge and challenged.

This presentation is designed to address current market realities and to help planners and suppliers work better as strategic partners. Attendees will:

• Learn key ways to partner more closely with their internal and external customers;
• Discuss the “Three Agendas” and why they are so important for sales and event success;
• Be provided with the opportunity to help create the program prior to the event;
• Interact and share best practices with each other; and,
• Develop a clear outline of how they can work better with each other.

Chris Reagan is an entrepreneur, civic leader, husband and father of two daughters. Chris established Get Ahead Pro Speakers Bureau in 1995. Get Ahead Pro has been secured by Corporations, associations and organizations to produce successful and strategic, meetings, events and training programs worldwide for the past decade. Chris is a contributing writer to New England Corporate Events, Banker and Tradesman, Meetings and many other newsletters and publications. He is one of the Past Presidents of Meeting Professionals International’s New England Chapter and he has served on the Board of Directors for the New Hampshire Brain Injury Association. Chris Co-Chaired the Wings of Hope Air Show 2000 and is assisting

the NH Brain Injury Association and the NH National Guard once again to prepare for the 2007 show. This one-day event attracted over 140,000 attendees. Chris has climbed Baxter Peak, Mt Katahdin and the Knife’s Edge five times and walked on fire twice. Chris has presented to many organizations including: The National Speakers Association, NSA Pennsylvania, NSA New England, The Greater Portland Convention & Visitors Bureau, Meeting Professionals International, MPI New England and various other civic and regional groups throughout New England, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.