Luncheons

Tracking 100+ Unique Markets Through Effective Communications
Location: The Harbert Center
Date and Time Wednesday January 21st, 11:30 - 1:00pm
Presented by Casey Lassiter, Associate Director of Communications, Healthsouth Corporation

Digital Storytelling on Steroids: Branded Content Marketing
Guest Speaker: Libby Romano and Lindsey Sims, Big Communications

Join us as Libby and Lindsey share how great stories have the power to create gravity - effortlessly drawing people into brands, whether written, spoken or seen. But if that information isn’t relevant, exciting, timely, and shareworthy, it is a waste of time. Don’t waste time.

The Next Frontier of Marketing: Human Engagement
Presented by John Gardner, Luckie & Company

The proliferation of technology, data and connectivity has accelerated and amplified every aspect of the marketing ecosystem, helping us as marketers optimize all our marketing processes. But, is that good news for the customer?

Guest Speaker: Hatton Smith, Royal Cup

Join us as Hatton Smith shares the strategies behind Royal Cup’s two-tiered marketing strategy.

Royal Cup Coffee has built a national brand whose coffee and teas are not sold in stores. The company partners with restaurants, hotels, offices and resorts to develop custom blends of coffee and tea that customers recognize as special and unique.

The Sales Gap Model: Creating lift by moving McKinsey's CDJ theory into a practical, sales driven, marketing process.

Guest Speaker: Sean Doyle, FitzMartin

Sean’s thinking, vision and experience are focused on helping clients truly align marketing and sales with one another and jointly with the customer. The FitzMartin process is linear and can be used to create "rational" buying experiences.

Keith Richards - A Passion for Cooking and Community

Keith Richards found his passion for Taziki's and its Greek inspired menu on a 1997 trip to Greece with his wife, Amy. In 1998, they opened their first restaurant at the Colonnade in Birmingham. Today, Taziki's has 47 locations in 13 states.

Stumbling And Serving: a Trekker’s Guide to the C-Suite
Presented By: Bill Todd
Bill Todd of o2ideas will share his unique perspective of winding up in the C-Suite and ad agency ownership at our September AMA luncheon.

"What News is HOT in Birmingham"

Presented by: Cindy Fisher Crawford

Cindy Fisher Crawford will delve into the numbers of online readership to show which stories get the most interest from Birmingham business leaders. And, she will share how that information can help marketing professionals make smarter branding decisions. As Editor of the Birmingham Business Journal, the top business publication in the state for eight years, she has gained inside knowledge and outside perspective on the pulse of the business community.

Bew White, CEO of Summer Classics Companies will share his experience founding and growing the largest luxury outdoor furniture manufacturer in the United States. From a textile Engineering Degree at Auburn with an expected future at Avondale Mills, the great grandson of its founder and Alabama Governor, Braxton Bragg Comer, Bew began a life long entrepreneurial pursuit of excellence in home goods leading to

Darin White - "Changing the Game – Key Trends Driving the Business of Sports” Darin White is founder and coordinator of the Sports Marketing program in the Brock School of Business at Samford University. He serves as the Chair of the American Marketing Association Sports Marketing Academic Society (SIG), the leading international scholarly body charged