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The Economic Outlook

Your Company’s Opportunities and Risks in the Evolving Business Cycle

Survive the Next Recession, Thrive in the Next Boom

The Best Strategies for Profitability in an Ever-changing World

Leadership in Today's Tight Labor Market

Retaining and Recruiting High Productivity Employees

The Next Decade

What Businesses Should Do TODAY to Prepare for Tomorrow

Prepare for Perpetual Change

Capture Opportunities and Avoid Risk in an Uncertain World

The Economic Outlook

Your Company's Opportunities and Risks in the Evolving Business Cycle

Why This Program?

Business rises or falls with the economy. Business leaders want to know what the future holds, and they also need to be ready for the unexpected.

Key Takeaways

  • Outlook for major sectors of the economy, inflation and interest rates.
  • How to keep your business ready for expansion while protecting against recession.
  • The role of contingency plans, both upside and downside, in a thriving business.
This presentation blends “Conerly on the Economy” with “Prepare for Perpetual Change.” This is best for meetings with limited time. For longer meetings, consider each of the two programs at different points in the agenda. Some audience interaction is common in this program, and it can be dialed up for those groups interested in more.

Survive the Next Recession, Thrive in the Next Boom

Proven Business Strategies to Succeed in any Economy

Why This Program?

Some companies, even in highly cyclical industries, come out of recession smelling like a rose, ready to grasp upside opportunities as the economy recovers. The same strategies also work for unexpected changes in technology, social attitudes, government regulation and competition. This presentation will have your audience taking notes while laughing.

Key Takeaways

  • Cheap and easy steps to take now, before the recession comes
  • Vital items for a recession contingency plan
  • How to look for upside possibilities
  • Checklist for expansion constraints

Why This Speaker

As an experienced forecaster, Dr. Bill Conerly has seen projections go awry, so he collected success stories from businesses large and small to understand how some companies thrive in recessions. He also found that some companies could not take advantage of good times, because they were not flexible enough to expand on short-notice—and he learned what top companies do about this.

Leadership in Today's Tight Labor Market

Retaining and Recruiting High Productivity Employees

Why This Program?

The tight labor market is the greatest business challenge today, and the challenge will continue for a decade.

Key Takeaways

  • How profitability depends on employee retention and engagement
  • The secret of employee retention—and it’s not money.
  • Finding new employees: where the fish are biting.
  • Hiring, retaining and motivating millennials.

Why This Speaker?

In 2006, before the recession, Dr. Bill Conerly predicted a labor shortage was 10 years away. He began collecting research on the most successful practices for employee retention and recruitment. He presents the lessons from the research with humorous stories illustrating best practices.

 

The Next Decade

What Businesses Should Do TODAY to Prepare for Tomorrow

Why This Program?

Most business leaders spend time on urgent matters, but not much time on the big picture of how the world is changing. Having some key trends in mind helps executives make better day-to-day decisions.

Key Takeaways

Takeaways depend on the audience - here are some possibilities:

  • Demographics and worker availability: what to do now to prepare for when the Baby Boomers retire.
  • Borrowing will be very cheap for those with great financials, but unavailable for others. How to protect your business’s access to credit.
  • Your future taxes will be higher due to upcoming growth of the federal deficit; how to incorporate this into your business and personal financial planning.
  • Business cycles will be more extreme than in recent years; how to protect your company from recessions, and how to gain all you can in booms.
  • Technology, costs and customers: how new capabilities will allow you to clean your competitors’ clocks—or risk having your own clock cleaned.
  • Globalization: Will changing political attitudes about foreign trade take us back to less globalized business? What you should do now to protect your overseas sales or supply chain.
Dr. Conerly is a futurist who avoids excessive speculation and uncertainty. Emphasizing the most likely paths, he provides action steps that business leaders can take today to prepare for the coming decade. Specifics are adjusted for the particular audience. This topic can include some audience interaction.

Prepare for Perpetual Change

Capture Opportunities and Avoid Risk in an Uncertain World

Why This Program

Companies are beset by continual changes in the economy, technology, social attitudes, government regulation and competition. Top leaders help their team members adjust smoothly to enable the organization to seize opportunities and avoid risks.

Key Takeaways

Takeaways depend on the audience - here are some possibilities:

  • How a leader prepares the organization for change.
  • Action steps to develop a culture that changes smoothly.
  • Best business practices to thrive in an ever-changing environment.
  • Developing employees who succeed in a changing world.

Why This Speaker?

Dr. Conerly’s latest book, The Flexible Stance: Thriving in a Boom/Bust Economy is based on extensive study of companies that thrived in surprising times. The presentation uses examples from companies large and small, in a variety of industries, that will have audience members nodding their heads and saying, “I can do that.”

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Testimonials

It can be difficult to find economists who provide good substantive information who are also entertaining and engaging. I received many enthusiastic comments about Dr. Conerly from members and others in the audience.
Molly Steckel, Idaho Telecom Alliance
The ratings you received from our banker evaluations were among the highest I’ve seen, which matched my impressions exactly. Your presentation style is quite engaging, you bring interesting and valuable content, and our ability to interact in a stimulating way during “Q&A” sessions makes you a valuable addition to any meeting agenda. As a bonus, you are a genuinely enjoyable participant in conference activities beyond your presentation.
Steve Yeakel, Montana Independent Bankers
Your presentation was right on the mark. I received more positive comments about you than any other presenter. We would not hesitate to recommend you to others or have you back for an encore performance.
Bob Russell, Oregon Trucking Association
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank has benefitted from Bill Conerly’s unique insights and perspectives several times over the past five years…his materials consistently cover the points that we agree on…he has been very well-received by our groups, and we look forward to having Bill with us again in the future.
Ronnie Hucks, AgFirst Farm Credit, Columbia
We asked Bill Conerly to look at one of the major factors limiting the growth of our business. He pulled together data from a wide range of sources, as well as his own extensive business knowledge, to give us an insight into when conditions would improve and how we could be ready to capitalize on better times. He did so in a straight forward, easy to understand manner. A year later it was clear that things had evolved just as he had forecast. Ever since then he’s been my go-to guy on how the e…
Len Ludwig, former CEO, Vencore Capital LLC
You made a complicated global picture understandable. I have received many favorable comments from those in attendance. I frequently heard comments like ‘Now I understand’ or ‘Wow, now I get it’ and ‘He was great to listen to. Thanks for bringing Bill to our meeting.’
Pete Van Sickle, Idaho Department of Lands
Bill did a great job! There were many in the audience who liked him and many in the audience who loved him! Bill shared pertinent and timely information with our audience of commercial real estate professionals and added interesting stories and a funny sense of humor twist.
Jana Knoll, BOMA Boise
Dr. Bill Conerly opened our Ace Hardware Platinum Retailer Conference by helping our independent small business owners understand the current state of the economy in a straight forward and humorous manner that connected very well with the retailers I spoke with. Dr. Conerly provided information our retailers can use to lead their businesses. He connected with the audience and made a complicated topic understandable.
Mike Berschauer, Ace Hardware Corp
On multiple occasions we have engaged Dr. Conerly to facilitate, and more importantly, stimulate strategic planning sessions. He artfully brings the complexity of economic consequences to light, and is also is a veteran voice of objectivity. And his ability to inject humor keeps the energy and teamwork a priority!
Greg Newton, CFO, Cascade Bancorp
As you know, it can be difficult to find economists who provide good substantive information who are so entertaining and engaging. I received many enthusiastic comments from members and others in attendance. I was very pleased with Dr. Conerly and have recommended him to NCSTAE, our national organization.
Molly Steckel, Idaho Telecom Alliance

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