Lunch with a Leader - Ken Blanchard

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  KEN BLANCHARD

Chief Spiritual Officer, The Ken Blanchard Companies

Our First Leader in our Auction!  Bidding opens March 12. Good luck!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Ken is respected for his lifetime of groundbreaking research and thought leadership. In fact, few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. 

His’s impact as an author is far reaching. His iconic 1982 classic, The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on bestseller lists today. In the past three decades he has authored or coauthored 60 books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies. His groundbreaking works—including Raving Fans, The Secret, and Leading at a Higher Level, to name just a few—have been translated into more than 42 languages.  In 2005 Ken was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time.

Ken is the cofounder and Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies® , an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Margie Blanchard, began in 1979 in San Diego, California.

 

For more bio on Ken Blanchard: 

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Ken-Blanchard-bio.pdf

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  BILL GEPPERT

President & CEO, Economic Development Corporation

This Leader's Auction Dates will be announced Soon!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Bill brings his business acumen and deep relations in the community developed while he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cox Communications to give back and make a difference in San Diego.

With more than 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry, he brings vision and charismatic leadership to his role as chair of Our Greater San Diego Vision, as well as to The Foundation’s board. He headed Cox Communications in San Diego since 1995, retiring in 2011.

Bill has personally received numerous honors, including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association National Leadership Award, San Diego Business Journal’s Business Person of the Year, YMCA Civic Leader of the Year, and the Union of Pan Asian Government’s Courageous Leader of the Year Award.

He serves on the boards of The Campanile Foundation and Sharp Healthcare. He was the former chair of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation and San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. Bill received his BA from the University of South Florida and completed Stanford’s Executive Program.

For more information on Bill Geppert:

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/testimonials/william-bill-geppert/

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  CHRIS SHIMOJIMA

Immediate Past CEO, Provide Commerce

This Leader's Auction Dates will be announced Soon!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Chris Shimojima is the Chief Executive Officer of Provide Commerce, Inc., one of San Diego’s leading e-commerce retailers. Provide Commerce operates ProFlowers, which revolutionized the way Americans send and receive flowers when it shipped its first bouquet for Valentine’s Day of 1998. Since then, the company has grown its portfolio of brands to include Personal Creations, Shari’s Berries, Cherry Moon Farms, ProFlowers, ProPlants, Gifts.com and Sincerely.

Chris has 20+ years of world-class leadership in brand management, direct marketing, e-commerce and customer-focus to his role as CEO. Prior to Provide Commerce, he worked at Nike, Inc. where he was the Vice President of Global e-Commerce, a division he helped to grow from $80 million when he started at Nike in 2006 to more than $500 million today. In this position, Chris oversaw the direct-to-consumer ecommerce businesses globally for Nike Brand, Cole-Haan, Converse, and Hurley.

Chris joined Nike from Sears Holdings Inc. where he served as the VP/GM of their direct-to-customer businesses that included Sears.com, Kmart.com, Kenmore.com, and a portfolio of specialty catalogs (grew to $900M+ during his tenure). As the GM, Chris was responsible for driving profitable revenue growth by directing all critical business functions – merchandising, online marketing, site experience, catalog creative and circulation planning, customer care and supply chain/fulfillment operations. His experience before Sears spans large well–known companies including: AT&T, Nestlé, Pepsi-Cola and P&G and smaller company experience at start-ups like Kozmo.com.

For more information on Chris Shimojima:

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/testimonials/3709-2/

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  JEFFREY DUNHAM

President, Dunham & Associates

This Leader's Auction Dates will be announced Soon!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Jeffrey Dunham founded Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. (DAIC) in 1985 with the uncommon idea at that time, that the fees his clients pay should be tied in some way to the performance of the funds they own. He built his reputation and a successful investment advisory firm on performance, with over $100 million in assets in 10 short years.

By the mid-1990’s, Jeffrey was approached by other advisors wanting to offer his performance based funds. This marked a watershed moment for DAIC, soon proving that distribution through other advisers and broker/dealers was a great way to build a business far beyond the scope of an individual practice.By 1999, DAIC had grown to manage over $200 million in assets through its Sub-Advisers and added sales professionals throughout the U.S. to market to other advisors. 

As client demands increased, DAIC’s services grew to include investments management services, fixed income and cash management, asset protection and ultimately wealth transfer strategies; leading to the birth of Dunham Trust Company (DTC)* in 1999. 

When the market turned bearish at the start of the 21st century and many investors wondered what they were paying investment managers for in the face of significant losses, the appeal of performance based funds really piqued the interest of savvy investors. This continued to fuel the growth of DAIC to roughly $300 million in assets by the end of 2002.

In December 2004, DAIC launched public mutual funds based on tried and true performance fee incentives similar to its private funds. Today, DAIC manages over $600 million in assets through its Sub-Advisers funds and has scaled the company to manage billions.

Much of the DAIC success story can be attributed to Jeffrey’s determination to stand firm by the niche he’s created. His willingness to introduce performance based fees and compensation as an integral component of helping align the interests of all parties has resulted in establishing client and advisor relationships that span generations. DAIC is built on leadership, not following the crowd or latest trends. Jeffrey did not build DAIC to be a commodity business and has never tried to be all things to all people.

As DAIC strives toward its goal of $5 billion in assets under management and beyond, Jeffrey remains true to the tenet on which he founded his company: Performance Counts. 

For more information on Jeffrey Dunham:

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/testimonials/3358-2/

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  Jessie Knight

Chairman, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E)

This Leader's Auction Dates will be announced Soon!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Jessie J. Knight is chairman of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E); chairman of Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), an affiliate of SDG&E; and executive vice president of external affairs for Sempra Energy. SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 861,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.

Previously, Knight served as chairman and chief executive officer of SDG&E from 2010 to 2013.  Prior to that, he was executive vice president of external affairs for Sempra Energy.

Before joining Sempra Energy in 2006, Knight served for seven years as president and chief executive officer of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, which represents 2,800 companies with more than 400,000 employees.  The San Diego chamber is the largest business organization in California and the third largest chamber of commerce in the western United States.

From 1993 to 1999, Knight served as commissioner for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), after being appointed by then-Gov. Pete Wilson.  The agency has regulatory oversight for California’s energy, telecommunications, railroad, transportation and water industries.

His earlier positions include executive vice president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,  vice president of marketing for the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner newspapers, and domestic and international operations at Dole Food Company Inc.

For more information on Jessie Knight:

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/testimonials/jessie-j-knight/

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  MARGIE BLANCHARD, PhD

Co-Founder, The Ken Blanchard Companies

This Leader's Auction Dates will be announced Soon!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Dr. Marjorie Blanchard has earned a reputation worldwide as a compelling motivational speaker, an accomplished management consultant and trainer, a best-selling author, and an entrepreneur. She was the corecipient with her husband, Dr. Kenneth Blanchard, of the Entrepreneur of the Year award from Cornell University.

Coauthor of The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life and Working Well: Managing for Health and High Performance, and Leading at a Higher Level, Dr. Blanchard is well-versed in a variety of topics and often speaks on leadership, balance, managing change, aging parents, and life planning. As cofounder of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, she works diligently with Ken, developing the company into one of the premier management consulting and training companies in the world. Dr. Blanchard served as president of the company from 1987–1997, leading its rapid growth and success.

Margie now heads the firm’s unique Office of the Future— a think tank charged with shaping the future of both the training industry and the company.

For more information on Margie Blanchard:

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Marjorie-Blanchard-bio.pdf

BLM "Lunch with a Leader":  MIKE MURPHY

President and CEO, SHARP Hospital

This Leader's Auction Dates will be announced Soon!

You’ll break bread over a private lunch for two, conversing with one of our own BLM Legacy Leaders and an audience of one:  YOU!  

Date, Time & San Diego Venue to be determined by mutual agreement. Includes lunch, non-alcholic beverage, taxes/gratuities and one on one time with your selected Leader.

 

A little background on this Leader:

Mike Murphy is president and chief executive officer of Sharp HealthCare. Murphy oversees a workforce of more than 16,000 employees, 2,600 affiliated physicians and 2,100 volunteers. They provide care and service in a fully integrated not-for-profit system that includes four acute-care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, two affiliated medical groups, five urgent care centers, three skilled nursing facilities, home health, hospice, state-of-the-art outpatient facilities and a health plan.

Murphy, whose career in health care spans more than 30 years, was appointed to his position in June 1996. Under Murphy’s direction, Sharp has dedicated itself to The Sharp Experience, which is transforming the health care experience for employees, physicians and customers. This focus on purpose, worthwhile work and making a difference has led to increased employee, physician and patient satisfaction, as well as enhanced loyalty and improved outcomes as Sharp strives to fulfill its vision of becoming the best place to work, practice medicine and receive care.

For more information on Mike Murphy:

http://www.wealthlegacycenter.org/testimonials/mike-murphy/