Club Management - January/February 2008 - (Page 38) CONFERENCE PREVIEW Keynote Speakers Opening Business Session Saturday, February 2 8:00-10:00 a.m. movie “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Will Smith starred as Gardner and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Presented in partnership with E-Z-GO, a CMAA Academy Award nominations for his Platinum Advantage Partner performance. Gardner was an associate producer on the movie. Christopher GardAlways hard-working and tenacious, ner is the owner and a series of circumstances in the early CEO of Chr istopher 1980s left Gardner homeless in San Gardner International Holdings with offices in Christopher Gardner Francisco and the sole guardian of his toddler son. Unwilling to give up Chris, New York, Chicago and Jr., or his dream of financial indepenSan Francisco. Surmounting acute obdence, Gardner started at the bottom. stacles on his road to success, Gardner is Without connections or a college dean avid motivational speaker, addressing gree, he earned a spot in the Dean Witthe keys to self-empowerment, beating ter Reynolds training program. Often odds and breaking cycles. spending nights in a church shelter or The amazing story of Gardner’s life the bathroom at a Bay Area Rapid Tranwas published as an autobiography, “The sit station in Oakland, Gardner was the Pursuit of Happyness,” (Amistad/Harper sole trainee offered a job at Dean Witter Collins) on May 23, 2006, and became Reynolds in 1981. He spent 1983-1987 a New York Times and Washington Post at Bear Stearns & Co., where he beNo. 1 bestseller. In paperback, the book came a top earner, and then in 1987, has gone on to spend more than 20 weeks he founded the brokerage firm Gardner on The New York Times best-seller list. Rich & Co. in Chicago. Gardner was also the inspiration for the Closing Business Session Tuesday, February 5 9:00-11:15 a.m. Dr. Deborah Tannen Presented in partnership with Jonas Software, a CMAA Silver Advantage Partner Keynote Speaker Christopher Gardner AT-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP Sunday, February 3 12:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Wine & Food Strategies: Global Flavors and Emerging Varietals Chef Bill Briwa, Culinary Institute of America • This three-hour Wine & Food Seminar requires a separate registration. Global Cuisine with its bold, distinct flavors – bright with acidity, sweet, piquant with chilies and aromatic with herbs and spices – is the food Americans crave. Unfortunately, this is not wine-friendly cuisine, and who among us wants to lose the profits from a good bottle of wine in exchange for the take from two glasses of iced tea? This session will introduce the rules of wine and food pairing that anyone can learn. Through guided tastings, we will uncover the challenges that ethnic foods present to the enjoyment of wine, and finally, we will identify pairing strategies and up-and-coming wine varietals that dance and sing with the items on your globally-inspired menu. Deborah Tannen’s “You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation,” her 20th book, was just published in paperback. It spent 10 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list when it was fi rst published last year. In connection with its publication she has recently appeared on “20/ 20,” “Good Deborah Tannen Morning America” and NPR’s “Morning Edition.” She is also the author of “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation,” which was on The New York Times best-seller list for nearly four years, including eight months as No. 1, and has been translated into 29 languages. This is the book that brought gender differences in communication style to the forefront of public awareness. Tannen is a frequent guest on television and radio news and information shows and networks. “Nightline,” “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” “20/20,” “48 Hours,” “CBS News,” “ABC World News Tonight,” “Oprah,” “Good Morning America,” and “Larry King Live” are among those on which she has appeared. Tannen is on the linguistics department faculty at Georgetown University, where she is one of only two in the College of Arts and Sciences who holds the distinguished rank of university professor. She has been McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the recipient of five honorary doctorates. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley. 38 • CLUB MANAGEMENT
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.