Women In Technology

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Networkers
Speaker:	Ricky Steele, CEO Richard E. Steele, Jr. & Associates
Date:	Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Time:	7:30am - 9:00am
Location:	Maggiano's Buckhead 3368 Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA Map

Make a world in which you succeed and everyone benefits. Book-signing with Atlanta celebrity Ricky Steele, author of "The Heart of Networking"

In practical, straightforward, real-world language, The Heart of Networking reveals the secrets of building your own business network. That means nothing less than making a business environment that enables and promotes your own success by creating satisfaction among clients, customers, colleagues, bosses, investors, and the community. Steele's little book is a blueprint for business life, and while it requires a lifetime commitment to an ethic of service and excellence, the networking system offered here also pays immediate dividends.

In this presentation, Steele gives us a glimpse into The Heart of Networking, presents his own remarkable story and shares seven habits of highly effective networkers. His philosophy of networking that serves as a plan for life: How to win friends, not arguments.

"You see," Steele explains, "a successful networker understands and believes that his or her first mission has nothing to do with selling anything to anybody. The mission of networking is to build relationships, which may or may not lead directly to business one day. Build enough relationships, and you have created an environment favorable to your success. Instead of scrambling for a sale on Tuesday and another on Friday, you will have enabled a universe of potential customers and clients, who, collectively, produce a steady stream of sales for which you need not scramble."

President of Richard E. Steele, Jr. & Associates, a corporate consulting firm, Ricky Steele is the consummate networker, who has been a client partner with Korn/Ferry International, a director for PricewaterhouseCoopers, chairman and CEO of QuadBase Software, president and CEO of Innovative Media, founder and president of SunBelt Transportation Group, and publisher of Georgia Travel Publications, Inc.

Steele was honored as the Georgia Small Business Person of the Year and also one of the Georgia Jaycees' "5 Outstanding Young Georgians." He is intensely active in community service - for him, the bedrock foundation of networking, of leadership, and of life. Steele is the founding chairman of both Atlanta's Table and Hospitality Helping Hands, a former board director for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Hands On Atlanta, Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau and most recently a Trustee for Leadership Atlanta.

Ricky Steele is married with three children and lives in Marietta, Georgia where his family is active in Mount Bethel United Methodist Church.