Our next event is Wednesday 10/22/2025
Founders
Susan Cantrell
Gentry Ferguson
Gentry Ferguson
My mission is to help small and medium-sized businesses achieve breakout sales performance by implementing highly effective sales strategies, processes and execution plans.
Gentry Ferguson
Gentry Ferguson
Gentry Ferguson
My mission is to help local companies find mid-to-senior level talent in business-level positions. We use a proven 6-step search process to find you and your organization the best talent in the market.
Meeting Location
We are proud to be partners with Julian Viso who owns The Venue in Leawood. The meeting space is flexible to meet any arrangement that our group needs.
About Our Guest Speaker
Lori Wiles
Lori will moderate our panel of 4 Marketing Executives.
- Rob Persaud, CMO Nelson Atkins Museum
- Emily Thurman — VP Marketing & Communications, Heart to Heart International (HHI)
- Nora Freyman — Chief Marketing Officer, United Way of Greater KC
- Julie Weeks — Community Marketing, Arvest Bank
Lori Wiles, ABC is a marketing and branding expert with more than 30 years in start-up, medium and Fortune 500 companies including Sprint, Blue KC, Lockton and GEHA. Lori owns her own Fractional CMO firm where she specializes in building marketing strategies for small businesses with an AI-forward approach, training them to use AI to help them be more competitive. A past IABC leader, she is based in Kansas City and Colorado and is a guest lecturer in Strategic Communications at the University of Kansas. She is also a small business coach and trainer for the Missouri SBDC and Larimer County SBDC.
Contact Us
Are you interested in Sponsoring an Event or Donating a door prize? If so, please contact us for more information!
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