Speaking Services

Strategy Leaders regularly puts on events focused on the needs and goals of business owners.

• Owners Forum
• Columbia Business School Alumni Club
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Strategy Leaders Owners Forum

For the owners of established privately held businesses. All participants are carefully screened to insure a productive and confidential environment. Events are held every other month, 8:30 - 10:30 am. It's a great environment in which to network, gain insights, and walk away with useful exercises to help grow the business and develop a succession plan. Every event includes Andi's Economic Tidbits©.

Past topics include:

• Building a Sales Driven Organization
• Building Human & Financial Capital for the Future
• Buying & Selling Businesses: Path to Wealth Building
• Marketing: Lifeblood of the Business
• Goal Setting & Compensation
• Building a Successful Growth Model

Columbia Business School Alumni Club NY's Small Business Committee

The Small Business Committee's mission is to create a venue for small business (1-500 employee) owners / entrepreneurs to come together to talk about what it takes to build successful, long haul businesses. 

Launched February, 2011, the Committee's first event attracted a diverse set of participants. Comments of attendees: 

• Great event! Definitely in your element~ Good content! Very much worth the time and effort!
• I've already been able to apply what I learned at the event! Thanks for the help!
• It was great meeting you last Thursday and massive congratulations for putting on such a fab seminar.

The format of events is a panel discussion, focused on the real-world experiences of successful business owners.

Interested in having Andi Gray speak at an event:

Top business management leader & motivational speaker Andi Gray has shared the path to profit and growth with owners of established, privately held businesses for 20 plus years, hosting educational forums, providing key-note speeches, and sharing information about the topic closest to her heart: the importance of small business to the success of the U.S. economy.

Past and future speaking engagement topics include:

• Dutchess County Economic Development - Host: Webinar Series on building blocks for small businesses
• Connecticut Venture Group: What Entrepreneurs Need To Know To Beat The Odds
• Ceridian HR Boot Camp: Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent
• Heart of The Hudson Girl Scout Council Event Annual Partnership Luncheon Co-Chair: In The Company of Women
• Annual Professional Turf & Landscape Conference and Trade Show: Starting a New Year on a New Foot – Where is your business going and what can you do to make sure you will be here next year?
• Professional Women of: Putnam, Connecticut, Westchester: various topics about growing and leading women owned enterprises

Here's what event managers and attendees have had to say:

• Andi Gray is a confident and competent speaker who makes an impact on everyone in the room! 
• Andi did a great job. She really connected with her audience and handled Q&A very well.  She's a wonderful resource for business groups.
• We were looking for a speaker who could inspire attendees. Andi Gray did all that and more!  She opened up vistas for everyone in the room.
• Andi provided our group with very valuable information.  She actively engaged her audience and we all came away with actionable ideas to help us grow.
• Andi captivated her audience. She made a hard-hitting presentation. An excellent program for a highly-motivated group.         
• Andi was thought provoking and very insightful. If she's speaking, you want to be there!
• Andi did a great job when she spoke to Rotary.  She had a good Power Point and presented many useful tools for people in business for themselves.   She really connected with her audience and handled Q&A very well.  I think she would be a wonderful resource, especially as a speaker for other business groups.