*** Please RSVP for this meeting before 5pm on May 3 ***

Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Time: 7:00am-9:00am
Location: Wheat Ridge Recreation Center, 4005 Kipling St., Wheat Ridge, CO
Cost: $15 for WRBA Members and their guests, $18 for Non-members

Speaker: Christopher Peck
Topic: “Unleash the Secret Formula to Speaking Success”

Meeting Sponsor: Esteem Journeys, LLC – Amber Betts
Member Business Spotlight: Lowrey Burnett – Avison Young, Ella Cressman – Ella Cress Skin Care

May Speaker – Christopher Peck, Public Speech and Interpersonal Communications Coach

You will learn:

• • How to turn your intimidation into inspiration
  • What it takes to be a S.M.A.R.T. communicator
  • Three body language No-Nos!
  • How to make an unforgettable first impression

Christopher Peck, Strategic Communications Coach, Professional Stage Director, Actor, Educator, and Self-Professed Introvert! Even though he’s an introvert, he promises to share great ideas to help us become more poised and confident whether we’re making a group or one on one presentation. Christopher coaches real estate agents, health and wellness practitioners, entrepreneurs, teachers, CPAs and mortgage lenders to name a few. When you apply his S.M.A.R.T. formula you’ll learn how to better share your ideas confidently and passionately leading to the results you desire.

*** Please RSVP for this meeting before 5pm on June 7 ***

Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Time: 7:00am-9:00am
Location: Wheat Ridge Recreation Center, 4005 Kipling St., Wheat Ridge, CO
Cost: $15 for WRBA Members and their guests, $18 for Non-members

Speaker: Gary Barnes, International High-Performance Business and Sales Coach, Author
Topic: “How a Beaver Saved My Life”

Gary will share:

• How to turn adversity into opportunity- My personal Beaver story
• How to easily reboot your brain for success
• The 3 keys for success in any business

Meeting Sponsor: Cibo Meals – Emily Green
Member Business Spotlight: Cheryl Blum-Garcia – LegalShield/IdentityShield, Christine Jensen – Fairway Independent Mortgage

June Speaker – Gary Barnes, International High-Performance Business and Sales Coach, Author

Gary Barnes is a high-performance business and sales coach, popular international speaker & Award winning #1 International Amazon author (9 books). Gary’s clients span over 7 countries personally selling over $280 million dollars in product and services. He has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS & TEDX.

Married over 40 years, with adult sons,— He has completed a world class 40-foot firewalk, flown a World War II P-51 fighter, flown on a trapeze, driven in a Destruction Derby (his car was the Purple Passion); completed a 75 ft bungee jump; and climbed 14,000 ft mountains. He’s a drummer and a Police Academy Graduate.

He also understands dealing with adversity-he has fought a life-threatening illness & won. He believes that your worst day is the day you meet the man or woman you could have been. It’s a choice.

*** Please RSVP for this meeting before 5pm on July 5 ***

Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Time: 7:00am-9:00am
Location: Wheat Ridge Recreation Center, 4005 Kipling St., Wheat Ridge, CO
Cost: $15 for WRBA Members and their guests, $18 for Non-members

Speaker: Ron Sandstrom, Jefferson County Assessor
Topic: “Meet Ron Sandstrom – Your Jefferson County Assessor”

You will learn:

• How the process works in determining your business and residential property tax valuations.
• How the TABOR (Tax Payers Bill of Rights) impacts you
• Where Urban Renewal property taxes come from plus other facts you may not know

Meeting Sponsor: Larkin And Associates, Mike Larkin
Member Business Spotlight: TBA, TBA

July Speaker – Ron Sandstrom, Jefferson County Assessor

Ron Sandstrom has served as the elected Jefferson County Assessor for the past three years. Prior to 2015 he owned and operated his own company F & S Tax Consultants for 25 years representing property owners who had valuation disputes with county assessors across the state. He previously worked for three Fortune 500 Companies in both staff and management positions, the last of which was Coors Brewing Company. There he served as Tax Accounting Manager where his responsibilities included Property, Income (Federal & State) and Sales & Use Taxes across the entire United States.