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Ron Wacks
Co-Founder, CEO
Ron P. Wacks has spent the past
40 years working in organizational and business development. Many of
those years were spent crafting a higher level of networking and
partnership development skill sets, which led Ron to write a definitive
book, "Power Networking: How to Solve any Problem by Connecting with the
Right Person". Ron uses the book as a guide in seminars and national
consultant work.
Ron has authored hundreds of articles is
frequently quoted as a national microbusiness leader who speaks on
issues that affect microbusinesses and entrepreneurs.
Ron is the
CEO of the Microbusiness Strategies and also produces the IssuesLive
National Forum Series, the first national dialogue and needs assessment
for microbusinesses.
Ron was one of eight Featured Speakers at
the IFIA Conference in Budapest, Hungary in August 2007. The IFIA
membership represents 84 countries and the Conference theme was
Innovation in the Age of Globalization. Ron spoke on 'Innovation and
Microbusinesses' and was the first American speaker in their 39-year
conference history.
Ron served for eight years as President/CEO
of the American Association of Microbusinesses. Ron was a member of the
Obama National Small Business Advisory Committee during the
Presidential campaign and worked with the Transition Team afterward. He
currently works on small and microbusiness issues in the context of the
economic recovery plan and economic policy development. In 2003, the
SBA recognized Ron for his work with microbusinesses by awarding him the
Home-Based Business Advocate of the Year awards for Minnesota and the
Midwest Region. Ron was also recognized in 2004 by the Aspen Institute
in Washington D.C. in its Best Practice Guide for entrepreneurial
service providers called, "Staying Connected: Building Entrepreneurial
Networks".
Ron is a trained chef and loves cooking, traveling,
teaching, public speaking, working on quality political campaigns, and
is a happy single father of his daughter, Alyssea.
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