BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:SVPMA Workshop - So You Think You Want To Be A Consultant ? with Niti Agrawal\, Stage 4 Solutions\, Inc in San Jose at Network M eeting Center - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080913T083000 DTEND:20080913T120000 DTSTAMP:20080915T194350Z SUMMARY:SVPMA Workshop - So You Think You Want To Be A Consultant? wit h Niti Agrawal\, Stage 4 Solutions\, Inc DESCRIPTION: Presentation: Many Product Marketing and Management prof essionals have at one time considered leaving their full time position for work as a consultant. The potential benefits are attractive: High pay\; be your own boss\; work part-time\; work with many companies on different projects. But\, what about the risks and how do you get sta rted? This half-day seminar provides an introduction to various approa ches and opportunities for getting a start in consulting and will help participants develop a plan to become a successful Product Marketing and Management consultant. Niti Agrawal\, of management consultancy St age 4 Solutions\, Inc. will lead this half day workshop including a pa nel of local consultants containing Brain Lawley\, of the 280 Group\, Deborah Siegle of Marketing Solutions\, and Kathleen Gilligan of Array Partners. These experts will share their experience and practical kno wedge- helping participants decide if consulting is right for them and offering how-to to get started. Agenda topics: " Consulting Pros/Cons " Types and Approaches to Consulting " Consultant Panel " Getting Sta rted --> Covering the basics --> What are you selling? --> Getting cli ents --> Tax/legal implications " Developing Your Plan Moderator: Niti Agrawal\, is President and founder of Stage 4 Solutions\, Inc. Stage 4 Solutions is a product marketing firm with four consecutive years of double-digit growth. The firm specializes in maximizing marketing inv estments for Fortune 500 high-techs and emerging high-tech leaders by providing strategic business and product plans\, focused sales tools\, competitive analyses\, new product launches\, and interim marketing s taffing solutions. Stage 4 Solutions is staffed by senior-level consul tants in the Silicon Valley and India. Since founding the company in 2 001\, Niti and the team of senior marketing professionals have achieve d 100% referenceability with market leading clients such as HP\, Syman tec\, SAP\, HP\, Sun Microsystems\, Yahoo!\, Symantec\, Nokia\, Wind R iver\, and a host of start-up companies. Prior to founding Stage 4 Sol utions\, Niti was the Director of Product Marketing for Agile Software \, a leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Previ ously Niti led the team at HP responsible for a $400M PC server produc t line. Niti holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Account ing and Finance with highest honors from The Wharton School of Busines s. Panelists: Brian Lawley\, CEO\, 280 Group Brian is the CEO and foun der of the 280 Group\, which provides consulting\, contractors\, train ing and templates. During the last twenty years of his career he has f ocused on Product Management and Product Marketing and has shipped mor e than fifty successful products. He is the former President of the Si licon Valley Product Management Association\, won the 2008 AIPMM award for Excellence in Thought Leadership for Product Management and is th e author of the best-selling book\, Expert Product Management. Mr. Law ley has been featured on CNBC's World Business Review and the Silicon Valley Business Report and writes articles for a variety of publicatio ns including the Product Management 2.0 newsletter and Blog. Deb Siegl e\, Principal\, Strategic Marketing Solutions Deb Siegle assists clien ts in the areas of strategic research\, market and product development \, technology industry analysis\, and customer loyalty and experience. She quickly identifies and solves core issues\, and develops actionab le strategies and tactics that make a difference to her clients. Deb h as an impressive high technology\, healthcare\, and services backgroun d with over 25 years of marketing\, customer service and sales experie nce in public and privately held companies. Deb is a popular speaker a nd has been featured in podcasts for executives on "Building Customer Loyalty\, "The Power of Retention Marketing and The Market & Custom er Voice: How Research Can Reveal New Insights into Your Customers\, Y our Product\, & Your Brand. Deb is currently President of Women in Te lecommunications (WiT) a San Francisco based non-profit providing netw orking and education opportunities. She also is a member of Society fo r Advancement of Consulting (SAIC). In addition\, she also held leader ship positions in city\, state and national industry associations. Deb has a MBA from the University of California - Berkeley and a BBA from the University of Michigan. Kathleen Gilligan\, Array Partners For ov er 25 years\, Kathleen's leadership approach has built successful orga nizations in enterprise and channel sales\, marketing\, communications \, training\, and executive management. Kathleen focuses on helping co mpanies accelerate revenue through improvement in sales processes\, an d by shaping the sales force to meet customer needs. Among Kathleen's consulting clients are PGP Corporation\, BD BioSciences\, CollabNet\, Ramco Systems\, and Design Power. Kathleen spent ten years at Symantec Corporation as the company grew from $64M to $750M. She held a variet y of management roles at Symantec\, encompassing sales\, training\, an d finally\, the leadership of a shared services organization that prov ided training\, communications\, and marketing services to a worldwide customer base. Kathleen served as vice president of sales for AMR Res earch\, a research firm advising Fortune 500 clients on supply chain a nd manufacturing strategies\, and prior to that as Vice President of S ales for OnDemand\, later acquired by Chordiant. Kathleen has worked a s an executive coach and mentor through the Growth and Leadership Cent er and Small Business Incubator\, and as an advisor to pre-revenue tec hnology startups on revenue generation and sales force development. Sh e served as a member of the board of directors for Kurant Corporation from 1999-2001. SVPMA Workshop Series: The Silicon Valley Product Mana gement Association (SVPMA) was founded to address the needs of Product Managers\, Product Marketing Managers and other professionals working within the Product Management field. The goal of the SVPMA Workshop S eries is to provide our members hands-on\, interactive product managem ent training delivered by leading consulting and professional services companies\, lecturers and trainers. \n LOCATION:Network Meeting Center @ 5201 Great America Parkway Suite 122 , Santa Clara, California 95054 United States SEQUENCE:1221507830 UID:E0-001-014932729-4 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-014932729-4 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR