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When: Saturday, September 22, 2007
8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: ASU--Jonesboro, Convocation Center, Room B

Co-Sponsored by:
Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce Agri-Business Committee
AgHeritage Farm Credit
Craighead County Farm Bureau
Midsouth Farm Credit
E. Ritter & Company
Greenway Equipment Inc.

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:8:45 ‑ 9:00 REGISTRATION and Refreshments

9:00 ‑ 9:15      WELCOME     Dr. David Agnew, Associate Professor, Agricultural Education
                                                Dr. Bert Greenwalt, Professor, Agricultural Economics
                       SESSION I      The Brand Called You: Developing your Personal Brand
                                               Personal Branding Statement and Integrating throughout your career search and
                                               career. Resumes/Cover letters and Behavioral Interviewing

10:30 ‑ 10:45 BREAK Refreshments

10:45 ‑ 12:00 SESSION II    Employer Panel
                                               What employers are looking for in their companies with regards to skills, abilities, and what should the
                                               student be doing now to be successful in the career search process. Behavioral based Interviewing

12:00 ‑ 1:15 LUNCH Luncheon Address -- Mr. Sach Oliver, ASU College of Agriculture 2003, ASU
Student Gov. Pres. 2002-03 Attorney At Law, Bailey & Oliver

1:15 – 2:20 SESSION III Networking session and Six Degrees of Separation
Internship and First Years Out Panel

2:20 – 2:50       SESSION IV              Mock Interview
2:50 - 3:15        SESSION V            The Brand Called You Wrap up (you and your student organization)
3:15 – 3:30       CLOSING               Photographs and Evaluations

Conference Planning Committee:
Dr. David Agnew, Chair
Dr. Bert Greenwalt
Dr. Bud Kennedy

1992 Tom Baker
Chairman, House Agriculture Committee
Arkansas House of Representatives

1995 David Young
Vice President, Boatmen's Bank of Northeast Arkansas

1996 Greg Cole
Senior V.P. of Commercial Lending
Farm Credit Services of Central Arkansas

1998 No Luncheon Speaker
Conference Was at Heifer Project International Ranch

1999 Carol Bettis Johnson
Farm Credit Services of Western Arkansas
(First Alumni Luncheon speaker that had participated in the Leadership Conference as a student)

2000 Leland Jackson
North Central Economic Development Center
Past President of the Arkansas Cattlemen's Association
Member of the Board of the National Beef Council

2001 Rick Crawford
Executive Producer/Host of Delta Farm Roundup
(TV Farm News Program)

2002 Doug Ward
Agricultural Instructor, Nettleton High School
Past winner of the South Region Outstanding Teacher Award

2003 Randall Pope
President of the Westchester Financial Group Inc.

2004 Mr. John Andrews
1993 Graduate, Arkansas Farm Bureau Board Member

2005 Kyle Sanders
Agricultural Education Graduate, teaching at Harrisburg, past president of the ArVTA

"Genuine reform most often boils down to a shift in the depth of ownership and responsibility
core workers feel toward the success of their workplace. All of the focus on leaders and
leadership has the unintended effect of reducing the ownership and responsibility felt by those
close to the work." Peter Block

"Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations."
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner

"A leader is one who has more faith in people than they do in themselves, and who
courageously and patiently holds opportunities open long enough for their self-confidence to emerge." Margaret Wheatle

"Organizations that run on excessive patriarchal dependency lead to anemic human beings."
Peter Koestenbaum

Co-Sponsors for 2007