An Afternoon of Brilliance with Simon T. Bailey

Jennifer Abernethy America's Sales Stylist for Business | Author | Speaker | Coach | Mediapreneur Ranked as one of the top 50 people in the world that truly get it when it comes to Social Media Marketing, Jennifer is a true powerhouse when it comes to sales excellence, speaking and mentoring entrepreneurs and professionals. As Author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Social Media Marketing - Jennifer has inspired audiences around the country to truly understand what it means to "go social." Her supporters include Simon Van Kempen from the Housewives of NYC to America's finest entrepreneurs, authors, inventors and speakers. She’s been called everything from a “creative visionary”, “idea maven” and “sales superstar” yet over the course of 26 years, Jennifer Abernethy’s career has exceeded even her own expectations and yet she knows she’s just beginning to make her mark on the stage of global business. A true in demand global networker typical day Jennifer can go from speaking with a start up entrepreneur in England, to a mom blogger in Texas, to a mulit-million dollar executive in Silicon Valley to a Hollywood producer in LA to a college mentee in DC.

After at 20+ year multi-million dollar sales career, in 2007 Jennifer launched The Sales Lounge.com, but when her former corporate clients didn’t come flocking (due to the impending recession) her visionary skills kicked in and Jennifer turned to Facebook to grow her business- before most people even thought about using it for business development. Within 48 hours, Jennifer realized this is where the future consumer is going to be..and in five short years she grew the Sales Lounge into a Global brand. Jennifer has been seen on ABC News, and featured in FastCompany.com, Smart CEO, Success Magazine and Women Entrepreneur.com named her book one of the top 5 books for business in 2010. Alive Magazine selected Jennifer as Social Media Marketing Women of the year in 2011 and recently Jennifer had her first international cover on Dare magazine out of Australia. Jennifer is ranked as one of the top 50 marketing authors in the world on Twitter and can be found @SalesLounge. This Sales Lounge presents series is Jennifer's leap to bring positive inspiration and motivation and powerful information to area audiences of professionals and their families. This is just the beginning.....dream. Simon T. Bailey Best Motivational Keynote Speaker Cited best keynote speaker ever heard or used by the readers of Meetings and Conventions magazine, Simon T. Bailey is a compelling instigator who enriches people’s lives by encouraging them to create the destiny they want. He does this by illuminating and then magnifying the brilliance inherent in everyone through his positively contagious energy and enthusiasm. His transformational insights, delivered with compassion and humor, connect viscerally with audiences; and have earned Simon recognition as one of the Top 25 Speakers Shaping the Speaking Profession. Since leaving the Walt Disney Company and discovering his vocation eight years ago, Simon has worked with three hundred of the Fortune 1000 and written 6 books, one of which, Release Your Brilliance, was voted #17 of the top 100 books being read by corporate America. Somehow he still finds time to write columns for Prestige Magazine, London UK and Destiny Magazine, South Africa. Simon’s seventh book will be published in 2011. The Sales Lounge Presents series.... Is the brainchild of Jennifer Abernethy. Who was seeking a new and innovative way to reach area professionals and families with dynamic, positive and life changing information. Throughout the past four years Jennifer has met some of the worlds most amazing individuals and believes it's part of her mission to bring them to audiences to promote change and inspiration. Look for this series to be amazing..."my dream is for this to be a combination of TED, SANG and Oprah's Angel Network wrapped into one." Jennifer invites each speaker to choose their favorite charity and a portion of the programs receipts will go to that charity.

Simon will shift you from the "undoable..to the doable" Simon T. Bailey...Cited BEST KEYNOTE SPEAKER ever heard or used! ~ by readers of Meetings & Convention Magazine See for yourself... don't miss an opportunity for you to experience SIMON T. BAILEY!

Date of program: Wednesday March 28th, 2012 11:25am-12:30pm. Location: USA TODAY Global Headquarters, Mclean VA (Free Parking) Bring ID to enter. Doors open at 10:45am for networking and “meet and greet.” Formal program begins at 11:25am SHARP until 12:30pm. 12:30-1pm Meet and Greet Book Signing and networking. Questions: 571-223-3887 Group Rates Available for 10 or more. What attendees will learn: • Discover how to realign, reconnect and reemerge to build a thriving life and business. • Learn that failure is NOT final; failure is only feedback and feedback is the key to building success. • Leave equipped with tools and techniques to live a Brilliant Life!

Selected Charity: Simons Selected Charity for this evening is NFTE (http://www.nfte.com/). A percentage of the evenings funds will go to support Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship to teens.