With resource shortages, financial uncertainty, and global hyper-competition in full swing, it's a big scary world out there. Business is changing every day, and those changes are coming faster and faster. That's why entrepreneurs and business leaders who best adapt to those changes are the ones who will win the biggest. Going forward we must adapt to those changes, because creating more efficient business systems will become the Holy Grail of professional success. In this general session (based on his new book Evolve or Die), Robin will show you how these problems are actually huge opportunities and he'll share solid examples of companies that have successfully reinvented themselves by adapting to ongoing events as they occur. Also in this presentation Robin will present his Seven Step Challenge, which will serve as a powerful tool to revitalize your business.

Robin Crow is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, business owner and one of the most innovative guitarists in the world. With over 2,000 presentations to his name, his expertise on leadership and customer service comes from 30 hard-won years in the trenches as an entrepreneur. For the past 13 of those years, he has led his company, Dark Horse Recording, a four studio complex he built from the ground up, to set the gold standard for customer service and excellence in the recording industry and is home to Faith Hill, Neil Diamond, Michael W. Smith, Jewel, and Alison Krauss to name a few. He has had ten albums released and four books published, including Jump And The Net Will Appear, which has become required reading for many high schools and universities. Robin has been a contributor on CNN and Canada AM, and has made over 55 other national and major market television appearances.

Dr. Mark G. Dotzour
www.markdotzour.com
Chief Economist and Director of Research
Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University

Dr. Mark G. Dotzour (pronounced Dot sir) is the Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and served as Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years. As Chief Economist, he is currently conducting market research to monitor how global and national trends are likely to impact residential and commercial real estate markets.

Prior to his academic career, he was president of Gleneagles Development, Inc., developing residential subdivisions in Wichita, Kansas. He also served as president of Dotzour Inc., Realtors, which was a residential brokerage firm in Wichita.

He has been at the Real Estate Center since August, 1997. Since then, he has published 77 articles in magazines and given nearly 1,000 presentations. His research findings and comments have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, USA Today, and Business Week. He has also appeared as a guest on the Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS.

Dr. Dotzour regularly makes presentations to national housing and real estate groups such as the National Association of Realtors, Institute of Real Estate Management, Urban Land Institute and Building Owners and Managers Association. He also speaks to pubic and private real estate firms, banks, CPAs, foundations and wealth managers, and state and local government officials.

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