2018 Regional Conference Speakers

REGIONS: SOUTHEAST REGION | JUL 15-17 SOUTHWEST & NORTHWEST | JUL 22-24 NORTH CENTRAL | AUG 5-7 CENTRAL & NORTHEAST | AUG 12-14

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Shirley Bloomfield
Chief Executive Officer, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association

Shirley Bloomfield is chief executive officer of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, the premier association representing nearly 850 independent, community-based telecommunications companies that are leading innovation in rural and small-town America. With more than 30 years of experience representing the country’s smallest independent telecom operators, Bloomfield is an expert on the role of federal communications policies in sustaining the vitality of rural and remote communities and the benefits rural broadband networks bring to the national economy...

Anne Hazlett
Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development, USDA

Anne Hazlett serves as the Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development at the United States Department of Agriculture. An Indiana native, she has a deep and lifelong passion for rural America, small towns and the people who call them home. Anne has worked on agriculture and rural issues for over fifteen years. Serving as legal counsel for the Agriculture Committees in both the U.S. House and Senate, Anne has been an advocate for rural communities on many issues important to rural America from Farm Bill legislation to broadband and nutrition programs. ...

Shawn Rhodes
Business Performance Expert, Shoshin Consulting

Shawn Rhodes is an international expert in creating high-performing organizations. He's a Tampa-based TEDx speaker and his work studying organizations in more than two dozen countries has been published in news outlets around the world including TIME, CNN, NBC, Forbes and INC...

Garrison Wynn
CEO, Wynn Solutions

Garrison Wynn helps people make the jump from being great at what they do to developing the qualities it takes to be consistently chosen for the job. He gets them to understand why their products, services, or leadership styles - or those of their competitors - are selected....