“Driving Ownership and Growth in a Competitive Environment”

“Driving Ownership and Growth in a Competitive Environment”
Los Angeles Chapter meeting on August 15

Managing any business is difficult. It is particularly challenging to keep everyone on the same page and all moving in the same direction when acquiring and putting together small businesses with different cultural backgrounds and business philosophies. Over the last 15 months Bob Swelgin has brought together four companies and acquired a product line from a fifth company. The total business has grown over 20% and is on plan to grow another 20% this year.

Please join us in Los Angeles on Friday, August 15, 2014, 7:30am – 9:00am PDT (networking at 7:00am), when Bob Swelgin, President, Smart Electronics and Lark Engineering, will describe how he overcame these challenges to create a trusting and progressive environment where everyone in the company can be called on to interface with the customers without concern – where people feel a sense of ownership and look forward to celebrations when targets are hit and feel some responsibility when those targets are missed.

The meeting is free for A&D Forum members and $40 for non-members ($30 Early Bird until August 8). For more information and to register to attend the meeting in person or for free via the web, go to http://adflaaug14.eventbrite.com.

Information about joining The A&D Forum is at https://aerospacedefenseforum.org.

The Los Angeles chapter of The Aerospace & Defense Forum was founded by Frontier Associates and the 62 Mile Club, and is sponsored by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Moss Adams, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell, IFS, and UK Trade & Investment.