Sharon Toerek is Principal of Toerek Law, where she focuses her law practice on helping professionals in the advertising, marketing and creative industries monetize their intellectual capital, and manage the legal risks of their work. Sharon provides proactive, strategic counsel to marketing agencies on legal issues they face continually in their work, including: agency-brand contracts, social media and content marketing legal compliance, and trademark and copyright protection. Sharon also created of the Legal + Creative Agency Protection System, a legal toolkit for marketing agencies. In 2018, she launched The Innovative Agency, a podcast on innovation for marketing agency leaders.

Amber is a senior content marketing evangelist for LinkedIn, and a 20-year B2B marketing executive with a past roster of leadership roles with high-growth technology companies, professional services firms, and nonprofit organizations. Her love for all things digital has given her the opportunity to work across every aspect of marketing strategy, from communications to product marketing, brand strategy, sales enablement and media. She’s successfully completed multi-million dollar fundraising campaigns, built and led high-growth marketing organizations, and launched and accelerated international brands from the ground up. Amber’s experience working with enterprise and Fortune 100 businesses - including companies like American Express, Dell, Kraft Foods, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft - as well as startup and small businesses gives her significant breadth and depth of perspective about how digital and social media, content marketing, and online channels are shaping marketing success and challenging organizations to adapt to new ways of reaching and engaging their customers. Amber is also the co-author of the best-selling business book The Now Revolution, helping companies navigate the fast-moving world of social media. She delivers dozens of keynote speeches on digital marketing, online culture and digital transformation at industry conferences and private events every year. When she’s not working, Amber is a single mom to an incredible daughter, an equestrian, a rescuer of pit bulls, and a freelance writer.

David Tobin is the founder and managing partner of TobinLeff, an M&A advisory firm that specializes in helping owners of marketing services and digital agencies build and monetize business value. To build value, TobinLeff provides consulting services focused on enriching enterprise value, as well as M&A services to acquire companies. To help clients convert business value into personal wealth, they craft exit plans, design and implement Management Buy-Out Plans, and provide M&A services to sell to strategic buyers and private equity groups. David is an entrepreneur who has founded and crafted exit strategies for four companies of his own. At PT Marketing Group, he built a 50+ person firm that specialized in creating marketing programs for advisors nationwide who concentrate on business succession and exit planning services. It was through this experience that he began to develop best practice solutions for business owners to monetize their life’s work.

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Thanks for registering for the Selling With Strategic Insights Workshop We’re looking forward to spending a couple days with you, talking about how to create strategic insights that put you head and shoulders above your competitors and help you grow your existing clients and earn new ones. We will definitely be adopting the AMI philosophy of — "you will gain in proportion to what you share" - so I’m hoping that everyone will come to the workshop ready to learn from each other and hopefully from us as well. We will also be honoring the AMI commitment to confidentiality so please come ready to get to know each other’s agencies — warts and all. Here’s everything you need to know for the workshop. You can download all of this information here to keep handy until the workshop: Download PDF WORKSHOP LOCATION: Conference Chicago (2nd floor) 525 South State Street Chicago, IL 60605 Nearby hotel suggestions can be found here: http://agencymanagementinstitute.com/chicago- workshop-hotel-options/ SCHEDULE: We’ll start both mornings at 8:30 am with breakfast in the meeting room. We will start the actual workshop at 9 am both mornings. We’ll shut down on day one at 5 pm and on day two at 3 pm. ATTIRE: Please come to the workshop in casual clothes. Shorts, polos, jeans — whatever makes you comfortable. However — meeting rooms tend to be chilly and I tend to set them to chilly so you might want to bring a sweater, sweatshirt etc. MEALS: We will provide breakfast and lunch every day. You will be on your own for all dinners but it’s a great time to form some new friendships and eat dinner with some of the other workshop attendees. BREAKS: We know [...]