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Big Dreamer! Rob Stringer and Youth Coach Canada

Rob Stringer probably wouldn't consider himself a risktaker.

Some folks might consider launching a new business in one of the worst economic downturns in recent history to be, well, a bit risky.

Defining success on his terms is why I invited award-winning educator and Parenting & Youth Coach, Rob Stringer BA, BEd, CPC to be my guest this evening on Big Dreamer! The Reinvent Success Show on BlogTalkRadio.

Rob's big dream of bringing low-cost or free support to low-income families has resulted in the launch of Youth Coach Canada.

His vision and passion for helping kids, teens, and adults meet with success and live lives they love has kept Rob focused the last two decades on fulfilling a dream of making professional life coaching services available to youth aged 11-21.

Published in parenting journals across North America, Rob also appears on TV and radio, speaks at conferences, and is the founder of Parenting with Intention.

Join us Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern for Rob Stringer: Giving Kids a Head Start on Success and learn more about Youth Coach Canada and the path Rob took to fulfill his dreams. He'll offer listener's tips on overcoming personal and professional barriers and share how his own key learning now helps him help his clients--parents and youth.

Blended Innovation: The New Talent Mashup

A few weeks back, I attended a Human Capital Institute breakfast workshop in San Francisco that was titled Unite or Ignite? Creating a Dynamic, Blended Workforce that Works.

The blended workforce was a term coined years ago about the mix of fixed and variable talent. Within this mix of full-time, part-time, and independent contractors employed by a company, you would also find assignment employees and on-site workers employed by a third party.

HCI's innovation tour focused on getting real about the multi-generational workplace of today and the increasing quest for talent in the oh-so-immediate future.

Competing for talent in a shrinking labor pool provides companies with oftentimes overlooked ways of leveraging their existing pool of talent. This is more along the lines of it costs less to invest in, grow, and retain talent than scale-up new talent.

Harnessing the Power of the Micro-Supplier

The second line up in my 7-part Evolving Enterprise series on BlogTalkRadio will focus on the transformative partnerships between large-scale businesses and micro-suppliers.

The state of the economy, continued growth of global entrepreneurship, and the shifting workforce demographics provide a competitive opportunity for evolving enterprises poised to harness the power of the micro-supplier. Adaptive behavior, innovative use of limited resources, and niche business practices are specialties of the microbusiness environment.

Ron P. Wacks, CEO, Microbusiness Strategies Group of Companies and President Emeritus, American Association of Microbusinesses joins me tomorrow on the CFI Radio Hour at 6:00pm Pacific / 9:00pm Eastern for a powerful discussion on innovative ways to meld and leverage the enterprise-micro-supplier relationship.

Ron's extensive experience in the field of microbusiness and small business landed him an instrumental role on the Obama National Small Business Advisory Committee in preparing the Small Business Rescue Plan released by Senator Obama to the public last Friday. 

We'll be streaming live and you'll have a chance to ask questions during the show or via the chat room. Miss the live show? You can download the podcast from the BTR CFI Radio Hour site.

• Topic: The Evolving Enterprise: Harnessing the Power of the Micro-Supplier
• Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008
• Time: 6:00pm PT / 9:00pm ET
• Live: CFI Radio Hour on BlogTalkRadio