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Chairman’s Message

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This spring AICC will celebrate its into high-impact, memorable Greg Tucker
40th Anniversary in Naples, Florida, at the AICC 2015 insights on leadership, executing
Spring Meeting! We will honor the past while we look to a plan, operating in uncertain
the future. The evening of Wednesday, April 29, will fea- environments, and to “never quit.”
ture a special 40th Anniversary celebration that will pay
homage to the AICC “founding fathers” and will feature a AICC will also hold its 2nd annual Independents’ Cup charity
special tribute to AICC “Through the Years.” The evenings’ golf tournament. Following the success of last year, this
events will culminate on a lighter note with entertainment scramble-style tournament offers more networking and fun
provided by “Four Day Weekend,” a critically acclaimed for everyone, all while raising money for great causes.
comedy troupe.
We will also be offering a new educational course, the
Our keynote presenter, Holly Green, an International Strategic Leadership Forum, in conjunction with the Spring
Business Consultant and Best-Selling Author, joins Mike Meeting. The course will teach innovative approaches to
Carey, Senior NFL & CBS Expert Referee and Business identifying, attracting and retaining well-prepared employees.
Owner, in an upbeat and interactive presentation on “Elite
Leadership.” They will share the “secrets” of what it takes I’m looking forward to the year as your newly elected chairman
to be elite in everything you do. Holly will also present a and I hope you and your colleagues will join us in Naples.
two-day workshop track for leaders on “Using Your Brain
to Win in Today’s Hyper-Paced World” and “Enabling Sincerely,
Strategic Ability.”
Greg Tucker, Chairman/CEO, Bay Cities
We also have a two-day track for emerging leaders that Chairman, AICC 2014-2015
will feature a roundtable discussion of former industry
leaders as they discuss what they know now that they Scan this code
wish they knew then and looking to the future. for meeting
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Our closing speaker, former SEAL Team Six operator registration.
Robert O’Neill, will translate his unique experience

Meeting Speakers

Robert O’Neill In O’Neill’s line of work, instant, critical decision-making
is an absolute necessity for success, and he has
Former Seal Team Six Operator, Team Leader, proven experience in exceptionally high-risk and fluid
Naval Special Warfare Development Group environments. Having trained more than 800 special
Rob O’Neill is one of the most highly operations and tactical operators, O’Neill brings this
decorated combat veterans of our time. unique expertise to organizations and translates his elite
He was a team leader with the Naval Special SEAL team training into high-impact, actionable insights
Warfare Development Group. He has deployed on leadership, decision-making, operating in uncertain
more than a dozen times, and he held combat environments, and how to become the “best of the best.”
leadership roles in more than 400 combat missions in four different theaters His mantra is “never quit,” and O’Neill believes this is
of war. A highly trained Navy SEAL, he led the military’s most elite and was the single most important factor in determining success.
involved in our nation’s most important campaigns. With most of his career O’Neill reminds us that the servicemen doing the dirtiest
shrouded in a classified cloak, O’Neill was the man on the ground we have work are often making the hardest sacrifices.
never heard of but know exists. He was one of the quiet professionals
performing the most difficult tasks in the most difficult circumstances,
serving his remarkable career in the shadows and keeping America
safe in the process.

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