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You are cordially invited to attend the Consultant Entrepreneur's Forum, an idea exchange intended to increase our value to our clients and firms, and more importantly, provide a forum to poke fun at the incongruities of living as a consultant in modern society.

Our next meeting will be Friday, November 10th, between the hours of 2pm and 4pm at Pane e Cioccolato café on 10 Waverly Place (on the corner of Mercer) in downtown NYC (map). It's BYOF - Buy Your Own Food, and Pane only takes cash.

Participants can arrive any time between 2pm and 4pm, but note that arriving at 2pm permits you to get more out of it. Please RSVP to reserve an optimal number of seats.

This Forum marks the 1-year anniversary of our first gathering and all in all, it's far exceeded my expectations! During the year, our conversations have spanned across wealth inequality, the middle class, entrepreneurship, astrology, charisma, branding and marketing ourselves, the differences between professional areas of consulting, the ethical consultant, the full breadth of consulting firm administration including fees, managing other consultants, and payroll, growing a firm, how new consultants joining our firms see our firms, networking, personal relationships, cults and secret societies, crime, revisionist history, warfare, politics, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, movies, astronomy, ecology, diversity in the profession, education, institutions, and better learning systems, and how clients perceive us. No taboo was spared and blood pressures did rise. (It's amazing what you can pack into a two-hour discussion.)

For our next meeting, we will be discussing the kitchen sink, including:

1) Expanded discussion on crime in our society;
2) Volunteering and pro-bono consulting;
3) Should consultants have or need professional designation in lieu of or in addition to academic qualifications?;
4) Getting a grip on this service economy.

If you have a topic in mind, let me know and it'll get added on. Otherwise, bring it with you...

Remember, this is a casual forum, with no expectations of transactions, unless you're using ideas as currency. The notion continues to be that there are simply a dearth of stimulating experiences in our networking travels, making this a refreshingly innovative concept. For more information, including the forum's participation policies and a history of this endeavor, visit: www.alberrios.com/events/cef/.

See you in 4 weeks!

Al Berrios
Managing Director
al berrios & co.

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