SITE Chicago Education Retreat: June 18 - 22, 2008 Speaker Robert Jacques Bob Jacques is a "real" world leader, and brings over twenty-five years of corporate experience to his workshops and keynotes. He is Vice President and General Manager for AIT, Inc., a full service, incentive, meeting planning and event Management Company. Bob is also Managing Director of JTD Inc. training and consulting organization. He conducts a variety of entertaining and educational sessions on Leadership, Sales, Value Centered Negotiations™, Business Planning, Distribution Development, and Customer Service. Bob's experience includes ten (10) years with General Motors Corp. at the manufacturer and distributor levels, thirteen (13) years with Honda Corporation, and six (6) years with the Carrier Division of United Technologies Corp. During his career, Bob has held line and staff positions in sales, marketing, training, service, and dealer/distributor development for a variety of products and industries. Bob has gained international experience through the global reach of the corporations he has worked for and from numerous incentive programs and training workshops worldwide. This has provided an in depth knowledge of best business practices in both domestic and foreign market conditions. In addition to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Bob has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Central America and the South Pacific. In every job function, Bob has been a practitioner of leadership and negotiation, in both internal and external situations. Whether reaching agreement with peers and subordinates, dealers or vendors, support departments or end users, Bob continually "hones" his skills at building win-win relationships and lasting trust through effective negotiation and leadership practices. In addition to having performed successfully in business, Bob focuses on sharing the results of that performance through training. A high-energy facilitator, Bob works hard to reach his audience through personal experiences, humor, and empathy for making a difference to the bottom-line. Bob has conducted seminars to a variety of industries including, automotive, equipment distribution, transportation, pharmaceutical, airlines, insurance, hospitality, travel, consumer products, banking, HVAC, finance, grocery, as well as Association conferences, trade shows, and service and /professional organizations. Clients include Coca Cola, Tyco International, Fannie Mae, Albertson's, Honda, Skyline Steel, Hewitt-Packard, Ann Taylor, Sears, Bristol Meyer Squibb, GBC, Hill's Pet Foods, Met Life, Alcon Laboratories, Kellogg, Chevron/Texaco, SITE, Alaska Airlines, StorageTek, Carrier, DaimlerChrysler, Amgen, CitiFinancial, A.T. Kearney, L'Oreal, UPS, MPI, FEMSA, Freddie Mac, and many more. Bob received his B.A. in Communications from Indiana University, completed his Masters of Arts program at Louisiana State University, and has a Masters in Human Resource Management from the Keller Graduate School. Advanced Incentive