Allen Beermann invites any or all to the pre-game luncheons at the NPA office. They start two hours before kickoff. The building is at 8th and S -- across from the INS building at the north end of the Haymarket and two blocks from the stadium.

Thanks -- and Go Big Red!

The Student Advisory Board is sponsoring an opportunity for you to personally meet and have lunch with interim dean Charlyne Berens. This is an exciting chance for you to interact with your dean and talk about your experiences here at UNL.

Lunches will be held in Andersen Hall (room to be announced) but you must RSVP because of limited seating and we need to know how many lunches to order.

Send your e-mail to sab.cojmc@gmail.com along with a brief bio (name, major, hometown) and a photo.

Event Time: Thursday, November 12, 11:45a-1:00p

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Networking is one of the most powerful marketing tools. Your network translates into your net worth. The opposite of networking is not working. Networking is a low cost but high return business building strategy. It can change your business development from cold calling to relationship selling and which is more powerful?

Yet most people don’t really know how to network. They treat it as a casual and passive activity and don’t maximize its benefits. Hank Blank will show you how to build a large and powerful network that will lead to numerous referrals and build a passive income flow.

Join us in November to learn:

– What Networking Isn’t.

– The Most Common Mistakes People Make in Networking and how to avoid them.

– Benefits of Networking: Financial Currency, Social Currency, Enhancing your Value and Career Insurance.

– How to build 2000 contacts in one year.

– Where and How to Network.

– How to follow up and how to stay top of mind with your networking contacts and have people thinking of you first.

Hank has spoken on networking to LA Chamber of Commerce, PRSA, PCE, Dana Capital, Sole Technology, HPRMA, MEN EN G, APC OC, UCI Graduate School of Management, Laguna College of Art & Design and a variety of other companies and organizations.

He has been featured on CBS Market Watch, The OC Register, and World Talk Radio.

11:45a-Noon - Check In & Networking

Noon-1p - Program

Professionals: Cost is $20 for members and $27 for non-members.

Students: Cost is $16 for students wanting lunch and $5 for the student non-lunch option.

By selecting the non-lunch option, the student understands they will not be receiving a meal from the Embassy and will be assigned special seating. No outside food or beverage is allowed.

The faculty workshop will go into Blackboard and will feature Heath Tuttle, UNL's Blackboard guru.

Please bring your laptop and lunch!

Teresa Paulsen, Vice President for Corporate Communications, ConAgra Foods will be the guest speaker.

ConAgra's new branding strategy: "When the transformation at ConAgra Foods really began to take hold, we knew we needed a new image that reflected who we’d become as a company. But rather than rebrand ConAgra Foods based on what we wanted people to know, we chose to listen closely to what people wanted from us—and what they thought ConAgra Foods could truly be. Employees, customers and the financial community all weighed in. Their thoughts gave us a base of authenticity from which to work. And was the secret to our stakeholders not only accepting, but embracing, the new ConAgra Foods." — Teresa Paulsen

About the speaker: Teresa Paulsen, vice president, Corporate Communication, leads communication at ConAgra Foods, the Fortune 200 Company that makes popular consumer brands such as Healthy Choice, Chef Boyardee, Hunt’s tomatoes and Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn. Teresa has 20 years of experience in the communication field. In her current role, she has company-wide leadership for corporate reputation and internal and external communication, the ConAgra Foods Foundation and corporate affairs work, including corporate social responsibility. She’s accountable for communication effectiveness at ConAgra Foods, corporate branding, and public relations for the corporation, and she leads a team that works to ensure key stakeholder groups—customers, shareholders and employees—understand the transformation of ConAgra Foods and its growing presence in consumers lives. Most recently, Teresa led the strategy, development and execution of the new ConAgra Foods branding and identity.

Teresa began her communication career as a public information officer for the State of Nebraska and also held external and internal communication roles at Corporate Express before joining ConAgra Foods in 2003. At ConAgra Foods, Teresa’s first job was director of Communication for its Frozen Foods group, in which she handled media relations, product publicity and employee communication. In 2004, Teresa began enterprise-wide leadership for the newly formed ConAgra Foods Internal Communication department. In 2006, she was promoted to vice president, Corporate Communication.

Paulsen holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications, and a master’s degree in organizational communication from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.