3rd Annual Small Biz Academy

Join us and hear from some of Hawaii’s top business leaders and experts on a variety of topics designed to help you start and grow your business. Three tracks of four seminars each will cover:

• Branding and Marketing (Track 1)
• Human Resources (Track 2)
• Starting and Scaling Your Business (Track 3)

Registration includes all seminars, keynote panel, Continental breakfast and lunch.

View the PDF Program.

Neal Blaisdell Center
777 Ward Ave | Honolulu, HI 96814

Luncheon Keynote: Taking Your Business Over the $1 Million Mark featuring:

Ann Hashisaka ​CEO Kauai Kookie LLC

​Trung Lam CFO La Tour Bakehouse

Session I: 8-8:45 am 

• Boosting Your Social Media Engagement
  • ​Toby Tamaye — AT Marketing
• Staffing Your Business
  • Lisa Daijo — Express Employment Professionals
  • ​Erica Huggins — Robert Half
• Starting a Business? Here's What You Need to Know
  • ​Reg Baker —Reg Baker

• Building Appeal and Consistency with Your Brand
  • ​Doug Harris — Harris Agency
• Basics of a Family Business: Planning for Transition
  • ​Michael Miyahira — Business Strategies
• Financing Your Small Business
  • Kevin Kaji — American Savings Bank
  • Taylor Kirihara — Bank of Hawaii
  • ​Mark Spain — US SBA​
  • Dennis Wong — Hawaii National Bank

• Generating PR & Marketing Exposure
  • John McNamara — Communications Pacific
  • ​Janet Scheffer — Mana Means Communications
• Managing Millennials
  • ​Gwen Navarrete-Klapperich — KCC's Continuing Education & Training-Global Learning and Development
  • Danelia Newman — Newman Consulting Services
• Scaling Your Company
  • ​Jimmy Chan — Hawaiian Chip Company

• Building & Growing Your Online Presence
  • ​Gary Wells — Webmaster Services Hawaii
• Happiness U and Civility in the Workplace
  • ​Alice Inoue — Happiness U
  • Penelope Paik — Civility International
• Employment 101: Know the Law and Protect Yourself and Your Business
  • ​John Knorek — Torkildson Katz Moore Heatherington Harris

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