November 2001
Thursday, November 15, 2001
CityPlace Conference Center
Relationships & Personalities
Do something for your career, yourself, and your financial position!
You do not want to miss this meeting. It is the strongest line-up of
speakers we have had in many years. Improve your audit skill sets in our pre-meeting by
listening to one of the most sought after corporate speakers in America discuss
interviewing skills and “The Art Of Profiling.” Improve your personal
relations’ skills at our lunch meeting by hearing a communications consultant discuss
Parenting Your Parents.
Finally, improve your future by listening to a former IIA Board of Governors discuss
Personal Financial Planning for Auditors in our post meeting.
Lunch Meeting 12:00pm
Registration begins at 11:30am
Parenting Your Parents
Presented by Jim Comer, Comer Communications
 Don't miss this! Jim Comer of Comer Communications is a dynamic,
entertaining and inspiring speaker, as well as an expert on communications and leadership.
Jim will chronicle the ups and downs providing care to his aging parents in a
heart-warming, humorous talk laden with practical insights on facing life’s
challenges.
As a professional writer and speech coach since 1982, Jim has:
- Specialized in speech writing for top executives of Fortune 500 companies including
Glendale Federal Bank, Universal Studios, Avon Products, Rockwell International, Compaq
Computer, MCI, and many others.
- Written speeches that have been delivered at the National Press Club in Washington,
D.C., the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Drexel University Honors Day, California
State University, Long Beach commencement exercises.
- Written monologues for celebrities such as Bob Hope, Pat Paulsen, Phyllis Diller, Joan
Rivers and Olympic gold winners Peggy Fleming and Debbie Armstrong.
- Created scripts for corporate videos including one narrated by astronaut Alan Shepard.
- Published articles that have appeared on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times,
Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, as well as the Reader's Digest.
- Written award-winning annual reports.
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Pre-Meeting 10:30am
The Art of Profiling - Reading People Right The First Time
Dan Korem
Profiling is an interviewing technique that can make you a more effective
auditor. You and your audit team will benefit from Dan Korem’s exhaustive research on
interviewing and reading people right the first time.
Dan has discussed Profiling as a keynote speaker or distinguished lecturer
for the Society of Human Resource Management in 1997 and the IIA's 57th International
Conference here in Dallas in 1998, as well as scores of corporate groups and professional
associations in the US & Europe.
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Post Meeting 1:30pm
Personal Financial Planning
Jerry Pierce of Edward Jones
Learn the fundamentals of sound personal financial planning from Jerry Pierce. Jerry
Pierce was the Director of Internal Auditing at Texas Instruments prior to taking on the
challenge of becoming a personal financial planner at Edward Jones. He has also served as
an IIA Board Of Governors. So… Jerry knows auditors and financial planning.
Stay for the post meeting and learn how to ensure you get on the right track
financially. Hear an expert’s view on investments, what you may wish to consider in
today’s bear market, and sound financial planning advice to lead you through your
career to retirement and beyond.
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All Meetings are at CityPlace Conference Center, 2711 North
Haskell at Central Expressway in Dallas.
 
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