{"id":27,"date":"2016-06-18T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2016-06-18T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T15:47:17","slug":"meet-sheri-hawkins-jackie-langdon-keynote-speakers-at-our-aca-summer-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/18\/meet-sheri-hawkins-jackie-langdon-keynote-speakers-at-our-aca-summer-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sheri Hawkins & Jackie Langdon: Keynote Speakers at Our ACA Summer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sheri-EBD\" Sheri Hawkins<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the founder of 2balance<\/a>, Sheri envisioned an organization that could open up communications for businesses.\u00a0 She understood that internal and external communications must go hand in hand to truly strengthen an organization in the current age of social media and consumer input.\u00a0 Sheri began her career in the fields of marketing and marketing research and evolved to spend most of her career working in public relations, business consultation and human resources. Facilitation of meetings, roundtables, negotiations and strategic planning have been a major area of focus for Sheri for the past 20 years.\u00a0 Sheri was one of the first women in Springfield, Missouri to negotiate a Teamster\u2019s contract and was so effective in bringing all sides together that the company she represented obtained the longest term for a contract that had existed in the market.\u00a0 This led to Sheri training other companies in union negotiations and facilitating meetings prior to the actual negotiations to foster trust and cooperation between the company and the unions involved.<\/p>\n

Sheri has worked for numerous national clients including Nestle Foodservice, Tyco and Tyson Foods and has experience with many different types of organizations including municipalities, non-profits, retail, foodservice, manufacturers and banking.\u00a0 Recent clients include:\u00a0 City of Independence, Brown Derby International Wine Center, Bancsource, Southwest Center for Independent Living, Harmony House, McClain Forest, and the John Morris Family.<\/p>\n

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Jackie Langdon\"jackie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackie has more than 30 years of experience in marketing, marketing research and brand\/business development working with many Fortune 500 companies.\u00a0 Through her research and marketing experience, she helps companies find their voice, fine tune their message and understand the most effective ways to communicate their unique positioning in order to build their business.\u00a0 Jackie spent several years working with many large manufacturers helping them develop new products from concept to shelf.\u00a0 Clients included Tyson Foods, Campbell\u2019s Soup, Pepsi Co. and Borden Cheese.<\/p>\n

Jackie has worked with many local and regional clients to develop strategic plans that help them take their \u201cbrand\u201d to the next level.\u00a0 Utilizing her experience in research and marketing, Jackie is able to translate research results into strategic and actionable plans. Jackie\u2019s recent clients include The City of Independence, The City of Lee\u2019s Summit, Mettemeyer Engineering, Cox HealthPlans, The Hamels Foundation, Harmony House, Yoga Studio 72, Women\u2019s Job List, John Morris Equipment Co. and Bancsource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheri Hawkins As the founder of 2balance, Sheri envisioned an organization that could open up communications for businesses.\u00a0 She understood that internal and external communications must go hand in hand to truly strengthen an organization in the current age of social media and consumer input.\u00a0 Sheri began her career in the fields of marketing and … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[7,8,10,11,21,6,18],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aca","category-blog","tag-aca","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-blog","tag-employee-benefits","tag-keynote-speakers","tag-missouri-employee-benefits","tag-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myebdbenefits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}