Watford City Chamber & Economic Development Corp. Annual Meeting Scheduled For Jan. 11

The Watford City Area Chamber of Commerce and Watford City Economic Development Corporation will hold their annual meeting Wednesday, Jan. 11 at Outlaws’ banquet room.

A no-host social starts at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.

The featured speaker will be Kostas Voutsas, MBA, MSHR/OD, Dickinson State University assistant business professor.

With creativity, humor and real life stories, Voutsas reaches everyone in his audience as he dynamically explores secrets to successful communication when dealing with generational and cultural differences in today’s workforce.

Whether working with your colleagues or customers, this keynote will have valuable information that will empower you to break the barriers and prevent unnecessary biases, conflict, stereotyping, and misunderstandings.

Travel with Voutsas to the U.S., China, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Canada and throughout the world and explore strategies to making cultural diversity work. Discover his secrets to managing generational differences. And please, share these secrets with the world!

Voutsas has been teaching Management and Human Resource courses for over 15 years. He is Dickinson State University’s (DSU) professor of business in the Bismarck location. He is also an author, a corporate trainer and keynote motivational speaker.

He received the distinguished teacher of the year award, the highest faculty award, the outstanding teacher of the year award, as well as the TRIO outstanding faculty award from DSU. He also received two outstanding presenter awards from Eastern Michigan University and the Clute Institute of Academic Research. He delivers humorous dynamic presentations at national and state conferences and publishes his research in scholarly journals. He also serves as a consultant conducting individualized training/professional development seminars.

His book “Secrets to Making Diversity Work” explores gender, cultural and generational differences in today’s workforce. He also writes business articles for the City Magazine. He has a Master of Science degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development and a MBA in General Business.

Tickets for the event are $25 per person. You may RSVP to the Chamber office by Jan. 9, call Mary at 701-580-1493 or email [email protected].