October 2, 2013 @ 7:30am – 9am
Speaker: Tom Walter, Chief Culture Officer
Company: Tasty Catering
Topic: It’s My Company Too!
Sponsored By:
Tom Walter along with Dr. Kenneth Thompson, Dr. Ray Benedetto, and Molly Meyer authored the It’s My Company Too!: How Entangled Companies Move Beyond Employee Engagement for Remarkable Results. The book researched the commonalities of award winning companies, including local organizations such as Integrated Project Management, Good Samaritan Hospital, North Lawndale Employment Network and Tasty Catering. The foundation of each successful organization was a focus on Employee Engagement.
Tom Walter’s presentation, It’s My Company Too!, will dive deeper into the aspects of employee engagement. After all, the impressive diversity of today’s workplace can be channeled to create rewards for all stakeholders, decreased leadership stress and increased profits. Tom will share how to increase the bottom line percentage while discovering how to create an atmosphere where employees want to “go to work.”
About the Speaker
Tom Walter, CEO of Chicago-area Tasty Catering, has been a business owner for over forty years. During this time, he has started twenty-nine companies and acquired three. He remains a principal in nine of those companies, six of which were co-founded by his staff.
For years Tasty Catering has won local, regional and national awards. Some recent awards:
- #1 Best Place to Work in Illinois
- Inc. Magazine Best Small Workplaces in the US
- Wall Street Journal Top Workplaces in the US
- Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work
- Caterer of the Year by Catering Magazine
- Illinois Governor’s Sustainability Award
- workFORCE Chicago – Award for Life Long Learning Programs
- Illinois Psychological Association (IPA) Most Psychologically Healthy Workplace
- American Psychological Association’s (APA) National Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award
Tom is a member of the Midwest Academy of Management, the Entrepreneur Division of the Academy of Management, DePaul University’s School of Hospitality Leadership, Quincy University’s School of Business and the University of Illinois-Chicago’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies.
Tom is also a member of the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
Tom is a co-author of a book on Employee Engagement:
It’s My Company Too! How Entangled Companies Move Beyond Employee Engagement For Remarkable Results Greenleaf Book Group Press Co-Authors: Ken Thompson Ph.D., Ray Benedetto D.M, Molly Meyer
The cost for the Women In Business breakfast is $25 for Members and $35 for future members. Add $5 if you pay at the door. Gentlemen, please feel free to join us!
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