PPG plans spring MVP business conference

The conference includes motivational speakers, seminars and interactive workshops focused on aiding collision center owners and managers in improving their shop’s performance.

The conference includes motivational speakers, seminars and interactive workshops focused on aiding collision center owners and managers in improving their shop’s performance.

“We all need to be reenergized periodically,” says Jim Berkey, PPG, director, MVP Business Solutions. “We recognize our customers appreciate the opportunity to get away from their businesses and continue the learning process, not to mention having a great time at a great venue.”

Two keynote speakers highlight the conference agenda: Vince Poscente and Joe Calloway. Poscente, a New York Times best-selling author, business consultant, and Olympic skier, will talk about how to get down to business and up to speed for a competitive advantage in “Big Goals in Short Order: Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World.”

Poscente speaks from experience in a style that communicates, entertains, enlightens, and motivates. His approach to attaining extraordinary outcomes has one central idea—do what the competition is not willing to do.

Calloway, also an author as well as a performance consultant, has been called “an expert on developing customer-focused teams” and “one of the most innovative and compelling people in customer service.” His topic, “Minds Wide Open,” is a dynamic session of thinking, working, and engaging with new ideas that will let attendees in on how market leaders think and create success.

“At every conference we work to acquire a balance of perspectives from both inside and outside the collision industry,” Berkey adds. “Our seminars and workshops cover topics that range from Repair Planning Detail to the emerging effects of the Health Care Reform Act on a collision business.”