Members
of Rise Executives, a sales and marketing firm in San Diego, traveled to
Detroit to attend a national leadership conference and participated in a
charity kickball tournament. Among
attendees were several national business consultants and executives from Ford
including special guest speakers from the Ford corporation.
Rise
Executives, based out of the Mission Valley area of San Diego, specializes in
client acquisition and retention for Fortune 500 clients. The company focuses on gaining long lasting
business account holders for national corporations.
Rise
Executives’ main client is the largest mail-order office supply retailer in the
country. The client is currently headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and
offers a catalog of products containing more than 200,000 supplies. The client supplies businesses with a variety
including g school and office supplies, office machines, furniture, technology,
cleaning and breakroom, custom-printed and promotional products.
The
weekend in Detroit kicked off with leadership lessons from some of the nations’
leading business sales management consultants.
The meetings were followed by a trip to Ford Museum, and then off to
Ford Field. Attendees were given a tour
of the Lions stadium before teaming up for a charity kickball tournament on
Ford Field.
The
charity event raised money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. JDRF, founded in 1970, is the leading global
foundation focused on research for type 1 diabetes. JDRF is the largest charitable supporter of
Type 1 diabetes in existence. The goal
of the organization is to help improve the progress made towards curing,
treating and even preventing diabetes.
JDRF has raised more than $1.6 billion for diabetes research.
Each
team paid an entry fee of $100 to play.
Rise Executives and the accompanying executives helped raise $1600 for
the charity. All donations went directly
to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
On the
way to the charity event, attendees were given a tour of the stadium and a look
inside the locker room.
The
weekend topped off with a lecture from key note speaker, Edsel Ford, member of
the board of directors at Ford and great grandson of Henry Ford, and a speech
from Deborah Windey, Director of Human Resources.
Rise
Executives plans to send its executives to several leadership development
conferences in the months to come and expects to continue giving back to the
community as well.
