This luncheon is sold out. There are chair only seats for $5 at the door. William Ury to speak at 12:30. Please note that parking is at the far end of the Boardwalk due to renovations. Shuttles will be running. The Annual Member Lunch, Feb 3, 11:30 to 1:30 at the Cocoanut Grove will feature keynote speaker William Ury, co-author of the world’s best selling book on negotiation, Getting to Yes. Presented in collaboration with Ury’s host, Bookshop Santa Cruz, he will speak on his new book, Getting to Yes With Yourself (And Other Worthy Opponents.) The Chamber will introduce its 2015 Board of Directors and recognize is retiring board members. The Chamber will also recognize its volunteers and businesses celebrating quinquennial and decennial membership anniversaries and report on its 2014 operations. About William Ury Getting to Yes, first published in 1981, is the world’s bestselling book on negotiation. Ury has followed this initial work with eight other books including The Power of a Positive No, Getting Past No, and The Third Side. In addition to his writing, research, and leadership of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Ury has taught negotiation and mediation to tens of thousands of corporate executives, labor leaders, diplomats, and military officers. As an mediator and advisor he has served around the world. With former president Jimmy Carter, Ury co-founded the International Negotiation Network, a non-governmental body seeking to end civil wars around the world. During the 1980s, Ury helped the U.S. and Soviet governments create nuclear crisis centers designed to avert an accidental nuclear war. In that capacity, he served as a consultant to the Crisis Management Center at the White House. He is the co-founder of the Climate Parliament, described by Time magazine as the “Google for global politics,” offering members of congress and parliaments across the world an Internet-based forum to address practical solutions for climate change. Ury’s awards and recognitions are remarkable diverse: he is the recipient of the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association and the Distinguished Service Medal from the Russian Parliament. His work has been widely featured in the media from The New York Times to the Financial Times and from CNN to the BBC. He has a popular TED talk, “The Walk from No to Yes.” $43.00 members, $55.00 non-members Book is $29.35 (and will be delivered at the luncheon) $325.00 for a table of 8 Reservations are required. Seating is limited
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