STAFDA members love Music City! Members of the Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Association made its Nashville Convention & Trade Show, November 10-12, the best attended event since 2007 – the last time STAFDA was in Nashville. More than 4,900 attendees came downtown to the Music City Center for a spectacular program, which included variety of educational opportunities, a 690+ booth Trade Show featuring 10, 50’ x 50’ island booths, and exciting musical acts highlighting Nashville’s finest.
Educational Workshops Sunday focused attendees on a wide-range of timely topics for a custom-fit curriculum. Subjects included Authentic Marketing: How to Market to Millennials (Jeff Butler); Women in Business: Career Strategies to Increase Impact (JJ DiGeronimo); Our Age of Global Transformation (Peter Leyden); and Three Ways to Improve Employee Engagement (Don Yaeger). Alan Beaulieu’s highly anticipated Economic Update built on the information he provides members throughout the year by offering attendees the chance to ask questions during his practical, in-depth workshop forecasting the economic future.