News
SBDP Annual Meeting: Accelerate 09 - Austin, Texas, USA
It's time to start planning to attend ACCELERATE 09: Austin!
**NOTE: Due to changes in the SBDP training curriculum we have postponed the April 09 Accelerate event to later in the year.
SBDP Elects Gregory T. Wilk as President of its Board of Trustees
AUSTIN, TEXAS - December 2, 2007 - The Society of Business Development Professionals (SBDP), the world's premier association of enterprise-level enterprise sales and business development professionals (BDPs), announced today the appointment of Greg Wilk as President of its 2008-2009 Board of Trustees.
Mr. Wilk, a former executive with EDS, currently serves as Regional Managing Partner for OneAccord Corp, a sales and marketing consulting firm.
SBDP names Paul Temple of Network Appliance to Board of Trustees
AUSTIN, TEXAS - December 18, 2007 - The Society of Business Development Professionals (SBDP), the world's premier association of elite-level enterprise sales and business development professionals (BDPs), announced today the addition of Paul Temple to its Board of Trustees. Mr. Temple currently serves as a Business Development Professional for Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp), dedicated to the Federal market sector.
Will Your Professional Network "Decay"?
Are you absolutely certain your "network" of colleagues, clients and industry contacts will be there for you when you're ready, or forced, to make a career move?
In this Web 2.0 age, be proactive when managing your career
Let's face it, our careers as BDPs are no longer the responsibility of our employers or dependent on the whims of the market. It is now up to us to manage the success, and succession, of our career paths.
With advent of LinkedIn and other "profile"-based web sites, we more visible than ever before. Our references are available for anyone to contact, our job histories are judged every day by people we will never meet. And we have more opportunity than ever before to build and maintain a vibrant, challenging career.