2018 Sports, Inc. Team Dealers Fall Show

GENERAL SESSION Important updates + guest speaker Oceanside Ballroom - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

GENERAL SESSION & SPEAKER GENERAL SESSION & SPEAKER

FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER JAKE WOOD JakeWood is the cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and deploys military veterans to disaster zones around the world and within the United States. Since 2010, Team Rubicon has scaled to 80,000 volunteers and deployed teams to some of the worst catastrophes of the century. As a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, Wood deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a Scout Sniper and earned the Navy-Marine Commendation Medal. A leading veterans’ advocate, Wood has briefed President Obama on veterans’ issues, met with former Presidents Bush and Clinton on veteran transition and disaster response, and testified before a Senate committee to improve mental health care services for returning veterans. He has also appeared in the major media, including MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, US News & World Report, Forbes, Fox News and penned an op-ed for The New York Times. In 2014, Crown Publishing published Wood’s book, Take Command: Lessons in Leadership.

Jake leadership presentations to Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks, Farmers Insurance, and Goldman Sachs. He forces organizations to rethink what they know about leadership, change management, and risk, providing attendees a framework for becoming better leaders and building more agile organizations. Jake was an offensive lineman for the Wisconsin Badgers from 2001-2004. In July, Jake was presented the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the 2018 ESPY Awards. “Few things have the power to bring different people together like sports and service, military has given

or otherwise,” Jake said about the who has played team sports or shared a foxhole knows that themoments recognition. “Anyone

e n d u r e d u n i q u e l y allow us to see the best in others.

They allow us to suppress the urge to only look out for ourselves and instead teach us how to put others first. At their best, sports and service make us better humans.”

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