Brian Reaves: Motivational Magician

Ignore the Impossible: Problem-Solving with a Magicians Mindset

Brian Reaves, an award-winning illusionist and motivational author, will pull back the curtain to share the secrets that will show you how to face those impossible problems in your life or business by thinking like a magician, ready to construct that next big illusion on stage.

Sam Penney, Commercial Lines Producer, and Trae Vaughan, Vice President of Commercial Lines, Brock Insurance Agency

Industry Trends Impacting Business Insurance Costs

As a business owner, it is important to stay up-to-date on the latest trends that could impact your business’s bottom line. During this session, Sam Penney and Trae Vaughan will share ideas to control and handle claims as well as provide an overview of trends that are affecting businesses and insurance costs.

Jody Fullers: Comic, Writer, and Soldier

Adapt and Overcome

Jody Fuller will take you along on his hilarious and inspirational journey from a poor, stuttering kid in Alabama to the battlefields of Iraq to center stages around the world. Life is not always easy, personally or professionally, but no matter what life throws at us, when we believe in what we do and who we are, we all have the innate ability to reach down deep to adapt, overcome, and make it happen.

Laura Dover: Dover Insulation, NIA President

Better Together

As the first female contractor President of NIA, Laura Dover will share her family’s long-standing history in the mechanical insulation industry and her first-hand experience of the importance of the industry’s associations and the benefits of decades-long relationships built and strengthened to make our businesses and industry Better Together.

Kristin V. DiDomenico: Vice President, NIA

NIA’s Education Center

NIA recently launched its Education Center, an on-demand training portal and national resource for information and training tools for the mechanical insulation industry. Join Kristin DiDomenico for a tour of the platform, available training topics and courses, and how continuous education through resources like NIA’s can strengthen your team’s understanding and service capabilities to improve your business and better serve your customers.