Schedule & Sessions

Board of Directors Meeting

Laguna 2

12:00pm – 4:00pm 

Registration Desk Opens

Dana Ballroom Foyer

7:00am 

Alex and Eugene Chausovsky

The Impact of Geopolitics on Your Business

The world of geopolitics is constantly changing, often with significant ramifications. As we transition to a multipolar world, there are shifting global alliances and multiple hot spots around the world, some of which have the potential to turn into full-out war. Not to mention sanctions, trade embargoes and many other disruptive forces at work. All of this impacts your business – sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. There are financial, operational, strategic, and social implications that business leaders and key decision makers must be aware of to successfully navigate the evolving geopolitical environment.

In this session, you’ll hear from two experts (who happen to be brothers) – one on geopolitics and one on business strategy – whose insights and advice will be paramount as you seek to understand the world around you and plan for your organizational future.

First, Eugene Chausovsky, the Senior Director at New Lines Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, will delve into the latest geopolitical developments around the globe. He’ll provide a fascinating and objective perspective on the motivations, driving factors, and consequences of recent events, putting them into context relative to the broader world and helping you understand why the governments of countries act the way they do.

Next, Alex Chausovsky, the Director of Analytics at Bundy Group, a Charlotte-based investment bank, will deliver an insightful analysis of how these events will impact the macroeconomic landscape and how they could affect the outlook for your business. He’ll explain the potential impact on supply chains, input prices, and transportation and logistics dynamics, among others. Most importantly, he’ll offer practical and actionable advice for business leaders based on today’s geopolitical forces.

Dana I – IV

8:00am – 9:45am

Omar Nashashibi, The Franklin Partnership

Election 2024

The 2024 elections will determine whether Congress increases taxes on manufacturers, by how much the next President will raise tariffs on imports, and if regulators at OSHA and the EPA advance major rules covering heat in the workplace and emissions from facilities. PMPA’s lobby firm in Washington, D.C. will provide attendees direct insight into how the election outcomes will impact your operations, how to prepare for the uncertainty, and whether one party is poised to win all three – the U.S. House, Senate, and White House. This can’t miss presentation will cover key races for Congress and the latest on the Presidential race, while providing the industry with the news they need to know from Washington.

Dana I – IV

10:00am – 11:30am

PAC Reception – PMPA’s Voice in Washington

PMPA’s Political Action Committee (PAC) plays a crucial role in amplifying our collective voice and advocating for our industry’s interests in Washington DC.  Join your fellow PMPA members at this annual PAC event for networking, insightful discussions, and the chance to make a meaningful contribution to the future of precision machining through political advocacy – together we can continue to make a powerful impact on and ensure a thriving future for our industry.

Del Mar Lawn

5:00pm – 6:30pm

Petra Krebbs

Unique Power of You

Strengths Strategist Petra Krebbs invites you to discover a strengths-based approach to business and life. She shares her personal insights and experiences as an entrepreneur and leader, along with the latest enlightening data on important global trends. You will be inspired to shift your focus, lean into your strengths and take action to ignite your unique power.

Dana I – IV

8:15am – 9:15am

Chris Yonker

Preserve Your Legacy: Navigating Succession with Head and Heart

Chris Yonker specializes in helping family enterprises navigate the intricate and unique aspects of both being related and owning a business. He helps to consciously navigate the challenges of succession, leadership transitions and family conflict while creating long-term strategies for business continuity. Drawing upon more than a decade in Family Business and Executive consulting, Chris shares a process to help prepare for those significant and challenging business transitions to assure that a lasting legacy within your organization is created and sustained.

Chris discusses how you can:

• Overcome the fear of watching everything you built be potentially put at risk.
• Use this period of time to heal old wounds so you can move forward rather than continuing the same patterns.
• Equip the next generation to handle the external pressure of the transition so they are not negatively affected mentally and emotionally.
• Close the chasm on differing values from varied generational standards so the succession process does not end with resentment
• Help the new leader consciously move into their role without risking the health of the overall organization
• Keep loyal clients and retain your key contributors
• Assure the company revenue is capable of funding the retirement of outgoing leadership

Dana I – IV

9:30am – 10:30am

Petra Krebbs

Lead Strong

Identify your strengths-based Leadership Style. When you align your strengths with the four pillars of effective leadership, you will ignite stronger teams. Taking action to elevate your leadership confidence and influence has a direct impact on your workplace culture and engagement.

For a more deep-dive experience, bring along your CliftonStrengths Finder assessment report, which measures your unique talents – natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.  Don’t have one?   Petra recommends CliftonStrengths 34.

Clifton Strengths 34

Pacific Learning Center

10:45am – 11:45am

Chris Yonker

Succession Planning Workshop

Chris Yonker will guide attendees through a deep-dive workshop focusing on their high-level vision of succession planning as they discover and identify their mental, emotional and physical blind spots along the way. Attendees will leave with a workbook to be used as a guideline to assist with their organizational planning and vision.

Lantern Bay II-III

10:45am – 11:45am

Bethany Hamilton

Developing a Mindset of Overcoming

Learn from Soul Surfer Bethany Hamilton what mindsets are her biggest secrets to getting back on the surfboard, letting her passions fuel her fire and lead her to accomplishing far more with one arm than she ever could have with two. Bethany shares the simple framework that shaped her ability to be resilient and to overcome against all odds – the five qualities of the ADAPT Approach: Appreciative, Directed, Associate, Perseverance, and Teachable. Be inspired and motivated to overcome anything!

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Dana I – IV

9:15am – 10:45am

Awards Banquet/Ceremony

The Awards Banquet is the highlight of the Annual Meeting where we acknowledge those members and peers who have given their time and shared their talents with PMPA over the past year.  We will celebrate the transfer of the PMPA gavel to the new President, welcome a new Board of Directors, acknowledge Miles Free’s retirement, and recognize individuals who will be receiving PMPA’s highest of honors – the PMPA Gold Micrometer Award and the Frank T. McGinnis Merit Award.

Dana I – IV

6:30pm-11:00pm