Chris "Chubby" Frederick

CEO, Automotive Training Institute

The Truth About Selling Your Business and Retiring in Style

Let's face it, most shop owners spend their lives building a business, but fail to prepare for a successful exit and retirement. The harsh reality is that it takes five to ten years to make it happen right.

Last year Chubby discussed safe-succession strategies and the basic process of starting your succession plan. This year Chubby goes in depth to give you real strategies you can take home to get started right away.

First, Chubby shares why most shop owners, their families, and their employees are at severe financial risk, both now and especially during retirement; why transitioning your business to your children or a second-in-command usually fails; and why most shop owners get nowhere near what is expected or needed for their business when they try to sell.

Next, Chubby shares, with real-life ATI examples, why even if your business is ready for the transition you're probably not and why most owners end up blowing up the process because they're not emotionally ready for the change.

Finally, Chubby shares how to turn your years of investment IN your business into a winning retirement strategy so you can enjoy your retirement years OUT of your business with security and peace of mind. The Part II of Succession Planning is not to be missed.

George Dom

Flight Leader of the Blue Angels and former Commander of the USS John F. Kennedy's Air Wing

Building a High-Trust Organization

For naval aviators, flying off aircraft carriers a thousand miles from land (often in the middle of the night), trust is essential not just for success, but survival. There can be no compromise in this extreme laboratory of high performance. If you weren't trusted, you would fail or be fired; if you couldn't trust others, you would either fail or worse, die.

All high-performance teams share two fundamental characteristics - a HIGH-TRUST culture and FULLY ENGAGED teammates at every level. Trust is a core value found in the DNA of every high-performance leader and organization. Leaders recruit for it, train to expand it, and reward it at every opportunity. It's their decisive advantage!

Learn how HIGH-TRUST leaders create the atmosphere and dynamics that repeatedly drive extraordinary results, from a leader whose life and the lives of his team depended on it every day.

Eric Noble

President, The CARLAB, Inc.

The Future of the Automobile - Do We Have a Role in It?

The rapid growth of worldwide technology advancements has brought exciting new automotive features that were once fantasy. In this fascinating presentation we will explore the forward evolution of automobile safety, consumer technology, and fuels. As the industry progresses toward the first driverless vehicles, we will contemplate the future of what we will drive (or how it will drive us), and what that means for the industry.

• Discover hints of how the growth of telematics will continue, and may present opportunities in both new and preowned cars and trucks.
• Learn the steps along the way to fully autonomous vehicles, and the terminology around that progression.
• Consider what the possible future of fuels looks like, and how regulation is and isn’t driving those scenarios.

Leave inspired, informed and definitely not afraid of the chaos ahead!

Mike Anderson

President of Collision Advice

What Is “Kaizen” or “Lean” and Why Should a Repair Shop Owner Want to Know All About Both?

"Lean" is all the rage in the collision industry. A "lean production facility" follows a single piece flow process based on the original Toyota Production System. In the lean process, repair "flow" is configured as a "pull system" where work is delivered when required by the customer and then sequentially mapped out back upstream through the entire process (step by step, minute by minute).

Lean production is not just a collection of good tools like "repair blueprinting" or “teamwork.” It is a major cultural change that demands all the commitment and energy an organization has in order to be successful. But there can be significant barriers to its implementation. The single biggest challenge is behavioral changes required of management and passed down through commitment, training, oversight and practice. Many do not understand the true nature and ultimate benefits of this business-changing transformation.

Learn the nitty-gritty of some of the best "lean" collision facilities in the country. More importantly, learn what similar changes to your repair processes can do for your customer satisfaction and your bottom line.

Bob Kelleher

CEO, The Employee Engagement Group

Louder Than Words: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results

Learn the 10 essential steps of engagement that will transform your shop and its culture. "Louder Than Words" is a "call to arms" for leaders that engagement is a top priority which must stand the test of time, in both boom and recessionary times.

Bob reinforces the 10 key steps necessary to sustain an engaged culture, improve business results and maintain credibility with employees. Reinforcing that success involves the "mutual commitment" of both leadership and your team.

Engagement drives the highest level of results when it is individualized to each member and the entire team. Learn the best strategies and steps to create a culture of accountability and measurement. Equally important are the day-to-day practices and tools to reinforce and reward the desired behavior. By following Bob's 10 steps, you too can grow a more successful motivated and innovative culture.

Chad Hymas

CEO, Chad Hymas Communications Inc.

Who Needs Legs, When You Have Wings?

If there is one thing that is constant in our personal and professional lives, it is CHANGE! We live in an era of unprecedented change and challenges. Chad Hymas will teach you how to deal with huge challenges and the change they bring.

On April 3, 2001, Chad's life changed instantaneously when a falling one-ton bale of hay broke his neck leaving him a quadriplegic. Doctors said he would never walk again and that for the rest of his life he would have to use a wheelchair. But Chad's dreams were NOT paralyzed that day. Likewise each of us here at SuperConference will at times face challenges that might try to paralyze us. But they don't have to!

Chad is now a world-class wheelchair athlete playing basketball, full contact quad rugby, and he races marathons.

His message is powerful and his accomplishments are amazing! So get ready to SOAR as Chad shares with you: "Who Needs Legs, When You Have Wings?"

You've heard of TED Talks. Well, SuperConference 2015 brings you CHUB Talks - 20-minute hard-hitting industry-relevant topics you should know more about!

Bryan Stasch

ATI Vice President, Client Fulfillment

The Shop of the Future: How This Will Fundamentally Change How Your Shop Runs

Take a second to think of how many changes you and your shop have gone through in the past ten years. Where would you be if you had never made those changes? This is a fast-paced look at where things may be, should be and will be in the next five to ten years. Are you mentally ready and willing to make the changes to the very core of how your shop runs so that you will be able to effectively compete with the next generation of shop owners and consumers? In order to do this you need to envision where technology you do not even know about is headed (try wrapping your head around that thought).

• Learn what it will take to be a "Top Shop" ten years from now!
• Learn what it will take to attract the best "A" techs in the future!
• Discover why you’'e going to fight the changes but eventually give in!

John Zentz

Vice President of Sales, Hunter Engineering

The OEM Dealership of the Future - Are You Ready to Compete?

The car dealers are more aggressively than ever focused on recapturing market share from independents. This is clearly evident with the move toward new service lane designs which are laser focused on the "customer service experience."

As independent shop owners, we must evolve to meet these new aggressive, competitive challenges. Learn how the Repair Shop of the Future design (within your current footprint) can accelerate your business and provide the best customer experience possible. This fun, interactive presentation will provide a great view of these new, state of the art designs and concepts.

George Zeeks

ATI Client Fulfillment Team Leader

The Shop of the Future: Will Your Shop Be Ready to Market to Your Next Generation of Consumers?

Consider all the changes you have made in how you market your business and services. "Word of mouth" alone is no longer at the top of the marketing chain, and even this tried and true method has changed dramatically.

Join George Zeeks as he walks you through what the next five to ten years may, could and will look like when it comes to marketing to your next generation of customers. Happy where you are now? On top of your marketing game? Maybe you are today but what about tomorrow?

• Learn how the changes taking place today are only the beginning!
• A given is that marketing will become more complex each and every year, so prepare yourself by discovering the one thing that will get you more customers and increase your bottom line.