Kent State’s College of Business Pi Sigma Epsilon Hosts North Central Regional Convention

Dec. 14, 2015 - PRLog -- Students and members of the College of Business Administration in Kent State’s Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE) chapter attended the 2015 North Central Regional Convention hosted for the first time by Kent State University at the Kent State Hotel and Conference Center on Nov. 20 and 21, 2015.

PSE is a nonprofit co-ed professional fraternity that strives for the advancement of sales, marketing and management professions. Providing practical business experience through sales, sales projects, marketing research and community service projects, there are more than 50 chapters and approximately 50,000 members nationwide.

Joined by common values and the PSE pledge, members of the business fraternity attended the convention, which included the Pro-Am Sell-a-Thon, National Speaker's competition, business development seminars, networking opportunities and several notable speakers.

Randall Keller, field director at Northwestern Mutual, provided personal finance management guidance, prompting several questions and subsequent discussions from the audience. Representing Tom James Company, Regional Manager Joshua Smith stressed the importance of “Dressing for Success” and maintaining your personal image in business environments. Participants who attended the speakers were entered into two drawings to win an Amazon tablet.

Keynote speaker Shon Christy provided insight related to his 20 years of experience in the marketing field, discussing the unique value of social media marketing. Christy told the audience “attention is the new currency” and “the power is in the connections” to emphasize the importance of proper personal branding on social media sites. He is also a successful entrepreneur. Christy developed a full-service social media marketing agency, Christy Creative, LLC, to build brands by creating strategic messaging. Inspired by his 3-year old son, Beckett, he most recently launched a fundraising group to support those with Down syndrome called Beckett’s Buddies.

Events like the North Central Regional Convention allow students to engage and interact with business professionals outside of the classroom. Ellen Daniels, Pi Sigma Epsilon advisor for Kent State University, summarized the success of the event, “Kent State was represented well at this event by our students’   professionalism and the exceptional facilities at the Kent State Hotel and Conference Center. The excellency of our students was noted by multiple businesses in attendance.”

For more information about the College of Business Administration, visit

http://business.kent.edu/current-students/student-organizations/pi-sigma-epsilon.

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Kent State University’s College of Business Administration is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) and one of the largest colleges of business in Ohio. The college has more than 4,300 students representing 50 countries with over 89 full-time faculty from 16 countries.

The college grants undergraduate through graduate degrees, and is one of only three colleges in Ohio with a comprehensive Ph.D. program. The MBA program is offered with nine concentrations and five dual degree options. The Executive MBA program offers two tracks: one targeting corporate professionals and the other healthcare executives. The M.S. in Accounting and M.A. in Economics are specialized master’s degrees for those seeking advanced study in these disciplines. The college boasts nine undergraduate majors, 12 minors and a Professional Sales Certificate Program.

The college is listed as a Best Business School by Princeton Review, ranked as a Best Business College by U.S. News and World Report, one of only 23 accounting programs worldwide to be endorsed by the IMA (Institute of Management Accountants), ranked Top-Tier for Executive Education in North America by CEO Magazine and ranked fourth by the SEF (Sales Education Foundation) in Ohio for Professional Sales Education.

The college boasts an onsite Career Services Center and International Programs Office dedicated to business students, and operates the Global Management Center, the Center for Information Systems and Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation all propelling scholarly research, establishing innovative industry partnerships and providing outreach to Northeast Ohio and beyond.

Media Contacts:

Michelle Manning, Director of Marketing Communications, mparris3@kent.edu, 330-672-2717

Molly Schatzel, Marketing Communication Specialist, mschatze@kent.edu, 330-672-1279