Our goal with this series is to provide useful context and perspective on the topics shaping your business, while creating space to connect with other leaders in the community.
To ensure our Business Community gets the most out of these events, we are using this page as as home for all thing related to these events including, recordings, slide decks, future events and more!
Previous Events:
March 31, 2026 / U.S. and Michigan Economic Outlook with Charley McQueen of McQueen Financial Advisors
Topics Covered:
Economic advisor Charlie McQueen delivered an energetic, practical overview of today’s economy, connecting global events, energy prices, inflation, housing, and interest rates directly to local businesses and consumers. He highlighted how diesel and energy costs ripple through food, transportation, and construction, why today’s housing market is constrained more by supply and locked?in low mortgage rates than by 2008?style excesses, and how demographics and labor shortages make automation and AI increasingly important. McQueen also addressed stresses in private credit, pressures on the auto and EV sectors, and the central role of sound tax and energy policy in positioning regions like Michigan for long?term growth and opportunity.
View the Recording Here
Download the Slide Deck Here
June 17, 2025 / Unlocking AIs Real Potential: Advanced Techniques for Business Productivity With Proactive Technology Management
Topics Covered:
- Contextualizing Knowledge, Meta Prompting, Refining Your AI Tools, Use Cases, and Mini-Live Demos.
Meet your guide for exploring AI,?Michael Schreiber, Ph.D.?As Proactive Technology Management's AI Solution Architect, Michael focuses on taking the complexity out of Artificial Intelligence and turning it into practical tools people can actually use. He specializes in building custom AI assistants – think of a ChatGPT trained specifically for certain tasks – and works to smoothly integrate these smart capabilities into daily workflows. Equipped with a Ph.D. and hands-on experience, Michael is passionate about demystifying AI, showing you clearly how it can help analyze information, handle repetitive work, and support smarter decisions, making today's powerful technology accessible and effective for everyone.??
View the Recording Here
Download the Slide Deck Here
February 13, 2025 2025/26 Economic Outlook Featuring Charley McQueen:
We were joined by Charley McQueen, President and CEO of McQueen Financial Advisors for a deep dive into the future economic outlook, both Nationally and Statewide.
Due to technical issues, we do not have a recording available.
We invite you to utilize, share, and review the slides presented by Charley.
Presentation Slides - Future Economic Outlook
October 1, 2024 Commercial Real Estate Forum Featuring NAI Farbman Group:
We were joined by experts at NAI Farbman Group for a deep dive into the commercial real estate world.
Panelists:
- Andy Gutman, President
- Michael Kalil, COO/CRO
- Todd Szymczak, SVP
- Ron Goldstone, SVP
- Doug Fura, SVP
This informative session covered various including:
- Office
- Industrial
- Student Housing
- Retail
- Apartments
Below are the slides and recording of the event for your reference:
May 14th, 2024 Client Appreciation Event: The Dark Side of Financial Cybercrime
Cybercrime 2024: A Look at the Dark Side. Led by one of today’s top cybercrime experts, Gary Warner, Director of Threat Intelligence for DarkTower, this eye-opening Zoom presentation will help you identify and protect against a wide range of potential threats, including:
- CPNs and Counterfeit docs
- Business Email Compromise
- Crypto Investment Scams
- Stolen Check and Check Fraud
Has Your Data Been Compromised?
Curious if your data has been breached? Check out haveibeenpwned.com to if your information has been involved in a breach.
How to Update Your Email Forwarding Rules:
Outlook:
- For Outlook end users, seeing the rules is the same as setting up a new rule.
- Right-click on any email.
- Choose Rules.
- From the left-side menu, choose Forwarding.
- You can disable ALL forwarding there, or if forwarding is enabled, you will see a list of rules that cause emails to be forwarded, and to where they are forwarded.
Google:
For people using Gmail, a nice list of instructions is here:
Admins:
For people who are an "Admin" for an organizations Office 365 environment, the best advise is to use the scripts found at O365Reports.com.