ASGroup Fort Meyers 2025
12:30pm-5:30pm
Golf
Poolside Networking

Golf – Shell Pointe Golf in Ft. Myers
www.shellpointgolf.com
Tee times starting at 12:40pm

Waterfront Pool & The Cove

6:00pm-8:00pm
Welcome Cocktail Hour
(Significant Others Welcome)

Garden Veranda – 2nd Floor

8:00am-8:45am
Breakfast
(Significant Others Welcome)

Opening Remarks & Meeting Overview

Camellia Ballroom AB – 2nd floor

8:45am-9:45am
Economic Forecast 2025

John Silvia, Economist for ASGroup
Do elections Make a difference? Focus on jobs, employment, and the Staffing Industry.

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

9:50am-11:50am
What Happened in 2024 and Member Forecasts for 2025?

Members will give brief history of their company and what sales revenue achieved either in % growth in sales and or total sales $$. Talk about GM dollars per hour average and GM % overall by vertical if more than one vertical in your company.

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

11:55am-12:45pm
LUNCH & ASGroup Administrative Updates
(Significant Others Welcome)

2025 Board Slate for Membership Approval
2025 Mastermind Groups Update
2025 Meeting Locations

Camellia Ballroom AB – 2nd floor

12:50pm-1:35pm
Presented by Citrin CoopermanResults Overview and Data Presentation

This survey was created by the CFO/KFM Mastermind Group and designed to focus on what is important to staffing owners. It was designed to be a simple one-page survey that is easy to complete, yet captures key metrics and KPI’s.

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

1:35pm–3:30pm
Executive Round Table – Issues & Opportunities

Your topics submitted for discussion – Facilitated by world-class facilitator: Scott Fiore, TriStarr Staffing.

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

4:00pm–9:30pm
Social Networking: Cruise from Captiva to Cabbage Key Inn
(Significant Others Welcome)

Shuttles will leave the hotel at 4pm to take you to Captiva, where we will then cruise to Cabbage Key Inn for a group dinner. We will return to the hotel at approximately 9:30pm.

8:00am-8:45am
Breakfast
(Significant Others Welcome)

Camellia Ballroom AB – 2nd floor

8:45am–9:45am
Families in Staffing – Succession Planning Stories shared by Member Companies

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

10:00am – 12:00pm
Round Table Discussion: Tackling Today’s Most Important Issues

A very effective ASGroup Session to use the expertise of our owners to work through your top issues or opportunities. In this meeting, group members tackle their biggest challenges and opportunities, vet ideas, test assumptions and uncover their blind spots. Essentially, they help one another make better decisions that lead to better results.

**Each member will be asked to submit their top issues in advance of the meeting. Top issues will be listed at the meeting for members to give feedback and solutions.**

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

12:00pm – 1:00pm
LUNCH & LEARN
(Significant Others Welcome)

Brian Fanelli, RRI Personnel & Brett Elliott, Skillworks
New Member Introductions & Company Story

Camellia Ballroom AB – 2nd floor

1:00pm – 3:00pm
Round Table Discussion: Tackling Today’s Most Important Issues

Continuation as needed from the 10am Session

Gardenia Room AB – 2nd floor

3:00pm
Conclusion of ASGroup Conference

In conjunction with the ASGroup mission, we hope to have shared Best Practices and have given you Take-Home Value.

John Silvia

John Silvia

John is currently President of Dynamic Economic Strategy, LLC, and focuses on financial and economic advisory works, writing a weekly newsletter, presenting economic concepts, and commenting on economic issues at several conferences. John is the author of four books in Economics and Finance published by Wiley and Palgrave.

Formerly, John was managing director and the chief economist for Wells Fargo Securities until July 2018. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, he has held his position since he joined Wachovia, a Wells Fargo predecessor, in 2002 as the company’s chief economist. John has been a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg (TV and radio), Fox Business, and the Nightly Business Report.

For 2024, John received the Bronze award for his ten-year interest rate forecast from Focus Economics. For the last two years, John has been awarded the Housing Price Forecast Award from Fannie Mae for the past two years.

John also serves as Economic Advisor to Carolinas Investment Consulting headquartered in Charlotte. He is also an Advisor to the AS Staffing Group which focuses on placement for workers.

Before his position at Wells, John worked on Capitol Hill as senior economist for the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee and chief economist for the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

John served as the president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) in 2015 and was awarded a NABE Fellow Certificate of Recognition in 2011 for outstanding contributions to the business economics profession and leadership among business economists in the nation. He also received several awards for the quality of research in economics.