by AMA Knoxville | Apr 9, 2021
June Virtual Event: Fostering Your Wellbeing and Intuition: Utilizing the Healing Science of Nature and the Psychology of Interior Design
Featuring: Bonnie Casamassima, Principal & Founder, Interweave People Place
Join Bonnie in this interactive and visually captivating conversation as she guides you in an overview of how to use the psychology of interior design and the healing science of nature within your everyday spaces, such as your homes or studios to nurture your productivity, intuition and wellbeing.
Key Takeaways:
- Identify the principles and patterns of biophilic design within the context of environmental psychology.
- Understand the evidence-based benefits to our overall wellbeing of these concepts in your everyday space
- Gain an overview of how to apply biophilic design approaches to your home or studio, often using your existing items, to support wellbeing and connection with your intuition.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Combining over a decade of research-driven experience, her intuitive empathic nature and educational approach, Bonnie Casamassima guides clients on how to use the psychology of interior design and the healing science of nature within their everyday spaces to nurture their productivity, intuition and wellbeing. She is the Principal and Founder of Interweave People Place and an Adjunct Professor of Interior Design at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
Bonnie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a Master of Fine Arts degree within Interior Design focusing on Biophilic Design and Environmental Psychology from SCAD. She lives in Knoxville, TN with her partner and his two kids. She enjoys traveling, pottery, live-music and a good belly laugh.
Connect with Bonnie: Facebook

ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Interweave People Place guides clients on how to use the psychology of interior design, highly sensitive empathy, and the healing science of nature within their everyday spaces to nurture their productivity, intuition and wellbeing.
CONNECT: Facebook | Instagram | Website

EVENT SCHEDULE:
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Presentation + Q&A
by AMA Knoxville | Apr 9, 2021
April Virtual Event: Creating Your Personal Brand
Featuring Jill Green, BGT Recruiting & Consulting Inc. & BGT Staffing LLC
Join us for our FREE April virtual event as Jill Green gives us an overview of personal career branding including a focus on consistency with communication and presentation, resume suggestions including review of cover letter tips and discussion of networking.
Key Takeaways:
- Resume tips
- Job search suggestions
- Effective networking
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Jill Green, a Professional Recruiter, has diversified experience with a variety of industries and has significant experience in the recruitment and placement of business professionals to include accounting, finance, human resources and executive administrative, sales, manufacturing, operations, customer service, marketing, and other roles. Jill has worked as a professional recruiter in the East Tennessee area since 2003. Her previous work experience includes accounting within the manufacturing, automotive dealership and distribution industries. Jill is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in Organizational Administration and obtained a second degree in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Jill is active in and continues to support many professional and civic organizations, including Financial Executives International (FEI), the Knoxville Chamber, the United Way, Leadership Knoxville, Make-A-Wish East Tennessee and is currently part of the FBI Citizens Academy Class of 2020.
Connect with Jill: LinkedIn | Twitter

ABOUT THE COMPANY:
The mission of BGT is to provide outstanding recruiting, staffing and consulting services for organizations and professionals in the East Tennessee region through our focus on people, culture and integrity.
CONNECT: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | BGT Recruiting | BGT Staffing

EVENT SCHEDULE:
3:00 – 4:00 PM: Presentation + Q&A
by AMA Knoxville | Mar 5, 2021
March Virtual Event: The Confidence Formula for Winners!
Featuring Regina Bonds, Confidence Coach
Regina Bonds, also affectionately known as, the Confidence Guru, is celebrated as one of the world’s most trusted voices to women, challenging them to use their confidence to improve, enhance, and ultimately elevate their lives. Regina has worked with women around the world helping them recognize their value, find their voice, and clarify their path through the power of her confidence formula.
Hear from Regina as she breaks her formula down in a way that helps attendees leave with a plan to level up in every area of life. Get ready to elevate into the realm of unstoppable confidence!
Key Takeaways:
- Clarity
- Courage
- Commitment
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Regina is a change agent, spiritual catalyst, and a confidence accelerator to many. Regina is a sought-after speaker, mentor, and expert to those that are tired of living mediocre lives and ready to live in the realm of unstoppable confidence. To learn more about how you can work with Regina one on one, visit her website.
Connect with Regina: Facebook | Instagram | Website

EVENT SCHEDULE:
12 – 1 PM: Presentation + Q&A
by AMA Knoxville | Jan 25, 2021
February Virtual Event: Virtual Revolution – How to Maximize Your Impact in 2021 Online Events & MeetingsFeaturing Luke Goetting – Founder, Puffingston Presentations
In 2020, marketers had to quickly adjust to virtual meetings – getting by with whatever workarounds they could manage. In 2021, marketers like you can take the lead and thrive by crafting highly memorable virtual experiences featuring high-impact speaker strategies, dynamic content and interactivity techniques.
You’ll leave this workshop with practical, actionable insights to make your virtual conferences, All-Hands meetings and client consultations highly compelling experiences – and you won’t need to be a technical guru to make it happen.
Key Takeaways:
- PLANNED PRESENCE: Be strategic about how your speakers appear on-camera! Break from the “hunched over laptop” norms and evaluate how standing, gesturing and eye-contact can help your speakers establish stronger connections with virtual attendees.
- DYNAMIC CONTENT: Maximize alignment between what your speakers have to say and what your audience wants to hear! Discover how a fine dining approach to presentations leverages a compelling message, modular content and slide navigation to craft a memorable, custom experience for virtual meeting attendees.
- INTERACTIVE BROADCASTS: With the digital world at our fingertips, there are so many ways marketers can drive engagement in virtual events and meetings: live polls, virtual webcam software, democratized Q&A and more. Explore how simple applications of technology can fundamentally alter the attendee experience.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Luke Goetting is an award-winning presentation specialist and director of Puffingston Presentations – a presentation agency based in Austin, Texas. He specializes in crafting dynamic, interactive presentation experiences for tech companies and has developed keynotes for CES keynotes, SXSW Accelerator winners, TEDx speakers and executives at Dell, IBM, Siemens, Western Union and SAP Concur.
Prior to Puffingston Presentations, Luke was Sales Manager at RSI Video Technologies where he developed real-world presentation techniques his team incorporates today with speakers and companies around the world. He is a winner of the Best Business Prezi award and a certified Prezi Expert.
Connect with Luke: LinkedIn | YouTube | Instagram | Website

ABOUT PUFFINGSTON PRESENTATIONS:
Puffingston Presentations is an award-winning presentation agency specializing in creating professional, unexpected presentations. Need a trusted partner who can help you craft your message and develop amazing visuals for your conference keynote, sales presentation or corporate template? Based in Austin, the company leverages real-world experience and a “focus on the audience” emphasis to help you make the most of your presentation opportunities.
Connect: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
EVENT SCHEDULE:
12 – 1 PM: Presentation + Q&A
by AMA Knoxville | Sep 29, 2011 | Featured News, Luncheons | Programs
We have officially kicked off the KAMA 2011-2012 season, and we started off with a bang! The featured speaker at our September 14th luncheon, Angel Martinez, was not only interesting, knowledgeable, and full of great ideas, he was entertaining and engaging as well. Before he could begin his presentation, he said he needed to get his “prop.” The “prop” turned out to be a beautiful black cowboy hat he perched atop his head. Combine that with his authentic bolo tie, and we all knew we were dealing with a true Texan.
Angel is a fifth generation Texan from the small town of Brownsville, TX which is about 98% Hispanic. The importance of this distinction came to light a bit later in the presentation, but he was pointing out that he is one of the 16 million “assimilated” Hispanics of the 50.5 million total comprising the largest minority of the current US population. Insightfully delivered, Angel grouped Hispanics into 3 segments: fully assimilated, bi-assimilated, and unassimilated. When considering marketing to a Hispanic community, age, gender, education, and English language fluency are not important. Their level of “sophistication” or experience with a product is more important. Meaning, if one has seen, used, experienced a particular product previously, when a new line, flavor, version comes to market, Hispanics are more likely to engage with that product over one they haven’t seen. He or she may not be educated or speak English extremely well, but he or she has experience and buying power based on that fact alone.
The “wow factor” of Angel’s presentation hit hard when he started firing off census data regarding the Hispanic population in the US. Currently 50.5 million over last year’s number of 35 million. Hispanics count for more than ½ of the nation’s growth over last year. For a more local view, currently there are 290,000 Hispanics in the state of Tennessee. In Knoxville, the number has tripled in the last year from about 2,700 to over 8,200. It is a trend that we all certainly can’t ignore.
Hispanics, like any group of people or culture, have their own way they liked to be marketed to or “loved on” as Angel put it. They are a very faith-based community that heavily responds to messages of hope and courage in marketing campaigns. Their communities are family centered and matriarchal in nature where women often make the household or buying decisions. In much contrast to the norms of US where mixing business with religion is shied away from, to the Hispanic community it is viewed holistically to the point that religion should be included in business decisions. There must be a symbiotic relationship between the two. Doing business without realizing how it will affect people and communities isn’t good, but you also can’t be all about purpose alone. To paraphrase Angel, “You can’t put ‘purpose’ in an envelope to pay your mortgage.” There has to be a good balance.
Angel closed his presentation with some very inspiring quotes, one of which I will leave with you which was said to have been spoken by Ghandi’s son.
“The US should be a really good salad. Let the tomato be the tomato. The cucumber be the cucumber. The lettuce be the lettuce. Then they all come together to make one really good salad.”