The Sport Marketing Association is honored to announce that Pat Williams, senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic, will be the keynote speaker for the 10th Annual Sport Marketing Association Annual Conference to be held at the Orlando Wyndham Resort in Orlando, Florida from October 23-27, 2012.

Pat Williams is one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, Pat has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies. Pat is also the author of over 70 books, his most recent title being Leadership Excellence: The Seven Sides of Leadership for the 21st Century.

Since 1968, Pat has been the general manager with teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Orlando. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history. In 2012, Pat received the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Pat and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle and The Wall Street Journal.

To register for the conference go to www.sportmarketingassociation.com/conference-registration.aspx

To register for hotel go to Wyndham Orlando Resort

The Sport Marketing Association is dedicated to developing mutually beneficial relationships between professionals, academicians, and students around the world through the creation, distribution, and implementation of sport marketing knowledge via networking, scholarly activities, and career development opportunities.

For more information, contact the SMA National Office at (352) 588-7326 or [email protected].

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