Small Business Risk Management Workshop 

Exploring Ways to Stay Afloat When Problems Arise

If you're a small-business owner, you're by definition a risk-taker. The danger, however, of being comfortable with taking leaps of faith is that you can sometimes overlook smart and simple ways to minimize the damage if your leap ends in a fall.

This workshop will give you concrete steps to minimize risks that you know about and, importantly, risks that you might not know about. A team of risk management professionals will guide you through key ways to protect your business. Topics to be covered will include effective cash management, negotiating leases, negotiating contracts, defining insurance needs and cyber security.

At the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

• Manage solvency in your business
• Discuss the importance of business insurance in mitigating loss
• Define leasing and real estate strategies that manage exposure
• List ways to develop and draft contractual agreements that mitigate risk

Topics and Speakers:

Staying Solvent
Instructor & Workshop Facilitator: Harry Precourt

Harry Precourt has several decades of experience keeping companies solvent, structuring financing to solve cash-flow issues, and sustaining growth. He has done this in the for-profit sector as a senior lending officer with major banks, a principal with a major accounting firm, and CEO/founder/owner of a corporate finance advisory firm. He has brought the same tools and techniques to the nonprofit sector as board member, acting CFO, and member of executive management. Harry is a SCORE NYC Mentor.

Business Insurance
Defining Insurance Needs, Negotiating Policies; Cyber Security
Instructor: Peter Hedberg

Peter Hedberg currently manages a large book of new and renewal technology professional and privacy liability insurance for the Northeast region of Hiscox, a global specialty insurance company based in London. He started his insurance career on the brokerage side in 2003 at Hays Companies where he acquired experience in the areas of management liability and international insurance. He received a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College.

Real Estate Leases
Negotiate real estate leases that protect your current and growing business
Instructor: Jan Lewis

Jan Alan Lewis, JD, is a Member of Cole Schotz PC in the Real Estate Department, concentrating in commercial office and industrial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants, on a local, regional and national basis. He has handled complex real estate transactions on behalf of owners, developers and companies throughout the United States. Jan is a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, the New Jersey State Bar Association, New York County Lawyers’ Association and the American Bar Association. He received his JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Negotiating Contracts
Instructor: Larry Drath

Lawrence I. Drath has been a practicing attorney with an emphasis in real estate, financing, structuring contracts and partnership, entity agreements, and the development of business strategies. His client base includes restaurant operators, hotels and entrepreneurs. He has taught basic legal principals to students at the NYU undergraduate division for the past 25 years. He has been an arbitrator with the American Arbitrator Association resolving disputes between contractual and partnership parties. He is a graduate of NYU law school and a SCORE NYC Mentor.

Workshop Fees:
Online registration $59, walk-ins $69

There is a $10 discount on all Student and SEAP registrations 
(valid ID must be presented at the door).

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