CREW West Michigan is pleased to present an educational and thought provoking series of events - Tools in Our Toolbelt - Sponsored by Warner Norcross + Judd. Our second event in the series will cover strategic business development, where we will gain insight from speakers Liz Burnson from WNJ and Stacey Woods from Wolverine Building Group. This event is open to CREW West Michigan Members and Non-Members. Registration is required, please REGISTER HERE.
Meet Your Speakers
Elizabeth (Liz) Burnson is a business development executive at Warner who oversees the firm’s strategic focus for the Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate, Economic Incentives, Labor and Employment and Employee Benefits/Executive Compensation Practice Groups. Within her role, she provides business development leadership to the firm and its attorneys and practice groups to grow and strengthen client relationships and build new partnerships within these areas of law. Liz has an exceptional background in the corporate and health care industries, where she developed and implemented local and regional plans and provided relationship and project management direction for various community-branded initiatives. She donates her time and talents as the board president for the Thornapple River Association, president emeritus for MSU West Michigan Spartans, regional council for Inforum, and is a member of the Grand Rapids Rotary and the Grand Rapids Economic Club.
Stacey Woods is the Director of Business Development for Wolverine Building Group. Prior to joining the Wolverine team in May of last year, she spent nearly ten years at StructureTec Group an engineering consulting company specializing in the building envelope and parking systems. Stacey is a West Michigan native and graduate of Grand Rapids Public Schools. Stacey holds a B.S. from Western Michigan University, where she studied Business and Marketing strategy. Throughout her professional career she has held roles in Marketing and Sales Support, Consultative Selling, Account Management, and Sales Leadership. She is the proud mother of two sons, both of whom are leaving for college this fall, and she and her husband will be celebrating their 24th wedding anniversary in October.
Each event will include networking, refreshments, and snacks. Parking will be validated. The entrance to the parking ramp is located off Ionia. Take the elevator up to Floor 15R.