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Tony Nagle is a nationally known public speaker and trainer with extensive practical experience in management, sales, training and consulting. He is President of A. G. Nagle Company, a negotiation and sales training firm based in Franklin, Tennessee. For over 20 years, Tony has worked on negotiation problems in labor-management relations, sales and marketing, and has consulted on several mergers for Fortune 500 companies.
He was trained in principled negotiation by William L. Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project, who is the co-author of the book, GETTING TO YES. Tony also worked with several top labor unions in the United States on win-win negotiations. Prior to starting his own company, Tony was in sales and marketing with Owens-Corning Fiberglas and Wilson Learning.
Paige Nankivil has taught both beginning and advanced Italian language for the past seven years as a teaching assistant for the University of Minnesota. In 1982, she went to Italy for what was to be a one-year internship. Living near Florence, Italy in the picturesque region of Tuscany proved very enjoyable and she
stayed until 1990. Upon her return to the U.S., she enrolled at the University of Minnesota and completed a degree in Italian literature in 1994. Her ndergraduate studies sparked an interest in medieval Italian iterature, and she went on to get a Master's degree in Italian, writing her thesis on Dante's Inferno. Whenever possible, she travels to Italy. In 1997, she accompanied
a group of students from St. Mary's University, pending 3 months with them in Fiesole, outside Florence, eaching beginning Italian.
Melissa Naumann, a Wisconsin native, holds a B.A. degree in Music Performance from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She is an active performer, teacher, clinician, adjudicator and flute choir director. Her students have received superior ratings in various music festivals and have been represented in several prominent honors ensembles.
Melissa has been a featured soloist on master classes of internationally renowned flutists Robert Dick, Keith Underwood, Charles DeLaney and Leone Buyse. Her former teachers include Carol Hester, Tim Lane and Wendy Williams. Melissa has performed with various chamber and orchestral groups, including the Nashville Symphony, the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, the Belmont Graduate Chamber Ensemble and the Belmont University Orchestra. Melissa also spends her summers on faculty for the Indianhead Arts Center and the Duluth-Superior Youth Wind Band Program.
Melissa recently returned to Wisconsin after completing a Master of Music degree in flute pedagogy at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. While in Tennessee, she studied applied flute with Erik Gratton, principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony, flute pedagogy with Ann Richards, co-principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony and piano pedagogy with Linda Ford. Additionally, Melissa taught applied flute at Belmont University and Freewill Baptist Bible College, directed the Belmont University Flute Choir and maintained private studios at the Belmont Academy, Tullahoma City High School and Dickson County High School. This spring she was featured as soloist with the Belmont University Orchestra, the Dickson County High School Band. Currently, Melissa maintains a private flute and piano studio in Eau Claire.
Sgt. Kevin Navara has been a Ramsey County Deputy Sheriff for over eleven years. He is currently assigned to the Minnesota Gang Strike Force and for the past five years, Sgt. Navara has been an investigator with the Asian Gang Unit. He focuses on Hmong gangs and has investigated more than 150 cases in the past five years. Sgt. Navara has investigated a variety of cases including aggravated assault, auto theft, burglary, criminal sexual conduct, firearms, homicide, narcotics and prostitution. He has interviewed several hundred Hmong gang members and has testified as an "Expert Witness" in federal and state courts. He has spoken to numerous organizations including The International Asian
Gang Investigators Association, The Midwest Gang Investigators Association, The Asian Gang Investigators Association (Minnesota and Wisconsin), The Minnesota Department of Corrections, The Wisconsin Department of Corrections, The University of St. Thomas, Metro State University, Century College, and numerous law enforcement agencies throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin on the topics of Hmong Gangs in the Midwest, Hmong Gangs in the School, and Criminal Sexual Conduct in the Hmong Community.
Tom Nelson, R.Ph, is a registered pharmacist and certified poison control information specialist. He is the pharmacy clinical coordinator at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Tom has been a consultant on substance abuse issues to numerous agencies including the Department of Corrections, Meriter Hospital's NewStart Program in Madison, and various school districts.
Dr. Richard Nimke is an assistant professor in the Dept of Music and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Nancy Noelke's professional experience includes over twenty years in the Training and Development field. Since 1994, she has served as an internal trainer and consultant at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin where she provides leadership development and management training for physicians, executives and all levels of management.
Nancy has held administrative positions at Stanford University, University of San Francisco, Macalester College in St. Paul, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Her work included facilitating teams, leading staff development efforts, and supervising programs and services.
Since 1999 Nancy has worked as an independent consultant, teaming with clients throughout the Midwest to provide leaders with skills needed to create productive and engaging work environments. Nancy has an undergraduate degree in psychology from St. Norbert College and a Master's Degree in Education from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Chris Norman has played a key role in reviving and redefining the flute in traditional Canadian and Scottish music with a breadth and depth of repertoire that encompasses five centuries of music and numerous musical genres. An inspiring performer, he is renown as a soloist and composer. He has played with groups ranging from chamber ensembles and traditional groups to symphony orchestras and toured worldwide with the Chris Norman Ensemble, Baltimore Consort, Helicon and Skyedance.
