8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | AFSA Registration Center
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Law Committee
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Operations & Regulatory Compliance Committee (ORCC)
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3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Independent Advisory Board
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Independent Auto Financing Executive Group Happy Hour with your Lenders
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Law, SGA, ORCC Joint Reception & Dinner
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6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | AFSAPAC Event
Join us at our AFSAPAC Presidents Club event on the San Andreas Fault! Break out your Denim and Diamonds for an extraordinary evening!
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7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | AFSA Registration Center
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Admin Committee Breakfast & Meeting
8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Independent Auto Executive Group Breakfast & Meeting
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8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | State Government Affairs Committee Breakfast & Meeting
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8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Leadership Development Program Steering Committee
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | The EDGE Advisory Board
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Human Resources Networking Group
10:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Law Committee
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | AFSA Education Foundation Board Meeting & Lunch
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | AFSA Executive Committee Lunch & Meeting
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1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | D&I Working Group
All attendees are welcome to join AFSA’s D&I Working Group to hear from Dr. Thelá Thatch about an a key business issue – recruitment. Dr. Thatch is a consultant with Rework Work. Their team has worked with Fortune 500 companies to recruit top diverse talent and increase retention rates by up to 14%.
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Business Partner Board
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | AFSA Board of Directors
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4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Women’s Leadership Council
Speaker: Renee Brown – Director of Education & Associate Curator, Palm Springs Historical Society
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5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Welcome Party with Exhibitors
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6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Leadership Dinner & AFSAPAC Auction
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7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | AFSA Registration Center
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Marketing & Communications Networking Group
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast with Exhibitors
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9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Chair & President’s Welcome & Keynote: “Marvelless” Mark Kamp
Join Bill Himpler, President & CEO, AFSA and Dan Walters, CEO, Credit Central as they kick off the 2022 Independents Conference & Expo. AFSAEF Board Chair Jim Schneider will deliver remarks and present the inaugural Legacy of Giving Award.
Then, join us for our keynote! “Marvelless” Mark Kamp is a CEO, Business owner, best selling author, and world class performer. If you want to be energized, engaged and empowered to develop a rock star mindset and significantly your performance, let “The Business Rock Star” show you how to do just that. No one else in the industry is doing what Mark is doing. He is unique, effective, and results driven and will provide attendees with an amazing experience!
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10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Refreshments with Exhibitors
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11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Policy Power Hour: Taking Stock of Emerging
Fed, State and Legal Issues
Join AFSA government affairs SVPs Danielle Arlowe and Celia Winslow for their fast, informative discussion on the federal, state, and legal issues affecting the consumer credit marketplace and installment lenders in particular. AFSAPAC Chair Rochelle McClanahan will deliver an AFSAPAC Report.
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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Luncheon w/ Exhibitors
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1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Credit Under Siege: The Case for Credit
and the False Promise of Rate Caps
If there is only one economic-study panel you will ever attend, this is it! Prof. Tom Miller will release his year-long Illinois rate cap study and AFSA Chief Economist Perc Pineda will provide updated data on consumer credit trends shaping the national economy and your businesses.
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1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Refreshments w/ Exhibitors
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2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | CEO Outlook ’22: Assessing Challenges, Advancing Opportunities
Leaders of our industry share their views on what it has taken and will take to manage and operate in vastly different consumer and economic environments from even a year ago. Where do they see our industry headed? What of the future of work? What transformations in the consumer credit industry are necessary in quickly evolving economic conditions?
Speakers:
Rex Ellison, President & CEO, Republic Finance
Ginger Herring, President & CEO, 1st Franklin Financial
Dan Walters, CEO, Credit Central, LLC
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3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Independents Accounting Committee
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Operations Networking Group
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Reception w/ Exhibitors
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Open Evening for Entertaining
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8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | AFSA Registration Center
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast with Exhibitors
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9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | RSM Survey Results
Joe Kaczmarek, Robert McMurry, and Rachel Richardson with RSM presents the results of their 2021financial performance survey for AFSA Independents and other independently held finance companies across the United States. The results will include current trends for growth, funding, leverage, profitability, income and expenses.
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9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Making Sense of the Midterms: A Conversation with Tom Bevan
Join Tom Bevan, co-founder and publisher of RealClearPolitics, for up to the minute polling and political analysis headed into the pivotal federal and state ‘22 midterm elections. Bevan cuts through the noise and brings context to yet another important election since the last one
two years ago.
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10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Refreshments w/ Exhibitors
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11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Champions Club w/ Super Bowl Champion Darren Woodson
Join us to honor the 2022 Outstanding Independent and Outstanding Employees. Then, Darren Woodson is one of the greatest players to wear the Dallas star on some of the most legendary Cowboys teams. Today he’s taking those individual and team experiences and adapting them for winning strategies for business and in life.
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12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Luncheon
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1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | AFSA Golf Tournament
Join us for our Annual Golf Tournament at the beautiful La Quinta Mountain Course.
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1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Best of Palm Springs Tour
Not joining us on the links? Check out our Best of Palm Springs Tour.
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Closing Reception
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