National Spotlight Tour Articles

IBOAI Chairman Bill Hawkins takes the IBOAI’s story to New York City.

What a welcome by “The City That Never Sleeps”! More than 13,000 IBOs and their guests attended the National Spotlight Tour at the Javits Convention Center in New York City on August 29 and 30, and the IBOAI was there to greet them.

Visitors arrived from nearby Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, plus Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut, but they also drove from as far away as Virginia and the Carolinas.  It was a friendly mixture of cultures that greeted their association warmly, glad to meet staff personally and able to interact with someone or read IBOAI material in many languages, from the brochure at the Spotlight, to the association websites, to answering calls at IBOAI offices.

Breakout sessions were huge this session, seating up to 1,500 plus overflow into a balcony – with all three sessions, IBOAI Chairman Bill Hawkins spoke to more than 4,500 IBOs! Then he stopped by the IBOAI booth to greet attendees and answer questions.

If you haven’t been to a National Spotlight Tour or Pathways to Success yet, there’s still time. Come see us soon!

Bill Hawkins energizes a breakout session from center aisle.