FEATURED SPEAKER Expert negotiator, sports agent, attorney, educator and civic leader Ron Shapiro is the founder of Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler and the Shapiro Negotiations Institute, a negotiations seminar and consulting firm that has trained more than 100,000 professionals in the art of negotiation, dealing with difficult personalities, and enhancing listening skills.

USA Today called Shapiro “one of baseball’s most respected agent-attorneys,” and Sporting News named him one of the “100 most powerful people in sports.” His impressive list of clients features Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, Eddie Murray and Jon Miller, all of whom have benefited from the more than $1 billion in contracts that Shapiro has negotiated.

Shapiro’s book, The Power of Nice: How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins -- Especially You! was excerpted in Fortune magazine and named one of the “ Top Ten ‘On the Job’ Business Books of the Year” by the Library Journal. In addition, Shapiro has appeared as a negotiations expert on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNBC’s Power Lunch, Mutual Radio’s The Larry King Show, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, ABC’s Nightline and ESPN’s Up Close.

The CBE Center for Applied Business Economic Research, better known as CABER, was created to leverage the vast resources of Towson University's College of Business and Economics in a coordinated effort to support the educational, developmental, strategic and information needs of local organizations. CABER will foster continuing education, intellectual partnerships, research, analysis and consulting projects which capitalize on the energy and abilities of the University's faculty, staff, students and alumni.