Ivan Misner
Encyclopedia
Dr. Ivan Misner is the founder and Chairman of BNI, a business networking
organization.
Business networking
Business networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...
organization.
Career
- Misner has a Ph.D. from the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. - He has written several networking methodologyMethodologyMethodology is generally a guideline for solving a problem, with specificcomponents such as phases, tasks, methods, techniques and tools . It can be defined also as follows:...
articles and nine books, including the New York Times bestseller; Truth or Delusion? Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths. - He is a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur.com,
- He is the Senior Partner for the Referral Institute – a referral training company and a Featured Columnist for The National Networker.
- He has taught business and social capital courses at several universities and sits on the Board of Directors for the Colorado School of Professional Psychology.
- He has advocated the teaching of networking skillsBusiness networkingBusiness networking is a socioeconomic activity by which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities. A business network is a type of social network whose reason for existing is business activity...
in university business studies curricula.
External links
- Internet TV shows
- Entrepreneur.com
- BNI.com
- Get Slightly Famous
- International Networking Week,
- The National Networker
- Ecademy.com, and Givers Gain, The BNI Story
- StevenKayLive.com - CNN Radio [www.StevenKayLive.com/audio/2007-04-02.mp3]