From Breakfast to Business: The Ultimate Networking Event

The Biz and Breakfast. Listen to Wendy and Brooke today because we're talking everything about biz and breakfast. Next on the Trucking Risk and Insurance Podcast. Welcome to the Trekking Risk and Insurance Podcast. Ladies, welcome to the Trucking Risk and Insurance Podcast.

Of course. Um, well, good morning. Thank you for having me. My name is Brooke Violo. I'm the Director of Client Services for ISB Global Service. Wonderful.

Maybe, Wendy, you can add on to who you are. And what the heck is ISB Global Service?

Thank you guys. It's great to be on your show as always. Um, I'm Wendy Patton.

Background screening part, is that the part I recall, MEE? M E E?

Yes, we have our MEE platform. Uh, we also work with 10th Street. Uh, we've got a MOC, uh, platform And we've also got a compliance platform now, which is very interesting.

Wow, maybe we'll have time to get into that, but really we're here to talk about Your bez, bez, your bez and breakfast, your biz and breakfast. Breakfast? Did somebody say breakfast? Food! Oh

my god, we gotta run and

get

some. I'm hungry already, how long do I gotta wait?

Till July 11th.

Oh, oh god, I'm gonna get hungry. I'm gonna lose some weight if I don't eat now.

Well, Brooke, what's happening at the biz and breakfast? Uh, Wendy just said July the 11th, what the hell is happening there?

So we have been busy organizing our Biz and Breakfast. Um, so July 11th, we are so excited. We've got some really great sponsors. Um, so we've got BFL Canada, who has sponsored us, as well as Zurich Insurance and Aviva Canada. ISB Global Services, is hosting this in collaboration with 10th Street and Trans Rep. And we are very excited to come together.

Cool. Hey, Wendy, where is the Bism Breakfast? Let's get that out of the way.

It's going to be at the Lionhead Golf Course in Mississauga at 8525 Mississauga Road on the Cusp of Brampton, Mississauga.

I'm going to have to get up early to make it there on time.

Yes, she will. You can come and stay at my house the night before if you like.

Okay, all right. That way I won't have to travel so far. Good.

You'll have to share a room with Marilyn Serber, but you'll be all right.

Oh boy, she hogs the sheets.

Oh, and since you mentioned Marilyn, where is she working now? You may as well throw that in.

So Marilyn has a consulting company called Candela, and she also works for Driver's legal plan.

There we go. Okay, cool. Cool. And you mentioned Angelique. What is Angelique talking about?

Angelique is gonna be talking about, um, the insurer, from the customer to the insurer, looking at both sides, uh, of the process, what the insurer requires, what the client, what the customer needs for the insurance side. So she's gonna be looking at it from both sides of the house, so it's gonna be very interesting.

Cool. I'm sure it will be.

Yeah, and then we've got a panel, um, moderated by Scott Cober from BFL with, uh, Andrew Ramsing from Northbridge and Denise Guetta from Zurich and Don Williams from Aviva.

And what are they talking about? That'll be an interesting panel.

Yeah, they're going to be talking about panel cracking the insurance code, uh, the 2024 market outlook, , and what can technology do to help.

That's, it's going to be interesting. I really am looking forward to it because I was with a broker this past week and they believe we're on the verge of a soft market again. So, which I had not heard anybody else say. Let's talk about that. So that'll be really interesting.

Yeah, 7. 30 till 1.

30 is registration and breakfast and then we'll kick things off, um, at 8. 30 with opening remarks and then we'll have some panels, some networking breaks and then, um, we'll carry on for the rest till one o'clock. And then if people want to mingle and network after that, they're more than welcome.

Yeah. Sorry. I maybe I'll bring my golf club since it's not lion's head.

Not a bad idea.

There

you go.

The facility, as you know, I've met you there several times. Um, the facility is wonderful at the Lionhead. The food is always great and the golf course ain't so bad. And since the whole thing's over by one, what the heck, right?

Well, ISB's been doing this since 2016. It just started out as a, as a small little gathering just to get, The ISB name and the me are making eligibility easy platform out to the market. So we just started out, um, just inviting maybe like 20 people and we're, we just started talking about the me platform. And then it started to grow from there. And then clients started asking if they could be a sponsor. So then I'm like, okay, let's, So now it's grown to be what we have right now.

Yeah. I want to say I think I've attended every one, other than when they were closed down during the pandemic.

You have been. You might get a gold star for that, Mr. Farquhar.

Ooh! And an extra piece of bacon?

And an extra Wendy Patton squeeze. So that'll be Ooh!

There you go. All right. I like the squeezes. That'll work.

Johnny gets a gold star. Brooke, do you give out squeezes as well? I

do.

I do

give squeeze it. might get the inaugural squeeze.

I'm up for it. There we go.

You know, God, if you're following in Wendy's shoes or even being associated with Wendy, that's not always a good thing, Brooke.

Well, Wendy has kindly taken me under her wing in background screening. So I'm endlessly thankful for Wendy.

I'll be, I'll be bringing Brooke to the fleet, uh, safety Council breakfast on Wednesday as well, so you'll get to see her there as well. So I want her to, you know, start meeting. Mm-Hmm. people,

I'm sure what you said, Wendy, was brilliant, but you froze.

Okay, I said, I'm bringing Brooke to the Fleet Safety Council lunch on Wednesday to introduce her to the community and so that she sees how things work in the trucking industry.

And I paid my fee to be there on Wednesday as well.

We're waiting for Mr. Farquhar to register. Once that happens, the floodgates will open. People are waiting to see Mr. Farquhar's name on the registration page. That's what they're waiting for.

It's coming.

It's coming. He's waiting for, to make a big huge announcement one of these days, you know, and, uh,

Beard off. Is that the announcement we're waiting for? That would be quite the thing. I think,

I think he's going to die it. Red.

What diet? Like, like what? Not, I'm not skinny enough?

Like red or green. You could do

it. I

ask people who are most nervous

is blue.

Yeah, we could. We could. Yeah, yeah, we could. Yeah, I could do it red and I'd look like a big giant leprechaun. There you go.

We'll leave that to another conversation.

Oh God, this is always fun with Wendy and now I've met Brooke.

This is our Biz and Breakfast. So this is your time. If you're in the industry, come on out, have your breakfast, learn from the best of the best. Um, we'll have some conversations about driver onboarding, mitigating risk, anything and everything to do with hiring and keeping your people safe.

And we will have a link to register in the show notes down below. Wendy, what day is it?

It's Thursday, July 11th at Lionhead Golf Course in Brampton.

At 7 30 to 1. Is that right? I'll take that as a yes. All

right. Well, Wendy,

you froze. I don't know what it is about, uh, I don't know.

It's just my life so far. Everything that's going to go wrong is going to go wrong.

That's right. With that, I think we Beat the heck out of it. Other than, Brooke, if you want to mention your sponsors once more for this episode, you can throw that in.

Yeah, so once again we've got BFL sponsoring us, we've got Zurich sponsoring us, and we have Aviva sponsoring us, and we are so excited and so thankful to all of our sponsors for the Bisum Breakfast.

And Lead Petal, um, brought a podcast, , Bruce Outridge will be there. He'll be, um, monitoring and filming, filming the event and doing some interviews. So you'll be on the other end of the interview page, maybe, uh, Chris, you won't have to be the interviewer. You'll be the interviewee. I was just going

to say you had to throw in the competition there. And

I was just thinking, hasn't Bruce changed that channel now when he does a recording, he then turns it into a comic book? You know, maybe style or something. So yeah. So maybe he can make me skinnier . Wendy Patton, ISB: Yeah, if you can do

And of course skinnier

younger. I'm good with that.

Yeah, there you go. I'm joking. For all the people listening, the Lead Pedal podcast is a great show. Yes. So we have Angelique from Element Elementor who, element

Management. Yep.

Okay. And she's, go ahead, sorry. And the BFL panel is.

And BFL panel is Scott Cober is the moderator and Andrew Ram Singh from Northbridge, Denise Guetta from Zurich and Don Williams from Aviva. And we have a, um, the Deputy Register for Motor Vehicles, Sean Doucette from MTO. He'll be talking to us about, um, The safety of the road and making sure that your drivers are compliant while they're on the road.

And for those of you who don't, have never met Sean, uh, one, he's a very nice guy, he's as high up in the MTO as you can get. So if you're a motor carrier, it would be a good time to shake hands in a pleasant atmosphere with Mr. Doucette.

Absolutely.

You don't

want to meet him across the table at a Show Cause hearing.

That's when I usually meet Sean and they aren't pleasant, those Show Cause hearings. So, meet Sean in a pleasant atmosphere. Absolutely.

And then we've got Marilyn from Candela Professional Group. She's going to be moderating a panel with Heather Devine from Traffics Group and Doug Marcello from Saxton Strump. So he's going to be at Fleet Safety and then he's coming to the Biz and Breakfast Safety Class, in my opinion.

Sure. All right. Yeah, well, I was going to say you've got the legal beagles to be chatting together. That's cool.

That's right. Nothing like the best trucking industry from ISB Global Services.

There you go. We didn't mention the, the huge, outstanding price. I'm going to have to get my credit card out. I've already registered, but

Yeah, it's a big 25. 25 bucks.

25 bucks for all this. Wow.

Where can you go for that?

Exactly.

The link is in the show notes below. John and I certainly encourage you all to register. Yep. Um, if you haven't met Like Angelique's been in the industry a lot longer, uh, than she would like to admit. The other panel with the BFL group, they're all huge industry professionals. Sean Doucette's going to be their head of MTO. And, um, the legal beagles, those two have been also in the trucking legal space like forever. So it's a great group. Congrats, Brooke. Congrats, Wendy.