Chris competed in both the annual Toastmasters speech and table topics competition and earned awards for himself and his club, Plus factors Toastmasters. Chris gave a speech enticed A Liability or an Asset for the international speech competition and earned third place. Chris competed in the Toastmasters Table Topics competition …
Chris was honored by the Joplin Regional Business Journal at their annual “Salute to Health Care” banquet. Chris was honored for overcoming a life changing ischemic stroke to his spinal cord that occurred in a Northern California hospital. Using his own life experiences, Chris is able to connect with the …
The Missouri Association of Hospital Auxiliaries named Chris as the 2015 Volunteer of the year for his volunteer work both at Freeman Health System and in the community despite his physical limitations caused by an ischemic stroke to his spinal cord. The award, engraved with Chris’ name, is proudly displayed …
A condensed version of Chris’ story of building success on eBay despite his physical disability was used to lead into chapter 9 of the textbook, Small Business Management: launching and Growing Entrepreneur Ventures by Longenecker, Moore, Petty and Palich
Chris’ story is in a special eBay edition of entrepreneur magazine. The back page story, “Wheeling and Dealing” is a well written piece by April Y. Pennington of how Chris’ used eBay, while recovering from his ischemic stroke to the spinal cord, to help him feel as if he was …
