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Shawn Achor, Ph.D , Massachusetts USA

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR and CNN Radio. When not at Harvard, Shawn travels around the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and non-profit organizations. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
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Teresa Allen , Louisiana USA

Teresa Allen, a dynamic presenter with over 15 years speaking and training experience, is author of Common Sense Service: Close Encounters on the Front Lines and is co-author of The Service Path: Your Roadmap for Building Strong Customer Loyalty. A master storyteller, Allen captivates audiences by mixing an entertaining and down-to-earth presentation style with solid business content. Allen works with businesses and associations who want to build success and profits through enhanced employee performance. Her highly rated presentations focus on customer service, sales, communication and presentation skills. Teresa credits her success to the customization of every program to the client’s needs.
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Stacy Allison , Oregon USA

Take Your Meetings to New Heights! Stacy’s climbed the world’s most famous mountain. Now she’s helping organizations across the globe scale their own monumental challenges. Stacy understands mountains. Stacy Allison has been climbing mountains and leading expeditions for more than 20 years in remote regions around the world, including Tibet, Pakistan, and Russia. Stacy combines her business acumen and her spirit for adventure to show her audiences how to thrive in their organizations through courage, leadership, vision, teamwork, risk taking, and personal accountability. Stacy's high content, tailored, dynamic presentations will encourage and inspire you to take a visionary look at opportunities and move beyond your limits. The future will never look the same!
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John Amatt , Alberta Canada

Mount Everest climber, President, and author of "Straight to the Top and Beyond", John Amatt has performed over 1500 presentations to audiences of more than 750,000 persons in 25 countries around the world. In addition to his powerful keynote presentations, John and his company One Step Beyond offers a variety of truly unique training and consulting services. In conjunction with our partners, the Pacific Center for Leadership, we offer TEAMPOWER! Outdoor Experiential Leadership and Team Development Seminars, and InPractice! Consulting Services. These programs are a combination of challenging activites and stimulating discussions in both indoor and outdoor settings.
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Courtney Elizabeth Anderson, J.D., M.B.A , Texas USA

Ms. Anderson truly does bring a completely unique experience to fulfill your speaking and/or training needs. She is an individual who brings the highest level of academic and professional credentials (from accredited top tier nationally ranked academic institutions) coupled with real life experience to infuse every speaking engagement with both credibility and actual content. She is that rare individual who is at once one of the most dynamic and entertaining presenters in the nation who also possesses the caliber of knowledge and experience that your organization demands. She delivers both style and substance. Your firm can not risk your valuable resources of both time and money on a speaker who does not have the appropriate credentials or content. Your firm deserves the maximum return on investment and Ms. Anderson will deliver it.
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Nick Arnette , California USA

Nick's programs transform and energize audiences with motivation and humor! His unique, tailored presentations show us ways to find humor in our everyday lives, at home or at work. "Laughing is good for us," says Nick, "It increases productivity, brings people together, and helps us deal with our problems. A sense of humor is no longer a desired trait in the business world - it is a required trait!" Nick's comic style is friendly and light-hearted. Nick will not only make you and your people laugh, he will befriend and encourage them. Nick can help your group see the lighter side of their problems with his clever stand-up comedy and original brand of good, clean fun! Your groups will appreciate Nick's depth and identify with his observations on human behavior. He will bring humor you can relate to, and will tailor his comedy to your needs, so you'll get a performance made especially for you.
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Michael Aronin , Maryland USA

Michael Aronin is a nationally acclaimed speaker who teaches his audiences how to get past personal shortcomings and move forward productively in their careers. Being both a comedian and motivational speaker, he is able to make this difficult topic both entertaining and enlightening. As a physically challenged member of the business community, Michael Aronin provides a new perspective on overcoming obstacles that goes far beyond textbook knowledge. Combining his personal experience with existing facts, Michael Aronin impacts upon his audiences in a way that lifts their spirits and motivates them to improve their abilities in the workplace without apprehension, while making them smile. Michael Aronin knows two things: he has a killer sense of humor, and he has cerebral palsy. However, Michael never let his disability get him down; in fact, it seldom fazed him.
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Emory Austin, CSP , North Carolina USA

Emory Austin delivers value in vibrant keynotes and seminars, detailing the skills necessary for increasing leadership abilities, customer retention, increased marked share, the vision of change, and other topics. Her exceptional gifts as a storyteller allow her to access humor, poignancy, relationships, current news and mythology - anything and everything to captivate her audiences and encourage a climate where fresh insights are a minute-by-minute occurrence.
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Nancy K. Austin , California USA

Nancy K. Austin is an internationally recognized authority on the subject of cutting edge management, and the most sought after woman keynote speaker in American business. Her presentations, writing and consulting work are primarily centered on how leading-edge organizations build a new kind of business based on know-how, talent, and innovation. In the process, they create a new style of working together.
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Bill Bachrach, CSP , California USA

Bill Bachrach is one of the most recognized “names” in the Financial Services industry and was named “one of the four most influential people in the Financial Services industry” by Financial Planning Magazine. As the “father” of the Values-Based Financial Planning™ philosophy and the Trusted Advisor concept, Bill’s work has had a profound impact on how Financial Professionals conduct business, and he has stood at the forefront of the movement to transform the Financial Services industry into a true profession
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Dusty Baker , California USA

In 2003 Dusty Baker guided the Chicago Cubs to their first NL Central Division Title and into the postseason for the first time since 1998. The Cubs ousted the high-powered Atlanta Braves in five games in the NL Division Series and took the Florida Marlins to seven games to decide the National League Champion. This is a significant accomplishment as the Chicago Cubs finished 2002 with a 67-95 record (fourth place) and improved their record by 21 wins to finish 88-74 in 2003. The Cubs finished the second half of the season with the third best record in baseball (41-27 .603 winning percentage). Baker won Major League baseball’s “Manager’s Move of the Year” award for a move he made against the Diamondbacks in August.
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Bodine Balasco , California USA

Successful Meetings Magazine has named Bodine Balasco “one of the Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century.” His Fortune 100 clients include AT&T, Boeing, Coca Cola, British Petroleum, Verizon, Wells Fargo, and FedEx. Many of them call Bodine “the most effective speaker we’ve ever hired.”
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Jim Ball , Virginia USA

Jim Ball helps businesses and individuals rev-up their goals to produce extraordinary results. An outstanding speaker, Ball provides a distinct edge because of his extensive entrepreneurial and business experiences, and because he transfers specific methodologies that he developed and used successfully throughout his career. AT the venture capital firm he started and managed, Ball used his methodologies to help finance, launch, and grow 23 new businesses including the Discovery Channel. "Jim is an authority on goal power, " says John Hendricks, chairman and CEO of Discovery Communications Incorporated. Previously, Ball was a managing partner at Arthur Andersen in charge of an office serving high technology and rapid growth firms. Jim is the author of DNA Leadership Through Goal-Driven Management, Soar...If you Dare, and the Entrepreneur's Tool Kit.
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Rick Barrera , California USA

In 1981, Rick Barrera founded his speaking, consulting, and training firm to identify and teach the distinctions' industry leaders how to produce exceptional results. His clients loved his message and encouraged Rick to put his concepts into writing. His first three business books include:"Non-Manipulative Selling", "Collaborative Selling", and "The Dollars and Sense of Exceptional Service Delivery." Rick's most recent book "Fast Forward, How Today's Best Companies are Meeting the Need for Speed" was published in 2001.
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Christine Clifford Beckwith, CSP , Minnesota USA

As the top salesperson in a billion dollar industry for over eight years, Christine Clifford Beckwith signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Procter & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight. Diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40, Christine founded The Cancer Club, today the world's largest producer of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer. Christine's philosophies and strategies for becoming your industry's leader are proven theories that have propelled her and the companies she has worked with to the top of their fields. Christine believes that it is not the product, service or cause that people purchase: it's you. Author of Inspiring Breakthrough Secrets to Live Your Dreams, and YOU, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself (Warner Books, March, 2007), Christine is a victorious survivor, in business and in life, eagerly sharing her knowledge, wisdom, humor and lifetime experiences.
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James Belasco, PhD , California USA

A dynamic, captivating, and entertaining keynote speaker, James Belasco is recognized for his ability to have a lasting impact on his audiences. People leave his presentations energized with fresh ideas for improving themselves and their organizations. A dynamic speaker on the topics of Strategy, Leadership, Change, and Empowerment address the biggest challenges facing organizations today: creating a future, changing a culture, and developing leaders for the new high tech world. Belasco's many illuminating examples drawn from his eminent career as a consultant and business leader, combined with a lively and energetic delivery, serve as a road map to help participants recreate their own soaring success.
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Gerald D. Bell, Ph.D , North Carolina USA

Dr. Gerald D. Bell is a dynamic, experienced and highly successful speaker with the exceptional ability to reach people deeply. Dr. Bell will work with you to guarantee that your next meeting is a resounding success by creating an exciting and meaningful experience with substantial take-home value for your group. A sought-after keynote speaker and one of The Young Presidents’ Organization’s Top Ten Resources, Dr. Bell will build value for your organization as you prepare to offer your colleagues and members cutting-edge educational opportunities at your upcoming conferences and regional meetings. He is a master teacher who constantly exceeds the expectations of audiences worldwide.
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Bill Benjamin , Ontario Canada

Bill Benjamin is the CEO of the Institute for Health and Human Potential, contributing to its status as a world leader in the exciting field of Emotional Intelligence. Bill is a seasoned business executive with over 14 years of experience and is responsible for the sales, marketing, financial and business development areas of IHHP.
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Andrew Bennett , Michigan USA

Former personal assistant to Ross Perot and student of W. Edwards Deming, consultant and business leader Andrew Bennett presents inspiration as a critical strategy for achievement. Sharing stories from his own life – a life of contrast between great personal loss and impressive achievement – Andrew weaves together a compelling case about the need for inspiration in our work.
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Arden Bercovitz, Ph.D., CSP , California USA

Arden Bercovitz, in the guise of Albert Einstein, is that something different and effective you've been looking for when you need a speaker that can motivate and maximize your peoples‚ creative innovation and catalyze change throughout your organization.
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Kivi Bernhard , Georgia USA

Exploding onto the professional speakers circuit, nationally and internationally this young dynamic rising star is fast becoming a keynote motivational speaker of choice. Based in Atlanta, GA, Kivi was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kivi Bernhard has combined his acute business acumen and success in building a multimillion dollar international diamond business with his passion for Africa and its wildlife. Using the hunting habits and techniques of the African Leopard, perhaps the most successful feline predator on earth, Kivi draws metaphors of personal and corporate leadership initiative, that will leave you spellbound.
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Dick Biggs , Georgia USA

Dick's 15-year track record as a keynote speaker, seminar leader and author includes a diverse group of clients. Dick Biggs works with organizations to boost their bottom lines (sales and profits) and better their top lines (people and productivity). His most recent book is Maximize Your Moments with the Masters.
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Lenora Billings-Harris, CSP , North Carolina USA

Lenora Billings-Harris, CSP is an internationally recognized diversity expert,speaker, performance improvement consultant, and author with more than twenty five years experience in the public and private sectors. Lenora has developed a unique way of presenting sensitive topics in a high-energy, fun-filled, yet thought-provoking way. She helps organizations solve their "people problems" in an interactive style with immediately applicable "how to's" that help people understand themselves and others, respect differences, capitalize on their strengths, and work effectively with one another.
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Jeff Blackman, J.D., CSP , Illinois USA

Jeff is a speaker, best selling author, success coach, broadcast personality and lawyer. He heads Blackman & Associates, a results-producing business-growth firm in the Chicagoland area. Jeff's clients call him, a "business-growth specialist." For example, his customized "Referrals: Your Road to Results" learning-system, helped one financial services client generate $230 million directly from referrals, in only 23 months!
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Ron Black , Oregon USA

Ron Black is an award-winning speaker, consultant, and author with over 25 years of business leadership experience. He delivers down-to-earth, results-proven project management, team building, and sales and marketing content. His warm and engaging style has touched audiences throughout the US, Canada, and Australia, as summarized by a recent participant, "I was enlightened, enriched, and enabled! We left with a renewed focus on achievement!"
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Bill Blades , Arizona USA

Bill Blades' programs work! He's a businessman who has done it. Programs loaded with content to quickly maximize performance and re-energize people. With F. Lee Bailey, Bill co-authored the book "Leadership Strategists." on what the top 2% of sales professionals do for effectiveness. Bill also served as Finance Chairman for the Speaker of the House of the U.S. Congress.
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Don Blohowiak , Virginia USA

Don assists a wide variety of organizations to successfully improve performance and productivity. Don provides customized programs and consulting on: Leadership, Change, Hiring, Creating a Culture of Service, Workplace Effectiveness (including Teamwork), and Priorities Management. Don is the author of six renowned management books which are distributed around the world. Honors include being named "One of the Top 10 Management Books of the Year" by Industry Week, numerous executive endorsements, and translations into Chinese, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew.
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Arlene Blum, Ph.D , California USA

An acclaimed speaker for audiences of all ages and backgrounds, Arlene Blum brings to her lectures a unique combination of authoritative information, spectacularly beautiful photography and a warm appreciation of peoples and cultures. The adventures she describes exemplify what people can accomplish with determination and careful planning. These lectures will provide the inspiration to help you achieve the most challenging goals, in both your personal and professional life.
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Wally Bock , California USA

Wally Bock is one of the world`s leading experts on how individuals and organizations can use the power of networking technology to do things better and more profitably. Publisher of "Cyberpower Alert!" and author of "CyberPower for Business".
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Julian Bond , District of Columbia USA

From his student days to his current Chairmanship of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights and economic justice. As an activist who has faced jail for his convictions, as a veteran of more than 20 years service in the Georgia General Assembly, a university professor and a writer, he has been on the cutting edge of social change since 1960. He has served since 1998 as Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. In 2002, he received the prestigious National Freedom Award.
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Walter Bond , Minnesota USA

Walter Bond knows first hand how setting goals can help you achieve greatness throughout life. It started at an early age, with a dream to one day play in the NBA. Walter was born in Chicago, Illinois where he began to dream about playing against such greats as Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in his very own backyard. Walter’s hard work, athletic abilities and determination did not go unnoticed. He was recognized as an All-State basketball player his senior year and received a scholarship to the University of Minnesota.
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Nick Bontis , Ontario Canada

Dr. Nick Bontis is recognized internationally as a leading strategy and management expert. With humor and passion, he empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to build their brainpower for high performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Tom Stewart, editor of Harvard Business Review, states, “He is not only a pioneer in the field of intellectual capital, but one of its real experts as well.” Dr. Bontis’ expertise has been tapped by several Fortune 500 companies and even the United Nations, who selected him for a high profile initiative. His groundbreaking doctoral dissertation is the #1 selling thesis in Canada. He is an award-winning tenured professor of strategy, and Maclean’s magazine has identified him as one of McMaster University’s most popular business professors for the last six years in a row! Dr. Nick Bontis is associate editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital, which is the leading academic publication in the field.
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Nate Booth, D.D.S , Nevada USA

For the past 25 years author and corporate consultant Dr. Nate Booth has successfully coached thousands of people in the art of thriving in times of rapid change. He has presented more than 1,200 seminars, workshops, and training programs to associations and corporations around the world. He has studied and applied the science of human influence teaching people how to persuade themselves and others to take action in ways where everyone wins. Since 1987, he has worked closely with Anthony Robbins in the creation of exceptional corporate and association training programs. An engergetic, enthusiastic, highly entertaining speaker, Booth offers customized high-impact presentations that are educational and motivational. His books contain compelling personal and business strategies for achieving excellence in the next century.
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Gary Bradt, Psy.D , North Carolina USA

Dr. Gary Bradt is a change and leadership expert, author and speaker who has given over 175 keynotes around the globe for organizations looking to lead sustainable change by capitalizing on the opportunities change always creates. His diverse client base has included IBM, FedEx, General Motors, American Express, VISA, Marriott Corporation, The Weather Channel, Citibank and the Department of Defense.
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Michael Brandwein , Illinois USA

Michael Brandwein is recognized internationally for his innovative techniques in management, communication and leadership development. He is a nationally award-winning speaker, educator and author and in the past 20 years has made presentations in 49 states in many national, state and international professional associations and organizations.
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Bob Brenly , California USA

Bob Brenly is an engaging speaker who shares his experiences from Major League Baseball (MLB) with humor and wit. As a MLB player he was an All-Star catcher whose leadership helped the San Francisco Giants win a division title in 1987. In 2001, as a manager in his inaugural year, Bob Brenly led the Arizona Diamondbacks to a World Series championship.
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Lynn Brewer , Washington USA

Lynn Brewer is a former Enron executive and author of Confessions of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story, a riveting account of her career at Enron and her decision to blow the whistle. In her nearly three years at Enron, she was responsible for Risk Management in Energy Operations, the e-Commerce initiatives for Enron's water subsidiary, and Competitive Intelligence for Enron Broadband Services. During her tenure she witnessed numerous instances of illegal and corrupt dealings, including bank fraud, espionage, power price manipulation and the gross overstatements to the press, public and financial world.
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Winston Brill, Ph.D , Wisconsin USA

Dr. Winston Brill is known internationally for his outstanding innovations. Since 1989, he has dedicated himself to understanding how people think of "great" ideas, the kind that drive innovation. His unique and practical views come from his management experiences, his interest in the arts, and his decade-long study of the human side behind the origins of hundreds of "great" ideas. Through a vibrant talk, with fascinating examples, Winston gives audiences a visceral feel of what each person needs to do to achieve innovative success.
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Nancy Brinker , Florida USA

When Nancy Brinker’s sister, Suzy, died of breast cancer at the age of 36 in 1980, Nancy promised herself she would fulfill her sister’s plea to help others battling the disease. In 1982, she established the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, today recognized as the nation’s leading catalyst in the fight against breast cancer. Currently, the Komen Foundation boasts more than 75,000 volunteers working through a network of 118 U.S. and a growing number of international Affiliates.
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Frank Bucaro, CSP, CPAE , Illinois USA

Ethics and values are more than "just good business practices " -- they are tools that can: promote growth, build customer loyalty, and empower your organization for long term success! A business owner, author and speaker, Frank Bucaro (CSP, CPAE) brings a unique perspective to client organizations that seek to integrate ethical standards of excellence with solid business practices. In demand as a full time speaker, Frank's presentations illustrate how ethics and values contribute to long term success. His book, "Taking The High Road" -- "How To Succeed Ethically When Others Bend The Rules," offers down-to-earth ideas for tackling difficult decisions.
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Marcus Buckingham , California USA

Marcus Buckingham uses over 150,000 interviews collected over the last 25 years by Gallup Organization to expose the fallacy of standard business practices - there is no standard model for success. Buckingham outlines four keys to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and selecting staff for talent - not just knowledge and skills. He also offers audiences specific techniques for helping people perform better on the job.
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Dan Buettner , Minnesota USA

Explorer and National Geographic writer Dan Buettner is the founder of Quest Network, Inc. and has produced more than a dozen interactive expeditions. His Quests are real-time expeditions designed to enlist an online audience's participation in solving some of science's biggest questions. The Quests have generated more than two billion media impressions and garnered an online educational audience of 12 million students in 80,000 classrooms.
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Erick Burton , Missouri USA

Powerful, positive, and practical is how Erick Burton is frequently described. He is known as "The Leadership Accelerator." As President of Burton Resources, Erick has partnered with hundreds of corporations and associations as a professional speaker, facilitator, executive coach, and author. He equips people with practical tools that enable their organization to succeed.
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Margot Cairnes, MBA, B. Ed (Hons , New South Wales Australia

Margot Cairnes is a highly respected leader in her field. A corporate mentor and advisor to Boards and CEO's of multinational companies, Margot addresses crucial issues in leadership, management and business. Change is prevalent and speeding up before our eyes. People are looking for more. They are looking for proven answers. Margot Cairnes is a recognised expert working for the past 15 years in corporations worldwide using her unique and proven technology.
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Joe Calhoon , Missouri USA

Joe Calhoon is a presenter with Covey Leadership Center and a certified speaking professional in the National Speakers Association, an honor less than 300 of their 3,500 worldwide members have earned. Joe is a featured author in the book The Great Communicators and is also known for the articles and video programs he has produced on the art of personal and professional development. In the past decade, Joe has given over 1,000 presentations to more than 300 different organizations.
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Joe Calloway , Tennessee USA

Joe is internationally known as an expert in performance and competitive factors. His speaking style has been described as "straight talk about how to win in today's changing marketplace." Sales and Marketing Management Magazine named Joe Calloway as one of the top business speakers in the country, and he has been inducted into the International Speakers Hall of Fame, the highest honor given to professional speakers. Joe has spoken to hundreds of business audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and in England, Italy, and South Africa. Joe is the author of Focus On The Customer and Market Leadership, and has produced the business videos Positive About Change and Focus On The Customer, as well as many customized video programs for clients.
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John Canfield , Michigan USA

John Canfield speaks with a sense of purpose and a sense of humor on a wide variety of topics. He has twenty years of experience speaking to a wide variety of audiences, from large conventions to executive board rooms. His clients include AT&T, Citibank, Deloitte & Touche, First USA, General Motors, Intel, Merck and Underwriters Lab and thousands of participants of his many North American seminars and keynote speeches. Clients enjoy John's ability to read his audience, adjust the mood, raise the energy level, deliver a message and end with a story to think about for weeks to come.
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Richard G. Capen , California USA

Dick Capen is the author of Finish Strong / Living the Values that Take You the Distance (Harper San Francisco and Zondervan), former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and publisher of The Miami Herald. He provides practical advice on setting a values-based course for your company. Drawing on his experience in the newspaper publishing industry, as U.S. ambassador, and as assistant secretary of Defense, Capen outlines the action steps and key personal values necessary for business success in the years ahead. He understands that knowing what tomorrow's workers will demand in the way of key corporate values will be critical to the success of every American business. His particular focus is on what to expect from the young generation moving into the workforce.
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Rolfe Carawan , Virginia USA

As Founder and CEO of Carawan Global Communications and Consulting, Rolfe understands the challenges leaders face in working with people in today’s business climate. Rolfe's expertise in human dynamics gives him the unique ability to help organizations sustain unity through change and challenging times. His winning strategies have been developed over 30 years of successfully coaching, managing and motivating people.
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Carlos Carlosio , Mexico City Mexico

Carlos Carsolio was the fourth and youngest man to climb the world's 14 eight-thousanders (world's highest mountains) including Mt. Everest--all without supplemental oxygen. Carlos' innovative approach to mountain climbing as well as his focus on opening new routes has placed him among the best mountaineers of all time. Carlos has been a professional motivational and testimonial speaker since 1985. The focus of Carlos' speaking has been mainly corporate audiences on topics including: team building, risk management, leadership, commitment, vision and strategical planning. Carlos' climbing experience coupled with his experience in leading small and successful expeditions, has made him a highly sought after speaker in the corporate world having given to date over 850 lectures in America, Europe and Asia.
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Cherie Carter-Scott, PhD , California USA

New York Times #1 Best Selling author Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. has been coaching change successfully for over 25 years. Dr. Carter-Scott is an international author, entrepreneur, consultant, lecturer, teacher/trainer, talk-show host, and seminar leader. She and her company have reached millions of people worldwide. Some of her fortune 500 corporate clients include: FMC, American Express, IBM, GTE, Burger King, and Better Homes and Gardens Magazine.
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Doug Cartland , Illinois USA

Thousands of people and hundreds of organizations have been moved and re-energized by Doug and his message, whether through his speaking, his books or his award winning radio show, "Winning". Featured on radio stations and in newspapers throughout the Midwest, Doug is different. His mixture of passion, humor and story-telling challenges his listeners in a most palatable way.
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John Caslione , Illinois USA

Global Business Expert, Keynote Speaker and Best-Selling Author providing today’s business leaders – experience, knowledge and access Mr. John A. Caslione is the founder, President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. (AWI), a global marketing and sales firm with offices in Chicago (USA) and in Frankfurt (Germany). AWI assists companies to develop and implement global marketing and business alliance strategies.
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John Cassis , Florida USA

With his diverse background John is a modern day renaissance man. He played baseball for the California Angels organization, was the inspirational speaker for the Chicago Bears from 1983-95, served as minister to a small church in Colorado, addressed issues of world hunger as director of special projects for World Relief and became a professional golfer in 2002.
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James Cathcart , Oregon USA

James Cathcart has been a consultant for the Franklin Covey Company since 1994. He received his education in Sociology and Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University.Ê His emphasis in business ethics and principle-centered leadership have contributed significantly to his value as a Franklin Covey consultant.Ê James's expertise in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, quick sense of humor and dynamic personality have made him one of the most sought after consultants at Franklin Covey.Ê An explorer by nature, he spends much of his time hiking and cycling in the hills and mountains of Oregon.
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Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE , California USA

Jim Cathcart's Relationship Selling is now translated into Chinese, Japanese and Finnish. Among professional speakers worldwide Jim is a leader. He has risen to the top of his profession through more than 20 years of presentations to a worldwide audience and decades of unselfish service to his profession. Jim has been a corporate executive, training director, entrepreneur, psychological researcher, meeting planner and association executive. He has managed people, products and payrolls for over 20 years.
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K. C. Chan-Herur, MBA , California USA

Chinese by birth... American by passport... global by experience. Whether your team is doing business with multinational customers in the US or around the world, author and top-rated speaker, K. C. Chan-Herur, can help make your meeting a winner. She brings global perspective, proven management experience and entertaining anecdotes to inspire her audience. Keynote programs include: Global Success, Communicating With Customers Around The World, Succeeding in International Marketing and Sales, Winning In The USA-Working With Americans, Doing Business in Asia/Europe/Latin America/North America. This multilingual global citizen has had over 15 years of speaking, marketing, management, consulting and communication experience with Fortune 500 companies (Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and Am Ex.) She has worked, lived and studied in Asia, Europe, North and South America. She is the author of "Communicating With Customers Around The World."
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Ram Charan , Texas USA

Ram Charan is a highly sought after business advisor, educator, and author.  He has worked for many years with some of the world's most successful CEOs, including Jack Welch of GE and Edgar Woolard of Dupont. Ram is known for his practical, real world insights.  He started his business career as a teenager working in the family shoe shop in India, went on to earn an engineering degree, and then MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School.  He has taught at both Harvard and Wharton Business Schools and at GE's famous Crotonville Institute. Business Week named him the number two resource for in-house executive education.
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Chin-Ning Chu , California USA

Chin-Ning Chu, author of The Bridge to the Pacific Century, is the most successful author in Asia and the Pacific-Rim today. Chin-Ning has authored four books, Thick Face, Black Heart; The Asian Mind Game, and her soon-to-be released publications, The Secrets of the Rain Maker, Journey to the City of Prosperity, and The Working Woman's Art of War. She is one of the most extraordinary thinkers of our time. She presents the Warrior philosophy of Asia as a premier vehicle for mastering strategic thinking within the political arena and corporate world as well as daily life. Chin-Ning fuses this timeless wisdom with spirituality and practical business tactics to create dynamic tools for solving life's ever-shifting challenges.
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Dan Clark , Utah USA

In 1982, Dan was sponsored by Zig Ziglar into the National Speakers Association and soon received NSA's highest earned designation, CSP -- Certified Speaking Professional. Since then, Dan has spoken to over 2.5 million people in all 50 states, throughout Canada and in 15 other countries in Europe, Asia and former Soviet Union. Dan's incredible story and million dollar business has been featured on over 300 national radio and television programs and in "Esteem" and "Entreprenuer" magazines.
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Bill Clement , Pennsylvania USA

Bill Clement is a former National Hockey League All-Star who played 11 years in the NHL with Philadelphia (Broad Street Bullies), Washington, and Calgary and has been the face & the voice of nationally televised hockey since 1986. He is also a successful actor, entrepreneur and speaker. His many post-playing accomplishments have been an outgrowth of the financial and emotional ruin he incurred during his first post-hockey venture into the real world.
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Chris Coffey , California USA

In 1984 Chris Coffey joined Keilty, Goldsmith & Company as a senior consultant. Before joining KGC he was a consultant with The Center for Leadership Studies. It was there that he met Joe Keilty, Marshall Goldsmith, and Frank Wagner. His programs are highly customized to highlight individual and organizational strengths and areas that need improvement. An up-front research and learning process to understand the organization's culture, objectives, strategies, driving forces, and competitive advantage, along with industry trends, allows for appropriate workshop customization and reinforcement of corporate direction. Chris takes a realistic, common sense, focused, and disciplined approach. This is his strategy to accomplish his personal mission statement: " To help successful individuals improve by accelerating the innovation and implementation of their potential."
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Jeff Conley , Texas USA

America`s #1 motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar says,"Jeff Conley is such an asset because he effectively communicates both to the heads and the hearts of people. Author of "Becoming A Difference Maker," and "Habits of the Heart," Jeff Conley will change the way your people think! Mr. Conley founded the Jeff Conley Corporation for two specific purposes 1) To help businesses better navigate the confusion, anger and fear most often created by today`s relentless change. 2) To equip business people with a "compass" that positively directs change at work and security at home. His central philosophy is "You build people first and people will build a company that lasts." Speakers Platform has also named Jeff as one of the world's top ten motivational speakers.
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Tim Connor, CSP , North Carolina USA

For years Tim Connor, CSP has been entertaining, educating and inspiring audiences worldwide. He has given over thousands of presentations in eighteen countries since 1973 on: how to increase sales, how to improve management effectiveness and how to develop and maintain positive relationships. Over one million copies of his best selling books have been sold. Tim's books include: Soft Sell, Sales Mastery and The Road To Happiness Is Full Of Potholes.
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Sue Cook , California USA

Sue is president of Think Customer, a ground-breaking consulting practice pioneering innovative strategies to create customer-obsessed organizations. She is also is co-author with Roger Dow, President and CEO of the Travel Industry of America, of Turned On: Eight Vital Insights to Energize Your People, Customers and Profits, a pragmatic guide to build customers for life, hire and keep great people and enhance shareholder value.
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Ann Coombs , Ontario Canada

"When the Attitude of Tomorrow's Consumers Matters?...this FUTURIST will deliver!" Innovative, creative and challenging, Ann Coombs is dauntless in her quest to provide individuals and organizations with research that will assist them to understand and embrace the consumer changes that face our modern business world. Ann's insightful presentations focus on consumer trends and marketing strategies you will need to deal with in order to be positioned for the new Millennium. With an extensive retail and service sector background, in addition to creating training programs for many industries, Ann's sessions provide practical solutions and immediate response to industry specific issues which are guaranteed to increase profits. Her knowledge of technology makes Ann an expert on e-commerce and web marketing.
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Gary Copeland , Colorado USA

Gary Copeland is a powerful platform speaker who engages his audiences from start to finish. He tells stories, imparts up to date and relevant information, and uses his sense of humor to build bridges with his audiences. Audience members frequently comment that they feel like his is speaking directly to them. He is confident, well-prepared, poised, active and fun to be around. Once you have heard him, you will want to hear him again!
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Hugh Coppen , California USA

Hugh's highly successful thirty year career in leadership roles in many different industries, including his three-time experience as CEO, has provided him with unique, first-hand insights into the secrets of truly effective leaders. His animated style, his understanding of and passionate belief in "Visionary Leadership" make this an inspiring, valuable and entertaining presentation.
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Barbara Corcoran , New York USA

According to CNN, Barbara Corcoran is "the most sought after broker" in New York City and is considered one of the most powerful brokers in the country. Barbara's amazing rise to the top has become the stuff of legend and inspiration. Barbara grew up in Edgewater, NJ, in a family of ten kids. Her credentials include straight D's in high school and college as well as an honorary doctorate from Marymount College.
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Dr. Stephen R. Covey , Utah USA

Stephen Covey is an internationally-respected leadership authority and the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a seven-million bestseller in 28 languages; Principle Centered Leadership; and First Things First. He is also founder and chairman of the Covey Leadership Center, a worldwide 750-member leadership development firm. For more than 25 years, Dr. Covey has taught millions of individuals in business, government, and education the transforming power of principles rooted in unchanging natural laws that govern human and organizational effectiveness.
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Stephen M.R. Covey , Utah USA

Stephen M. R. Covey is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the author of The SPEED of Trust, a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver—a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. He advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy.
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Danny Cox, CSP, CPAE , California USA

Danny provides high content, humorous presentations designed to give step-by-step guidance for breaking barriers in leadership, personal high performance and customer service. From years of flying supersonic fighters as an air show and test pilot to years of breaking records in the business world with an 800% increase in production, in a five year period, Danny puts real world techniques in each skill-building, thought-provoking session. You'll see why he's called an accelerationist. His program titles are: Leadership When The Heat's On, There Are No Limits, and Be A Hero To Your Customers.
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Ronald Coxsom , California USA

Ron Coxsom is President of GME Consulting Service. , Inc., a real-world training/development consulting service that increases sales and improves performance of individuals, corporations, and organizations that focus on sales/leadership and customer service. Ron is a high energy speaker with more than 16 years of experience in sales/leadership, management and customer service.
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Cheryl Cran , British Columbia Canada

Cheryl is the President of Synthesis at Work Inc. and an internationally renowned keynote speaker. She provides practical tools and creative strategies for individuals to take their current level of success and boldly grow it to the next level. The companies that Cheryl works with are top performing organizations with a strong focus on becoming a workplace of choice. The leaders of these organizations recognize the value of investing in the growth of their employees for overall company success. Cheryl is a bold growth seeker herself and continually challenges herself to grow, learn and expand as much as she challenges others to do the same.
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Pat Croce , Pennslyvania USA

Energetic, enigmatic and explosive, Pat Croce shows audiences that we all have the power to help one another, including ourselves. From rowdy kid to physical therapist to entrepreneur, as owner of the Philadelphia 76ers, and now as an NBA commentator on NBC - he knows that reasons for failure are everywhere, except for one place - your mirror.
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Robin Crow , Tennessee USA

Robin's lessons of leadership comes from hard-won, first-hand, bone-crushing experience. This is how he has led his company, Dark Horse Recording, to one of the most prominent recording complexes in the world. It has become home to stars like Neil Diamond, Faith Hill, The Judds, Jewel, Michael W. Smith, Alison Krauss and countless others.
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Dr. Camilo Cruz, Ph.D , California USA

Not only a prolific author of several international best-sellers, but a sought-after motivational speaker and a business coach in the areas of personal development, business excellence and leadership, he is widely regarded in the Latin American corporate arena and the U.S. Hispanic market as one of the most influential speakers in the fields of peak performance, personal and organizational success. His enthusiasm, sense of humor, and refreshing perspectives on "The American Dream" have delighted and enlightened Hispanic and mainstream audiences in the United States.
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Ronald Dellums , Washington D.C. USA

Founder and Senior Partner for Dellums, Brauer and Halterman, LLC retired from a distinguished congressional career spanning nearly decades. Universally lauded as one of the most compelling and articulate speakers to serve in the House chamber, Dellums occupied many leadership positions in the House of Representatives. As the respected chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Dellums would take his struggle against militarism and war to the very heart of the national security establishment. During his chairmanship of the House District of Columbia Committee, he would have an opportunity to advance legislation addressing some of the most pressing national problems: mental and community health delivery, pension fund solvency and infant mortality to name just a few. As chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus he led the effort to redefine national priorities through the budget process.
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Mark DeVolder, Dr , Canada Canada

Dr. Mark DeVolder is recognized as one of North America's leading Transition Specialists. As an expert in the dynamics of change, Mark reveals strategies that will produce dramatic results for your organization.
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Connie Dieken , Ohio USA

Connie Dieken is the leading authority on communicating to a world of short attention spans and instant addicts. The president of onPoint Communication, she’s a Fortune 500 executive communication coach who guides leaders to achieve their highest performance and gain powerful results in today’s lightning-paced, over-stimulated world.
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Mike Ditka , Illinois USA

Mike Ditka’s NFL career began in 1961 when the Bears made him their first round selection from the University of Pittsburgh. He had an immediate impact, catching 56 passes and earning NFL Rookie of the Year honors. Ditka played five more seasons with the Bears, earning a Pro Bowl trip each year, before being traded to Philadelphia in 1967. After two years with the Eagles, he played four more in Dallas, where he caught a touchdown pass in the Cowboys’ 24-3 win over the Dolphins in Super Bowl VI.
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Mitchell Ditkoff , New York USA

Mitch Ditkoff is the co-founder and President of Idea Champions, a highly regarded management consulting and training firm specializing in breakthrough thinking, team development, leadership, and helping organizations establish sustainable cultures of innovation. In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Ditkoff is also an accomplished public speaker, writer, and innovator. He is the author of Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling (in an uphill world), Free the Genie, and The Heart of Innovation – one of the most popular innovation blogs.   He also the co-creator of Ingenuity Bank (third generation idea management software), Face the Music (the world’s first business blues band), BrainTrust (an online think tank), and The Breakthrough Café (an after hours creative thinking networking event).
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Michael Djavahery, Ph.D., ACI, MH, CCHT , California USA

For over ten years Michael Djavahery, an Advanced Instructor of Hypnosis, has focused on educating others by instilling in them a true desire to find and enjoy the magic of life. He has helped thousands of people including the heads of companies and their managers and employees to help themselves achieve their highest personal and corporate goals. Three of his popular topics are "Leadership and Team work Through the Use of Hypnosis", "Implementing Change Through Subconscious Programming", and "Eliminate Fear of Public Speaking".
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Bob Dole , Washington D.C. USA

One of the most respected figures of the 20th Century, Bob Dole is also one of its wittiest. Deftly weaving comedy with issues of global importance, he ushers audiences into a new understanding of the nation’s weightiest issues. Author of Great Political Wit: Laughing (Almost) All the Way to the White House and Great Presidential Wit: I Wish I Was in the Book, he charms audiences even as he offers them a wealth of insight and a lifetime of experience. Throughout his service in Congress, as Senate majority leader and as the 1996 Republican presidential candidate, Dole proved himself a great leader, brilliant statesmen and effective legislator. He earned international acclaim for his work on behalf of the disadvantaged and disabled, for his mastery of foreign affairs and for his uncanny ability to build bipartisan consensus. Dole also appeared in the revival of CBS’ 60 Minutes
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Mary-Ellen Drummond , California USA

Mary-Ellen Drummond is one of America’s most dynamic and entertaining speakers and seminar leaders. She offers insights and information based on more than 25 years of business, sales and speaking experience. Her enthusiastic style combined with a powerful and memorable message, makes her a favorite with Fortune 500 companies who invite her back again and again.
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Pegine Echevarria , California USA

Former Bronx girl gang member, Pegine Echevarria, joined a new "gang", after being inducted into the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame, its first Latina. Pegine edutains (educates + entertains = edutains) her audiences with concrete information culled from years of experiences as a top salesperson and leader. She combines her hobby as a stand up comedian with her expertise and experiences to be a powerful, funny, content rich motivational speaker. egine's audiences walk away with information while being inspired to be leaders in their lives, work, family and community. They are members of corporations, business organizations, sales forces, entrepreneurial groups, associations, the military, colleges and universities. They are politicians, scientists, engineers, bankers, brokers, sales people, small business owners, women, men, young and old. They are leaders and team members and are people who want to be both.
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Barry Eigen, MBA , Wisconsin USA

Hired by organizations that want to improve performance and managers who want their people to become doers, this former corporate CEO alters perspectives on managing people. With humor that makes audiences roar with laughter and solid take-home content on topics which include Leadership, Sales, Service & Success, Eigen teaches skills to enhance performance and initiate change. He shows people from the top down how to create what every organization deserves: Productive employees who love what they do.
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Stewart Emery , California USA

Stewart Emery brings to the international bestseller, Success Built to Last, a lifetime of experience as entrepreneur, executive coach and leader, and is considered one of the fathers of the Human Potential Movement. A visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Management, Stewart has lead executive teams and organizations through Vision—Values—Strategy initiatives based on research from the business classic Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. Author of two other best selling books; Stewart Emery has led workshops, seminars and delivered keynotes all over the world. A wonderful story teller with a great sense of humor, Stewart has appeared as a featured guest on television and radio talk shows (including the BBC and co-hosting TV talk show about human sexuality in Los Angeles in the mid-70s). He has conducted coaching interviews with more than 12,000 people in the last three decades.
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Roxanne Emmerich , California USA

Roxanne is the CEO of The Emmerich Group, whose client list includes the top-performing financial services firms in the country—and those that are wildly committed to being on that list. One of her previous books, Profit-Growth Banking, has been repeatedly referred to as the “bible of successful banking.” As a result of her record-breaking careers in both banking and brokerage, she was regularly asked to share her strategies with colleagues at industry conferences. Years later, Sales and Marketing Management magazine named her one of the twelve most requested speakers in the nation for her ability to create immediate and profound transformations. Her unique approach blends kick-butt marketing, enlightened, no-excuses leadership development, profit-rich sales strategies, and iron-clad templates and systems. She presents this mixture to leaders, then teaches them how to create “employees on fire.” The result? CEO's say, “It’s a miracle.”
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Susan Ershler , Washington USA

Susan Ershler has made a living of performing at a high level. For the past 20 years, Sue served in a number of leadership positions for Fortune 500 corporations across the nation. Formerly as Regional Vice President, She was responsible for leading a national sales and service organization focused on providing advanced broadband networking solutions and represented over $600 million in revenue. Yet, many people know Sue for her accomplishment on the world's greatest mountains.
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Gail Evans , Georgia USA

Gail Evans’s career is vast, beginning in government in the early 1960s working on a number of congressional staffs and culminating as the Executive Vice President of CNN. Early in her career, Gail Evans worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration and was instrumental in the creation of the president’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act. Where did Gail Evans learn the business game? In the male-dominated world of television journalism. She began working at CNN at its inception in 1980. By the time she retired in 2001, she was its Executive Vice President. During that time she was responsible for program and talent development at all of CNN’s domestic networks overseeing national and international talk shows and the Network Guest Bookings Department, which schedules about 25,000 guests each year. Evans is currently a Visiting Professor at the Dupree School of Management at Georgia Tech whe
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Dr. James Fantauzzo, Ph.D , Florida USA

He is recognized as one of the industry's finest speakers and seminar leaders in the areas of Total Quality Management, Management Development, and Employee Motivation Programs. His philosophy utilizes a realistic hands-on approach in which to apply and implement training activities at all levels. He is noted for his accomplishments as a leading workshop creator and dynamic facilitator both in the United States and Europe.
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Steve Farber , California USA

Steve Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, Incorporated—an organization devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. His book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership is a recipient of Fast Company magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award and was named one of the ten best business books of 2004 by the on-line resource, CEO Refresher. His second book, The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World, was hailed as “a playbook for harnessing the power of the human spirit.” He is a contributor to the anthology, Leading Authorities on Business: Winning Strategies From the Greatest Minds in Business Today, and is the author of the audio series, Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the O.S.M.
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Michael Feiner , Minnesota USA

Michael C. Feiner is President of Michael C. Feiner Consulting, Inc., a firm he founded in 1996 after retiring from Pepsi-Cola Company. The firm advises CEO's on how to muscle-build their organizations and upgrade the quality of their company's leadership. Michael C. Feiner is President of Michael C. Feiner Consulting, Inc., a firm he founded in 1996 after retiring from Pepsi-Cola Company. The firm advises CEO's on how to muscle-build their organizations and upgrade the quality of their company's leadership.
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Keith Ferrazzi , California USA

Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula for reaching the top - a powerful combination of marketing acumen and a remarkable ability to connect with others. Both Forbes and Inc. have designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals.
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Neil Fiore, Ph.D , California USA

Neil Fiore helps people work more effectively with less stress and greater commitment. He helps organization cut healthcare cost and keep key employees. Dr. Fiore is the author of three books and a Nightingale-Conant tape series. He speaks on "Peak Performance on the Job," "Self-Leadership Skills," "Skills for Thriving in the 21st Century," "Effective Self-Coaching." He presents to organizations such as AT&T, Bechtel Corp., Coit Cleaners, National Human Resources Association, Levi Strauss, Stanford Hospital, and the University of California. His customized presentations have been called "practical and inspirational, touching both the heart and the mind of his audience."
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Tom Flick , Washington USA

Following his successes as an NFL quarterback, Rose Bowl Champion, Pac-10 Conference “Player of the Year”; Tom Flick now applies his winning ways as a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker to companies that include Microsoft, Marriott, Starbucks, Merrill Lynch, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Shell Oil, Boeing, NAPA Auto Parts, Safeco Insurance and the US Army Rangers. Tom draws on his exceptional ability to communicate clear business solutions with humor, wit and razor-sharp insight as he addresses over 70,000 men and women each year on high performance strategies for leadership, teamwork, change, and personal growth. With a gift for connecting with listeners’ hearts as well as their heads and habits, Tom helps create more effective leaders.
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Ed Foreman, CPAE , Texas USA

Ed Foreman leads corporate executives, worldwide, down the path of health, wealth and happiness toward a more meaningful life. His "successful daily living" message teaches business leaders how to reduce stress and anxiety, turn worry into success, and have more fun. Few speakers, if any, are better qualified to motivate, inspire and educate by their own examples than Ed Foreman.
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J.D. Frailey , Missouri USA

J.D. Frailey's corporate experience includes nearly twenty years with Southwestern Bell Corporation in marketing, strategic planning, and leadership development. J.D. is co-author of the 1993 book, In the Spirit of Service. He is on schedule to complete a 26.2 mile marathon in all 50 U.S. states by the year 2003. J.D. found deep inspiration and a "workable, practical approach to creating a more fulfilling, effective, and balanced life" in the teachings of Dr. Stephen R. Covey. "I attended The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in 1991," J.D. said, "and knew then I wanted to contribute to this work. I'm thrilled to be part of the Franklin Covey organization."
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John Di Frances, PMC , Wisconsin USA

With his broad business experience, John has worked with numerous major international corporations, middle market and small companies, government agencies, non-profits, foundations, and academic institutions. John has the "vision, values, and experience" to speak on many strategic business and organizational issues. His perspective in addressing each topic centers around the paradigms he has developed for four critical strategic aspects of all organizations -- Leadership, Innovation, Synergy, and Negotiation. In this manner, John is able to integrate each topic into a cohesive framework by which organizations can develop from being Successful and Good to Significant and Great!
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Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. Lois Frankel, President of Corporate Coaching International, a Pasadena, California consulting firm, is an author and an internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace behavior. Prior to establishing her own practice she worked in human resources at Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate headquarters. With over two decades in the field of employee development, she is a frequent guest on talk radio and television programs, at association conferences, and at corporate workshops and retreats. She most recently appeared on NBC's The Today Show, CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer, and CNN's In The Money.
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Mike Frank, CSP, CPAE , Ohio USA

Primary area of training is in sales skills, sales management skills, customer service skills, speaking skills.
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Jackie Freiberg, PhD , California USA

“Guts To Go Nuts!”: Learning from Great Companies and Gutsy Leaders This speech is loaded with unconventional, business best practices from Southwest Airlines and other great companies. These organizations are inspired by Gutsy leaders who are willing to do whatever-it-takes to attract and keep great people. We all know competition for talented people is here to stay! It is critical that companies strive to become employers of choice ~ magnets for GREAT talent. If you follow the FORTUNE lists, benchmark the best companies, and try to learn from the most admired organizations, you’ll soon discover there are no easy formulas for making a best or admired list. In fact, the competition is intensifying!
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Kevin Freiberg, PhD , California USA

Co-author of NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Busines and Personal Success. Kevin Freiberg has challenged corporate leaders around the world to better understand how their attitudes and behaviors can cultivate the loyalty, dedication, unparalled pride, and unmatched productivity that characterize extraordinary organizations. Loaded with fasinating stories and real-world examples, Freiberg's programs will bring you an unconventional approach delivered with sound business solutions that can be translated into concrete actions. He is co-author of the national bestseller NUTS!, which has sold over 100,000 copies and illustrates the leadership and culture-building practices behind the greatest success story in the history of commercial aviation. Encouraging, witty, passionate, and sincere, Freiberg has earned a reputation as one of America's most inspiring keynote speakers on current leadership issues.
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Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE , California USA

Hiring a trainer is an awesome responsibility... Patricia Fripp builds leaders and transforms sales teams. Meetings and Conventions Magazine named Fripp one of the ten most electrifying speakers in North America. Her popular books include of "MAKE IT, So You Don't Have to FAKE IT! -- 55 Fast-Acting Strategies for Long-Lasting Success" and "Get What You Want." She is co-author of "Speaking Secrets of the Masters" and "Insights Into Excellence." Individuals, Companies and Association members learn to succeed with a combination of Fripp's "Hi-Tech, Low-Tech, and No-Tech" techniques. Patricia's most requested training programs include Speech Coaching and Presentation Skills.
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Tim Gard, CSP , Colorado USA

Tim Gard, CSP, nationally recognized humorist and authority on stress reduction through humor, has taught thousands to unlock the power of their own "Comic Vision," improving their relationships and turning adversity to their advantage. Tim has traveled both nationally and internationally for the past decade, providing his fast-paced, entertaining and informative good-humor seminars to more than 100 groups annually. In fact, his friends in Denver say they have more sightings of Elvis than they do of Tim!
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Jeff Gee , Illinois USA

Jeff Gee is one of the most captivating and humorous speakers you will ever encounter, and you will encounter him! Boring seminars are not in his line-up. You'll laugh with Jeff and learn remarkable things about yourself in the process. Jeff is the perfect facilitator for any number of program topics, including INTEGRITY, LEADERSHIP, CUSTOMER SERVICE, and TEAM BUILDING.
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Michael Gelb , New Mexico USA

Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning and innovative leadership. Companies like BP, Compaq and Microsoft rave about Michael's ability to relate executives and managers and speak directly to their concerns and daily needs in order to inspire their best work while dealing with ambiguity, change and uncertain conditions. Through seminars, workshops, keynotes or retreats, Michael can offer his services as a motivational speaker, dynamic creative spirit and his expertise in the study of the brain and genius-level thinking.
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Michael Gerber , California USA

Business visionary, entrepreneur, author and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, Michael Gerber has delivered his compelling and pragmatic message to business audiences throughout the world. As thousands of business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs can attest, the message works. Gerber's "E-Myth Point of View provides people typically enslaved by a business with a way out of what he calls the "tyranny of routine" and shows them how to build a flourishing, exciting, innovative business. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books: The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work And What To Do About It; The Power Point; and The E-Myth Revisited.
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Ed Gibson , Arizona USA

For 21 years, Ed held the American record of 84 days in space. During his mission on Skylab, America's first space station, he also worked outside for over 15 hours during three different space walks. In his 14-year NASA career, Ed supported the Apollo 12 crew and was their communicator while they explored the moon. He earned Air Force wings and logged over 2,200 hours in high-performance aircraft, 100 hours in helicopters, and 2017 hours in space.
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Libby Gill , California USA

After fifteen years serving as Senior Vice President at Universal Studios; Vice President at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting; and a consultant for Dr. Phil and Paramount Studios, Libby Gill worked her way down the corporate ladder to pursue her dream of helping others locate the intersection between their personal passions and professional goals. Libby, a former actress and college instructor, is now a bestselling author and coach. She has appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, CBS Early Show, The Hour of Power, and in Time Magazine, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, O Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Self and many more.
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Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D , California USA

Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is a highly sought after international speaker, and has presented to numerous Fortune 500 Companies, educational institutions and government leaders in addition to YPO (Young Presidents Organization) and TEC Worldwide. He is a management consultant specializing in developing and facilitating programs that promote both creative and balanced leadership.
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David Goldsmith , New York USA

Over the past 20 years he has founded or co-founded eight businesses ranging from distribution to manufacturing to advertising. He has been a consultant to various industries including long distance telephone service, textile industry, computer programming, hospitality and tourism, manufacturing, and retail. Working with business owners, corporate upper and mid-level management, David has improved clients positions.
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Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D , California USA

The American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. Major business press acknowledgments include: Business Week – most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development, The Times (UK) – 50 greatest living business thinkers, Wall Street Journal - top ten executive educators, Forbes - five most-respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence – top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India) – five rajgurus of America, Economist (UK) - most credible executive advisors in the new era of business and Fast Company - America’s preeminent executive coach.
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Victor Antonio Gonzalez , Georgia USA

Victor Antonio Gonzalez is proof that the American dream of success is alive and well. A poor upbringing from one of the roughest areas of Chicago didn't stop Victor from earning a B.S. Electrical Engineering, an MBA and building a 20 year career as a top sales executive and becoming CEO of a multimillion dollar high-tech company.
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Barry Goodfield, Ph.D , Arizona USA

Dr. Goodfield specializes in identifying the unconscious nonverbal signals known as Non Verbal Leaks. His work is based on a unique patented psychotherapeutic process, which he developed in the 1970's. Over the past 30 years Goodfield has shared his methods with psychiatrists, psychologists, senior corporate executives, attorneys, and cabinet level officials around the globe. In addition to his work at the Institute, Dr. Goodfield is a Senior Professor at Henley-Putnam University in San Jose, California. He has also lectured at The Foreign Service Program of Oxford University and was a visiting Professor at the Diplomatic Academy of London, University of Westminster. He is also an author, having published Insight and Action: The Role of the Unconscious in Crisis from Personal to International Levels in 1999.
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Jon Gordon , Florida USA

Jon Gordon is a speaker, consultant and author of the international best sellers The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work and Team with Positive Energy and The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work. Jon's newest book, Training Camp: What the Best do Better than Everyone Else, was released in May of 2009.
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Amanda Gore , Texas USA

Amanda Gore is one of Australia's most popular professional speakers. She holds a degree in Physiotherapy, a major in Psychology and is a master practitioner of neurolinguistics. Apart from her qualifications, she has a unique ability to entertain, involve and inform her audiences so they have a wonderful time. They absorb and retain serious messages and learn specific and useful skills that can immediately improve performance. A powerful keynote and workshop presenter , Amanda is brilliant at kick starting your conference by connecting individuals in the group and breaking down barriers with laughter.
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Tracy Goss , Texas USA

Tracy Goss is the foremost authority on Executive Re-Invention and an internationally- recognized consultant, author, and lecturer. Her book, The Last Word on Power: Executive Re-Invention for Leaders Who Must Make the Impossible Happen, provides a pathway for leaders to re-invent themselves for the 21st century and acquire the capacity and ability to make the impossible a reality. Ms. Goss advises and consults leaders of worldwide organizations in such diverse industries as banking, chemicals, telecommunications, information technology, and retailing to produce the transformations necessary to position their company as the future of their industry. She lectures to business audiences globally, including Stanford Graduate School of Business, AVIRA at INSEAD in France, and AMANA in Brazil, and has written for the Harvard Business Review, The Portable MBA in Strategy, and Fast Forward: The Best Ideas on Managing Business Change.
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Vijay Govindarajan, Ph.D , New Hampshire USA

Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School and founding director of Tuck's Center for Global Leadership. He is also the faculty co-director for Global Leadership 2020, Tuck's executive education program that focuses on global management and is taught on three continents. For 25 years, Govindarajan has been advancing the field of strategy execution and advising senior executives in all industries on how to modify their organizations to achieve their strategic ambitions. Reading the zeitgeist of the past three decades, Govindarajan has helped companies adapt to the global business environment and change the way they look at strategy.
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Stedman Graham , Illinois USA

Stedman Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates (SGA), a management and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets. As a businessman and educator, Graham lectures and conducts seminars for businesses and organizations around the country. Content is driven by his proprietary Nine-Step Success Process™. Clients have included Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, CVS Pharmacy, Georgia Pacific, PRO-LINE International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Manpower, CNN and GlaxoSmithKline among many others.
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Darin Green , Minnesota USA

Training is offered in 1 to 8 hour segments. Under Motivation: Reenergizing for Exceptional Performance; Responding to Conflict; Managing Difficult People; The Power of a Positive Image. Under Team Building: Converting Differences into Assets; The Power of Commitment. Under Diversity: How to Better Manage in Diversity; How to Accept & Value Diversity & Make it Work for You. Under Change: Building Flexibility & Confidence
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Alan S. Gregerman , Maryland USA

Dr. Alan S. Gregerman is founder and President of a consulting firm that helps leading companies develop winning strategies and create successful new products, services, ventures, and new ways of doing business. His customers are a wide range of growing firms, entrepreneurial start-ups and Fortune 500 corporations including Discovery Communications, NCS/Pearson, Tellabs, Nortel Networks, GlaxoSmithKline, Marriott, Arthur Andersen, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, DynCorp, and CITIBANK.
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Dick Grote , Texas USA

Dick Grote is one of America's most successful and best-known authors, consultants, and speakers. He specializes in leadership, performance management and building organizational excellence. Trained as an industrial engineer, he joined General Electric after college and graduated from GE's acclaimed Manufacturing Management Training Program. Dick spent a total of fifteen years with General Electric, United Air Lines and PepsiCo, the last five as Frito Lay's corporate director of training and develop-ment. There he invented the innovative "Discipline Without Punishment" performance management system, the unique approach that solves people problems with dignity and grace.
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Richard Hadden , Florida USA

Richard Hadden is a leadership and management consultant with a focus on Creating a Great Place to Work. He is co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and Your Bottom Line. He writes a nationally syndicated column entitled “People and Profits”. Richard Hadden has a Master of Business Administration in International Business from The University of North Florida, Jacksonville and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Jacksonville University.
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Pen Hadow , Devon England

Ten years ago, Pen pioneered a specialist guide service in the Arctic and Antarctic, enabling 'allegedly ordinary' people from all walks of life - men and women, young and old, novices and disabled, housewives, corporate executives and special forces - to visit these desolate, yet captivating, wilderness environments. He personally selected and prepared the expedition teams, most of whom he led himself 'on the ice'.
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Carl Hammerschlag, CPAE , Arizona USA

Experience a passionate, wise and caring healer who helps people transform their lives by showing them how to rise above their limitations, remove their roadblocks, rekindle their dreams and become the principal agents in their own professional and personal lives. Carl A. Hammerschlag is a master storyteller and internationally recognized author, physician, speaker and healer. A Yale trained psychiatrist; he has spent more than twenty years working with Native Americans. Read his complete biography.
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Oren Harari, Ph.D , California USA

One of the country’s foremost management consultants, Oren Harari challenges audiences around the world with insight, humor and knowledge. Dynamic and provocative, Oren Harari provides audiences with original perspectives on such management strategies as competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. Formerly a consultant with the Tom Peters group, Harari is currently a professor in the graduate school of business at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches strategic and global management.
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Lin Hart , Missouri USA

Lin Hart is a leader who brings years of hands on experience to his topics change, leadership, teamwork and careers. As A former executive with AT&T Network Systems, he was selected to lead the strategic planning initiative that formed AT&T Network Systems International Engineering Group, an assignment that involved global start up operations in 15 different countries.
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Jason Hartman , California USA

Jason is recognized as one of America's foremost experts on personal branding and has received numerous awards for sales excellence. Since 1987, he has repeatedly ranked in the top one percent of U.S. sales and marketing professionals. In addition to sharing his success techniques through his writings and by speaking to audiences around the world, Jason's "clients for life" marketing methods will enable you to succeed in any economic climate.
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Red Hawk , Utah USA

Red Hawk has extensive experience in the areas in managing diversity and cultural understanding. He has lectured to government officials on diversity, leadership, and team building. He has also contributed to developing training videos and training materials for Alexander Consulting and Training. Hawk is a nationally known motivational keynote speaker on the topics of cultural diversity, issues of social change and structural inequality. Hawk has experience conducting complex workplace investigations, organizational problem solving, mediating employment disputes, and designing and presenting labor and employee relations training for managers and supervisors.
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Lou Heckler , Florida USA

With more than 25 years experience in managing, motivating, and directing others, Lou Heckler brings all his vast professional experience to bear as he energetically makes his presentations on management and motivation.
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Pat Heim, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. Pat Heim is one of the leading experts on gender issues in the workplace. She also works extensively in the areas of team building and communication. Pat's humorous style and useful techniques make her a top-rated speaker. Experience as president of her own consulting company for the past ten years and as a Fortune 500 company executive helps Pat bring practical solutions to common workplace problems. Pat is the author of three books: "Learning to Lead," "Hardball For Women" (which Library Journal called a landmark publication), and "Smashing The Glass Ceiling."
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Patty Hendrickson, MBA , Wisconsin USA

Patty is an experienced association officer and leader on the local, state and national level. She has a Masters of Business Administration and is an active member of the National Speakers Association. Patty is the author of the inspirational book, now in its third printing, Who I Am Depends On Me! She engages her audiences to smile and feel the power they have to make a difference.
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John Hersey, CPBA , Arizona USA

John Hersey has trained thousands on the subject of finding purpose and passion. His workshop entitled "Finding Your WHY, The Key To Success" has inspired audiences in four countries. Through his keynote address entitled "Jumping Off The Goal Train" will you will view goals and the process of goal setting quite differently. Hersey has also been personnally trained by best selling author Laurie Beth Jones to facilitate the workshop entitled "The Path-Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and Life".
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Vicki Hess, RN, MS , Maryland USA

Vicki Hess, CSP, RN, MS is the founder and principal of Catalyst Consulting, LLC. A skilled Escape Artist, she helps people escape from Professional Prison and provides a passport to Professional Paradise. A highly-regarded speaker, author, facilitator and consultant, Vicki is an expert in employee engagement, team dynamics, and workforce and leadership development, with more than 25 years of hands-on business experience. Her clients include Booz Allen Hamilton, Four Seasons Hotels, Piper Rudnick, LLP and CareFirst Blue Cross BlueShield and many others.
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Tom Hinton , California USA

Tom Hinton is one of America’s most popular speakers in the areas of Customer Relations, Leadership, Team Building, and Achieving Business Excellence in the Workplace. Since 1986, he has addressed over 700 major corporate, association, and government audiences in the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Ireland, Spain, France, England, and Scotland.
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Brian Holloway , New York USA

Brian Holloway understands how to gain leverage and power to make the impossible happen. The Stanford All-American spent 9 years in the NFL and captained the New England Patriots Super Bowl XX team. It has been in his activities and accomplishments since leaving the playing field - increasing the bottom line profits and productivity of Fortune 500 companies - that led President Clinton to recognize him as one of America's top young leaders in 1995. Holloway has made appearances on Good Morning America, Today, ESPN, and NBC Sports, and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.
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Art Holst, CPAE , California USA

Art Holst was a National Football League Official—one of the most cursed yet anonymous men in the world. Contrary to popular belief, he is quite normal in other respects. He is president of his own company and crisscrosses the United States countless times each year speaking for sales, marketing, management and convention groups off all kinds.The twelve-month-a year businessman and platform personality has spent fifteen years as an Official for the National Football League. He was a line judge and wore #33 on the back of his striped shirt. He officiated Super Bowls 6 and 12 and four championship games. He is now in the press box as an observer, rating his fellow officials each weekend. Not bad for a guy over 70 years old—who wears glasses, as you might expect, and shows up with a limp.
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Phillip Van Hooser, CSP , Kentucky USA

As a former human resource professional in FORTUNE 500 America, Phillip Van Hooser, CSP has lived "in the trenches" where many of today's employees, managers, and business leaders find themselves struggling. With training programs built on experience, practicality and common sense, Phil addresses issues including leadership, change, team building, and service professionalism. Be challenged and guided to discover your own common sense approaches for successful leadership!
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Gary Hoover , Texas USA

Gary Hoover may know more about your company than you do. Founder of Hoover's Inc. and BOOKSTOP Superstores (the cornerstone for Barnes & Noble Superstores) this gifted visionary and entrepreneur has done it all. From Wall Street analyst to head of Strategic Planning and Acquisitions for May department stores, Hoover has worked for, started, and studied great companies for more than 30 years. Hoover's high impact message Leadership in the 21st Century encourages people to step back and look at the big picture.
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Dave Horsager , Minnesota USA

Dave Horsager is business strategist and keynote speaker. Through his book and program – The Trust Edge – he shares the secrets of using trust to impact the bottom line. Combining humor, illusions and memorable stories with research and insight, Dave sheds light on the confusion and misconceptions surrounding the cornerstone of personal and professional success. As a Certified Speaking Professional, Dave has delivered life-changing presentations on four continents, with audiences ranging from Fortune 500 executives to the armed forces and even professional sports teams. He’s built his reputation on two things – being easy to work with and delivering engaging, high-energy speeches every time.
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Rich Horwath , Illinois USA

Rich Horwath is the founder and president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, an organization dedicated to helping managers develop their strategic thinking skills to achieve competitive advantage. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and serves as a professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management with a 4.9 out of 5 rating for teaching effectiveness. Rich is the author of four books and more than 50 articles on strategic thinking.
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Christopher Howard , Hawaii USA

Christopher Howard is an internationally acclaimed expert in Neuro Linguistic Programming and the founder of Creation Technologies(TM).Ê As C.E.O. of The Christopher Howard Companies, he is a leading resource for individuals and organizations that want to accurate their performance and create breakthrough results.Ê Chris' clients include politicians, Fortune 500 companies, recognized celebrities from both television and cinema, and thousands of individuals from all walks of life who are committed to living the lives they deserve to live.
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Arianna Huffington , California USA

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books. She is also co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio’s popular political roundtable program. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
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Don Hutson, CSP, CPAE , Tennessee USA

Don Hutson’s careers in speaking, management and sales have brought him many honors. He successfully worked his way through the University of Memphis, graduating with a degree in Sales. After becoming the #1 salesperson in a national training organization, he established his own training firm and shortly thereafter was in demand as a professional speaker. Since then Don has addressed over two-thirds of the Fortune 500 Companies and is featured in over 100 training films. He is Chairman & CEO of U.S. Learning and makes some 85 speaking appearances per year. Perhaps you have seen him on national television where he is regularly featured on both PBS and the TPN.
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Gordon Jackson, JD, CSP , Tennessee USA

Gordon Jackson is a nationally renowned author and speaker on the subject of positive employee relations. He is the author of Unlawful Terminations and Employment-At-Will, the Law of Employer and Employee Rights Case Manual, Employment Law Desk Book and the recently completed, Coaches Encourage - Bosses Punish. Mr. Jackson is a member of the National Speakers Association and a Who's Who in Professional Speaking.
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Jim Jackson , Nevada USA

Fueled by his 25 years of executive leadership and sales experience, Jim Jackson inspires others to take risks and enables them to out-perform expectations with insights from his Awesome Power of the Harley Attitude event. Jim's fun and positive style combined with rich stories and thought provoking content lets him relate and inspire his audience, offering them the skills necessary to thrive in the ever-changing global economy.
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Elizabeth Jeffries, CSP, CPAE , Kentucky USA

Effective leaders are made, not born. Skills can be learned. Talent can be developed. Relationships can be deepened. Sometimes we just need someone to help us. That’s where professional development comes in. That’s where Elizabeth Jeffries comes in. Elizabeth is a seasoned professional with expertise in developing people. She’s been challenging, encouraging, and coaching executives and high potential managers for over twenty years. She knows people. She understands how to get the best from them. From the platform as a keynote speaker, to the classroom as a seminar leader, and from the conference room as a facilitator, to the executive office as a coach, she’s worked with CEOs, vice presidents, directors, and managers across the country.
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Jason Jennings , California USA

In March 2005, USA Today called Jason Jennings one of the top three business speakers in the nation alongside Jim Collins (Good to Great) and Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence). Jason Jennings started his career as a broadcast journalist and quickly became the nation's youngest radio station group owner and the founder of Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, the nation's largest media consulting company. His unique and legendary programming, sales and management strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry, and hundreds of thousands of companies around the world use his audio and video programs on sales, customer satisfaction and leadership.
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Catherine Jewell , Texas USA

Powerful motivational workshops and keynotes that inspire extraordinary performance, lift the spirit and bring joy to the work place. Jewell works with organizations like yours to achieve higher performance, stronger commitment, employee retention, goal realization and lasting results. Catherine's clients include Southwest Airlines, Dell Computers, Motorola, American Business Women's Association and many more.
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Willie Jolley , District of Columbia USA

Les Brown calls Willie Jolley "...one of the most electrifying speakers on the planet!" Jolley is a multi-talented speaker, singer, author, and media personality whom many consider to be "one of the fastest growing motivational forces in America today." He is the host of the syndicated radio and television show, The Magnificent Motivational Minute, and is the author of the national bestseller, It Only Takes a Minute to Change Your Life! Jolley is an expert on change, leadership, and teambuilding. Willie Jolley not only talks a great game, he does it. As president of the National Capital Speakers Association, he doubled membership attendance and revenues in one year. He will change your organization!
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ph. D , Massachusetts USA

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments. The former Editor of Harvard Business Review (1989-1992), Professor Kanter has been named to lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research). In 2001, she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award for her scholarly contributions to management knowledge, and in 2002 was named "Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year" by the World Teleport Association. Her current work continues her focus on the transformation of major institutions such as global corporations, health care delivery s
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Tarik Karenga , California USA

Tarik Karenga, the son of Dr. Maulana Karenga who is the creator of the African American Holiday of Kwanzaa is a sought after speaker at colleges, corporations and associations for his “dynamic” talks on success, leadership and teambuilding with a concentration in ancient wisdom and in particular the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians.
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Sarano Kelley , California USA

Do you live life by default instead of design? Have you been too busy to learn about NOT being too busy? Do you look for ways to jump-start lackluster performances in business, in personal relationships, in the ways you approach life in general? If so, take the challenge offered by nationally renowned corporate "coach" Sarano Kelley and let "The Game" begin. For 17 years, Sarano used aspects of The Game to spark flagging careers of Fortune 500 corporate executives and top performers.
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Kevin Kelly , California USA

International speaker and best selling author, Kevin Kelly unique training cocktail of storytelling, dancing and integration has already thrilled and inspired thousands worldwide. The stories are drawn from his amazing experiences around the world both inside and outside corporate structures. Challenging himself to writing a best seller though handicapped by a poor academic record in English; Begging in Melbourne, Meeting terrorism face to face in Israel, Walking away from a lucrative career to follow his bliss, Geometrically increasing the turnovers of many companies are but a selection of his stories. Entertaining, charismatic and results driven, Kevin proves he walks the path of his own philosophies. Considered "the new authority on compelling communication skills" by critics you can expect your audience to be stirred and shaken into action.
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Craig Kielburger , Toronto Canada

Craig Kielburger is an accomplished child rights advocate and leadership specialist, an award-winning author and a popular speaker. He is the founder of Free The Children, the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, and the co-founder of Leaders Today, the world’s top youth leadership training organization.
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Marc Kielburger , Toronto Canada

Marc Kielburger is an accomplished social advocate and leadership specialist, a bestselling author and a popular speaker. He is chief executive director of Free The Children, the world's largest network of children helping children through education. He is the co-founder and chief executive director of Leaders Today, the world's top youth leadership training organization.
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Peggy Klaus , California USA

As a top Fortune 500 communication and leadership coach, Klaus has taught thousands of professionals the art of presenting themselves with style and grace. Now she’s written Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It (Warner, 2003). Filled with personal and professional self-promotion dilemmas and solutions, BRAG! teaches everyone how to put their best foot forward - while keeping it out of their mouth!
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Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D , Colorado USA

Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D. is a motivational and content speaker in HUMANwarehow virtual leaders and teams create warm, fast, cohesive teamwork, with significantly less travel. "The No. 1 issue of leaders and teams that work virtually is human relationships, from afar building human trust, growing team spirit, creating rapport, and staying motivated while physically distant, " says Kostner. "To do that, leaders need more than e-mail and speakerphones. They need HUMANwarenew leadership technologies, new leadership techniques, and new ways to build human trust." Her stories will make you laugh and cry.
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John Kotter , Massachusetts USA

John P. Kotter, a world-renowned expert on leadership at the Harvard Business School, has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. His international bestseller Leading Change -- which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations -- became the change bible for managers around the world.
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Jim Kouzes, Ph.D , California USA

Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, with over 1.5 million copies sold. He's also the Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
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Robert Kriegel, PhD , California USA

Author of the national bestseller: If it ain’t broke...BREAK IT!, Dr. Kriegel has been called by U.S. News & World Report one of this country’s leading authorities in the field of change and human performance. His latest book is How to Succeed in Business Without Working so Damn Hard. His last book, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers, made Business Week’s bestseller list in it’s first month! A commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace program, Kriegel recently made two specials for PBS.
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Lynne Lancaster , California USA

Speaker, author and generation expert Lynne Lancaster is co-founder with David Stillman of BridgeWorks --- a company dedicated to helping corporations and associations bridge the generation gaps in the workplace and marketplace. Lynne's motivating, entertaining style enables her to take demographic demons out of the hands of statisticians and transform them into savvy strategies and practical applications that help individuals and organizations thrive in a multigenerational world. She is known for her business smarts, sense of humor, and ability to engage the full range of audiences.
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin , Washington USA

Rabbi Daniel Lapin is a nationally renowned speaker whose personal appearances and dynamic presentations have entertained, enlightened and inspired countless audiences throughout the country. He is also a syndicated radio talk show host who is heard in 30 cities by over 50,000 listeners each week. Rabbi Daniel Lapin is uniquely gifted in his ability to help business audiences understand the basic principles of human nature. In a straightforward and entertaining fashion, he reveals the timeless tenets and psychological secrets of human motivation and leadership, and provides the tools needed to extract premium performance not only from others, but also from ourselves.
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Dr. Janet Lapp, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. Janet Lapp (CSP, CPAE) is an internationally known speaker and consultant who is creator and host of the award-winning CBS series Keep Well, editor of the Change Letter and author of three books: Dancing with Tigers, Plant your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air, and Positive Spin™. Her dynamic programs guide people through change in a positive and productive way. Experience the magic of Dr. Janet Lapp as she takes you with her to a world of optimism and possibilities. Born and raised in Canada, her nursing degree is from Toronto Canada and her PhD is from McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Lapp has been inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame, an honor held by fewer than 150 professional speakers worldwide.
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Jim Lawless , United Kingdom United Kingdom

Jim Lawless is one of the most inspiring and highly sought after speakers and coaches in Europe. He has been coaching senior level executives and teams of 5 to 6,000 facilitating their achievement of excellent results since 1999.
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Dave Lefkowith , California USA

Dave "Lefty" Lefkowith is a dynamic hands-on change agent, successful as an executive, a corporate consultant, an entrepreneur and a speaker/trainer. Dave provides leaders and organizations with the practical insights they need to be successful in the 21st Century.
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Patrick Lencioni , California USA

Credible. Entertaining. Relevant. Compelling. Authentic. These are words that audience members and clients commonly use to describe Pat’s presentations. The combination of his humorous and engaging style, along with the soundness of his theories, has made Pat a highly sought-after speaker. Pat conveys his models on leadership and organizational health through customized keynote presentations. He has been the featured keynote at a wide variety of international conferences, conventions and management retreats, reaching thousands of leaders every year. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, major trade associations, professional organizations, non-profits and universities.
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Doug Lipp , California USA

Doug Lipp, an internationally acclaimed expert on customer service, leadership and diversity, motivates and challenges audiences around the world as a consultant and speaker. Doug has spent over 25 years working from the front lines to the boardrooms of corporations around the world.
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Laura Liswood, M.B.A., J.D , Massachusetts USA

Laura Liswood co-founded the Council of Women World Leaders with President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland and located it at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Liswood is the Secretary General of the Council, which is composed of women presidents, prime ministers, and heads of government.
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Glenn Llopis , California USA

Companies, large and small, must innovate in today's "Digital Age" through this convergence of business and technology to maintain and sustain a competitive advantage in today's global market. Glenn provides powerful examples of his proven “digital business methodology” that took more than 18 years to design, implement and refine. From customer relationship management to integrated customer experience, from social networking communities that can create powerful customer alignment strategies to the birth of the IT department as a profit center, digital business platforms are creating a singular way of thinking that is too powerful to be ignored!
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Jim Loehr , Florida USA

In the face of unprecedented demands, everyone from the CEO to sales must train the same deliberate way that world class athletes do--becoming Corporate Athletes . Dr. Jim Loehr is recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of performance psychology. To maximize performance, Loehr focuses on people as a whole, helping them build capacity at all levels--physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. He establishes the positive rituals necessary to eliminate performance barriers and facilitate lasting change.
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James Maas, Ph.D , New York USA

Nearly every American is sleep deprived, although most of us do not realize the profound consequences for thinking, performance and lifespan. Using dramatic media, Dr. James Maas demonstrates how the different stages of nocturnal sleep determine daytime functioning, what happens to performance when you don’t get enough sleep, how to determine your individual sleep requirement, and proven strategies for obtaining a great night's sleep. The information provided in "Power Sleep: Preparing your Mind for Peak Performance," will increase your daytime alertness, psychological mood, productivity, creativity and quality of life. Dr. Maas is the nation’s leading sleep educator, and recipient of the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is Professor, Weiss Presidential Fellow, and past Chairman of Psychology, at Cornell University. Dr. Maas makes frequent appearances on such programs as ABC's 20/20, NBC's Nightly News, and Oprah!
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Harvey Mackay , Minnesota USA

 Pepsi Cola Company
"Phenomenal! Superb! Harvey Mackay stunned the audience with his keen understanding of the feel and pulse of our business. Mackay effortlessly proved he knew our industry inside and out, and then just shot their lights out! Truly a one-of-a-kind speaker"

Sun Microsystems
"Right on target; a bull's eye-the most successful sales meeting we've ever held."

IBM
"Outstanding," "terrific" and "encore" were just a few of the comments made-you crafted a personal message to our clients and it came across loud and clear."

The Learning Annex
"I've produced more than 10,000 seminars. You're the best in the business-the Joe DiMaggio of
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Jeff Magee , California USA

Dr. Jeffrey Magee knows performance! He started Jeff Magee International after 20 years of hands-on experience in business, and has earned almost every professional designation available in the business world today. By age 25, he was the #1 salesman in the nation for a Fortune 500 firm and the youngest certified sales instructor in the world for Dale Carnegie. Jeff Magee has taken his frontline experience to the marketplace where he presents over 100 programs each year, all over the world. He currently designs and presents leadership and sales courses taught at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Clear Channel Entertainment, GMAC, Western CPE, El Paso Energy, the senior officer corps of the US Army National Guard and the US Junior Chamber of Commerce.
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Archie Manning , Lousiana USA

As an NFL All-Pro, Archie won numerous humanitarian awards and was named one of 10 outstanding Young Americans by the U.S. Jaycees. As a human being, Archie's accomplishments are incalculable. Archie's diverse and accomplished background sets the playing field for being an inspirational professional speaker. His background has given him the tools for effective communication to the most sophisticated of audiences to the very informal gathering. Archie exudes his knowledge with warmth, humor and candor into his speeches to major corporations, associations and various organizations. Archie enhances any meeting, luncheon, or charity event with his wisdom and insight and he creates high impact in any sales, management or corporate event.
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Marilyn Manning, Ph.D , california USA

Over the last 20 years, Dr. Marilyn Manning has brought expedient solutions to complex people and team problems. She successfully integrates her personal philosophy with the challenges and needs of the business community.

Dr. Manning's interactive speaking and consulting style is uniquely educational and motivational. She has delivered over 1000 speeches to more than 400 clients. Her topics of expertise include Leadership, Communications, Team Dynamics, Organizational and Personal Change, and Conflict and Stress Management She has successfully taken her practical experience, and research of organizational psychology into written form having authored seven business books, which have been published in eight languages, and over 100 articles.
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Henry Marsh , Utah USA

In 1988, Henry Marsh became the second American male runner to make four Olympic teams. He culminated his career with 13 straight years as one of the top ten 3,000 meter steeplechase runners in the world including three years as number one in the world (the only American ever). Henry has become a renown motivational speaker on the following topics: The dynamics of behavioral change, leadership, team building, sales, managing change, and personal productivity. Henry's client's have included such companies as IBM, AT&T, Intel, Rubbermaid, General Motors, Nations Bank, Nike, the NCAA, Rockwell International, Principle Financial Group, Arby's, MCI, and the U.S. Air Force.
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Peter Matthies , California USA

Peter Matthies, expert for innovative leadership principles, provides the critical elements for organizational and personal success in the future. His unique combination of business expertise with a deep insight into human behavior provides him with the ability to address the most pressing questions about personal and team performance; questions, which are often pushed aside or remain unaddressed. “Since starting my career I have repeatedly noticed that 90% of our workforce has already checked out.” In a timeframe of 12 years, Peter developed new approaches for leading businesses in a more inspiring, effective and sustainable way. Audiences leave the room buzzing with the realization that there’s a better way to build their business.
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Rick Maurer , Virginia USA

Rick Maurer’s mission is to provide clients with the tools to successfully implement changes within their organizations. He offers his expertise to help identify hidden resistance, overcome it rapidly, and. thereby implement even the most difficult strategic and tactical changes. Rick Maurer facilitates the attainment of results without headaches, cost overruns, or hidden problems. Rick Maurer’s approach to leading change is unique: "Knowing how to work with resistance is key to turning skepticism and opposition into support. If leaders understand resistance, it can often be avoided before it occurs, and this understanding enables leaders to redirected processes when a change is about to derail." Rick Maurer specializes in explaining how people can initially avoid resistance to change, how they can avoid inadvertently making matters worse by increasing resistance to change, and how to apply the building blocks of successful change strategies.
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Sarita Maybin , California United States

Sarita Maybin is an award-winning professional speaker whose audiences have fun while learning how to stay positive and deal with tough communication situations. Sarita has trained thousands of people thru interactive keynote speeches and seminars. She has spoken in 47 of the 50 states, in nine Canadian provinces, in England, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Iceland. Some of her clients include NASA, Hewlett Packard, National Weather Service, PGA and the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE , California USA

Her ability to connect with mind, heart and spirit, makes her one of the most sought-after presenters in North America. She is fun, funny, relevant and provocative, drawing upon practical business know-how, life's experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations. Her stimulating, interactive presentations promote self-discovery and creative solutions to everyday situations - in the workplace and at home. Eileen has wowed audiences from Canada to Malaysia; from Wall Street to Main Street. Whether working with drill foremen from the Arctic, corporate executives in the trenches, or spinal cord injury nurses, Eileen brings much to talk about, learn and laugh about.
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Scott McKain, CSP, CPAE , California USA

As the Vice Chairman of Obsidian Enterprises (NASDAQ:OTC:OBSD) -- recently named as one of the nation's "fastest growing public companies" and owner of several diverse manufacturing and service businesses -- the insight Scott McKain brings to the platform is powerful and the strategies he presents are profound. Scott McKain's calling is business leadership...and he demonstrates this every day in the diverse companies he helps direct. However, his passion is the platform -- in communicating his insights to your organization. His audiences understand that this combination of powerful, practical experience linked with his platform excellence make Scott McKain unique among today's business speakers.
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David McNally , Minnesota USA

David McNally has enjoyed an international business career which has included assignments in South Africa, Europe and the South Pacific. He is now the president of a consulting and training corporation whose mission is to provide people with the inspiration, knowledge and skills to perform at their best. David is the author of the best-selling book, EVEN EAGLES NEED A PUSH - Learning to Soar in a Changing World. 'Even Eagles' has been translated into five different languages and made into a film that has been released in over twenty countries. Both book and film are regarded as motivational classics.
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A. Roger Merrill , Utah USA

Roger Merrill is a vice-president and co-founder of Covey Leadership Center, now Franklin covey company.Ê He writes, consults, and teaches about leadership and leadership development.Ê Working with many of the worlds most respected organizations, he offers practical insights to enhance personal and organizational leadership. Co-author of the international best seller, First Things First, with Stephen R. Covey and Rebecca R. Merrill; Roger is also the author of Connections Quadrant II Time Management, and was a contributing author to Principle Centered Leadership.Ê He has been featured in many radio and television appearances such as the Today Show and World News Tonight.Ê Newspaper and magazines throughout the world, including USA Weekend, Performance and Fortune, have featured articles in which Roger shares his insights.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Dean Meyer , Connecticut USA

Whether facilitating a group of senior managers in participative organizational redesign, writing a magazine article challenging popular thinking, or addressing top executives on the science of leadership, Dean Meyer presents, in his own inimitable, high-bandwidth style, practical solutions to tough and elusive leadership problems.
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Robert Miles , Florida USA

Robert P. Miles is an internationally renowned author, speaker, and Warren Buffett expert. Pursued by journalists and media moguls on just about each and every move that Mr. Buffett makes, Robert is not only a long-term shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway {nyse:BYKA / BRKB], he also has had the great honor of getting to know Warren Buffett, the man and the remarkable wealth-building strategist. He is the author of 3 books, has created assorted audio and video programs, and has appeared on many radio and television programs on four continents, including CNN, Channel News Asia, Sky Business News, Shanghai Today, and Bloomberg TV.
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Barbara Mintzer , California USA

An internationally-recognized, award-winning trainer with over 25 years in the businessworld, Barbara speaks from experience. A dynamic stage presence, Barbara tells it like it is! She combines hard facts with a rich blend of humor and stories to create a powerful message. More than 80,000 business and health care professionals across the United States, Canada, England, Australia and Brazil have heard her unique message.
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W Mitchell, CSP, CPAE , Colorado USA

Challenge. We all face challenges of varying degrees every day, whether it's professional or personal, large or small, immediate or over time. And change--some invited, some unasked for--is our biggest challenge. The title of W Mitchell's newest book is also his philosophy on life -- "It's not what happens to you...it's what you do about it." This expert on taking responsibility for change shows his audiences not only how to gain perspective, but how to cope, and even better, to prosper with personal and professional change.
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Mike Mullane, MS , New Mexico USA

Astronaut Mike Mullane is a 1967 graduate of West Point and holds a Master's of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Commissioned in the Air Force, he completed 150 combat missions in Vietnam. In 1978, Colonel Mullane was selected as a Mission Specialist in the first group of Shuttle Astronauts, flew three space missions, and logged 356 hours in space before retiring in 1990. Mike has been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and is the recipient of many awards, including the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross and the Legion of Merit. Since his retirement from NASA, Mike has established himself as an acclaimed professional speaker. He has also written several books, including a novel, an award-winning children's book, and a space fact book. He has also served as a host for Inside Space, a USA Network television program.
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Cary Mullen , Alberta Canada

If your ideal vision is to book a compelling Keynote Speaker for your next company event, and to do it easily and professionally, then you’re in luck. Cary shares his "Process for Success" that transcends the world of sports to help you and your organization reach even higher levels of excellence. Imagine the thrill and the fear of standing at the top of the world's most feared mountain, knowing that you will risk your life in your "Quest for Success." Take a ride with Cary Mullen and you will feel the adrenalin and the excitement of skiing at 151 km per hour (97 mph) and the thrill of Olympic glory and World Cup Victory.
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Story Musgrave , Florida USA

Story Musgrave was born in 1935 on a dairy farm in Stockbridge, MA. He was in the forests alone at 3 and by 5 floated his homebuilt rafts on the rivers. He rode combines at 5, drove trucks and tractors at 10 and when alone in remote fields, repaired them by 13. Story never finished school, ran off to Korea with the U.S. Marines where he was an aircraft electrician and an engine mechanic. He started flying with the Marines and over the next 55 years accumulated 18,000 hours in over 160 aircraft. He is a parachutist with over 800 freefalls. He has 7 graduate degrees in math, computers, chemistry, medicine, physiology, literature and psychology. He has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates. He was a part-time trauma surgeon during his 30 year astronaut career.
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Blake Mycoskie , California USA

With just a small daily journal in his pocket and a humble entrepreneurial past, Blake Mycoskie traveled to Argentina not knowing that in less then a year he would be at the helm of a company that would take the country by storm. He has been recently featured in Time Magazine, Vogue, and the LA Times for his innovative approach to business and service.
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Betsy Myers , Massachusetts USA

Betsy Myers most recently served as a senior adviser to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign. She joined the campaign in January 2007 as the Chief Operating Officer tasked with the challenge of building a $100,000,000 organization and established the campaign with a business operational model and customer service mentality.
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Mariah Burton Nelson , Virginia USA

Mariah primarily speaks about leadership, success and goal setting. As a former Stanford and professional athlete, she uses sports lessons from her own life, as well as cutting edge business research to give audiences the motivation and tools they need to lead, to succeed and to achieve. Her customized speeches are humorous, interactive and motivational. In the context of an entertaining presentation, Mariah offers step-by-step strategies for achieving personal and professional goals.
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Doug Nielsen , Utah USA

Doug Nielsen has been instrumental in assisting thousands of individuals overcome self-imposed limitations and accelerate personal achievement. Doug infuses his audiences with energy and enthusiasm. In working with him, participants learn how to gain control of their lives and develop the motivation to consistently succeed personally and professionally.
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Maureen O'Toole , California USA

Maureen O'Toole is widely regarded worldwide as the greatest female water polo player of all time. Maureen began her water polo career 23 years ago at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California playing on a boys water polo team because there was not a girls team. At age 17 she joined the U.S. Women's National Team. From 1978 to 1994 she was a constant figure on the National Team; only exception was 1991 when she gave birth to the joy of her life, her daughter Kelly.
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Alan Parisse , Colorado USA

Alan Parisse is an authority on how organizations and individuals can harness the energy of change to fuel new opportunities and actions. His insights come from more than 25 years of front-line experience in one of the fastest changing industries of them all - investments. He served as a senior executive for Oppenheimer and other nationally-known investment firms. In these roles, Mr. Parisse was instrumental in developing, executing, and marketing major investment banking strategies. He has also lectured at some of the nation's most prestigious business schools, including Stanford and Wharton. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Barrons.
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Nando Parrado , Montevideo Uruguay

Nando Parrado, the Survivor of the Andes. His, is a story that many will recognize, but few have an opportunity to hear first hand. Nando Parrado recounts the extraordinary tale of how he and 15 of his teammates survived for 72 brutal days after their plane crashed into the frozen Andes Mountains over 30 years ago. It remains one of the paramount survival stories of all time.
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Joan Pastor, Ph.D , California USA

Joan Pastor, Ph.D. has over 14 years of experience facilitating groups to determine, define and improve their work procedures and departmental processes, including projects and conferences associated with and involving the highest level of senior officials in our government, our military and other governments. She has worked in partnership with her associates to implement process and quality improvement in organizations around the world. She has facilitated senior management teams in strategic planning, organizational change and implemented self-managed teams throughout organizations.
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J.P. Pawliw-Fry, Ph.D , Ontario Canada

Dr. Pawliw-Fry is an author, columnist, and performance coach. He is one of the world's most highly requested speakers on the subject of Emotional Intelligence (EQ). He teaches his audiences the principles of emotional intelligence and high performance, using cutting-edge research and personal stories from the world of sports and business. He inspires them to take their careers, businesses, and personal lives to the next level. A graduate of Queen's University, Dr. Pawliw-Fry also trained at Harvard Medical School's Mind Body Medical Institute and the Stress Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
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Randy Pennington , Texas USA

Randy Pennington is a recognized expert in leadership, change management, and values-based performance. He is co-author of On My Honor, I Will: Leading With Integrity in Changing Times, and his ideas have appeared on CNN, Fox News, and in numerous publications including The New York Times, Entrepreneur, and Executive Excellence. His dynamic, interactive presentations are noted for providing practical solutions to the challenges of maintaining trust; building organizational commitment; managing change; and positioning your organization for success.
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Ian Percy, CSP , Arizona USA

"Ian Percy is one of the best of a small group of brave visionaries who are courageously nudging business leaders in a new direction." With limitless humor Ian provokes, encourages and energizes organizations to a place filled with unifying purpose and passion. It is the 'depth' with which Ian will treat your topic and theme that makes such a difference. Mr. Percy was recently named one of the top 21 Speakers of the 21st Century by "Successful Meetings" magazine and is the author of "Going Deep," which explores the role of spirituality in all aspects of life and leadership and has been on the business best seller list.
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Dr. J. Mitchell Perry, Ed.d , California USA

Dr. J. Mitchell Perry is an internationally sought after expert on people. Since 1976 he has been a psychotherapist, organizational psychologist and entrepreneur. As a professional speaker he has made well over 1,000 presentations to many Fortune 500 companies and professional organizations in more than 15 countries worldwide. He is an ongoing lecturer at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where in March 2000 he was voted once again the #1 speaker out of more than 120 speakers for the Securities Industry Institute. Since 1990, he has been an ongoing top rated keynoter at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. His two books, The Road to Optimism and In the Zone, are top sellers and he has produced many audiotapes and CDs. He has created a variety innovative training courses to take humankind to a new level of achievement. They offer exceptional tools to unleash human potential as the most powerful resource available.
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Jeffrey Pfeffer , California USA

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or co-author of eleven books. Dr. Pfeffer is a member and Fellow of the Academy of Management and a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association. He has won the Richard D. Irwin award for Scholarly Contributions to Management as well as several awards for books and articles.
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Dr. Jo Ann Pina, Ph.D , Arizona USA

Dr. Jo Ann Piña is one of the most acclaimed experts in cross-cultural communication in the country. She is the only Latina PhD in the National Speakers Association and one of the few women of Hispanic heritage to earn advanced degrees in psychology and counseling. Dr. Jo is the originator of the only values-based model for understanding cross-cultural communication and the creator of the CrossTalk Series. Getting your message, ideas and meaning across to others takes proficiency in cross-cultural communication, especially in today's multicultural society and global economy. Bring in a powerful, dynamic presenter who will touch your people and give them a distinct marketplace advantage. Dr. Jo's expertise in cross-cultural communication, her own personal experiences plus her research will inspire your coworkers and challenge their beliefs
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Joseph Pine , Ohio USA

Once upon a time in a career far away, Joe Pine worked for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. For the launch of the AS/400 computer system he created a group that brought customers and business partners into the actual development process. Because of this innovative activity, customer needs were met more exactly and quality was significantly enhanced – factors that contributed greatly to IBM winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990.
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Rick Pitino , Kentucky USA

Rick Pitino is one of the most brilliant minds in basketball coaching. Mr. Pitino is known for getting his players to believe in themselves, instilling the desire to succeed and driving his players to overachieve. Pitino is an accomplished author, producing such books as the best seller "Success Is A Choice" and "Lead to Succeed." Aside from his hoops prowess, Pitino has achieved success off the court as well in such realms as broadcasting, publishing, motivational speaking and horse racing.
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Connie Podesta, CSP , Texas USA

Connie tackes serious issues with humor and pizzazz, including: Quality, Teamwork, Diversity, Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Customer Service, Improvement and Dealing With Difficult People. Connie Podesta radiates a supercharged, high-energy presence that immediately involves people and has them responding to her exciting challenge to reach for the best in themselves! With her talent for humor, flair for drama and unique insight into human behavior, Connie delivers solid content and practical techniques that can be put to use at work and home.
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Jake Poore , Florida USA

Jake's excellent training, facilitation, and customer service skills were developed in part over his 18-year career with The Walt Disney Company and with the Franklin-Covey organization. He began his Disney career in 1982 as a research specialist during a time when Disney was expanding into worldwide markets and needed demographics for its many mergers and acquisitions. Jake then spent several years with the Disney University, the internal training arm of Disney, both in Orlando and their Disneyland Paris counterpart pursuing his passion for training and development. In that role he was responsible for teaching corporate philosophy and business practices to the 65,000 Disney Cast Members and helped develop the Service Excellence program for Disney's leadership teams.
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Jerry Porras , California USA

An esteemed academic who is widely published in both academic and management journals, Dr. Jerry I. Porras helps you focus on organizational vision and change. Working with Jim Collins, he recently completed an exhaustive research project to discover the approaches and behaviors of the most visionary companies of the past century. In the process, they concluded what led those organizations to greatness.
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Dr. Joachim de Posada, Ph.D , Florida USA

Dr. Joachim de Posada is a uniquely engaging motivational speaker, author, trainer and consultant. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, where he teaches courses in both English and Spanish. He has given speeches, workshops and seminars in both languages for Global 2000 corporations, business associations, sports teams and other groups in over 30 countries worldwide, and was recognized as one of the Top 10 Hispanic Motivational Speakers in 2002. Fluent in Spanish as well as English, Joachim de Posada is considered by many the premier Hispanic speaker of the Americas. His profound tales of wisdom are delivered with an enthralling story-telling ability that will captivate any audience.
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Howard Putnam , Nevada USA

As the chief executive officer of Southwest Airlines, Howard Putnam transformed a start-up carrier into one of the most profitable companies in the airline industry. Recruited to save the faltering Braniff Airlines, he became the first CEO to successfully restructure a major airline out of bankruptcy. His accomplishment became the focus of a Harvard Business School case study. For more than 30 years, Putnam played a leading role in one of the most exciting and rapidly changing industries. He earned a well-deserved reputation for his capacity to think systematically, create a vision, build a team, define a niche, and design successful strategies for managing crises. An impressive and entertaining speaker, Putnam shares his prescriptions for successful management in the Millennium.
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Joseph Ralston , District of Columbia USA

A distinguished 37-year Air Force veteran, General Joseph Ralston had a pivotal role in revolutionizing the United States Air Force for the 21st century, creating an enormous leap forward by introducing America’s fighting forces to the very latest technology. Now vice chairman of The Cohen Group, he is an expert speaker with a great depth of knowledge on American and international politics, global trouble spots and Middle Eastern affairs. As Supreme Allied NATO Commander, General Ralston contributed to preserving the peace, security and territorial integrity of the NATO member nations while commanding approximately 65,000 troops from 39 nations.
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Tom Rath , District of Columbia USA

Gallup Global Practice Leader Tom Rath has written three bestselling business books in the last decade. His first book, How Full Is Your Bucket?, was a #1 New York Times and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller. Rath's 2007 book, StrengthsFinder 2.0, is a long-running #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller and was listed by USA Today as the top-selling business book of 2008. Rath's latest book, Strengths Based Leadership, encompasses decades of research on the topic of leadership. Gallup scientists studied more than 1 million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask why they followed the most important leader in their life. Published in January 2009, the book immediately became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. In total, Rath's books have made more than 100 appearances on the Wall Street Journal
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James Ray , California USA

James is the President and CEO of James Ray International, a multi-million dollar corporation dedicated to teaching individuals to create wealth in all areas of their lives: financially, relationally, intellectually, physically and spiritually. James Ray International was recently featured in the San Diego Business Journal as one of the most-successful and fastest-growing local businesses.
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Michelle Ray, CSP , Vancouver Canada

Michelle Ray CSP is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, author and seminar leader who demonstrates a deep understanding of negativity and its consequences in the workplace. She uses an interactive approach to inspire and captivate the imagination of her audiences. Walkabout Seminars International, Michelle’s training, speaking and consulting company, was established in 1995. With registered offices in Vancouver, Canada and Sydney, Australia, Michelle offers her services in areas she describes as high demand essentials for professional growth.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

R. Glenn Ray, Ph.D , Ohio USA

Glenn Ray's seven years experience as the director of the Institute of Education and Training for Business includes presenting over 300 workshops on organization development topics, such as team development, facilitator training, interpersonal communication, leadership, managing conflict, implementing change, and communicating expectations in work teams. His training focuses on building relationships with his participants in order to enhance behavioral change. He also consults with companies regarding organization development processes and employee performance issues. His keynote presentations include topics such as facilitative leadership, leadership for the 21st century, managing change, teambuilding, employee motivation, and communicating effectively.
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Chuck Reaves, CSP, CPAE , Georgia USA

Chuck is a former top salesperson from AT&T. Out of 1100 salespeople, Chuch was their highest producer. He was promoted to sales manager and then left the world's largest corporation to form one of the smallest, Twenty-One Associates. His first book, "The Theory of 21," has been translated into Japanese. His newest book, "Never Take Money From a Stranger," teaches how to ask for whatever you want and get it.
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Marcia Reynolds, MA, MEd , Arizona USA

Marcia's training experience spans seventeen years working for multinational high tech and health care corporations. She now operates her own firm delivering training in Europe and Asia as well as across the US. Her greatest success story is transforming a company culture from near-bankruptcy to stock market success in less than three years. Clients include MicroAge, Micro-Rel, Chase Manhattan, Phoenix Insurance, and the Mayo Clinic.
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Mary Robinson Reynolds, M.S , New Hampshire U.S.A.

Recognized as having been one of the highest ranked trainers for National Seminar Group, Mary is a leading expert in Communication and Change. Before branching out as an entrepreneur, Mary developed continuing education programs for Portland Sate University in Oregon and served as a counselor and educator in the public school system. Mary knows how to get results that are exceptional and progressive.
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Naomi Rhode, CSP, CPAE , Arizona USA

For the multitudes who have heard her speak, Naomi's warm exuberance, vivacious presence and ability to stimulate her audiences to achieve new levels of professional and personal growth have made her "A Remembered Experience". Highy in demand, Naomi speaks extensively as a keynoter at association meetings, conventions and seminars, delivering her much-sought-after insights and techniques on leadership, personal and corporate empowerment, successful team development, motivation and interpersonal communication skills, and change and growth to thousands of people annually.
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Tim Richardson, CSP, MS , Tennessee USA

Tim Richardson, MS, CSP, works with sales professionals to help them increase sales, grow their business, and have a balanced meaningful life. His "Success by Choice, Not by Chance" program shows top performers how to's for obtaining higher levels of success and significance. He's a perfect fit for insurance agents, real estate sales people, direct selling organizations, and anyone beaten down by the demands of a selling professional. Derald Roth, an executive with the largest Insurance Company in North American recently wrote, "Tim delivered his customized program with such great humor it made me think he was a former standup comedian!". Gerri Lemen, GTE Federal Credit Union Branch Manager wrote: "I have heard many other motivational speakers, including Ken Blanchard, Tony Tobbins, Zig Ziglar, and have read the works of Covey, Carlson, and Mandino, and I think Tim is one of the best!"
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Pat Richie , California USA

Pat Richie is president and founder of a sports leadership firm that offers teamwork and leadership consulting and specializes in professional and university sports teams as well as corporate clients. He was the Executive Director of Bold Assurance (a national training organization) 2000-2001.
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Lorna Riley, CSP , California USA

Many say Lorna Riley is the most dynamic speaker they've heard, receiving consistenly top ratings. A business owner, award-winning sales executive, published author of four books, she is a frequent repeat presenter--as many as 150 return requests. Her success philosophy increased sales and productivity by 600%. Lorna has written over 50 skill development programs, increasing her value for multiple presentations. Her unique umbrella program, "Quest for Your Best," with its companion book, inspires a unified passion for excellence. Three "Quest for Your Best" tracks: management/leadership, customer service/teams, and sales productivity give continuity to organizational goals. Over 20 programs available in sales, from small to major account. Over 16 programs related to time management--change, stress management, goals, managing multiple priorities. Over twelve programs in thinking skills--memory management, creativity, problem solving, psychology of motivation, attitude adjustment
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Charlotte Roberts , North Carolina USA

Charlotte Roberts is co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, along with her colleagues Peter Senge, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, and Art Kleiner. It is a practical guidebook with strategies, techniques, and frameworks for managers who want to build high-performance learning teams and organizations. As a leading management consultant, Roberts has advised a diverse array of companies, including those in computer software, health care, manufacturing, and services industries. As a speaker, she is known for her exceptional style of delivery and high-content presentations.
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Ted Robinson , California USA

Ted Robinson is currently in his fourth season as the television and radio play-by-play voice of the New York Mets. Prior to joining the Mets, he was the radio and television voice of the San Francisco Giants for nine years and, previous to that, the voice of the Minnesota Twins and Oakland A’s. Ted has also broadcast numerous other sporting events, including the last four Olympics for NBC, Wimbledon and U. S. Open Tennis as well as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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T.C. Roekle , Wisconsin USA

T. C. Roekle is the Vice President of Professional Development for the Education Division of Burrus Research Associates, Inc. As an award winning classroom teacher, secondary and elementary principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, and graduate school instructor, she has spearheaded many major efforts in the areas of educational leadership, school improvement, standards implementation, technology integration, and school reform. T.C. is a highly respected educator who has solid leadership experience with a focus on innovative strategies to raise student and staff performance at the building and district level.
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Theodore Roosevelt , Pennsylvania USA

Professionally portrays President Theodore Roosevelt as national motivational, inspirational speaker, promoter. T.R. works with groups who want to add ENERGY to their meeting /promotion and with leaders who want to CREATE A "CAN DO" attitude with thier people. A timely idea brought to life...instilling HOPE, OPTIMISM and UNIFIED PURPOSE. INSTILLS NEEDED ENERGY. REKINDLES needed turn-of-the-century values. INSPIRES COURAGE to ACCEPT todays challenges.
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Judy B. Rosener, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. Rosener has taught courses in business and government, cultural diversity, privatization, and the social and political implications of Information Technology (IT). However, her research focuses on workplace gender issues. She is considered an expert in this field and is a sought-after speaker at corporations, professional organizations and educational institutions. She has received numerous professional and educational awards, most notably being named Alumna of the Year for Professional Achievements by both UCLA and Alumna of the Year by the Claremont Graduate University.
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Bob Rosner , Washington USA

Following the success of "The Wall Street Journal" and Amazon business best seller "The Boss's Survival Guide," Bob decided it was time for something completely different. "Gray Matters: A Business Survival Guide" is the first illustrated business book that combines comics and real business content (... think "Dilbert with a solution.") "Working Wounded: Advice that Adds Insight to Injury," Bob's weekly advice column, is internationally syndicated and appears in the LA Times, ABCnews.com, Globe & Mail.com, Chicago Sun-Times, etc. As a recognized observer of workplace trends, he's been featured in People Magazine, Glamour, Business 2.0, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR, CNN, Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, Talk of the Nation, etc. Bob is also a former adjunct professor to MBA students.
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Peter Rost , New Jersey USA

Peter Rost, M.D., former Vice President for the drug company powerhouse Pfizer first became well known in 2004 when he started to speak out in favor of reimportation of drugs. His fight for lower priced drugs was covered by more than one hundred radio and television broadcasts, among them “60 Minutes” in 2005, and five hundred newspaper articles, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, during 2004 and 2005.
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Robert Rotella, Dr , Virginia USA

Internationally-recognized sports psychologist, Dr. Rotella, creates an attitude and mindset necessary for achievers in all areas of life, business, and sports. He is a mental coach for some of professional tennis and golf's greatest players, as well as successful singers, entertainers, and leading business executives. His team sport experience is extensive and includes the New Jersey Nets, the Texas Rangers, a leading NASCAR team, and the U.S. Olympic Ski and Equestrian Teams. Rotella is author of several best-selling books including Golf is Not a Game of Perfect and his latest book, Success is an Attitude. He is creator of the cassette series, "Playing to Win" and stages and produces corporate outings and workshops with fortune 500 and leading financial/investment companies around the world. He regularly appears on the Golf Channel, and NBC's High Performance Golf, and has been a guest on Larry King Live and numerous radio programs.
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Dr. Jeff Salz, Ph.D , California USA

Jeff Salz creates the foundation for adventurous thinking in any organization by presenting a unique perspective on taking risks. It’s not the adventure that only occurs at rarefied air that he talks about – it’s the adventure that occurs everywhere, everyday. Jeff shows audiences that our life must consist of adventure for a truly meaningful workplace.
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Mark Samuel , California USA

Considered a practical visionary by Fortune 500 companies, Mark Samuel has developed accountability-based performance improvement systems that have contributed to benchmark results and sustainability. Inspirational, thought-provoking and humorous are the words that best describe Mark Samuel's keynote speeches. People not only leave inspired with new ideas about accountability and leadership, they leave energized with practical strategies and tools to take action
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Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE , Colorado USA

Mark Sanborn is known internationally as the high content speaker who motivates. He is the author of "Teambuilt Making Teamwork Work", "Sanborn on Success", "Only the Best on Success", sixteen videos and four audio training programs. His video, "Teambuilding How to Manage and Motivate People" was the #2 best-selling business video in America. Mark is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted authority on leadership, team building, customer service and change.
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Don Sanders, Ph.D , Texas USA

Speaker, consultant and author on Leadership and Quality Management since 1984, Dr. Sanders was featured in Peters and Waterman's, In Search of Quality. He is the author of the American Management Association's best-selling book on Quality Management. His latest book, Go for the Green, is in bookstores now.
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Tim Sanders , California USA

Tim Sanders has become one of the most sought-after speakers in America today, because of his poignant message and his eloquent delivery. He delivers high-energy speeches and compelling seminars to high-level executive conferences, professional associations, and graduate schools. Tim has deep experience in cutting-edge businesses and marketing. He’s weathered the quality movement as well as the dotcom crash and emerged with precious insight. He was the Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo! and later its Leadership Coach. Prior to his senior positions at Yahoo!, Tim created and led the Yahoo! ValueLab, an in-house “think tank” which delivered futuristic insight on technology and human behavior.
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John Scherer , Washington USA

John Scherer is an internationally known consultant, leadership development coach, and inspirational speaker. His lively style and wealth of experience leave people with a sense of clarity, substance, and motivation to bring the best of who they are to everything they do.
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Pat Schroeder , Washington D.C. USA

Former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), national trade organization of the U.S. book publishing industry. Mrs. Schroeder left Congress undefeated in 1996 after serving in the House of Representatives for 24 years.
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Shawna Schuh , Oregon USA

Shawna Schuh guarantees energy! As well as a great environment for education, a pail full of perception-altering points and action plans that can improve profits and lives. With over twenty years experience in communication, human relations and all forms of etiquette for business and social situations, you won't find a more compelling and comedic character than Shawna Schuh. Shawna has been a national and international entertainer, actor, business owner, and educator. Audiences are always alert and attentive as they participate perched on the edge of their chairs listening and laughing at real life stories that everyone can relate to, learn from and use immediately.
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Dr. Joe Schwab, PhD , California USA

Joe Schwab has specialized in facilitating, connecting and involving groups of people for over 15 years. A rare combination of business experience, education (Doctorate in Organizational Psychology), humor and entertainment - Joe delivers RESULTS!
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Tony Schwartz , New York USA

Tony Schwartz helps individuals and organizations accomplish more, in less time, with a higher level of engagement and better quality of life. He has spent 30 years studying, writing about, teaching and coaching people in how to grow, change and perform at their best. One of the highest-rated speakers in corporate America, Tony Schwartz helps leaders fuel higher engagement by mobilizing, focusing, investing, and regularly renewing their team’s energy and helps organizations to design policies and practices that support optimal energy management.
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Rick Searfoss , California USA

As one of less than a hundred people ever who have actually ever commanded a human space mission, Colonel Rick Searfoss speaks on leadership, teamwork, and personal performance with authority born of in-depth personal experience. He has piloted two Space Shuttle missions and commanded a third, with over 939 hours in space and 5400 hours flying time in 61 different types of aircraft. His first space flight in 1993 set the record for the longest duration Space Shuttle mission. In 1996 he piloted Atlantis to the Russian space station Mir.
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Lance Secretan , Colorado USA

Dr. Lance Secretan is one of the world's foremost thinkers about leadership and a renowned pioneer in innovative methods of inspiring people and organizations. The former CEO of a Fortune 100 company and an acclaimed business school professor, Lance Secretan works with a gifted worldwide faculty changing the lives of people and transforming companies and revolutionizing the way they think about leadership.
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Larraine Segil , California USA

Alliances between companies have become a major strategic tool for gaining an advantage in today's business world. In her book, Intelligent Business Alliances, Segil explains her unique "Mindshift" method for analyzing corporate and individual personality types which can help managers lead, forecast and avoid problems due to miscommunciations or mismatched values. She also offers practical recommendations for building an effective alliance team. An international business expert, Segil also looks at international alliances and how companies can adapt their management styles to succeed in local cultures. She examines the new reality of competing globally and the critical communication skills needed for success in building bridges between different cultures.
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Dov Seidman , California USA

Dov Seidman is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of LRN. Leading companies such as Disney, Dow Chemical, eBay, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, and 3M turn to LRN to help management govern more effectively and workers do the right things the right way, even in the most challenging of situations. Dov is a Harvard Law School graduate who also earned a bachelor's and master's degree in philosophy from UCLA, and a BA with honors in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University.
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Afterburner Seminars , Georgia USA

The 50 men and women on Afterburner's team are uniquely qualified to teach the skills needed for breakthrough performance. Our team of former and current fighter pilots has a powerful mix of combat experience, combined with extensive business skills. Many members of our team are graduates of the nation's top business schools and academies. Our cutting-edge corporate training uses the combat proven methodologies of fighter pilots to help your team achieve victory in your rapidly changing business environment. Whether you are in sales and marketing, operations or management, Afterburner can help you transform your team into a highly competitive fighting force.
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Peter M. Senge, Ph. D , Massachusetts USA

Peter M. Senge, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also Founding Chair of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." Peter is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990, revised edition published 2006) and, with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994) and a fieldbook The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth. In September 2000, a fieldbook on education was published, the award winning Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education, co-
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Robin Sharma, LL.M., LL.B , Massachusetts USA

Robin Sharma is the globally celebrated author of 10 bestselling books on leadership and personal development. His work has been published in over 50 countries and nearly 70 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors in the world. He shot to fame with The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (HarperCollins) which has topped international bestseller lists and sold millions of copies.
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Robin Sieger , North Carolina USA

Originally from Scotland, he studied science at the University of Glasgow before going on to fulfill a childhood ambition by becoming a successful comedian, appearing regularly on radio and having his own television show. In 1986, at the age of 29, he was diagnosed with cancer. In what is best described as a wake up call, he began to realize that success is not a matter of luck, but of design. Since then he has spent the last twenty years researching and continues to study the principles behind true success.
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Sam Silverstein , Missouri USA

Entrepreneur, author, and business advisor, Sam Silverstein has a solid track record of building million dollar dreams. The numbers speak for themselves - in one business alone he sold over $100 million of products and services. Whether it's a humorous keynote, after-dinner program, or technique-filled breakout session, Sam teaches personal and professional empowerment and helps organizations and individuals become more effective in managing change and balance, learning leadership skills, creative marketing, and solution-based selling techniques. The Success Model outlines the five-step system to improve your life and details 52 key words that embellish the success philosophy.
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Alan Simpson , Wyoming USA

A nearly 20-year veteran of the United States Senate, Alan Simpson has been known as one of the most colorful and influential of American leaders in recent political history. The author of Right in the Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping with the Press, a book about politicians and the media, Simpson has never shied away from the most contentious of subjects. Simpson, who spent ten years acting as the Republican Party whip, today offers audiences deep-cutting commentary, side-splitting anecdotes, and an always necessary dose of pragmatism on topics ranging from national defense to taxes to health care.
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Doug Smart, CSP , Georgia USA

Doug is an author (seven books), successful entrepreneur, radio host of Smarter by the Minute, keynoter and trainer who has spoken at over 1,000 conventions, conferences, seminars, sales rallies and management retreats. He works with leaders and teams who want to smooth the bumps of rapid change.
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Gregory Smith, MS , Georgia USA

Gregory P. Smith is an internationally known speaker and recognized authority in leadership, innovation and human resource management. He is the author of four books including, The New Leader: Bringing Creativity and Innovation to the Workplace and How to Attract, Keep and Motivate Your Workforce. His latest book called, Here Today Here Tomorrow: How to Transform Your Organization from High Turnover to High Retention comes out in Nov 2001.
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Perry M. Smith, PhD , Georgia USA

Perry Smith is a noted author, speaker, and television analyst. A retired Major General, Smith commanded an F-15 wing, was the top Air Force planner, and headed the National War College where he taught courses on executive leadership and strategic planning. He is president of his own management consulting firm and has recently conducted seminars on leadership, strategic planning, and ethics for Harvard's Kennedy School, Century 21, UPS, Ford, Milliken, IBM, The Chautauqua Institution, Texas Instruments, and Caterpillar.
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Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, MBA , Connecticut USA

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University’s School of Management and The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice as well as the Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. This institute is the world’s first CEO College and is dedicated to the advancement of top leadership education through scholarly research and peer-driven educational forums for prominent CEOs. Previously, he was a professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. There he founded the Center for Leadership & Career Studies, which he ran for eight years. Prior to this, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. His research, publications and consulting address issues of top leadership development, executive succession, and board governance.
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Christopher Springmann , California USA

Christopher Springmann ... speaker, storyteller, award-winning photographer ... invites you to explore his unique perspective on creativity, expressed in unforgettable words and stunning pictures you can use to transform your organization. Creativity calibrates the real value of your thinking. It's your intellectual property, the engine of your professional future, contributing core value to your company and your peers. In other words, you are how you think.
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Steven Stanton, MBA , Massachusetts USA

Steven Stanton is one of the pioneers of both reengineering and the process-centered organization. Through his consulting, writing, and teaching, he has participated in the development of many of the most innovative and valuable business ideas of the last ten years. He is co-founder, with Dr. Michael Hammer, of Center for Reegineering Leadership. Previously, he was a vice president at CSC Index. A frequent speaker at large industry conferences, in-house education sessions, and executive seminars, Stanton is known for his stimulating approach and tactical orientation. He has published many articles on business change and is frequently cited by national publications such as fortune, CFO Magazine, Computerworld, and Red Herring.
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Michael Staver , Florida USA

Mike has worked with hundreds of organizations, assisting them in their growth and development. He has the uncanny ability to make the most complex ideas simple and memorable. With a Bachelors degree in Business Administration and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, Mike understands the importance of results and can coach your organization in the pursuit of its objectives.
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Robert Stevenson , California USA

Robert is an internationally recognized speaker and author of the highly successful book "How To Soar Like An Eagle In A World Full Of Turkeys." He is a man who is consistently honored with standing ovations and requests to bring him back next year. Many clients have actually rated him as the best speaker they've ever heard. Robert has shared the podium with such renowned speakers as former President George Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Anthony Robbins, Tom Peters, and Steven Covey. This former Morehead Scholar and All-American Athlete has owned several companies, sold internationally in over 20 countries, established and maintained hundreds of accounts worldwide along with managing a worldwide sales force. Your people will be hearing from a man who has lived his experiences, not just studied them. He has held positions from Salesman to Chief Executive Officer. His ability to connect with an audience is amazing; be it a strategic planning session for a Fortune 5
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Michael Strahan , New York USA

SuperBowl Champion Michael Strahan recently signed with Fox Sports to serve as a studio analyst on the Fox NFL Sunday Pregame Show. Michael retired from the NFL after completing his 15th season with the NY Giants and helped lead the team to their dramatic SuperBowl win over the New England Patriots. Michael had a great 2007 season, as he was once again, among the lead leaders in sacks, and served as the leader of one of the top defenses in the NFL. The perennial Pro-Bowler and charismatic leader of the New York Giants, Michael was named the NFL’s 2001 Player of the Year by Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated and named 2001 Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press.
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Quint Studer , Florida USA

Quint Studer is helping to change the face of health care today. Considered by many to be the main impetus over the past several years for more and more health care organizations returning to their roots, he not only coaches organizations about creating a culture of excellence but also has done it. Over his 20-year career in health care, Quint moved from the staff level all the way to being COO of Holy Cross Hospital, in Chicago, from 1993-1996 and President of Baptist Hospital, Inc. (Baptist and Gulf Breeze Hospital in Pensacola, FL) from 1996-2000.
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Stefan Swanepoel , California USA

Stefan Swanepoel is considered a real estate industry visionary and an excellent communicator. He has also been the keynote speaker at almost every major real estate event in the industry during the last few years and is widely regarded as the leading speaker on real estate trends and change that impact the future of the real estate industry. If you are looking for a keynote speaker, motivational speaker, dinner speaker, closing on a high note speaker or just a plain high impact memorable speaker, look no further. Swanepoel can fill all those spots at your next real estate convention or seminar.
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Kevin Sweeney, Lt. Col., MBA , Texas USA

Lt. Colonel Kevin Sweeney is a nationally respected and recognized expert on leadership, the value of being a great teammate, and performance under pressure. He has been a requested guest on over 450 radio stations in the United States and Canada appearing on talk radio where he has inspired audiences with his unique insights into leadership, teamwork, and putting yourself into position to have superior performance under pressure.
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Clint Swindall , Texas USA

Clint Swindall is the president and CEO of Verbalocity, Inc., a personal development company with a focus on leadership and sales development, and the inspiration to make it all happen. These solutions include leadership and sales enhancement programs, workshops/seminars/training, professional speaking and general consulting. Clint began his career at SBC Communications Inc. (SBC) upon his graduation from Southwest Texas State University. As a participant in the company’s Leadership Development Program, he quickly gained hands-on experience in sales, marketing, customer service, finance and technology.
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Derius Swinton, M.S.W , Virginia USA

Derius D. Swinton personally challenges others to committing their time, resources, and energy to creating and maintaining a lifestyle and environment that is safe, healthy, supportive, and productive. Using nontraditional and innovative approaches let to Swinton's selection as one of only thirteen individuals to represent the United States at the International Educational Fellowship Program in China.
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Linda Tarrant , Ontario Canada

Imagine the power that is unleashed when people have a set of skills and a sense of hope and enthusiasm that enables them to adapt quickly to an ever-changing environment and build strong connections within their team, across the organization and with their customers. Impossible goals can be achieved. Linda will show you how to tap into that power, get people connected and act courageously even when you1re setting the trend.
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Richard W. Tate , ID USA

World renowned trainer in the field of service quality improvement, leadership, customer centered communications and change. Author of best sellers such as "Legendary Service" and "Leadership and the Customer Revolution," Rick has been delighting audiences all over the world for over 15 years. He has been featured in several award-winning videos and audios. His video, "Leadership and the Customer Revolution" was touted as "Among the very, very best business videos" in "Successful Meetings."
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Sondra Thiederman, Ph.D , California USA

Sondra Thiederman offers training programs on a wide-variety of diversity and cross-cultural topics. With 20 years experience in the field, she brings her extensive knowledge together with your individual needs to design and implement programs that are right for your organization. She is also available to co-train with your in-house train or to provide program development, train-the-trainer, and coaching of in-house trainersand executives.
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Marian Thier , Colorado USA

Marian J. Thier is a presenter, consultant and master coach. Her areas of expertise include: all aspects of leadership, such as change, communications, motivation and performance feedback; team dynamics; innovation and creativity, such as breakthrough thinking, creative problem solving, and fostering an open culture. Marian is the author of Coaching C.L.U.E.S: Real Stories, Powerful Solutions, Practical Tools (May, 2003), THINK TANK: The Game of Creative Problem Solving and The Journey: A Fable and Thought Expanders CD-Rom.
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Mark Thompson , California USA

As an executive coach and visiting scholar at Stanford University, Mark has lead senior teams and organizations through Vision—Values—Strategy initiatives based on the business classic Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. Much of his coaching, strategic counseling and research springs from his experience as an insider in boardrooms and management committees, along with his passion for unlocking the unique skills of hundreds of remarkable people around the world–from nonprofit leaders and billionaires, to the presidents of nations and the CEOs of small and large international organizations.
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Dave Timmons , Florida USA

Dave's diverse business background and extensive leadership experience in banking, call centers, and the community have fueled his passion to develop great 'leadership artists'. Inspiring and motivating people to find new courage to achieve breakthrough results is Dave's mission. Anyone who has witnessed Dave's speaking and musical style will share he is excellent at connecting and energizing his audience through rich content, humor, stories, creative lyrics, and actionable take-away value.
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Brian Tracy , California USA

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and high levels of achievement.
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Michael Treacy, PhD , Massachusetts USA

Michael Treacy brings over 25 years of experience helping companies achieve market leadership. His ideas about customer value propositions and growth disciplines have been used by companies across the globe to reshape strategies, bolster competitive positions and dramatically improve top and bottom line performances.
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Doug Trenary , Georgia USA

You immediately feel his impact. Above all, his audiences say that Doug has a special, unique connection with them that affects them deeply to want to change. He truly is different. You are shaped by the depth and scope of his work. Companies like Canon, MetLife, REMAX, Ryder, ADP, Deloitte and Touche and Honeywell don't just hire anyone to influence their salespeople, managers and company staff. They hire Doug Trenary because he brings them a "triangle of power:" real world experience, cutting-edge strategies, and vigorous, powerful delivery. He brings the depth of over 1,500 seminars and years of research into every seminar and product.
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Bernadette Trujillo-Vadurro , New Mexico USA

Bernadette Trujillo-Vadurro is a Trainer and President of Leading Edge Training, a seminar company that produces full multimedia seminars guaranteed to "knock the socks off" any audience. Bernadette draws on her rich work experiences as a Consultant, Lobbyist, Medicaid Auditor, Personnel Administrator and Bureau Chief. She started her business conducting Medical Office Management Seminars for physicans and healthcare providers in 1990.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Donald Trump , New York USA

Donald Trump started his business career in an office he shared with his father in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. In New York City, the Trump signature is synonymous with the most prestigious of addresses. Among them are the world-renowned Fifth Avenue skyscraper, Trump, and the luxury residential buildings, Trump Parc, Trump Palace, Trump Plaza, 610 Park Avenue, The Trump World Tower and Trump Park Avenue. Over the years, Mr. Trump has owned and sold many great buildings in New York including the Plaza Hotel, the St. Moritz and recently, the land under the Empire State Building.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Bruce Tulgan , Conneticut USA

Bruce Tulgan is an advisor to business leaders all over the world, the author of ten different books and management training programs, and a sought-after keynote speaker and seminar leader.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Jim Tunney, Ed.D , California USA

Concurrent careers in education and professional sports make Jim Tunney, Ed.D. the celebrity speaker with a powerful message for facing and mastering challenges. Drawing from 28 years of experience as an educator and 31 years as an NFL referee, and credentials that place him in the top 4% of today's speakers, Tunney emphasizes ways to develop accountability and build teams that work. In his compelling keynotes, he presents effective, efficient actionable ideas as your launch point for improved performance. Here, and in his writings, particularly his chronicle of life in the NFL, Impartial Judgment, the "Dean of the Referees uses sports as the matrix for practical lessons on team building, leadership, and real time performance. His current book project is Chicken Soup for the Sport Fan's Soul.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Colin Turner , Monaco European Union

As an internationally respected Keynote Speaker, Colin Turner has the very real ability to inform and inspire your people while igniting within them a fresh approach to business and life. What really matters to you is the difference he can make to your event. His dynamic, highly inspirational and thought-provoking presentations are specifically tailored to deliver real value, ensuring a memorable conference that delivers the best impact for the messages you wish to impart.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Stephen Tweed, CSP , Kentucky USA

A nationally known healthcare strategist, professional speaker, author and consultant, Stephen Tweed works with healthcare organizations who want to grow, and with healthcare leaders who want to get ready for the future. He does that by presenting keynote speeches and learning seminars, by leading board and executive retreats, by guiding individuals and groups through Strategic Refocusing sessions, and by authoring knowledge products for healthcare leaders.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Joe Tye, MBA , Iowa USA

Joe Tye is CEO of Paradox 21 and a highly-regarded speaker on leadership strategies for cultivating high performance organizations. He is a former senior executive for a large teaching hospital who earned a masters degree in hospital administration from The University of Iowa and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He is the author of more than a dozen books and tapes on personal and organizational success, including the forthcoming book Leading Values: Real World Strategies for Working with The Twelve Core Action Values, and the forthcoming novel Lilies in the Snow.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Sam Tyler , California USA

Sam's presentations are effective because they show real people in actual business situations working on issues common to every manager... teamwork, productivity, customer service, strategic focus, innovation and more. He is admired for his ability to combine insightful talk and broadcast quality film to create a rivting, memorable event.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Kelsey Tyson , Florida USA

Mr. Tyson's insights and expertise result from over 25 years of management and executive positions in the real world. He was President of Blanchard Training and Development Company, where he co-developed the international best-selling book, The One Minute Manager. Mr. Tyson addresses over 100 major corporations each year. His talents as a speaker, trainer and consultant consistently earn rave reviews and repeat business from such companies as: Deloitte Touche, Polaroid, and more.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Jack Uldrich , Minnesota USA

Jack Uldrich is the president of The NanoVeritas Group, a consultancy that focuses on helping businesses, venture capitalists, and governments understand, evaluate, prepare for, and profit from nanotechnology. Clients include leading venture capital firms, law firms, governments and Fortune 100 companies.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Paul Vitale , Arkansas USA

All across America, organizations have made it a point to turn to Paul Vital. He is nationally acclaimed speaker, trainer and author. Paul’s interactive, dynamic seminars and keynote addresses have enabled individuals to rediscover numerous key concepts and lessons that assist them in defining their own unique path toward success and happiness. His stress on the importance of a positive attitude, a strong work ethic and other vital concepts; combined with his energetic and enjoyable presentation style, have made Paul one of the most popular keynote speakers at hundreds of universities, meetings, conventions, seminars and training conferences across the country. Paul's enthusiasm for life, his youthful spirit and his ability to relate to individuals through his own personal stories motivate and encourage his audience. If you are looking for a capsule of energy to help inspire and educate individuals from the classroom to the office and beyond, you have found it in Paul Vitale.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Scott Waddle , North Carolina USA

An inspirational leader with uncompromising ethical standards, Scott Waddle graduated at the top of his class at Annapolis. With 20 years of experience in the construction, maintenance and operation of nuclear-powered submarines, in 1998 he was handpicked from a highly competitive field of 250 naval officers to command the improved Los Angeles class Fast Attack nuclear submarine USS Greeneville. As commanding officer of Greeneville, he managed a 140-man crew. On the fateful day of February 9, 2001, Commander Waddle's life was forever changed when he gave the order to perform an emergency surface maneuver that inadvertently caused the nine-thousand ton submarine to collide with the Ehime Maru, a 500 ton Japanese fishing vessel, killing nine people on board. Against the advise of his attorney and the Navy's direction, he took responsibility for the accident. Commander Waddle's compelling story about a tragic ordeal and the choices that followed is a lesson about integrity, faith, and resilience. H
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Erik Wahl , California USA

Erik Wahl is a recognized artist and speaker who challenges organizations to transcend mediocrity through creativity.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Denis Waitley, PhD , California USA

Denis Waitley is best known as the author/narrator of The Psychology of Winning, the all-time best-selling audio cassette album on personal and professional development. His books, tapes, and lectures have helped millions around the world realize their potential. In his latest book, Empires of the Mind, he explains why standard management practices, job descriptions, and career tracks have become obsolete. Waitley says that for people and companies to succeed today, individuals at every level must change - they must learn to re-engineer themselves. As one of the nation's most dynamic speakers, he offers audiences specific tools and techniques for maximizing their personal potential and asserting self-leadership.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D , New York USA

Bruce Weinstein brings a lively, interactive approach to ethics training. He presents business-specific case studies that end with a character asking, "What should I do?" Dr. Weinstein and the group then work through the dilemma together using the 4-step method for making better decisions that he developed with Dr. Alvin H. Moss. Bruce can conduct his unique training programs in either one intensive session or break the program into smaller sessions, with a combination of large- and small-group discussions as well as individual writing exercises.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@Speaking.com

Joel Weldon , Arizona USA

Joel’s unique concept known as N-F-V makes it possible for him to gain a thorough understanding of your organization’s NEEDS, FEARS, and VICTORIES. His message of timeless truths will resonate deeply with the audience, as he focuses on changeless principles that remain valid, no matter how much the world is changing. With his special brand of humor, he energizes the audience—opening their minds to the practical solutions he provides, while delivering a serious, hard-hitting message—a message specifically designed to meet their NEEDS; help them conquer their FEARS; and reinforce their VICTORIES.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@Speaking.com

Jim Wetherbee , Texas USA

Jim Wetherbee brings a wealth of operational experience to the speaking arenda with 28 years experience as a naval aviator officer, including 20 years of experience as an astronaut. Jim is the only American to have commanded five missions in space. He has traveled 27,476,708 miles in earth orbit and has commanded Space Shuttle missions to both the International Space Station Alpha and the Russian Space Station Mir.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Claudia White, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. White is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and Management Consultant who specializes in researching, developing and training individuals to grow and rise to their highest potential within their living and work environments.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Marcia Wieder , California USA

Provides 1/2 day and full day workshops on Passion & Productivty. Has presented this worldwide to banking institutions, direct selling companies and to franchise owners. Often requested for Take Our Kids to Work Day and even in prisons.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Bruce Wilkinson, CSP , Louisiana USA

Bruce S. Wilkinson, CSP is more than a professional speaker… he is a "trainer-tainer." His programs reinforce information with both enthusiasm and humor, but it is humor with a purpose! His unique style, passion and authenticity create rememberability within the audience.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Desi Williamson , California USA

You’ll be a star when you invite Desi to speak at your next event! His fast-paced programs, customized for your organization, inspire individuals to take action -- and give them the tools they need to do so. With Desi, you’ll get a fun, energetic program filled with content. And best of all, your organization will see an immediate increase in productivity! His high-impact programs are based on 20 years on the front line in sales, management and marketing; building multi-million dollar businesses; managing multi-million dollar budgets; and developing people potential at powerhouse corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Wax, Rain Bird Sprinkler Manufacturing, and PepsiCo.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jack Wolf, PhD, CPT , * Canada

Dr. Jack Wolf is a dynamic, internationally known speaker, trainer and consultant who brings a breadth and depth of experience to his seminars. Dr. Wolf has specialized in providing performance solutions to clients since 1975, designing and delivering programs on workforce learning, presentation and communication skills, sales and negotiation, creativity, and performance improvement. His methods and programs have been used with great success by such notable clients as General Electric, Time Warner, Home Box Office, Met Life, Starbucks Coffee, FedEx and AIG Insurance.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Jeff Wolf , California USA

Jeff Wolf, RCC, is known as one of America’s most dynamic speakers, is considered one of the top executive business coaches in the country, and is a highly sought after business consultant. His strategic focus in solving both corporate as well as human issues has won him continuing raves from national firms.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@Speaking.com

Mike Wuergler , Utah USA

Prior to Franklin Covey, Mike was an executive in the motion picture and television industry, serving as President and CEO of a publicly-traded company; Chief Operating Officer of the American Television Network; COO of Alternative Network Television; and, President of ComWorld International. He was a television producer for Walt Disney Productions and a member of Disney's Show Development Team. After Disney, he produced feature films and was nominated for an Emmy for directing a television special saluting the troops of Desert Storm. Mike spent the last two years helping to create leadership workshops as the Director of Media and Operations.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Garrison Wynn , Texas USA

Garrison Wynn helps people learn how to make the jump from being great at what they do to understanding and developing the qualities it takes to be chosen for the job. He gets them to understand why their products, services, or leadership styles— or those of their competitors — are selected. As he says, “If the world agreed on what’s best, everybody would choose the best and nothing else would be considered. Decision making doesn’t work that way.” As a keynote speaker, advisor, and entertainer, Garrison has worked with some of the world’s most effective corporate leaders and salespeople, from multibillion-dollar manufacturers to top New York Stock Exchange wire houses.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Don Yaeger , Florida USA

As the author of 14 books, four of which became instant New York Times Best-sellers, Don Yaeger has developed a reputation as one of America’s most provacative journalists. His award-winning writing career, including 10 years as Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated, has led to guest appearances on every major talk show in America - from Oprah to Nightline; from CNN to Good Morning America. He has also been a featured speaker at nearly 100 business gatherings and athletic events.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Keith Yamashita , California USA

Keith has been featured in FORTUNE magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company magazine in recognition for his work for HP, Nike, PBS, and others. Keith is a strategist and writer with years of experience in helping CEOs turn their companies around. He has a strong background in launching new companies and brands, as well as transforming large, multinational companies. He has worked with CEOs and executive teams at companies including America Online, Apple Computer, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, Gap Inc., IBM, PBS, and Saturn, among others. He has published in The Harvard Business Review and is a regular contributor to Harvard's Strategy and Innovation publication, edited by Clayton Christensen. He has lectured at Stanford University and the Yale School of Management, and is also a frequent public speaker at conferences. Keith has authored two books: Unstuck and 15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us. He holds a BA in Quantitative Economics and an MA in Organizati
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@Speaking.com

Benjamin Zander , Massachusetts USA

In a symphony - as in business - one person can’t do it all. Great music is made when everyone gives their best. As leader, it’s the conductor’s job to bring out the best in everyone and Ben Zander does that better than anyone. Zander is the brilliant and acclaimed British-born conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. His talks bring his passion for greatness and philosophy of life to audiences in a way that absolutely transforms the way people act – they leave his presentations as changed people -- with a compelling new understanding of leadership, organizational dynamics, teamwork and the keys to their own happiness and improved performance. Zander’s presentations are a high-energy tour de force – he paces the stage . . . walks through the audience . . . he cajoles . . . plays piano . . . he teases . . . he laughs . . . and he chides.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Curtis Zimmerman , Ohio USA

Both as a speaker and as an author, Curtis has impacted over one million people throughout the nation with his life-changing messages and award winning programs. Audiences connect with Curtis through his interactive style and approachable manner. He incorporates the skills he gained from over twenty-five years in the entertainment industry into his powerful programs, cleverly balancing the connection between education and entertainment. Curtis is an expert at transforming organizations by inspiring individuals to live their life at a higher level of performance.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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