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American Management Association * USA

American Management Association (AMA) provides educational forums world wide where members and their colleagues learn superior, practical business skills and explore best practices of world-class organizations through interaction with each other and expert faculty practitioners. The range of AMA programs is broad and multifaceted, encompassing all of the disciplines of management in every type and size of organization: finance; general and administrative services; strategic management; human resources; information systems and technology; insurance and risk management; international management; manufacturing; purchasing; research and development; and sales and marketing. In addition a wide range of management development and interpersonal skills-related programs are offered
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Training@Prometheon.com

Michael Aun, FIC, LUTCF, CSP, CPAE , Florida USA

Michael Aun, FIC, LUTCF, CSP,CPAE, is a businessman who brings over a quarter century of experience to the training world. His insurance practice requires him to do extensive recruiting, profiling, training and motivating agents in his twenty offices covering some 90 different jurisdictions throughout the state of Florida. He lives his message every day and trains from personal hands-on experience. No book reports, just the facts.
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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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Bill Bartmann , Arizona USA

Bill Bartmann has been called “The Billionaire Nobody Knows” by the Wall Street Journal. He has created 7 successful businesses in 7 different industries. He's been inducted into the Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame and his expertise has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, and many other publications. He has helped thousands of people start and fund their own successful businesses. He has also helped thousands of people improve their employment situation. He has shown people who were earning $20,000 - $40,000 - $60,000 and $80,000 how to increase their salary – in some cases to a million dollars a year. Unlike many self claimed success "experts", Bill have seen the face of dismal failure and seen the face of great success. This makes me uniquely qualified to teach you how to overcome failure and achieve wild success in any endeavor in your life.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Michael Bergdahl , Pennsylvania USA

Michael Bergdahl is an experienced international business speaker, author and turnaround specialist.

Bergdahl worked in Bentonville, Arkansas for Wal-Mart, as the Director of "People" for the headquarters office, where he worked directly with Sam Walton. It was Sam Walton who gave Bergdahl the nickname, "Bird Dawg"!

Previous to Wal-Mart he worked for PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Division in the sales organization and headquarters staff assignments.

He has experience as a turnaround specialist who participated in two successful business turnarounds at American Eagle Outfitters and Waste Management.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Dirk Beveridge , Illinois USA

Author, educator, consultant, and owner of four growing businesses, Dirk Beveridge is an experienced, proven business executive whose international consulting firm serves clients such as General Motors, Continental Grain, Haagen Dazs, W.R. Grace, Union Oil, Spacesaver, John Deere and others. He lectures at the Management Institute of Business, University of Wisconsin and is ad-hoc faculty at several other universities. As one of the top twenty business speakers in the country, DIrk has provided timely, pertinent information to companies such as NYNEX, Dow Jones, Ashland Petroleum, Schlage Lock, Mercury Marine, the Young Presidents Organization, Allied Van Lines, Molson Breweries, Texas Instruments, Radio Shack, The Newell Group, Chicago Title and Insurance, Radio Advertising Bureau, Bridgestone Tire, and many other recognizable organizations. Each year since 1987, Dirk has been featured on international speaking tours addressing groups on five of the world's continents.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Jeff Blackman, J.D., CSP , Illinois USA

To win BIG, call Jeff Blackman - international speaker, author, success coach, lawyer and broadcaster. Jeff maximizes your performance, productivity and profitability. His customized programs on sales/marketing, negotiations, service, inspiration, leadership and change - help you outdistance competition and reach new levels of unprecedented success!
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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!"
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Marjorie Blanchard , California USA

Marjorie Blanchard has earned a worldwide reputation as a compelling motivational speaker, an accomplished management consultant and trainer, a best-selling author and an entrepreneur. Co-author of The One Minute Manager Gets Fit and Working Well: Managing for Health and High Performance, she is well-versed in a variety of topics and often speaks on leadership, balance, managing change, aging parents, and life planning.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Don Blohowiak , New Jersey 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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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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Gary Bradt, Psy.D , North Carolina USA

Dr. Gary Bradt is the one of country's most sought after speakers on the number one best selling business book Who Moved My Cheese? by Dr. Spencer Johnson. As a clinical psychologist, senior business consultant and close associate of Dr. Johnson, Dr. Bradt inspires audiences as the world's leading interpreter of the timeless truths embedded in this profound parable on change.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Mark Breier , California USA

Mark Breier advises companies on how to "Act Fast, Act Smart" for success in today's fast- paced business world. An experienced and popular public speaker who combines provocative commentary and anecdotal humor, Mark has seen and experienced all perspectives of management's critical role in helping a company grow and successfuly transitioned itself from traditional business to the New World Economy. Breier's unique management and technology insights make him one of the most sought after authorities in developing fast strategies for fast success in todays' fast moving business.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Wayne Burkan, MBA , Michigan USA

Wayne Burkan is a leading management consultant and thinker on organizational change, innovation, and leadership. Together, he and his colleague, Joel Arthur Barker, have done pioneering work on paradigms to help open people to change, new ideas, and more flexible workstyles. Burkan was recently invited to participate in Vice President Al Gore's "Reinventing Government" initiative. A dynamic, provocative, and humorous speaker, he has presented programs on four continents and counts among his clients such companies as Ford, IBM, Motorola, 3M, Tropicana, and Upjohn, to name a few.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Bill Capodagli , Michigan USA

Bill Capodagli has become one of the most recognizable keynote speakers in recent years, enlightening audiences with his Dreamovations approach (Dream, Believe, Dare, Do), Walt Disney's key success formula and the principles which are transforming both entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 companies alike.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Clayton Christensen, MBA, DBA , Massachusetts USA

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
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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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

The Training Clinic * USA

The Training Clinic offers quality in-house training programs for trainers, training managers and coordinators, training designers, supervisors, managers and secretarial support staff. We believe in learning by doing, not just by listening. All of our workshops require a high level of participation by the learner. Transfer of skills to the workplace is stressed by action planning during each workshop. Methods of presentation include lecturettes, discussions, case studies, non-threatening role plays, exercises, films and inventories. Class exercises and case studies are customized to the client's industry at no additional charge to the client. Full outlines are available upon request.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Training@Prometheon.com

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."
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Meryl Comer , District of Columbia USA

Meryl Comer is an Emmy Award winning reporter/moderator with over 25 years in broadcast journalsim. She is moderator of It's Your business, the nationally-syndicated public debate program on economic, business, and political issues. Former co-anchor of Nation's Business Today on ESPN, she has moderated a nationally-broadcast Town Hall Forum with President Clinton, hosted international teleconferences, and presided over 100 management training satellite seminars. She has interviewed four US Presidents, five heads of state, over 600 Congressional and elected officials, over 200 Fortune 500 CEOs, and laureates to the Business Hall of Fame. Clients benefit from Comer's wide-ranging business expertise and thorough preparation on their industry's issues.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Carlos Conejo , California USA

Carlos Conejo is an expert on the rapidly growing multicultural marketplace. He assists organizations through this current evolutionary change developing sound values-driven business strategies for penetrating and growing these multicultural markets.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Sue Cook , California USA

Sue Cook is president of Think Customer, a ground-breaking consulting practice pioneering innovative strategies to create customer-obsessed organizations and is the co-author of Turned On: Eight Vital Insights to Energize Your People, Customers and Profits. Cook is considered an expert in building customer satisfaction and loyalty, inspiring innovation, and coaching top leadership. As a leading consultant to America's top companies, she helps senior executives find ways to drive the voices of their customers into their businesses, people, and systems strategies. For the last three years, Cook has worked with the Air Force Medical Service Surgeon General to incite a service revolution in 78 medical facilities worldwide. She co-founded the Leadership Forum 2000 with Marriott Hotels to conduct Leadership Forums behind the scenes of organizations such as Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines and Microsoft.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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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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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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.”
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@Speaking.com

Lisa Ford , Georgia USA

Lisa Ford delivers what her audiences want—practical ideas combined with plenty of opportunities to laugh and relate to her examples. Her content inspires people to increase their personal, team and organization's results.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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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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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D , California USA

Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. He has been ranked in the Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" executive development consultants in the world. Marshall has received national recognition from the Institute of Management Studies, the American Management Association and the American Society for Traning and Development. He is co-editor of the best seller _The Leader of the Future_ and several other highly successful books. Marshall is consistently a top-rated keynote speaker on the topics of leadership, coaching and feedback. He is a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Don Grimme , Florida USA

Sheryl & Don Grimme provide People Solutions for the 21st Century. They specialize in delivering cutting edge on-site workshops, seminars and presentations designed to help organizations prosper and grow by: - Eliminating violence (physical and verbal) from the workplace; and - Attracting, retaining and motivating highly productive employees. Their private and public sector clients confirm that "Good Things Come In Pairs!"TM
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Sheryl Grimme, MS , Florida USA

Sheryl & Don Grimme provide People Solutions for the 21st Century. They specialize in delivering cutting edge on-site workshops, seminars and presentations designed to help organizations prosper and grow by: - Eliminating violence (physical and verbal) from the workplace; and - Attracting, retaining and motivating highly productive employees. Their private and public sector clients confirm that "Good Things Come In Pairs!"TM
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Anil Gupta, Ph.D , Maryland USA

Anil K. Gupta is one of the world's leading experts on strategy and globalization. He is the author of over sixty papers and three books: The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass, 2001 and 2008), Smart Globalization (Jossey-Bass, 2003), Global Strategy and Organization (John Wiley, 2003). Financial Times has published four of Gupta's papers in a series on "Mastering Global Business." The Wall Street Journal also recently published an invited full-page article by Gupta titled "Getting China and India Right." His new book titled The Battle for China and India is currently published by Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2008.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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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Gary Hamel , California USA

Professor Gary Hamel is one of the most successful authors on corporate strategy. As the author of concepts such as “core competence,” “strategic intent,” “industry foresight,” and “industry revolution,” Gary Hamel has changed the focus and language of strategy in many of the world's most successful companies. His success as a writer is rivaled only by his profound and prolific lecture abilities. Gary has given keynote speeches at the Microsoft CEO Summit, the World Economic Forum, the Fortune 500 CEO Roundtable and many other high profile events.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jim Harris , Ontario Canada

Empowered, passionate and inspiring describe professional speaker, Jim Harris. Jim is known as an excellent communicator on paradigm shifts, change, vision and re-engineering. As a management consultant, Mr. Harris works with Fortune 500 companies and organizations aspiring to join these ranks. His best selling business book, The Learning Paradox, looks at our constant change and how we must learn to learn, to change and to cope with uncertainty to succeed and survive these chaotic times. A must read for anyone in business! 
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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."
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

Gary Hernbroth , California USA

Gary is a trainer, professional speaker, facilitator and performance coach with over 24 years of leadership experience in sales, marketing and management in the hospitality industry. His career includes key positions with Westin Hotels, Fairmont Hotels and Park Lane Hotels.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: speakers@speaking.com

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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Mel Kleiman, CSP , Texas USA

Mel is a dynamic and entertaining speaker who specializes in providing practical, take home information delivered in high-energy, high impact presentations. He has shown hundreds of organizations how to make the best possible hiring decisions. Mel is the founder and president of Humetrics, LLC, a leading developer of systems, training processes, and tools for recruiting, selecting, and retaining the best hourly workforce. A consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for 30 years, he provides experience with best practices research and delivers strategies and tactics that immediately spark positive results. A demonstrated leader in HR thought, Mel has published a number of highly detailed hiring studies and white papers. His firm provides research on recruiting and staffing practices using key performance indicators and metrics to a diverse clientele.
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Object Knowledge Florida USA

Object Knowledge is a leader in e-business solutions. Our consulting and training services unify business and technical perspectives to provide you with the competitive edge you need in today's knowledge economy.
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John Kotter , MA 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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George Labovitz, Ph.D , Massachusetts USA

Dr. George Labovitz is the Founder and CEO of Organizational Dynamics, Inc. (ODI). He counsels corporate executives on organizational alignment and integration strategies and quality management. George Labovitz is also professor of management and organizational behavior at the Boston University School of Management. Dr. Labovitz has presented keynote addresses to diverse audiences throughout the world, from world congresses on quality in Singapore and Euro-Disney to national meetings of the American Hospital Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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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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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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Jordan Lewis , District of Columbia USA

Jordan Lewis is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on alliances. He has written three books and edited a fourth on alliances, and lectured at the Columbia, Dartmouth, London, Northwestern, and Wharton business schools. He is most at home in the trenches, resolving the interpersonal, political, organizational, governance, mutual trust, and other issues that are often involved. Lewis has spoken at major events sponsored by Fortune, Euromoney, Business Week, and Institutional Investor, around the world. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and has spoken at four of its annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland. Over the past 30 years Lewis has built—and often repaired—alliances for leading companies worldwide.
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Steven Lloyd , Texas USA

"Steven Lloyd is one of those rare people who come along only a few times in your life. He has the ability, education, training, and skill to catch your attention, hold you gently in the palm of his hand and sculpt you into a better person both professionally and personally. His marketing, sales, and business knowledge are only exceeded by his ability to transfer the information, ideas, techniques, and skills to a massive audience and yet make each person feel as if he is speaking to just you. He is truly a Human Engineer that will benefit your life and career for years to come from just one meeting. If your calendar and budget can only accommodate one speaker this year, you really need to experience Steven Lloyd." -- Dave Stone The Stone Institute
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Stephen Lundin, Ph.D , Minnesota USA

Dr. Stephen Lundin is a writer and speaker who has a rich history in business, graduate level business education and management. As a national speaker he draws on his work as a businessman and “working creative” and blends it with personal experience to produce ideas that are not only intellectually stimulating, but inspire the spirit and connect to the heart. His best selling book FISH! has continuously been a Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Business Week business best seller for over two years and has appeared frequently on the Publishers Weekly, USA Today and Barnes and Nobles Best Seller Lists. FISH! is published in 11 languages and has over a million copies in print.
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Duncan MacPherson , Ontario Canada

Duncan conducts marketing seminars throughout North America, teaching financial advisors how to competitor-proof their clients, stimulate more referrals, implement target marketing program and establish promotional partnering alliances. His fast-paced seminars provide advisors with proven strategies that can be translated into results immediately. He is the creator of the popular Turnkey Marketing System, a comprehensive program for marketing in the financial services industry.
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Frank Maguire , California USA

One of corporate America’s proven achievers and innovators, Frank Maguire was a founding senior executive at Federal Express and served in a variety of senior executive positions with Kentucky Fried Chicken, ABC, and American Airlines during benchmark years in the history of each. He also served in the executive offices of President’s Kennedy and Johnson, and he was one of five invited to the table to both ‘imagine’ and initiate Project Headstart.
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Barry Maher , California USA

From his early days as a world-class salesperson, Barry Maher has become a highly successful keynote speaker and consultant to over 300 companies. Selling Power magazine declared, "To his powerful and famous clients, Barry Maher is simply the best sales trainer in the business." And it soon became apparent that the strategies that were so effective in helping salespeople succeed worked every bit as well with non-sales people. And that became the basis of his keynote Filling the Glass and the subsequent book of the same name. His clients include ABC/Capital Cities, Southwestern Bell, Time-Warner, Budget Rent a Car, and the American Management Association.
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Cam Marston , North Carolina USA

Cam's programs and concepts are the result of more than eight years' extensive research and study inside businesses of all sizes and sectors. In the course of his work, he has interviewed hundreds of representatives of the various generations. Their answers are interesting - sometimes surprising - and always valuable. Marston began his generational-focused consultancy after several years selling for Nestle Brands Foodservice Company. While at Nestle he discovered that he developed closer relationships with his customers when he talked to them about subjects that appealed to their value systems. He soon learned that his customers had many different values but the values were roughly the same in each generation. In 1996 he founded Marston Communications. Originally his clients engaged him to conduct surveys, focus groups, and research on both their customer and employee bases. Cam's results revealed significant generational differences that his clients had never recognized.
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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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Jim McCann , New York USA

It was not the traditional path to business success: Jim McCann was a social worker running a boys' home in New York City. Now president of 1-800-FLOWERS, a $300 million company that enables customers to have flowers delivered almost anywhere in the world. He has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative marketers in business. His use of computing and information technology has been key to his success, and he shares his roadmap for thriving in the Information Age. His first book, Stop and Sell the Roses, describes the lessons he has learned in life and business from before his days as a social worker to the founding and development of 1-800-FLOWERS.
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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.
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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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Barry Moltz , Illinois USA

Barry J. Moltz has been running small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for 15 years. He co-founded Prairie Angels which invests in local seed stage companies. Barry also is on the Advisory Board of the Angel Capital Association which is the national professional alliance of angel groups. It is sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. His book, “You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business” describes the crazy ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fourth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai.
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Peggy Morrow, CSP , Texas USA

Peggy Morrow is a speaker,author, consultant and president of her own training and development firm, Peggy Morrow & Associates, specializing in highly customized speeches, seminars, workshops, retreats and facilitations. For over twenty years she has served such clients as The NFL Houston Texans, Rice University, JP MorganChase, The Houston Astros, NASA, Compaq, Continental Airlines, The Texas Medical Center, Southern Gas Association, Kroger, International Customer Service Association, Enron, Home Depot, Louisiana Superdome, American Institute of CPA's and others. Peggy is a regular contributor to Inc Magazine's Web page, Inc.com, in their customer service section
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Barry Nalebuff, PhD , Connecticut USA

Dr. Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor of Economics and Management at Yale School of Management and co-author of the bestselling book Co-opetition, which demonstrates how to combine competition and cooperation in order to change the game of business for maximum benefit. An expert on Game Theory, he has written extensively on its application for managers and has applied its use in consulting for such companies as Allied Signal, American Express, Bell Atlantic, Citibank, McKinsey & Co., Procter & Gamble, and Warner Lambert. Nalebuff is also co-author of Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life.
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Peg Neuhauser , Texas USA

Peg Neuhauser is a highly effective speaker on the subjects of team building, communication, negotiations, organizational conflict, managing change, and improving the culture and spirit of the workplace. For over sixteen years, she has worked as a management consultant. As an internal consultant for the Hospital Corporation of America, she developed services and programs for corporate hospital clients. She has also managed financial systems conversions, working with technical and accounting divisions. In 1984, she established PCN Associates, which specializes in communications training. Neuhauser is the author of Tribal Warfare in Organizations and Corporate Legends & Lore: The Power of Storytelling as a Management Tool.
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Jim Pancero, CSP , Ohio USA

Jim Pancero is a nationally-recognized sales and persuasion consultant with practical hands-on experience as a top performer for IBM. In his 20 years on the front line selling consumer and industrial products for IBM, Mr. Pancero earned the company's highest recognition for sales achievement. He received IBM's "Golden Circle" designation and was a recipient of the prestigious "Regional Manager's Award." Today, he presents intensive programs that focus on advanced selling skills, sales management skills, strategic planning, and corporate positioning skills.
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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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Harry Paul , California USA

Harry's first book, FiSH! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results, coauthored with Steven Lundin and John Christensen, became a national best-seller. Harry has an incredibly humorous, yet compelling way of relating information that can be instantaneously applied to an individual's life or to an entire work environment. His real life stories touch the heartstrings, illustrate the subtle, and reveal the secrets to long-lasting success. Harry Paul has spoken before audiences large and small, non-profit, and corporate. His clients include such nationwide companies as, Astra Zeneca, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Sacramento Department of Public Works, and Healthcare Management Systems, Inc., to name just a few.
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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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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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Billy Riggs , California USA

Like his professional speaking peers, Billy Riggs' message has the enduring power to change lives. This is where any similarity with other speakers ends! Billy graphically illustrates his messages by skillfully weaving humor, audience participation, and world-class illusions into one seamless presentation. Some are great speakers, others are great illusionists... Billy Riggs is both! Billy has been booked for pure entertainment by some and pure message by others. Most clients request a fun-filled and highly entertaining program mix with a solid message and lots of take home value. Audiences will be riveted to their seats one minute and rolling in the aisles with laughter the next. They'll talk about Billy's programs for years to come!
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Ed Rigsbee, CSP , California USA

Rigsbee is the author of the business strategy book, "The Art of Partnering" and a regularly published trade author on partnering and business relationships. His expertise comes from both the streets of hard experience and the world of higher education. He has been in the trenches of business life and has been an adjunct professor at the Universities of California, Santa Barbara and the California Lutheran University. Rigsbee`s wisdom and insight will help your company or organization achieve your desires through successful business relationships.
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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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Martha Rogers, Ph.D , Ohio USA

Business 2.0 magazine named Martha Rogers, Ph.D. one of the nineteen most important business gurus of the past century. The World Technology Network named her as “an innovator most likely to create visionary ripple effects.” Recognized for the past decade as one of the world’s leading experts on customer-based business strategies and growing customer value, Dr. Rogers is an acclaimed author, a world class-class speaker, and a founding partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, the world’s leading customer-focused management consulting firm, based in Norwalk, CT, and boasting an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients. Gartner Group has positioned Peppers and Rogers Group as the only CRM-services firm that can help clients with both “vision” and “implementation” of their customer strategy. Martha’s experience, expertise, and ability to think out of the box makes her equally popular with media interviewers, speaking event planners, and Fortune 1000 executives seeking to learn how to compete in the Informa
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Michael Rogers , New York USA

One of the nation's leading experts on the impact of technology on business and society, Michael Rogers is editor and general manager of Newsweek.com and a contributing editor for Newsweek. He is also vice president of Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive, the electronic publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. At Newsweek, he created the magazine's award winning technology section, covering topics ranging from Chernobyl and genetic engineering to computers and the Internet. He currently serves as managing editor of Newsweek Interactive, for which he produced the world's first CD-ROM news magazine as well as areas on Prodigy, America Online, and the Internet. A captivating speaker and frequent guest on radio and television, Rogers has addressed audiences worldwide ranging from venture capitalists and corporate executives to educators, college students, and the general public.
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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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David Russell , California USA

David is a 30 year business veteran, author of Success With People and 40 Days to Success With People, coach, professional speaker and visionary entrepreneur. Companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and their channel partners are turning to David and his team to improve the way they hire, manage, develop and retain top talent. His Success With People system helps leaders save time, better focus on key priorities, and increase revenues through more fully engaging employees. David has been published in many magazines, including VARBusiness and IHRIM Link (Int’l Association of Human Resource Information Management).


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John Rutledge, Ph.D , California USA

Dr. Rutledge has an active lecture practice, giving talks on global economics, financial markets, investment strategies, the impact of technology on the economy, and strategies for owning and growing the value of a business. After tours of duty in both academics and government policy, he has started, run, chaired, owned, and harvested dozens of companies, and has managed real money in both mutual funds and private equity.
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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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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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Milo Shapiro , California USA

In his guest speaking engagements, Milo uses personal tales, historic events and exercises of improvisation to bring awareness to issues of communication, risk-taking, teamwork, management, sales, and more.
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Gene Siciliano, CMC , California USA

Gene has developed a 12-module series of corporate seminars called "The Financial Management Series", devoted to teaching financial management skills to the non-financial executives on the management team. This thorough, step-by-step course guides business professionals to a thorough understanding of the key building blocks of finance, such as financial statements, business financing options, strategic & operating planning and budgets, so that they can better fulfill their planning and financial management responsibilities for the company.
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Management Development Specialists Maryland USA

Management Development Specialists, Inc. is dedicated to providing cost effective and unique training programs for its clients. Our trainers have a combined sixty years experience in the training and development field.
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Robert Spector , Washington USA

An expert on successful corporate culture, Robert Spector combines astute observations on corporate culture with wry humor. He is the author of Amazon.com Get Big Fast and co-author of the international bestseller, The Nordstrom Way: The inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company and corporate histories of companies as diverse as Eddie Bauer and Kimberly-Clark. The Nordstrom Way entertainingly examines how Nordstrom has set the standard of customer service. Spector's presentations break down the elements of the Nordstrom customer service culture and philosophy and explain how they can be adopted by virtually every kind of organization. A frequent guest on national radio and television, Spector is currently working on a ground breaking book detailing the common management principles of Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks and other dominant Seattle companies.
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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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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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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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Joe Torre , New York USA

On November 2, 1995, Joe Torre was named Manager of the New York Yankees. In becoming the 31st manager in team history, he joined Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra and Dallas Green as the fourth skipper to wear both Yankee and New York Met uniforms. At the podium, Torre offers an inspiring story of personal and professional triumph. Drawing on championship memories and his own inspiring story of cancer recovery, he energizes people to compete and to find within themselves the will to succeed. He also demonstrates the need for selfless teamwork as a key component to reaching a common goal.
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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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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.
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Colin Turner , Monaco European Union

Described by Time ‘as a leading authority on business, lifestyle & management’ Colin Turner is the author of 15 books - renown for offering thought-provoking concepts in a practical format and published in 33 languages - including Japan’s No. 1: Born to Succeed.
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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.
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Dave Ulrich , Michigan USA

Dave Ulrich is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan where he is on the core faculty of the Michigan Executive Program, Co-Director of Michigan's Human Resource Executive Program, and Advanced Human Resource Executive Program. His teaching and research addresses the question: how to create an organization that adds value to employees, customers, and investors? He studies how organizations change fast, build capabilities, learn, remove boundaries, and leverage human resource activities.
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Patricia Weber , Virginia USA

Repeatedly clients say Pat's thoroughness in preparation and tailored programs deliver a powerful, high-energy session with quick results. You'll deliver a satisfying experience to accommodate the needs of today's most demanding audiences who want information-rich content and you'll get the outcomes you desire with right-on-target accuracy. With an enthusiastic and participatory delivery you get the right ingredients for a high yield. And you'll benefit with heightened performance for greater revenues, profits and more favorable customer relationships. You can be sure you've selected the right person when you select Pat for your meeting event or training needs.
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

Hendrie Weisinger, PhD , Connecticut USA

Dr. Weisinger helps organizations improve productivity, speed adaptation to change, improve employee retention, and bolster their competitiveness by teaching them to develop emotional intelligence among their staff. Weisinger is a leading authority of the application of emotional intelligence. He presents to many Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Merck, Bristol Myers, and Hewlett Packard. He has made over 300 appearances on such programs as Today and Oprah and has been featured in numerous newspapers and national magazines. Weisinger currently teaches in a number of executive education and MBA programs including the Wharton School, NYU, University of Washington and UCLA.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Phil Wexler , California USA

Phil Wexler worked his way through college as a salesman by day and an entertainer by night. After several years in the burglar alarm business, Phil realized that there had to be a better, more professional way to sell than the old hard sell methods he had been taught. Thus, the book hailed as the best sales book of the times, Non-Manipulative Selling, was developed and Phil, along with his co-author, became full time professional speakers.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Orvel Ray Wilson, CSP , Colorado USA

An electrifying keynoter, inspiring sales trainer, and journeyman seminar leader, Wilson`s work has taken him to hundreds of cities all over the US, Australia, Canada, England, Germany and even the now former Soviet Union. An internationally acclaimed writer and speaker on sales, marketing, and management, he is the co-author of the run-away best-selling book, Guerrilla Selling Unconventional Weapons and Tactics for Increasing Your Sales. Orvel Ray is a principle in The Guerrilla Group, Inc., an international training and consulting firm, serving clients worldwide.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@Speaking.com

Walter Wriston , New York USA

During his seventeen year reign as Chairman and CEO of Citicorp/Citibank, Walter Wriston was widely-regarded as the most powerful banker in the world. Wriston is also recognized as being among the most innovative and technologically savvy financiers of our time. Want to know about the future of money? Talk to Walter Wriston.
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

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