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Ken
Blanchard
Author of the One Minute Manager
series, Ken is a gregarious, sought-after and prominent author, speaker and
business consultant, he is universally characterized by friends, colleagues and
clients as one of the most insightful, powerful and compassionate men in
business today. A multitude of Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing
entrepreneurial enterprises have benefited from his unique approach to managing
and developing people.
DAN
BUETTNER
Dan
Buettner has unlocked the secrets of longevity. With funding from the National
Institute on Aging, Dan led team that found the longest-lived pockets (Blue
Zones) in the world and discovered their secrets. His National Geographic cover
story on the topic was the third best-selling cover in the magazine's history
and has been featured on Good Morning America, Anderson Cooper 360 and soon to
be featured in a Barbara Walters special. His presentations use National
Geographic images to take audiences to the world’s four Blue Zones and tell
their stories. The presentation ends with a simple formula that shows people how
to add up to 10 good years to their lives. Dan’s forthcoming book, Living In the
Blue Zone--8 Habits of the World's Longest-Lived People was released in January
‘08.
Jack
Canfield
One of America's leading experts in the development of human potential and
personal effectiveness, Jack Canfield is both a dynamic and entertaining speaker
and a highly sought after trainer with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire
audiences toward increased levels of self-esteem and peak performance. His
powerful talks and results-oriented seminars on achievement, motivation,
personal power, and the psychology of success bring about immediate changes and
long-term growth in all kinds of individuals and groups.
Barbara
Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college
and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job,
however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the
country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a
waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the
next twenty-five years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar
real estate business.
Thomas
DEFRANK
One of Washington's most respected
President-Watchers, Thomas M. DeFrank is a veteran political journalist and
author. His reporting has been praised as riveting by The New Times. The New
York Times ranked him as one of the country’s best political ghostwriters.
And former President Gerald R. Ford calls him “one of the finest journalists
I have ever known. Everyone I know feels the same way: you are fair, trustworthy
and professional.” As Washington bureau chief for The New York
Daily News since 1996, he directs coverage of the nation’s capital for the
country’s second-largest metropolitan daily newspaper.
SARAH FERGUSON
Sarah Ferguson first stepped on to the world stage in 1986 when she
married Britain’s Prince Andrew, second son of Her Majesty The Queen
and The Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke and Duchess of York have two
daughters, Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York (age 19) and
Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York (age 17). Divorced in 1996
after ten years of marriage the Duke and Duchess divorced remain
close friends and co-parents. The Duchess is widely admired for her “comeback spirit” – having
created a new life as a single working mother who successfully
balances motherhood with a demanding international career that spans
business, advocacy, publishing, broadcasting and film, philanthropy
and public speaking.
Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula
for making his way to the top through a powerful, balanced combination of
marketing acumen and networking savvy. Both Forbes and Inc Magazines have
designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals. Now, as Founder
& CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic
consulting and training services to increase company sales, and enhance personal
careers.
Laurence Haughton
Laurence Haughton is one fast thinker, a fact he proved when he redefined speed
as a competitive tool for business in his New York Times/Wall Street Journal
best seller, It’s not the big that eat the small…It’s the FAST that eat the
slow. Now Haughton is doing the same for follow-through in It’s Not What You
Say... It’s What You Do – How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break
Your Company.
Annemarie Huste
Mix equal parts of chef
extraordinaire, cookbook author, food stylist, culinary teacher and
television cooking-show host, add a generous measure of humor, a dash of
showmanship and a twist of elegance, combine well and the result? The
quintessential host — Chef Annemarie Huste.
Spencer
Johnson
Spencer Johnson, M.D.
is an international best-selling author whose books help millions of people
discover simple truths they can use to have healthier lives with more success
and less stress. He is the Originator and co-Author of The One Minute Manager
the #1 Neil,
York Times
bestseller, written with legendary management consultant Kenneth
Blanchard, Ph.D. The book continues to appear on Business Bestseller Lists and
has become the most popular management method in the world.
HARVEY MACKAY
Harvey Mackay is author of five New York Times bestsellers. His first two books
-- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware The Naked
Man Who Offers You His Shirt -- have been translated into 35 languages and
distributed in 80 countries. Both books were New York Times #1 bestsellers and
are also listed by the Times among the top 15 inspirational business books of
all time. Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty was released in
April 1997, and Pushing The Envelope in January 1999. Both cracked the
New York Times bestseller list. Harvey’s latest book, We Got Fired! … And
It’s The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us, was released on Oct. 1, 2004,
and became his third New York Times #1 bestseller. Harvey interviewed 28
Americans who were fired and landed on their feet – people like Muhammad Ali,
Michael Bloomberg, Lou Holtz, Billie Jean King, Larry King, Robert Redford, Joe
Torre, Lesley Visser, Jesse Ventura and many more. His books have sold more
than 10 million copies worldwide.
Dave
Peltzer
From helping authors publish their books to managing the speaking career of Dr.
Ken Blanchard coauthor of The One Minute Manager, Gung Ho and Raving Fans, Harry
Paul has gained a unique perspective and experience in the field of people
development. This knowledge has earned Harry a Ph.D. in experience. For over 20
years he has been involved with best selling business authors and the philosophy
of helping people be the best they can.
Don Peppers
Recognized for over a
decade as one of the leading authorities on Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) business strategies, Don Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding
partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, the world’s leading customer-focused
management consulting firm. Don’s vision, perspective and thoughtful
analysis of global business practices has earned him a ranking by Accenture’s
Institute for Strategic Change among the “Top 50 Business
Intellectuals.” Business 2.0 Magazine has named him one of the
“foremost business gurus of our times,” and the World Technology Network has
cited Don as an “innovator most likely to create visionary ‘ripple effects’.”
Martha
Rogers, Ph.D.
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
Information Age.
Diane Smith
Diane is the co-host of the top rated Morning Show on WTIC-AM News Talk 1080
with Ray Dunaway. An Emmy award winning TV journalist, Diane Smith produces
programs for Connecticut Public TV, based on her very popular series "Positively
Connecticut". "Positively Connecticut" searches out the inspiring, warm, funny,
and sometimes downright strange stories that give Connecticut its character. Her
book by the same name has been a best seller for The Globe Pequot Press, and the
popular sequel Absolutely Positively Connecticut was published in 2000.
One reviewer called Diane’s latest book Christmas in Connecticut “the
comfort gift of the season.”
Mark
Stevens
The most successful business today isn't part of the Fortune 500. With
approximately three billion customers - about half the global population - Many
people don't realize that it's a business at all, says bestselling author and
business maverick Mark Stevens. When Stevens refers to the world's best
business, he's actually talking about the world's great religions. In his new
book, GOD IS A SALESMAN, Stevens reveals what religion and spiritual practices
can teach us about business, sales, and customer relations.
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