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BILL ACHESON
Bill Acheson is an expert in nonverbal communication. Since 1985, Bill has
taught communication at the University of Pittsburgh. As a keynote speaker, he
uses his knowledge of nonverbal communication - body language - to teach
professionals how to project themselves with greater impact. In the process they
also learn to interpret the subconscious messages sent by others. Presenting
academic research with humor and an engaging personality, Bill Acheson presents
a model so compelling that people use the information before they leave the
room.
Dr Tony Alessandra
A marketing strategist and applied behavioral scientist, Dr. Tony Alessandra is
a leading authority on bottom-line marketing tactics and on building business
relationships for life. Recognized by Meetings & Conventions Magazine as "one of
America's most electrifying speakers," Tony combines an endearing charisma and a
command of his craft into a unique style that consistently captivates his
audiences.
BRUCE APPELSON
Bruce Appelson is an independent management consultant, executive coach,
facilitator, and keynote speaker who has been helping some of America’s largest
and most complex organizations achieve their maximum potential. Clients engage
Bruce for his expertise in team building, virtual teaming, sales training,
collaboration, change management, preventive health, leadership, conflict
resolution, competency assessment, performance management and executive
coaching. They are enthusiastic about his work. “Bruce used activities that
physically brought the audience to a realization of what he was talking about.”
“…presented his information in a way that will be remembered.”
Mary Boone
Mary Boone is president of Boone Associates, a consulting firm located in
Norwalk, CT. She speaks, coaches, and consults to individuals and organizations
about how they can improve their performance through innovative approaches to
communication and collaboration. Boone's fascination with communication in
organizations is a 20-year passion. As the head of her own consulting firm, she
not only coaches individual executives on their personal approaches to
communication, but she also helps them achieve enhanced organizational results
through her consulting, speeches and training.
ADAM CHRISTING
As one of the world's premiere interactive entertainers, Adam Christing has
amused, mystified, and delighted more than 3,000 separate audiences across North
America. Hailed as a "meeting planner's dream", Adam has become a favorite guest
performer, emcee, and after-dinner entertainer for hundreds of the top companies
and organizations in the world, including Toyota, Microsoft, Stanford
University, and scores of others. Adam became a member of the world famous Magic
Castle in Hollywood at the age of 17. Since then he has been featured on more
than 100 radio and TV shows, including Fox News, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, ABC
World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News. He's also been in national magazines
and newspapers, including USA Today, FORTUNE, The Chicago Sun Times, The Los
Angeles Times, and The New York Times.
CHERYL CRAN
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.
JULIET FUNT
Daughter of Allen Funt, creator of the Candid Camera television show, Juliet has
spent her life observing the hidden truths beneath our social selves. She won't
hide a camera in your office but will shine a light on the blind spots holding
you back from creating the life you dream of. Juliet lights up the platform with
a true wordsmiths love for the poetry of a well-turned phrase. She then backs up
her engaging words and rich stories with thought-provoking content that has made
her a nationally recognized expert in the areas of ethics, stress management,
communication and presentation skills. Her show biz genes are amplified by years
performing improvisational comedy on the professional stage and many, many hours
on the platform challenging her audiences to think deeper, laugh harder, and
change their lives more profoundly. She helps businesses, from top management to
front line employees, find and nurture the human capital that is the fuel behind
every organizational success.
Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg is a speaker, consultant, and author focused on helping
business owners, sales professionals, and managers grow their business. He
has developed work teams and managers in a number of industries including
insurance, financial services, retail, manufacturing, distribution, and
information technology since 1983. Michael has extensive expertise in the areas
of Networking, Sales, Leadership, Customer Service, Communication, Public
Speaking, and Career Focus.
Amanda Gore
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. She speaks on average at 150 conferences a year has many
different presentations and is very easy to work with. She is the
author of three books, several audio and video learning programs, and a frequent
radio and TV presenter. Amanda also has a regular newspaper column.
John Hersey
John Hersey knows what it takes to lead organizations. By the age of 28 John had
risen to the position of Vice President, Marketing for a $1 Billion Boston based
financial service organization. He left banking when the challenge of the
fast paced Advertising industry was presented to him. In just six years he
rose to the position of Senior Vice President for one of the largest Advertising
Agencies in the United States.
Mike Hourigan
Mike Hourigan, CSP, is known as “the workplace commentator” for the satirical,
real-world wisdom he brings to corporate and association audiences. His
original material draws from his international education, early blue-collar
jobs, and executive positions with Cargill Incorporated and Olympus Corporation.
These well-rounded experiences produce high-energy messages that captivate his
listeners and provide Mike with an uncanny ability to plug into individual
situations while relating with understanding and humor.
TONY JEARY
When many of
America’s top executives seek a strategic communications expert they are
eventually led to Strategic Facilitator, Tony Jeary. Jeary has invested his life
and career in helping others discover new clarity for their vision, develop
focus on direction and create powerful execution strategies that strategically
impact achievement and results. It doesn’t matter if the meeting participants
are business leaders, business development people, sales team members, reps,
management groups, or the entire organization.
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is Ireland's
leading authority on motivation, communication, leadership and personal
excellence. Author of the Best Selling
How? When You Don't Know How, new release Life: A Trip Towards Trust
and (audio cassette format) Compelling Communication Strategies, Kevin
has keynoted at many conferences around the world.
Loretta Malandro
As President of Malandro Communication Inc, Loretta Malandro has built a
powerful organization of communication experts who work worldwide. Since 1980,
the team at Malandro has focused on the corporate marketplace, partnering with
companies who believe that "people" are the strategic, differentiating
advantage. The Malandro team delivers services both in English and Spanish
throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Cam Marston
Consultant,
author, and speaker Cam Marston has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small
businesses throughout the world to improve multigenerational relations and
communications. He has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia
Inquirer, New Zealand Herald, Entrepreneur Magazine,
Charlotte Observer, HR Management Today, Money Magazine,
Fortune Small Business (FSB), on the BBC, and in and numerous trade journals
and city business journals across the United States.
JOE NAVARRO
For 25 years, Joe Navarro worked as an FBI special agent in the area
of counterintelligence and behavioral assessment. A founding member
of the National Security Division’s Behavioral Analysis Program, he
is on the adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University, the Institute for
Intergovernmental Research and remains a consultant to the
intelligence community.
He has appeared on Fox News, ABC News, the Today Show, CNN, Hardball
with Chris Mathews, and NPR Radio, as well as other media outlets,
on topics as varied as interviewing, terrorism, and body language.
Claire Raines
Business Results depend on your people. To win the battle for talent, businesses
must meet the challenges of today's generationally diverse workforce. Claire
Raines is considered one of the nation's leading experts on the generations at
work. She is an award-winning author, dynamic speaker, and highly-regarded
consultant.
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.
Jane Sanders
With an uncanny ability to connect quickly with her audiences, Jane Sanders uses
warmth, believability, and personality to inspire people to make positive
changes in their lives. Rich with specific how-to's, Jane's programs are
provocative, results-oriented, and highly inspirational. With common-sense
wisdom and contagious humor, she offers exceptional professionalism and
effective customization so that each program becomes an unforgettable learning
event.
Second City Communications
Second City Communications is the
division of North America’s foremost comedy institution that provides
entertainment, training and creative and multimedia services to businesses. With
over 40 years of experience across a wide variety of industries, Second City
Communications provides a fresh approach to corporate entertainment and training
by tapping into The Second City’s rich pool of talent and ideas. Specific
services include customized improv shows tailored for corporate events and
meetings, in-depth training and workshops for groups or individuals (topics
range from presentation skills workshops, to custom seminars that address, for
example, issues affecting performance within teams and organizations as a
whole), and video and multimedia services for clients who want to tell their
story with custom presentations utilizing Second City actors and writing.
Terry Sjodin
Terri Sjodin Is the president of Sjodin Communications, a public speaking, sales
training ant consulting firm. Terri is a full-time professional speaker and
trainer with a unique specialization in advancing the persuasive presentations
skills of professionals She Is the author of the highly acclaimed books, "SALESpeak
- Everybody Sells Something" and "MENTORING".
Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D., has counseled more than 7,000 high
performers and consulted with 400 leading corporations and health care
organizations. He has delivered over 4,000 keynotes to professional and lay
audiences worldwide, including invited addresses to the Million Dollar
Roundtable, the Entrepreneurship Institute, Conde Nast Publishers, State Farm
Insurance Co., AMA Leadership conferences, and numerous health care systems and
Fortune 500 companies. His high energy presentations empower audience members to
let go of what's holding them back, take charge of themselves, and make a
difference at work and home.
JACK STAHL
Jack Stahl began his career with The Coca-Cola Company in 1979, a time when the
company was being dramatically repositioned for growth. During a period of
accelerating performance, Jack represented the company to Wall Street and had
responsibility for planning and acquisitions. He then became controller of the
company, and at age thirty-six became Chief Financial Officer. Throughout his
tenure in finance at Coca-Cola, Jack played a key role in redefining the
company’s financial strategies, which created resources used to accelerate the
overall performance of the company.
James Taylor
Jim Taylor is an author, consultant, and adviser to some of America's leading
companies. He provides advice on future trends, branding, and marketing
strategies for deploying digital technology and most recently the role of trust
itself in the emerging global market place. Dr. Taylor serves as the Director of
the Organic Institute, and an adviser to Global Commerce, iVillage, AskJeeves,
FirstLook, PSMG/Globecaster, Schering-Plough, and a variety of other public and
charitable clients on both strategic marketing and business development issues.
PAUL TIEGER
Paul D. Tieger is an internationally recognized expert on — and the author of
five breakthrough books — about Personality Type. His credits include The Art
of SpeedReading People, Nurture by Nature, Just Your Type, The Personality Type
Tool Kit, and the 750,000 copy best-selling career guide Do What You Are.
The Founder and first Director of The New England Type Institute, Paul has
personally trained thousands of managers, team leaders, HR professionals, career
consultants, psychologists, attorneys, and educators.
Jack Trout
Instrumental in developing the vital approach to marketing known as
"positioning," he is responsible for some of the freshest ideas to be introduced
into marketing thinking in the last decade. The brand extension trap, marketing
warfare, and bottom-up marketing ideas are but a few of the many ideas that he
developed and illustrated convincingly.
Bruce Tulgan
Bruce Tulgan is
internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the
workplace. He is an advisor to business leaders all over the world, the author
of twelve different books and numerous management training programs, and a
sought-after keynote speaker and seminar leader.
Robert W. Wendover
Robert W. Wendover is the Managing Director of the Center for Generational
Studies. Over the past 20 years he has presented customized training and
keynotes for industry, education and government. He specializes in assisting
organizations with intergenerational relations and other management issues. |
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