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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.”

 
   

Emory Austin
Emory Austin delivers value in keynotes, presentations, and seminars. Her themes of leadership development, customer retention, increasing market share, the transformation of change into vision (and other topics) resonate in audiences for years to come. Her exceptional gifts as a storyteller allow her to explore anything and everything to stimulate productive imagination and create the unique climate of fresh insights and understandings, on a minute-by-minute occurrence.
 
 
Dr. Bertice Berry
No one defies stereotypes, generalizations or cliches more than Dr. Bertice Berry. Growing up poor in Wilmington, Delaware, the sixth of seven children, Bertice was told by a high school teacher that she was "not college material". Fortunately, there was another teacher who believed that she was destined for more. Berry applied to several schools without any idea how she would pay the tuition if she were accepted. The day her application arrived at Jacksonville University in Florida, a wealthy benefactor called the Admissions Department looking for a potential student "who could swim if they had the right backing," and might sink without it.

 
 
Michael Broome
Michael Broome graduated from Appalachian State University, where he designed his major on the subject of leadership. He made a "D" in the only public speaking course he ever took! Upon graduation he started his own marketing business and in 1979 he began a speaking profession, which has enabled him to address over 3000 audiences throughout North America and the world. His clientele rank among the Fortune 500 and the associations to which they belong.
 
 
SCOTT BURROWS
Scott used his powerful success formula -
Vision, Mindset and Grit during his entire life to maximize untapped potential, excel and surpass the competition. He played college football at FSU under Coach Bobby Bowden. He was a # 1 ranked kick-boxer having his last fight broadcast by ESPN. At the age of 19, Scott's life took a dramatic turn - he was a passenger in a single car accident which left him paralyzed from the chest down. Diagnosed a quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair, Scott would not be sidelined. He applied his formula of Vision, Mindset and Grit and went on to lead a very rewarding and fulfilling personal and professional life.
 

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.
 
 
CHRISTINE CASHEN
Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride.  Christine Cashen delivers a fast –paced, hilarious program with useful content that makes her a sought after speaker worldwide.  For more than 10 years, she has jazzed an amazing variety of audiences throughout the United States, Canada, South Africa and Australia. Christine is an authority on sparking innovative ideas to handle conflict, reduce stress and energize employees.

 
 
Capt. Gerald Coffee
A native of Modesto, California, Captain Gerald Coffee joined the Navy in 1957 after his graduation from UCLA. He received his navy wings in 1959, and served his country as a naval officer for 28 years. For over seven of those years (1966 to 1973) -- one fourth of his career -- he served as a prisoner of war in the communist prisons of North Vietnam.
 
 
LINDA EDGECOMBE
Linda Edgecombe is an internationally renowned award-winning humorous speaker, trainer and consultant. She is a best selling author who energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. Her audiences are motivated and shown how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves. Change has never been this painless!
 
 
Susan Ershler
Susan’s record would be remarkable enough if it only detailed her business achievements. During her 23-year corporate career, she has held a series of increasingly responsible executive positions in the sales divisions of Fortune 500 companies. She led teams to sales records, beating quotas from $1 million to $600 million. Ending as a vice president of sales for a multi-national telecommunications corporation, she was responsible for their fast-growing Internet division. She also worked at US WEST, United Technologies, FedEx-Kinko’s, and GTE (Verizon).
 
 
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.

   
    
Anthony Galie
Anthony has a B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers University, he also attended Florida Atlantic University for his Masters Degree.  In addition to his own practice as a psychotherapist, he has published numerous articles in leading Trade and Industry Journals.  For over 18 years, he has helped motivate many of the country’s leading corporations including Federal Express, Sears, Merrill Lynch, National Association of Home Builders, Prudential, Harris Corporation, Bell South, Pitney Bowes and has twice addressed the Million Dollar Round Table. 

Yossi Ghinsberg
Author of "Heart of the Amazon", Yossi Ghinsberg is one of the most exciting speakers you are likely to encounter anywhere today. Yossi's message is universal and inspirational - his manner soothing and reassuring, his style unassuming yet absorbing and most importantly, his messages can be taken further.
 
 
Steve Gilliland
Since the turn of the century, Steve Gilliland is one of the most sought-after and top rated speakers in the country.  Steve’s motto is:  “If you take care of people, the business will follow.”  Implementing this principle, he has helped people grow their business and expand their life by teaching them to rethink their work, their relationships, and themselves.  Organizations throughout the world have grown more profitable by improving their #1 resource – their people.  Steve learned great compassion for people and commitment to a hard-work and balanced-life ethic, at the knee of this highly principled Christian mother.
  
  
Sam Glenn
Who is Sam Glenn?  Sam is creatively known as the “Chalk-Man.”  At 6’7”, Sam graduated from Xavier University on a basketball scholarship. After graduation, he ran a business in a multi-million dollar industry, but saw it instantly vanish before his eyes in a fire.  Riddled with depression, he spiraled until he was sleeping on borrowed floors and working as a nighttime janitor.  Eventually, a few small words took hold of him and motivated him to change his life, making him the huge success he is today.

  
  
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. 
   
  
Peter McLaughlin
A poll conducted by the Journal of Business Strategy named Peter McLaughlin, along with Tom Peters and Peter Drucker, as one of the top business speakers in the nation. Peter is the president of McLaughlin Company and author of CatchFire: A 7-Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Career. He also co-authored, Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business.
 
 
Will Miller
Dr. Will Miller is one of America's leading pop culture analysts. He has been Nick At Nite's resident Television Therapist and the host of their "Why We Watch" segments since 1992. Dr. Will's first book, "Why We Watch: Killing The Gilligan Within" was published by Simon & Schuster in the fall of 1996. Will is in great demand as a speaker to corporations across the United States and Canada, addressing the effects of our pop culture on personal growth, happiness and fulfillment. In fact, he was the highest rated speaker ever to appear at IBM's prestigious Golden Circle event, and is currently the spokesman for Microsoft's Carpoint project.
  
  
WES MOSS
Wes was born with a heart for entrepreneurship, beginning several successful business ventures in both high school and college. By his second year at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wes was running a franchised painting business with more than 20 employees and finished as the top producer in the state of North Carolina. After graduating with an Economics degree from Chapel Hill, he moved to Atlanta, where he became a Vice President at one of the world’s largest investment firms in just five short years. As a Certified Financial Planner ™ Wes and his team manage more than $150 million dollars for entrepreneurs and business owners.
  
  
John Powers
John speaks to over one hundred groups a year, which includes business and professional people, educators, students and community groups. He has spoken before such organizations as American Express, AT&T, Arco Oil, the Chicago Buffs, General Dynamics, The International Association of School Business Officials, Mutual of New York, The National Association of Fraternity Advisors, Norwest Bank, Suimitomo Corporation, Sun Life of Canada, Union Carbide, U.S. Steel and the United States Post Office. He is the only speaker in the seventy-three year history of the seven thousand member Million Dollar Round Table to speak twice in four years on their main platform.
   
  
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.

 

  

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