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Murray Banks
Murray Banks is one of the nation's most sought-after speakers
in the area of lifestyle and its impact on performance. His
success as an educator, athlete and long-time professional
speaker, coupled with his genuine optimism and enthusiasm make
every presentation a starting point for personal and
professional growth.
rOBYN BENINCASA
Robyn Benincasa was born in Long Island, NY, but spent most of her youth in
Tempe, AZ, where she competed at the state and national level in gymnastics,
diving, and cross country. After graduating from Arizona State University with a
B.S. in Marketing, Benincasa accepted a pharmaceutical sales job in the San
Diego Territory and earned honors as “Rookie of the Year” in 1990.
Benincasa was shortly thereafter caught by
the triathlon bug, and ultimately went on to complete six Ironman races, with
two podium finishes in her age group in Kona, Hawaii. By 1995, however, she was
really tired of triathlon AND wearing panty hose to work, so she embarked on a
mission to live her dreams of becoming an adventure racer and firefighter.
Dr. Sheila Murray
Bethel
Recognized by Successful Meetings magazine as one of the 21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.
"High-energy and funny, timeless and timely, entertaining and
educational, powerful and poignant" are the words most often
used to describe Sheila's tailored presentations. As an applied
behavioral scientist Sheila brings a unique depth of sensitivity
to her specialties of: Change, Leadership, and Personal
Excellence Her combination of warmth and sensitivity along with
her expertise, substance, inspiration and humor invigorates and
energizes people to take action in their business and personal
lives.
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.
Norm Bossio
Norm Bossio is an independent management consultant, trainer,
and public speaker who provides technical assistance and
training in a wide variety of management areas throughout the
private and public sectors. Prior to founding Norm Bossio
Enterprises, he was a teacher, principal, and superintendent in
public schools. He also served for eight years as an adjunct
faculty member and consultant to the Management Certificate
Program at Stonehill College.
LARRY BRUDNICKI
The real-life Coast Guard Captain from “The “Perfect
Storm”
In Today’s Business Battlefield, You Need a Commander To Lead You to
Victory.
When you are facing strong competition in today’s ever changing and
volatile business climate, how will you
overcome the odds?
When it’s time to arm your teams with
strategies that can weather any storm, how
will you get them to make the right decision?
When you seek effective managers and
supervisors who can inspire and lead their teams,
how will you know who is ready to accept the
challenge?
By bringing a proven leader on board!
Ram Charan
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.
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.
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).
Steve Farber
What do you do
when popular, attractive-sounding terms like empowerment,
reengineering, leadership, and vision, smack up against the hard
wall of reality?
According to Steve Farber, former Vice President and "Official
Mouthpiece" of the Tom Peters Company, "For an innovative idea to be
transformed into productive behavior, your constituents need to
understand what's in it for them. Most often, people-and I put
managers in that category-don't change for the organization: they
change for themselves."
TOM FLICK
Following his successes as an NFL
quarterback, Rose Bowl Champion, Pac-10 Conference “Player of the
Year”; Tom Flick now applies his winning ways as a dynamic and
highly sought-after speaker to companies that include Microsoft,
Marriott, Starbucks, Merrill Lynch, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Shell Oil,
Boeing, NAPA Auto Parts, Safeco Insurance and the US Army Rangers. Tom draws on his exceptional ability to communicate clear business
solutions with humor, wit and razor-sharp insight as he addresses
over 70,000 men and women each year on high performance strategies
for leadership, teamwork, change, and personal growth. With a gift
for connecting with listeners’ hearts as well as their heads and
habits, Tom helps create more effective leaders.
JOHN FOLEY
To be a pilot
with the elite Blue Angels, John Foley had to increase his performance by 300%.
He became one of the top pilots in the world, applying principles that would
become the basis for his unique performance framework. John went on to attend
the Stanford Graduate School of Business and to work in venture capital in
Silicon Valley. Using his experience with the Blue Angels as a model, he
developed methods and tools for achieving high levels of success. He founded
CenterPoint Companies in order to share his insights and techniques with others,
positioning clients to achieve high performance in both their professional and
personal lives.
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.
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.
DAVID
GOLDSMITH
David Goldsmith is President and co-founder of MetaMatrix Consulting Group LLC.
Over the past 20 years David has founded or co-founded nine businesses ranging
from distribution to manufacturing to advertising. In 1999, David sold his
14-year-old Syracuse, NY based Image Promoters, Inc. which he co-founded in 1986
to Proforma Associates, a 400-location franchise. He has been a consultant to
various industries including telemarketing, high tech, logistics, retailing,
hospitality, tourism, and manufacturing. Working with business owners, and
corporate and mid-level management, David rapidly creates strategies that win in
the marketplace.
Linwood Hart
Lin Hart is a leader who brings years of hands on experience to
his topics, Change, Leadership and Team Building. As A former
executive with AT&T Network Systems, now Lucent Technologies, he
was selected to lead the strategic planning effort that formed
AT&T Network Systems International Engineering Group.
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.
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. During this time he lead
the team that developed and executed strategic marketing and
communications plans that enabled a leading U.S. brand to become a global
leader and household name in it's category.
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.
Robert
Kriegel
New
York Times bestselling author: If it ain't broke...BREAK IT! Sacred Cows
Make the Best Burgers, and Inner Skiing.
Commentator - National Public Radio's Marketplace Program.
Dr. Kriegel presents bold, innovative, "out of the box"
strategies Customized to help you take advantage of the changes,
challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.
U.S. News and World Report called Kriegel one of the country's leading
authorities on change and human performance. A former all-American
athlete, and pioneer in sports psychology, Kriegel has coached many
Olympic and professional teams.
Frank Maguire
Frank
Maguire is President of Hearth Communications Group, a global
consulting firm in the field of marketing and employee/customer
relations, based in Westlake Village CA. He is one of corporate
America’s most knowledgeable authorities on quality,
productivity and communications. As the Senior Vice President
of Industrial Relations of Federal Express, Frank is
acknowledged as creator of the personnel, communications and
employee relations programs that made the company the
multi-billion dollar success story of the past two decades. He
was a key component on the management team that turned the
‘absolutely positively overnight’ from a hope to a guarantee.
He created the corporate culture, which resulted in Federal
Express being named “The Top Corporation of the Decade” by
Fortune Magazine.
David McNally
"There exists
within all of us a longing to leave a legacy. We need to know that our
lives are important, that our being here matters."
His book, Even
Eagles Need a Push-Learning To Soar in a Changing World, has been
translated into five different languages and is now a standard text at
several universities. Pat Riley, one of the winningest coaches in NBA
history says, "It is a book for the nineties, you must read it!"
And Stuart Reeves, Senior Vice President of EDS adds, "If you truly
want to succeed in life, Even Eagles Need a Push will help you soar. It is
a rare combination of wonderful inspiration and practical ideas."
STEVE
MOELLER
Steve Moeller is committed to
transforming the investment industry to a more client-centered focus. He helps
investment advisors and financial institutions attract highly profitable
clients. Steve is a marketing and business strategist,
futurist, and coach. He creates innovative business development tools and
processes for his clients.
He has
over 30 years of experience in marketing, sales, and business development. He
uses his expertise to help financial advisors attract and retain wealthy
clients—and to develop and deliver value-added programs for financial
institutions.
William (Gus)
Pagonis
When
it comes to expertise in logistics and overall leadership in management of
very complex projects and organizations, few people are better qualified
than Gus Pagonis, a retired three-star U.S. Army General. Lieutenant
General Pagonis is widely recognized for his logistical achievements
particularly during Desert Shield/Storm. After successfully
masterminding logistics for the Gulf War and winning high praise from
General Norman Schwarzkopf, Pagonis left the Army in 1993 and was elected
Executive Vice President of Logistics for Sears Roebuck & Co. As
head of the Sears Logistics Group, he functions as the single point of
contact for all Sears’ logistics and is responsible for Vendor
Relations, Distribution, Transportation, Home Deliveries, Outlet Stores,
International Logistics and the integration of Information Systems to
cement it all together.
Dennis N.T.
Perkins, Ph.D.
Dennis N.T. Perkins, Ph.D. is President of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in the face of rapid change, economic adversity, sudden growth, and other demanding environments. Dr. Perkins has worked for over twenty years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 50 corporations to nonprofit associations. His clients include American Express,
Bose, Corning, GTE, Honeywell, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Marriott, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, United Technologies, and the State of Connecticut.
Ian Percy
To go deep, you have to come from the deep. Ian Percy is a man
who has searched his soul and now takes his satisfaction in
prodding major corporations and public institutions into a
reassessment of their individual and corporate spirituality.
The human spirit, he contends, is today's frontier for any
organization intent on success. Many people talk about change,
leadership, teamwork, motivation, etc ... but not like Ian
does. With limitless humor, he encourages, provokes, guides,
coaches and lifts organizations to a place filled with unifying
purpose and passion.
Fred Reichheld
Fred Reichheld is a director emeritus of Bain & Company and a
Bain Fellow. He is the founder of the firm's Loyalty Practice.
His pioneering work in the area of customer, employee and
investor retention has quantified the linkage between value,
loyalty and profits. This work forms the conceptual foundation
for the Loyalty Practice (unique among the major consulting
firms), which helps clients to achieve superior results through
improvements in customer, employee and investor loyalty.
Mark Sanborn
A
member of the prestigious Speakers Roundtable and recipient of the
exclusive CPAE Award from the National Speakers Association, Mark is
author of two books - Sanborn on Success and Teambuilt:
Making Teamwork Work -
and co-author of five other books. He is also a prolific audio and
video author. His video program "Teambuilding: How to Motivate and
Manage People" was the second-best selling video in America.
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.
ROB WALDMAN
Rob ‘Waldo’ Waldman -
The Wingman - delivers the message of maximizing performance in
competitive environments. He teaches organizations how to build trusting,
revenue producing relationships with their employees, partners, and customers
while relaying his personal experiences as a combat decorated fighter pilot and
businessman. He makes a striking parallel that is memorable and exciting and
brings fighter-pilot energy and passion into each story and illustration.
Ben Zander
Benjamin
Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic since its
formation twenty years ago. Mr. Zander, who was born and educated in
England, began to compose at the age of nine. He studied with England's
leading composer, Benjamin Britten, and his close associate Imogen Holst,
daughter of Gustav Holst. At fifteen, Zander was invited to Florence to
study with the great Spanish cello virtuoso Gaspar Cassado.
For the next five years he traveled throughout Europe performing as
a chamber musician. After earning a degree at University College in London
he did graduate work at Harvard and in New York on a Harkness Fellowship.
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