1. the position or function of a leader: He managed to maintain his leadership of the
party despite heavy opposition.
2. ability to lead.
* The following names represent only a partial listing of available speakers.
Afterburner Seminars
Imagine your team running through a tunnel into a room filled with sandbags, parachutes, the sound of jets - with real United States Fighter Pilots there to shake-their hands and get them started on one of the most powerful seminars ever developed. Welcome to Afterburner Seminars, a cutting-edge training program designed to help your company achieve victory in today's business world.
Coach Paul Assaiante
Unless your sport is Squash, you’ve probably never heard of Paul Assaiante. Yet, he is the winningest coach in the history of college sports. As the head coach of the Trinity College Squash Team, over the past fifteen years he has been quietly building a legacy of teamwork, leadership and success that is unparalleled. Because of his dedication Trinity now holds the record for the longest winning streak of any college team, in any sport in history.
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.
Fernando Beltran
Disney Institute: Fernando Beltran brings
20 years of experience
as a leader in the
Disney organization plus
the business savvy of an
entrepreneur in the
financial services
industry to every Disney Institute program he facilitates.
In his first Disney
leadership role as a
Stage Manger, Fernando
was part of a dynamic
team of leaders
responsible for the
scheduling and daily
operation of the cast
and crew of multiple
live shows and events at Disney’s Hollywood
Studios™.
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.
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.
Noah Blumenthal
Noah Blumenthal is a bestselling and award-winning author and was named by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the world’s “Top 100 Minds in Personal Development.” As a keynote speaker and executive coach Noah helps individuals and organizations develop heroic leadership, and has worked with clients in the Fortune 500 in financial services, advertising, media, pharmaceuticals, professional services, utilities and consumer products.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Robin Crow
Robin Crow is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, business owner
and one of the most innovative guitarists in the world. His presentations
are an extraordinary blend of content rich teaching and high-octane
entertainment. From the moment Robin takes the stage you’ll be engaged in a
multi-sensory learning and entertainment experience… the result of 30 years of
delighting audiences with over 2000 presentations. As a successful
business owner, best selling author, acclaimed guitarist and national recording
artist, Robin knows what he’s talking about.
Chester Elton
Called the "apostle of appreciation," by the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest newspaper, and "creative and refreshing" by the New York Times, Chester Elton is co-author of several successful leadership books and is an in-demand speaker the world over. Elton’s books have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over half a million copies worldwide. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and The 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN.
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.
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.
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.
Jackie Freiberg
Dr. Jackie Freiberg and her husband, Kevin, have authored a third book, BOOM! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual! After 20 years of exposing the unconventional success strategies of businesses that are booming, the Freibergs have distilled this collective wisdom into seven essential choices for building cultures of commitment and accountability. BOOM! follows the Freibergs’ hugely successful, award-winning, best-seller, NUTS! Southwest Airlines Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
Kevin Freiberg
Dr. Kevin is the author of a new book called BOOM! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-as-Usual! BOOM! is about the choices leaders and their people must make to create a culture of commitment and accountability—a culture where people take charge of their lives at work and create the freedom to achieve extraordinary business results. BOOM! follows the Freibergs’ international bestseller NUTS! Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success (over 600,000 copies in print!).
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.
Carol Kinsey Goman
Carol Kinsey Goman is the president of Kinsey Consulting Services, a firm that specializes in developing "change-adept" organizations, whose clients include over 90 organizations in 16 countries. As a speaker, Carol presents keynote addresses and workshops for management conferences and major trade association conventions. As an executive coach, she works with senior managers on ways to become more effective leaders of change.
Adrian Gostick
Adrian Gostick is the author of several successful books on employee engagement and retention. The Carrot Principle by Simon & Schuster has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and The 24-Carrot Manager has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. In 2006, The Invisible Employee, from John Wiley & Sons also made the New York Times Best-seller list.
Peter Guber
Peter Guber has been a force in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Law and Juris Doctorate degrees and admission to the New York and California Bars, he was recruited by Columbia Pictures in 1968 while pursuing an MBA degree at New York University’s Graduate School of Business. Within three years, he became Studio Chief, and during his tenure at the creative helm, Columbia surged to record-breaking profits on the strength of such critically acclaimed box office hits as Shampoo, The Last Detail, and Tommy.
Susan Hansen
Sue Hansen is a national speaker, trainer and consultant, specializing in helping people become better people-it’s her mission and her passion. With an undergraduate degree in Psychology, post graduate work in business, certification as a behavioral analyst, a growth curve specialist and her many years experience in business ownership Sue’s clients have access to a broad and fresh perspective on issues facing the workforce and its’ leaders.
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.
Jason Jennings
Jason Jennings has spent twenty years founding and leading successful businesses and teaching other companies how to achieve their full economic potential.
He was the youngest radio station group owner in the nation and his unique and legendary programming and sales strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry. Later, he founded Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, a consulting firm that became the largest media consultancy in the world.
John Kotter
John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard, Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have been proven time and again.
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.
Glenn Llopis
Glenn Llopis, known as “the opportunity expert” is the prototype of the new entrepreneur whose success lies in steadfast character, passion for life and an ability to marry social responsibility with ground-breaking products and services. He combines a celebrated UCLA education with fast-tracked years at the Gallo Wine Company and Sunkist where he became the youngest senior manager in the company’s 100+ year history.
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.
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!"
Jim Murphy
Jim "Murph" Murphy, the Founder and CEO of Afterburner, Inc., has a unique and powerful mix of leadership skills in both the military and business worlds. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Murph joined the U.S. Air Force where he learned to fly the F-15. He has logged over 1,200 hours as an instructor pilot in the F-15 and has accumulated over 3,200 hours of flight time in other high-performance jet aircraft.
Cindy Novotny
Cindy Novotny is recognized by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) as one of nine most powerful and innovative speakers. Cindy has been branded the “Radical Mentor” by thousands of executives around the world for her straight forward, no nonsense approach to leadership. Cindy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Training Magazine, Successful Meetings, and broadcast live on the BBC. Cindy spans the globe speaking to vast audiences that range from line employees to top executives.
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.
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.”
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 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.
Tim Sanders
Tim Sanders is on a mission: to get your audience excited
about participating in social responsibility, sustainability and employee
development projects. Why? Companies that nurture people,
communities and planet will have stronger brands, better sales and healthier
bottom lines. He’s the author of Saving The World At Work: What companies
and individuals can do to go beyond making a profit to making a difference. His
first book, Love Is The Killer App: How To Win Business and Influence Friends,
was a New York Times and international best seller.
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.
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.
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.
Marvin Zonis
Marvin Zonis is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also heads Marvin Zonis + Associates, a political risk consulting firm in Chicago, and is a co-founder and Chairman of DSD, a software company based in Moscow and Chicago. At Chicago’s Business School, Zonis teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and E-Commerce. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business.
