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Stacy Allison
At the age of 21, Stacy attempted her first major climb, Mt. Huntington in Alaska. Her climbing partner broke his ice ax only 200 feet from the top and they turned around. Although she did not summit, the undaunted desire to climb big mountains began in earnest. "Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes." The following year, Stacy did reach the top of Mt. McKinley, and was part of the first successful women's ascent of Ama Dablan the 22,495-foot peak known as Nepal's
Matterhorn.
Rocky Bleier
Rocky Bleier's
life story ‑ a gripping tale of courage on both the football
fields of America and the battle fields of Vietnam ‑has held
audiences in rapt attention for years. Yet, the motivational
message behind it, detailing how ordinary people can become
extraordinary achievers, defines success in the new American
century. With the same optimism, sense of humor and steadfast
determination that were his trademarks as a Pittsburgh Steelers
running back, Rocky Bleier takes audiences from his early years
through his professional career and talks about the lessons he
learned along the way ....lessons that we all can benefit from.
Bob Costas
Bob
Costas is one of America’s most recognized and accomplished sports
broadcasters. He has covered sports for nearly 30 years, 22 of those with
NBC. His work has earned him
14 Emmy® Awards,
12 in sports broadcasting, one for his informational series, 'Later With
Bob Costas,' and one for his riveting HBO show, 'On the Record with Bob
Costas.'
Larry Csonka
Larry Csonka and power running became synonymous in the NFL
of the 1970's. As a player
with the powerhouse Miami Dolphins he charged so tenaciously through
defenses that his name became a household word and his nickname, Zonk,
became a new American verb. From
1971-1973, he led the Dolphins to three Super Bowl appearances, earning
All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors along the way.
He and halfback Jim Kiick were affectionately known as "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," and were key players in the Dolphins'
perfect 17-0-4 season in 1972. Csonka
earned the MVP award of the Dolphins' Super Bowl VIII victory over the
Minnesota Vikings by rushing 33 times for 145 yards and two touchdowns.
SETH DAVIS
In just a short
time, and at a relatively young age, Seth Davis has established
himself as one of the most accomplished and respected voices in the
worlds of print and broadcast journalism. Seth is also an
experienced Master of Ceremonies and public speaker whose
motivational message “Define Yourself” is tailored to resonate with
young and older audiences alike.
Since joining CBS Sports in 2003, Davis has become one of the faces
of March Madness through his position as an on-air college
basketball studio analyst. He serves as the lone analyst in the CBS
studio during the network’s “At the Half” segments for all regular
season games, and his reportage continues throughout the NCAA
Tournament alongside his studio partners, Greg Gumbel and Clark
Kellogg.
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.
Bud
Greenspan
Bud Greenspan has been called
the foremost writer/producer/director of sports films and one of the
world's leading sports historians. In 1997 he was awarded a George Foster
Peabody Award, the broadcast and cable industry's most prestigious honor,
for his lifetime of work.
Greg Gumbel
The
CBS slogan "Welcome Home" has special meaning for sportscaster
Greg Gumbel. A veteran of sports broadcasting for more than 25 years, Greg
has returned to CBS as host and play-by-play announcer.
Having worked with some
of the greatest names in sports television - Terry Bradshaw, John Madden,
Joe Morgan, Bill Walton, Mike Ditka, Cris Collinsworth and Joe Gibbs -
Greg adds former NY Giants quarterback, Phil Simms, as they team
as CBS' lead NFL announce team.
Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton is also a role model, a humanitarian, and a cancer survivor. As a
public speaker, he exudes enthusiasm and inspiration. As a figure skater, he
is forever bridging the gap between sport and entertainment. As a role model, he
contradicts the saying that "good guys finish last." As a humanitarian, he
avails himself to any plight that will improve mankind. But, more important, as
a cancer survivor he is a constant reminder that with fortitude and
determination, anything is possible. Scott's much publicized bout with
testicular cancer in 1997, and his November, 2004 diagnosis of a benign,
non-cancerous pituitary brain tumor, from which he is successfully recovering,
has touched him with a special insight into life and the human condition.
Peter Hillary
People are
inspired by great adventure. And the name Hillary is
synonymous with adventure. Peter Hillary is a powerful and
dynamic speaker who takes his audience “with him” on one of his
many extraordinary experiences: to the summit of Mt Everest;
traversing Antarctica to the South Pole; feeding a pod of
sharks; or making a terrifying descent of a vast vertical rock
face in a vicious storm on K2. He ably connects such dramatic
achievements to the challenges faced by individuals and teams
striving for excellence, coping with change, and overcoming
obstacles in their own fields.
BRIAN HOLLOWAY
Hired by 258 Fortune 500 Companies from around the world - Brian
Holloway has set himself apart in delivering high performance value
for the hard charging corporate competitors.
Featured on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, USA Today, 700 Club, TBN -
Brian is recognized for his elite status as a America’s #1 TEAM
BUILDING expert.
His client list includes Wal-Mart, Albertsons, Honeywell, MBNA, Bank
of America, Apple, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, Cisco Systems, State Farm,
SalomonSmithBarney, Knight Trading, AIG, Reebok, DaimlerChrysler,
Best Buy, Wachovia Bank, and thousands more. Brian has been a
featured guest lecturer at Harvard's Business School, Yale
University, Stanford University, Princeton, New York Graduate School
of Business and Williams College.
Bruce Jenner
Bruce
Jenner captivated the world when he broke the world record by scoring
8,634 points in the decathlon at the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal and
earned the title, "World's Greatest Athlete." "I love life
and I want to LIVE it! Activity, variety and the next challenge around the
bend -- and our new baby girls, Kendall and Kylie - keep me excited and
inspired. I wouldn't have it any other way."
Tommy Lasorda
Regarded
by many as baseball's most popular ambassador, Tommy Lasorda led the U.S.
Olympic Baseball Team to a Gold Medal in Australia. He will begin his 51st
season in the Dodger organization and fifth as Vice President. He was
named Vice President on July 29, 1996 after retiring as manager, a
position he held for the previous 20 seasons. Lasorda assumed all player
personnel responsibilities when he was named the Dodgers'
interim General Manager on June 22, 1998.
JIM MORRIS
Jim Morris’ Cinderella story is
testimony to the power of dreams and their ability to inspire and
transform human life. Originally a top prospect, Jim’s dream of
becoming a major league player was derailed by serious arm injuries
before he got out of the lower minors. Instead, Jim got married,
raised a family of three, and got his college degree before becoming
a high school science teacher and baseball coach in West Texas. His
baseball career was reduced to playing in beer leagues and throwing
batting practice to his high school baseball team.
Neal Petersen
Neal speaks to audiences all over the globe about realizing goals and turning
challenges into advantages. His expertise is unique and is based on his own real
life experiences. Neal is among millions of people born with disadvantages. His
were physical, financial and political. Neal is no stranger to adversity. He has
faced and overcome hurdles most of us cannot imagine. He was born crippled with
only one hip joint, and black in a working class family during South Africa’s
racist era. Neal was the least likely person to become an international
sportsman and successful businessman.
ART SHAMSKY
Art Shamsky began his professional baseball career as an 18-year-old
with the 1960 Geneva Reds and homered in his first at-bat. A
roommate of Pete Rose that year, Art hit .271 and had a slugging
percentage of .480. His homers were second in the league and well
ahead of Tony Perez and Dick Allen. Shamsky led the league's
outfielders in assists and he made the All-Star team. Art moved up
to the Topeka Reds the next year and hit .288, slugging .469 and
hitting 15 home runs. In '62, the young outfielder was with the
Macon Peaches and contributed 16 home runs and a .284 mark as he
remained consistent in his climb up the minor league ladder.
David Miln Smith
You've
never met anyone like David Miln Smith. He's an American original. In the
tradition of Joseph Campbell's Hero with A Thousand Faces, David's resume
is the sort that defies convention and invites awe. His career as an
adventurer/humanist spans over three decades in his quest to discover,
experience, and embrace the highest and best of the human spirit. His
career has demanded that he become an expert on health & fitness, risk-taking,
world travel, outdoor adventure as a cross-cultural tool, team building,
and making friends.
Jim Morris
Jim Morris' Cinderella
story is testimony to the power of dreams and their ability to
inspire and transform human life. Originally a top prospect,
Jim’s dream of becoming a major league player was derailed by
serious arm injuries before he got out of the lower minors.
Instead, Jim got married, raised a family of three, and got his
college degree before becoming a high school science teacher and
baseball coach in West Texas. His baseball career was reduced
to playing in beer leagues and throwing batting practice to his
high school baseball team.
John Naber
At the 1976 Olympic Games in
Montreal, he captured four Gold Medals, one Silver, and broke four World
Records. His World marks in the 100 and 200-meter backstroke lasted an
amazing seven years after his retirement.
During his athletic career he won 25 National AAU titles, and won a record
10 NCAA individual titles (in 12 swims), while leading his team to four
undefeated seasons, and in 1977, he won the 1977 James E. Sullivan Award
as our Nation's Outstanding Amateur Athlete.
Diana Nyad
In 1979, Diana Nyad plunged into the history books by completing the longest
swim in history. The distance was 102.5 miles from the coast of Bimini to the
Florida shore. This incredible world record, the longest swim by a man or a
woman without the aid of a cage, still stands today. Diana was front page news
throughout the Western world, the lead story for Walter Cronkite on the CBS
Evening News, and many times guest of the Tonight Show. For ten years, Diana was
the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. She broke numerous world
records, including the fifty-year-old mark for circling Manhattan Island, in
1975 (7 hours, 57 minutes).
Rudy Ruettiger
Against
all odds on a gridiron in South Bend, Indiana, Daniel "RUDY"
Ruettiger in twenty seven seconds, carved his name into history books as
perhaps the most famous graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
In
1993, TRISTAR Productions immortalized his life story with the blockbuster
film, RUDY. Written and produced by Angelo Pizzo and David Anspaugh, the
award-winning team who brought us HOOSIERS, the critically acclaimed RUDY
received "Two Thumbs Up" from Siskel and Ebert and continues to
inspire millions worldwide.
Jim Tunney
Drawing from 28 years experience as an educator and 31 years as an NFL
referee, Jim Tunney is the celebrity speaker for team building,
leadership, peak performance, motivation, customer service and wellness.
Recognized as a speaker who educates, motivates and entertains, Tunney
works with Fortune 500 companies and international organizations teaching
the skills needed for S.M.A.R.T. goals and effective action. His
credentials rank him in the top 2% of professional speakers working today.
Peter Vidmar
Peter Vidmar became the premier
male gymnast for the United States at the 1984 Olympics. As USA
team captain, he led his teammates to their stunning gold medal
victory over the Peoples Republic of China. Peter went on to win
the Silver Medal in the all-around competition, making him the
only American male ever to do so. And with a perfect score of
10, he also captured the Gold Medal on the pommel horse. A
member of the US Olympic Hall of Fame, Peter is the highest
scoring US male gymnast in Olympic history.
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