Keith Abraham CSP 2001 Nevin Award Winner, 2002 Walter Dickman Award; Keynote Speaker of the Year 2012; Conference Speaker - Author - Workshop LeaderKeith Abraham, has become the world's premier thought leader on passionate performance and building passionate based cultures. CEO's of Billion-Dollar companies turn to Keith for inspiration, insights and ideas on how to bring the best out of their people and themselves. Through his work over the past 18 years inspiring people around the world to … [Read more...]
Gail Blanke
Gail Blanke is founder, president, and chief executive officer of Lifedesigns, LLC, a company whose vision is to empower men and women worldwide to live truly exceptional lives. Her column, “The Motivator” appears monthly in Real Simple magazine and she is featured as a Business and Career Coach on AOL Coaches. Ms. Blanke's book, In My Wildest Dreams, Living the Life You Long For (Simon & Schuster), appeared on Amazon.com's Best Selling Books list and was a New York Times Business Best Seller. … [Read more...]
James Crupi
Founder & President of Strategic Leadership Solutions, Inc.; Founder of the International Leadership Center and the International Business Fellows; Adviser to Coca-Cola, AT&T, Intel, IBM, Turner Broadcasting and other top companies.Recruited by the U.S. Army to prepare its officers to handle tough changes, James Crupi is an authority on leadership, adaptivity, and future trends. He has a proven record for helping organizations effectively manage change of any kind - from shifts in the market or … [Read more...]
Chad Hymas, CSP, CPAE
Chad inspires, motivates, and moves audiences, creating an experience that touches hearts for a lifetime. He is one of the youngest ever to receive the Council Of Peers Award For Excellence (CPAE) and to be inducted into the prestigious National Speaker Hall Of Fame.The Wall Street Journal calls Chad "One of the 10 most inspirational people in the world!"In 2001, at the age of 27, Chad's life changed in an instant when a 2,000-pound bale of hay shattered his neck leaving him a quadriplegic. But … [Read more...]
Howard Putnam, CSP, CPAE
Howard Putnam's ultimate objective is "bottom line improvement." He believes that cultures that place "people" as their #1 priority have the greatest long-term impact and success.He is the former CEO of the highly successful Southwest Airlines whose foundation and culture placed people first. Later, when recruited to be the CEO of failing Braniff International, he was the 1st CEO to successfully restructure a major airline into…through, and out of Chapter 11. Earlier he spent over twenty years … [Read more...]
Chris Trimble
Chris Trimble broke into the forefront of executive consciousness this year with the blockbuster article that led the May 2005 Harvard Business Review, "Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations," which has received more orders for reprints than any other article so far in 2005. The article is adapted from Chris' just-released book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators - from Idea to Execution. The book and article are the result of five years of intensive research, in … [Read more...]
Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures in the most popular class at Harvard. In 2009 alone, Shawn was invited to lecture in 36 different countries on how positive psychology can raise happiness and performance. His work received attention in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in … [Read more...]
Alexander Blass, MBA
Wharton and Oxford-educated, Alexander Blass is an internationally acclaimed American innovator. He is the grand prize winner of the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award which credited him with "revolutionizing charitable giving" for inventing personal crowdfunding technology on the Internet. This grew to become a $10 billion/year industry in less than a decade, helping millions of people worldwide. He presently serves as CEO and Chief Innovator of the Innovation Institute of … [Read more...]
Derek Daly
International racing champion, Derek Daly is the epitome of the complete champion. From the Victory Circle to the Announcer's Desk, Hall of Fame Race Car Driver and Network Television Color Analyst Daly has spent nearly three decades as the face of the motorsport world. He counts Sylvester Stallone, David Letterman and Jay Leno amongst his friends.Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland to a middle class working family, Derek's career path was set at the age of twelve when he attended his first auto … [Read more...]
Willie Jolley, CSP, CPAE, D. Min., MTS
Dr. Willie Jolley, CSP, CPAE, D. Min., MTS BIOGRAPHY Dr. Willie Jolley Helps Organizations Maximize Profits and Elevate the Performance of Their People...to Achieve Greater Results!There are many motivational speakers, and then there is the one, the only, the incomparable Dr. Willie Jolley. He has been described simultaneously as a world-class, award-winning speaker and singer, best-selling author and media … [Read more...]