BROWSE SPEAKERS by TOPIC

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Wally Amos , California USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Wally Amos is credited with being the father of the gourmet cookie industry. He opened his first Famous Amos store on Sunset Boulevard in 1975. By 1985, sales had grown to more than $10 million. However, adverse financial results forced Amos to relinquish ownership. Turning adversity into opportunity, he launched a new venture, The Uncle Nonamé Company, featuring fat-free gourmet muffins. He is the author of several popular books including Man With No Name Turns Lemons into Lemonade, The Power in You, and his latest book, Watermelon Magic. An inspiring public speaker, Amos shares his insights on managing change and overcoming adversity. He also addresses audiences on the topics of adult illiteracy and school dropout prevention.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Bill Bartmann , Arizona USA -- 50.0k to 75.0k

Bill Bartmann has been called “The Billionaire Nobody Knows” by the Wall Street Journal. He has created 7 successful businesses in 7 different industries. He's been inducted into the Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame and his expertise has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, and many other publications. He has helped thousands of people start and fund their own successful businesses. He has also helped thousands of people improve their employment situation. He has shown people who were earning $20,000 - $40,000 - $60,000 and $80,000 how to increase their salary – in some cases to a million dollars a year. Unlike many self claimed success "experts", Bill have seen the face of dismal failure and seen the face of great success. This makes me uniquely qualified to teach you how to overcome failure and achieve wild success in any endeavor in your life.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Ken Blanchard , California USA -- 50.0k to 75.0k

Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies as has Ken Blanchard. A gregarious, sought-after, and prominent author, speaker, and business consultant, he is universally characterized by friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate men in business today.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

John Caslione , Illinois USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Global Business Expert, Keynote Speaker and Best-Selling Author providing today’s business leaders – experience, knowledge and access Mr. John A. Caslione is the founder, President and CEO of Andrew-Ward International, Inc. (AWI), a global marketing and sales firm with offices in Chicago (USA) and in Frankfurt (Germany). AWI assists companies to develop and implement global marketing and business alliance strategies.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Ram Charan , Texas USA -- 30.0k to 50.0k

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.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Barbara Corcoran , New York USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

According to CNN, Barbara Corcoran is "the most sought after broker" in New York City and is considered one of the most powerful brokers in the country. Barbara's amazing rise to the top has become the stuff of legend and inspiration. Barbara grew up in Edgewater, NJ, in a family of ten kids. Her credentials include straight D's in high school and college as well as an honorary doctorate from Marymount College.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Stephen M.R. Covey , Utah USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Stephen M. R. Covey is co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the author of The SPEED of Trust, a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver—a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. He advocates that nothing is as fast as the speed of trust and that the ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the critical leadership competency of the new global economy.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jason Jennings , California USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k

In March 2005, USA Today called Jason Jennings one of the top three business speakers in the nation alongside Jim Collins (Good to Great) and Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence). Jason Jennings started his career as a broadcast journalist and quickly became the nation's youngest radio station group owner and the founder of Jennings-McGlothlin & Company, the nation's largest media consulting company. His unique and legendary programming, sales and management strategies are credited with revolutionizing many parts of the broadcasting industry, and hundreds of thousands of companies around the world use his audio and video programs on sales, customer satisfaction and leadership.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Terry Jones , California USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Among the first to recognize the sweeping impact of the Internet, Terry Jones is uniquely qualified to help prepare audiences for their entry into the complex world of online business. The Internet is here to stay, and businesses must adapt or be left behind. As Terry points out, ÒThe ride to e-commerce success isnÕt always smooth, but itÕs always educational.Ó In his insightful presentations, Terry shares his strategies and his extraordinary achievements, spurring companies and individuals alike to stretch their limits and their imaginations.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Patrick Lencioni , California USA -- 30.0k to 50.0k

Credible. Entertaining. Relevant. Compelling. Authentic. These are words that audience members and clients commonly use to describe Pat’s presentations. The combination of his humorous and engaging style, along with the soundness of his theories, has made Pat a highly sought-after speaker. Pat conveys his models on leadership and organizational health through customized keynote presentations. He has been the featured keynote at a wide variety of international conferences, conventions and management retreats, reaching thousands of leaders every year. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, major trade associations, professional organizations, non-profits and universities.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Frank Maguire , California USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

One of corporate America’s proven achievers and innovators, Frank Maguire was a founding senior executive at Federal Express and served in a variety of senior executive positions with Kentucky Fried Chicken, ABC, and American Airlines during benchmark years in the history of each. He also served in the executive offices of President’s Kennedy and Johnson, and he was one of five invited to the table to both ‘imagine’ and initiate Project Headstart.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jim McCann , New York USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k

It was not the traditional path to business success: Jim McCann was a social worker running a boys' home in New York City. Now president of 1-800-FLOWERS, a $300 million company that enables customers to have flowers delivered almost anywhere in the world. He has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative marketers in business. His use of computing and information technology has been key to his success, and he shares his roadmap for thriving in the Information Age. His first book, Stop and Sell the Roses, describes the lessons he has learned in life and business from before his days as a social worker to the founding and development of 1-800-FLOWERS.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

John Peterman , New York USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

“J. Peterman” is a name known to more than 40 million Americans, thanks to the witty, entertaining “Owner’s Manual” mail-order catalog, hailed as “the stuff of literature” (New York Times Magazine), and regular appearances of a J. Peterman character on the popular TV comedy, Seinfeld.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Howard Putnam , Nevada USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

As the chief executive officer of Southwest Airlines, Howard Putnam transformed a start-up carrier into one of the most profitable companies in the airline industry. Recruited to save the faltering Braniff Airlines, he became the first CEO to successfully restructure a major airline out of bankruptcy. His accomplishment became the focus of a Harvard Business School case study. For more than 30 years, Putnam played a leading role in one of the most exciting and rapidly changing industries. He earned a well-deserved reputation for his capacity to think systematically, create a vision, build a team, define a niche, and design successful strategies for managing crises. An impressive and entertaining speaker, Putnam shares his prescriptions for successful management in the Millennium.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Donald Trump , New York USA -- Above 75.0k

Donald Trump started his business career in an office he shared with his father in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. In New York City, the Trump signature is synonymous with the most prestigious of addresses. Among them are the world-renowned Fifth Avenue skyscraper, Trump, and the luxury residential buildings, Trump Parc, Trump Palace, Trump Plaza, 610 Park Avenue, The Trump World Tower and Trump Park Avenue. Over the years, Mr. Trump has owned and sold many great buildings in New York including the Plaza Hotel, the St. Moritz and recently, the land under the Empire State Building.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Keith Yamashita , California USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k

Keith has been featured in FORTUNE magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company magazine in recognition for his work for HP, Nike, PBS, and others. Keith is a strategist and writer with years of experience in helping CEOs turn their companies around. He has a strong background in launching new companies and brands, as well as transforming large, multinational companies. He has worked with CEOs and executive teams at companies including America Online, Apple Computer, Herman Miller, Hewlett-Packard, Gap Inc., IBM, PBS, and Saturn, among others. He has published in The Harvard Business Review and is a regular contributor to Harvard's Strategy and Innovation publication, edited by Clayton Christensen. He has lectured at Stanford University and the Yale School of Management, and is also a frequent public speaker at conferences. Keith has authored two books: Unstuck and 15 Things Charles and Ray Eames Teach Us. He holds a BA in Quantitative Economics and an MA in Organizati
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com