Bob Burg is a highly sought-after speaker at corporate, financial services and direct sales conventions. Combining humor and entertainment with easily applied, proven systems for personal marketing, audiences come away ready to immediately profit from Bob’s instruction and coaching.

Sharing the principles contained in his bestselling books, Bob has addressed audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000, sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities athletes and government leaders including cabinet secretaries and a former United States President.

His critically acclaimed book, Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts Into Sales has sold over 200,000 copies and continues to be used as a training manual for top sales organizations throughout the world. His latest national bestseller, The Go-Giver has been heralded as a new business classic. It’s been translated into 14 languages and has already topped the 100,000 mark.

Bob is a staunch advocate, supporter and defender of the free enterprise system and seeks to empower individuals and organizations to thrive and grow by putting its principles to work.

He also puts his networking and go-giver abilities to use for charities, being a former Palm Beach County/Brooks Brothers Leukemia Society Man of the Year for his fundraising efforts on their behalf, and currently serving on the Board of Directors of Safe Harbor, the Humane Society of Jupiter, Florida.

http://www.burg.com/

Master Coach, CEO and entrepreneur, Terri Levine, The Guru of Coaching SM, Ph.D., MCC, PCC, MS, CCC-SLP, made the transition from senior executive to become one of the top professional coaches in the industry, founded a leading coach training school, and has worked with clients from every walk of life.

Terri is the founder and CEO of Comprehensive Coaching U, Inc., The Professional’s Coach Training Program. This is an internationally recognized program providing training to individuals and organizations that want to learn coaching skills and/or become Certified Comprehensive Coaches.

Terri’s coaching clients call her the “wisdom wizard”. Her background as a corporate executive paired with her marketing expertise is extraordinary. She has compiled an impressive track record of growing million dollar businesses. She specializes in using Comprehensive Coaching principles to create extraordinary growth for her clients’ lives and businesses, and has been coaching professionals and companies, and training others to use coaching skills every day to experience much greater business, financial and personal success, discovering better ways to grow profitable businesses, restore balance in life, and bring greater joy to each day.

Terri works with people to create not only a technicolor vision, but also their definition and values as leaders, and teaches them the coaching philosophy to stop managing, start coaching, so their companies will prosper and thrive. Whatever the challenge, Terri has an answer. She synthesizes the knowledge and wisdom of every leading organizational development guru, philosophy and process to create a results-oriented approach.

Terri is a popular keynote and motivational speaker. Her ‘out of the box’ approach is well received and highly applauded, because it is fresh material, and because what she talks about is do-able and works, creating a lasting impact and proven results. Terri is also a successful author. Her much acclaimed books include, “Work Yourself Happy”, (which hit #3 on the Amazon best-seller list early in 2002); “Coaching for an Extraordinary Life”, “Create Your Ideal Body”, and her new book, “Stop Managing, Start Coaching!” which reached #6 on Amazon and deals with morale in the workplace.

Terri is a nationally recognized authority on creating greater business and personal success and she is featured regularly in the media and on Channel 10 NBC Philadelphia News as a coaching expert. Terri lives in Pennsylvania, and when she isn’t coaching, training, speaking, or writing, she loves to race Formula Dodge cars!

http://www.coachinstitute.com/about/bio.htm

Born on a farm off a dirt road in the segregated South, Lillian Lincoln Lambert gives new meaning to the aphorism, “Success is a journey, not a destination.” Although she wore burlap bag dresses to school, she sensed in her bones that there had to be a better life beyond the farm. She gutted out menial jobs as a maid and typist in New York City and Washington, D.C., before realizing that the journey was internal and that education was her ticket to a new world.

This is the story of the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Business School in 1969 – an era that became forever linked with the civil rights and burgeoning women’s rights movements. This is also the story of a pioneering woman who broke down racial and social barriers and became a successful entrepreneur – achieving the American dream on her own terms.

For 25 years, Lillian Lincoln Lambert was President and CEO of Centennial One, Inc., a building maintenance company she founded in 1976 on a few thousand dollars operating out of her garage. With initial sales of $150,000 and 20 part-time workers, she grew the company to $20 million in sales with more than 1,200 employees. Headquartered in Landover, Maryland, with branch offices in Baltimore, Maryland, and Richmond, Virginia, the company expanded its footprint to the metropolitan Boston and Rhode Island markets. Her clients included blue-chip companies such as Dulles National Airport, ABC News, and Hewlett-Packard. In 2001, she sold Centennial One.

Due to the passionate response of audiences to her speeches and comments from admirers who exclaim “Lillian, you must write a book,” she has just completed her memoir, The Road To Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond, to be published by John Wiley & Sons in January 2010. Her memoir will inspire readers of all races and backgrounds to pursue the American dream by surmounting obstacles that come between their vision and goals.

Ms. Lambert received a BA from Howard University in business administration in 1966 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1969, where she made history as the school’s first African American woman to receive an MBA. In 2003, Harvard Business School awarded her the “Alumni Achievement Award,” the highest award the school bestows on its alumni. An important factor in her receiving this award was her active involvement with the business school’s efforts to diversify its student body.  

She is the recipient of numerous other awards, including Harvard Business School’s African American Alumni Association’s Bert King Award; MBA of the Year, Harvard Business School African American Alumni Association; Small Business Person of the Year, State of Maryland; Entrepreneur of the Year, Black MBA Association; Top 50 Women-Owned Businesses, Washington Business Journal; and Finalist, Entrepreneur of the Year, Ernst & Young. Currently, she is on the Board of Visitors at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

A captivating public speaker – a blend of Cicely Tyson and Maya Angelou – she speaks on topics she knows best – entrepreneurship, self-improvement, and resilience. She has shared her hard-won wisdom on a range of business and inspirational topics for nearly 30 years to audiences small and large.

In September of 2007, Ms. Lambert traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to speak to the South African Black Vintners Association on the importance of building alliances to gain competitive advantage. A representative sample of her speeches include: “Lessons Learned: If I Had to Do It Over”; “Rising Above Your Environment to Reach Your Goals”; “Guiding Women to Wholeness”; “Dare to Be All That You Can Be.”

Ms. Lambert lives in Mechanicsville, Virginia, with her husband, John A. Lambert, Sr. She is an avid golfer and enjoys traveling, reading, wine collecting, and listening to jazz. Ms. Lambert is active in her community, and she sings tenor in her church choir.

www.LillianLincolnLambert.com

Dr. Steve Taubman is the president and founder of Inner Selling Institute (ISI), a company dedicated to helping sales professionals achieve results, and creator of The Mindfulness Process, a powerful system for achieving personal and professional freedom.

Before becoming a keynote speaker, sales team trainer, and best selling author, Dr. Taubman was one of the most sought after hypnotists by college and corporate markets, performing throughout the United States and the Caribbean. His programs have received rave reviews and standing ovations for their humor, energy, and polish.
His first book, UnHypnosis: How to Wake Up, Start Over, and Create the Life You're Meant to Live, received critical acclaim and became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.com.

Since that time, Dr. Taubman has been speaking to corporate groups and individuals about how to reinvent themselves and bring powerful transformational principles into their lives.

Dr. Taubman's varied and unusual background has earned him the accolade Renaissance Man. He's been a physician, hypnotist, pilot, entertainer, trainer, and author. In each case his sales skills propelled him to the top of his field.

His excitement, motivation, and enthusiasm have earned him fans worldwide while his entertaining programs continue to impact young and old alike; helping them clarify and achieve their dreams. It is Dr. Taubman's belief that everyone has a gift waiting to be discovered and unleashed, and it is his mission to help people find that inner calling.

Dr. Taubman lives with his dog, Woody, on the waterfront in Burlington, Vermont. He enjoys skiing, biking, flying, playing guitar, and pursuing his spiritual development through meditation, study and contemplation 

http://www.theentertainmentsolution.com/

Gloria Thomas

Gloria Thomas delivers her expertise in communication skills (including leadership, presentation skills and customer service) by developing custom training and consulting solutions for government and private organizations. She also speaks at various association conferences and works as a personal and leadership coach for select clients. Her more than 20 years of experience in business includes work in sales, sales training, and management during which she received many awards, including a national award naming her “Sales Manager of the Year.”

In 1993, she established her own company: Wizard Workforce Development. She has published many articles and an e-newsletter: The Wizard WIRE. She has been interviewed

Wizard’s mission is to help individuals and organizations tap into their communication potential. This is an often underutilized, yet priceless resource. Clients include: CJW Medical Centers, Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, The Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Capital One, Hunton & Williams, Henrico County, Bank of America and East-West Partners of Virginia. She has also helped many employees and organizations improve customer service, communication and workplace morale.
Gloria’s book The Wizard’s Secret: 7 Keys to Communication Success is scheduled to be published later this year. This book details the unique approach she uses to help organizations and individuals significantly improve communication and customer service. Seminars she offers include: Diversity and Workplace Communication, The Positive Power Customer Service Series and Positive Power Leadership: 10 Steps to Success. She has been an adjunct faculty member with the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Richmond since 1995.

When you leave after participating in one of Gloria’s programs, you depart with sound business solutions, innovative communication tools and a smile.
www.wizardinc.com

Uschi Keszler

Uschi was born in Germany.

She's the Founder of Pennies in Action™,Speaker and lecturer on Ice Skating and Patient Advocate for Breast Cancer Vaccine Research. She's herself a double cancer survivor.  Uschi has been also nominated as the advocate for the dream team for breast cancer vaccine research headed by Dr. Brian Czerniecki MD, PHD at the University of Pennsylvania.

Currently she's as well the Exec. VP of IceWorks skating complex, member of the Advisory council for business and sports management at Neumann UniversityShe was as well a Member of the USOC 1980-1984, German Ladies Figure Skating Champion and competed for Germany  in World Championships and the Olympic Games in figure skating. She was coaching for the last 40 years, coached in 6 Olympic games and 26 World Championships (Amongst her students are 5 Worlds Champions, 6 Olympic medals and 50+ National Champions). Uschi has as well the patent on HYDRO-BLADING ™, the technique that brought Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz the World Champion Title in Ice Dancing in 2003.

Uschi acted in a movie and had a recording contract for CBS records

She's married, has one son, 2 grandsons

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