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Saj-nicole Joni

Saj-nicole Joni speaks regularly to business audiences worldwide, challenging them to extend their thinking beyond their comfort zones and to stretch their understanding of what is possible. She presents audiences with hard truths that they need to work through, strategic dilemmas they need to understand, and leadership challenges that they will face. Her speeches are always interactive, thought-provoking, and hard-hitting. With expertise in the complexities of strategy, customers, markets, and global organizations, Saj-nicole’s industry experience includes pharmaceuticals and healthcare, financial services, technology, consumer goods, oil and energy, information and media, professional services, and telecommunications.

Saj-nicole Joni speaks regularly to business audiences worldwide, challenging them to extend their thinking beyond their comfort zones and to stretch their understanding of what is possible. She presents audiences with hard truths that they need to work through, strategic dilemmas they need to understand, and leadership challenges that they will face. Her speeches are always interactive, thought-provoking, and hard-hitting. With expertise in the complexities of strategy, customers, markets, and global organizations, Saj-nicole’s industry experience includes healthcare and pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology, consumer goods, oil and energy, information and media, professional services, and telecommunications. She also works with top leadership in non-profits and universities. Saj-nicole helps leaders innovate, grow, execute, and drive performance. She engages and challenges an executive’s best strategic thinking, viewing all sides of a business problem, testing multiple possibilities, even those at the boundaries of convention. Her insights and questions help executives recalibrate their strategies, better understand marketplace influences, and improve both their internal operations and competitive positions. Saj-nicole brings to this work over 25 years of executive experience, combining her talents and expertise as a strategist, senior business executive, mathematician, and performing artist. This combination makes her a sought-after thinking partner for an elite group of top executives whose global leadership has far-reaching impact. Saj-nicole is a highly-trusted inner-circle advisor, someone to go to for the unvarnished truth in critical situations. She helps leaders better understand risk and operational complexity, capitalize more effectively on important market opportunities, and make better decisions around bottom-line ROI/ROE for sustained financial performance. Read more…

James Mapes

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James Mapes is a recognized expert on the psychology of imagination who helps leaders apply their imagination to take individual and organizational performance to new levels. Even in a challenging world there is great possibility; coaching and empowering leaders past what they know to be possible, Mapes skillfully stretches people’s perceptions to see new possibilities and experience the power of their imagination. A dynamic speaker with energy and humor, he captures and holds his audience’s attention with fascinating demonstrations that leave no doubt: “You Achieve What You Imagine.” Read more…

Mette Norgaard

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Mette Norgaard, Ph. D., MBA is an expert on strategic leadership and learning. She works with executives to design and deliver learning solutions that advance the company’s strategy. She has also designed and participated in executive dialogues and workshops with thought leaders such as Stephen Covey, Jim Collins, John Katzenbach, Rob Goffee, Margaret Wheatley, and Ram Charan. Mette brings an eclectic background to her work, from being raised in a village of 900 to living in New York City, from being a front-line leader in healthcare to teaching thousands of leaders from entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 firms. Prior to starting her own practice, Mette worked with FranklinCovey Co for ten years. She was the director of Principle-Centered Leadership Week, an executive retreat at Sundance, UT. In addition, she was part of a small team of consultants who led large-scale change processes for Fortune 500 firms and the US Government. Before joining FranklinCovey Co, Mette served as a leader in both healthcare and manufacturing, and she knows first-hand the incessant pressures to do more with less and do it faster. Her latest book, co-authored with Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell, is TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (Jossey-Bass, 2011). She is also the author of the international bestseller The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work: Wisdom for the Workplace from the Classic Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Amacom, 2005), which has been published in many languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Read more…

Dayna Steele

Dayna Steele

To succeed in today’s increasingly competitive world, you need more than just talent. You need to be better than the rest and take your business to the next level. You need to stand out like a ROCK STAR. A serial entrepreneur, media strategist, nationally recognized rock radio and television personality and author of Rock to the Top: What I learned about Success from the World’s Greatest Rock Stars. Dayna Steele has created thousands of rock stars for her clients using her proven ROCK STAR PRINCIPLES of success. Read more…

Isabel Perry

Isabel Perry--

Dr. Isabel Perry has a unique combination of experiences as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, author and speaker. Dr. Perry’s technical expertise is in OSHA (safety) compliance and management. She speaks passionately on executive and management development, team-building, interpersonal skills, effective communication, coaching for high performance, culture change and managing transitions in the workplace.

Audiences in manufacturing industries, hospitals and health care, government agencies and service industries all benefit from Dr. Perry’s knowledge and enthusiastic spirit. Read more…

Vinny Boles

Vinny Boles

America’s Army has historically developed leaders and teams to function at their highest performance levels under the most stressful of conditions. Vinny Boles shows your team how to do the same.

Six weeks before the attacks of September 11th, 2001, Vinny Boles was a newly selected one-star General. He reported to take command of a contingency command, one that would be needed by the nation if “the worst thing happened.” On September 11th, it did happen and Vinny and his team went from planning to execution in an ever-fluid environment. Read more…

Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston

Andrew Winston is an accomplished, engaging speaker. He’s given keynotes and moderated panel discussions in front of audiences of all types and sizes, from small meetings of the top executives at a corporation to large conference keynotes in front of thousands of people.

Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major media such as The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and CNBC. Read more…