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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…

Ben Glenn

Ben Glen

Ben Glenn, The Chalkguy, is the president of Chalkguy Media International, a company dedicated to sharing a positive, life-changing message of hope with groups all over the world. Ben’s story about growing up Learning Disabled is one that he has shared with thousands inspiring people to have a greater appreciation for their unique talents and abilities. His humorous speeches are filled with personal stories and encouragement for people to live a life based on self-knowledge, personal responsibility and a positive attitude. Read more…

Rich Horwath

Rich Horwath

Rich Horwath is a national thought-leader on strategy. The founder and president of the Strategic Thinking Institute, former chief strategy officer, and professor of strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, he has frequently appeared on NBC, WGN, and FOX TV to discuss the strategic aspect of current issues. Horwath is the author of four books and more than 75 articles on strategic thinking; his work has been profiled in business media around the world, including Investor’s Business Daily and Forbes.com. Read more…

Liz Goodgold

Liz Goodgold

Speaker and author, Liz Goodgold is a fiery redhead with over 20 years of experience in marketing and branding. She is the author of RED FIRE BRANDING: Create a Hot Personal Brand and Have Customers for Life and DUH! Marketing. Liz’s talks are the epitome of “edutainment” – blending information, education, humor, and real-world examples. This fireball of energy takes issues directly from her audience, demonstrating how branding is the key to boosting business. Read more…