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Ryan Estis

By | 08/2011 | BUSINESS, Change, Communication, Consumer Trends, Corporate Culture, Customer Service, Future Trends / Futurists, Generation X and beyond, Globalization, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Motivation, Peak Performance, Recruitment / Retention, Relationships, Sales, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Teambuilding, Technology, The Internet, Workforce Issues | Comments Off

712d96c4e4e498e49408194b6d1e6266 Ryan Estis

Ryan is a professional speaker and business performance expert whose life is dedicated to helping companies, managers, leaders and sellers connect more effectively to their two most important audiences: employees and customers. Regarded as one of The Top 100 Keynote Speakers in America Ryan Estis blends interaction, energy and actionable content designed to elevate business outcomes. His message is a compelling crusade on corporate culture, communication, client acquisition, brand ambassadorship, change and preparing to thrive in the ultra competitive, hyper-connected business environment we now know as the new normal. Ryan’s guiding principles include: Read more…

Saj-nicole Joni

By | 08/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Change, Communication, Corporate Culture, Courage, Globalization, Influence, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Moderators/Facilitators, Peak Performance, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Success, Sustainability, Teambuilding, Teamwork | Comments Off
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…

Dayna Steele

By | 06/2011 | Authors, Branding, BUSINESS, Communication, Corporate Culture, Crisis Management, Emcees / Hosts, Entrepreneurs, Influence, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Motivation, Music/Radio/TV/Movies, Networking, Peak Performance, Small Business, Social Media, Strategy, Success, Teamwork | Comments Off
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…

David Rivkin

By | 04/2011 | 9/11, American Affairs, Authors, BUSINESS, Crisis Management, Current Events, Disaster Preparedness, Election Analysis, Energy, Energy Issues, Environmental Issues, Globalization, Human Rights, International Affairs, Law, Negotiation, Political Analysis, Strategy, Terrorism, World Affairs | Comments Off
David Rivkin

Attorney David B. Rivkin, Jr. has studied the U.S. Constitution and related historical documents with scholarly rigor, and has authored incisive commentary on the critical constitutional issues of our day. Now in private practice, Rivkin’s lengthy career has been distinguished by service in the White House during two presidential terms, in both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a well-known writer and media commentator on matters of constitutional and international law, as well as on foreign and defense policy. Read more…

Watts Wacker

By | 04/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Future Trends / Futurists, Globalization, Innovation, Strategy, Technology | Comments Off
Watts Wacker

Watts Wacker is one of the most celebrated and influential minds in modern business. A Time Magazine “Person of the Year” and one of the world’s most respected futurists, Wacker is a bestselling author, lecturer, political commentator and social critic. His uncommon versatility and vision has allowed him to help the world’s top corporations and organizations navigate the sea of change that is taking hold in the new millennium.

Wacker is CEO of FirstMatter, an innovative think tank whose guiding principle is to challenge convention. Read more…

Peter Sheahan

By | 03/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Change, Consumer Trends, Corporate Culture, Creativity, Demographics, Generation X and beyond, HUMAN RESOURCES, Innovation, Leadership, Peak Performance, Recruitment / Retention, Retirement, SALES / MARKETING, Strategy, Success | Comments Off
Peter Sheahan

If the only way to get to Carnegie Hall is to practice, practice, practice, then the only way to make it happen is to execute, execute, execute. The world isn’t short of new ideas; it’s short of people with the ability to turn these ideas into reality.

Best-selling author and world renowned speaker on exploiting business trends and new market opportunities, Peter Sheahan is known internationally for inspiring innovative business thinking and creating lasting behavior change. Read more…

Robert Tucker

By | 03/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Change, Innovation, Management, Motivation, Peak Performance, Strategy, Success | Comments Off
Robert Tucker--

Robert B. Tucker is president of The Innovation Resource (TIR), and an internationally recognized leader in the field of innovation. Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tucker has been a consultant and keynote speaker since 1986.
His pioneering research in interviewing over 50 leading innovators was published in the book Winning the Innovation Gamein l986. Since then, he has continued to publish widely on the subject, including his international bestseller Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the New Century, which has been translated into 13 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation he identified the emerging best practices of 23 innovation vanguard companies. And in his latest work, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business, Tucker interviewed 43 innovation-adept individuals from multiple industries and all levels of organizations, and teaches the personal skills necessary to become an innovator in this hyper-competitive world.” As one of the thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and Harvard Management Update. He has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation. The Innovation Resource, based in Santa Barbara, California, is a consulting firm devoted exclusively to assisting companies seeking to improve top and bottom line performance via systematic innovation. Tucker is a much sought after keynote speaker at conventions, company management meetings, and industry conferences. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as clients in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Australia.
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