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…
Chien-Chi Huang is an innovative trainer and marketing entrepreneur, a passionate advocate for Asian American communities and for health equality. With a Masters degree in Mass Communications from Boston University, and over a decade of experience working as a video producer and niche-marketing director, Chien-Chi is an expert in information creation, dissemination and promotion. She has spearheaded several new health initiatives including the Asian Breast Cancer Project, Asian American Problem Gambling Outreach efforts, Asian American Women’s Mental Health Symposium and Read more…
Perhaps the most trusted voice on Social Security and retirement finance reform, both in the United States and around the world, William Shipman enlightens audiences on a potential crisis of international proportions that has, up until recently, gone largely unnoticed. The rapid increase of the elderly population, combined with support systems that are unprepared to handle this unprecedented shift, have put our living standards, international strategic relationships and our very way of life in jeopardy. Shipman addresses real world, positive solutions and the tremendous opportunities that are possible with thoughtful reform. Read more…
As the former owner of three different businesses (including the largest group of Hertz Rent-a-Car locations in the U.S.), Mel Kleiman’s expertise is based on these early business experiences and upon the past 20+ years of work helping businesses implement successful employee recruiting, hiring, and retention programs for frontline hourly employees and the people who manage them.
He has earned the prestigious Certified Speaking Professional designation and his clients include many professional and trade associations as well as nationwide restaurant, retail, and franchise concerns. Mel has delivered over 500 presentations to these groups and all were custom-designed to meet each organization’s specific needs. Because Kleiman delivers take home, best practice information that can be put to use immediately and is highly effective at teaching new managers as well as seasoned executives, many of his clients have him return year after year. Read more…
Linda Chavez, chairman of Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization, is a syndicated columnist, and a political analyst for FOX News Channel. Prior to assuming her current position, Chavez held a number of political appointments, among them Chairman of the National Commission on Migrant Education; White House Director of Public Liaison; and Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and in the early nineties was elected by the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. Expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Chavez wrote Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (Basic Books 1991), which the Denver Post described as a book that “should explode the stereotypes about Hispanics that have clouded the minds of patronizing liberals and xenophobic conservatives alike.” National Review described Chavez’s memoir, An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal (Basic Books 2002), as a “brilliant, provocative, and moving book.” Linda Chavez’s more recent book, Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics (Crown Books, 2004), describes how unions divert hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaigns, often without their members’ knowledge or permission, and the public policy consequences that ensue. Read more…
As one of the most respected voices in the Age-Aware community, Mark Goldstein has over 25 years of experience in the field of aging and its implications and opportunities. As one of the co-founders of Age Wave, along with Dr. Ken Dychtwald, he has conducted cutting edge research. His list of clients includes the top names in Fortune 1000 as well as many of the largest hospitals and health care systems in America and Europe. Mark covers the demographic, lifestyle, and psychographic trends of the aging boomer and the mature market like few others can, providing a wonderful balance of inspiration, information, and insight. Goldstein’s additional topics include financial services, retail, consumer products, healthcare, travel and tourism, and human resources. Read more…
Ted C. Fishman is a veteran journalist, essayist and former member and trader of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. His talks reflect the intelligently researched material found in his writing and have most recently focused on the emergence of China and its impact on the lives of Americans as consumers, workers, managers, and citizens. Fishman’s presentations combine engaging storytelling with a wide ranging knowledge about the world economy, putting his audiences’ top concerns into context and exploring how they relate to big, global economic trends. Read more…
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