Michael Hingson

Meet Michael Hingson and his eighth guide dog Alamo. Alamo has been with Mike only six years, but as Mike says, “Alamo has learned a lot from me about how to live and work through emergency situations in our lives”. Mr. Hingson will tell your audience how he and his former guide dog, Roselle, worked in and survived escaping from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. As Hingson says, “it was no accident nor luck that helped Roselle and me get out of the Twin Towers that day”. Learn how Mr. Hingson used life skills to prepare for the most unexpected emergency imaginable. As Mike Hingson will explain, you can learn to control fear. You can develop a mindset that will help you handle emergency and unexpected situations as well as survive them

Bringing Principles Back During Michael Hingson's more than 46 years in sales and senior management positions he was confronted many times by Christian ethical choices concerning doing what was best for the customer and doing what would maximize profits for his companies, including companies he owned personally. In this presentation Mike discusses ethics and how Christian basic life principles should always be the guiding light that determines our actions. Your audience will learn how Michael Hingson developed the strength to sometimes make unpopular decisions in the eyes of company bosses and how and why those same choices propelled Mike into those same senior positions later in his career. Your audience will learn how they too can make decisions based on their own basic Christian ethical principles and they will learn how and why those decisions can be the most important and best ones they ever make. Michael will use the story of his escape from the Twin Towers on 9-11 to

Companies and organizations are jumping on the bandwagon to become more "diverse". Some have even developed whole departments to roll out and implement "diversity plans". Unfortunately, these plans do not necessarily include everyone. How many times, for example, have we seen or experienced discussions of Diversity which include naming "minority" groups such as women, different races and different sexual orientations, but there is little or no discussion of including persons with disabilities? In this talk, Michael Hingson, who happens to be blind, a survivor of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a subject matter expert on inclusion and assistive technology for persons who happen to be blind and a number one New York Times best-selling author, shows us that Diversity is not enough. He illustrates why it is time to move from Diversity to real Inclusion on the job and in our lives. Mike uses stories and lessons from his own life growing up as a