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Mike Handcock is Chairman and Founder of the Circle of Excellence Group, an international organisation that gives business owners access to prosperity, freedom and purpose. For over ten years he has worked with 300,000 entrepreneurs in over fifty countries. Acknowledged as one of only thirty three speakers in the world to be certified globally (Global Speaking Fellow, CSP*), Mike has contributed to the industry as an international speaker regularly visiting six continents, as well as the official chairman of the GSF’s* “Leader to Legacy” Global Speaker Summit 2018. He is multi-award winning, with most recent acknowledgements being New Zealand Speaker of the Year, New Zealand Educator of the Year and now a Life Member of NSANZ*. His philanthropic activities have been acknowledged by a US President, including setting up model villages in India for education and major support of orphanages in Cambodia. Mike serves on the Board of the Sage Foundation as well as the Global Dialogue Foundation, an organisation that promotes dialogue between cultures and religions worldwide. His 2010 film 'Dreamcatchers' has reached over 500,000,000.
More than $10,000
One of the most in-demand marketing and customer experience speakers in the word today, David Avrin is known as The Visibility Coach. David Avrin has shared his high-energy and content-rich presentations with enthusiastic audiences across North America and around the world including presentations in Singapore, Bangkok, Melbourne, Brisbane, Bangalore, Antwerp, Monte Carlo, London, Buenos Aires, Glasgow, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Johannesburg and Dubai. In his entertaining and highly-actionable marketing presentations, David Avrin shows business owners and leaders, sales professionals, HR audiences and entrepreneurs how to do a deep-dive to ferret-out, recognize, craft and promote a truly unique and marketable competitive advantage. Always among the highest-rated presenters at every conference, David Avrin will make you a hero for bringing him in to speak at your conference, meeting or event. A former CEO group leader and marketing firm owner, David’s business and marketing insights have been featured on hundreds of broadcast media outlets and thousands of online and print publications around the world. The author of three books including the acclaimed: It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows YOU!
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Stephen Shapiro cultivates innovation by showing leaders and their teams how to approach, tackle and solve their business challenges. Applying the knowledge he has accrued over decades in the industry, Stephen is able to see what others can’t: opportunities to improve innovation models and the cultures that support them. The first innovation opportunity Stephen spotted was the opportunity to innovate within his own life. Halfway through his 15-year tenure at Accenture, while leading the company’s business process reengineering practice, he realized he no longer wanted to be responsible for people losing their jobs. So he did exactly the opposite by building Accenture’s thriving 20,000-person process and innovation practice focused on growth and job creation.
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Moustafa is an award winning author, speaker & coach; and is recognized as the one of the world's leading expert on Passionate Leadership. He helps High Performing Professionals Harness Passion As A Competitive Advantage To Dominate Their Market Niche - Interviewed over 160+ global leaders, experts, authors, coaches, award-winning artists, noble prize laureates and olympians on his talk show Passion Sundays -Recognised as one of the TOP 100 COACHES & LEADERS OF THE FUTURE by Dr Marshall Goldsmith, world’s #1 Executive Coach. Keeping in mind that over 12,000 coaches - Passion Sundays was featured on the blog of Thinkers50 (world's most prestigious ranking of the top 50 management thinkers alive) interviewing Dr. Marshall Goldsmith about Passionate Leadership More on www.Moustafa.com
$5,001 - $10,000
Denise R. Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of The Creative Dose, she promotes techniques to unlock creativity and spark innovation in people, teams, and workplaces, particularly those in the tech world. She teaches game-changing techniques for busting through creative blocks, developing clear and effective communication, cultivating collaboration, and up-leveling productive creativity. Denise is the author of Banish Your Inner Critic, the premier handbook on silencing fears to unleash creativity. Through speaking, writing, training, and consulting, Denise shares big concepts that challenge the status quo and lead to “ahas” that translate into immediate actions, skills, and new habits to transform all aspects of people’s work lives with focused creativity and improved productivity. Her objective is in creating real-world results where teams work better, produce more, and skyrocket their company’s success. Denise has presented at events and organizations worldwide such as Google, Facebook, Automattic, GitHub, the BBC, South By Southwest Interactive, NDC Oslo, UX Week, The Society for Technical Communications, various chapters of The American Marketing Association, Creative Mornings, The Future of Storytelling, The Future of Web Design, Inbound, and TEDxRheinMain. Denise is a Web Design & Development industry veteran and is the author of The CSS Detective Guide, the principal book on troubleshooting CSS code. She co-authored the Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web and InterAct with Web Standards: A holistic guide to web design, and was nominated for .Net Magazine’s 2010 Best of the Web “Standards Champion” award. Denise is also the founder of Rawk The Web, a movement focused on changing the face of the tech industry by increasing the numbers of visible diverse tech experts, and the Head Instigator of The Creativity (R)Evolution, a movement to spread the force of creativity around the world as a vehicle for positive change.
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Lesley Everett is a specialist on personal branding and creating the personality of the corporate brand. She is highly-rated as an international speaker, executive brand coach and published author. Lesley’s solid insights and practical advice have taken her to audiences around the world and into the confidence of Fortune 100 executives, politicians and celebrities. Global organisations on 5 continents use her professional expertise and executive brand programs. Lesley believes that the most powerful element of your company brand today is what your clients actually say about your brand to their contacts. This client experience defines your brand and it is created by the interactions and behaviors of all your employees, from the executive team down. Her powerful sessions are focused on maximizing your brand investment by creating this very personality of the brand that is expected by all your stakeholders today. She is the founder and creator of the well-respected brand Walking TALL – a proven personal branding & personality of the brand methodology, which has been delivered across the globe. She regularly contributes to the media and has had over 200 articles in print in global publications. Lesley was President of the Global Speakers Federation for 2014. She is a Fellow (CSP) of the Professional Speakers Association (UK & Ireland) and served on their Board for 9 years. She was among the first to receive the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence (PSAE) in 2010, entering her into the celebrated Hall of Fame.
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As a Certified Global Speaking Professional and Certified Executive Coach, Brenda is in demand across six continents as an engaging and humorous speaker. Uniquely combining leadership and branding, she helps audience members strengthen both their self-leadership and their leadership of others. With an MBA from Harvard Business School, Brenda spent the first 20 years of her career building mega brands for Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb where she was a senior executive responsible for businesses across four continents and 50 countries. In 2002, Brenda left the corporate world and founded her own company, Brand Development Associates International ("BDA"). Now doing business across 40 countries and six continents, BDA clients include companies such as Abbott, Credit Suisse, Danone, Deloitte, KFC, Kraft, Lilly, Mattel, Microsoft, Pizza Hut, Radisson, Sheraton Hotels, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS, U.S. Department of State, and the Young Presidents Organization, to name a few. in 2017, Brenda was ranked among the World's Top 30 Coaching Professionals and among the World's Top 30 Branding Gurus. An avid writer, Brenda is the author of 11 award-winning books. As a columnist on leadership, branding, and coaching, Brenda's articles have been featured in more than 400 media outlets across the world including Reader's Digest, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Los Angeles Times. With her approachable and engaging sense of humor, Brenda is a popular guest on radio and television shows. Brenda sits on boards of both public and private companies as well as not-for-profit organizations. Having traveled to over 90 countries, Brenda enjoys studying foreign languages, and is a keen Mahjong player.
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D’Arcy Webb, a.k.a. the Speech Diva, is an actor, singer and award-winning teacher who serves on the theatre faculties of the University of the Arts and Drexel University. She recently joined the team of teachers at Heroic Public Speaking, where her Speech Diva super powers are helping public speakers achieve their dream of “changing the world, one speech at a time.” D’Arcy specializes in speech production, accent neutralization, and helping her clients find their authentic voice. She offers private coaching to actors and other professionals who wish to free their speech of regionalisms and speak clearly, vividly and with passion. D’Arcy provides her students with technique, inspiration and support as they learn to speak their truth with clarity, specificity and heart.
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During her eleven years as a San Jose State University biology lecturer, Mary Poffenroth has made innovation in science education and communication a priority. Whether through making original videos for TEDed and Wiley & Sons, writing for Science magazine, presenting her research at Stanford University, or speaking to live audiences at TEDx, Comic Con, and Inbound, Mary’s goals are the same: Make science accessible for all. Mary, a Salzburg Global Fellow, holds two masters degrees, one in biology and the other in science communication from Imperial College London, in which she graduated with honors. She is the author of Write Present Create: Science Communication for Undergraduates and has taught nearly 20,000 students both in person and online since 2007. She began her research career in astrophysiology at NASA Ames Research Center Moffet Field in 1999 and now focuses her research on the intersection of fear science, communication, and personal/social change.
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Ubong Essien, CSP is Nigeria’s first Certified Speaking Professional. He is a renowned motivator and the publisher of Nigeria’s monthly motivational paper, The Achievers Journal. He is also the Dean of the public speaking training centre known as The School of Eloquence based in Lagos and London. He has been in the human capacity building profession since 1999 and has worked as a speaker, trainer, facilitator and consultant to a variety of Nigerian organizations in both private and public sectors such as Guinness Plc, AIICO Insurance, Fidelity Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Nigeria LNG, May and Baker, First Registrars, Nigerian Tribune, Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Voice of Nigeria (VON), Lagos & Imo State Governments, John Holt Engineering, UAC Plc, UAC Property Development Company, Tastee Fried Chicken, HP Nigeria, Nigerian Bottling Company Plc, MDS, CAP Plc, and Brila 88.9FM. In 2007, he convened the first ever International Speakers Summit in Nigeria featuring Lenora Billings-Harris, president of the National Speakers Association (USA) and Robyn Pearce, Worldwide President of the International Federation of Professional Speakers. Dubbed Nigeria’s Mister Motivator for his pioneering role in motivational lectures on television since 2002 and winner of the coveted SuccessDigest Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the same year, Ubong specializes in motivating people towards personal and professional excellence and training in public speaking skills. He is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), USA and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Ubong is also the author of The Complete Public Speaking Course, Dare to Dream & Succeed and The Gates Way to Riches
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Martin Laschkolnig is the founder and director of the “Institut fur Potentialentwicklung” (Institute for the Development of Potential) in Linz, Austria. He is a Past President of the German Speakers Association (www.germanspeakers.org) and the Global Speakers Federation (www.globalspeakersfederation.org) and has been an inspirational speaker to audiences on 4 continents from San Diego to South Africa, from Costa Rica to the Himalayas and across Europe. He is an expert for motivation, self-esteem, confidence and inner peace and how these affect leaders, their teams and the performance of people and enterprises. With more than 30 years of entrepreneurial and association leadership experience he knows what teams need today to thrive without burning out. Combining an economic education and entrepreneurial background with years of studies in Buddhist Philosophy and Theory of Perception with Tibetan monks in India led to a new and different approach to view and solve our problems.
$5,001 - $10,000
David Schmudde is a computational artist who creates experiences that examine the everyday realities of our post-digital society. Over the last fifteen years, he has installed interactive work at the Center for Holographic Arts in New York City, projected video art in the Schusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow, performed at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, screened at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, and given talks around the world. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science, a masters in music technology, and currently teaches science and technology studies at Stevens Institute of Technology while building a next generation computational notebook at Nextjournal. He's always ready to discuss big ideas - find him at http://schmud.de.
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