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Carlos Honore Bio Carlos Honore grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He and his six siblings were born into a family of drug addiction that struggled to provide stability and basic needs. For Carlos, education was not a priority, and he found himself in trouble with the law before he was a teenager. Carlos and his family moved to Iowa City in 1992, and for the first time in his life, Carlos became involved in sports. At Iowa City West, he excelled in football and at the time, was the only Trojan to earn all-state honors in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. It was sports that help teach him the value of engagement and teamwork. Looking back on his life experiences, it became clear to Carlos that children growing up in similar circumstances could succeed if they had strong role models and adults who cared about their well-being. It was this simple yet powerful message that led to Carlos and his wife, Tatum, to establish the Fifth Ward Saints in 2009.
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CEO | Team Building | Sales | Leadership Development Motivational Speaker Corporate Magician - Entertainer The Five Behaviors® Facilitator High Probability Selling® Coach Anthony Robbins "Fire Walker" Comcast ELITE Sales Award Winner AT&T Gold Club National Sales Award Master of Science in Leadership Motivational Speaker As your keynote motivational speaker, Julius will establish the theme for your event, capture the essence of the meeting and communicate your desired learning outcomes effectively. Julius uses humor, audience participation, and magic to share your messages in an appropriate, memorable & fun way. Sales & Leadership Development Speaker As your motivational speaker, leadership coach or sales trainer, Julius can touch your audience's hearts, help them learn valuable insights, and boost their engagement, morale, and well-being. Engage and amaze your audience with a personable, likeable and entertaining corporate trainer who has award-winning leadership and top performing sales experience.
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I began in the U.S. Army as a communications technician and a radio teletype operator. I then moved on to corporate America, working for more than twenty years for AT&T as both an engineer, and also a manager, supervising a large technical staff I now serve as the lead pastor of a local church. Having pastored for 14 years has given me the opportunity to serve people through counseling, leading, speaking, and listening. Being a lead pastor has given me a unique perspective on solving people problems, dealing with issues from relationships to social issues, and helping people find their life purpose. The greatest love for me, though, was being a substitute teacher for middle and high school. This path led me to be an author of 3 books. The latest, “I See You”, focuses on how the perception of oneself and of others is the greatest influence on a person’s life path. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Indiana Wesleyan University with degrees in Business Science and Religious Studies. I love music and sports. I have been married to my wife Detra for more than 22 years, and we have 5 children; 4 girls and 1 boy. (Expert Positioning Statement) I help young adults (emerging adults) discover the intersection of their passion and skill set so that they can fulfill their life's purpose.
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“You are what you choose to be” Dania, a software engineer and consultant, that helps clients meet their technical requirements and make decisions. She is passionate about healthy communication patterns within teams, evolutionary algorithms, and deep learning. Dania’s experiences include backend, infrastructure, and micro-services. Dania believes that empathy, knowledge sharing, coaching, and listening are some of the keys to not only a more effective team but also a better world.
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I am the proud author of my debut book REBOOT YOUR LIFE. I began my career in the Motion Picture Industry where I worked in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. After a decade of working on film sets, a desire to start a family and build roots led me home to South Florida where I went back to school and became an educator. I spent over a decade as an elementary educator where my passion for teaching was sparked. After a full life reboot of my own, I am now living out all of my dreams and unlocking more of my potential each day. I am spending all of my time on a mission to help women discover their authentic selves. I am a co-host and co-producer of a TV show called SOUL SEEKERS TV with my partner in crime Patricia Ribeiro Wolfson. I am a thought leader for mothers who are looking to live out their personal dreams in harmony with motherhood. My purpose is to ignite a movement of mothers who learn the power of Self Love. Join me as we turn off our limitations and turn on our potential!
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About Gavin Mageni - A professional International Speaker by Pholisa Magqibelo (Senior Manager: SABS DI) Gavin Mageni, as he so fondly wants to be known as, is just another somebody who is trying to re-direct the course of South Africa's economic regression. As a well-rounded leader he led many teams to success and relevance across both the Private Sector (Financial Services Industry) and the Public Sector (Government Technical Agency). As part of the Africa Marketing Executive Management team, Gavin gained invaluable exposure throughout the African continent in his roles with Absa and Barclays Africa. His Strategic leadership capabilities were tested in his keen ability to integrate Strategic Marketing, Business Development, Communication and Corporate Affairs - a capability which is still lacking on the African continent. In his view, the ability to generate sustainable value at a consistent pace is a key imperative often sacrificed by the need for immediate gratification by short-term gains. He further states that business leaders underestimate the power that lies in the principles "doing the basics right and money will follow", "securing the foundations: being consistent and staying committed to your people" and "protecting institutional memory". Besides the many accolades and achievements, his philosophy was put to the test in his task to implement a turnaround strategy for the SA Design Institute, which forms part of the Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa. The Institute is currently a 50 year old institution which formed an essential part of local industrialization and innovation. Staying true to his philosophy, he managed to implement a turnaround strategy in less than 18 months, catapulted the entity from government grant dependency to self-sustainable revenue generation. Under his leadership he led the team, without dedicated business development experts, to secure more than R150m for the implementation of client value propositions within the sphere of Design Innovation Entrepreneurship and ED/SD localization.
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I was born in Winslow, AZ, while my parents did voluntary service on the Hopi Reservation, through the Mennonite Church (An Anabaptist Christian Denomination). When I was just a few months old, we moved to Pennsylvania, where my parents cared for my grandfather, at the end of his life. Just 3 years later, we moved to Jamaica, where they again were serving through the Mennonite Church. After 3 years in Jamaica, we moved to Florida, and just a year after that, we moved to Indiana. Each of those moves found my dad employed with a Mennonite organization. The Mennonite Church strongly influenced my childhood and provided a foundation from which I developed values in self-responsibility, stewardship of resources, compassionate living, and being the change I wish to see in the world. This foundation has led me to explore Faith-Based Ministry: leading workshops, preaching and teaching and developing opportunities for participants to deepen into their own relationship with God through spiritual transformation. Although I am no longer participating in the Mennonite Church, I am active in my spiritual life and deepening into Spirit continues to be a foundational theme to the work that I do. I often refer to this at "Grace" or as "that which is greater than we are". I do not have a religious agenda, but do believe in a spiritual dimension that conspires for our good. I have been called a Contemplative and a Mystic. I have been called the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. I believe that we are all invited to expand love within our selves and then ripple that love out to the world. I am able to relate to Christians and non-Christians, people from "new-age" religions and rich spiritual philosophies. Beyond the spiritual connections that I foster, I am a teacher. I have both a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Education and taught in traditional school environments for over 10 years. I also have a background as a Certified Personal Trainer and ran my own business training people's physical bodies and leading workshops around the country. Most recently, I have gone through Leadership Development Training and Advanced Leadership and Facilitation Training through a Personal Growth and Transformation organization called COR (www.CORexperience.com). I have faced infertility, been a foster mother, gone through divorce, remarried, parent step-children, faced the possibility of a second divorce, battled Anxiety and Mental Health stigmas. With all that I've experienced in life, I know the power and freedom available when we allow ourselves to be in the present moment, with whatever is at hand. I now create space to slow down, to be with what is, to tap into the innate intelligence that is in our bodies and to transform our relationship with our own heart, body, mind and spirit. It is about coming home within ourselves and welcoming in parts that we have wanted to disown or didn’t even realize were impacting us in a negative way.
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“Theo is an expert in technology planning, business strategy, product innovation and global collaboration.” Combining strengths in business, technology and design strategy, I’m a forward-thinking business and product transformation specialist with 25+ years of experience. My background includes success in building high-performance global teams of strategists, designers, engineers and data scientists to prototype and commercialize digital solutions for diverse industries including high-tech, financial services, insurance, life sciences, telecom, retail, manufacturing, consumer goods and services. During my career, I’ve watched technology evolve, beginning by deploying client server computing into production operation and riding the first Internet wave with NerveWire. I helped sell the company to Wipro, who subsequently recruited me to drive the strategy for Product Engineering Services and build one of the company’s first global, high-end consulting practices. Over the next decade, the CEO of Aricent asked me to launch and lead its global Innovation Strategy Practice for frog design. Subsequently, Cognizant recruited me to launch its Digital Business. Most recently I launched Accenture’s Technology Advisory Consulting Practice in North America. HIGHLIGHTS ► Launched and scaled Cognizant Digital Business, as its first employee, from a zero-profit center to a multibillion-dollar business unit with 40,000+ staff globally. ► Envisioned, hired and globally scaled digital transformation and product innovation teams at frog design and Wipro, expanding both practices up to 25% to 100%+ annually. ► Authored business and product strategy articles featured in notable publications such as Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Rotman Management Journal, among others. SPECIALTIES ► Business & IT Strategy ► Business Development ► Management Consulting ► Strategic Planning ► Product Management ► Business Transformation ► Program Management ► Team Leadership
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Charlie Mechem is a man of great experience, wisdom, and joy. His book, Total Anecdotal, and podcast, 15 Minutes with Charlie, were made to share some of those insights and help you become a better presenter. Charlie’s accomplishments are great. Here are some highlights from his career: - Native of Ohio. Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1952 and from The Yale Law School, 1955. - Practiced law with the firm of Taft Stettinius and Hollister from 1955 to 1967 with three years hiatus while serving in the United States Army. Eighteen months as an enlisted man and eighteen months as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. - Served as Chairman and CEO of Taft Broadcasting Company and its successor Great American Broadcasting Company from 1967 until 1989. - Returned to Taft Stettinius and Hollister for a brief time before being named Commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association in October 1990. - Served as LPGA Commissioner until December 31, 1995. - Has acted as personal business advisor to the late Arnold Palmer and to golf legend Jack Nicklaus. Has also acted as personal business advisor to golfers Juli Inkster, Annika Sorenstam and Dottie Pepper. - Has served on numerous corporate and foundation boards. Served as non-executive Chairman of U.S. Shoe, Cincinnati Bell and Convergys Corporation. In addition to his primary career, Mechem sat on the Presidential Board of Advisors on Private Sector Initiatives from 1985-1987. He was bestowed Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from both Miami University in 1980 and Ohio University in 1984. In 2000 he was named a Great Living Cincinnatian, the highest honor that can be awarded by the City of Cincinnati. Charlie and his wife Marilyn have three children, Melissa who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dan who lives in La Quinta, California and Allison who lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Jeff Redondo is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Invictus Advisors, a bi-national CFO Outsourcing firm whose mission is to be a strategic partner for business owners and entrepreneurs to make better financial decisions. As an entrepreneur first and an accountant second, he understands the struggles of new entrepreneurs who sometimes feel scared or worried to look at their numbers. As a result of working with Jeff, new entrepreneurs feel calm and confident in their financial decisions, they no longer worry about the feast and famine months and have a clear path to consistent growth. His clients learn to enjoy their money conversation and feel empowered to invest in themselves. Jeff has worked with several 7-figure business and has taken startups from 5-figures to 6-figures in under four years. He’s been interviewed by NBC and The Everyday MBA podcast and featured in San Diego Union Tribune. His company has been awarded San Diego Best Accounting Firm, Top Minority Owned Business, and Best Accountant.
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David Nemeroff originally hails from New York and currently resides in the Lehigh Valley near Allentown, PA. He began his martial arts journey at the age of seven and became more serious about his training at the age of twelve when he started training in the art of Aikido. In order to complement his aikido regiment and become a more complete martial artist, Nemeroff trains in other martial arts such as jujutsu, kempo, iaijutsu and kenjutsu (samurai sword), kobudo (weapons), aikijutsu and others. Nemeroff has taught martial arts to people of all walks of life including law enforcement; military, corporations such as Air Products, St. Lukes Hospital, Penn State University and Mack Trucks; as well as children’s organizations like the Boys and Girls Club of Allentown, Camelot for Children, and Kid’s Peace. He has taught kempo and qigong to cancer survivors at the Cancer Support Community (a national non-profit organization). Additionally, he has developed and implemented a martial arts program called the Kids Karate Project, which is specifically designed to help children afflicted with cancer and other special needs. Nemeroff has been featured on TV shows like NBC news, the channel 69 news, TV-2 Sports Scene, Martial Arts TV online and various radio shows both nationally and internationally. He has also been published in Aikido Today magazine, as well as other publications. He is also a five-time published author and been in other books such as “Mastering the Samurai Sword” and “Aiki-Jujutsu: Mixed Martial Art of The Samurai.” Professional Achievements: - Director and chief instructor of Aikido Masters Self- Defense Academy - B.S. degree in fine arts with a graphic design specialization - Hofstra University. - Earned Black Belts in 13 different martial styles including Aikido, Aikijutsu, Jujutsu, Samurai Sword, 4’ Staff, Okinawan Weapons, Kempo and others - Defensive Tactics Instructor certified by the U.S. Specialized Law Enforcement Training Commission and PA state police - Inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Honors seven years in a row - five-time published author - licensed massage therapist - Certified craniosacral therapist, CST-T - Professional member of the National Qigong Association.
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