Eric’s spiritual walk, tenacity, and drive are the perfect example of his quote, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.”
Les Brown : Choosing Your Future
World’s most renowned motivational speaker, Les Brown is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in business and professional circles for Fortune 500 CEOs looking to expand opportunity.
The Art of Selecting The Closing Keynote Speaker
Booking a fantastic closing keynote speaker for your event can seem daunting when you’re starting your search. The trick to pinpointing the right closure is understanding not only what your audience wants to hear, but also finding a keynote speaker with the correct energy.
How To Market Your Conference Or Event
Marketing your conference or event is a lot of work. Here are some tips and a plan of action to start selling tickets, on boarding sponsors and making sure your next event is a big success.
How To Give Your Audience Value After The Event
Getting the most from your keynote speaker after your conference or event is not a difficult task, but it requires an organized marketing approach and a distillation of the keynote speech to sent to your audience. Here’s a few pointers on how to do that.
How to Book the Right Keynote Speaker for Your Event
Booking a keynote speaker for your event can seem daunting when you’re starting your search. The trick to pinpointing the right speaker is by understanding not only what your audience wants to hear, but also finding a keynote speaker with the correct energy.
Five Reasons To Use A Speakers Bureau To Book Keynote Speakers
The speaking market has exploded over the last ten years, to the point where nearly every new author wants to start giving speeches at the corporate level. For a buyer of keynote speakers, it is increasingly difficult to find fresh speakers who are very good at giving presentations.
Carly Patterson : Olympic Gymnast
Carly Patterson captured the heart of the nation when she won the All-Around Gold Medal in Women’s Gymnastics at the 2004 Olympics. She was the first American woman to win the title in 20 years
Andreas Ekstrom : Digital Revolution & A. I.
Andreas Ekström is a futurist and commentator on digital revolution. His passion is to educate for digital equality and he aims to understand the companies and behaviours that have become culturally, technologically and commercially drivers of change at all levels of society. Andreas wants to see a world in which we share the wealth – not only financially, but also in terms of knowledge and influence.
Andy Cunningham : Marketing and Branding
An entrepreneur at the forefront of marketing, branding, positioning, and communicating “The Next Big Thing,” Andy Cunningham has played a key role in the launch of a number of new categories including video games; personal computers; desktop publishing; digital imaging; RISC microprocessors; software as a service; very light jets; and clean tech investing.
Mick Ebeling : Not Impossible
A recipient of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award, a two-time South by Southwest Innovation Award Winner, one of Wired magazine’s “Agents of Change,” and listed as one of the most influential creative people by The Creativity 50’s, Mick Ebeling is a film, television, and commercial producer, philanthropist, technology trailblazer, author, entrepreneur, and public speaker who has won every major creative and advertising award. Raised in a family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists, he is the CEO of Not Impossible Labs, a multiple-award-winning social innovation lab and production company whose mission is to develop creative solutions to real-world problems.
Colin O’Brady : Endurance Athlete
On May 27th, 2016 Colin broke two mountaineering world records; he claimed the speed records for both the Seven Summits (132 days) and the Explorers Grand Slam (139 days), climbing the tallest mountain on each continent and skiing the last degree of latitude to the North and South Poles. These world records are part of a larger venture coined BEYOND 7/2.
Yaron Brook : Capitalism without Guilt
Yaron Brook, host of the Yaron Brook Show, is a renowned and entertaining lecturer on Capitalism, Political and Economic Freedom, Free Speech, and the philosophy and history of Ayn Rand. Brook has served as a keynote speaker, debater, panelist and lecturer for Congressional Staffers, Governor Business Forums, YPOs, The Mont Pelerin Society, as well as a long list of prestigious universities, colleges, and high schools in the U.S. and around the world.
Sean Gourley : Augmented Intelligence
Sean is a Physicist, decathlete, political advisor, and TED fellow. He is originally from New Zealand where he ran for national elected office and helped start New Zealand’s first nanotech company. Sean studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he received a PhD for his research on the mathematical patterns that underlie modern war.
Jeremy Philips : Tech Investor
Jeremy is a General Partner at Spark Capital focusing on growth investments. Prior to joining Spark in 2014, Jeremy spent most of his career as an entrepreneur and in operating roles. He co-founded ecorp and helped build it into a leading, publicly traded Australian internet company. Subsequently, he was executive vice president at News Corporation in New York, focusing on digital strategy and acquisitions.
André Taylor : Winning in Sales
André Taylor is a popular and influential speaker, and one of today’s leading voices on business and professional success. As founder of Taylor Insight Worldwide, he consults with organizations on achieving business excellence and rising to premier-level performance. Business leaders internationally are drawn to Andre’s thought-provoking, high-impact ideas in business distinction and growth, client development, entrepreneurship, and insights for the media/technology, money/financial and retail/luxury/hospitality sectors.
Marvin Zonis : American Economist
At Chicago Booth, Zonis taught courses on Business Leadership, Geo-Politics, and eBusiness. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business. He also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global environment.
Gene Epstein : Barron’s Economics Editor
A frequent speaker on the conference circuit, Epstein has appeared on National Public Radio, CNBC, CNN, BBC TV, and FOX. His book, ECONOSPINNING: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers, was published in August, 2006 by John Whiley.
James Glassman : George W Bush Institute
James K. Glassman is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, dedicated to research and action in four areas: education, global health, human freedom and economic growth. The Institute is part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which will also include a library and museum, on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Yanis Varoufakis : Economist and Professor
Yanis Varoufakis describes himself as a “libertarian Marxist,” although, he says, “It is not something that I volunteer to talk about much, because the very mention of Marx switches audiences off.” He teaches economic theory at the University of Athens, where he challenges mainstream notions — arguing that after the financial crash of 2008 we need a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism.