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About: Internationally acclaimed innovation expert Val Wright was named as one of the top 50 resources for Chief Operating Officers by ClickSoftware. She is one of only 64 experts inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant® Hall of Fame. The global clients who have requested her help include Starbucks, LinkedIn, and Financial Times. Val’s corporate experience includes tenures during dramatic growth periods at Amazon, BMW, and Microsoft. Val participated on the small team that created the fastest-selling device of all time, Kinect for Xbox, which won a Guinness Book of World Record, selling over 20 million devices. Val’s books include: Thoughtfully Ruthless: The Key to Exponential Growth, named best business book by Independent Press Awards and NYC Big Book Awards, and The Innovation Trifecta: How to Catapult Innovation by Creating a Symbiotic Relationship between Creative, Business, and Technical Minds. She is a regular contributor on CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, LA Times, and Today.
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About: Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business & Life (Wiley; hardcover; March 1, 2011) will refine how you view and comprehend people. Africa-born, New York Times bestselling author, Stefan Swanepoel shares the different parallels between our concrete jungle and the real jungle. Take the surprisingly accurate 3-minute quiz and discover whether you are an enterprising crocodile, a strategic lion, a risk-taking mongoose or another one of the 'Serengeti Seven.' Learn to develop your own strongest survival skill, identify and understand the strengths of those you work with -- all while having fun and developing an extraordinary team.
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About: Nationally known Suicide Prevention Speaker Frank King was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years, a Corporate Comedian, former talk radio talk show host, and was featured on CNN’s Business Unusual. Depression and suicide run his family. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count, fighting a lifetime battle with depression and chronic suicidality. He's turned his long dark journey of the soul into 3 TEDx Talks, and shares his lifesaving insights with corporation, association and college audiences. A comedian talking about mental illness and suicide? He believes that it's a comedian's job to speak painful truth to power, on behalf of the powerless. He speaks truth to the power of mental illness, on behalf of those often powerless in it's grip. He speaks to end the stigma, save lives. Where there is humor there is hope, and where there is laughter there is life.
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About: The International Platform Association (IPA) was founded in 1831 by American diplomat Daniel Webster (1782-1852) and educator Josiah Holbrook. (1788-1854). Holbrook was the principal founder of the Lyceum movement in 19th Century America. The original name for the IPA in 1831 was the American Lyceum Association. The Lyceum movement was a venue for lectures, debates, and musical, religious, entertainment, and educational presentations for adults. After the Civil War, many lyceums which had been devoted to science and manufacturing advances also opened their doors to vaudeville entertainers. In some ways, the Lyceums of the 19th Century were like C-SPAN today.
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About: Author and speaker Tracy Shawn, MA lives in California. Her award-winning novel, 'The Grace of Crows,' has been hailed as an accurate portrayal of generalized anxiety disorder and a healing opportunity to the reader. Tracy’s short stories have appeared in Literary Brushstrokes, Psychology Tomorrow Magazine, and most recently, Steel House Review. She’s written numerous articles for print and online publications and is a frequent contributor to psychcentral.com. She has currently finished her second novel. Tracy is also a passionate 'anxiety warrior,' who writes and speaks about how to pull oneself out of the trenches of stress, anxiety, and worry. Her keynote speech, 'From Stressed and Scattered to Calm and Centered,' offers innovate ways to overcome emotional tension and find a more balanced and productive way to live and work. Please visit: www.tracyshawn.com for more information.
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About: Change Masters (R) Incorporated has coached over 2,000 individual executives and technology leaders to master effective communications in their rapidly changing organizations since 1986. Customers include over 25 Fortune 100 companies and over 150 companies in total. Tom is co-author of 'Seeing Yourself as Others Do -- Authentic Executive Presence at Any Stage of Your Career.' He has been featured in major newspapers, conducted radio interviews and is a professional member of the National Speakers Association.
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About: Gregg Fraley is an innovation accelerator. He's an inspiring author, speaker, and consultant to Fortune 1000 corporations and start-ups on new product development, innovation process, and improved creative thinking. Gregg?s business novel about creative/innovation process, 'Jack's Notebook,' features on reading lists of many MBA programs, including the University of California at Berkeley and the UK's Cambridge Judge Business School. KILN is a firm he co-founded in 2010 to create a cutting-edge suite of innovation process services. He's an advocate for faster, simpler, and more holistic approaches to organizational innovation. He believes creativity can be learned.
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About: Linda Popky, President of Leverage2Market Associates, Inc. is a senior marketing professional, author, speaker, and educator who helps transform organizations through powerful marketing results. Leverage2Market works with a wide range of organizations from startups and small businesses to Fortune 100 companies to get the best possible return on each marketing investment.
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