| Conference and Keynote Speakers - Corporate Trainers and Consultants
If
you're looking for a professional speaker or trainer for your conference,
association meeting, executive retreat, sales meeting, in house training,
marketing event, awards luncheon, workshop or seminar, Access to Experts
is your source. We have access to expert, inspirational speakers on topics
including leadership, teambuilding, diversity, sales, customer service,
technology, innovation, motivation, humor, life balance, and change management.
Our professional motivational and keynote speakers include CEOs, entrepreneurs,
best-selling authors, celebrities and other inspirational people with valuable
things to say for your next event or meeting.
Our expert presenters
and trainers combine inspiration with information and work hard to assure the
success of your event. Read their profiles below to find a relevant motivational
or keynote speaker or trainer for your next conference, corporate event,
sales meeting, or strategy session.
Keynote
Speakers Include:
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Leadership and Teamwork
Rick Searfoss
Astronaut Speaker
Colonel, USAF Ret
Space Shuttle Commander & Pilot
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Colonel
Searfoss speaks from in-depth personal experience on leadership,
teamwork, and personal performance. His first space flight set the
record for the longest duration Space Shuttle Mission. In 1996,
he piloted Atlantis to the Russian space station Mir. In 1998, he
commanded the most complex scientific research space mission ever
flown with unparalleled mission success. With more than 25 years
experience as a leader in some of the most demanding team endeavors
possible.
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Leadership, Diversity & the Hispanic Market
Charles Patrick Garcia
President Vfinance Investments Inc.
Hispanic Capital Markets Group
A Message from Garcia
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Founder of a company ranked number eight on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies, Garcia was named one of the nation's 100 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business for his success across many fields. His leadership abilities have earned him a role in the administration of three U.S. Presidents, a Cabinet Secretary, and a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. His book "A Message from Garcia: Yes You Can Succeed" was #6 on The Wall Street Journal's best-seller list.
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Sales
Harvey
Mackay
Swim
with the Sharks
Pushing the Envelope: All the Way to the Top |
Harvey Mackay’s classic Swim with the Sharks without Being
Eaten Alive is one of the top 15 inspirational books of all time.
He’s also one of the top five speakers in the world according
to Toastmaster International. Chair and CEO of a successful company
that he founded at age 26, “Mr. Make Things Happen” (Fortune
magazine) shares his real world solutions to common business problems.
Let Mackay take you all the way to the top by showing you how to outsell,
outmanage, outmotivate and outnegotiate your competition - and by
developing more productive business relationships.
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Sales
Brian
Tracy
Maximum Achievement
Advanced Selling Strategies
Turbo Strategies |
A
leading authority on personal and professional success, Tracy gives
both talks and seminars worldwide on leadership, sales, management
effectiveness, and business strategy. His powerful ideas and strategies
help businesses get better results in every area by focusing and planning
more effectively, creating more powerful sales and marketing approaches,
and generating more profits. By identifying the strategies, tactics
and mental preparedness that separate super salespeople from the average,
Tracy shows how to unlock your hidden potential for success.
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Customer
Relationship Management
Peppers & Rogers
The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer
at at Time |
Their
groundbreaking international business bestseller introduced a revolutionary
concept - treating customers differently based on their individual
values and needs. “One to one” became a successful book
series and a practical methodology that drives real business results
by helping companies maximize the value of every customer relationship.
Topics include transforming customer interaction centers to profit
centers, turning data into profit, and creating long term shareholder
value through customer value, all of which can be tailored for specific
industries. Whether you’re kicking off a conference or planning
a “roll up your sleeves” executive work session, Peppers
and Rogers will guarantee your success.
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Innovation
and Change
Robert Tucker
Driving Growth through Innovation
Managing the Future: The 10 Driving Forces of Change |
Andrew
Grove, Chairman of Intel Corporation, declared that “There is
no enterprise that would not benefit by responding to Tucker’s
10 Driving Forces,” a sentiment echoed by a host of other business
leaders. Tucker’s new business bestseller delivers step-by-step
strategies for driving innovation in any company and a behind-the-scenes
look inside 23 innovative Vanguard companies. An enthusiastic, entertaining,
and interactive speaker with a reputation for customization, Tucker
delivers cutting-edge content while motivating people to embrace change
as a source of opportunity and to out-innovate the competition.
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Sports
Celebrity and Team Building
Brian
Holloway
5 Time NFL All Pro
Stamford All American
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This
former football star understands how to attain optimum results and
communicates his message powerfully. He excels at providing transformational
outcomes for individuals and organizations that must outperform the
competition and break through to an extraordinary future. He’s
been hired by 164 of the Fortune 500s, and his testimonials include
accolades from ex-president George Bush and Colin Powell, with ex-president
Bill Clinton citing him as one of America’s top emerging leaders.
For champion-building keynotes or workshops, “Wait for nothing!”
and book Brian Holloway today!
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Humor
Dave
Barry
Humorous Speaker
Award-Winning Journalist
30 Books Including Bestsellers |
For more than 25 years,
Dave Barry has been a popular syndicated columnist whose articles appeared in more than 500
newspapers and who received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his journalism. He is also
the prolific writer of more than 30 humorous books, including several bestsellers. His first
novel was made into the movie "Big Trouble," and he inspired the TV show "Dave's World." He
is a wildly funny and entertaining speaker who delights in interacting with the audience.
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Celebrity Chef & Health
Juan-Carlos
Cruz
Chef
Calorie Countdown Cookbook
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Juan-Carlos
has been a celebrity host on Food Network and a participant then
"Calorie Commando" on Discovery Health Network's Body Challenge.
A trained chef, he has prepared foods for celebrities such as Oprah,
Prince Phillips and Julia Roberts. Besides being an engaging speaker
on the subject of low calorie, heart-healthy food, Juan-Carlos loves
to facilitate culinary challenges for corporate teambuilding.
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The Economy
Harry S. Dent, Jr.
The Roaring 2000s, The Next Great Bubble Boom
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Demographic
expert and economic forecaster, this Harvard Business School graduate's
mission is simple: helping people understand and prepare for change
that will impact their financial future. The propietary Dent method
is rooted in a simple, yet powerful premise: consumer spending habits
are predictable by age, and it has consistently proven its ability
to deliver incredibly accurate economic forecasts. Mr. Dent is a
charismatic and persuasive public speaker who has addressed top
corporations, major investment firms, and business conferences around
the world and has been featured in publications like The Wall Street
Journal and programs like PBS and CNN.
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Productivity, Time Management & Life Balance
David Allen
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stressfree Productivity
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An
international best-selling author, lecturer, trainer, and consultant
who has developed productivity improvement programs for over a half
million professionals in hundreds of organizations worldwide, including
many Fortune 500 corporations and U.S. Government agencies. Microsoft
acolytes have even integrated features inspired by Allen's book
into the latest version of Outlook.
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Leadership
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch Lt. Colonel U.S Army (retired)
Journey to the Future
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Born
in a tiny Texas barrio, Consuelo Kickbusch overcame poverty, discrimination
and illiteracy. Breaking barriers and setting records in the military,
she became the highest-ranking Hispanic woman in the Combat Support
Field of the US Army. Acknowledged as a charismatic, passionate
and entertaining speaker, she carries her powerful message of what
it takes to be an effective leader in today's global marketplace
to audiences worldwide. She has received numerous awards for leadership
and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America
by Hispanic Business magazine.
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Global Diversity Leadership Development Intercultural Management
Ernest Gundling, Ph.D.
Global Diversity: Winning Customers & Engaging Employees
within World Markets |
Dr.
Gundling is co-founder of an intercultural consulting, training,
and web tools firm which serves a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies.
He has helped a wide range of organizations to develop strategic
global approaches to leadership development, organizational change,
and innovation. He has lived and worked in Asia, Mexico, and Europe,
and is the author of numerous publications.
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Diversity
& the Bottom Line
Acquiring Diverse Customers
Douglas Freeman
CEO, Virtcom Consulting
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From
investment banking and strategy consulting to business-to-business
internet technology, Freeman went on to found Virtcom Consulting.
His New York and London-based company produces the annual World
Leadership Diversity Summit Conference, a gathering of Fortune 1000
business leaders, government officials and global diversity management
practitioners. He also serves on the UN's ILO Expert Review Panel
on Global Workforce Discrimination and the U.S. Department of Commerce's
Minority Enterprise Development Week Committee and founded the Leadership
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Women and Diversity
Sheila
Robinson
Founder & Publisher Career Network Magazine & Diversity
Woman Magazine
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Sheila is the former North American Marketing Director of Dupont's
global textile division. After 14 years, she left that position
and founded Career Network Magazine. Encouraged by its success and
that of two Women's Leadership Empowerment Conferences, she launched
Diversity Woman, a national publication that promotes the career
and business advancement of multicultural women. Her leadership
in her new industry was acknowledged at the recent Folio Conference,
where she gave the welcome speech..
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Technology/The Future
Philip Emeagwali
Supercomputer Pioneer
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War survivor, supercomputer pioneer, and according to London-based
New African magazine, history’s 35th greatest person of African
descent. Philip Emeagwali has been described by ex-president Bill
Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age”
as well as “the Bill Gates of Africa.” CNN and TIME
have called him “a father of the Internet.” Emeagwali
won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing.
A passionate speaker, he brings abstract ideas to life with his
energy and emotion.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Alyssa Dver
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A former CMO for a public software company, Ms. Dver now consults
to companies looking to understand and improve their corporate citizenship.
Her clients range from large multinationals to small startups. She
recently interviewed 40 leading companies for an article in Forbes
and has since worked with 60 more to examine CSR best practices.
Dver has presented at the American Banking, American Marketing,
and American Strategic Management Associations and is frequently
featured in media such as BusinessWeek and Entrepreneur as well
as numerous TV, radio and internet sites.
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Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
Elisa Levy
Co-Author
With an End in Sight
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Elisa's experience runs the gamut from conducting team building
training for the United Nations to training top executives from
Fortune 500 companies in conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
She is the co-author of With an End in Sight, a
book on violence prevention around the world, published by the U.N.
In 2007, she traveled to Kosovo and Serbia to conduct training for
the U.N. and then to Iraq to teach Iraqi community leaders conflict
resolution and negotiation skills.
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Innovation & Strategy
Sarah Miller Caldicott
Co-Author
Innovate Like Edison
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Following years of research into the world-changing methods of
Thomas Edison - America’s most prolific inventor and innovator
– Edison’s great grandniece and MBA Sarah Miller Caldicott
co-authored Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's
Greatest Inventor. An award-winning, engaging speaker and 20-year
marketing veteran with global brands, Sarah advises executives and
entrepreneurs on how to build competitive advantage while creating
their own signature innovation styles.
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Overcoming Obstacles & Achieving Your Goals |
This
topic area includes speakers who experienced physical or financial
challenges, survivors who were stranded in deserts or jungles...even
an amateur skier who transformed himself into an Olympic contender
in four short years. What do they all have in common? Their messages
inspire their audiences to creatively and successfully pursue their
own goals.
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These are just
a sample of the many world class speakers, celebrities, and best-selling
authors we represent. If you don't see what you're looking for,
please call us at 305/535-8199 or e-mail info@accesstoexperts.com
for a free consultation. And, if you're doing business in Latin
America or with The Hispanic Market, please ask about our bilingual
Hispanic and Latino keynote speakers and corporate trainers.
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