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JOE CALLOWAY [ BUSINESS SPEAKER] NEW BOOK — Be the Best at What Matters Most

June 19, 2013 in Authors, branding speaker, business speaker, Business Trends Speakers, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, Customer Service Speakers, Featured Speakers, Motivational Speakers, speaker on change, Speakers for Business Groups

What if you, your team, or your entire organization had absolute clarity about what was most important, and that’s where all of your energy was focused?  Imagine the force multiplier of that kind of shared sense of direction, purpose, and priorities.

Be the Best at What Matters Most reveals the one essential strategy for business leaders, entrepreneurs and those who aspire to lead.  Simplify the way you think about your business.  Success isn’t about doing everything.  It’s about doing the most important things.

In a tough market, it’s tempting to look for shortcuts.  Reality check: There aren’t any shortcuts.  Be the Best as What Matters Most teaches that the way to create results, growth, and profit is to be so good at the basics that you are cutting edge.  What an audacious idea – outperform your competition on those things that create real value for your customer.  Through real-world examples, engaging activities, and though-provoking guidance, this book shows you how to:

  • * Constantly improve on just a few things that create the greatest value for the customer.
  • * Clarify expectations and build a culture around quality
  • * Replace random acts of “wow” with consistently excellent service
  • * Identify the areas of your business that have become too complicated and simplify them
  • * Discover what motivates your employees and colleagues most

Joe Calloway Speaker

Instill yourself and your team with a shared sense of direction, purpose, and priorities by focusing on the most important things for your company’s success.  Be The Best at What Matters Most helps you clarify and simplify, and when you can do that, you can move mountains.

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ROBERT B. TUCKER – Innovation Expert – New Video!

June 18, 2013 in Authors, business speaker, Business Trends Speakers, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, Growth Speakers, speaker on change, Speakers for Business Groups, Technology in Business

ROBERT B. TUCKER 
Driving Growth Through Innovation

Robert B. Tucker is president of The Innovation Resource (TIR), and an internationally recognized leader in the field of innovation. Formerly an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tucker has been a consultant and keynote speaker since 1986.

His pioneering research in interviewing over 50 leading innovators was published in the book Winning the Innovation Gamein l986. Since then, he has continued to publish widely on the subject, including his international bestseller Managing the Future: 10 Driving Forces of Change for the New Century, which has been translated into 13 languages. In Driving Growth Through Innovation he identified the emerging best practices of 23 innovation vanguard companies. And in his latest work, Innovation Is Everybody’s Business, Tucker interviewed 43 innovation-adept individuals from multiple industries and all levels of organizations, and teaches the personal skills necessary to become an innovator in this hyper-competitive world.”

As one of the thought leaders in the growing Innovation Movement, Tucker is a frequent contributor to publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy, Strategy & Leadership, and Harvard Management Update. He has appeared on PBS, CBS News, and was a featured guest on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation.

The Innovation Resource, based in Santa Barbara, California, is a consulting firm devoted exclusively to assisting companies seeking to improve top and bottom line performance via systematic innovation. Tucker is a much sought after keynote speaker at conventions, company management meetings, and industry conferences. Clients include over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies as well as clients in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Australia.

 

 

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Business Trends Speakers & Business Visionaries

June 18, 2013 in business speaker, Business Trends Speakers, Economy Speakers, energy issues, futurists, Growth Speakers, Speakers for Business Groups

Business Trends Speakers  Collaborative Agency Group works with a wide array of Trends Experts, Futurists, and business Visionaries.  Our Renowned Thought Leaders are perfect for large conferences and smaller meetings.

 

Brian Beaulieu Speaker BRIAN BEAULIEU is an economist with ITR, the co-author of the book, MAKE YOUR MOVE, and sought after keynote speaker by corporations and associations. Brian Beaulieu provides economic forecasts with 96% accuracy so companies can improve their performance and profits.

 

Gina Bianchini Speaker - The Founder of Mightybell, the Co-founder and former CEO of Ning & Technology Entrepreneur. GINA BIANCHINI - The Founder of Mightybell, the Co-founder and former CEO of Ning & Technology Entrepreneur. Gina Bianchini founded Mightybell in late 2010 as a way to unlock the potential of real life experiences to be even more interesting, engaging, and active. Prior to Mightybell, Gina was the founder of Ning, the largest social platform for the world””s organizers, activists, and influencers to create unique social experiences online.

 

Alexander Blass Speaker ALEXANDER BLASS - Grand Prize Winner, Top Innovator of the Year Award, Entrepreneur, Innovator, President and CEO, Alexander Blass International. He is the inventor and founder of person-to-person giving technology on the Internet–lauded by the media as the “eBay of Giving” (Mercury News) and “Facebook Meets Pocketbook” (Baltimore Sun).

 

Ian Bremmer Speaker IAN BREMMER - President, Eurasia Group, and Expert on Global Politics and Risk Management. Bremmer created Wall Street’s first global political risk index, and has authored several books, including Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, which details risks and opportunities in a world without global leadership. He also wrote the national bestseller, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

 

Robert Bryce Speaker ROBERT BRYCE - Author of Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green Energy” and the Real Fuels of the Future. Robert Bryce””s articles have appeared in dozens of publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, National Review, Washington Post, American Conservative, The Nation, Counterpunch, and The Guardian.

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BILL RANCIC – Lessons from a Mega-Entrepreneur: What It Takes To Turn Your Small, Struggling Business Into A Major Success

June 17, 2013 in Authors, branding speaker, business speaker, Celebrity Speaker, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, customer service, Customer Service Speakers, Growth Speakers, Motivational Speakers, speaker on change, Speaker on Creativity and Imagination, Speakers for Business Groups

Lessons from a Mega-Entrepreneur: What It Takes To Turn Your Small, Struggling Business Into A Major Success

During this session, mega-entrepreneur Bill Rancic will walk you through what it takes to turn a small business into a thriving, ultra-profitable BIG business. He”ll share with you key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and how to avoid the most common mistakes business owners make that hold them back from achieving their objectives — and he”ll deliver solid, usable advice based on real-world experience.

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Award-winning personality Bill Rancic hosts the successful nationally-syndicated television show, America Now, and serves as co-executive producer with his wife Giuliana Rancic on the top-rated reality show, Giuliana and Bill. The duo will also share hosting duties for the upcoming NBC prime time program Ready for Love, scheduled to debut in December 2012.

Bill’s unique life experiences as an entrepreneur, best-selling author, television personality and restaurateur of the popular Chicago restaurant RPM-Italian chain have given him the opportunity to travel the world and experience different lifestyles and numerous cultures.

Nearly a decade ago, Bill burst on the scene as the first-ever winner of the NBC hit show The Apprentice. With tremendous experience that ranges from Main Street to Wall Street, Bill has had a first-hand look at peoples” personal and professional codes, choices, values and behaviors. Addressing the many challenges individuals face, Bill directly relates his discussions to the corporate arena and explores important topics, such as working professional relationships and surviving the daily ethical challenges in business.

A published author of New York Times best-selling book, Bill wrote You”re Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life and Beyond The Lemonade Stand, Most recently Bill and Giuliana co-authored the best-seller I Do… Now What where the duo share secrets to everlasting love and understanding.

Bill believes that it is necessary for successful people to give back to the community, and he demonstrates this in his volunteer work. He serves as a national spokesperson for the Starkey Hearing Foundation (SHF) to help the organization on its mission to change the social consciousness of hearing and health care. Much of his efforts have been focused on helping those in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. In addition to SHF, Bill is a Spokesperson for the Mercy Home for Boys & Girls, a Chicago-based organization that betters the lives of children and families in need.

Throughout his career, Bill has been blessed with opportunities to meet many leaders in business and politics and has seen the world through the eyes of others. He is a cultured man, with strong messages of leadership, entrepreneurship, dedication and volunteerism.

 

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RAM CHARAN – Business Expert & Author of OWNING UP The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask

June 17, 2013 in Authors, business speaker, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, Featured Speakers, Growth Speakers, Leadership speakers, speaker on change, Speakers for Business Groups, Speakers on Innovation

Your world as a director has suddenly changed. You’ve seen members of other boards take the heat when their companies imploded. The managements of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Washington Mutual clearly failed, but so did their boards. Now the board of every company beset with problems is coming under scrutiny.

The pressure is on. Your board must own up to its accountability for the performance of the corporation. Governance now means leadership.

Ram Charan Book

Boards must change their modus operandi to address the new and complex issues that are emerging. These include:

  • Ensuring liquidity in the context of the global financial crisis.
  • Setting CEO performance targets in a very uncertain economy.
  • Assessing strategy and enterprise risk under extreme volatility.

So what should boards do now? What should they be talking about in their meetings and executive sessions? What decisions must they make? How assertive must they be regarding company priorities and operating goals?

In Owning Up, business advisor and corporate governance expert Ram Charan answers these and other burning questions on the minds of directors and business leaders. He describes best practices that are emerging in boardrooms he has observed firsthand. And he provides practical recommendations on a range of issues, from compensation to dealing with external constituencies. Wisely attuned to the human side, he confronts the need for some boards to refresh their composition and for others to rebalance their board dynamics.

Directors, CEOs, general counsels, and operating executives will find in this book the guidance they need to meet the new and rising standards for corporate governance in this demanding business environment.

 

RAM CHARAN 
A highly sought after business advisor and speaker famous among senior executives for his uncanny ability to solve their toughest business problems.

 

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CAM MARTSON – Generational Expert & Author of Generational Selling Tactics THAT WORK

June 14, 2013 in Authors, business speaker, Cam Marston, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, Featured Speakers, Leadership speakers, Sales Speaker, speaker on change, Speaker on Creativity and Imagination, speaker on generational issues, Speakers for Business Groups

All your customers like the same type of service, right? And all your products should be sold the same way to all prospects, right? And the reasons you like your product and service are the same reasons your buyers should like it, right? Wrong!

What your sales team doesn’t know about Gen Xers, Boomers, Matures, and Millennials impacts the bottom line. Each generation’s differing values creates differing expectations for what makes a quality sales or service experience. In Selling Across Generations, thought leader Cam Marston reveals the four generations’ sales and services biases and provides simple, easy-to-execute ideas for reaching each.

  • Author has a winning track record with his previous book, Motivating The “What’s In It for Me?” Workforce
  • Unique in preparing you and your sales team to sell cross generationally, not just to one generation or another

Cam Marston book

Highly energetic and engaging to read, Generational Selling Tactics That Work is full of immediately actionable ideas for each generation so you can sell confidently and deliver superb service to each of these unique demographics.

 

CAM MARSTON 
expert on the Generations, author and columnist

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IAN BREMMER – Speaker & Author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

June 12, 2013 in Authors, business speaker, Economy Speakers, Featured Speakers, futurists, Growth Speakers, Speaker on China, Speakers for Business Groups, Speakers on the Economy

The End of the Free Market details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies and large pools of excess capital, using them for political gain. This trend threatens America”s competitive edge and the conduct of free markets everywhere.

An expert on the intersection of economics and politics, Ian Bremmer has followed the rise of state-owned firms in China, Russia, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere. He demonstrates the growing challenge that state capitalism will pose for the entire global economy.

Ian Bremmer Book

Among the questions addressed: Are we on the brink of a new kind of Cold War, one that pits competing economic systems in a battle for dominance? Can free market countries compete with state capitalist powerhouses over relations with countries that have elements of both systems—like India, Brazil, and Mexico? Does state capitalism have staying power?

This national bestseller includes useful insights for investors, business leaders, policymakers, and anyone who wants to understand important emerging changes in international politics and the global economy.

 

IAN BREMMER
President, Eurasia Group, and Expert on Global Politics and Risk Management

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JON GORDON – Motivational Speaker – Author of Soup

June 10, 2013 in Authors, balanced living speaker, business speaker, Featured Speakers, Growth Speakers, Motivational Speakers, Speakers for Business Groups

Soup offers an inspirational business fable that explains the “recipe” you can use to create a winning culture and boost employee morale and engagement. The story follows Nancy, the newlyanointed CEO of America”s Favorite Soup Company. She has been brought in to reinvigorate the brand and bring success back to a company that has lost its flavor and profit and has fallen on hard times. Fatefully, while eating lunch at a local soup shop, Nancy discovers the key ingredients to unite, engage, and inspire her team and create a culture of greatness.

  • From the bestselling author of The Energy Bus, The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp,and The Shark and The Goldfish
  • Find out how culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits, and habits deliver results
  • Create relationships that are the foundation upon which successful careers and winning teams are built
  • Features quick takeaways you can use to invest in your people, build trust, create unity, and enhance engagement

A turnaround tale like few others, Soup will inspire you to work in your own company to unleash the passion that delivers superior results.

 

Jon gordon Book Soup

PRAISE FOR SOUP:

“So often we only concern ourselves with wins and losses. We overlook what is at the core of success and that is the “culture” of the team that is created by the leader or leadership group. If you create a culture where all members of the team can thrive and do their jobs effectively, than the score will take care of it self. Jon gives you the recipe of how to create a culture of greatness for your team, organization or family.”

- Mike Smith, Head Coach, The Atlanta Falcons

“It’s often said you get out what you put in. Same goes for how we lead our teams (at work, home or school). In SOUP, Jon Gordon has done a masterful job of illustrating the necessity of this point for anyone who wishes to increase their influence, build a better team or expand their leadership effectiveness. The one who stirs the pot is the one who impacts the flavor of the soup just as the one who leads the team is the one who creates the culture around it. This book will help you add flavor to your life, the lives of others and your team.”

- Carl Liebert, CEO, 24 Hour Fitness

“If you are ready to stir the pot and lead your team with more optimism, passion, and trust, you will love this book.”

- Deborah Gilmore, President, Women”s Council of REALTORS®

“A lot of my job as a leader is to help others unleash their gifts and passions. Sometimes these gifts appear to be hidden beneath the surface but with a little heat and care, they bubble up to the surface. That’s what you’ll find in SOUP by Jon Gordon. Told in and entertaining parable form,SOUP will help you understand how to nurture the greatness in others so that you can become great as a team.”

- Mark Batterson, Lead Pastor of National Community Church and author of Primal

“There’s a common problem in business today. It’s a people problem… but maybe not in the way you would think. We spend so much time focusing on the bottom line that many fail to focus on the people who make the bottom line what it is. People matter and how we lead them matters. This is why I recommend Jon Gordon’s new book. It’s provides the recipe for mobilizing and engaging a team.”

- Chris Brogan, New York Times bestselling author of Social Media 101

“In a world where leaders are pulled in a million different directions Soup reminds us that we must make time to cultivate engaged relationships in order to build a winning organization and team.”

- Margaret Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, RE/MAX International, Inc.

“Jon Gordon continually finds unique and creative ways to reveal the essential components of an efficient organization and always does so with great depth and insight. Soup provides the key ingredients to establishing culture and is another example of how Gordon’s writing transcends common thought.”

- Sam Presti, Executive Vice President & General Manager, OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER

“Once again, Jon cooks up a world-class recipe for business emphasizing that the key to ultimate leadership success is enabling your employees to deliver excellence.”

- Ryan Magnon, VP Quality, The West Paces Hotel Group

“Culture is the most powerful tool in a leader’s toolbox. Worth nothing on paper, but worth millions when people put their hearts and minds together to accomplish a common goal. Jon Gordon has got it right in his latest book…Soup. When leaders understand the importance of a great culture nothing can stop people from reaching their full potential.”

- Gary Chartrand, Executive Chairman, Acosta Inc.

JON GORDON 
Best Selling author, authority on Developing Positive, Engaged People, Leaders and Teams

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Terry Jones – Author of ON INNOVATION

June 7, 2013 in Authors, business speaker, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, Emotional Branding, Featured Speakers, Leadership speakers, Motivational Speakers, Speaker on Creativity and Imagination, Speakers for Business Groups

Terry Jones founded Travelocity.com. He led the company as President and was Chief Executive Officer from its founding until May 2002. Previously, Jones served as Chief Information Officer at Sabre Inc. In his 24 years at Sabre, Jones held various executive positions including President of Computer Services, Vice President of Applications Development and Vice President of Product Development.

Prior to Sabre, Jones joined American Airlines in 1978 as Director of Product Development when American Airlines acquired Agency Data Systems, a Florida-based mini-computer accounting systems company. He became president of the division when it moved to Dallas/Fort Worth.

A graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio, Jones entered the travel industry in 1971 as a travel agent with Vega Travel in Chicago. He later served five years as a vice president of Travel Advisors, a company specializing in business travel to Eastern Europe and the USSR, with offices in Chicago and Moscow.

Jones is managing principal of Essential Ideas, a consultancy he co-founded to help companies in their transition to the digital economy. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Kayak.com, and is on the boards of Smart Destinations, Inc., Luxury Link and Rearden Commerce. He is a special venture partner with General Catalyst Partners of Boston. Jones also is Chairman of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and serves on the national Information Technology committee of the Boy Scouts of America.

Terry Jones Book

Speech Topics Include:

The Business of Innovation

The business of innovation explores the fundamentals of innovation…how to generate great ideas, how to ”fail fast”, how to kill projects without killing people. how to experiment and ”do more with less”. Terry provides real world examples drawn from his experience at Travelocity.com, the boards of seven startups and his consulting work with companies large and small. Many speakers talk about the future. Terry gives your audience step by step plans to create it.

Building Digital Relationships

How will your customer contact you today? In the store, via the phone, on your web site, read a tweet, friend you on Facebook? There is no way to know. Building Digital Relationships gives your audience the keys to unlock the mystery of how to connect with customers online. While face to face isn’t going away, businesses that don’t have an effective online relationship strategy are being left behind.Terry can educate your audience in all phases of the digital conversation from search to social media, using real world examples drawn from his long experience in the online world.

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MARCUS BUCKINGHAM – StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution

June 7, 2013 in Authors, business speaker, Creativity & Innovation Speakers, Featured Speakers, Growth Speakers, Leadership speakers, Motivational Speakers, Speakers for Business Groups

The next-generation strengths test from the leader of the Strengths Revolution.

Millions of people have taken Gallup organization”s StengthsFinder and discovered their top five strengths. As the co-creator of that test and co-author of the book that launched the “strengths revolution,” New York Times best-selling author Marcus Buckingham has spent the last decade leading people and organizations into a place of strength.

But something always seemed to be missing. Wherever he went, Buckingham heard two consistent gaps in the StrengthsFinder results. From professionals: “I love knowing what”s strong about me, but what am I supposed to do with it?” From managers: “I have too many people on my team to keep all their strengths straight in my head. There”s too much information to use it practically in my day-to-day leadership.”

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StandOut starts where StrengthsFinder ends. Using a massive data set and rigorous statistical testing, this next-generation strength test not only affirms what is strong about people but gives them-everyone, the bosses, the executives, the people in the middle-hyperpractical tools to leverage their strengths every day so they can win at work.

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM 
Author of Four International Best Sellers Including Now, Discover Your Strengths & First, Break All The Rules, Expert on Leadership & Management Practices

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