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Jane Atkinson has been helping speakers catapult their businesses for over 3 decades, First as an agent, doubling her speakers' businesses year over year and for the past 2 decades as a coach to some of the industry's superstars. Jane’s new book “The Wealthy Speaker 3.0”, has been called “the bible” of the speaking industry and is chocked full of sage advice on how to build the speaking business of your dreams. She is also the author of The Wealthy Speaker Daily Success Planner & Journal, The Epic Keynote and Scaling Your Speaking Business. Jane offers private coaching and also runs The Wealthy Speaker School which helps speakers move towards their first $100K in speaking.
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Scott Friedman, CSP and former President of the National Speakers Association (NSA), is an internationally sought after speaker and author. As a motivational humorist, Scott inspires and entertains with fun-filled, interactive and content-rich programs. He speaks on a variety of topics over 80 times a year. Scott’s main area of expertise is as an employee engagement speaker and innovation, celebration, and customer experience expert. In addition to being the CCO—Chief Celebration Officer—at Friedman & Associates, Scott has written “Celebrate! Lessons Learned from the World’s Most Admired Organizations,” “Happily Ever Laughter—How to Engage Any Audience,” “Using Humor For A Change,” and “A Celebration a Day! 365 Ways to a Happier, Healthier Workplace.” He is also the co-author of four additional books. Scott’s opportunity to entertain and engage as President of Salesmen with a Purpose (SWAP, now Sales Professional International) in 1985 created his desire for a career in professional speaking. He took the marketing director position with Speech Masters, a company that trains lawyers, executives, and professional speakers in presentation development. This lead to the start of his professional speaking career in 1986. For three decades, Scott has combined improvisational comedy, quick wit, and engaging material to become the speaker he is today. Scott’s mission as a speaker and Chief Celebration Officer is to improve organization performance and productivity through the power of celebration and humor. As a Certified Speaking Professional (as designated by the NSA) and trusted member of the speaking community, Scott continues to have a strong presence both domestically and globally. Scott is the 2013 NSA Cavett Award Recipient, presented annually to the NSA member whose accomplishments over the years have reflected outstanding respect, service, honor, and admiration in the Association and the speaking profession. Scott was awarded the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) 2013 Recognizing Industry Success and Excellence (RISE) Award. ”This award honors those rare individuals who by visionary hard work and creative insight have positively changed the global meetings and events industry community (MPI).” In 1988, as the President of the National Speakers Association of Colorado, he founded the Meetings Industry Council of Colorado (MIC), a coalition of professional meetings industry-related organizations. He is proud to continue involvement with MIC and their latest event which included over 800 meeting professionals in March of 2013. In 2002, Scott was awarded the International Association of Speaker Bureaus (IASB) Pace Setter Award, given annually to an individual outside the IASB who played an integral role in partnership with IASB to further advance the speaking industry.
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Manoj Vasudevan is a globally recognized expert in Next Level Leadership Readiness, dedicated to helping leaders excel in their careers, businesses, and personal lives. In 2017, he earned the prestigious title of World Champion of Public Speaking, emerging victorious in a competition with over 35,000 participants from 142 countries. Manoj has addressed audiences of up to 20,000 individuals and worked with diverse groups spanning 140 nationalities. He is the author of two international bestsellers: - Mastering Leadership The Mousetrap Way - How to Become the World Champion of Public Speaking Manoj serves as the CEO of Thought Expressions and Chief Mentor at Next Level Unlimited, where he specializes in coaching leaders to achieve transformative breakthroughs. Leadership & Coaching Expertise With an MBA from Imperial College London and over 25 years of leadership experience in Strategy, Management, and Technology, Manoj has collaborated with major multinational corporations across Asia, Australia, the USA, and Europe. As a trusted leadership coach, he has worked with clients from 50+ nationalities including C-Level Executives, Senior Leaders, Bureaucrats, Celebrities, UN Diplomats, and High-performance teams. Media Features & Global Recognition: Manoj’s expertise has been widely featured in international media outlets, including BBC, CNBC, Business Insider, and others. In 2018, during the historic meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Manoj appeared live on BBC World News as an expert on Human Behavior and Body Language, offering unique insights into their interactions and relationship dynamics. He has also earned accolades beyond leadership, including being named one of the top 25 standup comedians at the International Comedy Festival in Hong Kong (2012) and being featured among the top 50 professional speakers worldwide at the International Speakers Summit (2017)
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Simon T. Bailey is the leader of the SPARK Movement whose purpose is to ignite sustainable transformation in people, individuals, systems, and nations. He understands the pressure leaders and high performers are facing in the midst of uncertainty and equips them with simple, easy-to-implement strategies to accelerate results. Recognized by Washington Speakers Bureau as one of the 12 business speakers who embolden audiences to think big and lead with purpose and by BigSpeak! as one of the top sales kickoff speakers for 2020, Simon knows how to challenge an audience and effect transformational change within an organization. LinkedIn Learning features three of his online courses that reach professionals in 100 countries. Simon has more than 30 years’ experience in the hospitality industry, including serving as sales director for Disney Institute, and has worked with more than 1,800 organizations in 47 countries. He has been named one of the top 25 people who will help you reach your business and life goals by SUCCESS magazine, joining a list that includes Brene Brown, Tony Robbins, and Oprah Winfrey. His Goalcast video, released on Facebook, has over 87+ million views worldwide. Simon holds a Master’s degree from Faith Christian University and was inducted as an honorary member of the University of Central Florida Golden Key Honor Society. When he is not working, Simon spends quality time with his two active teenagers, roots for the Buffalo Bills, and serves as a board member for the U.S. Dream Academy, Orlando Health Foundation Board, and World Maker International.
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Mike Handcock is Chairman and Founder of the Circle of Excellence Group, an international organisation that gives business owners access to prosperity, freedom and purpose. For over ten years he has worked with 300,000 entrepreneurs in over fifty countries. Acknowledged as one of only thirty three speakers in the world to be certified globally (Global Speaking Fellow, CSP*), Mike has contributed to the industry as an international speaker regularly visiting six continents, as well as the official chairman of the GSF’s* “Leader to Legacy” Global Speaker Summit 2018. He is multi-award winning, with most recent acknowledgements being New Zealand Speaker of the Year, New Zealand Educator of the Year and now a Life Member of NSANZ*. His philanthropic activities have been acknowledged by a US President, including setting up model villages in India for education and major support of orphanages in Cambodia. Mike serves on the Board of the Sage Foundation as well as the Global Dialogue Foundation, an organisation that promotes dialogue between cultures and religions worldwide. His 2010 film 'Dreamcatchers' has reached over 500,000,000.
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One of the most in-demand marketing and customer experience speakers in the word today, David Avrin is known as The Visibility Coach. David Avrin has shared his high-energy and content-rich presentations with enthusiastic audiences across North America and around the world including presentations in Singapore, Bangkok, Melbourne, Brisbane, Bangalore, Antwerp, Monte Carlo, London, Buenos Aires, Glasgow, Rotterdam, Barcelona, Johannesburg and Dubai. In his entertaining and highly-actionable marketing presentations, David Avrin shows business owners and leaders, sales professionals, HR audiences and entrepreneurs how to do a deep-dive to ferret-out, recognize, craft and promote a truly unique and marketable competitive advantage. Always among the highest-rated presenters at every conference, David Avrin will make you a hero for bringing him in to speak at your conference, meeting or event. A former CEO group leader and marketing firm owner, David’s business and marketing insights have been featured on hundreds of broadcast media outlets and thousands of online and print publications around the world. The author of three books including the acclaimed: It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows YOU!
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Stephen Shapiro cultivates innovation by showing leaders and their teams how to approach, tackle and solve their business challenges. Applying the knowledge he has accrued over decades in the industry, Stephen is able to see what others can’t: opportunities to improve innovation models and the cultures that support them. The first innovation opportunity Stephen spotted was the opportunity to innovate within his own life. Halfway through his 15-year tenure at Accenture, while leading the company’s business process reengineering practice, he realized he no longer wanted to be responsible for people losing their jobs. So he did exactly the opposite by building Accenture’s thriving 20,000-person process and innovation practice focused on growth and job creation.
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Executive Presence Advisor to the C-Suite / 3× Amazon #1 Bestselling Author / Member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches (MG100)
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Moustafa Hamwi is an Executive Presence Advisor to the C-Suite who helps senior-leadership audiences master executive presence — how they think clearly, communicate with authority, and lead under pressure. A 3× Amazon #1 bestselling author and a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches (MG100), he speaks on the same discipline he advises the C-suite on. His authority on stage is built on 25+ years in executive communications — from PR for global brands and a live-communications agency he built and led, to high-stakes pitching and presentation that helped secure multi-million-dollar mandates. He has spoken across six continents to audiences of up to 2,500. His keynotes turn pressure into clarity, authority, and trust — and every talk is built to link back to measurable outcomes, not just inspiration.
More than $10,000
Denise R. Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of The Creative Dose, she promotes techniques to unlock creativity and spark innovation in people, teams, and workplaces, particularly those in the tech world. She teaches game-changing techniques for busting through creative blocks, developing clear and effective communication, cultivating collaboration, and up-leveling productive creativity. Denise is the author of Banish Your Inner Critic, the premier handbook on silencing fears to unleash creativity. Through speaking, writing, training, and consulting, Denise shares big concepts that challenge the status quo and lead to “ahas” that translate into immediate actions, skills, and new habits to transform all aspects of people’s work lives with focused creativity and improved productivity. Her objective is in creating real-world results where teams work better, produce more, and skyrocket their company’s success. Denise has presented at events and organizations worldwide such as Google, Facebook, Automattic, GitHub, the BBC, South By Southwest Interactive, NDC Oslo, UX Week, The Society for Technical Communications, various chapters of The American Marketing Association, Creative Mornings, The Future of Storytelling, The Future of Web Design, Inbound, and TEDxRheinMain. Denise is a Web Design & Development industry veteran and is the author of The CSS Detective Guide, the principal book on troubleshooting CSS code. She co-authored the Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web and InterAct with Web Standards: A holistic guide to web design, and was nominated for .Net Magazine’s 2010 Best of the Web “Standards Champion” award. Denise is also the founder of Rawk The Web, a movement focused on changing the face of the tech industry by increasing the numbers of visible diverse tech experts, and the Head Instigator of The Creativity (R)Evolution, a movement to spread the force of creativity around the world as a vehicle for positive change.
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Lesley Everett is a specialist on personal branding and creating the personality of the corporate brand. She is highly-rated as an international speaker, executive brand coach and published author. Lesley’s solid insights and practical advice have taken her to audiences around the world and into the confidence of Fortune 100 executives, politicians and celebrities. Global organisations on 5 continents use her professional expertise and executive brand programs. Lesley believes that the most powerful element of your company brand today is what your clients actually say about your brand to their contacts. This client experience defines your brand and it is created by the interactions and behaviors of all your employees, from the executive team down. Her powerful sessions are focused on maximizing your brand investment by creating this very personality of the brand that is expected by all your stakeholders today. She is the founder and creator of the well-respected brand Walking TALL – a proven personal branding & personality of the brand methodology, which has been delivered across the globe. She regularly contributes to the media and has had over 200 articles in print in global publications. Lesley was President of the Global Speakers Federation for 2014. She is a Fellow (CSP) of the Professional Speakers Association (UK & Ireland) and served on their Board for 9 years. She was among the first to receive the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence (PSAE) in 2010, entering her into the celebrated Hall of Fame.
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Brenda Bence is a Professional Hall of Fame Speaker who is internationally recognized for delivering hundreds of powerful, high-impact keynote addresses across six continents. With more than two decades’ experience on stage, Brenda is known for empowering executive audiences with practical, immediately actionable strategies that elevate leadership, strengthen their leadership brands, and drive organizational performance. Before building her global speaking and coaching business, Brenda spent the early years of her career leading billion-dollar brands for Fortune 100 multinationals, running businesses that spanned four continents. Today, she brings that real-world executive experience directly to the stage - blending business credibility, proven proprietary frameworks, compelling storytelling, and humor into keynotes that resonate deeply across all levels of leadership. In addition to being a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, Brenda is a globally ranked C-Suite coach and advisor who is recognized by Thinkers50 as a Coaching Legend. She is also the author of multiple leadership, branding, and coaching books. But it is on stage where Brenda’s ideas come alive - challenging leaders to think differently, act more intentionally, and navigate change in uncertain times.
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D’Arcy Webb, a.k.a. the Speech Diva, is an actor, singer and award-winning teacher who serves on the theatre faculties of the University of the Arts and Drexel University. She recently joined the team of teachers at Heroic Public Speaking, where her Speech Diva super powers are helping public speakers achieve their dream of “changing the world, one speech at a time.” D’Arcy specializes in speech production, accent neutralization, and helping her clients find their authentic voice. She offers private coaching to actors and other professionals who wish to free their speech of regionalisms and speak clearly, vividly and with passion. D’Arcy provides her students with technique, inspiration and support as they learn to speak their truth with clarity, specificity and heart.
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