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a seasoned executive, with more than 30 years of hands-on P&L responsibility running companies at every phase of a business' life cycle--Idea, Start-up, Growth, Maturity, Decline and Death. He also has considerable experience consulting with and supporting small and medium-sized closely-held enterprises (SME) across a range of industries, including high technology, distribution, construction, manufacturing, NGO, and professional services. Bob has been involved in the successful sale of many businesses--both to industry consolidators and individual investors. And he has also been involved with several turn-arounds. Bob uses his experience as the CEO of Mainsail Consulting Group combined with his experience as a competitive sailor to draw parallels between building and leading a winning yacht racing team and building and leading a winning business. Bob helps current and emerging leaders develop business skills that are effective whether the seas are calm or storms are raging. "Yacht racing," he says, "is the perfect metaphor for business success. Businesses, like race boats, require leadership, teamwork, and rapid ideation and decision-making to be successful. Miles from land, you have only those resources you brought with you and your knowledge of the environment and your competition to eke out as much advantage as you can in a dynamic environment." His passion to help business owners succeed, combined with years of practical experience, make Bob an excellent guide. Bob mentors his clients to develop a goal-focused mentality and the competitive skills they need to achieve long-term success. He also guides them to become great leaders that people admire and follow. Audiences easily connect with Bob because he is interactive and fun. Bob is able to think on his feet and engage the audience with thought-provoking stories, examples and humor.
$5,001 - $10,000
Erin Gargan is an Amazon #1 bestselling author, three-time entrepreneur and digital persuasion expert. She is CEO of Socialite Agency, a social media firm whose clients include The Oscars, ABC/Disney, VISA, Target, Hilton, Hitachi and others. She is the author of “Digital Persuasion: Sell Smarter in the Modern Marketplace.” Erin is also an advisor for Camp One Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm. She has been featured in Forbes and was recently named a 2017 “Woman in Business” by the Orange County Business Journal. Erin helps sales, marketing and event professionals attract attention and increase influence using the power of digital persuasion.
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A facilitator, this is a term that I use to describe what I do for my clients. I help speakers to develop their career and clients to get the best speaker available for their goals. Hands-on experience with International markets and creating and leading successful teams has been my main focus during the past ten years. I have been working closely with clients to suggest and facilitate access to high caliber speaker. A deep knowledge about speakers and the way they deliver has been a key factor to be able to provide the exact and best speakers for every client's event. Speakers in all areas of Knowledge from a motivational speaker to an expert on space travels: Some of the speakers that I have worked with: Helmut Khol, Mikhail Gorbachev,John Bruton,Bob Geldof, Muhammad Yunus,Nando Parrado,Ricardo Lagos,Felipe González, Eduardo Punset, Alex Rovira,José Maria Aznar, Dominique de Villepin,Alvaro Uribe, Julio Maria Sanguinetti, Marc Vidal,Robin Sharma, Guy Kawasaki, Erin Brockovich, Eduardo Frei,Rodrigo Rato,Genís Roca,Nicholas Negroponte, Christopher Pissarides, Vicente Fox, Alejandro Toledo, Jeffrey Sachs, Bjorn Lomborg, Juan Verde and many others On the other hand, I have been involved in Rugby development for many years, I am a proud member of the European Rugby Association Board since December 2012.
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Jaime Baim Hansen is a writer, speaker, investor, and thought leader on women and business. With a degree in the mathematical methods of social sciences from Northwestern University, she spent her early career with an economics consulting firm in Washington, DC. After earning her MBA at Duke, she made a career switch and spent the next 10+ years as a business executive in the tech industry working for companies like Yahoo, Fox, and Cornerstone. Jaime is passionate about inspiring and empowering women, innovation and leveraging ALL available talent, evolving the intersection of business and social impact, and always, always new entrepreneurial ideas. Jaime can be reached at [email protected].
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I am from a small town called Arcola, Louisiana. I grew up with 50 sister's and brothers. We lived in a shotgun house with a outhouse! So, I come from humble beginnings. I overcame each obstacle I faced. I finished high school, went on to go to college in Tulsa,Ok. Where I worked in tech support for Directv for 5years. After that I traveled the state's working as a scaffold builder for another 6 years. I decided to settle down in Round Rock,TX to raise my nephew who has mental disabilities. I am now a CEO of a restaurant here in Round Rock, TX. I have been speaking for 2years now, and I love it! I feel I went through so much in my life, so that I will have a story to share with the world. A story that will motivate others and encourage others.
$251 - $1,500
A broken neck may have physically slowed me down years ago, but it only fueled my desire to see the world and inspire others to do so along the way.
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Mustafa Toroman is a solution architect focused on cloud-native applications and migrating existing systems to the cloud. He is very interested in DevOps processes and cyber security, and he is also an Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast and DevOps Institute Ambassador. Mustafa often speaks at international conferences about cloud technologies. He has been awarded MVP for Microsoft Azure since 2016 and C# Corner MVP since 2020. Mustafa also authored several books about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing.
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Dr Benjamin Kelly is Managing Director and Founder of CastleCliff – a behavioural finance and decision making consultancy. Benjamin works with asset managers, hedge funds, official institutions and banks to understand and identify investment biases in their investment processes. Following the detection stage, strategies are developed to ensure these biases are removed from the process completely. Prior to CastleCliff, Benjamin worked for BlackRock as a global investment strategist within the firm’s knowledge sharing/think tank capability – the BlackRock Investment Institute. In this role Dr Kelly, worked with portfolio managers on formulating the firm’s global outlook in addition to consulting on behavioural biases within investment processes. Currently, Dr Kelly is a contributing lecturer on a Masters’ behavioural finance course at Warwick Business School. Benjamin earned a BSc honours degree in chemistry, a MLitt in economics and international relations and a PhD in economics all from the University of St Andrews.
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Freeing you of the fear of public speaking ▪ Workshops ▪ Presentation training ▪ Individual coaching ▪ In-House training ▪ Award Winning Speaker ▪ Keynote Speaker The clock is ticking; you are committed to standing up and speaking in public, at a meeting, an event… how confident are you feeling? Raring to go, or - as with more people than you think - would you prefer to pass the baton? There are a number of reasons why my public speaking training business has grown through referrals, and seen me help thousands of professionals and senior level executives. First, the majority of people would rather do anything than speak in public. It’s a fear that undermines confidence, holds back careers and blocks potential new business. Second, my workshops receive consistent feedback reflecting not only the engaging delivery, but the practical content. Delegates leave more confident, capable and skilled than they came in. Using breathing and voice techniques, approaches to mindset and real life practical exercises to master the art of public speaking and overcome fears. Third, what I do helps businesses to grow. Really, it does. It enables executives to deliver knockout out speeches and presentations. I give salespeople the confidence to articulately and powerfully engage with clients. Professionals will find networking a far more comfortable and successful experience. With a background in banking, business development and relationship management, I have a deep understanding of the Professional Services sector and a strong commercial focus. So whilst enjoyable, there’s nothing superfluous about my workshops. They are about getting results. Also an accomplished keynote speaker, I’m able to engage, delight, amuse and inform audiences through well-received talks. No more hiding at the back of the room. Missing opportunities to raise your profile. Delivering unengaging presentations while shaking with fear. Let’s talk. Please call on 07941083722.
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Sima Dahl is a branding visionary who will revolutionize the way you think about generating demand. Her early career as an award-winning B2B corporate marketer paved the way for Sway Factor™, a groundbreaking approach to embracing personal brands as a means to boost sales, amplify employee retention, accelerate talent acquisition, and transform your staff into brand ambassadors. Known for her ability to distill complex theory into practical application, Sima delivers a simple framework that moves even naysayers into action. With bold candor, unfiltered honesty and her signature charismatic style, Sima challenges audiences from Boston to Budapest to stand out, stay relevant, and be in demand. Whether it's a conference keynote, sales kickoff, or corporate offsite, her passion on stage is matched only by the passion she ignites in her audience. When she's not speaking, you'll find her consulting with a roster of forward-thinking clients including Allscripts, CDW, Harley Davidson, Medline, Orbitz, Rust-Oleum, Walgreens, United Airlines & Zebra Technologies.
$5,001 - $10,000
Olu Ibrahim is the Founder & CEO of Kids in Tech, Inc. Kids in Tech partners with school districts and youth development organizations to provide high quality technology education for young children and youth in mid-sized cities in the afterschool setting in the United States. Previously, she served as an Education Pioneers Fellow with the Memphis Music Initiative , directed a high school technology internship program for high school students and served as a middle school teacher. Her professional interests focus on workforce development; K-12 and postsecondary education; technology and innovation; public policy; and business management. Olu Ibrahim received her Bachelors of Arts in Government and International Relations from Clark University and her Master in Education from Lesley University with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction and Leadership. She also served as a Community Fellow and received a Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from the Institute of Nonprofit Practice ( INP) in affiliation with the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. She is also a finalist for the 2017 Young Professional of the Year award from the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network. Olu is a fierce advocate for creating a more safe, healthy, and equitable world.
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Tarun Ramadorai is Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College London. He has a broad range of research interests in the areas of household finance, asset pricing, and international finance. He is greatly interested in finance and economics issues in emerging markets, with a particular focus on India. He has published on these topics in a number of scholarly journals in finance and economics including American Economic Review: Insights, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. Tarun is a Research Fellow of CEPR, an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science, a Senior Academic Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research (ABFER), and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He has served in a range of policy roles in addition to his academic work, including Economic Adviser to the European Securities and Markets Authority, Visiting Scholar at the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, and Chairman of the Inter-Regulatory Committee on Household Finance constituted by the Reserve Bank of India. Tarun has a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Williams College, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Prior to his role at Imperial, Tarun spent over a decade at the University of Oxford.
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