Guest Speakers
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Gautam has dedicated almost two decades to full time study, research and propagation of Vedanta and its practical application in life. He is currently in the US to head the efforts of the Vedanta Cultural Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to Vedanta and Self management education programs. Gautam has also presented seminars on Self management to premier corporations, institutions and universities, including the Young President's Organization (YPO), Entrepreneur's Organization (EO), Goldman Sachs, IBM, AT & T, Columbia, Princeton, and MIT. He has been featured on ABC and PBS for his work on the subject. |
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As an Executive Health Strategist, Billy Sheehan reengineers your relationship with physical fitness. By improving your relationship with physical fitness, your productivity, time management and energy will see dramatic improvement! Leveraging more than 25 years of fitness industry experience, Billy works with time challenged executives and professionals to improve their exercise, nutrition and stress management skills. The resulting balance between personal health and professional performance creates the optimal environment for achieving the highest levels of long-term business success. The Billy The Coach Team has grown nationwide to include some of the country’s top executives from the real estate, financial management, technology, legal and manufacturing industries. Billy’s commitment to executives and high-performance professionals has generated numerous television and radio appearances. He has achieved national recognition as a respected speaker and trusted authority on the pursuit of professional excellence through physical fitness. As a Health and Fitness Specialist certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the IDEA Health and Fitness Association, Billy has the unique skill set to motivate you to pursue the lifestyle you deserve and limit the effects of stress from your corporate life. |
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William C. Taylor is an agenda-setting writer, speaker and entrepreneur who has helped to shape the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate and succeed. His latest project, Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself, is based on in-depth access to 25 organizations that are making deep-seated changes under trying circumstances. These organizations (from hard-charging technology companies to long-established nonprofits, from hospitals to automakers to banks) are mastering a set of strategies and practices that define the work of leadership in turbulent times—ideas from which every leader can learn. The book was published in January 2011 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Bestselling author Daniel H. Pink calls Practically Radical “the most powerful and instructive change manual you’ll ever read.” Anne Mulcahy, former chairman and CEO of Xerox, calls it “a handbook for successful transformation and a great tutorial for implementing your change agenda.” Arianna Huffington says: “The ideas are fresh, the advice is stuff you can actually use, and the results will be tangible.” Guy Kawasaki, cofounder of Alltop.com and former Apple chief evangelist, declares that Practically Radical is a game plan for leaders who want to change the world for the better.” Practically Radical is a sequel of sorts to Bill’s most recent book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win. "I didn't just 'read' this book, I devoured it!" declared Tom Peters when Mavericks appeared. James J. Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com and host of CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, had this to say: "If Mavericks at Work had come out before I started TheStreet.com, I could have saved my investors (and myself) $100 million—because I would have been able to take the lessons in the book and apply them every day to my business." Just weeks after its release, Mavericks became a New York Times Best Seller, a Wall Street Journal Business Best Seller and a BusinessWeek Best Seller. The Economist called the book "a pivotal work in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Good to Great." The Economist also named Mavericks one of its "Books of the Year." Other accolades include: "Top Ten Business Book of The Year" (amazon.com), "Top Ten Book on Innovation and Design" (BusinessWeek), and "Picks of the Year in Business Books" (The Financial Times). Practically Radical and Mavericks at Work are just the latest chapters in a career devoted to challenging conventional wisdom and showcasing the power of business at its best. As cofounder and founding editor of FastCompany, Bill launched a magazine that won countless awards, earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs around the world—and became a legendary business success. In less than six years, an enterprise that took shape in some borrowed office space in Harvard Square sold for $340 million. Fast Company has won just about every award there is to win in the magazine world, from "Startup of the Year" to "Magazine of the Year" to two National Magazine Awards. In recognition of Fast Company's impact on business, Bill was named "Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance" by the American Society of Training and Development. Past winners include Jack Welch of GE and Fred Smith of FedEx. Bill is also an adjunct lecturer at Babson College, America's top-rated school for entrepreneurship, where he created the "Maverick Seminar at Babson College"—a unique academic program in which MBA students interact with the ideas and innovators creating the future of business. He is the co-author of three other books on strategy, leadership, and innovation. Bill has published numerous essays and CEO interviews in the Harvard Business Review, and his column, "Under New Management," ran in the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. He now writes a popular management blog for Harvard Business Review. A graduate of Princeton University and the MIT Sloan School of Management, he lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters. |
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In the past 30 years Joe has delivered over 3,000 presentations, seminars, training programs, workshops, lectures and keynote addresses. He has trained or coached extensively for many industries such as real estate, banking, insurance, health care, engineering, financial services, education, performing arts, building and construction, public service and government. Joe, a true professional coach in the purest sense of the word, combines the ingredients of creativity, stage presence and impact communication techniques with successful tools of executive competence resulting in a dynamic leader with the capability of being the accepted authority in his or her chosen field. Joe has hosted the popular nationally syndicated TV show, BusinessWise, interviewing the nations top successful business owners and their application of effective business and management tools in their business as an education vehicle for business owners across the nation. Joe created the successful "Executive Grooming Program " and implemented it for his previous company "Upscale Success Training" for aspiring leaders in many industries. He served as Rotary International Sales Training Consultant and serves as a keynote speaker for many industry associations across the U.S. Joe is the founder of Heartbeat Productions currently operating and based in Florida. As a talent developer, producer and a performing artist himself, Joe’s unique coaching techniques are deeply rooted in very workable and artistically creative methods and strengths that unleash a person’s freedom to express themselves and improve their ability to fully connect to others. Joe Yazbeck knows how to coach others to speak and perform powerfully. He has walked the walk. His coaching methods are simple, directly applicable to the task and are easily learned by professionals in business and in life who need and want these special abilities to truly be and act as leaders in business and in life. |
