Richard Campe
Rich Campe began his entrepreneurial endeavors at age 15 by starting a company to pay for his college education.  In 1991 he graduated from North Central College in Naperville, IL with a double major in Marketing and Communications. Rich has 18 years of international and domestic Sales and Sales Management experience.  He is the founder and CEO of Rich Campe International, Corporate and Personal Coaching and sits on the Board of Advisors for IgnitetheFire.com, HVPProfiles.com, CapturetheChampion.com, and several real estate investment firms. Rich has served as a board member for SMU (Southern Methodist University) MBA mentor program and has been invited to speak at multiple business conferences where he has shared the stage with world and business leaders such as President George Bush Sr., Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar and a host of other CEO’s and world leaders.
 
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David Goldsmith
David Goldsmith is a co-founder of MetaMatrix Consulting Group Inc. Over the past 20 years he has founded or co-founded nine businesses ranging from distribution to manufacturing to advertising. Having spoken for nearly two decades David has covered topics that include: Change Management, Corporate and Personal Goal Setting, Strategic planning, Using Technology and Communication, Leadership and Customer Service. Having each speech customized to the audience, participants will learn what they can do to achieve stellar results for the individual and the organization.
 
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Claudia M. Shelton
Claudia, founder of the Hopewell Group, focuses her practice on helping individuals and corporations to realize the potential of their intrinsic personal talents. She is a licensed professional counselor and nationally certified psychologist, and holds master’s degrees in Business from New York University, Communication Research from Michigan State University, and Counseling Psychology from the University of Massachusetts. For twelve years, Claudia has coached executives at all management levels, as well as managed projects focused on change management, team-building, conflict resolution, corporate culture and branding, and human resources issues.
 
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Rob Waldman
A former Air Force fighter pilot, 'Waldo' relates his real world combat and business experience to sales and management execution of corporations nationwide. He is a highly experienced combat veteran with over 2,650 flight hours and sixty-five real world combat missions. Waldo’s amazing real world combat and business stories, told with passion and humor, bring his distinctive presentations to life. The analogies he makes to modern day leadership, sales, and management issues provide a fresh and unique perspective to his motivational seminars. Waldo emotionally engages his audiences and inspires them to overcome challenges and to maximize their potential both in business and in life.
 
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Dr. Gary Bradt
Keynote title: The Ring in the Rubble: A Most Rewarding Way to Look at Change. All organizations face constant and rapid change, which by nature many people are inclined to resist. But organizations that don’t learn to embrace change will soon fall behind their competitors that do. The challenge for leaders everywhere is to get people to let go of their old ways of doing business so they can create and grab on to the new. Perhaps no one has contemplated this leadership challenge more than Gary Bradt, who for years was endorsed by Spencer Johnson as the leading speaker worldwide on Johnson’s phenomenal bestseller Who Moved My Cheese? As such, Gary gave well over one hundred keynotes and constantly heard the same request from his clients: Help our people learn to embrace change; help them see the opportunity in change and how it can work to their advantage. Gary’s new keynote, The Ring in the Rubble (based on his upcoming business book to be released by McGraw-Hill in summer 2007), answers this call. The presentation provides audiences a fun, engaging and powerful new way to think about change. The metaphor/message is simple, clear and cuts to the chase: Change may have reduced your best-laid plans to rubble. However, buried within every pile of rubble lies a ‘golden ring’ of opportunity. Your job is to find it. My job is to show you how. Through numerous stories and examples- some humorous, some touching, all inspiring- Gary will motivate your audience to ‘dig for the ring of opportunity’ no matter how difficult the circumstances. After all, there is always a ring in the rubble- and there is treasure in your trouble. This keynote will show you the way.

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Sheila Murray Bethel
Sheila Murray Bethel, PhD, is a business consultant, lecturer and best-selling author of 'Making A Difference, 12 Qualities That Make You A Leader'. Her sales, marketing and business acumen give her special insights into the issues so critical in today's competitive marketplace. She addresses topics in the areas of change, leadership and customer focus. She helps organizations maximize human resources, solve people problems, and increase gross revenue through her ability to take complex issues and translate them into easily understood concepts, skills and actions that everyone can apply. Some of her most popular presentations are: "How to Accept, Handle & Thrive on Change", "Leadershift---Making a Difference in a Constantly Changing World", and "Living The Rich Fulfilling Life You Deserve".
  
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Steve Farber
Steve Farber is among the foremost experts in the areas of leadership. As the former vice president of the Tom Peters Company, Farber quickly became the firm's most requested consultant and was dubbed its "Official Mouthpiece". Farber focuses his techniques around helping professionals understand how to close the gap between ideas and behaviors. His presentations involve groups from top-level executives to front-line employees, helping companies worldwide develop market-driven strategies and effective leadership practices. Topics: Motivation, Change, Leadership, Customer Service Values and Vision. Steve's new book," The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership", will be on the market in April 2004 and has been selected as Fast Company's May 2004 Book of the Month.
 
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John Hersey
A veteran in business, John has been a hands-on student of effective leadership for 30 years. His experience ranges from middle to senior management, from large to small companies, in a variety of industries. The benefits of John's programs are powerful: Truly engaged employees create engaged, loyal and involved customers; Involved customers take you beyond brand loyalty; Involved customers help companies grow and prosper. John's book, "Creating Contagious Leadership," identifies his low-cost, high-return formula. He brings clarity and simplicity to the challenge of cultivating and spreading companywide leadership. Clients say his results are "bold".
 
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Peter McLaughlin
Co-author of 'Mentally Tough', Peter teaches companies and individuals how to turn idealistic mission statements and goals into reality, making them part of their everyday culture. He details specific techniques that enable people to access the ideal performance state...that state of physical energy, mental agility and emotional calm where people operate at the upper reaches of their ability. His latest book is "Catch Fire". His presentations are dynamic, entertaining and informative.
 
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Rick Searfoss
Col., USAF, Ret. Selected by NASA in 1990, Searfoss became an astronaut in July 1991. He piloted 2 Space Shuttle missions and commanded a third. Currently, as the Chief Judge for the 10 million dollar Ansari X Prize for development of the first private reusable human spacecraft, he is a firsthand expert in one of the most innovative and future-oriented fields possible. Searfoss also served as STS-58 pilot on the seven-person life science research mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1993. He speaks on leadership, innovation, teamwork, and can share his experiences in a fun, inspiring, feel-good, and optimistic for the future presentation. One of the aspects of having had such unique experiences as flying in space is the fertile background for very intriguing stories. recently appeared on the March 24, 2005 episode of “The Apprentice.” The five members of the week’s winning team Magna Corporation joined Rick flying aboard a modified Boeing 727 aircraft on the same type of flight used to train the astronauts.
 
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