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Professional Education Speakers
Brian Blasko is a highly motivated, nationally known speaker and trainer. His programs, inspiring individual and organizational growth, are some of the most sought after in the country. Every year clients throughout the country depend on Brian to re-charge their organization and employees. Always the fun communicator, his contagious energy encourages others to feel comfortable about themselves and their personal development. Driven by his sincere interest in others, and a genuine passion for public speaking, Brian enthusiastically invites you to discover and maximize your own personal potential!
Johnny Campbell-DTM, Accredited speaker, is an author and business speaker, who specializes in helping people learn that dealing with: Difficult People, Change, and Customer issues, can be Easy, Productive and Profitable.
Along with speaking and authoring 5 books, he has also appeared on television and in several movies. Johnny also holds the honor of being an Accredited Speaker, a designation given by Toastmasters International and is held by only 58 professional speakers in the world for excellence in public speaking. Upon receiving this designation Johnny became the first African American under the age of 40 to hold this designation, the youngest person in the world to every achieve this designation and the only American in the past 2 years to earn the highest designation for excellence in public speaking.
Johnny’s expertise and knowledge as a professional speaker was gained in the Insurance industry where he participated in leading hundreds of people through multiple Corporate Downsizings and Mergers. Based on those events and his experiences in life he became “The Transition Man”
Stuart ‘uniquely’ suffers from Tourette Syndrome, a rare, debilitating neurological disorder. Yet he speaks internationally and has produced videos on leadership, change management, teamwork and service strategy. Stuart shares with his listeners the practical techniques that have helped him turn his own life into a success story and looks forward to helping his audience members achieve their own dreams. With an unprecedented success record of rave reviews from around the world, he is a favorite at travel and tourism conventions.
Philippa Gamse helps companies, small businesses and nonprofit organizations maximize their return on investment in their Internet presence. Philippa explains complex technological concepts in a non-jargon, user-friendly way, helping her audiences to take a fresh and different look at their Web sites. Her track record of innovative thinking around the Web has created key improvements for her clients, who report significantly increased levels and quality of leads, sales and customer relationships. She combines her extensive knowledge and background with her British accent and dry humor. You’ll be both informed and entertained when Philippa brings you “the Internet in English”.
Steve Gilliland has helped people grow their business and expand their life by teaching them to rethink their work, their relationships, and themselves. Organizations throughout the world have grown more profitable by improving their #1 resource – their people. Whether he is kicking off an event, training all day, or closing a convention, Steve Gilliland’s entertaining and interactive style helps audiences connect and relate as he shows them how to open doors to success in their careers, their relationships, and their lives. They leave with a renewed sense of enthusiasm for who they are and for what really matters. He is not only a speaker who challenges people to change; he motivates them to do so.
Michael G. Henning is the founder of the Henning Family Business Center, a management and consulting firm specializing in business growth, change and future leadership headquartered in Effingham, Illinois.
Mike makes approximately 50 presentations each year on topics such as succession in the privately-held business, improving communications, relationships and effectiveness; compensation, roles, titles, estate fairness, and developing next generation leaders and managers.
Prior to starting the Henning Family Business Center in 1985, Mike was a high school teacher/coach and administrator. He also has over 30 years experience as a successful business owner, including 13 years in the family business.
Mike is recognized both as America’s Family Business "Coach", and as the most frequently used speaker in the U. S. on privately held business succession issues.
He holds a B.S., M.S. and Specialist degrees from both Eastern and Southern Illinois Universities. Mike is presently an active member of the Family Firm Institute, where he is recognized as a Fellow in Family Business Consultation, and the National Speakers' Association’s Top 8 Percent by earning his Certified Speaking Professional status in 1993. He is married, has four children and nine grandchildren. When he is not traveling, conducting seminars or consulting, he enjoys golfing and skiing. He seems to be a terminal intermediate at both.
Bright, funny and delightfully obnoxious, Meagan is known as the Generational Humorist! If you think you have heard all there is to hear about the four different generations in the workplace, you have not heard Meagan’s hilarious spin on how to attract, train, market, manage, and retain people from every generation and not strangle someone in the process. You get to laugh while acquiring tools you can use immediately to improve your multi-generational relationships with clients, customers and co-workers.
Larry Johnson is a well-known business speaker and author. He is the co-author of the top-selling book "Absolute Honesty, Building A Corporate Culture That Values Straight Talk and Rewards Integrity." He has also authored more than forty published articles on the topics of leadership, change, quality, and customer service. Larry lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his spouse of 37 years, CJ, along with two pure-bred pound mutts, an African Gray Parrot and a tarantula named Bob.
John Kennedy is back for his sixth consecutive year to empower ABA delegates to “SHAKE IT UP!” John focuses his presentations on customer service, management and leadership issues, specializing in the service-related industries of hospitality and technology.
A motivating speaker, Jim Kessler makes a discussion of numbers both interesting and entertaining. As the Executive Director of XSCEND Performance Services, the organization that administers the ABA's operator-to-operator Performance Group program, he speaks before hundreds of independent business owners each year. Pioneering best practices in a variety of industries since 1947, XSCEND holds the trademark on the term “benchmark.”
Alf Nucifora is one of America's leading marketing consultants, returns to Marketplace for the fifth year in a row. As an acknowledged authority, he is in constant demand as a professional speaker and seminar leader on sales and marketing related subjects, with particular emphasis on branding strategy, marketing communications, and customer service.
Clint Swindall is the president and CEO of Verbalocity, Inc., a personal development company with a focus on leadership and sales enhancement programs, training seminars, professional speaking and general consulting. Clint received very high marks from his seminars at Marketplace 2005 and 2006.
Beth’s programs are developed from personal experience as well as current research. She has Executive-level experience in retail and real estate, and at one time was National Manager of Administration for an $800 million Commercial Real Estate Group. There she had hands-on experience implementing cutting-edge management techniques in their 18 offices. She is an author and columnist, and was a frequent contributor to three major Hawaii newspapers.
A partner with an aggressive CPA and consulting firm in central Illinois. On a regular basis, Ken provides tax, accounting and compensation along with many other business services to closely held businesses.
Ken has nearly 30 years experience providing business owning auto parts organizations and other companies with income tax, estate, succession, contraction planning, business expansion and debt management. Ken has presented six times for members of the Alliance. Ken has presented for his peers at CPA related organizations over the past 30 years, for many corporations, service organizations and universities.
He has served as a director of many boards and remains extremely active in this area.
Ken will coach members of the audience through the extremely challenging process of reading, comprehending and initiating action based on information found on the company’s balance sheet and financial statements.
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