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TD Jakes
Bishop T. D. Jakes is the owner of The Potter’s House, a global humanitarian organization and a 30,000-member church located in Dallas where he was named America’s Best Preacher by Time Magazine.
For his humanitarian efforts he has won several prestigious awards including BET Honors, Stellar Award, NAACP Image Award, Keeper of the Dream Award and McDonald’s 365Black Award.
Pastor Jakes has produced and been featured in a number of Hollywood films including the award-winning romantic comedy movie titled Jumping the Broom in 2011.
As a professional motivational and keynote speaker, Jakes is passionate about igniting a fire in people to dream big and take massive action in their life and business.
Shawn Achor
Shawn Anchor is a motivational keynote speaker, as well as a happiness researcher who believes that the success of any organization greatly depends on the emotional well-being of a companies employees.
He is the founder of GoodThink Inc., a company who provides services to organizations that want to empower employees to put proven positive mindset habits into practice.
Anchor is a New York Times bestselling author. Two of his books are Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage.
His research on happiness has been discussed by Oprah Winfrey and cited in the Harvard Business Review.
His TED talk, “The Happy Secret To Better Work” has received over 21M views.
Dr. Phil McGraw
Over the last twenty years Dr. Phil has become America’s leading psychologist that has been invited into millions of households to help them fix their life.
He was originally discovered by Oprah Winfrey who hired Dr. Phil’s legal consulting firm CSI to help prepare her for the Amarillo Texas beef trial.
After he helped her win in the case, she was so impressed with him that she invited him to appear on her show.
His appearance was so successful that he began appearing weekly as the ”Relationship and Life Strategy Expert” starting in 1998.
Four years later, he founded Peteski Productions and launched his own daily TV show, Dr. Phil which was produced by Harpo Studios.
Dr. Phil is the author of seven #1 New York Times bestsellers and the founder of the Dr. Phil Foundation whose mission is to help fight childhood obesity.
Rick Warren
Dr. Rick Warren is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, “The Purpose Driven Life”, which has sold over 35 million copies.
He is the founder of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, one of America’s biggest and most popular churches where TIME Magazine once referred to Warren as “America’s most powerful religious leader.”
His Purpose-Driven Church paradigm won the prestigious Gold Medallion award in 1996.
Brene Brown
Author of five New York Times bestsellers, Brene Brown is also a research professor at the University of Houston. Her acclaimed books such as “Rising Strong” and “Daring Greatly” follow her life and experiences and show readers the road to success in spite of the hurdles they may face.
As a powerful motivational keynote speaker, she has hosted several TED talks and has made television appearances on notable shows, such as Super Soul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey.
Her training program, The Daring Way, teaches emotional skills to professionals. It focuses on inspiring courage and overcoming vulnerabilities.
John Maxwell
Dr. John Maxwell is a world-renowned author, speaker, and pastor who has written several books on leadership. His publications have sold millions of copies around the world and have often been featured on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
Perhaps his most famous book is The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, which talks about the essential traits leaders in any capacity must possess to ensure effective results.
He has received widespread recognition for his work and is a recipient of the prestigious Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network.
Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner is known for his book The Pursuit of Happyness, where it became a New York Times and Washington Post number one bestseller and eventually became a hit movie starring Will Smith.
He also published a New York Times bestselling book titled, Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be was also written by Gardner.
In 2010, Gardner was named the Ambassador of Pursuit and Happyness for AARP, which has nearly 40 million members worldwide.
He has also been honored with many awards from the NAACP Image Awards including the award for both the book and movie versions of The Pursuit of Happyness.
Darren Hardy
Darren Hardy is editorial founder and publisher of Success Magazine, one of the leading publications read by executives and entrepreneurs. As a highly sought out motivational keynote speaker, he has spoken at hundreds of events and worked with many organizations on helping them reach their sales goals.
He is recognized for his significant contributions to the personal development industry for almost two decades where he has held a leadership role with The Success Training Network (TSTN) and The People’s Network (TPN). The Success Training Network produced and launched at least 1,000 TV shows, products, and live events.
Brendon Burchard
Brendon Burchard is a #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and “The World’s Leading High-Performance Coach”.
He’s been recognized by ABC and Inc. Magazine as one of the top motivational coaches in the world and has also been featured on Oprah and Friends, CBS News, and The Wall Street Journal.
In his talks, he discusses the drives that make us feel more alive as well as techniques to lead a better life.
John Assaraf
John Assaraf is a multi-million-dollar entrepreneur and a mindset coach, whose practice of ‘manifestation’ is aimed at unlocking people’s full potential for success and achievement.
A leading behavior expert, Assaraf has published two New York Times Bestseller books ‘The Answer’ and ‘Innercise: The New Science to Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power’, which aims to help people overcome their emotional and mental blocks for financial success.
Currently, he is the confounder of NeuroGym, which uses cutting-edge neurological research to develop training methods aimed at enhancing successful results and achievements.
Will Smith
An explosive and versatile talent, Willard Carroll Smith Jr is a powerful Hollywood actor, who has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards. As a musician, he is a four-time Grammy Award winner.
This great college speaker was born in Philadelphia, USA on September 25, 1968 and is married to Hollywood Actress Jada Pinkett Smith. He has spoken eloquently for World bodies on subjects like Climate Change.
During his speeches, you can expect him to deliver a powerful message that will ignite your audiences hunger to become their best selves and to never settle for mediocrity.
Marcus Buckingham
After nearly two decades of experience as a senior researcher at the world famous Gallup Organization, he is the founder of the Marcus Buckingham Company in 2006.
He now tries to get people to work at what they like best. This way, while the individual achieves inner satisfaction and fulfillment, the organization that employs Marcus, gains maximum benefit from his efforts.
As the author of the book, “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, he is on a mission to help people to tap into their gifts and put them to use so that they can live an extraordinary life.
Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma is a Canadian motivational speaker and author best known for his book series The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, which is a self-help book based on his own life experiences.
He has served as a leadership speaker at some of the most prominent companies in the world such as Nike, PwC, General Electric, and NASA, to name a few.
He is also the founder of Sharma Leadership International, Inc. which is a management consultancy firm aimed at giving leadership coaching to executives from all over the globe.
Sharma has published ten bestselling books that have been translated into more than seventy languages.
Dr. Bernice King
Bernice A. King is the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King who is now a motivational keynote speaker and inspiration to her audiences around the world.
She began her journey as a speaker at the age of 17 when she stood in for her mother at the United Nations where she later was appointed as Chief Executive officer of The King Center by its Board of Trustees in January of 2012.
King has spoken for many different organizations, including places such as The White House, USANA Health Sciences, DuPont Corp, University of Toledo, and Duke University.
King was founder of Be A King, an organization with a mission to change the way new generations approach life in a positive way and is recognized for her enduring commitment to family and community.
She has appeared on television shows such as BET Talk with Tavis Smiley and Oprah. King has also been mentioned in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal, Ebony, and Essence.
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