Keynote Addresses

Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike. He is the author of three phenomenally successful bestsellers that have changed the way we think about our world. His first book The Tipping Point, has been a BusinessWeek bestseller ever since it was published in February of 2000 and it has embedded the term in our everyday vocabulary. Like The Tipping Point, Malcolm’s next book, Blink, was a New York Times number-one bestseller. Where The Tipping Point gave us new tools for understanding trends, Blink has deepened our understanding of the human mind and how we make decisions. Malcolm’s third book, Outliers: The Story of Success debuted as a #1 bestseller for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Publisher’s Weekly,and has had an even greater impact on business and society by pointing us toward the real factors that foster success. In his most recent book, What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.  Malcolm is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and was previously a reporter for The Washington Post. He has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. In 2005, Time Magazine named him one of its 100 Most Influential People.

Join us on Tuesday as Larry Winget, “The Pitbull of Personal Development”, Best-Selling Author and No-Nonsense Motivator attacks traditional business wisdom and offers simple truths in his caustic, thought-provoking, and hilarious style.  Larry Winget is a four-time New York Times/Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He is a frequent business contributor on MSNBC, FOX News and FOX Business on the topics of money, personal success and business. He has also appeared on The Today Show, Larry King Live, and The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. He is the best-selling author of Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get A Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life, It’s Called Work for a Reason: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault, You’re Broke Because You Want to Be, People are Idiots and I Can Prove It! and No Time for Tact.

...As An Individual Don Yaeger Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Don Yaeger – Best-selling Author, Journalist, Former Sports Illustrated Editor, Media Coach and Cancer Survivor. On Wednesday he will help us to discover “What makes the Great ones Great.” In 20 years of interviews with many of today’s sports legends, Don Yaeger has discovered, Sixteen Consistent Characteristics of Greatness and will discuss these characteristics that he has consistently seen in those winners, focusing on How they Think, How they Prepare, How they Work and How they Live.  Don Yaeger has developed a reputation as one of America’s most provocative journalists. Few can lay claim to as an exciting and colorfulcareer as Don. In his expansive career as a journalist, he has conducted interviews with some of the greatest athletes of our time – Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, Emmitt Smith, Serena Williams, Jimmy Connors and countless others. He has lived with Walter Payton, writing the NFL legend’s autobiography as Payton courageously battled cancer, has walked into Afghanistan with the Mujahadeen as they fought the Soviets, chronicled the high-profile Duke Lacrosse scandal, and even interviewed the President of the United States in the Oval Office. His award-winning writing career, including 10 years as Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated, has led to guest appearances on every major talk show in America – from Oprah to Nightline; from CNN to Good Morning America.