• 6 Steps to Building a Better Business – How to follow a simple plan to achieve business success.
• Everyone Communicates Few Connect – Utilizing simple communication skills to connect with any audience.

Michael says: I was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1965, and have been married to my wife Sharon since 2006. Our first child Cameron was born in May of 2011.

Since receiving my Master’s Degree in Aquatic Biology from Central Michigan University I have traveled the U.S. extensively as a corporate and private environmental consultant working on some of the largest natural gas pipelines constructed in the country. This experience allowed me to work closely with corporate executives, federal agencies, project design engineers and field construction staff.

As a corporate consultant for AECOM, The Louis Berger Group and 3D/International, I assisted companies such as Duke Energy, SoCal Edison/Edison Mission Energy, TransCanada Pipeline, Williams Gas Pipeline and Boardwalk Pipeline by ensuring environmental compliance on over 500 miles of Natural Gas Pipeline installation.

As an independent contractor I have worked with the Exxon Mobil, Williams Communications, Enbridge, Spectra Energy and Williams Pipelines. I have also been helped start up two inspection companies; the Wyatt Group and Sage Staffing Services.

Wanting a change, I began a career shift that has included working with Primerica Financial Services since 2003. In 2011, I continued my career shift and began working the #1 Business Coaching firm in the world and in Texas; ActionCOACH and N3Coaching. I also started training with the #1 leadership mentor in the world Dr. John C. Maxwell. I know that joining forces with the #1 Leadership Coaching Company and the #1 Business Coaching Company will help change the lives of so many people here in Houston.

Are you ready to embark upon journey to greatly improve your skills and beliefs, your income and your lifestyle –achieving the ambitions and dreams you went into the business for in the first place? If so, it’s time to get into ACTION. Call me now to arrange a free business diagnostic and together we will explore all the possibilities.

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• Get Personal to Get Ahead: How Your Social Style Determines Your Profits – Whether you work for “the man” or own the company, knowing the personality temperaments and social styles of yourself and the people around you will help you be more successful. Your timing, your focus and your credibility can all be improved by knowing how people are hardwired and how to hit their hot buttons.
• Get Personal to Get it Right: How Your Social Style Drives Your Relationships – It’s a losing battle to try to fix the people in your life. The best relationships between spouses, parents and children, family members and friends are cultivated when each person feels that they have been seen, heard and respected. You can bring out the best in yourself and others by tapping into everyone’s unique social style.
• Step by Step: The Long Journey Back to Myself – How could such a smart girl end up in such an abusive relationship, and stay there for three years? On my journey to find the answer, I learned how to rebuild a woman’s spirit, health and self-esteem when everything she knew about herself was stripped away.

Kim Schuld is a speaker and consultant helping individuals and business owners know themselves better in order to better understand their families, clients and prospects.

Kim spent more than 20 years in national politics working with corporations, trade associations and non-profits using her methods to help clients reach their audiences faster, and to make the most of their limited time in front of Congressmen, Senators, Governors and the media.

Kim Schuld is the author of the upcoming book, “The Promise of Someday,” about the emotional and intellectual shifts that takes place when individuals start to hope for a better “someday,” and the danger in NOT taking the steps to turn their “someday” into TODAY.

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• From EW to WOO – Clubbing clients over the head no longer works. Seduction techniques have only short-term results. That’s why successful organizations court, or WOO, potential clients. Dr. Peters shares marketing techniques that attract loyal and long-term clients.
• WOO Selling – Imagine prospects wanting your product… They’re coming to you, instead of you doggedly chasing after them. Imagine learning techniques that not only make you attractive to prospects, but that also convert them into long-term and loyal customers. Perhaps now is the time to commit to change, and begin to enjoy the rewards of top salespeople. It’s easy to implement a few key strategies, apply simple persuasion techniques,  to attract customers into a conversation that evolves naturally into a significant relationships.
• Present, Persuade, Profit – Whether speaking to clients, presenting before potential clients, or simply sharing a message that needs to be heard, your team must understand the principles of persuasive presentations. Learn to compel audiences to take action and make changes. How will you construct your presentation so that audience not only listen, but take action? What few simple things can you do visually and physically to cause the to listen and applaud?
• Be Read: Copywriting that Attracts, Connects, and Get’s Results – Do the words in your marketing collateral grab your readers and guide them to take the actions you’re wanting? You might think that writing is a talent you’re born with, but don’t buy into the myth. Writing clear, compelling copy is a skill that can be taught and learned. 
• In this seminar you’ll learn, step by step, how to shape your message and organize your words. Forget about what you were taught in school; this program shares the secrets of the most successful copywriters. Learn to write the way they write, and witness the results.
• Be Correct: Mistake Free Grammar and Proofreading! – One typo can destroy a message, ruin a reputation, or cause a loss of opportunity. Misunderstanding and not knowing a grammatical rule can make us look silly, stupid, or incompetent. The good news is you don’t have to sit through a boring grammar class to refresh your grammatical knowledge or learn how language has changed since high-school. A workshop that makes proofreading and grammar fun? You bet. This program is based on the latest research on how adults learn. It’s fast-moving, so you stay interested. It’s engaging, so you learn by doing. And it’s fun, so you happily give it your all. 
• Be Read: Advanced Business Writing – What you learned in high school doesn’t apply to the real world. When was the last time your wrote a five-paragraph essay on what you did for summer vacation? If you write the way you were taught, you’ll confuse your team, lose customers, and bore potential customers. We used to focus on grammar and proper structure, but writing is a visual form of communication with music in the background. Literally, how we write it is more important than the message we want to convey. 
• Unlearn what you were taught in school to create copy that your boss, team, customers, and potential customers will read. This full-day seminar give tricks, tips, and techniques you didn’t learn in school. There are ways to get people to read what you write. Learn them.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Booked – When you are an author, you are THE authority. This seminar helps you become the obvious expert with your own book. Few things establish authority more easily and cheaply than a book. Participants in this seminar learn writing techniques and promotion tips to make sure you are the recognized authority in your field.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Books as a self-publisher – This seminar may be incorporated in the first Book 2B Booked seminar, or it may be offered as a separate educational experience for those who have a manuscript ready and a clear marketing plan. Once the realm of people who could not make it in the real publishing world, self-publishing is now the most profitable method of producing your book.
• Be Heard: Make Sure Your Prospects are Listening – This half-day, full-day, or two-day seminar explains the fundamentals of presenting ourselves visually to our customers and potential customers. Learn the secrets of room position and the hand motions that keep your audience involved in what your are saying. The two-day seminar gives participants the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned and receive immediate feedback from their audience.
• Be Heard in the Office – This seminar gives supervisors and mid-level managers insights into what motivates and de-motivates their team. More than a basic management seminar, participants learn how to use their position in the room, body language, tone, even wording techniques to get their teams to not only perform, but to also want to perform.
• Be Heard by Your Customers – Much of customer service is perception. This seminar instructs front-line and customer service professionals on the art of finessing customers, especially in moments of crisis and complains. Participants learn skills to avoid caving to customer demands; even better, they learn how to get customers to agree to a compromise and feel good about it. Your goal is to keep the customers you have, and to intensify their loyalty to your organization.

Jonathan Peters, Ph.D. is a recognized trainer and writer with an emphasis in business communications. If it involves words, it involves him.
He has trained thousands of people across the country. His audiences have learned better presentation skills, improved their business communications, beefed-up their writing and document designs, boosted their management skills, even increased their reading rates and memory retention.
As a writer, Dr. Peters has written everything from a fourth-grade history textbook to the technical manual for the command-and-control system for a nuclear weapons plant that may or may not exist. He has been involved in a variety of writing projects, including marketing copy, web content, and book summaries. Dr. Peters has authored 5 books under his name and ghostwritten 16 others.
As a writing instructor, Dr. Peters has worked with corporations as well as universities. He has given corporate training in business writing, consulted with companies on marketing copy and documentation processes, and teaches senior-level business writing courses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
During his doctoral studies, Dr. Peters became interested in how the new sciences influence our culture. He is now excited about what the emerging science of networks says about how we conduct our social lives and our businesses.

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• Houston, We Have a Problem – Reconnecting to YOUR Mission Control
• Your Life IS NOT a Soap Opera – Living in the No Drama Zone
• Earplugs or Hearing Aids? – Tools to Reconnect When The Important Voices Are Being Drowned Out
• Overwhelmed Much? – Paths to Empowerment
• The Millennial Mom – It’s Not Just Our Kids Who Have Changed
• Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear – Tools to Leave Work In The Rearview Mirror\

Sissy Grapes is an internationally recognized inspirational speaker, consultant, educator and Master Coach. 

She has been called a “Renaissance Woman,” because she is gifted with creativity, humor, and a deep insight. 

Sissy has a Master’s Degree from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, in Counseling, as well as certifications as an independent program evaluator and an NLP Trainer of Trainers. 

She is a member of Coachville, the International Coach Federation, and the National Speaker’s Association. 

Sissy’s mission is Helping humanity turn up the L.I.G.H.T.

L.I.G.H.T. stands for Laughter, Inspiration, Gratitude, Happiness and Transformation.

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• Life’s a Sales Call! ^® - The only thing worse than training employeesand having them leave, is to not train them and have them stay.
• Mastering Professional Sales – Mastering Professional Sales provides the tools and the training to make the shift from transactional selling to the Relationship-Selling Platform^®.
• Mastering Professional Leadership^® – Leadership Development Training for a target audience comprised of up to twenty participants.
• Mastering Customer Service^® – Mastering Customer Service provides the attitudes, behaviors and communication skills to assist any professional in a service capacity  in the handling of both “internal” and “external” customers.

Jack is the CEO and founder of NextStep Solutions (NSS), sales specialists headquartered in Houston, TX. NextStep Solutions, www.nextstep-solutions.com, is known, worldwide, for increasing client sales, through a customerized approach to strategy, training, coaching, and consulting services.

NextStep Solutions—founded in 1995—inspires sales greatness, focusing on building relationships and enhancing communications skills, delivering quantifiable results. For the past five years, Jack was a radio personality, hosting a daily, live business talk show, “Where Wall Street Meets Main Street,” heard during morning drive-time, across the State of Texas, on the BizRadio Network—and on the internet around the world.

After graduating from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1978, Jack began a decade-long career with IBM. He quickly established a stellar reputation as the best “new account” sales professional in the company, leading the nation in new accounts opened—53 systems in 52 weeks—BEFORE the advent of the PC. The most amazing part: he did it in his SECOND year on quota. Upon being awarded the highest IBM sales award—The Eagle—his professional speaking career was inadvertently launched, when he traveled across the country, sharing his sales techniques with other IBM professionals.

Jack wrote the book on sales. In fact, he’s the author of the best selling book, Life’s A Sales Call: How To Succeed In The World’s Oldest Profession, on sale everywhere and at www.amazon.com. He now travels the world, speaking before thousands of people, delivering presentations with extremely high content in an entertaining and inspirational fashion, in areas of Sales, Marketing, Service and Leadership.

Jack is very involved in the local community. He founded and capitalized The Barnabas Society, www.barnabassociety.org, a 501c 3 corporation, that raises and distributes money and resources to people in their greatest times of need, with all the funds donated anonymously.

Nicknamed “NIKE” (Just Do It!), he will electrify your group with his high-energy approach to sales—and life. If the best teacher is one whose life is the text, Jack has been there, done that, bought, sold AND designed the T-shirt.

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• Loyalty Programs Vs Shopper Experience – How do we generate repeat shopping in the grocery industry? Are retailers actually using the data gathered through Loyalty programs.
• The 6 Senses of Grocery Shopping – How retailers use our senses to make us buy their products.
• Mental Health in the Corporate World – How companies deal with mental health and what is the role of HR in dealing with these issues.
• Finding My Shape – Living with Depression and how I have worked to remove the perceived stigma of mental health issues.
• Insanity: Living with Depression – My journey of how I have lived with depression and worked to remove the stigma of mental health issues.

After graduating with a BComm from the University of Witwaterand and working in accounting and auditing, Bruce emigrated from South Africa to Israel. In Israel he took an interest in Advertising and Marketing and completed the “Israel Advertisers Association” course planning on a career in advertising. He soon moved into the world of Professional Services in Information Technology in the banking and retail industries.

After 20 years in the corporate world Bruce has taken a new path into the world of Public Speaking. As Malcolm Gladwell writes in his book Outliers, “I have put in my 10,000 hours to enable me to be an overnight success.”

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• The Speaker’s Revenue Machine – People can’t “Get” what you do unless they know what you sell. AND you give them opportunities to buy. Your entire Business runs on a Revenue Machine, and you need to manage it. 
• Pricing to Sell: Making it Easy to Buy You – Your Clients Shop With Their Heads, But They Buy With Their Hearts. Successful Businesses have Solid Price Lists. They know what the Right Price is for their Prospects to become Customers.
• The Influencer Intellect: Prosperity is More Than WHO You Know – Be an Influencer and you can Access the Golden Ticket. The R4H Monetize Your Connections System will Identify who you already know that will lead to Prosperous Relationships.

As the CEO of the R4H Group, the Premier Strategy and Outsourcing Partner for Speakers on a Mission, Kathy uses her over 15+ years of harvesting talent for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft to bring top professionals together for incredible projects.

She has worked with hundreds of successful professionals who are in the public eye. Kathy has shown authors, speakers, educators, executives, and entertainers that the difference between success and failure is how they use their time and resources.

Known as a straight talker, Kathy believes with a great message and mission comes the responsibility of bringing revenue to the table to push that message out to larger audiences. her ability to harvest and manage global talent virtually makes her a must have for Platform Speakers and Professionals who Speak.

Call Kathy – 214.527.7391

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• If You Don’t Have a Video, You Don’t Exist. – Understand why 86% of Internet users prefer a video over text and why having a video can put you on Google’s first page.
• Technology for Presenters – Everything a presenter should know to make an impactful presentation.
• Make Money While You Sleep – How to digitize your message and sell it on the web.

Andre Costa has 25+ years of business experience mostly spent in the Information Technology field creating computer-based training and training curriculums.

He currently holds the position of E-Learning Director at ReachLocal and owns Orion21, a company dedicated to create on-line presentations (videos, podcasts, audio books and e-learning) for speakers, coaches, ministers, and trainers.

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• The Little Black Dots & Ten Straight Lines presents the benefits and universal nature of music. We look at the common threads across cultures and nations sharing my musical experiences and how these have impacted my life journey. Listeners are encouraged to find similar experiences that help identify and guide pathways to a more enriched life.
• When Life Gets Tough, the Tough Tune Up! engages the audience in activities related to “tuning up” our lives and uses musical analogies to offer tips on how to survive in touch times, both personally and professionally.
• The Red Piano: A Global Communication Adventure tells a signature story about an adventure in Russia and what that taught me about managing difficulties and finding joy in life’s challenges.
• Career Development & Advancement Topics are designed to assist persons who are seeking career direction, are embarking on an active job search, and may need help with resume preparation, job search planning, resume and interview skills, and networking: Putting Passion to Work: Do What You Love, Strategies for Successful Job Search, Marketing Yourself: Resumes for Career Success, The Power of Networking: Make It a Habit of a Lifetime

Lydia has been a member of the professional business and education communities for over 30 years. She is recently retired as Director of Career Services and Student Employment for Collin College in Plano, Texas. Other career areas have included teaching in community colleges, developing and presenting adult education programs, serving as an administrator in higher education, and enabling business connections as a chamber of commerce executive. Through-out her career, Lydia has been involved in communicating information and inspiration to school, church, and community groups. Lydia has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Speech Communication from Northern Illinois University. She is an affiliate of the National Speaker’s Association of North Texas and a graduate of the Association’s Charbonneau Speaker’s Academy. She has leadership and management experience with non-profit organizations as a professional trainer and consultant, as well as a community volunteer. Lydia’s passion for the piano began at age six when she asked for music lessons. Music has been her lifelong avocation, and she remains an accomplished pianist with over 40 years as a church accompanist and service as musician for many community events.

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• Becoming Your Own Change Agent – Changing what you do is transactional – changing how you see yourself and others is transformational.
• Free Range Workers – Unleashing Your Personal Competitive Advantage– With the prospect of fully portable benefits, as well as generational shifts in the workforce, the old career model has changed.
• Increase Your Team’s Horsepower – Certain modifications can boost the performance of a car’s engine. The same is true for teams. Learn how to apply a few simple principles to turn any team into a Formula One racecar!
• Before ABC’s – Teaching Kids the Important Stuff First – When a new program was introduced to the sixth-grade class in one school district, emphasizing every student’s unique talents and potential, the results exceeded all expectations.

Candace Fitzpatrick, thought leader, speaker and President/CEO of CoreClarity, Inc., has created a new model for evaluating and predicting human behavior that flies in the face of everything we’ve been taught to believe about ourselves, other people, business, and relationships. Based on this framework and the universal language of talents, her model opens the door to a new way of thinking that allows groups of people – in any context (teams, departments, companies, families, students) – to define, manage and apply their mix of talents in a deliberate and constructive way.

A former physics instructor turned executive, Candace has a passion for helping people give their best. Her goal is to take individual talents and turn them into a secret weapon for both organizations and the people in them. With her help, thousands of people and hundreds of teams have been unleashed! Her approach has been successfully implemented in corporate and non-profit organizations, as well as leadership development programs. Clients include Texas Instruments, Duke Energy, AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, Southern Methodist University, Reliant Healthcare, Jack-In-The-Box, American Leadership Forum-Charlotte, and one of the Big-Four accounting firms.

In addition to her corporate initiatives, Candace realized it’s never too early to understand and apply your talents. Working closely with a group of educators concerned about how at-risk kids could learn, she assisted in developing a revolutionary approach called The Rising Star Program™. This initiative was launched with the 6^th grade class in Colorado’s Del Norte School District and the results have been nothing short of spectacular, with success measured in radically higher state test scores, increased academic growth, 100% promotion to the next grade and reduction of bullying by 75%.

In 1993, Candace co-founded CresaPartners, LLC, and received their “First Citizen” Lifetime Achievement Award in October 2003. In 2003-2004, Candace led the CoreNet Global CoRE 2010 Asset Management and Portfolio Optimization team, one of eight global teams researching leading edge practices shaping the future of corporate real estate. She founded CoreClarity, Inc. in 2004. A lifetime learner, Candace earned an MBA with honors from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and a BA in Physics from Texas A&M University. She has been trained as a mediator and was a licensed real estate broker in Texas for over twenty-five years.

Early in her career, Candace made a conscious decision that work should be fun. When a friend challenged her to distill the essence of her passion into five words or less, she responded (after two weeks of contemplation and soul searching) with: I turn dreams into reality. Today she is having fun helping others turn their dreams into reality – and in turn is realizing her own.

More on Speaker’s Topics:

• Becoming Your Own Change Agent – Changing what you do is transactional – changing how you see yourself and others is transformational. When individuals recognize, value and apply their innate talents to their work and their life, it has a profound impact on how they relate to the world around them. In this session, discover the key to lasting, positive change that will transform your perspective forever.
• Free Range Workers – Unleashing Your Personal Competitive Advantage– With the prospect of fully portable benefits, as well as generational shifts in the workforce, the old career model has changed. In this new, mobile, tech-savvy labor market, it is critical to understand and clearly articulate your unique value proposition so others call on you for your strengths. In this interactive session, begin the process of shaping your message and developing your communication strategy.
• Increase Your Team’s Horsepower – Certain modifications can boost the performance of a car’s engine. The same is true for teams – modifying how they are formed and how projects are assigned can change their performance drastically. What kind of vehicle is your team now: a sputtering jalopy, a sedate sedan or a gas-guzzling monster truck? Learn how to apply a few simple principles to turn any team into a Formula One racecar!
• Before ABC’s – Teaching Kids the Important Stuff First – When a new program was introduced to the sixth-grade class in one school district, emphasizing every student’s unique talents and potential, the results exceeded all expectations. Hear what our children can teach us about what it means to know that everyone is talented and gifted in their own way.

Call Candace 972-612-0413

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