• 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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• Are You Up for a RealTalk?: Slow Down, Sink In and Imagine a Positively Profound Shift in all of your Relationships at Home and at Work – Have you considered changing the way you communicate with your important clients, colleagues, employees, family members and friends to deepen those relationships? Have you had a conversation recently where you would like to have a Do-Over? Is there a conversation that you believe will be uncomfortable and so you have been avoiding it? Do you right now have someone with whom a heart to heart conversation is really needed?  Would you like to be more confident in having these kinds of conversations knowing that you will come out the other side feeling greater trust, respect, understanding, connection and influence? If you said yes to any of the above, RealTalk can help!

Rashmi Malhotra brings her 25 years corporate experience in leadership roles in marketing and business development to her role as RealTalk Ambassador. She understands the power of RealTalk as she leads her business and personal relationships using it. Inspired by Gandhi, Rashmi uses his words as her personal and professional blue print: Be the change you wish to see in the world.

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• Leadership principles from Dr. John C. Maxwell – 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, and much more. Master Mind Groups, Seminars, and Lunch & Learn Workshops. (Coaching is available as well.)
• Humorous life experience stories with a point! – Using the masterful gift of story- telling that took me to the World Championship, I will personally craft a message with humor and deep emotional connection that illustrates the point you need to make for your group.
• Live a More Excellent Life – Have you ever tried to paint a picture with a banana? Drive a nail with a champagne glass? Or mow the lawn with a spoon? Then why try to bring about the lasting change that leads to success with the same tools that have failed you in the past? Success should not be a secret.
• The Power of PDA – Learn the powerful impact appreciation could have on your clients, vendors, and employees.
• The 50 Day Excellent Life Challenge – 50 Days, 5 Real Challenges, 1 More Excellent Life – The mental equivalence of the Warrior Dash. You will work hard, get messy and have fun and in the end be very glad that you did it. 
• Finding Your Sweet Spot – Purpose, passion and plan. Life is so much sweeter when you are operating in your strengths, loving what you do and have a plan to make money doing it.

Tell It Like It Is, Inc.                       

J. Loren Norris is author of Live A More Excellent Life (available on amazon.com) and creator of More Excellent Life Challenge and The Power of PDA.

Loren says, “I am passionate about overcoming obstacles in life, both personal and professional and leading others to excellence.”
He is a Founding Team Member of the John Maxwell Team of Independent Certified Coaches, Speakers and Trainers.
He is also a full time Professional Entertainer and active member of Toastmasters International. He was a Semi Finalist in the 2011 World Championship of Public Speaking, a competition of over 30,000 contestants.

In 2010, Loren entertained at more than 175 events as a Speaker, MC, and Karaoke host. Loren sets himself apart by successfully engaging any crowd. Whether entertaining 21 seven-year-old girls for a birthday party, speaking to 500 college graduates, engaging 400 employees at a corporate Karaoke Team Building Event, or 30,000 muddy runners at the Warrior Dash, Loren creates an atmosphere that encourages group participation.

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• Balanced Like a RockStar: This speech focuses on living a fuller, richer life and enjoying the success you have created. We focuses on finding balance and fulfillment in your life.
• Headline Your Own Show: Learn to build success that starts where you are now and leads to your RockStar status. No matter where you start, you can always achieve it. This speech is based on the premise that everyone can grow and improve, that you are the star in the show of your life.
• A Beautiful Mind: Your mind is a beautiful and powerful thing. This speech focuses on using this phenomenal beauty and power to retrain yourself to live in faith and say “No!” to fear.
• The Ideal Life: This speech will help you learn to live the life you always wanted by harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit and creating it. You don’t have to start your own business; you just harness the strengths you already have – the strengths so evident in the most successful entrepreneurs – and create that Ideal Life.

Tim Gillette, the Rocker Life Coach, has more than 30 years of experience as a business entrepreneur. After a lifetime of growing businesses from the ground up as well as working through more standard corporate structures, he now works personally with clients to help them find the inner strength and perseverance to reach their own business and life goals. Drawing from life experiences that include everything from growing and selling his businesses to having to start over in a new state, Tim’s approach is one of developing personal strength and inner wisdom through goal-setting and systematic, step-by-step processes to become a RockStar in your world. Tim has written books and self-help courses devoted to the topic of personal growth and development; he speaks to groups across the country on topics as varied as job-finding, business development, and self-fulfillment. Tim’s unique perspective incorporates a motorcyclist’s lifestyle and features road trip seminars that couple exciting rides with full training sessions guaranteed to change your life! Tim offers personal coaching sessions live, via video-conference, telephone, and through email.

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• Personal Health Care Reform – Learn how to reform your personal health care before others do it for you.

Clint Fuqua CIAR, NASM, RTS

Clint has been in the fitness industry since becoming a personal trainer in 1996. Previous to that he did injury assessment and rehabilitation programs for athletes in many different sports for five years. During his time in the fitness industry Clint has trained trainers at health clubs and as an assistant instructor at The Copper Institute for Aerobics Research. He has also help develop fitness assessment programs, conducted corporate health presentations, run nutritional supplement retail areas, and for 3 years was an executive in a nutritional supplement company. During the past year Clint created The Personal Health Care Reform Show, an Internet Radio Talk Show and began work on his new book, Personal Health Care Reform. He has taken on the role of Strength and Conditioning Director at Mark Cuban’s Dallas Heroes Basketball Academy for children ages 12-18. He is open to speaking to any groups wanting to take charge of their health and save themselves and the rest of us a lot of time, money, and undue illness in the future.

Certifications & Specialty Courses

CIAR Physical Fitness Specialist, CIAR Biomechanics of Strength Training, CIAR Optimum Performance Training, NASM CPT-OPT, Aaberg PTPT I Advanced Biomechanics, Aaberg PTPT II Advanced Performance Training, Aaberg PTPT III Advanced Program Design, Purvis RTS-Lecture, Purvis RTS-Practical, Purvis RTS-Mastery (Science, Upper Extremity, Lower Extremity, and Spine/Trunk Courses), Parker CC Gross Anatomy Cadaver Lab, Cross County Ed Feed for Speed: Sports Nutrition, CPR-AED

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• Recreate the Honeymoon Tomorrow – In this marriage enrichment lecture I help couples to identify how they created those happiest times in their relationships and what steps they could take to recreate that experience immediately.
• The Solution Focused Approach to Increasing Motivation – In this lecture I teach attendees how to apply a solution focused perspective to their lives, making energy go up and accomplishing more goals.
• The Solution Focused Office – In this lecture I help change the perspective so that where once there were once just problems, now there are solutions, allowing for the office to transform from a place of low morale and productivity to a place of excitement and creative ideas.

Elliott Connie is a licensed professional counselor in the State of Texas who has spent his entire counseling career working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. After completing his Masters Degree in Professional Counseling, Elliott immediately began working in private practice as a solution focused practitioner. It was during this time that he noticed the lack of training programs available to people seeking to become more skilled with the solution focused approach so he founded the Solution Focused Training Institute along with a partner. Today, Elliott maintains a full private practice in Keller, TX along with being responsible for the day to day operations of the Solution Focused Training Institute which holds multiple trainings on the approach annually including a Spring Symposium, multiple day workshops and strategic planning with businesses. He is the co-editor of The Art of Solution Focused Therapy and currently tours the world conducting trainings and speaking at conferences about the solution focused approach.

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More Information About Speaker’s Topics:

• Recreate the Honeymoon Tomorrow – Often couples have had a time in their marriage when things were working just as they should be, the honeymoon period. In this marriage enrichment lecture I help couples to identify how they created those happiest times in their relationships and what steps they could take to recreate that experience immediately.
• The Solution Focused Approach to Increasing Motivation – There are times in both our personal and professional lives when we have low energy and simply to get goals accomplished. In this lecture I teach attendees how to apply a solution focused perspective to their lives, making energy go up and accomplishing more goals.
• The Solution Focused Office – Negativity and too much of a problem focus can affect any professional work environment. Making the office a less enjoyable place to be and having a negative impact on the service or product of the company. In this lecture I help change the perspective so that where once there were once just problems, now there are solutions, allowing for the office to transform from a place of low morale and productivity to a place of excitement and creative ideas.

• 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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