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Dr. Ivan Misner

Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chairman of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. BNI was founded in 1985. The organization has thousands of chapters throughout every populated continent of the world. Each year, BNI generated millions of referrals resulting in over billions of U.S. dollars worth of business for its members.

Dr. Misner’s Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California. He has written ten books, including his New York Times bestsellers; Truth or Delusion? Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths and Masters of Networking. He is a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur.com and is the Senior Partner for the Referral Institute – a referral training company with trainers around the world. He has taught business and social capital courses at several universities and sits on the Board of Directors for the Colorado School of Professional Psychology.
Don Morgan

Don Morgan’s professional career spans more than four decades wherein he specialized in helping people and organizations achieve their goals. Working as a Don’ experience psychotherapist, organizational consultant, educator, salesperson, entrepreneur and author, his experience is varied. After setting up many new businesses in the health care, retail and service industries he opened a boat dealership, direct marketing, and a consulting company. Currently, he is the Founding Director for BNI Canada and the Founding Senior Partner for BNI Northern Illinois.

As a community leader, Morgan received honorary recognition from the Ontario Ministry of Health (Canada) for his contribution to health-care planning. He received a Masters Degree in Community Mental Health and taught at the University of Western Ontario and several colleges in Ontario, Canada. Part of his unique perspective comes from living and working in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Co-authoring Masters of Networking and Masters of Success, Morgan and Misner achieved a best selling author’s status. During the past 12 years, Don and his wife, Nancy Holland Morgan, a past Olympic skier, have developed a network of more than 300 business referral marketing groups across Canada and the USA, managed through their offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Chicago. Don and Nancy have four grown children and a handful of grandchildren. They spend their living time between Vancouver, Canada and Telluride Colorado, where they enjoy both sailing and mountain sports. Don Morgan can be contacted through e-mail: Morgan@bnicanada.ca
Brian Tracy

Speaker - Author - Consultant. Brian Tracy is the most listened to audio author on personal and business success in the world today. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and high levels of achievement. Originally from Canada, Brian started on his own “road to success” in his twenties when he left Canada to travel across the world. His goal was to cross the Sahara Desert. He worked his way through Canada and throughout the United States before securing a “working” passage on a freighter to England.

Brian worked his way through England and crossed the English Channel over to France. From there, he traveled through Europe, heading for his destination — The Sahara. Experiencing some of the most arduous and life threatening conditions in his life, Brian successfully crossed the Sahara, and for eight years, worked and traveled in over 80 countries on five continents before returning to Canada. During those eight years, Brian had worked with the renowned Dr. Albert Schweitzer, had trained under some of the world’s most famous martial arts experts earning his black belt in Shotokan Karate, and had laid the foundation for the success he enjoys today.
Brian is an avid believer in controlling one’s own destiny, daily goal-planning, hard work, and perseverance. One of his favorite sayings is, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly at first!” With a B.Comm and an M.A., Brian is extremely well read and regularly studies management, psychology, economics, metaphysics and history. He speaks four languages.

Prior to founding Brian Tracy International, Brian was the chief operating officer of a development company with $265 million in assets and $75 million in annual sales. He has had successful careers in sales and marketing, investments, real estate development and syndication, importation, distribution and management consulting. Brian has conducted high-level consulting assignments with several billion-dollar-plus corporations in strategic planning and organization development.

He is an internationally known and respected authority addressing 450,000 people each year on leadership, management, sales, personal development, strategic planning, goal-setting, time management, creativity, and many other diverse topics. Brian has worked with IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas and The Million Dollar Round Table.

Brian is able to capture and hold audience attention with a fast-moving combination of stories, examples, humor and concrete, practical ideas that get results — fast!

Traveling to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and Canada several times each year, Brian is a well-known speaker all over the world. He is the author/narrator of countless best-selling audio learning programs and the author of 16 books, including Maximum Achievement, Advanced Selling Strategies, The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success, and The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires. Brian has been on countless television and radio shows, and is featured regularly in major publications across the country, and overseas.

Brian Tracy has produced more than 300 different audio and video learning programs covering the entire spectrum of human and corporate performance. These programs, researched and developed for more than 25 years, are some of the most effective learning tools in the world.

Brian lives in San Diego with his wife Barbara and their four children.
Tom Hopkins

Tom Hopkins is a sales legend. Many believe that natural ability is enough to make you successful in a selling career. The truth of the matter is that natural skill, combined with "how to" training is the real secret to high level productivity. Having learned this lesson the hard way, Tom is quick to admit that his early sales career was not successful. After benefiting from professional training, he became a dedicated student, internalizing and refining sales techniques which enabled him to become the sales leader in his industry.

The basis of our training is how-to strategies and tactics, not motivational hype. If students become motivated after learning our material, it's because they understand the power of the training and how they can increase their incomes because of it.
Our training materials are constantly updated through our daily contact with business leaders and sales professionals. Their feedback is an invaluable resource that helps us keep our training relevant in an ever-changing business world.
Due to the extraordinary demand for the unique training we offer, we have received international recognition and earned a reputation that is synonymous with effectiveness, productivity and integrity. Our material transcends a wide variety of cultures and has been translated into eleven foreign languages. Our live seminars have been presented in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Tom's credibility lies in his track record and the track records of the students he has trained over the years. He has personally trained over three million students on five continents. He has shared the stage with some of the great leaders of our times including Ret. Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf, former President George Bush and Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Lady Margaret Thatcher.

Providing sales training in several mediums is how we have reached a broad spectrum of businesses. Tom has authored twelve books, including How to Master the Art of Selling and Selling for Dummies™. His first book, How to Master the Art of Selling, has sold over 1.6 million copies and been translated into ten languages. It is used as a text book in sales and marketing classes and is required reading for new salespeople by sales and management professionals in a wide variety of industries.
Tom was a pioneer in bringing broadcast-quality video training to the marketplace. Over 16,000 of our video sales training systems are utilized in-house by companies around the world. His audio cassette programs have long been lauded for their quality, comprehensiveness and workbooks with word-for-word phraseology.

Through the ups and downs of a selling career, as a business owner, professional speaker and trainer, Tom Hopkins has maintained his dedication to the continued growth of his students. He firmly believes that everyone can benefit from utilizing his proven techniques, ideas, concepts and values. Tom invites you and your sales team to experience the benefits of his "training for Champions."
Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart has always drawn inspiration from her surroundings. Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, in a family with six children, she developed a passion for cooking, gardening, and homekeeping in her childhood home on Elm Place. Her mother, a schoolteacher and homemaker, taught her the basics of cooking, baking, canning, and sewing; her father, a pharmaceutical salesman and avid gardener, introduced her to gardening in the family's small but orderly backyard garden when she was 3. While earning a bachelor's degree in history and architectural history at Barnard College, Martha worked as a model to pay tuition. She married in her sophomore year, and upon graduating, she became a stockbroker on Wall Street, where she gained business training. After moving to Westport, Connecticut, in 1972 with her husband and daughter, Alexis, she developed a catering business that was unlike any other. The business's unique visual presentation of food and the elegant recipes created for various catered events were the basis for her first book, "Entertaining," published in 1982.
Martha's creative vision is the blueprint for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and the expansive multimedia portfolio that includes award-winning magazines such as Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings; the nationally syndicated, Emmy Award-winning television show "The Martha Stewart Show"; Martha Stewart Living Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio; the best-selling book "The Martha Stewart Homekeeping Handbook"; Martha Stewart Everyday mass-market merchandise, sold at Kmart; Martha Stewart Furniture with Bernhardt; Martha Stewart-designed homes and communities with KB Home; Martha Stewart cards available online at kodakgallery.com/marthastewart or marthastewart.com/kodakgallery; Martha Stewart Rugs with Safavieh; and the forthcoming Martha Stewart Collection of products for the home at Macy's.
Harvey Mackay

Harvey Mackay is the author of the New York Times #1 bestsellers Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Both books are among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time, according to the New York Times. In total, Harvey's books have sold 10 million copies worldwide, been translated into 37 languages and sold in 80 countries.

Harvey is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Feature Syndicate, whose weekly articles appear in 52 newspapers around the country, including the Chicago Sun Times, Rocky Mountain News, Orange County Register, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Arizona Republic.
He also is one of America's most popular and entertaining business speakers. Toastmasters International named him one of the top five speakers in the world.

At age 26, he purchased a small, failing envelope company in 1959 which has grown to a $100 million business employing over 600 people. MackayMitchell Envelope Company is one of the nation's major envelope manufacturers, producing 25 million envelopes a day. As chairman, Harvey's philosophy is engrained in the company, beginning with its motto: Do what you love, love what you do and deliver more than you promise.

Harvey is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program. He is an avid runner and marathoner, and former #1 ranked tennis player in Minnesota.

He currently sits on the board of the Minnesota Orchestra and is a former director on Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. He has been a guest lecturer at various universities and business schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Wharton and Penn State.

Central to Harvey's business, and to his books, is the ability to stay competitive in the often cut-throat world of business, to 'swim with the sharks', without sacrificing one's personal integrity or doing it at the expense of other people. He does this by focusing on building strong relationships with both customers and employees.

In fact, Harvey is a master of networking. He believes most people make the mistake of only turning to their network when they need it; for example, when they're looking for a new job. Harvey says that networking is a lifelong practice that provides you with new knowledge and experiences, job security, expanded financial reach, and the strength of the group. The secret to maintaining a great network is, above all, knowing the value of the personal touch.

In spite of his hectic schedule, Harvey still finds plenty of time for family and fun. He's an avid golfer (11.4 handicap) and recently won the Super Senior Men's Championship at his home club in Scottsdale!

He and his wife, Carol Ann, have been married over 45 years, and enjoy spending time with their nine grandchildren. They are avid travelers, taking an annual trip to Italy, and planning upcoming tours of China and Africa.
Jay Conrad Levinson

Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best-selling marketing series in history, "Guerrilla Marketing," plus 24 other business books. His guerrilla concepts have influenced marketing so much that today his books appear in 37 languages and are required reading in many MBA programs worldwide.

Jay taught guerrilla marketing for ten years at the extension division of the University of California in Berkeley. And he was a practitioner of it in the United States -- as Senior Vice-President at J. Walter Thompson, and in Europe, as Creative Director at Leo Burnett Advertising.
Jay taught guerrilla marketing for ten years at the extension division of the University of California in Berkeley. And he was a practitioner of it in the United States -- as Senior Vice-President at J. Walter Thompson, and in Europe, as Creative Director at Leo Burnett Advertising.

He writes a monthly column for Entrepreneur Magazine, articles for Inc. Magazine, a syndicated column for newspapers and magazines and online columns published monthly on the Microsoft and GTE websites.

Jay has served on the Microsoft Small Business Council and the 3Com Small Business Advisory Board. His Guerrilla Marketing is series of books, a videotape, an award-winning CD-ROM, a newsletter, a consulting organization, an Internet website, and a way for you to spend less, get more, and achieve substantial profits. Here is the man to transform you into a marketing guerrilla -- Jay Conrad Levinson.

Jay Conrad Levinson is available as a speaker and consultant. View a video of Jay's latest presentation here.
Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins is a best selling author with four titles published in 14 languages around the world: Unlimited Power, Awaken the Giant Within, Giant Steps and Notes from a friend. He has produced the best-selling personal development audio series of all time, Personal Power, with 25 million educational audiotapes sold in less than five years. Mr Robbins has developed and produced a series of 4 television infocomercials which have continuously aired on average every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day somewhere in North America since their initial introduction in April 1989. More than one million people have attended Anthony Robbins live seminars. Utilizing the knowledge that he has gained over the last 17 years of his life interacting with people from virtually every socio-economic category, Robbins has developed a series of books, tapes, seminars, multimedia packages, and coaching systems that are utilised by people worldwide in the improvement of their physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, finances, time management, and professional growth.
In addition to the production and development of his products, personal and corporate consulting, and the management of his various business enterprises, Mr Robbins conducts more than 80 days of seminars over the course of the year in eight nations globally.
Anthony Parinello

Best-selling author, trainer, speaker and talk-show host, Anthony Parinello has presented his "Selling to VITO - Very Important Top Officer" sales success program to more than one million salespeople. He has consulted with 65 of the Fortune 100 and is the host for "Entrepreneur Magazine's Sales and Marketing Show" on wsRadio.com Tony is the nation's foremost expert in how to sell to top decision-makers. His best-selling book and audiotape program Selling to VITO, the Very Important Top Officer, offer street-smart, tactical advice that teaches sales professionals every step they need to master if they want to get appointments and sell to presidents, CEOs, executive vice-presidents, and other top officers.
One of the country's most sought-after speakers, Tony honed his skills by "walking the talk," with over 26 years of record-breaking sales performance. A frequent guest on radio and television, he has been the cover story for national sales magazines. Through his seminars, books, tapes, and radio program, Tony has helped over one million salespeople achieve success. His "Power of Will" workshops teach people outside the sales arena to achieve total success in every aspect of their lives — from how they interact with one another to how they feel about themselves. His publications include: "Selling To VITO", "The Complete Idiots Guide to Dynamic Selling", "The Power of Will", and "Selling to VITO". Download his Personal Biography.
Keith Ferrazzi

Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula for making his way to the top through a powerful, balanced combination of marketing acumen and networking savvy. Both Forbes and Inc Magazines have designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals. Now, as Founder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with advanced strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales, and enhance personal careers. Ferrazzi Greenlight applies experiences gleaned from the careers of its executives spent in the highest echelons of corporate America, as well as principles from Ferrazzi's book, 'NEVER EAT ALONE And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time.'
Ferrazzi has been widely recognized by his peers, is a frequent contributor to CNN and CNBC, and has authored numerous articles for leading business publications, including Forbes, Inc, the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. Ferrazzi was an early leader in the quality movement as the youngest examiner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He has been named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders by Crain's Business, one of the most distinguished young Californians by the Jaycees, and one of the most creative Americans in Richard Wurman's "Who's Really Who". Ferrazzi's extraordinary rise to prominence, which includes a stint as the youngest Chief Marketing Officer for a Fortune 500 company while at Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, has even inspired a Stanford Business School case study.

Most recently, Ferrazzi served as Chief Executive Officer for YaYa Media, a leading interactive entertainment consultancy. Prior to that, while at Starwood Hotels, he oversaw all marketing activities for global brands such as Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, and W Hotels. Previously, Ferrazzi was Chief Marketing Officer of Deloitte Consulting, a leading global management consulting firm, where he developed and managed the industry's first globally integrated marketing organization. His creative marketing strategy drove the ascent of Deloitte's "Consulting" brand recognition from the lowest in the industry to a primary position, and spurred the highest featured growth rate in the industry.

Ferrazzi actively supports numerous civic, charitable and educational organizations, including his service on Yale University's Board of Alumni Governors. He is also a Fellow of the Berkeley College at Yale, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kiski School in Pennsylvania. Additionally, he founded and chairs Equality 1st, a foundation focused on assuring everyone has an equal chance at success. He is particularly interested in the relationship between leadership success and spirituality. Ferrazzi earned a BA degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jack Canfield

As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre - and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of over 100 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise, Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success.

Behind the empire Time Magazine called the "publishing phenomenon of the decade" is America's leading expert in creating peak performance for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, corporate employees and educators. He is a compelling, empowering and compassionate coach who for the past 30 years has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve their dreams.
Affectionately known as "America's Success Coach", Jack has studied and reported on what makes successful people different. He knows what motivates them, what drives them, and what inspires them. He brings this critical insight to countless audiences internationally --- sharing his success strategies in the media, with companies, universities and professional associations in over 20 countries around the world.

Jack is a Harvard graduate with a Master's Degree in psychological education and one of the earliest champions of peak-performance, developing the specific methodology and results-oriented activities to help people take on greater challenges and produce breakthrough results.

He's personally taught millions of individuals his unique and modernized formulas for success and has packaged them in his latest book The Success Principles™: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. This new self-improvement standard contains 64 powerful principles of success utilized by top achievers from all walks of life and all areas of commerce. The Success Principles - and the entire empire of "Principles" books, products, coaching programs and branded retail merchandise - is Mr. Canfield's next offering to the more than 100 million readers he currently reaches worldwide.

Mr. Canfield's other best-selling books - The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, and Dare to Win, - have generated millions of bookstore and Internet sales, and have launched complementary products such as audio programs, video programs, corporate training programs and syndicated columns to enthusiastic corporate buyers. His audio program, Maximum Confidence, has sold more than 350,000 copies through Nightingale-Conant alone.

He is Founder and Chairman of the Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California, which trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and motivated individuals how to accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals.
Jack is also the founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California, which provides self-esteem resources and trainings to social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.

Jack is the CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, a billion dollar empire that encompasses licensing, merchandising and publishing activities around the globe. Jack's nationally syndicated newspaper column is read in 150 papers worldwide, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® radio shows are syndicated throughout North America. Jack is also syndicated columnist through King Features Syndicate and is a popular news subject featured not only in major trade publications, but in every major metro newspaper across America and in hundreds more around the globe.

Chicken Soup for the Soul® has also been a featured television program for both the PAX and ABC networks. Additionally, the company's licensing division produces dozens of top-selling items including Chicken Soup for the Soul® nutriceuticals, pet foods, greetings cards, music, collectibles and other licensed merchandise. A Chicken Soup for the Soul® magazine also launched in the summer of 2005.

Jack's background includes a BA from Harvard University and he also holds a Masters degree in Psychological Education from the University of Massachusetts and a Honorary Doctorate from the University of Santa Monica, Parker College of Chiropractic and St. Ambrose University. Over the past 30 years, he has been a psychotherapist, an educational consultant, trainer and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem, achievement motivation and peak performance.

Jack Canfield holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List - beating out Stephen King. He even holds the Guinness Book World Record for the largest book-signing ever for Chicken Soup for the Kids Soul. And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year - honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marketer.

Jack has also been a featured guest on more than 1,000 radio and television programs in nearly every major market worldwide - many of them on a repeat basis. A sample of these shows include Oprah, 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Larry King Live, Fox and Friends, The CBS Evening News, The NBC Nightly News, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live!, PBS, QVC and many others.
Zig Ziglar

A talented author and speaker, Zig Ziglar has an appeal that transcends barriers of age, culture and occupation. Since 1970, he has traveled over five million miles across the world delivering powerful life improvement messages, cultivating the energy of change.

He has shared the platform with such distinguished Americans as Presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Paul Harvey, Dr. Robert Schuller, plus numerous U.S. congressmen and governors. A well-known authority on complete and balanced success, Zig Ziglar has been recognized three times in the Congressional Record of the United States - for his work with youth in the drug war, and for his dedication to America and the free enterprise system.
Zig Ziglar's corporation is built upon the same philosophy he expounds to his audiences - hard work, common sense, fairness, commitment and integrity. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Ziglar offers public seminars, customized educational programs, workshops and keynote speakers - all focused on personal and professional development. Profoundly affecting the lives of people, Zig Ziglar has a client list that includes thousands of small and mid-sized businesses, Fortune 500 Companies, U.S. Government agencies, churches, schools and non-profit associations.

In addition, Mr. Ziglar has written twenty-five celebrated books on personal growth, leadership, sales, faith, family and success, including See You at the Top, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World, Top Performance, Courtship After Marriage, Over The Top and Secrets of Closing the Sale. Nine titles have been on the best seller lists; his books and tapes have been translated into over thirty-eight languages and dialects.

In 1998 Success For Dummies and Confessions of a Grieving Christian were released. Not long after that the 25th Anniversary Revised Edition of See You at the Top and Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World were released. His autobiography, ZIG, was published in July 2002, Conversations With My Dog in 2003, and his NEWEST book, Better Than Good, has just been released!
Elisabeth Misner

Elisabeth L. Misner is the co-founder and administrator for the BNI-Misner Foundation. A BNI member since 1986, she is the vice-chair of BNI Enterprises, Inc. She has coordinated BNI's internal Director's mentoring project and is the senior editor of the online newsletter SuccessNet, which has a circulation of 80,000. Beth assists in training BNI Directors and in editing Dr. Misner's books, as well as scheduling Dr. Misner's speaking engagements. She has also been a contributing author of Masters of Networking, Masters of Success and Masters of Sales. Bethmisner@bni.com
Chris Attwood

Chris Attwood is an expert in the field of personal development. For over thirty years he has studied and explored the field of human consciousness. In the 80’s he spent more than ten years in deep meditation and has extensively studied the Vedic tradition of India. Chris used his knowledge to co-author the #1 National bestseller, The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny. He is also an expert in creating “enlightened alliances,” having played a key role in arranging the interviews for the movie phenomenon, The Secret, and in creating the alliance relationships that launched #1 NY Times bestselling author, T. Harv Eker, in the United States. Over the past 27 years Chris has been President, Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, or CEO of ten companies. He has sold millions of dollars of consulting and training to organizations like Dell Computer, Royal Bank of Canada, Sprint, Ford Motor Company, Mellon Bank, and others. Co-founder of online magazine Healthy Wealthy nWise and a partner in Enlightened Alliances, a marketing consulting firm, Chris regularly spends time with some of the greatest transformational leaders interviewing them on their passions.  Chris is committed to the experience and expression of the unlimited potential of the heart and mind. For more information about Chris and his passions, visit:   www.thepassiontest.com 
Janet Attwood

Janet is the co-founder of the largest online transformational magazine in the world, Healthy Wealthy n Wise, and host of Healthy Wealthy n Wise's Passions Series where she interviews people like Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, Byron Katie, and other top transformational leaders. Janet is the co-author of the National Bestseller, The Passion Test: The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny, and co-author of From Sad to Glad: 7 Steps to Facing Change with Love and Power. As an expert on what it takes to live a passionate life, she has presented her programs at events like T. Harv Eker's Wealth and Wisdom conference, The Kaballah Center, Jack Canfield's Success Programs, the International Festival of Yoga in Rishikesh, India, and others. Janet recently created a DVD series titled, The Empowered Women Series to be played in homeless shelters across the U.S. To learn more about Janet go to www.janetattwood.com
Christine Clifford Beckwith

Christine Clifford Beckwith definitely shattered the "glass ceiling". By 40, she was Senior Executive Vice President for The SPAR Group, an international marketing firm in New York. As the top salesperson in the retail services industry for eight years, Christine’s clients included Kmart, Toys 'R Us, Wal-Mart, AT&T, Mattel Toys, and Revlon. Taking her company from a $1M per year loss to over $54 million in sales, Christine signed the largest contract in her industry’s history with Procter & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight.Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994, Christine wrote five award-winning portrayals of her story in her books including her best-sellers Not Now…I'm Having a No Hair Day! and You, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself (Warner Books). Christine is President/CEO of THE CANCER CLUB, the world’s largest producer of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer.Host of The Christine Clifford Celebrity Golf Tournament, a benefit for breast cancer research, Christine's contribution has been over $1,000,000.She is married to speaker/author Harry Beckwith (Selling the Invisible) and they have five boys: Tim, Brooks, Harry, Will & Cole; a daughter Cooper; a dog Skylar; and a cat Simone. Christine lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
Steve Bell

Steve Bell is the Executive Director for BNI Saskatchewan; co-founder of “The Networking Masters TeleSummit” – a two day educational event that helps business professionals strengthen networking and sales skills - and Author of the soon to be released “Average Joe to Sales Dynamo”. Prior to BNI, Steve was a Sales Manager in the Telecommunications / Electronics Industry where he won many internal awards for his sales and management achievements.  Now, much of Steve’s time is focused on teaching business professionals effective networking strategies and how to develop mutually beneficial and profitable business relationships. Steve’s diverse experience and achievements makes him sought after speaker for both local and International events. Email: steve@bnicanada.ca Websites: www.thenetworkingmasters.com : www.averagejoetosalesdynamo.com
Don Boisvert

Since August of 2002, Don Boisvert has been the Executive Director of the BNI region of Western Massachusetts.  The region has seen huge growth under his leadership. Now serving exclusively as BNI Executive Director, Don provides development, support, and guidance to BNI chapters and members as well as business consultations in referral-based marketing to a number of sectors. Don has a Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Albany and a Master’s degree from UMass Amherst. Previously, Don was an HR consultant and prior to that the CEO of a non-profit behavioral health care organization.  Don also worked for the State of Massachusetts in child welfare for 23 years. Aside from enjoying seeing others succeed, Don is known to “give people the business.” Don Boisvert may be reached at 413-268-7680 or via e-mail: don@bniwmass.com.
Harvey Branman

Harvey Branman is the owner of a portrait studio in Burbank, CA, Photography As An Art, which he opened in 1993 at the age of 50, after owning his own wholesale meat and produce business for 15 years in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. Through his spiritual philosophy that we are all related, and the tools for communication learned as a long-time member of BNI, he has succeeded in making a very comfortable living doing what he loves – photographing people.Photography As An Art: 1307 N. San Fernando Blvd. Burbank, CA 91504 (818) 954-9294 info@harveybranman.com
William A. Buckley

William A. Buckley is President and CEO of Coffee News USA, the world's largest weekly restaurant publication. The company markets Coffee News franchises and franchise related products and services and provides international sales training and support to all Coffee News publishers in North America. Prior to acquiring the franchise rights for Coffee News in 1995, Mr. Buckley held senior management positions in marketing and sales in the banking industry over a 25 year career. Mr. Buckley has been an Assistant Director (AD) for Business Network International (BNI) for over 10 years. Coffee News USA, Inc, a Strategic Alliance partner with BNI, is one of the fastest growing franchises in America.
Bob Burg

Bob Burg is an author of Endless Referrals: Network Your Everyday Contacts into Sales (over 200,000 sold!), Bob has earned acclaim for his humorous and entertaining presentation style while providing his audiences with bullet-points of information they can begin to apply immediately upon leaving the event. Bob has shared the platform with some of North America’s best known speakers and celebrities and is considered one of today’s foremost authorities on the art of Business Networking and cultivating referral business. Contact Bob Burg at 561-575-2114 or email bob@burg.com
Craig Elias

Craig Elias is the man behind Trigger-Based Selling™, the Chief Catalyst of Shift Selling, Inc., and a highly sought after advisor, speaker, and trainer on timing strategies that get you in front of the right buyers at exactly the right time. For almost 20 years, Craig’s timing strategies have made him a top sales performer at every company that hired him - including WorldCom where he was named the #1 salesperson within six months of joining the company. Craig’s revolutionary strategies won him a million dollar prize in a global “Billion-Dollar Idea” pitch competition. His strategies have also resulted in coverage on NBC news, in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sales and Marketing magazine, Business 2.0, The National Post, and The Nikkei Marketing Journal along with earning his last company the distinction as one of Silicon Valley’s 40 hottest companies and one of Dow Jones’ 50 most promising companies in North America. Call +1.403.313.0412 or use this link (http://tinyurl.com/dsg85) to contact Craig for a no-charge 30 minute introduction to Trigger-Based Selling™, or to learn how Craig’s timing strategies can transform your sales and marketing efforts to repeatedly get you in front of motivated buyers before your competition.
Kim George

Kim is the bestselling author of Coaching Into Greatness: 4 Steps to Success in Business and Life published by Wiley & Sons.  The book introduces Kim’s groundbreaking work around the concept of AQ, Abundance Intelligencetm, and how people can eliminate the barriers that keep them from doing what they can do. For more information on Coaching Into Greatness, please visit www.CoachingIntoGreatness.com. Kim is also the Founder and CEO of The AQ Institute, a coaching, consulting and training company focused on bringing Abundance Intelligencetm to the world. To learn more about AQ, visit www.AQInstitute.com. Called a "brilliant maverick" by Guerrilla Marketing author Jay Conrad Levinson, Kim is a recognized expert in the areas of Social Capital and Strategic Alliances. As Pioneer Coach for the Social Capital & Networking community, Kim collaborated with Dr. Ivan Misner in developing a 25 hour curriculum. In addition, Kim conducts a widely popular seminar on Abundant Networking.  For more information, visit www.AbundantNetworking.com. Kim is a sought after speaker, trainer and presenter.  She has led more than 1200 teleclasses and interviewed scores of experts and authors including Seth Godin, Lance Secretan, Daniel Pink, Michael Gerber, and Jack Canfield. She can be reached at kim@coachingintogreatness.com. 
Tom Gosche

Tom Gosche is an Executive Director of BNI Marketing (www.bnimarketing.com) in Northern Illinois. He is a Business Strategist (www.thebizstrategist.com). Tom helps small businesses in planning, creating and implementing effective business building strategies. As a native of the Chicagoland area, Tom is a resident of Schaumburg, Illinois where he lives with his wife Mary and three boys, Tommy, Eddy, and Sammy. You can contact him at 630-675-8971 or tom@tomgosche.com
Sue Henry

Sue Henry is a referring travel agent with World Ventures.  Sue helps people find great “dream trips” at much lower prices. Would you like to save hundreds or thousands on your next vacation AND travel in luxury while paying economy prices?  Download the FREE “Powersearch Toolbar” from Sue’s site and be entered in the monthly “free dream trip” drawing. Our “powersearch” technology searches up to 200 of the most-used online travel sites simultaneously for your best deal!  Contact Sue for more information or to receive a free DVD on how to “Make a Living….Living!”  (507) 269-1051   www.suehenry.worldventures.com email: suehenry11@gmail.com
Connie Hinton

For the past decade, Connie Hinton has been Executive Director of BNI Northwest, which has recently exceeded the milestone of 1000+ members. A past District Director, in 2006 Connie was named BNI U.S. National Director West and oversees the regions in the western United States. Her passion for helping others prosper is what led her into BNI and what prompts her to continually search for opportunities to help small businesses succeed. She is a contributing author for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller Masters of Networking and the Wall Street Journal best seller Masters of Success connie@bni.com 425-391-6830
Timothy M. Houston

Timothy M. Houston is an entrepreneur having started, owned and operated three successful businesses by the time he was 25.  Presently, Tim is the President of Houston & Associates, a cash-flow and business consulting firm based in Staten Island, New York. (www.houstonandassociates.com). He is a noted speaker in the areas of alternative financing,  sales training, business networking and referral marketing, having presented to more than 500 companies and organizations. Tim is the Area Director for the New York City Outer Boroughs Region of BNI, (Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island).   He can be reached at tmhouston@bni.com  or at (718) 981-8600.
Barbara Knackstedt

Selling has long been a part of Barbara Knackstedt’s life. She sold encyclopaedias to finance her psychology degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Before returning to academic life, she held various sales positions including selling advertising for the Cleveland International Film Festival. Barbara met her Australian husband at Rice University in Houston, Texas while completing her Master’s Degree.  Since then she has taught linguistics at the Australian National University and run her own marketing consulting firm. Barbara has been the Executive Director for BNI in Canberra for five years. Contact her at barbara@bni.com.au     +61 (414) 761 794
Jill Konrath

Sales strategist Jill Konrath, author of Selling to Big Companies, helps sellers crack into corporate accounts, speed up sales cycles and win big contracts. As an in-demand speaker, she provides a much-needed wake-up call about what's needed for success in today's sales environment. Konrath's e-newsletter & industry-leading blog reach over 25,000 sellers globally. In November 2007, she's launching the Sales SHEbang – a conference for women in business-to-business sales presented by female sales experts.
For more info, call 651-429-1922 or visit these websites: Selling to Big Companies:  http://www.SellingtoBigCompanies.com : Sales SHEbang : http://www.SalesSHEbang.com
Mavis Lamb

Mavis Lamb began her career in Los Angeles as a music video producer working with Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole and Little Richard among others.  She later worked as a film and video scriptwriter/producer in Nashville and produced videos for artists including Vince Gill and Toby Keith. In 1996, Mavis opened Mambo Productions in Seattle, where she works as a script & marketing writer.  Joining BNI in 2000, she now serves an Assistant Director and PR Chick for BNINW.  Lamb’s professional credits include stage plays, articles and the best selling book Wake Up … Live the Life You Love, Finding Personal Freedom. mavis@mamboproductions.com 425-204-9800
Dawn Lyons

Dawn Lyons is an accomplished sales person with more than 18 years experience.  Currently, Dawn owns 3 franchised regions for BNI, and is a co-owner in a Referral Institute franchise in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Dawn’s passion is speaking to large audiences on the benefits of referral marketing and how your behavioral style affects your referrability. A keynote presenter for the Referral Institute, Dawn has traveled to 14 states and 4 countries to perform these presentations.  She prides herself on being a powerful, passionate presenter that helps people implement new techniques into their business for immediate results!  Dawn Lyons 707-753-1947 dawn@referralinstitute.com 
Linda Macedonio

Linda Macedonio has been an entrepreneur since 1992. During that time she has started and sold her bookkeeping business and become an Executive Director of BNI in RI, SE Massachusetts and Maine. Her skills have earned her a place on BNI’s Founders Circle for 4 years. She is a member of BNI’s Platinum Club and in 2003 was recognized as Director of the Year. She is a contributing author to both Masters of Networking and Masters of Success. She is active with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/The Jimmy Fund whose goal is to finally find a cure for cancer. Linda’s passion is to travel and she truly enjoys helping others to achieve their goals through personal growth. She may be reached at 888-314-4BNI, lindam@bni.com or BNI, 21 Park Street, Suite 410, Attleboro, MA  02703.
Don Mastrangelo

Since 1985, Don Mastrangelo has built dozens of highly successful sales armies for well-known organizations such as Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, AlphaGraphics, and Trimble Navigation as well as building sales armies for his own entrepreneurial companies in fields ranging from newspaper publishing, telecommunications, printing, advertising, residential construction and land development. Don has shared his Ready, Set, Sell! sales methodology with notable firms such as Gannett, Nextel, Trimble Navigation, Salesforce.com, several network marketing companies and many other organizations. He was selected as a Salesforce.com “Hero” for implementation and has been a regular presenter at the Salesforce.com “DreamForce” annual convention. His #1 Bestselling book “Ready, Set, Sell! – How to Get From ZERO to Sales HERO in 90 Days” has been endorsed by some of the sales industry’s top authors, including Brian Tracy (author of The Psychology of Selling) and Jeffrey Gitomer (author of The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling). Don co-hosts “The Earning Curve” weekly talk radio show. He can be reached at (800) 688-0999, info@donmastrangelo.com or www.donmastrangelo.com. Build your sales career with Ready, Set, Sell! Personal Edition Build your sales team with Ready, Set, Sell! Team Edition Build your BNI Chapter with Ready, Set, Grow! For BNI
Trey McAlister

Trey McAlister graduated from Dartmouth with a BS in International Relations and has spent the last 12 years building businesses in the IT, Marketing and Travel industry. Trey is a partner in the Referral Institute SF Bay LLC, which focuses on effectively helping businesses increase profitability through referrals by developing stronger relationships with their clients, vendors and employees. He is also Area Director and Area Trainer for BNI-SFBay (Business Networking International) and a professional trainer for the internationally renowned Certified Networker Program and Referral Pipeline Program.
When he’s not helping companies make more money in less time, he lives in Santa Rosa, CA and enjoys spending time working with his church youth, playing golf, appreciating musical theater with his wife and spending as much time as possible with his two sons. His keys to his success are 1) Listen, listen, listen and 2) Surround himself with people who can help fulfill his mission which is to help as many people as possible “buy back” the extra time they need to do something truly significant. He can be reached at trey@referralinstitutesfbay.com. 
Joe McBride

Joe McBride has thirty five years hands-on experience in sales and marketing. Much of that came as an entrepreneur in companies where it was his money and his livelihood on the line every day. His experience is well rounded and includes stints in retailing, wholesaling, manufacturing and the service sector. Based in Little Rock, Arkansas, Joe is a professional speaker who helps business audiences focus on the age-old issue: The Facts of Life in Business: Where Customers Come From. He can be reached at
501-568-5492 or joe@bniarkansas.com
Stuart Mitchell

Stuart Mitchell now resides in London where he works as a management and sales trainer with GUSTAV KASER training. The Swiss based training company was founded in 1963 abd today is represented worldwide in 24 countries with about 100 full time training leaders.

Stuart has facilitated hundreds of seminars and workshops over the past 10 years in the areas of sales, relationship building, motivation, team building and personal development.

The objective of Stuarts training is to create positive behavioral change of the staff in management, sales and throughout the orgranization, as a basis for long-term successful corporate policy. Training starts from a holistic picture of the human being so that participants develop themselves further in accordance with their inherent abilities and can make full use of their strengths for the good of the company.

Stuart has a straightforward, refreshing style that combines skillful facilitation with real-life success in sales and leadership roles. He has a reputation for providing teams with motivation, focus and clarity in a dynamic and often humorous way, and has inspired thousands of participants to embrace and realize the changes needed to convert their "stop-gap" sales or management job into a highly successful and deeply fulfilling career choice.

+44 07858 108832 stuartmitc@gmail.com  
Ezra Palmer-Persen

Ezra Palmer-Persen is an Entertainer, Sales, and Networking professional who joyously assists people in overcoming the limitations of their thinking.  His sales career started at age six when he enrolled his parents in buying him model airplanes after taking apart every household appliance within reach.  Notable success then followed, from selling encyclopedias and Pest Control Services to breaking new ground in International PC Software sales.  Now, as an Assistant Director with BNI and a DJ/Karaoke show host, he enjoys sharing his expertise through education and celebration.  Ezra can be reached at (415) 226-5205 and ductorezra@comcast.net
Debby Peters

Debby Peters is the Owner and Director of Training of The Certified Networker Program of Ohio, Ltd., (www.cnpofohio.com) a 24 hour referral-based training that is evolving a community of profitable referral partners. She also posts to the networking blog at www.cnpofohio.blogspot.com. She has been an active member of BNI since 1994 and is the BNI Membership Success Program trainer for Northwest Ohio.  She was nationally ranked in the top ten when she was a sales person for a large national payroll service company.  Debby Peters can be reached at 419-833-5182 or debby@certifiednetworker.com
Lantz Powell

Lantz Powell, after 30 years in commercial real estate started the Literary Agency for Southern Authors.  He is a resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee and can be contacted through email at southernlitagent@aol.com
Susan RoAne

Susan RoAne leads a double life as a bestselling author and a sought-after keynote speaker. Known as "The Mingling Maven®," she gives her multi-generational audiences the required tools, techniques and strategies they need to connect and communicate in today’s global business world. Her practical, informative, and interactive presentations are known for what The San Francisco Chronicle calls her “dynamite sense of humor.” She received her Master’s Degree from San Francisco State University and her Bachelors from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. A former public school teacher, Susan now guest lectures at major universities such as Yale, Wharton, University of Chicago and NYU. Because of her groundbreaking best-seller, How to Work a Room®, Susan is considered the undisputed and original networking and conversation expert. Which has sold over a million books worldwide and has launched an industry that she continues to create and shape in the 21st Century.Susan RoAne is consistently called upon by the media to share her savvy socializing strategies and founded Writefully So? , to consult and coach emerging authors and RoAne Communication Consulting to work with corporate and individuals to improve interactions and communication skills.She can be found at www.susanroane.com.
Darrell Ross B. PA

Darrell is the Executive Director for BNI for British Columbia where members generate tens of millions in referred business annually. Darrell has delivered hundreds of seminars and keynotes on various aspects of successful referral marketing for BNI members and for corporations, and many trade and professional associations. He is a partner for the Referral Institute Canada - a company that teaches business professionals how to harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to drive sales for fast, sustainable business growth. Darrell is a contributing author to the best sellers, “Masters of Networking” and “Masters of Success”.
Darrell@bnicanada.ca 1 800 365-2276
Geof Scanlon

Geof Scanlon is a CPA and Co-Executive Director of BNI in Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky. He is a past presenter at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and has given well over 1,400 Certified Networker, Member Success and Advanced Business by Referral Presentations across the nation. Geof exhibits a humorous & sincere ability to motivate people to become successful in networking marketing and sales. He can be reached at 859-655-9600 or scanloninc@fuse.net.
Deanna Tucci Schmitt

Deanna Tucci Schmitt’s successful experience as a salesperson and salestrainer parlayed well into her career with BNI. Deanna brought BNI, the word of mouth networking organization, to the Western Pennsylvania area in 1998. In this role she provides training and coaching to over 700 BNI members in 32 chapters who actively work to increase their business through referrals and networking. Deanna believes that developing business by referral is the most cost and time effective method and just a better way of doing business. Deanna is also a contributing author of the book Masters of Networking, a Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller. Deanna resides in McMurray, PA with her husband and Co-Executive Director, Bob. They have a dog, Piper and 2 cats – Cessna and Beech. Deanna Tucci Schmitt BNI Western Pennsylvania Executive Director 724/941-0101 dtschmitt@bni.com : www.bni-westernpa.com
Greta Schulz

Greta Schulz is the president and CEO of ProActive Training and Consulting. She has been involved in sales, sales management, marketing, and training for over twenty years. She is a columnist in many business publications around the country and a contributing author of  “Masters of Sales” coming out August 2007. Greta is presently writing her own book titled “Sell Naked”, a conglomeration of stories and tips in the world of sales.  Greta is president of the non-profit Connor Moran Children’s Cancer Foundation Board of Directors. She has also recently been elected to The Gulfstream Goodwill Board as a foundation member. ProActive Training currently works with a broad spectra of clients, ranging everywhere from individual entrepreneurs, small family owned and operated businesses, to large national corporations. Some companies they have worked with include The Palm Beach Post, Amcomp Assurance Corporation, AFLAC, Tropical Shipping, Channel 25, Engle Homes and several Business Journals around the country  just to name a few. A business graduate of The University of Miami, Greta’s presentations are dynamic and interactive. One-on-one, she is extremely down-to-earth and engaging. She is happily married and has three children. 
Jerry Schwartz

Jerry Schwartz is a pioneering focused goal maker who’s divergent out of the box thinking has made him one of the top Networking Professionals in the United States. He is currently the Executive Director for BNI Maryland and D.C., the largest business networking organization in the world. Jerry has been a motivational business speaker for many corporations and organizations throughout North America. He has also had several guest appearances on local radio and television shows and is a contributing author to 2 Best Sellers “Masters of Networking” and “Masters of Success.” Jerry's business degree was earned at Drexel University, in Philadelphia where his major emphasized Marketing, Management and Business Law. Since his college years, Jerry has had over 30 years owning several multi- state businesses, has been a marketing director for large corporations and has been a professional sales representative. The key to success for Jerry is a positive attitude and a zest for life! To contact Jerry, (410) 484 – 6109; jerry@bnimaryland.com; www.bnimaryland.com
Sam Schwartz

Sam Schwartz, is the National Director of BNI-Israel, BNI-Hungary, BNI-Romania, BNI-Bulgaria and the Executive Director for BNI-Northern Virginia. Sam is a Certified Networking Professional trainer and a motivational business speaker. Sam had several guest appearances on TV and radio shows, contributed articles to numerous periodicals, and is a contributing author to “Masters of Success”, a Wall Street Journal number one bestseller list. Sam has lived and has businesses on three continents thus far. Sam is in the process of writing a book “The Business Networking Etiquette Guide”. Sam’s philosophy is “Dream BIG – and go for it!”
Robin Shuckmann

Robin Schuckmann is the Executive Director for BNI Oregon & SW Washington. With a passion for helping business professionals realizing their full potential using the power of word-of-mouth marketing, Robin focuses on educating and training businesses on how to develop meaningful relationships that result in long-term referral sources. She also enjoys traveling, wine tasting, yoga, the outdoors, and marathon walking. Robin’s key to success is don’t procrastinate–get things done now so you can play when others want to play too! She can be reached at 503-621-3284 or robin@bni.com.
Sherry Steiman

Sherry Steiman has been an accountant for 35 years, but has spent many of her evenings doing home party sales for Weekender’s Clothing and Mary Kay Cosmetics.  After all, when you do accounting all day, you need to have fun at night. She has been an ambassador for three different Chambers of Commerce, on the Board of Directors for the Fountain Hills, AZ Chamber and as a Rotarian, she mentored elementary school children.Sherry is also an artist, painting murals both commercially and residentially, and is a former dance teacher/performer and tole-painting teacher. Sherry can be reached at 623-544-1386 or at sssteiman@cox.net.
Debbra Sweet

Entrepreneur, Author, Musician, Speaker, Consultant, Coach, Trainer are titles that apply to Sweet Marketing Solutions founder, Debbra Sweet. A unique blend of understanding business systems, value in client relationships, and endless creativity are key elements that Sweet uses to lead her team of professionals to achieving client results in marketing. Never one to ‘wait for things to happen,’ Debbra opens new doors for her clients and her company in the areas marketing, advertising and promotions. Her professional experience on stage as a musician and speaker helps her deliver messages in a fresh, motivating way. Always focusing on the end results, Debbra helps to streamline the vastness of marketing so her clients can be comfortably involved when they are working towards achieving marketing growth goals. Contact Debbra at: www.sweetmarketingsolutions.com or 1-888-SWEET-85
Anne Warfield

Impression Management Professionals is all about how to communicate with candor but without judgment so you say the right thing at the right time every time. The revolutionary Outcome Focus™ Approach, developed by Anne Warfield, helps your corporation raise its productivity and bottom line by showing them how to be transformational rather than transactional in how they think, listen and speak.  When applying Outcome Thinking™ our client’s results include sales cycles reducing by 75%, turnover reducing by 30%, silos evaporating, and a 25% savings of time by executives. Anne Warfield, Outcome Strategist and author, is utilized by many of the nation’s foremost corporations including media giants such as CBS, ABC, NBC, Business Week, New York Daily News, Investors Business Da