Professional Speaker Directory

Founder and CEO of Triad Consulting Group, Harvard Law Professor, Best-Selling Author, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most and Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Recieving Feedback Well

Sheila C. Johnson is an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose accomplishments span the arenas of hospitality, sports, TV/film, the arts and humanitarian causes.

Shep Hyken Is a Customer Service and Experience Speaker

The one statistic that matters most is if the customer comes back. You see, customer loyalty is not about a lifetime. It’s about the next time… Every time! So, what are you doing, at every point of interaction you have with your customers, to ensure that they come back the next time they need what you do or sell?

Enron “Whistleblower” and TIME Magazine “Person of the Year”

Ms. Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company, warning him that Enron ‘might implode in a wave of accounting scandals.’  She has testified before Congressional Committees from the House and Senate investigating Enron’s demise.  TIME magazine named Sherron, along with two others, Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, as their 2002 Persons of the Year, for being “people who did right just by doing their jobs rightly.”

Watkins now lectures on leadership and ethics as Professor of the Practice at Kenan-Flagler at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Watkins is co-author of Power Failure, the Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron, (Doubleday, 2003).

International Expert in Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property & Economic Development

Former Professional Soccer Player and one of the Longest Living Organ Transplant Recipient

Keith was just 21 when, in July of 1986, he received the heart of a 17 year-old boy. Keith amazingly returned to competitive soccer a year after his transplant playing for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

Simon T. Bailey believes in your brilliance. He leads the SPARK Movement whose purpose is to ignite sustainable transformation in people, individuals, systems, and nations.

Author, Diversity expert

Dr. Sondra Thiederman is one of the nation’s leading experts on workplace diversity, cross-cultural business, and bias reduction. As President of Cross-Cultural Communications, a San Diego based training firm, Sondra has 25 years experience as a speaker, trainer, and author helping professionals in Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, and dozens of associations find ways to successfully navigate our increasingly-diverse and global workplaces.

Influential Director, Filmmaker, Actor & Producer

Hollywood has produced few young filmmakers as iconoclastic and uncompromising as Spike Lee. Not content with the old formulas, he has set about reshaping the nature and the importance of American movies. In his hands a camera becomes as potent a weapon of social criticism as the pen.

Coming from an entrepreneurial upbringing, Stacey learned early on how we consistently show up and interact determines our success in our organizations and in our lives. Starting with a career in voice-over, she quickly realized how every word matters - every movement of your body matters and every sound you make matters (volume, tone and inflection). All of these combined determines who listens, who stays connected with you, who believes you and then acts on your recommendation.

TV Personality, Businesswoman, & Best-Selling Author

Star Jones is an Emmy award nominated TV host, attorney, best-selling author, and former New York City homicide prosecutor, who has worked in television for over 20 years; offering a fresh perspective to the day’s most talked about crime and justice, political and sociological issues from the worlds of news, entertainment, politics and pop culture.