Best selling author, Outstanding Business Speaker
The best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, Ross Bernstein is an award-winning hall of fame peak-performance business speaker who’s keynoted conferences on ALL SEVEN continents. Ross speaks at over 100 live events per year — from Fortune 500 sales groups, to franchise leadership summits, to large association conferences — his program is high energy, funny, and packed with valuable content. There are reasons certain teams win consistently, whereas others don't... and Ross explains why.
Are You Relevant?
Ross Shafer is a 6-time Emmy® award winning network talk show host and comedy writer who has turned that same discipline to excellence toward the corporate marketplace. As a lifelong student of human behavior, Ross has written and produced (14) Human Resource training films on customer service, motivation, and leadership. His ability as a master performer quickly propelled him as a highly demanded corporate and association Keynote speaker.
Positive Psychology Expert
Shawn Achor is the New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before Happiness. He spent 12 years at Harvard, where he won over a dozen distinguished teaching awards, and delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard.
An expert in the art and science of influence, Stevie Ray has been a nationally recognized keynote speaker and corporate trainer for over thirty years. Also a professional comedian, Stevie is the Executive Director of Stevie Ray’s Improv Company in Minneapolis, a company that has provided training and entertainment since 1989. Stevie is the longest running national columnist for the Business Journal Newspapers and is the author of eleven books, including The Roadmap to Influence. Stevie is the first person in the country to have designed his own college degree to study the psychology of humor. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and stepdaughter. He practices his skills of influence trying to win debates with them. It has yet to work.
Host of The Suze Orman Show, Financial Expert, Best-Selling Author
Suze Orman has been called “a force in the world of personal finance” and a “one-woman financial advice powerhouse” by USA Today. A two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times mega bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and one of the top motivational speakers in the world today, Orman is undeniably America’s most recognized expert on personal finance.
Helping Your People Grow
Residing in Fredenberg Township, just north of Duluth, MN, Ted Schick is a professional speaker, corporate trainer, and consultant with his own business since 2009, Schick Corporate Learning. A retired naval officer who rose from the enlisted ranks, Ted has over 30 years of experience leading people.
Growth, Innovation and Sales Transformation Expert and Advisor; Former Chief Growth Evangelist at Salesforce; 2x WSJBestselling Author, 2x Top Business Thinker in the World by Thinkers50
America’s First Black Female Combat Pilot; Former Marine & Cop; Author, Zero to Breakthrough; and Consultant to Business