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Paul Scheele is Co-founder of Learning Strategies Corporation. Paul programs and presentations confront human development challenges with practical advice and transferable skills. He weaves his unique expertise in neuro-linguistic programming, accelerative learning, and preconscious processing to develop and present leading edge, provocative programs. His mission is "helping people discover and use their full potential."

Paul has authored numerous programs including: the Paraliminal CDs, PhotoReading, Natural Brilliance, Euphoria!, Abundance for Life, and Genius Code. For more on Paul Scheele, click here.

Nancy Salzman, President of NXIVM Corporation and Executive Success Programs, Inc. has over 20 years of intensive study and practice in the fields of healthcare, human potential, and human empowerment. Ms. Salzman now allocates the majority of her time to further developing the company's capacity to meet its ever-growing needs. Because of her strong belief in developing each individual, she personally works with over 300 Coaches and 30 Regional Executives in the United States and Mexico. For more on Nancy Salzman, click here.

For more than 20 years, Robert Scheinfeld has been helping people create extraordinary results, in less time, with less effort, and much more fun. His passion is helping others carve out and live what he calls their "Ultimate Lifestyle." Robert is the NY Times bestselling author of Busting Loose From The Money Game, The 11th Element and The Invisible Path to Success. He's also an 11-year veteran of applying cutting edge sales and marketing strategies and has had in-the-trenches experience of creating hugely profitable multi-million dollar businesses. For more on Robert Scheinfeld, click here.

Jim Selman is a recognized innovator, leader and authority in the field of organizational transformation and sustainable culture change. His seminal work introduced "coaching" as an alternative paradigm of management and distinguished the theory and practice of organizational transformation as a distinct field. Jim currently consults on four continents to develop executives to become transformational leaders, address issues of cross-cultural coordination, deconstruct 'paternalistic' patterns, and create business processes based on new ways of observing action.

Jim recently co-founded The Eldering Institute®, an organization committed to transforming our experience of aging and engaging Boomers in a multigenerational movement to create our collective future. For more on Jim Selman, click here.

Marci Shimoff is the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages. They have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks (#1 for 12 weeks) and have also topped the USA Today and Publishers Weekly lists. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. Her upcoming book, Happy for No Reason, is being published by Simon and Schuster in December 2007. For more on Marci Shimoff, click here.

Yakov Smirnoff Yakov's comedic style is firmly grounded within his mission statement "to experience happiness and teach it with passion through comedy and sensitivity." Yakov continues to develop his comedy to reflect the dynamics between men and women, the happiness that can be found inside oneself, and a celebration of the spirit of life. The depths of Yakov's development from naive young immigrant to gentle, loving patriot can be found throughout his show and his Love and Laughter seminars. When Branson's Two-Time Comedian of the Year isn't performing sold-out shows at his own theater in the heartland of America, Yakov likes to travel and appears at select venues across the United States.

As part of his ongoing quest for knowledge and understanding about relationships, Yakov completed his master's degree in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in May 2006 with the first class of the new positive psychology program directed by Dr. Martin Seligman. He teaches as a professor at Missouri State University and Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. He also offers Happily Ever Laughter personal and business relationship seminars throughout the country. For more on Yakov Smirnoff, click here.

Bonnie Solow is a literary agent based in Northern California. A former journalist and film and publishing executive, Bonnie established Solow Literary Enterprises, Inc. in 1997. Since then, her agency has celebrated twenty New York Times bestsellers. Focusing on non-fiction genres including health, business, psychology, personal development, history, education, science, memoir, and narrative non-fiction, Bonnie serves as a literary manager and "creative midwife", assisting her clients in every stage of a book's development from concept to publication to beyond-the-bookshelf branding. She has helped clients secure PBS shows, infomercials, merchandising deals, speaking engagements, web-based marketing opportunities and film development deals,. An active public speaker on the publishing industry and the publishing process, Bonnie has presented at such venues as the Standford Writer's Workshop, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the California Institute of Integral Studies. Bonnie sees herself as an agent for change, committed to making the world a lot smarter and a lot sweeter through information, inspiration and entertainment. For more on Bonnie Solow, click here.

Donna Steinhorn is a Life, Mentor and Executive Coach, as well as trainer, speaker and serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years of corporate, business and non-profit experience. Donna is president of Coaching to Success, and co-founder of the Conversation Among Masters, and the Association for Coaching Excellence. She is also co-founder of the non-profit Coach Initiative. As the former executive vice president for CoachVille and dean of the Thomas Leonard Coaching School, Donna has trained and mentored hundreds of coaches and and was a 2005 recipient of the "t" award for her work in the coaching industry.

Donna works with high profile individuals across the globe, including visionaries and high achievers in the entertainment, political, and corporate sectors. With her multiple roles, she's learned how crucial it is to embrace change and create inspiring, sustainable environments for success and joy. For more on Donna Steinhorn, click here.

Guy Stickney is the founder and CEO of WizardryEvents, a company that has produced conferences all over the world during the past 13 years. Involved with the coaching community since 1988, he has produced 10 international conferences for the ICF, and has worked with many other coaching-related organizations and institutions. Guy spent 21 years in the hotel business, with executive and regional responsibilities, and his hotel teams routinely won top honors for customer service and employee morale. Guy is also a co-founder of The Coach Initiative and Conversation Among Masters (CAM). Guy's passions include travel, golf, his family and "creating the WOW experience." He lives with his wife and their three sons in Tucson, Arizona. A favorite quote: "People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel."

Orjan Strindlund CEO and co-founder of CoachPower Sweden AB, has been working fulltime as a professional business and life coach, seminar leader and trainer since 1997. He works with executives, top politicians, entrepreneurs that are willing and ready to be a courageous visionary leader, through seminars, coaching, trainings/programs and consulting.

His mission, "Awake, ignite and inspire visionary leaders to lead from their potential with integrity, power and love!" and his burning desire to "midwife" human potential and business greatness, have attracted more than 400 individual coach clients, including Vice Prime Minister of Sweden Mrs. Maud Olofsson, celebrity designer Johan Lindeberg and other visionary leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs and potential leaders of Sweden and Europe. In his trainings and seminars he has worked with more than 15,000 participants in more than 100 well known companies of Sweden and Europe. For more on Orjan Strindlund, click here.

Marshall Thurber is known as one of the creative geniuses of our time. He is an entrepreneur, attorney, writer, inventor, master teacher and successful businessman.

Marshall is the creator of several international businesses including: Money & You, The Burklyn Business School, The Future of Business I and II, The Secrets of Powerful Presentations, The Accounting Game (granted a US Patent), The Leadership Development Training, The Global Leadership Network Training, The Future of Business/The Essence of Deming, and MetaManagement. For more on Marshall Thurber, click here.

Terry Tillman lives on purpose. Today, through his 22/7 company, he conducts seminars and speaks internationally for groups of 50 – 15,000 participants, produces, designs and facilitates leadership trainings for organizations and the general public, and coaches executives all over the world—91 countries so far.

Over 150,000 people have shared experiences and partnered with Terry in experiential, transformational learning. Terry's mission is to support and mentor people in producing the results they want, discovering their value, and realizing their dreams.  For more on Terry Tillman, click here.

Lynne Twist -- a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author -- has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work.

Founded in 2003, the Soul of Money Institute is a center for exploring and sharing the best practices, theories, and attitudes that enable people to relate to money and the money culture with greater freedom, power, and effectiveness. For more on Lynne Twist, click here.

Joe Vitale is the bestselling author of far too many books to mention here. Some of his titles include: The Attractor Factor, Zero Limits, There's A Customer Born Every Minute, Hypnotic Writing, and his latest, Attract Money Now! He has also recorded audio-programs such as "The Secret to Attracting Money," "The Awakening Course" and "The Missing Secret." He is the Founder of Operation YES, a movement to stop homelessness. He has appeared in the movies "The Secret," "The Opus," "The Compass," and many more! He is a spiritual teacher and Internet marketer. For more on Joe Vitale, click here.

Matt Weinstein is the nation's foremost authority on the use of fun and humor in team building. Matt is the founder and "Emperor" of Playfair, Inc., an international consulting firm based in Berkeley, California. He was elected to the Professional Speaker's Hall of Fame by the National Speaker's Association, and was honored by Successful Meetings Magazine as one of the "21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century." Matt's Playfair organization presents community-building events at more than 400 corporate, association, college and university events each year. For more information on Matt Weinstein click here: www.MattWeinstein.com.

Maggie Weiss has spent her entire career developing effective team building programs, directly managing training organizations, and consulting with individuals, projects, and organizations to maximize performance through the development of people. 

For the last eight years she has focused on developing integral leadership in adaptive situations in two broad arenas: cultural change in global corporations for the care and concern of people and the environment and work with the UNDP to develop leadership response to HIV-Aids in Bombay and Nigeria. For more on Maggie Weiss, click here.

Jim White, Ph.D. is President of JL White International, author of What’s My Purpose? and creator of The Circle of Success®, a customized, yearlong leadership and management transformation process, and creator and Host of Circle of Success® Radio. He is also the creator of the Jim White’s Classic Movie Series®, and The Red Carpet Tour™. These innovative events have attracted more than 100,000 participants worldwide, including Fortune 500 CEOs, management teams, entrepreneurs, governments, and trade associations. Jim helps people dramatically and measurably increase their success in as little as 90 days. By 1991, Jim White had already achieved international recognition as CEO of Blount World Trade Corporation, owner and Managing Director of ACEC Centrifugal Pumps NV, Belgium, and as Vice President and Division Manager of Ingersoll Rand Equipment Corporation. He had also bought, grown, and sold twenty-two companies over two decades, most of which were failing companies that he revived and developed into thriving, profitable enterprises.

Whether working with multi-billion dollar corporations or the individual entrepreneur, Jim’s approach is the same: to help you clearly identify how you lead and how you live—professionally and personally—so that you can discover your life’s purpose. This is how leaders launch their real success and discover why living well shouldn’t take a lifetime. For more on Jim White, click here.

Marcia Wieder, CEO and Founder of Dream University® – With twenty years coaching, training and speaking experience, Marcia is leading a Dream Movement. Author of 4 books, she is the personal Dream Coach to Jack Canfield and stars in Beyond the Secret with Bob Proctor. As past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners she was often in the White House. As a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, she urged readers to take "The Great Dream Challenge." She's appeared on Oprah, Today, and in her own PBS-TV special. Dream University® events include: the Dream Coach Certification (certified over 1000 coaches), Inspiring Speaker Workshop, and Create Your Future Now. Marcia Wieder, click here.

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. She has published ten books, five of which - including her newest The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife - have been New York Times Bestsellers. Her first book, A Return to Love, spent 35 weeks in the #1 slot on the New York Times Bestsellers list and is considered a classic must-read of the new spirituality.

Marianne's other books include Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, The Gift of Change and Emma and Mommy Talk to God.

Marianne hosts a daily Course in Miracles radio program on Oprah and Friends network XM radio 156. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose and The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also co-founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before congress to establish a U.S. Department of Peace.

In December 2006 a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. For more on Marianne Williamson, click here.

Jane C. Willhite is President and Chairman of the board of PSI Seminars - a company with a dream of a more cooperative and peaceful world. Through presenting a variety of seminars on communication, self-concept, and leadership, individuals in both the general public and business communities learn techniques and tools for gaining more control, freedom, power, and happiness in their lives. PSI is an organization dedicated to the belief that we all possess powers and strengths that remain virtually untapped throughout our lives. These potentials, as well as a greater joy and aliveness, can be made available to everyone through comprehensive educational programs. For more on Jane Willhite, click here.

Mikki Willis, Founder and CEO of Elevate. September 11th, 2001 marked a major turning point in filmmaker Mikki's life and career. Having been inside the twin towers just hours before they fell he helped to organize and lead a group of civilians who risked their lives to aid rescue workers. Mikki was one of a handful of people allowed to remain at ground zero to aid in search and rescue efforts. It was atop the rubble of the World Trade Center that his life was forever changed. On his return to Los Angeles he began laying the foundation for his life's mission. Mikki Willis is the founder of Elevate Films, Elevate Foundation, and Elevate Film Festival, which challenges the international film community to create works of social and global importance. Elevate Film Festival is the largest single screen film festival world-wide and was named as one of the top 25 film festivals by Movie Maker Magazine. Elevate is leading a movement of 60k plus artists who share a collective commitment to Elevate consciousness through film and technology. For this, Mikki Willis received the 2008 Conscious Life Humanitarian Award. For more on Mikki Willis, click here.

A multi-talented business leader and consultant with a broad range of professional and personal interests, CEO Stephanie Wolf upholds the high standards of performance SportsMind clients have come to expect. Stephanie is also co-author of "40 Days to Prosperity", a well-received guidebook to spiritual well-being. An avid world adventurer who strives to expand her experiences and capabilities and apply them to her professional and personal life, Stephanie has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and undertaken several challenging summiting expeditions with friends in Italy, Chile, Argentina and India. For more on Stephanie Wolf, click here.

David Wood is a spiritual person housed in the body of a raving internet entrepreneur. His purpose in life is to help the helpers - the coaches, therapists, energy healers, consultants and trainers who have a gift to share, but have no idea how to make a living from it. He helps them leverage the internet to reach thousands and even millions of people, instead of tens and hundreds.

David Wood is a former actuary and Fortune 100 consultant, turned Professional Certified Coach. He is the largest provider of solutions to the coaching industry in the world, publishing an ezine for 70,000 coaches in 90 countries. He has developed 15 websites teaching people to create a lifestyle of contribution and freedom, with one website reaching #2 on Google for the term 'life coaching'. He is the author of the 2008 release of Get Paid for Who You Are. He earns a living by doing what he loves and being who he is, and wants this for everyone. For more on David Wood, click here.

Tyson Young is the Logistics Supervisor for the Transformational Leadership Council, and is one of the original Founding Staff Members of TLC. Whether teaching or competing, you can often find Tyson on a tennis court. Though what Tyson mostly loves to do is inspire you through his character as an actor. His leading roles have ranged from such loveable characters as Romeo and Motel the Tailor, to the infamous King Herod.