Master Your Universe: How to Manage, Maximize and Master the Opportunity That Constant Change Presents
Here’s your chance to attend the LAST FREE panel session in our 9 panel, high-level “discovery” series with 54 Master-Level business builders known as…“The League of Extraordinary Minds”.
Join us on Thursday, January 14th at 8:00pm (YOUR Local Time).
During this final free access “discovery” session, our expert panelists will focus completely on YOUR challenges as a small business owner. They will address the most vital aspects YOU need to focus on to succeed in today’s challenging economy.
The expert panel for your “Master Your Universe: How to Manage, Maximize and Master the Opportunity That Constant Change Presents” Discovery Session includes:
- Dr. Spencer Johnson… discussing one of the biggest mistakes you can make in these “troubling times”…
- John Kotter… sharing how you can do very well right now by doing things differently than everybody else…
Plus LOTS more…
Be sure to register right now for our free “League of Extraordinary Minds” Panel Discussions, so you get to experience every word from these “business success” experts…
… And apply their strategies to your specific situation for higher positioning and higher profits!
Don’t miss out on even one minute of what this high-level group of “business-building power” has to share with you… for free!
It’s all happening on Thursday, January 14th at 8:00pm (YOUR Local Time).
Register here right now!
To your business success,
Jay Abraham
Rich Schefren
Fast-Tracking Your Business: Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success
The next FREE Webcast Session of “The League of Extraordinary Minds” is coming up on Thursday, January 7th at 8:00pm (your local time).
The experts assembled for The League Panel 8 … “Fast-Tracking Your Business: Accelerators That Drive Rapid and Soaring Success” Discovery Session include:
- Dr. Paul Schoemaker… discussing why you can’t just deal with the symptoms of a problem…
- Herb Cohen… revealing how YOU can become a masterful negotiator…
- Greg Hicks… shares 9 behaviors leaders MUST adopt to reduce stress…
- Barry Schwartz… discussing why offering as much variety as you possibly can will LOWER sales drastically…
- Tony Jeary… on dealing with distractions so you can be more focused with your efforts and get better results…
- Paul Zane Pilzer… sharing why every entrepreneur needs to see themselves as one link in a chain…
And there’s LOTS more from this stellar lineup!
Make sure you made the wise decision to register for our free “League of Extraordinary Minds” Panel Discussions, so you can experience every word from these “business success” experts…
… And apply their strategies to your specific situation for higher positioning and higher profits!
So you don’t miss out on even one minute of what this high-level group of “business-building power” has to share with you… for free!
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Getting Customers to Choose You Over Everyone Else: Leveraging Credibility, Believability, and Trust in Everything you do
UPDATE OCT 30th:
WOW… and a big fat Apology.
We knew this program would really resonate with people but we never thought it would have the amount of activity it did. Needless to say, it chocked our servers.
All of us here want to say sorry to all the disappointed people that could not get on the web cast because as you can see all the people that were able to attend absolutely loved it.
Again, we are sorry and we will have more horsepower for this Thursday’s call so don’t miss it.
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League Of Extraordinary Minds – Discovery Session 1 Webcast
Be sure to join us for our first discovery session webcast in our 6 week series this Thursday October 29th at 8:00pm.
If you haven’t already registered for the webcasts you can do so here
You won’t want to miss this historic event as Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren interview this first group of panelists which includes:
Be sure to come ready to listen intently and take notes as Rich and Jay dig deep to get answers to tough questions like:
1. What’s the single biggest strategy for moving from distrust, dubious, and suspect to seismic credibility and what’s the single biggest action our members should do first and why?
2. There are 2 aspects to credibility – quick fix and long term remediation – What actions would you recommend that can be taken quickly and what actions would you recommend that are more long term and self-sustaining?
3. Most Entrepreneurs do not think of themselves as not being credible, trustworthy or believable – so what’s the best way to get an unbiased viewpoint of what we are really conveying to the marketplace and how do we develop thick enough skin to see ourselves as we really are ?
4. Let’s talk about specific tactics – How would you suggest our members make each contact point with their market – more effective? Whether it be customer service, marketing, advertising, or simply describing the attributes of their products or services?
5. If you were to give each of our members an exercise that would constantly put them on the path to growing their trust, believability, and credibility, what would you recommend? What benefits will accrue by doing it and why?
6. Of all the things you’ve researched, written, and presented on what’s the single biggest distinction, realization, insight that you need to get across to this group that hasn’t been covered so far, and why?
7. Through the lens of your expertise; What one question do you wish we would have asked you, that we didn’t, that relates to helping members on this call make their business more profitable, more successful, more competitively advantageous right now and into the future? Why is it an important question? And had we asked, what would your answer be?
The answers and secrets these experts reveal during this 90 minute event will completely blow you away! Fortune 500 companies pay these guys tens of thousands of dollars for information like this that Jay and Rich are extracting for you for FREE!
Don’t miss this exclusive webcast. It will not be re-played. To get all the details, register here
After you’ve listened to the webcast, please come back to this page and let us know the biggest insights and takeaways you gained from the panel. We have some special surprises for those of you with the best comment! 
Using Brain Based Marketing to Engineer “Irrefusable Offers”: Getting People Who Don’t Buy to Buy Enthusiastically
League Of Extraordinary Minds – Discovery Session 2 Webcast
Be sure to join us for the second discovery session webcast in our 6 week series this Thursday November 5th at 8:00pm (Your Local Time).
If you haven’t already registered for the webcasts you can do so here
We were the #9 most visited site on the Internet for last weeks call and our servers got inundated but we’ve totally re-designed the code and brought a fleet of new servers online to handle the demand. You won’t want to miss this amazing event as Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren interview this second group of panelists which includes:
During this interview the panelists will give mind blowing answers to the following questions:
- In all the research and analysis you’ve done on the subject tell us one to four of the most important and perhaps unexpected distinctions that you realized or discovered that would benefit our members the most?
- How does conventional marketing overlook or miss totally the power of the brain based/understanding of brain based messaging?
- How do you shift your marketing focus from old school to brain based and why?
- How would you go about specifically using your findings or methodologies to improve or transform the performance of specific marketing steps?
- Give us a process – a simplified short course primer – of how to immerse your business or your marketing/advertising people in the latest scientific understandings about buying behavior
- What’s the biggest single change that listeners need to do right now – if you were doing an immediate intervention in the listeners businesses what would you do, and why?
- Through the lens of your expertise; What one question do you wish we would have asked you, that we didn’t, that relates to helping members on this call make their business more profitable, more successful, more competitively advantageous right now and into the future? Why is it an important question? And had we asked, what would your answer be?
Just like last week, the answers and secrets these experts reveal during this 90 minute event will completely blow you away! Fortune 500 companies pay these guys tens of thousands of dollars for information like this that Jay and Rich are extracting for you for FREE!
Don’t miss this exclusive webcast. It will not be re-played.
This webcast takes place on Thursday November 6th at 8PM (Your local time!)
Just to be extra clear, that’s 8pm your time no matter where you live in the world.
To get all the details, register here
After you’ve listened to the webcast, we’d love to get your testimonial so please come back to this page and let us know the biggest insights and takeaways you gained from the panel.
Pre-Emptive Marketing: Innovative Tactics that Outperform What Everyone Else is Doing
League Of Extraordinary Minds – Discovery Session 3 Webcast
Be sure to join us for the third discovery session webcast in our 6 week series this Thursday November 12th at 8:00pm (Your Local Time).
If you haven’t already registered for the webcasts you can do so here
You won’t want to miss this amazing event as Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren interview this second group of panelists which includes:
During this interview the panelists will give mind blowing answers to the following questions:
- What do you see respectively that is the single biggest marketing mistake small businesses are making today, and what do they need to do to fix it?
- What’s the biggest single marketing tactic that you either developed, researched, engineered or consistently use that could make the biggest difference in almost any business owners’ performance – why and how?
- We’ve coined a word – sort of a descriptive umbrella for the expertise represented on this call – pre-emptive marketing – how would marketing be different under your pre-emptive approach than what the mainstream is currently employing and why?
- Most of you have a multiplicity of progressive and breakthrough strategies, concepts, tactics and methodologies in your quiver – of all of them what’s the one weapon that you think everyone on the call should master and how would you suggest they get started?
- What is the key to creating and implementing innovative marketing breakthroughs in a small to medium sized business?
- If you had to sum up in 3-minutes or less what it takes to outperform your competition, what would you say?
- Through the lens of your expertise; What one question do you wish we would have asked you, that we didn’t, that relates to helping members on this call make their business more profitable, more successful, more competitively advantageous right now and into the future? Why is it an important question? And had we asked, what would your answer be?
Just like last week, the answers and secrets these experts reveal during this 90 minute event will completely blow you away! Fortune 500 companies pay these guys tens of thousands of dollars for information like this that Jay and Rich are extracting for you for FREE!
Don’t miss this exclusive webcast. It will not be re-played.
This webcast takes place on Thursday November 12th at 8PM (Your local time!)
Just to be extra clear, that’s 8pm your time no matter where you live in the world.
To get all the details, register here
After you’ve listened to the webcast, we’d love to get your testimonial so please come back to this page and let us know the biggest insights and takeaways you gained from the panel.
Are You Using The “Jackass Factor”?
Vicki Kunkel is a self-professed “jackass”.
And, as the author of the well-known book, “Instant Appeal”, she highly recommends you become one as well – if you’re serious about outshining competitors in an overcrowded marketplace.
“When you leverage the Jackass Factor”, as Vicki will be explaining in your upcoming League Panel, “it transforms you, your company, and most importantly… your product offerings into attractive, enticing propositions prospects are eager and excited to take advantage of.”
The Jackass Factor is what allows you to be who you are, stand for what you truly believe in, and represent your personal and professional values and beliefs. Yet, at the same time, it’s what allows you to be an extremely “attractive” character and representative to your prospects. Two things that are essential to building a thriving business.
The end-result is that more customers buy from you. And, as they do, they buy from you more often and with greater trust.
As you’ll hear from Vicki in your very next League Panel on Thursday, November 12th at 8PM – in a crowded marketplace, with lots of competitors, offers, and options in front of prospects, your ability to convey true personality, a unique perspective, and true authenticity is the minimum requirement if you want to stand out from competitors.
In other words, it’s essential to your business success that you appropriately and properly represent who you are and what you stand for as a company and individual through all of your marketing communications and campaigns.
Fact is; people want to do business with people they like and trust. And, today, people want to do business with other “real people”.
Your prospects aren’t interested in purchasing products and services from a massive corporation, a big company, or even a small business, for that matter. And, frankly, if that’s the image you’re unintentionally conveying via your marketing communications, your sales will suffer. And, suffer significantly.
Instead, your prospects want to spend their money with a real person. A person who understands them, sees their needs, and can relate to who they are. And, this is exactly what the “Jackass Factor” does for you.
When you implement the “Factor” in your business, prospects feel a greater and deeper bond with you.
And, because of that, they’ll feel more comfortable spending money on your products or services.
In the end they’re happier.
You’re happier.
And, your company makes a heck of a lot more money.
The catch, if you will, to doing this correctly, is that even though you want to be yourself and allow your personality and values to shine through in your marketing… you never want to do it in a way that insults, turns-off, or rubs prospects the wrong way.
That certainly goes without saying. Yet, it’s easier said than done.
Fortunately, in your upcoming League Panel, Vicki Kunkel explains exactly how the Jackass Factor will allow you be true to who you are… and… in a way that magnetically draws prospects to you and your company.
In addition to the “Jackass Factor”, you’ll also hear Vicki share how to use certain numbers in your business to dominate competitors and rule your market space.
“In combination, these two competencies will transform almost any business or entrepreneur into a financial force not to be reckoned with!”
Be sure you’ve set aside the time on your calendar to hear everything Vicki has to share about these 2 business-building techniques during tomorrow night’s panel – Thursday, November 12th at 8PM.
In the meantime, join the conversation below. Let us know how you feel about authenticity, trust, and personality in marketing.
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The Business Building Triple Play: The Three Key Levels that’ll Multiply Any Small Business from the Inside Out
I hope you’re excited about our next FREE Webcast of “The League of Extraordinary Minds” coming up on Thursday, November 19th at 8:00pm (your local time).
You see, we have gone to great lengths to bring this panel of top business experts together for your benefit.
A panel you’d be hard-pressed to gather on your own, or witness anywhere else… with the broadest spectrum of talents and perspectives on issues that affect you directly… that you can hear in just one free Webcast session.
The expert panel for “The Business Building Triple Play: The Three Key Levels that’ll Multiply Any Small Business from the Inside Out” session includes:
- Lou Adler… author of “Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams” and developer of his proven system for hiring superior people. On this Panel discussion, Lou reveals how your talents can help you manage your business for success in the short-term… and build a team for the long-term.
- Bo Burlingham… author of “Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big” and “The Knack: How Street Smart Entrepreneurs Learn How to Handle Whatever Comes Up”… shares the critical leadership factors that will transform your small business into well-oiled, thriving company.
- Dr. Eric Flamholtz…author of “Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm”… During this Panel discussion, he reveals the Number 1 Strategy for ANY entrepreneur. Along with the “not so obvious factors” that can make a huge difference in the success of an entrepreneurial company.
- Michael Gerber has spent his life understanding and improving the world of the entrepreneur. This passion led to the founding of the famous “E-Myth” learning series and his best-seller “The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It.” On our Panel 4 discussion, Michael shares how to create a stunning impact on your customers, your people and the world.
- Kerry Patterson… co-author of “Influencer: The Power to Change Anything,” “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High” and “Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior.” On our Panel 4 discussion, Kerry reveals three essential “behaviors” that help entrepreneurs grow multi-million dollar companies, and how to succeed during an economic recession or a downturn in the economy.
- Brad Smart… author of “Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People,” discusses the three most common hiring mistakes. And more importantly, how to AVOID costly “mis-hires” so you can STOP working 50, 60, even 80 hours a week… and STOP “carrying” underperforming staff.
- Marilyn Tam… former President of Reebok Apparel & Retail Group, and former Vice President of Nike, Marilyn shares her three top “best practices” for improving ANY business… and how all entrepreneurs can achieve a fulfilling life, where you’re happy and at peace.
When you register for our FREE “League of Extraordinary Minds” Panel Discussions, you get to experience every word from these “business success” experts…
… And apply their strategies to your specific situation for higher positioning and higher profits!
So don’t miss out on even one minute of what this high-level group of “business-building power” has to share with you… for free!
The Performance Enhancement Quotient: Making Everything You Do Bigger and Better Starting Now
I hope you’re excited about our next free Webcast of “The League of Extraordinary Minds” coming up on Thursday, December 3rd at 8:00pm (your local time). Click Here to Register if you haven’t already done so.
You see, we have gone to great lengths to bring this panel of top business experts together for your benefit.
A panel you’d be hard-pressed to gather on your own, or witness anywhere else… with the broadest spectrum of talents and perspectives on issues that affect you directly… that you can hear in just one free Webcast session.
The expert panel for “The Performance Enhancement Quotient: Making Everything You Do Bigger and Better Starting Now” session includes:
- Dave Crenshaw… author of “The Myth of Multitasking: How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done”… reveals why everyone needs accountability (and how YOU can get it)…
- Dr. Neil Fiore… author of “Awaken Your Strongest Self: Break Free of Stress, Inner Conflict, and Self-Sabotage” and “The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination While Enjoying Guilt-Free Play”…shares the Three Ingredients necessary for optimal performance…
- Julie Morgenstern… author of “Organizing from the Inside Out” and “Time Management from the Inside Out”… exposes the BIGGEST obstacle to boosting your productivity…
- Jim Murphy… author of “Business Is Combat : A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Winning in Modern Business Warfare” and “Flawless Execution : Use the Techniques and Systems of America’s Fighter Pilots to Perform at Your Peak and Win the Battles of the Business World”…discusses the “silent killer” of GREAT execution…
- Nancy Ratey… ADHD coach and author of “The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents”… tells why knowing how your ADD works can unleash MONUMENTAL success…
- Dr. Jan Yager…author of “Work Less, Do More” and “Creative Time Management”…reveals the key habits entrepreneurs should avoid (at all costs)…
You want to make sure you’ve registered for our free “League of Extraordinary Minds” Panel Discussions, so you get to experience every word from these “business success” experts…
… And apply their strategies to your specific situation for higher positioning and higher profits!
Don’t miss out on even one minute of what this high-level group of “business-building power” has to share with you… for free!
The Greatest Overlooked Lever in any Small Business: Leading and Leveraging Your Team to Stunning and Sustaining Growth
We are really excited about our next free Webcast of “The League of Extraordinary Minds” coming up on Thursday, December 17th at 8:00pm (your local time).
You see, we have gone to great lengths to bring this panel of top business experts together for your benefit.
A panel you’d be hard-pressed to gather on your own, or witness anywhere else… with the broadest spectrum of talents and perspectives on issues that affect you directly… that you can hear in just one FREE Webcast session.
The expert panel for “The Greatest Overlooked Lever in any Small Business: Leading and Leveraging Your Team to Stunning and Sustaining Growth” session includes:
- Sam Deep… discussing 5 critical areas entrepreneurs must focus on to be better leaders…
- Marshall Goldsmith…sharing how to improve and involve all of the people around you…
- Joseph Grenny… revealing 2 critical “influence strategies” for entrepreneurial success…
- Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer…on why communication skills “disappear” when some people become leaders…
- Fran Tarkenton… explaining what great leadership looks like when it’s implemented properly…
- Brian Tracy… describing how to measure your leadership qualities objectively…
And MUCH more!
Go ahead and make the wise decision to register for our free “League of Extraordinary Minds” Panel Discussions, where you’ll get to experience every word from these “business success” experts…
… And apply their strategies to your specific situation for higher positioning and higher profits!
So if you don’t want to miss out on even one minute of what this high-level group of “business-building power” has to share with you… for free… Click Here To Register Now!
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John Kotter: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
John Kotter
John Kotter, is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually “do” change.
In his newest work, A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency in an organization really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally important asset, and how it can be created and sustained within organizations.
Professor Kotter is the author of seventeen books, a collection that has given him more honors and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change. In fact, his books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com.
John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change, which outlined an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations, has become the change bible for managers around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melting, the New York Times bestseller, puts the eight-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations. Professor Kotter often talks to groups and has only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results.
John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period.
Professor Kotter’s honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 2003, a video version of a story from his book, The Heart of Change won a Telly Award. In 2006, Kotter received the prestigious McFeely Award for “outstanding contributions to leadership and management development.” In 2007, his video “Succeeding in a Changing World” was named best video training product of the year by Training Media Review and also won a Telly Award.
John Kotter lives in Cambridge Massachusetts and Ashland, New Hampshire.
Dr. Spencer Johnson: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Dr. Spencer Johnson
Dr. Spencer Johnson is one of the world’s most respected thinkers and beloved authors. He is often referred to as “the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work.”
You might recognize Dr. Johnson from his bestselling books, Who Moved My Cheese?®, An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change and The One Minute Manager®. His newest book, Peaks And Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You, is being hailed as “the right book at the right time.” His books reveal universal principles that can be used by people in every culture in every part of the world.
Dr. Johnson earned a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California, an M.D. degree from the Royal College of Surgeons, and medical clerkships at The Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School.
He has served as Medical Director of Communications for Medtronic, the original innovators of cardiac pacemakers; Research Physician at the Institute for Inter-Disciplinary Studies, a medical-social think tank; Consultant to the Center for the Study of the Person, and to the School of Medicine, University of California and Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He is currently an Advisor to the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
His work has captured the attention of major media, including The Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, Fortune, the New York Times, the Today show, Time magazine, USA Today, and United Press International.
Tony Jeary: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Tony Jeary
Tony Jeary, America’s “Master Strategic Facilitator”, has personal experience with both success and failure. Tony made and lost several million dollars before he was 30. Today he walks the talk and practices the distinctions that characterize Communication Mastery and Strategic Acceleration, both personally and professionally.
Tony developed Strategic Acceleration, a leadership methodology that combines awareness, operational practices, and powerful informational resources. It is designed to produce “strategic speed” and superior results within time frames that exceed traditional expectations.
Tony’s latest book, Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life, details a methodology that will help you get clear, stay focused, and efficiently execute relevant, high-value activities… thereby getting you the results and success you really want …. faster! It is destined to become the ultimate success guide for corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes and other individuals seeking success.
Tony Jeary’s thinking is sought after and used by the presidents of the world’s top companies, like Wal-mart, Bridgestone-Firestone Diversified Products, Qualcomm, and even the U.S. Senate. Many of the world’s top achievers fly to his back yard to learn from him on how to make things happen.
Tony was raised by entrepreneurial parents who thrived on identifying and pursuing new opportunities to serve others. Tony’s father taught him the powerful principle that has driven Tony’ professional and personal life: “Always give more than expected.” Exceeding expectations is the common thread that every Tony Jeary client experiences first-hand.
Dr. Paul Schoemaker: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Dr. Paul Schoemaker
Dr. Paul J.H. Schoemaker is the founder and Executive Chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in strategic management, executive development and multi-media software. He also serves as Research Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches decision making and strategy as a part-time professor.
Dr. Schoemaker took an extended sabbatical with the scenario planning group of Royal/Dutch Shell in London, and has since worked with over a hundred organizations around the world. He’s written more than 100 academic and applied papers, including multiple articles in the Harvard Business Review. He’ has also (co)-authored of several books, including Profiting from Uncertainty and Peripheral Vision.
His 1995 article, “Scenario Planning”, was the second most reprinted publication in the 42 year history of the Sloan Management Review, and is listed by among the most highly cited scholars in terms of academic publications in business and economics. Paul Schoemaker is also an active private investor in new technology-based ventures and serves on the Board of Directors for several of these, including the Decision Education Foundation.
His hobbies include tennis, golf and piano. He lives with his wife Joyce in Villanova, Pennsylvania and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in the winter; they have two kids just out of college.
Greg Hicks: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Greg Hicks
Greg Hicks is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of happiness. Along with his business partner, Rick Foster, their extensive and acclaimed research has taken them to six continents where they spent years interviewing people who are thriving and happy, even under the most adverse circumstances. Their early findings culminated into a system of nine choices, which are continually being studied by mind-body researchers at leading institutions, including The Mayo Clinic.
Greg and Rick’s first book, How We Choose to Be Happy, became an immediate national bestseller and has been on bestseller lists ever since. Hicks went on to write LeaderShock — And How to Triumph Over It, which revealed a new brand of behavioral leadership. It was chosen as the #2 Best Business Book of 2003 by Amazon.
In their newest book, Happiness & Health, they present the first practical guide to the new science of positive emotions and how anyone can choose thoughts and behaviors that enhance our brain function, pump up our immune systems, and bring vitality to our lives.
With a reputation for dynamic and transformational presentations on health, happiness, leadership and team productivity, Greg has taught the Brilliant Health program to over 10,000 doctors and nurses, to patients battling serious illness, and to countless others in organizations such as G.E., Mercedes-Benz, Wells Fargo, and AXA-Financial and are on the faculty of the Health Research and Educational Trust Fellowship programs.
Hicks and Foster are often sought out by the media for their advice and have appeared on numerous national T.V. and radio shows and featured in such magazines as Health, Fitness, Self, Good Housekeeping, Fit, Working Mother, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Readers’ Digest.
Herb Cohen: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Herb Cohen
Herb Cohen has been called “the world’s best negotiator” and is internationally renowned as a corporate and governmental consultant on negotiating strategy, commercial dealings and crisis management. As a U.S. presidential advisor, he has helped formulate policy on hostage negotiations and terrorism. His clients have included business executives, entrepreneurs, sports and theatrical agents plus large corporations as well as governmental agencies, such as The Department of State, F.B.I., C.I.A., The U. S. Conference of Mayors and The U.S. Department of Justice.
Cohen’s analysis, insights and humorous view of many of these high-level happenings have appeared in many international publications, and he himself has been the subject of articles in Time, People, The Economist, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and even Playboy magazines. He is considered “America’s foremost convention speaker, presenting serious subjects with such humor and dramatic flair that they become pure entertainment”.
He is the author of You Can Negotiate Anything, which was on the New York Times Bestseller List for almost one year and has been translated into twenty-one languages. His latest book, Negotiate This! By Caring But Not T-H-A-T Much is written in the same humorous style as his first book. Critics have said, “It’s a must read for not only business people, but parents, politicians and consumers”.
Cohen has lectured at many educational institutions and enterprises, such as The Harvard Negotiation Project, Yale Law School, The Kellogg School, Wharton, the University of Wisconsin, the University of California-San Diego, McGill University, UBC and the Columbia University and Chicago University Schools of Business.
Barry Schwartz: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz explores the social and psychological effects of free-market economic institutions on moral, social, and civic concerns. In his book, The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life, Schwartz finds that market values undermine morals and community-building.
His more recent work, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less is More, examines the often-paralyzing effects on consumers of a marketplace offering a bewildering array of choices. He explains at what point choice (the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish) becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being.
In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice – from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs – has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter-intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives.
Schwartz, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, has been awarded several grants by the National Science Foundation over the last three decades. In addition, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the American Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
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Paul Zane Pilzer: League of Extraordinary Minds Expert Panelist
Paul Zane Pilzer
Paul Zane Pilzer is a world-renowned economist, a multimillionaire software entrepreneur, an adjunct professor, and the author of eight best-selling books and dozens of scholarly publications.
Pilzer completed Lehigh University in three years and received his MBA from Wharton in 15 months at age 22. He became Citibank’s youngest officer at age 22 and its youngest vice president at age 25. At age 24, he was appointed adjunct professor at New York University, where he taught for 21 consecutive years.
Over the past 30 years, Pilzer has started and/or taken public, five companies in the areas of software, education and healthcare. He is the Founder of Zane Benefits, Inc. and Extend Health, Inc., the nation’s two leading suppliers of individualized health benefits to corporate America.
He was an appointed economic adviser in two presidential administrations and warned of the impending $200 billion savings and loan crisis years before official Washington was willing to listen—a story that he later shared in Other People’s Money, which was critically acclaimed by The New York Times and The Economist magazine.
Pilzer is a prolific author, and in one of his most recent books, The New Health Insurance Solution he sets forth a bold new direction for U.S. health insurance and explains how individuals can now get affordable health insurance independent of their employer. This book also explains how employers can end their health insurance nightmare while still being able to hire great employees by providing the same health benefits for less than half the cost they are paying today.
