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Josh Waitzkin

Josh Waitzkin first caught a glimpse of a chess set while 6 years old and walking with his mother in New York City’s Washington Square Park. He was going to play on the monkey bars, and instead he fell in love with the art that would dominate much of his young life. Josh’s first teachers were down and out hustlers–street virtuosos who took Josh under their wings and cleaned up their acts when their protégé came to play. The park guys taught Josh their aggressive, intuitive style of competition, which would remain his trademark for years to come. At age 7, Josh began his classical study of the game with his first formal teacher, Bruce Pandolfini.

From age 9 on Josh dominated the US scholastic chess scene. He won the National Primary Championship in 1986, the National Junior High Championship in 1988 while in the fifth grade, and the National Elementary Championship in 1989. At the age of eleven, he drew a game with World Champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition.

At age 13, Josh earned the title of National Master. He won the National Junior High Championship for the second time in 1990, and the Senior High Championship in 1991, as well as the U.S. Cadet Championship (under-sixteen). Between the 3rd and 9th grades, Josh also led New York City’s Dalton School to win 6 National team championships.

In 1993 Paramount Pictures released the film, “Searching for Bobby Fischer“, based on the highly acclaimed book of the same title written by Fred Waitzkin, documenting Josh’s journey to winning his first National Championship. That same year, at 16, Josh became an International Master and the U.S. Junior (Under-21) Co-Champion. In 1994 he won the U.S. Junior Championship and placed fourth in the Under-18 World Championship.

In addition to his intense chess life, Josh is also a gifted athlete deeply involved in the study of the martial arts Tai Chi Chuan and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Josh began studying Tai Chi Chuan with Grandmaster William CC Chen in the fall of 1998. He was drawn into the art by his love for eastern philosophy and by the desire to begin a learning process anew, as a total beginner, away from the spotlight that constantly followed his chess career. In William CC Chen, Josh found the teacher that he had always searched for, “A great master with the humility and generosity that true ‘Quality’ is all about.”

In addition to Josh’s intense competitive life, he is a renowned writer and teacher in the fields of learning and performance psychology. In 1993 When Josh was 18, Simon and Schuster published Josh’s first book, “Attacking Chess.” Now a staple in any chess player or fan’s library, Josh’s youthful book combines autobiographical anecdotes with the strategies that propelled him to the top of the scholastic chess world.

Josh’s recently published, “The Art of Learning“, which is part autobiography, part chess memoir, part martial arts philosophy. Essentially, Waitzkin offers his own approach to becoming a student and applying certain disciplines and habits toward learning and eventually mastering any skill.

The next real-world, game changing, business-transforming, free Webcast of “The League of Extraordinary Minds” is happening tomorrow,Thursday, December 10th.

This breakthrough “discovery session” will cover this critically important business success factor…

“Maximum Results From Minimum Efforts: Operating At Peak Performance To Get The Best Results From Everything You Do”

You can access this free “League of Extraordinary Minds” Webcast online at 8:00pm tomorrow, Thursday, December 10th (YOUR Local Time) by registering at:
http://www.extraordinaryminds.com/reg/

During each of these “discovery” sessions, 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.

On our “Maximum Results From Minimum Efforts: Operating At Peak Performance To Get The Best Results From Everything You Do” Panel session, we will be joined by these world-class business experts:

• Kathy Kolbe discussing how to do well and enjoy every minute of it (even in challenging situations)…
• Michael Masterson revealing how to get in “the zone” and make lots of cash…
• Tom McCarthy on how to consistently perform at your best by controlling these CRITICAL factors…
• Dan Millman exposing why looking to the future won’t make you money TODAY…
• Marshall Thurber on how to get PERFECT clarity on what you want and where you want to go…
• Josh Waitzkin revealing The BIGGEST mistake entrepreneurs make when looking for success…

Add this event to your calendar, and go Register for FREE right now…

…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!

Nancy Ratey

Nancy A. Ratey is internationally recognized as one of the foremost authorities on personal and professional coaching for adults with and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As one of the founders of the ADHD coaching profession, Ms. Ratey has been active for the last two decades in developing programs and lecturing on issues related to ADHD. Ms. Ratey has served as past President of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA).

In the field of ADHD coaching, she has been influential in designing and implementing the first comprehensive training programs for ADHD coaches. Her work continues to shape and direct the field of ADHD coaching. Ms. Ratey was chair of the national committee that created the Guiding Principles for ADHD Coaching, the pre-eminent document in the field.

Ms. Ratey is a Master Certified Coach and Senior Disability Analyst. She writes extensively on coaching and ADHD topics and has co-authored two books, “Tales from the Workplace” and “Coaching College Students with AD/HD: Issues and Answers“. She has also contributed chapters and articles to numerous publications. Her latest book, “The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents,” was published in April of 2008 by St. Martin’s Press.

Ms. Ratey and her work are often profiled in the media, including ABC, CBS, NPR Radio, and national publications such as Wired, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.

Currently, Ms. Ratey runs a private coaching practice and consults to businesses and educational institutions. She specializes in coaching senior executives, entrepreneurs, and highly motivated professionals with ADHD.

Jim Murphy

Jim “Murph” Murphy is the Founder and CEO of Afterburner, Inc. and has a unique and powerful mix of leadership skills in both the military and business worlds. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Murph joined the U.S. Air Force where he learned to fly the F-15. He has logged over 1,200 hours as an instructor pilot in the F-15 and has accumulated over 3,200 hours of flight time in other high-performance jet aircraft.

After years in the military, Murph returned to his love of business. Prior to his service in the U.S. Air Force, Murph had a successful career in imaging equipment sales, where he helped increase his company’s sales by 500%. Years later, Murph became Director of Sales for a small paint company. Realizing that the concepts of the Flawless Execution^SM model could be applied to business, he engaged the proven model — “Plan. Brief. Execute. Debrief.” — and increased his company’s sales from $5 million to $52 million. Realizing that many companies could benefit from these same concepts, Murph started Afterburner in early 1996.

Through his leadership, Afterburner has landed on Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 500 List” twice. Murph has been regularly featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, Newsweek, Meetings & Conventions Magazine and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and Bloomberg news to name a few. He has also been named as one of Atlanta’s top 50 entrepreneurs by Catalyst Magazine.

To date, the Afterburner team of elite military professionals has led over 1 million executives, sales professionals, and business people from every industry through Afterburner’s Flawless Execution^SM Model, and its unique, high-energy programs. Afterburner notable clients include the Who’s Who of the Global 1000 list of companies. Murph’s groundbreaking book “Business Is Combat”, is now in its third printing, and his latest book Flawless Execution^SM was released May 1st, 2005 by Harper Collins publishing.

Murph has spoken at the world’s notable business schools to include Harvard, Wharton, Cornell, Emory, and Duke.

Julie Morgenstern

Julie Morgenstern is an internationally renowned organizing and time management expert, New York Times best-selling author, consultant and speaker.  Her work spans the distance between individuals and workforces – homes and corporations.  The “Inside Out” philosophy that is now synonymous with her name result in customized solutions that are innovative, practical and ensure long-term success.   Since 1989, Julie and her staff have transformed the way individuals and companies function around the globe, including American Express, Hearst, Deloitte, Microsoft, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, the NBC-Newsroom, the NYC Mayor’s Office, Sony Music, State Farm Insurance, and Viacom/MTV.

As a speaker, media personality, and corporate spokesperson, Julie is known for her passionate, articulate style and warm sense of humor.  She is a contributor to Redbook, helping readers’ solve problems by inspiring order in their lives through her monthly column.  She has shared her expertise on countless TV and radio outlets, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, The Rachael Ray Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio.

Julie’s background in the theatre as a director, producer, and performer provides the foundation for her work as an Organizer. She believes organizing requires the same set of skills as directing/producing – an appreciation of spatial design, the ability to see the big picture as well as the tiny details, and the talent to blend psychology and practical skills to guide people where they want to go.

Her education includes a BA in Theater from Temple University and graduate studies in Directing at the Goodman School of Drama. Julie lives in New York City.

Dr. Jan Yager

Dr. Jan Yager helps individuals, groups, and companies achieve their potential through her dynamic speeches, seminars, consulting, and writing.

Dr. Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D. in sociology (City University of New York, 1983) is a member of the National Speakers Association, and author of more than twenty highly-acclaimed and award-winning books, as well as 250+ articles in Parade, The New York Times, Redbook, and other publications.

She is regularly quoted in the media (the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Self, Dallas Morning News, USA Today, etc.) as well as interviewed on TV/cable and radio programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning, America, The View, CBS News’ Sunday Morning Show, National Public Radio, BBC radio, and others.

Work Less, Do More: The 14-Day Productivity Makeover is Dr. Yager’s most recent book, and  presents a revolutionary program for taking back control of your life.  This is an essential guide to getting things done intelligently and efficiently.

Dr. Neil Fiore

Dr. Neil Fiore is a psychologist and coach from Berkeley, California. He’s the author of 4 books, the latest from McGraw-Hill, Awaken Your Strongest Self: Break Free of Stress, Inner Conflict, and Self-Sabotage.

Neil was a paratrooper with the 101^st Airborne Division, a manager for Johnson & Johnson, and is a cancer survivor. He has published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Working Woman, Boardroom Reports, and The San Francisco Chronicle; and been cited in the Wall St. Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Self, and Psychology Today.

Neil is also an inspirational speaker and provides his audiences and his one-on-one coaching and therapy clients with practical tools for overcoming procrastination and workaholism, managing stress, and increasing joy and balance in their lives.

Neil is the recipient of the University of California’s Distinguished Achievement Award and was selected by Boardroom Reports as one of their Top-10 Self-Help Gurus.

Neil has presented keynotes and training to Amgen Pharmaceuticals, AT&T, Levi Strauss, Stanford Hospital, UC Berkeley Extension, and The Smithsonian. He has conducted seminars to audiences in Spain, Mexico, Germany, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Ireland, and Prague.

Dave Crenshaw

Dave Crenshaw is a highly sought-after business coach and time-management expert to some of the country’s top business executives and recently expanded his reach to that of an author and speaker. He began his coaching career in 1998 as the youngest independent coach for a large business coaching firm and then later went on to develop his own methodology of Systems. Accountability. Motivation.®

Crenshaw received his B.S. in Business Management-Entrepreneurship from Brigham Young University, one of the nation’s top Entrepreneur programs. He is one of the foremost experts on the epidemic known as multitasking. As a business owner himself, he formerly experienced the struggle of keeping focused. Dave recognized that he needed to re-evaluate how he organized his time. Consequently, he developed the Get Time™ system his clients use to maintain balance in their lives and take control of their business.

He is the author of “The Myth of Multitasking: How ‘Doing It All’ Gets Nothing Done” – a time management bestseller recently reviewed in TIME magazine.

Marilyn Tam

Marilyn Tam has had an extraordinarily diverse life, from her beginnings in a traditional Chinese family in Hong Kong to her meteoric rise in the international business world to become an influential corporate leader, speaker, corporate consultant, author and respected humanitarian.

Her long, distinguished background includes prominent executive roles at numerous of world-class companies, including CEO of Aveda, President of Reebok Apparel & Retail Group and Vice President of Nike. She is also a successful entrepreneur, having developed and built three companies in diverse fields: corporate consulting & training, a web portal company and a web-based supply chain software company. She is currently co-leading a cutting edge, non-invasive integrated healthcare services and products company, HealthWalk.

Ms. Tam consults and speaks globally with Fortune 500 companies, governments and non-profit organizations on Leadership, Diversity, Change Management and how to Integrate Social & Environmental concerns into Businesses profitably.

She is a director on the national board of SCORE Association. SCORE is the Resource Partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration and is dedicated to entrepreneurial education and the development, growth and success of small businesses nationwide. www.score.org

She was the Co-Chair of the N. American Marketing and Promotions for Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona a global project of UNESCO to gather all societies to create a better planet based on cultural diversity and economic and environmental sustainability.

Ms. Tam is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Us Foundation whose mission is to facilitate global action and dialogue on social, economic and environmental issues. Us Foundation is one of the partners for United Nations Habitat-II, and was nominated as a candidate for the “Best Practice Award” from the United Nations’ Habitat II. www.usfoundation.org

She served for five years on the international board of The Reebok Human Rights Awards, along with former President Jimmy Carter; renowned musicians Peter Gabriel, and Sting, Rafer Johnson, Chairman of the Special Olympics; and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center, and Paul Fireman, Chairman of Reebok International Ltd. She was awarded The Reebok Human Rights Award for her humanitarian work.

Whether she is directly improving the lot of workers in her contract factories around the world, consulting with corporations and governments or developing and conducting seminars and lectures to train other entrepreneurs in business leadership programs at several prestigious Universities internationally, Ms. Tam always gives back. She is committed to the belief that humanitarian service is integral to and provides an essential balance and relevance to her work.

Her work has included appearances with esteemed colleagues on television and radio, as well as international conferences. One aspect involves developing and presenting for a wide range of audiences in global corporations and non-profit organizations. Among many other venues, she was invited by the Chinese government to appear as a keynote speaker at The Canton Fair, the biggest manufacturing fair in China, attended every year by tens of thousands of manufacturers and retailers from around the world.

She regularly serves as producer and Master of Ceremonies for international business and non-profit events around the world, including as the spokesperson and keynote speaker for Universal Forum of Culture’s conference on the Role of the Corporation in the 21^st Century, in Barcelona, Spain, presenting at the United Nations Habitat-II Conference in Torino, Italy, as well as organizing the inaugural Season for Non-Violence Event commemorating M.K. Gandhi and M.L. King in 30 countries.

Ms. Tam is an advisor to the country of Bhutan, working with the Ministers and government officials to transition the country into the 21^st Century while retaining their cultural and environmental heritage.

Marilyn was recognized as one of the Top 30 Female Entrepreneurs in the USA by Fempreneur magazine. Jack Canfield detailed her work in his book on the strategies for success, “The Success Principles”. She is featured as one of 50 women in the best selling book, “Fearless Women, midlife portraits” by Alspaugh, Kentz, and Halpin. Daryn Kagan, former CNN anchor featured Marilyn as one of the 50 people who dared to dream that they can make a difference, in her book, “What’s Possible”. Marilyn is featured as one of fourteen accomplished, influential and inspiring women along with Cathie Black, president of Hearst magazines, Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET, in GLOW, a documentary movie released in November 2008.

Marilyn is featured in The Compass, a movie released in mid February 2009, as one of four story tellers along with other respected experts in the fields of personal development, relationships, fulfillment and motivation. The Compass is a movie on personal growth, a story about the journey through life and the lessons we learn along the way.

She was honored with the Artemis Award for her business and humanitarian work by the Greek government and the Euro American Women’s Council in Athens, Greece, 2006 with her likeness on a Greek postage stamp. In 2007 she was honored with the Femtor Lifetime Achievement Award from eWomenNetwork. Ms. Tam is a lifetime member of Who’s Who World Wide and is listed in Who’s Who in American Women.

Michael Gerber

Michael E. Gerber has spent his life understanding and improving the world of the Entrepreneur. This passion led to the founding of E-Myth Worldwide in 1977 to transform the way that small business owners do the work of growing their companies. Having coached, taught, and trained over 50,000 small businesses in 145 countries, Michael has become the world’s preeminent small business guru. He has now founded In the Dreaming Room. He lives in Carlsbad, California.

The Small Business Revolution Has an Impassioned Leader

Every revolution has a leader…to awaken the spirit, to champion the cause, to lead the charge! Business visionary, entrepreneur, best-selling author and Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide, Michael Gerber has been leading a Small Business Revolution before anyone knew there was one! He called it The E-Myth Revolution, and over the past two decades, he has indelibly touched hundreds of thousands of small business owners throughout the world with his brilliantly insightful, original E-Myth message.

Michael Gerber’s E-Myth Point of View embodies his commitment to personal growth and the realization that a business owner’s purpose in life can be actualized through his or her business. Michael Gerber’s efforts, his message–his very life’s work has been to empower business owners to gain more freedom, more money, more time, and more life.

Rise Above the Tyranny of Work to Find Freedom & Joy

Documented in his mega-best seller The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, Michael Gerber’s E-Myth Point of View provides those typically enslaved by a business with a way out of what he calls “the tyranny of routine.” Dragging down the owner’s entrepreneurial spirit, this tyranny is the dull, repetitive work Michael Gerber refers to as doing-it, doing-it, doing-it. The E-Myth powerfully describes how to rise above that tyranny of routine to build a flourishing, exciting, innovative business.

But The E-Myth is much more than just a book! After intensive research and hundreds of thousands of hours testing essential business development principles, practices and systems, Michael Gerber successfully created a programmatic method that works for anyone determined to improve the condition of his or her business. As a result, The E-Myth is now a process, a system, a model which can be implemented in any small business–and when implemented–will provide freedom and joy for the owners, employees and staff.

The E-Myth Point of View Reaches Out to the World

Michael Gerber has taken his methodology and message on the road, addressing business audiences throughout North America, the Pacific Rim, Europe and beyond about how to start their own personal revolution. Since the 1970s, he has served as keynote speaker, telling his compelling story to a variety of corporations, organizations, professional associations, franchises and independent business owners.

Besides speaking to business audiences, Michael Gerber expresses The E-Myth Point of View through his highly-acclaimed business books, audio tapes, videos, radio and television broadcasts. His book, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, (HarperBusiness), is licensed in 16 languages and has gone into its tenth printing. Selling over a million copies, The E-Myth Revisited has been named one of the top business best sellers. Gerber has also authored The Power Point (HarperBusiness), The E-Myth Manager: Why Management Doesn’t Work and What to Do About It (HarperBusiness), and The E-Myth Contractor: Why Most Contractors’ Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (HarperBusiness), The E-Myth Physician: Why Most Medical Practices Don’t Work and What to Do About It (HarperBusiness) and his latest book E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company.

Michael Gerber’s firm, E-Myth Worldwide, brings low-cost, high-impact consulting to the small business owner, and is the pioneer in long distance “telecoaching.”

Let Michael Gerber speak for you at your next event! Contact him for date availability and booking information, or call us at (707) 778-2286

Michael Gerber doesn’t just speak; he changes people’s lives!