Posts Tagged ‘league of extraordinary minds’

Marshall Thurber

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of “Chicken Soup for the Soul“ fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of “Who Moved My Cheese”, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”
Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,World-renowned scholar and futurist

Thousands of individuals worldwide have attended the many successful programs developed by Marshall Thurber including:

• Money & You
• Success Secrets of the 21st Century
• The Future of Business: The Essence of Deming
• The Leadership Development Training Program
• The Positive Deviant Network
• The Burklyn: School for Business Comprehensivists
• Abundanets Training
• The Accounting Game (granted a US Patent)
• How to Think About What’s Worth Thinking About
• The Secrets of Powerful Presentations
• How to Make Change Your Ally

In his private consulting business, Marshall has consulted for high profile clients that include: ITT Industries, Sheraton Hotels, The US Navy, Ernst & Young, Panavision, Neill Corporation, Hewlett Packard, GTE, The Neenan Company, Systems West, Bentley Management Corp., Liberty Helicopters, Columbia Artists Management Inc., Mendocino Forest Products, and Chicken Soup for the Soul Books.

In the late 1970s, Thurber co-founded the Burklyn Business School in Vermont.  It was designed to teach both the global principles of cooperation he learned from Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller and the contextual principles of the human potential movement.  These had been demonstrated in his own businesses.  By utilizing Superlearning Technologies™ (for maximum memory retention), simulations, music, and graphics, Thurber’s teaching is known for being powerfully effective, fun, memorable and leading edge.

This successful individual, along with two partners, started a highly successful real estate firm in California.  Attention became focused on this company and Thurber started sharing his business theories and methods with others.  Today, thousands of people worldwide actively use “Thurber Techniques” in their daily lives.

He also is a partner in The Positive Deviant Network.  This is a network of very success individuals who are committed to positive social change and the abundant living context of Buckminster Fuller.  In addition, Marshall is Chairman of the Board of Empowergy, Inc, a company whose predictable transformational system elevates the rest to perform like your very best.

Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy specializes in results.  When every dollar counts, it’s good to know that you’re going to get a return on your investment. If the result you want is to take your organization to the next level, Tom is the specialist that can help you achieve it.

For 21 years as a corporate consultant, speaker, author, trainer and coach, Tom has successfully taught hundreds of thousands of people how to dramatically increase their level of performance in business and in life. He has presented more than 1,500 seminars, workshops, and training programs to corporations and associations in 21 different countries around the world. Tom’s seminars and books have been translated into 10 different languages.

Tom not only speaks about success in business, he’s lived it. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1983 where he was a member of the nationally ranked football team, Tom became the youngest stockbroker ever hired by a prestigious Wall Street firm. By his second year Tom had become one of the highest producing brokers in the entire firm.

1986, when the leader of one of the country’s largest training organizations, Anthony Robbins, was looking for a leader to coach, energize and train the Robbins Research sales force, he chose Tom McCarthy. He became its first National Sales Trainer and National Sales Manager. As a result of Tom’s leadership, management, and training the company’s sales more than doubled each year he was there. Tom then became one of the first people Anthony Robbins personally selected to lead his prestigious Mastery University seminars.

In 1993 Tom founded Thomas McCarthy & Associates, a thriving training and consulting firm, which works closely with clients ranging from new ventures to Fortune 500 companies.  In addition to coaching and training peak performers in business, Tom has also been hired to work with 4 Olympic Gold Medalists as well as several World Champion athletes and teams.

Tom resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California with his wife Stacy and their two children.

Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson is not your typical businessman. An ex Peace Corps volunteer, he never took a class in business, doesn’t read the business press, and doesn’t like to talk business. He spends his spare time writing poetry, collecting fine art, and practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. His neighbors call him a bohemian. But he’s also an entrepreneur. He started his first business when he was 11 years old, and in the 45 years that have elapsed since then, he has started or co-started dozens of successful businesses – public and private … local and international … retail, wholesale, and direct mail.

His entrepreneurial experience is immense, even compared to other successful entrepreneurs. At one time or another, he has run or consulted for countless multimillion-dollar businesses as diverse as information publishing, fine art sales, baby products, perfumes and cosmetics to name just a few.

Richard Schefren, founder of the business coaching company Strategic Profits, says, “I consult with all of the best-known entrepreneurs in the world, and I’ve never known anyone who has been in more different sorts of successful businesses than has Michael Masterson.”

The primary focus of his business life these days, however, is split between real estate  and consulting for his primary client,  Agora Inc., a $300 million, Baltimore-based publisher of information products with offices in England, France, Spain, Germany, South Africa, and Australia. “It’s an honor to be associated with Bill Bonner (Agora’s founder and CEO) and this company,” Michael says. “And a pleasure to have been part of its growth.”

Notwithstanding clandestine luncheons that erupt into new multimillion-dollar ventures, Michael insists that he has been spending most of his time teaching and writing since he retired, for the second time, when he turned 50.“I have wanted to be a writer since my father complimented me on the first poem I wrote.

His non-fiction books include Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast-Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire, Automatic Wealth for Grads…and Anyone Else Just Starting Out, Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence, Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life, and Confessions of a Self-Made Millionaire.

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.