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great women speakers welcomes Wendy Stevens, Leslie Brunker, Minton Sparks, Molly Secours, Diane Dennis, Lori Hanson, Cindy Solomon, R.M. Tracy,
Barbara Sanfilippo, Jacki Kane, and Karlynn Keyes.
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The Book Corner
 The Generosity Plan
Many of us have the desire to make a difference. But when it comes down to it, how many really know what steps to take and how to fit it into our lives? The Generosity Plan shows readers the unexpected benefits and joy of generosity in our daily loves. This smart, practical guide to philanthropy illuminates the power of giving by discovering what inspires each reader, clarifying what he or she can afford to give, and directing that generosity towards a better world. Contributing time or money to causes far removed from the immediacy of our individual lives may feel overwhelming, especially in times of financial stress and uncertainty. Author Kathy LeMay breaks through these initial roadblocks to give easy and valuable tools to spur definite and rewarding action, demonstrating how our time, treasure, and talents can make a world of difference. By creating and acting on a generosity plan, each one of us can create change simply by doing what we can, where we are, with what we have.
 Kathy LeMay is the founder, president and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and philanthropic individuals with social action planning worldwide. Kathy, who began her global activism in war-torn Yugoslavia where she worked with women survivors of the siege and rape-genocide camps, has been a social change fundraiser for fifteen years, raising millions of dollars in the fields of women’s human rights, hunger and poverty relief, HIV/AIDS, and movement-building. Kathy has provided social-change fundraising and generosity trainings to hundreds of organizations throughout the world—including top-level executives at, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, and CitiFinancial—as well as being a prolific public speaker on strategies that advance the movement for justice and empower women to come into their own voices. She has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including Oxygen TV and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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The Buzz
 Lori Hanson is a leading authority on eating disorders. She battled with bulimia and her self-image for 34 years. She has expertise on the subject that can only be gained by experience. After watching many victims go in and out of treatment repeatedly, Lori decided there had to be an alternative to traditional treatment. She followed a holistic approach (employing mind, body and spirit) and by learning that we are designed to self-heal, she found the connection to her personal power which led to her healing.
Author of The Balance Book Series, Lori shares her story and approach to recovery in her award-winning book It Started With Pop-Tarts® . . . An Alternative Approach to Winning the Battle of Bulimia. Her second book, Teen Secrets to Surviving & THRIVING, How to Deal with Stress, Be Confident and Feel Great will be released in January, 2010.
Hanson recognized that her experience and approach to recovery was a gift she had to share with others.
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Rave Reviews
Tedde McMillen—I have been remiss in thanking you again for the fabulous job you did at our Key4Women Forum. Everyone -- from management to guests -- was very impressed with your talk. We especially appreciated the way you gave the audience some new knowledge to walk away with while making it an entertaining story.
M. Shrader
KeyBank
Key4Women Forum-Portland, Oregon
Carol Gardner —
Everything was absolutely great!
K. Rowland, St. Louis Business Journal Women’s Conference
Barbara Roberts—It was fabulous, Barbara did a great job. We couldn't have asked for a better speaker. Please pass on our appreciation.
Conference on Extraordinary Living /Oregon
Molly Cox—Things went very well. Thanks for checking in. Our audience was very responsive to her and we have received positive feedback.
GE Industrial
Susan Stamberg—I was the co chair of the Girl Scouts Juliete Low Leadership Society Luncheon In February.
Susan Stamberg was an outstanding speaker and we have received a lot of very positive feedback from out attendees. She was gracious, open and very charming. I know you will enjoy working with her and she will do an outstanding job for any group. If you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
K. Goebel
Joan Brock—Joan Brock was awesome and very well received.
Laura J. LaTourette, CFP
Women in Insurance and Financial Services
Barbara Stanny—Barbara was a delight and a powerful speaker. She was well received by the audience and the OWL Board. It was a pleasure working with you as well. Thank you for the referral of Barbara and all your efforts to make our event a success.
P. Neely. Ophthalmic Women Leaders
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In My Own Words
Francine B. Read
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Welcome to Greatwomenspeakers.com. for Outstanding Women Speakers. Since 1993, our company continues to bring women’s voices to the podium.
Greatwomenspeakers.com is an authority on the world’s most distinguished women who inspire, motivate and entertain audiences of men and women around the world. We also produce the VOICES Contemporary Lectures, the Northwest's premier women's lecture series, currently in our 18th season. Our speakers bureau exclusively represents outstanding women speakers as well as producing a successful multi-evening women’s lecture series. We are experts in speaker selection as well as in production and management of successful events, meetings and public lectures.
Please call me to discuss your needs and vision for your successful event.
Sincerely,
Francine B. Read, President
VOICES, INC
Greatwomenspeakers.com is a division of VOICES, INC.
Francine Read was selected by The Portland Business Journal as one of its Women in Business Orchid Award recipients for 2010!
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Greatwomenspeakers on Internet Marketing Guru
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 Be Inspired and Invigorated by Wendy Stevens
From coaching Division-I championship sports to achieving multiple 7-figure success as an internet marketer; Wendy Stevens is one of the premier internet income coaches in the world today. An internationally-recognized marketer, speaker, and mentor, Wendy has trained and inspired thousands of entrepreneurs in the direct sales and network marketing industries. A former All American in lacrosse for the NCAA Division I national champion University of Maryland, Wendy became the first coach of the women's lacrosse program at Vanderbilt University, building them into a nationally-ranked powerhouse in less than two years. Today Wendy uses the same drive for excellence, peak performance principles, and passion for coaching to mentor entrepreneurs into achieving championship-level success and prosperity.
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Greatwomenspeakers.com on Healthcare:
This feature is on fresh voices on Healthcare. Experts on supporting staff, caregivers, customer service, cancer survivors and motivation.
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 Dr. Patt Schwab—Making Work Work for You
• Does your work power you up for the future — or sap your energy?
• Does it make you more interesting — or less interesting?
This program focuses on the three indispensable skills you need to be effective in work — or in life. You will learn how to create an environment that makes it both easy and fun for you and your staff to stay up to date and enthusiastic about the challenges and opportunities ahead. Easy, useful and fun—for what more could one ask? That’s the payoff that will help you make your work work for you!
Dr. Patt Schwab, CSP, helps midlevel managers and front-line staff enhance productivity, increase energy and enrich their life in and out of the workplace. Her doctorate is in management. Her thesis was titled: People Support What They Help Create. Patt has spoken to over 60 medical groups throughout Europe, Canada and the USA. She reminds them: “Laughter is the catharsis that lets you keep on caring.”
Patt is the author of three books:
Leave a Mark, Not a Stain! What every manager needs to know about workplace humor
What's So Funny About Long-Term Care? How patients and caregivers find humor in long-term care
The Obscure Holiday Handbook! Outrageously fun reasons to celebrate all year long
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 Molly Cox blends her business, education and improvisation background to connect body, mind and spirit to show people how to become more effective professionally and personally and to help people to live a more joyful life. As the caregiver to her mother, who had cancer, and the primary caregiver to her father, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, she lives her message of the importance of being in the moment and paying attention--every day. Author of Improvise This! How to Think on Your Feet so You Don't Fall on Your Face, twice on the CEO Read top 25 list.
You've Got to Be Kidding—the secret to survival in a hectic, stressful world.
The spirit in which we do anything determines the outcome-positive or negative. Molly blends her care giving, customer service and corporate experience into a dynamic presentation that will inspire connection, and a positive attitude. This program is filled with ideas and techniques that will bring out a positive outlook of every attendee and motivate them to do their best. Molly will entertain with stories, teach with examples, and pepper it throughout with her unique observational humor. Participants will understand how attitude, taking time to be in the moment and inner action, can melt stress and replace it with joy and accomplishment.
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 Carol Gardner
Be energized, entertained and more optimistic to face life's challenges.
The mastermind behind Zelda Wisdom, Inc., Carol Gardner started her company with 24 greeting cards in the middle of her living room. Within 6 months, over one million cards had been sold. In 2006, Zelda cards were the #1 mass selling card line for Hallmark and now over 600 different Zelda greeting cards are available through CardStore.com. Carol and Zelda have appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNBC's Power Lunch and the Martha Stewart Show to name a few.
Carol is also the author of eleven books and is featured in Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul: Advice and Inspiration for Fulfilling Dreams.
Infinite Possibilities—Learn how to turn underdog challenges into top dog successes.
Thank you, Carol Gardner for coming to San Antonio Community Hospital and giving such a wonderful presentation. All the remarks from our attendees were so positive. To say that your presentation was well received is an enormous understatement! I have never seen a speaker get so many "5's" on their rating. I would highly recommend you to anyone searching for a fabulous keynote speaker. Your humor and life experiences were something that everyone in the audience could relate to. We loved having you for our keynote our our First Annual Women's Symposium.
Cheryl Vargo, Manager,
Community Outreach, San Antonio Community Hospital, CA.
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 Barbara Sanfilippo
In these demanding times, how does a medical center keep its staff resilient and uplifted so that they're highly capable of encouraging patients and raising their spirits? With all of the juggling of responsibilities by staff each day, how does a medical center keep them creating an exceptional experience for patients and families?
As both an inspirational speaker and business consultant, Barbara's ability to engage, inspire, uplift and motivate both front line and support staff to "wow" both patients and "internal customers" is widely acclaimed. Her entertaining and interactive style combined with her energizing and idea-packed programs have earned her high marks and repeat business from associations, corporations, and healthcare executives. You can read a sampling of testimonials on the next page.
What Barbara Can Do for Your Medical Center
Barbara is highly experienced in delivering both business and inspirational keynotes for 200 to 2000 people. Her abilities range from facilitating senior management retreats, conducting workshops and private and group tele-coaching to speaking at nurses week and staff recognition events. Her firm, High Definition People™ specializes in developing inspired leaders, reinforcing a spirit of serving, instilling personal responsibility, igniting passion, and in the process, helping people to experience life and work in "high definition". The result: increased employee and patient satisfaction.
Barbara was electrifying!
One of the best speakers of the conference. Please bring her back!
Outstanding presentation; she was enthusiastic, concise and provided tools we can use as soon as we get home.
Amazing. WOW, LOVED IT!!! I needed this!'"
~ Academy of Medical Administrators
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 Molly Secours is a writer/filmmaker/speaker who has used her artistic talents to effect social change and public policy regarding inequities in health care, education, criminal justice etc. For nearly 15 years, Secours' writings have appeared in mainstream and internet magazines and newspapers and she has appeared on local and national television and radio talk shows including CNN's Paul Zahn Now and is a weekly co-host of "Freestyle" with veteran Nashville Journalist Ron Wynn.
The Upside of Cancer
www.youtube.com
Molly Secours cuts to the core of difficult issues without mincing words. With humor, compassion and clarity, Secours shares unique and personal insights gained while battling stage IV uterine cancer and the physical, emotional and spiritual transformation that occurred unexpectedly as a result. Secours suggests we are never more authentically alive than when we are in such close proximity to death.
Moment of Alchemy
www.youtube.com
Whether a CEO of a major corporation, a spiritual leader or a construction crew foreman, Secours suggests we all have one thing in common: a desire for finding purpose in our lives--including our suffering."Moment Of Alchemy" features an 8 minute video Secours produced which invites audience members to dip beneath the surface of their life challenges and pluck insight, clarity and perhaps even meaning.
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 Cindy Solomon is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, executive coach and consultant in the fields of customer service, customer loyalty, employee engagement and leadership.
She is sought after by companies large and small for her humorous, provocative and compelling insights on the current business to tens of thousands of leaders each year. She has worked with a broad spectrum of clients around the world such as Eli Lilly, Google, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deer Valley Resort, The Mayo Clinic, State Farm Insurance and the Apollo Group to create the organizations and leaders they need for success.
The Rules of Woo: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Capturing the Hearts & Minds of Today's Customers
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 Minton Sparks is a wildly original poet, performance artist, novelist, teacher, and essayist born in a college town in Tennessee and raised among her southern family in and around Arkansas. She earned degrees from the University of the South and Vanderbilt University. Her appearances range from the prestigious Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival all the way to the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Recently Minton was chosen to perform at an exclusive TED.com event on Healthcare. and the Arts in Nashville Tennessee.
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