Planning a conference or a speaker event can be a challenge, but with the correct and prepared planning, it can create a once in a lifetime experience. When engaging and hiring a speaker for your event, a lot more goes into the process beyond getting the speaker to confirm. Months and months of planning are required to create a stellar and unforgettable event.

Reaching one’s true and desired potential is something everyone strives to accomplish. The hardest steps to take to reach it, are the first. Once you get going, the easier it is to stick with it and keep working. Some just need that initial push and a nudge in the right direction.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a triathlete, devoted father, brain surgeon, and dedicated global journalist.

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A truly great motivational speaker has an enormous impact on the millions of lives they encounter, no matter what their personal situation may be. They enchant their audience and motivate them to act in a new and better way.  Motivational speakers help others visualize a path to success, help them trail that path and actually achieve success. Their words are powerful and inspirational, and their stories and passion can inspire others to fulfill goals and dreams that they otherwise would have never done on their own.

Carly Fiorina is in a class of her own. A true leader who worked her way to the CEO Office, she utilized her passion, problem-solving and entrepreneurial gift to become the first woman ever to lead a Fortune 500 Company.

Ms. Fiorina’s experience spans from starting out as a secretary for a 9-person real-estate business to CEO of Hewlett Packard, where in partnership with her effective leadership, revenue grew, innovation tripled, growth quadrupled, and HP became the 11^th largest company in the U.S.

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It was a weekend to remember. First, I spent Friday and Saturday back on ol’ Rocky Top for our University of Tennessee Army ROTC Hall of Fame Dinner and reunion. The goal is to have it coincide with Veterans Day weekend. Friday morning, we old guys braved a cool wet morning and ran 2.5 miles with the University of Tennessee Army ROTC Cadets. They said it would be a 10-minute mile pace – yea right. But how exhilarating to be able to run with those young men and women carrying on the legacy of the original Company of Infantry Dragoons that left the campus and volunteered to answer the call to arms in the Mexican War.

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The National Post was a disruptive proposition 20 years ago. In the commendations and celebrations that are marking its anniversary, this should not be lost. The newspaper’s founding insight was that a significant number of Canadians were yearning for a different media perspective — one rooted in a more conservative worldview.

That insight was correct. Many Canadians were hungry for perspectives, ideas and opinions outside the “Laurentian consensus” of Canada’s chattering classes. I was one of those Canadians.

Routinely described as one of the greatest (and most common) fears, the thought of public speaking tends to illicit anxiety from even the most confident person. Fortunately, there are many ways to overcome this roadblock and learn to deliver a memorable and commanding speech.

The top motivational speakers know certain things to be true: nervousness is completely normal and to combat this, practice and prepare.

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Greetings, everyone, from Rocky Mount, in Nash County, NC, where I have been spending time kicking off the school year here at North Carolina Wesleyan College, as their convocation speaker. This is a beautiful little campus, tucked away in tall pine trees. Being able to address young people on a college campus is a special treat. My words to the students are centered around the two most important days in a person’s life: the day one is born, and the day one learns why. I’m also sharing my top ten Bible verses for life. You can bet I won’t be invited to any progressive socialist campus, and be allowed to do the same.