Motivation

Motivational Sepakers, Authors and Writers

Listed randomly with brief introduction, here are a small fraction of the many Motivational Speakers, authors and writers we can look to for motivation.

Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill is considered to have influenced more people into success than any other person in history. Born in a one-room cabin, he began his career as a journalist. His big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie, who was so impressed with the young reporter that he convinced Hill to research and organize the world's first philosophy of individual achievement. The project took 20 years to complete. Hill wrote several best-selling books on the subject. Napoleon Hill's "Think And Grow Rich" is one of Nightingale-Conant's best-selling programs of all time.

Wayne Dyer
Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D. is a recognized leader in the field of self-development. He is a popular lecturer, psychotherapist and best-selling author. An award-winning speaker, he was elected to the International Speakers Hall of Fame and awarded the prestigious Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International. He is the author of Your Erroneous Zones, Pulling Your Own Strings, You’ll See It When You Believe It and Real Magic. Dr. Dyer appears frequently on talk shows such as Donahue and The Oprah Winfrey Show. His articles have been published in numerous national publications, including Reader’s Digest and Harper’s Bazaar. And he is the author of many best-selling Nightingale-Conant audiocassette programs.

Anthony "Tony" Robbins
Anthony Robbins is the nation’s expert in the psychology and peak performance of personal, professional, and organizational “turnaround.” He served as a peak performance consultant to 1992 America’s Cup Winner, 1993 Stanley Cup finalists, the Los Angeles Kings, André Agassi, and the 1995 San Antonio Spurs, as well as organizations such as Hallmark, Southwestern Bell, and the U.S. Army.

Anthony Robbins has also had the privilege of advising the president of the United States and members of the royal families.He is the best-selling author with three titles published in 14 languages around the world: Unlimited Power, Awaken the Giant Within, and Giant Steps. He has produced the best-selling personal development audio series of all time, Personal Power, with 24 million educational audiotapes sold in less than five years.

Art Berg

On December 26, 1983, at the age of 21, Art Berg broke his neck in a serious automobile accident, leaving him a quadriplegic.

Art currently resides in Highland, Utah where he is President of Invictus Communications, Inc. and eSpeakers.com, Inc. Art has been named the 1992 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Small Business Administration. In 1994, Art was featured in Success magazine as one of the Great Comeback's of the Year. As a member of the National Speakers Association, Art has achieved the highest earned designation of Certified Speaking Professional and has been inducted into its Speaker Hall of Fame -- a status achieved by fewer than 1% of professional speakers.

Art has authored two regionally best-selling books entitled Some Miracles Take Time, and Finding Peace in Troubled Waters. Art travels more than 200,000 miles a year speaking to hundreds of professional and civic organizations such as IBM, 3M, Sun Microsystems, American Express, AT&T, Young Presidents Organization, Coca-Cola, GTE, Sony, KeyCorp, NFL's Baltimore Ravens, and Prudential Healthcare on the topic The Impossible Just Takes a Little LongerSM.

Norman Vincent Peale

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale is often referred to as the champion of positive thinking.

He is the author of numerous books, including the all-time inspirational best-seller, The Power of Positive Thinking.

Dr. Peale was a dynamic motivational speaker on countless platforms, the co-publisher of the world's leading inspirational magazine, Guideposts, and the co-founder of the first school for pastoral psychology, The Institutes of Religion and Health.

Barbara DeAngelis

One of America's leading experts on relationships and personal growth, Barbara is a popular television personality and author of a string of bestsellers. Her books including How to Make Love all the Time, Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know, Are You the One for Me?, and Real Moments have sold well over four million copies and been published in 20 languages.

She writes regularly for Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, McCalls, Readers Digest, Redbook, and Family Circle. Ask Barbara : The 100 Most Asked Questions About Love, Sex, and Relationships In a must-have book, America's most popular love guru--provides powerful, practical, and provocative answers to the most frequently asked questions about love, sex, and relationships.

Chris Widener

Chris Widener is a popular speaker and writer as well as the President of Made for Success and Extraordinary Leaders, two companies helping individuals and organizations turn their potential into performance, succeed in every area of their lives and achieve their dreams.

Chris is an example of how anyone can overcome any odds to achieve a successful life and help others achieve the same. Chris has overcome many obstacles... living through his father dying suddenly when he was four, being sent away from his family to live with relatives at age nine and becoming involved with drugs and alcohol by the age of twelve.

Jim Donovan

Jim's background spans over 20 years in marketing & advertising and includes an in-depth understanding of the Internet, as it applies to marketing your business. Online since 1989, he has been a part of the Internet revolution since the beginning and has carefully monitored its development and direction. Jim's regular reading material includes eight different Internet marketing newsletters as well as several discussion groups in order to remain on the leading edge of this rapidly changing technology.

Jim's marketing philosophy is to approach all marketing, especially the Internet, in reference to your specific business objectives and goals. There are no "cookie cutter" solutions when it comes to building a successful business, online or otherwise. A published author with two best selling books and a columnist in several business magazines, Jim is a recognized authority in business marketing and professional development.

Jeff Keller

Jeffrey Keller, President of Attitude is Everything, Incorporated, works with organizations that want to develop achievers and with sales managers who want their people to be more positive.

Jeff is a speaker, seminar leader and writer in the area of motivation and human potential. He delivers his uplifting presentations to businesses, associations and educational institutions. Jeff is also an attorney and practiced law for more than ten years before pursuing a full time career as a speaker and writer.

Jerry Clark

Jerry Clark became a self-made millionaire while still in his 20’s. Today, through his company Club Rhino, Inc., he conducts personal and professional development seminars around the World.

The topics covered range from peak performance training, effective communication strategies, and how to increase your productivity and profitability in your Home Based Business. Jerry is the producer of over 100 of the most empowering audio programs available in the Networking industry. Many of which he is also the author, such as The Magic of Colors, Creating Magic, and High Achievement Network Marketing.

John Harricharan

Outstanding businessman, lecturer and award-winning author, John Harricharan, is a unique blend of East and West. A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Guyana, South America of East Indian heritage, he is truly a multi-cultural, global personality.

Yet, with his professional background, he also exhibits a rare sensitivity and charismatic delivery which have earned him well deserved respect and acclaim.However, he was to know failure as well as success. The events that led to both are incorporated in his lectures and are chronicled in his books, which, rather than being stories of loss and sadness are, instead, inspiring tales of courage, strength and the dignity of the human spirit.

John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw has been called "America's leading personal growth expert." The author of five New York Times bestsellers, Bradshaw On: The Family, Healing the Shame That Binds You, Homecoming, Creating Love, and Family Secrets, John's books have sold over four million copies in North America. He created and hosted four nationally broadcast PBS television series based on his best-selling books.

John pioneered the concept of the "Inner Child" and brought the term "dysfunctional family" into the mainstream. He has touched and changed millions of lives through his books, television series, and his lectures and workshops around the country.

John Gray

John Gray, Ph.D. is author of the phenomenal best-selling book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (HarperCollins, May 1992), which has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and millions more in 40 different languages around the world.

Dr. Gray has also authored Mars and Venus in the Bedroom (HarperCollins, April 1995), Mars and Venus Together Forever (Harper Perennial, March 1996, a revised second edition of What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You & Your Father Didn't Know), Mars and Venus in Love (HarperCollins, June 1996), Mars and Venus on a Date (HarperCollins, June 1997), Mars and Venus Starting Over (HarperCollins, June 1998), and Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus: Book of Days, (HarperCollins, October 1998).His book, How To Get What You Want and Want What You Have: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Personal Success (HarperCollins, January, 1999), is a departure from the male/female relationships theme of his Mars-Venus series.

Marcia Wieder

Oprah Winfrey called Marcia Wieder America's Dream Coach. She is a top rated presenter on visionary thinking, goal achievement and team building to companies such as Lucent, American Express, The Gap, and International Association of Business Communicators. She has spoken to thousands of teenagers, the National Guard and even to prison inmates. Marcia has written 4 books, Making Your Dreams Come True, Life Is But A Dream, Doing Less and Having More and (soon to be released) Dreaming on Purpose.

She is the founder of Dream University®, her week-long program on igniting passion and discovering your purpose. She has often appeared on Oprah and The Today Show and is featured in her own national PBS television special entitled Making Your Dreams Come True. Marcia is a co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership and a former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

Og Mandino

Is one of the most widely read inspirational and self-help authors in the world today.Thousands of people from all walks of life have openly credited Og Mandino with turning their lives around and for the miracles they have found in his words.

His books have sold more than 25 million copies in 18 languages. Enjoy his books of wisdom, inspiration, and love. Og Mandino passed away in the fall of 1996. He leaves a great legacy for us all in the form of his many inspirational books.

Patrick Combs

Patrick Combs is internationally know as a best-selling author, a speaker, and a television personality for PBS's Career Advantage. For more than a decade he has dedicated his life to helping people live better by providing the inspiration, care, and tools that turn personal and professional lives around.

A recognized expert for his work, he has spoken at hundreds and hundres of businesses and universities, including Shell, Motorola, Visa, Stanford, Penn and Babson, been interviewed on national television, one-on-one, by Barbara Walters, had his story told in more than 200 newspapers, and three times been nominated Speaker of the Year by event planners.

Richard Bolles

Richard Nelson Bolles, known the world over as the author of the best-selling job-hunting book in history, "What Color Is Your Parachute?," is acknowledged as "America's top career expert" by Modern Maturity Magazine, "the one responsible for the renaissance of the career counseling profession in the United States over the past decade" by Money Magazine, and "the most widely read and influential leader in the whole career planning field" by the U.S. Law Placement Assn.

Dick is listed in "Who's Who In America," and "Who's Who In the World" and has been featured in countless magazines (including Reader's Digest, Fortune, Money Magazine and Business Week), newspapers, radio, and TV (CNN, Ted Koppel, ABC's Nightline, Diane Sawyer, CBS News and many others).

John Abdo
John Abdo is an expert in weight training, aerobics, polymetrics, fat loss, athletic strength training, health and nutrition. He is the co-host and co-producer of the popular weekly fitness television series Training and Nutrition 2000 which John began in 1985. John is the personal training of choice for legions of athletes, fitness enthusiasts, health seekers and people who what to feel great about themselves

Jay Abraham
The nation’s highest-paid marketing consultant, he regularly works marketing miracles for his clients. During his 24-year career, Mr. Abraham has worked with over 5,000 individual businesses in 165 separate industries. He has consulted for businesses large, medium and small, from one person operations to some of the world’s largest corporatioPatrick Combs

Patrick Combs is internationally know as a best-selling author, a speaker, and a television personality for PBS's Career Advantage. For more than a decade he has dedicated his life to helping people live better by providing the inspiration, care, and tools that turn personal and professional lives around.

A recognized expert for his work, he has spoken at hundreds and hundres of businesses and universities, including Shell, Motorola, Visa, Stanford, Penn and Babson, been interviewed on national television, one-on-one, by Barbara Walters, had his story told in more than 200 newspapers, and three times been nominated Speaker of the Year by event planners.

Richard Bolles

Richard Nelson Bolles, known the world over as the author of the best-selling job-hunting book in history, "What Color Is Your Parachute?," is acknowledged as "America's top career expert" by Modern Maturity Magazine, "the one responsible for the renaissance of the career counseling profession in the United States over the past decade" by Money Magazine, and "the most widely read and influential leader in the whole career planning field" by the U.S. Law Placement Assn.

Dick is listed in "Who's Who In America," and "Who's Who In the World" and has been featured in countless magazines (including Reader's Digest, Fortune, Money Magazine and Business Week), newspapers, radio, and TV (CNN, Ted Koppel, ABC's Nightline, Diane Sawyer, CBS News and many others).

John Abdo
John Abdo is an expert in weight training, aerobics, polymetrics, fat loss, athletic strength training, health and nutrition. He is the co-host and co-producer of the popular weekly fitness television series Training and Nutrition 2000 which John began in 1985. John is the personal training of choice for legions of athletes, fitness enthusiasts, health seekers and people who what to feel great about themselves

Jay Abraham
The nation’s highest-paid marketing consultant, he regularly works marketing miracles for his clients. During his 24-year career, Mr. Abraham has worked with over 5,000 individual businesses in 165 separate industries. He has consulted for businesses large, medium and small, from one person operations to some of the world’s largest corporations including Weyerhauser, Coldwell Banker, Prudential-Bache, Dun and Bradstreet, Citibank and Sears Roebuck & Company. Mr. Abraham specializes in successfully identifying and ethically exploiting a company’s hidden, marketable assets to create windfall profits for his clients. While he maintains a number of select clients on a contingency basis, Mr. Abraham also publishes a series of marketing reports as well as conducting marketing and business training seminars.

Lou Adler
Lou Adler is president and founder of CJA-The Adler Group Inc., a major executive search and organizational consulting firm headquartered in Southern California. He spent ten years in senior level executive positions in finance and operations with the Allen Group and Rockwell International. He is also the author of Hire with You Head.

Tony Alessandra
Dr. Tony Alessandra is one of America’s most sought-after communications experts. His clients include United Airlines, IBM and other Fortune 500 giants. Tony is also an electrifying speaker, having earned the CPAE award from the National Speakers Association, a distinction held by fewer than 100 others worldwide. He holds degrees in marketing from the University of Notre Dame, The University of Connecticut, and Georgia State University. He has authored twelve books and several award-winning audio and video training programs, including the Nightingale-Conant best-sellers, Relationship Strategies and How to Gain Power and Influence with People.

Robert G. Allen
His colossal bestseller Nothing Down established Robert Allen as one of the most influential investment advisors of all time. He has followed that success with three other best-selling books, as well as the audiocassette program The Road to Wealth from Nightingale-Conant.

Throughout the 1980s, graduates of his popular nationwide seminars successfully applied his techniques in all 50 states and Canada. Today, there are thousands of millionaires who attribute their success to contact with Robert Allen.

Howard Berg
Howard Stephen Berg is widely acclaimed as the World’s Fastest Reader. His accomplishments have been recognized in The Guinness Book of World Records, recorded in major newspapers across America, and demonstrated on more than 600 radio and television programs nationwide.

Realizing while a college student that he had never been taught how to learn, Mr. Berg pioneered a revolutionary reading system that incorporates powerful psychological methods as well as traditional mechanical techniques. The result is increased speed with dramatically enhanced comprehension and retention.

Ken Blanchard
Ken Blanchard is an internationally-known management consultant, organizational leader, teacher, and co-author of The One Minute Manager, which has sold more than seven million copies, and Everyone’s a Coach, with Don Shula. He has written and co-authored numerous other books, including The Power of Ethical Management with Norman Vincent Peale. Along with his wife Marjorie, he founded Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., in 1979 and have consulted for Disney, Honda, Kodak, the Gap, and other companies.

Les Brown
A renowned public speaker, author and television personality, Les Brown has risen to national prominence by delivering a high-energy message which tells people to live up to their greatness. It is a message Les Brown has learned from his own life, and he is helping others apply it to their lives. Les, adopted when he was six weeks old, was mislabeled as a slow learner. The label and stigma stayed with Les for several years. Les had no formal education past high school, but with persistence and determination, he has initiated a process of perpetual self-education, which has distinguished him as a resource on human potential. Les Brown's passion to learn and his hunger to realize greatness in himself and others helped him achieve his goals. He rose from morning deejay to broadcast manager, from community activist to community leader, from political commentator to three term legislator, and from a banquet and nightclub emcee to premier keynote speaker.

Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is a pioneer in the self-esteem movement, and he's considered one of the world's foremost authorities on self-esteem and peak performance training. He's the president of Self-Esteem Seminars, The Canfield Group and The Foundation for Self-Esteem - located in Santa Barbara, California.

Not only has Jack conducted intensive personal and professional development seminars for over 500,000 people worldwide, he regularly conducts seminars for corporations, schools and colleges, governmental agencies, social service organizations and the public at large. He has spoken to hundreds of thousands more at conferences and conventions around the world, and he's been seen by millions of viewers on national television shows.

Richard Carlson
Richard Carlson, Ph.D. is the author of several best-selling books, including You Can Be Happy No Matter What and You Can Feel Good Again. His most recent books, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s All Small Stuff and Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family, are currently on The New York Times Bestsellers List. Richard is a widely recognized lecturer and stress consultant from his appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show and many other popular talk shows.

Deepak Chopra
In 1985, Deepak Chopra left a successful and highly regarded position as chief of staff at The New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts, in order to dedicate his life to expanding the impact and effectiveness of conventional medicine. Today he is nationally recognized in the holistic health field for popularizing Ayurveda, India's ancient system of natural healing and one of the fastest forms of alternative treatment in America. Through his extensive research and teachings-he has taught at Tuffs and Boston University Medical Schools-Dr. Chopra has discovered practical and achievable skills that enable people to take control of their lives, remain more robust and youthful as they age, and access the body's unlimited natural pharmacy-the keys to perfect health and total well-being. Dr. Chopra is the author of several cassette programs-Ageless Body-Timeless Mind, Magical Mind-Magical Body and The Higher Self.

Stephen Covey
With his pioneering work in Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen R. Covey is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading authorities on empowerment. Thousands of organizations worldwide-including more than 150 of the Fortune 500-have adopted his innovative techniques on quality, leadership, innovation, trust, teamwork, customer-focused service and organizational alignment. His audiocassette program, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a Nightingale-Conant best-seller. Dr. Covey received an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from Brigham Young University, where he was professor of organizational behavior and business management. His many awards include the Thomas More College Medallion for continued service to humanity and the Mc-Feely Award from the International Management Council for significant contributions to management and education.

John Cummutu
John Cummuta is creator of the best-selling Debt-FREE & Prosperous Living course. He is also a popular financial and business seminar leader. John was the first financial advisor, to teach that ALL personal debt is bad for the average American consumer — and his Transforming Debt to Wealth program has proven to be a fast-lane escape route for countless former credit-aholics. John’s unique financial strategies offer one of the few exit ramps from the highway to heartbreak. He has helped over a half million people position themselves to enjoy retirements the most people will only dream about.

After years of learning the most complex financial concepts, from the top names in the business, John has found that the basic steps for attaining personal financial independence are really uncomplicated and straightforward. They are the foundation of his Transforming Debt to Wealth system.

Roger Dawson
Roger Dawson is one of the country’s best-known experts in the art of negotiating, and the best-selling author of the landmark Nightingale-Conant audiocassette programs, The Secrets of Power Negotiating (which, having sold nearly 500,000 copies, is the best-selling negotiating audiocassette program of all time) and The Secrets of Power Persuasion. His book, Secrets of Power Negotiating, will soon be published by Career Press. He started his first company at the age of sixteen, and his varied business background includes being president of one of California’s largest real estate companies. He has been the keynote speaker for some of the largest conventions in the world, and is in constant demand for negotiation seminars and corporate training presentations.

Bert Decker
Bert Decker is the founder and president of Decker Communications, a San Francisco-based communications training company. He has served as a media consultant for dozens of politicians including Robert Kennedy and Ed Muskie. His company trains over 10,000 professionals and executives each year, for corporate clients that include Lockeed, AT&T, Citibank and various others. Decker has been featured on ABC's 20/20" and in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Success, and Fortune. Bert is the author of several Nightingale-Conant programs including "High Impact Communication" and "How To Speak With Confidence."

Larry Dossey
Larry Dossey, M.D., a highly distinguished physician and author, is currently the co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Dossey lectures widely in the United States and abroad. In 1988, he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India, the only physician ever invited to do so. Dossey has published numerous articles and is the author of five books, including Space, Time & Medicine, Beyond Illness, Recovering the Soul, Meaning & Medicine and the most recent, a best-seller, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine.

Gerald Epstein
Dr. Gerald Epstein, has been a pioneer in the use of mental imagery for treating
physical and emotional problems. With more that 25 years of training in the mind, he is a leading proponent of the Western spiritual tradition and its application to healing and therapeutics. Dr. Epstein maintains a private practice in New York City and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He has lectured and taught worldwide and is the director of the American Institute for Mental Imagery (AIMI), a post-graduate training center in imagination for licensed mental health professionals. He is also the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Grant in Alternative Medicine to research the effects of mental imagery in the treatment of bronchial asthma, and he is the author of several mental imagery classics, including Healthy Visualizations: CreatingHealth Through Imagery.

Neil Fiore
Psychologist, trainer and author, Neil Fiore, PhD has helped thousands of people take charge of their lives. He's a former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, manager for Johnson & Johnson, and a cancer survivor whose presentations come alive with the authenticity of someone who's been there.

Dr. Fiore has conducted training for such major organizations as AT&T, Bechtel Corporation, and the U.S. Coast Guard on the topics of Optimal Performance, Stress Management, Rapid Change, and Human Relations. He has published four books and a Nightingale-Conant tape series.

Scott Flansburg
Scott Flansburg, better known as "The Human Calculator," has developed the remarkable—and totally teachable—ability to calculate numbers in his head, even faster than a calculator.

While in grade school, Scott was constantly searching for a better way to accurately solve math problems. He developed a fun and easy system that stunned his teachers and amazed his classmates. After completing high school, Scott joined the U.S. Air Force, where he served in the Intelligence Division and later as a computer programmer.

Ed Foreman
From a farm boy to a self-made millionaire by the age of 26 and the only person ever elected to the United States Congress from two different states.

Ed is not a "reporter"... he has lived his message of health, wealth and happiness that is helping business leaders from around the world get more meaningful living out of life, reduce their levels of stress and anxiety, turn worry into success and have more fun! A dynamic business entrepreneur and active civic leader who has developed numerous programs and products and persuasively "sells" the success formula he lives by.

Michael Gelb
Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning and innovative leadership. Through his New York metro-area based High Performance Learning Center, Michael leads seminars for organizations such as BP, Compaq and Dow Jones. His publications include Body Learning: an Introduction to the Alexander Technique and Present Yourself! Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills. His latest book “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, has been translated into 18 languages and has appeared on the Washington Post, Amazon.com and NY Times best-seller lists.

Michael E. Gerber
Michael E. Gerber is a business visionary, entrepreneur, and noted author. He is a popular keynote speaker who has delivered his message to business audiences throughout the world. Chairman of the E-Myth Academy, Michael Gerber has grown his own business from humble beginnings in 1977 to the multimillion-dollar venture it is today. He is the author of the acclaimed business books The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, The Power Point, and The E-Myth Manger: Why Most Mangers Don't Work and What to Do About it.

Seth Godin
Let the man Business Week Calls “The ultimate entrepreneur for the information age” teach you:

• The fatal flaw of “Interruption Marketing” — and how to overcome it

• How to tap the power of “Permission Marketing” to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process

• The 5 levels of permission — and how to move customers up to the top of the ladder

• How firing 70% of your customers might help your business

Seth Godin is Vice-President of Permission Marketing at Yahoo! He founded Yoyodyne, the first company to create promotions and direct-mail campaigns online, and helped build the company into the online Permission Marketing pioneer before selling it to Yahoo! In 1998. Yoyodyne clients included AT&T, Carter-Wallace, H&R Block, Sprint, Columbia Record Club and hundreds of other companies.

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