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.

Nick Hall
Nick Hall is an internationally recognized psychoneuroimmunologist who has conducted pioneering research dealing with the interrelationships between emotions and health. His research has been featured on "60 Minutes," "Nova," "Nightline," and the Emmy-Award winning television series "Healing and the Mind," produced by Bill Moyers for PBS. Dr. Hall has been the recipient of two prestigious Research Scientist Development Awards, granted by the National Institutes of Health to only the top scientists in the United States. He directs the Saddlebrook Resort Wellness Center in Tampa, Florida where he shows leading corporations and elite athletes how to deal effectively with personal and professional challenges.

Mark Victor Hansen
America's Ambassador of Possibility. In the area of human potential, no one is better known and more respected than Mark Victor Hansen. For over a quarter century, Mark has focused solely on helping people and organizations, from all walks of life, reshape their personal vision of what's possible. His powerful messages of possibility, opportunity, and action have helped create startling and powerful change in thousands of organizations and millions of individuals worldwide. Mark is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker, best-selling author, and marketing maven. His credentials include a lifetime of entrepreneurial success, in addition to an extensive academic background. Mark has made a profound influence through his extensive library of audio programs, video programs, and enriching articles in the areas of big thinking, sales achievement, publishing success, and personal and professional development. His energy and exuberance travels still further through television (The Oprah Show, CNN, and The Today Show), print (TIME, US News & World Report, USA Today, The New York Times, and Entrepreneur), and countless radio and newspaper interviews. Mark is also known as a passionate philanthropist and humanitarian, working tirelessly for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, March of Dimes, Childhelp USA, and many others.

Tom Hopkins
According to Tom Hopkins, no great salesperson was born that way. Great salespeople are trained to be great-educated by someone who made them want to do more. And there are few salespeople as successful as Tom Hopkins. A millionaire in real estate before age 30, he set about adapting his proven sales techniques to the general selling public, founding Tom Hopkins International, an organization dedicated to teaching and inspiring others to fulfill their highest potential in selling careers. Tom is the best-selling author of the audiocassette programs, How to Master the Art of Selling Anything and Low Profile Selling. Mr. Hopkins is the recipient of the coveted Council of Peers Award of Excellence (CPAE) from the National Speakers Association and a member of the Young Presidents Organization, a group of highly motivated achievers who became presidents of companies before reaching age 40.

Kerry L. Johnson
As some who competed for two years on the pro tennis circuit against some of the greatest players in the world, and as a leading sales consultant, Kerry Johnson has made a career out of studying and applying self-disciple.
Consulting to Fortune 500 companies and traveling over 6000 miles a week on a heavy public speaking and a consulting schedule, Kerry Johnson continues to live a highly discipline life. If he didn’t, his punishing workload of writing, traveling, speaking, and consulting would be impossible. Kerry is also a producer of audio and video business training tapes.

Dan Kennedy
Kennedy is at the pinnacle of a 20 year speaking career, addressing over 200,000 people a year, appearing on programs repeatedly with former U.S. Presidents Bush and Ford, General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell; business innovators like Debbi Fields, Jim McCann, Joe Sugarman; famous trial attorneys Allan Dershowitz and Gerry Spence; many Olympic and professional athletes, including Mary Lou Retton, Bonnie Blair, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Troy Aikman, Peyton Manning; coaches Lou Holtz and Jimmy Johnson; entertainers, Naomi Judd, Johnny Cash, Christopher Reeve; and popular speakers Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn. And the list goes on and on. No other professional speaker can match Mr. Kennedy's speaking resume, which is why many of his own peers invest in his consulting services -- and 225 of them attended his Speaking Business Boot Camp last year. In fact, when occasionally offered, his own multi-day seminars are sold out every time at per-person fees as high as $3,000.00.

Robert Kiyosaki
Born and raised in Hawaii, Robert Kiyosaki is a fourth-generation Japanese-American. After graduating from college in New York, Robert joined the Marine Corps. and went to Vietnam as an officer and helicopter gunship pilot. Returning from the war, Robert went to work for the Xerox Corporation, and in 1977 started a company that brought the first nylon and Velcro surfer wallets to market. In 1985, he founded an international education company that taught business and investing to tens of thousands of students throughout the world. In 1994, Robert sold his businesses and retired at the age of 47. Shortly afterward, he wrote the New York Times best seller Rich Dad Poor Dad, and he created the educational board game, CASHFLOW. He currently lives in Phoenix with his wife Kim.

Jay Conrad Levinson
Jay Conrad Levinson is an internationally acclaimed author and speaker. His tactics have increased the bottom lines of literally thousands of companies - large and small - on four continents. He is president of his own marketing and consulting firm, and developed the best-selling marketing book, Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets for Making Big Profits From Your Small Business.

Alec Mackenzie with Mel Mackenzie Brown
Alec Mackenzie is a sought after time management consultant, author, and lecturer. He has presented his principles of self-management and goal achievement in over forty countries. Of his many books, This Time Trap is considered a classic among business books. It has sold over a million copies and has been translated into 12 languages. As a successful keynote speaker and president of Alec Mackenzie and Associates, Mel Brown promotes the concept of practical training and time management in the corporate setting. She is particularly interested in goal achievement as a way to empower the individual into effective positive change. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Planning Lobby of New Your State and Greenwich Citizens Committee -an environmental advocacy group.

Harvey Mackay
In the business world, few people command the respect that Harvey Mackay does. His book, Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive, reached the number two position on the New Your Times best seller list immediately on publication and remained there for months. Mackay holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota, is a graduate of the Stanford Executive program in the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and holds an honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Iowa Wesleyan College. He is a chairman and chief executive officer of Mackay Envelope Corporation. Harvey is an internationally sought-after public speaker who has addressed Fortune 500 companies and corporate leaders around the world. He has also delivered addresses at numerous educational institutions including Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell universities.

Thomas J. Leonard
Thomas J. Leonard is the founder of CoachVille, the world's largest association and training school for Personal Development and Corporate Coaches. Through Thomas' leadership, CoachVille has grown to 9,400 members in more than 70 countries across the globe. Thomas, along with input from over 1,000 members on the CoachVille Research & Development Team, developed a comprehensive program, the 28 Principles of Attraction, which is all-inclusive of not only all top coaching models, e-courses, and teleclasses, but also dozens of models on Personal Development and Growth. In 1992, Thomas founded Coach University which today is a world leader in coach training with over 6,000 coaches operating in 38 countries. In 1994, Thomas went on to found the International Coach Foundation which today is the largest association of professional coaches with over 130 chapters worldwide. Thomas has been featured in over 200 media outlets since 1996 including Newsweek, Time, Fortune, NBC Nightly News, The Los Angeles Times and the Times London. Thomas spends most of the year traveling in his RV.

Howard Martin
Howard Martin is the Executive Vice President of HeartMath® LLC. He is an author, business executive, speaker, trainer and musician. Howard has been with HeartMath’s world-wide training and consulting team since its inception in 1991. As HeartMath’s key instructor, Howard has been instrumental in developing and teaching HeartMath to thousands of program participants. He has conducted training programs in numerous government agencies, all four branches of the U.S. military, school systems and many ecumenical organizations. Howard has appeared on ABC Good Morning America, A&E’s Open Book, Discovery Channel Beyond 2000, KABC-TV New York, WGN-TV Chicago, KABC radio Los Angeles, and hundreds of others. Howard’s articles have appeared in New York Newsday, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, US News and World Report, New Woman magazine, First for Women magazine, Muscle and Fitness magazine.

Dalton McCrary
“I do not believe in swing ‘methods,’ ‘fads’ and ‘gimmicks’. I do believe a golfer should have one purpose and one purpose only: to deliver a powerful and one correct impact of the golf club dead in the back of the golf ball. The straight- shootin’ system will reprogram your personal swing computer so that you instantly learn and understand how to play in the fairway. Folks, your frustration with the game of golf stops here!”
Dalton McCrary’s students come from all over the world. His boot camps are often sold out months in advance. His unique, revolutionary approach to the perfect golf swing has instantly transformed thousands of golfers — of all ages, shapes and experiences — into straight-shootin’ masters of the game.

Dan Millman
An author of the million-plus copy bestseller, Way of the Peaceful Warrior,
as well as the classic, The Life You Were Born to Live, Dan is considered
one of the most prominent and influential teachers of our time. His
seminars, with their messages of hope, humor, and spiritual wisdom, draw
thousands worldwide. A youthful grandfather, Dan lives with his family in
northern California.

Peter Montoya
After graduating from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in political science, Peter Montoya went to work for a nationally recognized sales trainer. During the next five years, he lived in 25 major cities and performed over 2,000 training sessions in every industry. Then he was hired by an advertising agency to offer seminars. These seminars focused on a radical new concept: personal branding. When steadily increasing numbers of service professionals began attending these seminars, Peter realized the entire country was begging for a personal branding revolution. Soon, he left to start his own firm - Peter Montoya Inc..

Earl Nightingale
As a depression-era child, Earl Nightingale was hungry for knowledge. From the time he was a young boy, he would frequent the Long Beach Public Library in California, searching for the answer to the question, "How can a person, starting from scratch, who has no particular advantage in the world, reach the goals that he feels are important to him, and by so doing, make a major contribution to others?" His desire to find an answer, coupled with his natural curiosity about the world and its workings spurred him to become one of the world’s foremost experts on success and what makes people successful.

Nightingale-Conant
The Nightingale-Conant Corporation was formed in 1960 by Lloyd Conant and Earl Nightingale. At the time, Earl was the host of the most popular radio show in the world - Our Changing World and Lloyd was the owner of a company called "Specialty Mail". Lloyd and Earl decided to combine their talents, and in February, 1960, the Nightingale-Conant Corporation was incorporated. The Strangest Secret and Lead The Field were instant best selling programs. The Strangest Secret went on to earn a gold record. Those programs led to a proliferation of over 500 programs on personal and business development. Earl Nightingale passed away in 1989 and Lloyd Conant passed away in 1986. The company is now owned and operated by Victor Conant. Today, Nightingale-Conant is considered "The World Leader in Personal Development". Everyone at Nightingale-Conant is dedicated to one mission - to help people achieve happy and successful business and personal lives.

Chris Northrup
Dr. Chris Northrup is one of the very few women physicians who is combining nontraditional healing practices with training as a gynecologist and obstetrician. As the co-founder of one of America’s only all-female health clinics, she is especially qualified to speak about a wide range of issues related to women and complete health. In addition to being board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Northrup is an assistant clinical professor at Vermont School of Medicine, and is former president of the American Holistic Medical Association. She is the author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom.

Gary Null
Gary Null is a man who has cracked the secrets of anti-aging and perfect health. He is a Ph. D. expert on nutrition and health who has dedicated his life to sharing his vast knowledge and wisdom with countless individuals globally to help them reverse the aging process and lead happier, healthier, more vibrant lives. Gary Null has written over fifty books, produced numerous award-winning videos, and hosts the longest running nationally syndicated talk radio program on health. Gary is an internationally respected scholar, author, lecturer, environmentalist, scientist, investigative reporter, journalist and advocate of natural and alternative health practices and human rights. He appears regularly on PBS, and has been featured in numerous publications including Time, Fitness, and Natural Health. His message is catching on because it makes sense.

Paul Pearsall
Paul Pearsall, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, as well as founder and director of the Problems of Daily Living Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry at the Sinai Hospital of Detroit. He is currently an Professor of Psychology at Henry Ford Community College and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Wayne State University School of Medicine. A best-selling author and international speaker and consultant, his books include Making Miracles, The Ten Laws of Lasting Love and Sexual Healing. Dr. Pearsall is a former Director of Professional Education at the Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender and Reproduction and has trained at the Masters and Johnson Institute.

Lee Pulos
Lee Pulos, Ph.D., is a master educator on mental training to achieve peak performance, a leading authority on corporate and personal development, a stress-management counselor, and an astonishingly successful entrepreneur. A clinical psychologist who has worked with Olympic athletes and Team Canada, Dr. Pulos has conducted clinics for coaches throughout North America. Profiled on radio and television programs worldwide, he is also the author of two books, Miracles and Other Realities and Beyond Hypnosis, and a Nightingale-Conant audio program, The Power of Visualization. Dr. Pulos majored in psychology in UCLA and earned a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Denver.

Jim Rohn
Philosopher, genius, motivational counselor, and business executive. Those are just some of the hats worn by the greatest motivational speaker of all-time-Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn always approaches the subjects of personal and business success by asking four questions: Why? Why not? Why not you? and Why not now? He then goes on to answer those and related questions, revealing practical, perceptive secrets for success and productivity. His special style, laced with witticisms and anecdotes, captivates listeners, igniting their enthusiasm and "can-do" spirit. Among his most thought-provoking topics are: sales and entrepreneurial skills, leadership, sales and marketing, success and personal development. Jim Rohn is the best-selling author of several Nightingale-Conant audiocassette programs such as The Art of Exceptional Living, Take Charge Of Your Life, Power of Ambition, and Developing an Unshakable Character.

Colin Rose
Colin Rose is one of the world's foremost experts on learning. He is the British master who took Accelerated Learning Techniques out of the theoretical realm of university research and introduced them to the public at large. Beginning his career as a successful international businessperson, he became interested in contemporary education theory and wrote the best-selling book, Accelerated Learning. Founder of Accelerated Learning Systems, Ltd. and a consultant to many corporations and universities on the latest learning techniques, he is also a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

Bill Staton
Bill Staton — After graduating from Wharton with an MBA in 1971, Bill Staton (CFA, CPC) began his career with Interstate Securities (now part of Wachovia Bank). After a successful career there, he left in 1985 and started the Staton Institute, Inc. and Staton Investment Management LLC. For the past 21 years, his actively-managed America’s Finest Companies® strategy has produced returns averaging 21% without a single down year. Now it’s your turn to let America’s Money Coach® show you how to put his winning strategies to work!

Elaine St. James
Elaine St. James is a best-selling author and has been acclaimed by The New York Times as the leader of the simplicity movement. She has appeared on numerous national and international television and radio programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America. She ran a successful real estate business before beginning the process of simplifying her own life in 1990. She and her husband now live in Santa Barbara, California.

Robert Stuberg
Robert Stuberg is a man who believes in the power of human potential. Researching the science of success and achievement for more than 20 years, he has spent the last decade working behind-the-scenes in the personal development industry. Robert is vice president of Nightingale-Conant Corporation where he works on a daily basis with the greatest minds in the personal development field, including Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Jim Rohn, Barbara DeAngelis and many others. From this unique vantage point, he has gained a rare insider's view of their important work of helping people make the most of their time and talents.

Peter Thomson
Peter Thomson is one of the UK's leading strategists in the areas of communication and personal and business growth. He has a very diverse history and, along with his other ventures, has been a very successful entrepreneur. Having started in business in 1972, he built and sold 3 successful companies, enabling him to retire at age 42. Far from living the leisurely life, however, Peter is an active public speaker, motivator, and writer, having published 3 books, 6 tips booklets, and over a dozen audio programs with Nightingale-Conant. One of his most recent acquisitions has been an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from The American Intercontinental University for his work in communication skills and helping others to succeed in life.

Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy is one of the country’s leading authorities for development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He is a dynamic and entertaining speaker, one of a select few individuals who has the remarkable ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and high achievement, He is President of the Institute for Executive Development, a human resource company and was formerly the chief operating officer of a development company with over $265 million in assets and $75 million annual sales. Mr. Tracy speaks four languages and has shared his winning insights with hundreds of thousands of eager men and women in more than eighty countries on six continents. He is an avid reader of management, psychology, economics, metaphysics, and history.

Kevin Trudeau
Kevin Trudeau is regarded as the world's foremost authority on memory improvement training. As founder of the American Memory Institute, Kevin Trudeau has helped more people improve their memory than any person alive.

Advanced Mega Memory and Mega Memory are based on techniques first discovered while working with blind and retarded children. Kevin adapted these techniques so that anyone could release their own instant-recall memory ability.

Over one million people have benefited from his home study system, making Mega Memory the most utilized self-improvement series of all time.

Kevin speaks before thousands of people each year including speeches for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He has shared the platform with such notable personalities as President Reagan, Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Pat Boone.

Denis Waitley
Denis Waitley is the acknowledged authority on self-development, high performance and individual productivity-a designation he achieved by thoroughly researching and updating the principles that he first revealed in the Psychology Of Winning, one of Nightingale-Conant's best-selling audiocassette programs of all time. Mr. Waitley has studied and counseled winners in every walk of life, from top executives of Fortune 500 companies to returning POW's. The author of numerous best-selling audiocassette programs including How to Manage Conflict and Manage Anger and The Psychology of Human Motivation. Mr. Waitley's principles of thought and behavior can immediately impact your organization, your career and your personal life.

Rosemarie Rossetti

Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., a nationally acclaimed inspirational speaker, is a courageous survivor and fighter. While riding her bicycle on June 13, 1998, her life changed in an instant. A 3 ½ ton tree came crashing down on her, breaking her back and neck and injuring her spinal cord.Now paralyzed from the waist down, Rossetti "walks her talk" as she shares her life lessons learned during her recovery. Rossetti proclaimed that, "Survival is about continuous renewal." She lives her lessons by doing something new everyday.

She has overcome the most devastating events and turned her tragedy into triumph. She continues to move forward despite overwhelming obstacles and helps her audiences to view life with a fresh perspective. She has a powerful effect on people, helping them to embrace that the impossible just might be possible. After hearing Rossetti, audiences reflect on their lives and are better able to chart their course of action. Many have told her that she changed their lives through the power of her inspiration.

Entertaining as well as motivational, she delivers a compelling message. To see Rossetti in action is an experience that will long be remembered.

Sheila Murray Bethel

"High-energy and funny--timeless and timely--entertaining and educational--powerful and poignant" are the words most often used to describe Dr, Sheila Murray Bethel's presentations.

As the best-selling author of Making A Difference: 12 Qualities That Make You A Leader, a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame and with a Doctorate in Communications, Sheila brings a unique depth of sensitivity to her specialties of: Change, Leadership and Personal Excellence.

Her combination of expertise, substance, inspiration and humor, invigorates and energizes people to take action in their business and personal lives. Sheila helps organizations maximize human resources, solve people problems and increase gross revenues. She takes complex issues and translates them into easily understood concepts and actions.

Tony Jeary

Tony Jeary: Coach, Author, Speaker, Celebrity, or often called a "high performance resource." His incredible track record of consistently exceeding expectations has earned him the title of Mr. Presentation™!

Tony teaches others how to get 100% audience buy-in every time they make a presentation. His best selling book, Inspire Any Audience is described by success guru, Zig Ziglar, as "The Ultimate Presenter's Handbook." Tony's books and his live programs have established him as one of the top human performance experts in the world today.

Tom Peters

Tom Peters has been called the Ur-guru (guru of gurus) of management -- and compares him to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and H.L. Mencken.

The Economist tags him the Uber-guru, and his unconventional views led Business Week to describe Tom as "business' best friend and worst nightmare." Tom describes himself as a prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, professional loudmouth (as a speaker he's "a spitter" ... according to Dilbert), corporate cheerleader, lover of markets, capitalist pig, and card-carrying member of the ACLU.

Tom & Bob Waterman co-authored In Search of Excellence in 1982; the book was named by NPR (in 1999) as one of the "Top Three Business Books of the Century," and ranked as the "greatest business book of all time" in a poll by Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing (2002).

Warren Bennis

Warren Bennis is distinguished professor of business administration and founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

He has advised four U.S. presidents and more than 150 CEOs and is author or co-author of more than 20 books on leadership, change, and management, including Organizing Genius and Co-Leaders, and several others.

Bob Smith

James Waldroop

Robin Sharma

Jim Warner
Jim Warner is president of OnCourse International and best known for his uplifting book Aspirations of Greatness, Mapping the Midlife Leader's Reconnection to Self and Soul, based on the intimate life stories of 500 CEOs navigating difficult midlife transitions. At age 43, Jim sold the $20 million software company he had founded to answer a higher calling: becoming a counselor and mentor to executives, business owners, professionals, and other high achievers who had succeeded in their work but were failing at life. He communicates with the authority of a leader who has confronted his innermost fears and rediscovered himself, his relationships, and his life purpose. He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Business School, and a seven-year member of Young President's Organization. Jim and his family live in Boulder, Colorado.

Zig Ziglar
Years ago, he walked away from a record-setting sales career to help other people become more successful in their personal and professional lives. He's the one and only Zig Ziglar, and his name is synonymous with confidence, motivation and success. A master at motivational speaking, Mr. Ziglar has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Fortune, Success and Esquire magazines, and has appeared on the Today show, 20/20, 60 minutes and The Phil Donohue show. He has that rare ability to make audiences comfortable and relaxed, yet completely attentive. As an author, he has written nine books, including the perennial best-selling seller, See You At The Top, with over two million copies in print. And as a concerned citizen, Mr. Ziglar has been recognized in the Congressional Record of the United States for his many contributions to the American way of life.