FRED GRANDY
Fred Grandy has lived a life most people can only fantasize about.
As an actor he starred on the wildly successful TV series The Love Boat. Yet at the height of his show business success, he abandoned Hollywood, returned to his native Iowa and launched a campaign for Congress.
He won and spent eight years serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, which established him as one of the most respected, best spoken, and well liked Members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle.
Grandy left government and entered public service as the President and Chief Executive Officer of one of our nation?s largest charitable organizations, Goodwill Industries. At present, Grandy is a visiting professor at the University of Maryland?s School of Public Affairs, as well as a consultant to nonprofit organizations.
From a life that has seen tremendous public success tempered by private tragedy, personal injury, and public ridicule, Fred Grandy will share in a funny, poignant, and pertinent way how he discovered his future through giving back to the community.
Neil Howe
Neil Howe, best-selling author and national speaker, gives his audiences powerful insights into who today?s generations are, what motivates them as consumers and workers, and how they will shape our national future. With graduate degrees in economics and history from Yale University, Neil Howe's consulting firm ? LifeCourse Associates ? allows him to work with a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit groups. He is also Senior Advisor on Public Policy to the Blackstone Group and Senior Advisor to the Concord Coalition.
Howe is also an authority on federal entitlements programs and has drafted several Social Security reform plans and testified on entitlements many times before Congress. In his presentation, Howe will take you on an entertaining and illuminating grand tour through generations in America. You will learn how they differ in behavior, in attitudes, and in the messages they respond to as managers, workers, and consumers. Most important, learn what history teaches about each group as they grow older ? and where they will steer the nation?s workforce.
You will have an opportunity to meet Neil Howe during a book signing following his presentation.
Joe Clark
In 1984, things would be different. The school?s new principal, Joe Clark, would be the reason why. After two years of his leadership, New Jersey?s governor declared the formerly raucous institution a model school. Clark himself was named one of the nation?s ten "Principals of Leadership" in 1986.
Clark is the subject matter of the Warner Brothers film, Lean On Me, starring two-time Oscar nominee Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark. He recently brought his crusade to the Essex County Detention, a juvenile detention center in Newark, NJ. In his six years as the center?s director, he continued his challenging work to bring change to the community that brought him up.
His book, , shares strategies and success stories with teachers, school boards, parents, businessmen, and colleges. His message is one of pride in self. Joe Clark demonstrates every day how commitment to youth can make America?s future leaders better citizens and better people.
Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is founder of Self Esteem Seminars, located in Santa Barbara, California, which trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees how to accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals. He is also the founder of The Foundation for Self Esteem, located in Culver City, California, which provides self-esteem resources and training to social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
Canfield has been a high school and university teacher, a workshop facilitator, a psychotherapist, and for the past 25 years, a leading authority in the area of self-esteem and personal development.
Jack Canfield will empower you with the knowledge and techniques of everyday habits that impact focus, goals and success. His humor and personality are both entertaining and informative. You will leave the convention "electrified to succeed" and go for the gusto!
His book entitled Chicken Soup for the Teacher?s Soul consists of powerful strategies and techniques enhanced by anecdotes and inspiring stories. He will be signing copies of this book following his presentation.
