Breakthrough: Overcoming Obstacles and Breaking Barriers in Business and Life

Les Brown is a highly acclaimed and dynamic public speaker who conducts personal and professional seminars around the world. A consummate speech coach, he conducts seminars and workshops on mastering the art of public speaking for corporate executives, political leaders, celebrities, and a wide variety of people across the country.

Marcia Wieder, CEO and founder of Dream University, is leading a dream movement. Whether teaching at the Stanford Business School, speaking to executives in China, or visiting a Girl Scout camp, her riveting style impacts audiences worldwide. She’s been coaching, training, and speaking for twenty years, and her inspiring message has touched audiences from fifty to five thousand at companies like AT&T and American Express. The author of over a dozen books and a thought leader on vision, she has appeared on Oprah and Today, is the personal dream coach to Jack Canfield, stars in Beyond the Secret with Bob Proctor, and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council with John Gray, Lynne Twist, and Marianne Williamson. As past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, she met former US presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush, Sr. As a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, she urged readers to take “The Great Dream Challenge.”

Zig Ziglar was one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the United States, and his messages offer humor, hope and enthusiasm for audiences around the world. Many of the books he authored have become worldwide bestsellers.

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Don Yaeger is an eleven-time New York Times bestselling author, longtime associate editor at Sports Illustrated, and today is one of the most in-demand public speakers on the corporate circuit. He delivers an average of seventy speeches a year to an average annual audience of almost one hundred thousand. He and his wife, Jeanette, live in Tallahassee, Florida, with their two children.

Brad Worthley is an accomplished business consultant with over forty-two years of management experience. He is also an internationally acclaimed leadership, customer service, and motivational expert who has trained hundreds of thousands of people in a wide range of industries throughout the world since 1991. He has authored four books and produced numerous training videos and audio programs.

Patrick Snow is a professional key-note speaker, internationally bestselling author, and Internet entrepreneur. He has studied the field of personal growth and development for more than twenty years and, as a result, has been dubbed “The Dean of Destiny” by high achievers worldwide. In 2000 he launched his company, The Snow Group, with a mission to help others overcome their fears by turning their career distress into personal success. As a free enterprise advocate, Snow has spoken across the world, helping business owners achieve the success they desire.

Dr. Larry Iverson has educated, motivated, and entertained audiences for nearly thirty years. A top-ten bestselling author on iTunes, he has worked with over one million people—everyone from Olympic athletes to Fortune 500 companies—delivering persuasive communication strategies and leadership tactics you can apply right now.

James Allen (1864–1912) was a philosophical writer born in Leicester, England. He wrote numerous spiritual and inspirational books, including From Passion to Peace and The Eight Pillars of Prosperity. He is considered a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best-known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been in print since its publication in 1902.

Jeff Davidson, the Work-Life Balance Expert®, has written over fifty mainstream books, is a preeminent authority on time management, and is an electrifying professional speaker, making nearly eight hundred presentations since 1985 to clients such as Kaiser Permanente, IBM, American Express, Lufthansa, Swissôtel, America Online, RE/Max, USAA, Worthington Steel, and the World Bank. He is the author of Breathing Space and Simpler Living. His 60 Second Series with Adams Media, including the 60 Second Organizer, 60 Second Self-Starter, and 60 Second Innovator, are popular titles in China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, Spain, France, and Brazil. Jeff has been widely quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor. Cited by Sharing Ideas magazine as a “consummate speaker,” Jeff believes that career professionals today in all industries have a responsibility to achieve their own sense of work-life balance, and he supports that quest through his website BreathingSpace.com.