The Speakers

For three days you'll hear from the leading experts in business and leadership.

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  Dave Ramsey
  Best-selling author of EntreLeadership

  America’s trusted voice on money and business, Dave Ramsey is a personal money-management expert, a best-selling author, and an extremely popular national radio personality. In 1992, Ramsey founded his company to provide financial counseling. Ramsey Solutions has since grown into a multimillion-dollar company with a nationally recognized brand, but Dave still defines success by the number of lives changed through his message of hope.

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  Robert Herjavec
  Star of ABC's hit show Shark Tank

  Robert Herjavec is one of North America's most recognizable business leaders. He has built and sold businesses on his way to amassing a personal fortune of more than $100 million. A first generation immigrant, Robert arrived in Halifax, Canada, on a boat with his parents after escaping communism in the former Yugoslavia. With only one suitcase, few prospects, $20, and no understanding of the English language, his unlimited dreams led him to experience the classic "rags to riches" immigrant story.

  From delivering newspapers, waiting on tables, and launching a computer company from his basement, he applied his immense energy and ambition with outstanding success. A serial entrepreneur, Robert has built and sold several companies, including a computer security company to AT&T and a technology company to Nokia for $225 million. Widely known as an entrepreneurial and motivational expert, Robert's business advice has appeared in numerous national newspapers and magazines.

  Following a short retirement, Robert launched The Herjavec Group, now acknowledged as Canada's fastest growing technology company. In a few short years The Herjavec Group has grown from $400,000 in sales with three people to $125 million in sales and almost 200 people. Robert's celebrity status has expanded with leading roles on Dragons' Den, the #1 TV show in Canada (now in its seventh season) and the American hit show Shark Tank (now in its third season, produced by Mark Burnett Productions, Sony, Disney and ABC).

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  Simon Sinek
  Best-selling author
   

  Described as "a visionary thinker with a rare intellect," Simon Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. A trained ethnographer, he is the author of two books: the global best seller, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action and his newest book, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t.

  He is best known for popularizing the concept of Why and for the talk he gave on the subject that became the third most watched talk of all time on TED.com. Sinek's unconventional and innovative views on business and leadership have attracted international attention and have earned him invitations to meet with an array of leaders and organizations, including: 3M, Costco, Deckers, Ernst & Young, HSM, jetBlue, KPMG, Pfizer, NBC/Universal, the military, government agencies and entrepreneurs.

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  Lou Holtz
  Legendary Football Coach and Analyst, ESPN (2004-2015)

  Lou Holtz has established himself as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. Despite never inheriting a winning team, he compiled a 243-127-7 career record that ranked him third in victories among active coaches and eighth in winning percentage. His 12 career postseason bowl victories ranked him fifth on the all-time list. Holtz was recently selected for the College Football Hall of Fame, class of 2008, which places him in an elite group of just over 800 individuals in the history of football who have earned this distinction.

  For many years Holtz has been considered among the greatest speaking legends in America today. He speaks on overcoming seemingly impossible challenges by setting your own goals and working to achieve them.

  He has built a reputation as a motivator, a demanding disciplinarian and someone who relishes challenges and hard work.

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  John C. Maxwell
  Best-selling author

  John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 25 million books in 50 languages. In 2014 he was identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the most influential leadership expert in the world by Business Insider and Inc. magazine. He has also been voted the top leadership professional in the world on LeadershipGurus.net for six consecutive years. As the founder of The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and The John Maxwell Leadership Foundation, he has trained more than 5 million leaders. In 2015, he reached the milestone of having trained leaders from every country of the world. The recipient of the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, John speaks each year to Fortune 500 companies, presidents of nations, and many of the world’s top business leaders.

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  Christy Wright
  Ramsey Personality and Business Coach

  As an experienced Certified Business Coach, Christy Wright works with business owners nationwide, speaking on topics such as personal development, goal setting and life balance, and how to develop team members and grow companies. Christy joined Ramsey Solutions in 2009. As a Ramsey Personality she frequently contributes to EntreLeadership.com and the EntreLeadership Podcast. Additionally, she is a featured speaker at EntreLeadership events.

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  Chris Hogan
  Best-selling author of Retire Inspired

  A popular and dynamic speaker on the topics of financial education and leadership, Chris Hogan works with businesses and high-profile clients across the country, helping them develop strategies that increase their revenues, protect their wealth, and secure their financial futures. His new book, Retire Inspired: It’s Not an Age. It’s a Financial Number, released in January 2016 and is a #1 national best-seller. For more than a decade, Chris has served at Ramsey Solutions as a trusted financial coach and Ramsey Personality.

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  Patrick Lencioni
  Best-selling author

  Patrick Lencioni is the author of ten best-selling business books with nearly 4 million copies sold. After twelve years in print, his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be a fixture on national best-seller lists and recently celebrated its eleventh year running on the Wall Street Journal list. His latest book, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, became an instant best-seller. Recognized in Fortune as one of the “ten new gurus you should know,” Pat is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products, and services that improve teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement. The widespread appeal of Lencioni’s leadership models have yielded a diverse base of speaking and consulting clients, including a mix of Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, the military, nonprofits, schools, and churches. Prior to founding his firm, Pat worked as a corporate executive for Sybase, Oracle, and Bain & Company. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four sons.

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