SpeakerPalooza: San Francisco

SpeakerPalooza San Francisco
NSA's Winter Meeting
February 14 - 17, 2008
San Francisco, CA 

Set List (six show-stopping general sessions):

• Have you ever asked questions like these, “When will clients return my calls?” “When will bureaus get me more bookings?” “Why can’t I find good staff?” “Who’s going to give me the support I need to succeed?” “When am I going to get a break in the speaking business?”
  
  If so, then you will find John G. Miller's message, Personal Accountability and the QBQ!, a tremendous benefit to growing your speaking business. John is the founder of QBQ, Inc., an organizational development firm dedicated to making personal accountability a core value for organizations and individuals. Through his writings, speaking and a nationwide network of QBQ!-certified consultants, Miller has brought his message to countless organizations including Bausch & Lomb, Blockbuster, American Cancer Society, Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless, Applebee’s, Boeing, Pier 1 Imports, Wilson’s Leather and the U.S. Department of Defense.
  
  He is the author of the best-selling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question and the new book Flipping the Switch. He spent a decade selling sales management and leadership training prior to becoming an author and speaker. His message of QBQ! was developed facilitating more than 10,000 hours of training with corporations from many industries.

• Lynn Price has found success through her tour in the corporate world, the entrepreneurial world and now in Camp Belong, a non-profit camp for siblings separated by foster care. As a winner of Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network Use Your Life Award and President Clinton’s Points of Light Service Award, Lynn will challenge you to take your “Vision for a Change” and move it into personal and professional action.

• Join Rory Vaden, MBA as he shows you how to keep pace with the next generation of professional speakers and connect with younger audiences. You will catch the contagious attitude of one of the most successful and playful Gen Yers on the planet and get insight into the disciplined mindset it will take to create explosive growth in the future for your speaking business.
  
  Twenty-five year old Rory Vaden, MBA, holds the record at The Southwestern Company for the largest recruited sales team and highest production by in-school dealers—a group of 23 college students who sold half a million dollars of product in three months. He was the Toastmasters 2007 World Champion of Public Speaking 1st Runner Up and author of the new book, No Laughs to Know Laughs: How to be Funny to Make More Money.

• Watch out for falling eggs and flying potatoes when Steve Spangler, CSP, takes the platform to show you how to create unforgettable learning experiences. Unlocking the chains of tradition and allowing people the freedom to explore their own creativity is the secret to sparking ideas and creating contagious learning experiences. Whether you are educating kids, customers or employees, getting ideas to stick and spread like a virus is the key to turning ordinary events into unforgettable experiences. With a huge YouTube following and fresh off the NSA Youth Leadership Conference where he blew up 158 Diet Coke bottles, Steve will take you beyond stories, PowerPoint and group discussions into an “out of body” experience.
  
  Steve earned an Emmy as the host of NBC television's News for Kids. He appears each week as the "Science Guy" on NBC affiliates throughout the country, and his catalog and online business is a think-tank of creative educators and science enthusiasts who have created hundreds of science education teaching tools and specialty toys for retailers like Toys “R” Us, the Discovery Channel Store and Target.

• Drawing on experiences as a litigator, Francine Ward, JD, will show you that the jury is still out on your life’s success story. Her unbelievably candid message, practical strategies and fresh ideas will force you to examine, re-assess and reframe your life events to realize the greatness that shines within you.
  
  Some people talk about getting things done. Other people actually get things done. Francine strikes that delicate balance between being a visionary with an idea and a mover and shaker who turns it into something bankable. Lawyer, entrepreneur, author, professional speaker, philanthropist and marathon runner—each of these signifies a commendable achievement for any individual, but together, they form an extraordinary list of credentials for one person to attain. And when that person is a former drug-addicted, alcoholic prostitute, the magnitude of Francine’s accomplishments is astonishing.

• Chip Heath can teach you a lot about making your own messages stay with people by looking at naturally sticky ideas. Urban legends don't have advertising budgets or PR assistance; they survive and spread on their own. Chip will discuss six principles that can help you make your own messages stick with others in a way that changes how they think and act.
  
  Chip is a professor at Stanford University in the Graduate School of Business and is the co-author (with his brother Dan) of Made to Stick, the blockbuster New York Times bestseller. His parents are just happy that their sons are playing well together.