Global Events and RetreatsSpeakers
We are constantly working with great speakers that we have met and placed at Events. Let us know what you are looking for – inspirational, tactical, educational, or entertaining. We will reach out to our recommended speakers or connect you directly.
Here are a few we work with often and are outstanding International speakers. There bios are below.
Name – Company – Topic
Bradley Callow – Rich Legacy – Family
Robert Glazer – Acceleration Partners – Leadership, Company Culture
Christina Harbridge – Allegory Training -Emotional Literacy, Conflict, Public Speaking
Jay Jacobs – Shurn Group – Health and Wellness
Dave Rendall – Freak Factor – Leadership, Development
John Ruhlin- Giftology – Gratitude, Gifting,
Jim Sheils – Family Board Meetings – Family
Bradley Callow is revolutionizing the way affluent families teach and learn passion, performance, and perseverance.
Despite coming from a good family in one of the most affluent counties in the United States,
Bradley narrowly escaped prison and death. Struggling to battle depression and addiction since the age of 11,
Bradley eventually gave up his passion for entrepreneurship.
Without a purpose, Callow quickly spiraled completely out of control and found himself on his knees
with a gun to his own head at the age of 26. Although he didn’t pull the trigger that day, a life plan of robbing drug dealers,
handgun charges, and facing three years in prison lead him to turn his life around.
Bradley is now dedicated to providing the inspiration, tools, and blueprints for transforming how families interact with themselves,
each other and the world. Founded by Callow in 2016, Rich Legacy has rapidly become a trusted resource for top executives,
entrepreneurs, royals, and their families from around the globe.
Rich Legacys’ innovative “Family Challenges” platform and interactive workshops
combine business processes with elements of video games to teach life’s most important lessons in a way both parents and kids
can get excited about.
As an award-winning international speaker, Callow lives for his time spent creating lasting transformation by
opening the eyes, hearts, and minds of parents and children everywhere.
Robert Glazer is the founder and Managing Director of global performance marketing agency, Acceleration Partners. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, Robert has a passion for helping individuals and organization build their capacity to outperform.
Under his leadership, Acceleration Partners has received numerous company culture awards, including #4 on Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards, Ad Age’s Best Place to Work, Entrepreneur’s Top Company Culture, Inc. Magazine’s Best Place to Work, Great Place to Work & Fortune Best Small & Medium Workplaces, Boston Globe Top Workplaces.
Bob is a columnist for both Forbes and Inc. and regularly contributes to numerous outlets, including Entrepreneur, Fast Co, Huffington Post, and Success Magazine. He writes on topics ranging from performance marketing, and entrepreneurship to company culture, capacity building, hiring and leadership.
He also shares ideas and insights around these topics via Friday Forward, a weekly inspirational newsletter that is followed by over 35,000 leaders worldwide.
Bob is a past recipient of the Boston Business Journal “40 under 40” award and is an advisor/board member to several high-growth companies. He also recently authored the international bestselling book, Performance Partnerships: The Checkered Past, Shifting Present, and Exciting Future of Affiliate Marketing.
He is a sought-after speaker by companies and organization around the world, especially on topics related to business growth, culture, capacity-building and performance.
Bob is a strong believer in giving back. He serves on the Board of Directors for BUILD Boston, is a global leader in Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and founder The Fifth Night charitable event (www.fifthnight.org).
When he’s not writing, speaking or leading a global, award-winning company, Bob can likely be found skiing, cycling, reading, travelling, spending quality time with his family or overseeing some sort of home renovation project.
Learn more about Bob at http://www.robertsglazer.com.
Christina Harbridge is a behaviorist who trains and coaches individuals, teams and large groups to understand and leverage their own personal operating system when dealing with others who may or may not be rational.
Christina’s early experience as founder and CEO of a debt collection agency that collected debt
through unorthodox tactics (such as being nice) shaped her worldview on workplace communication.
Employees focused their interactions on filling a person’s need to feel understood through emotionally literate tactics,
rather than focusing on trying to collect a debt that may not even have been owed. This values-based tactic,
reinforced by bonuses paid on thank-you notes received, reinvigorated the industry by resulting in collections
three times higher than the industry average. The proof was in the wedding invitations.
Christina has co-authored software, built and sold a successful finance industry company,
practiced acrobatic swing dancing, participated as a NASA test subject and collaborated to design
and weld several large-scale metal sculptures. She has served her community on the founding boards of The Bay Lights (link)
and Emerge America (link). Her story is covered in more detail in Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why”,
including her methods to transform a confrontation into a conversation to improve the outcome.
She is the author of Swayed: How to Communicate for Impact, which reached number one on Amazon’s ‘Conflict’ category list.
Jay Jacobs
Jay is a highly sought after thought leader, author, wellness ambassador, and keynote speaker on possibility, creativity, well-being and entrepreneurship.
Professionally accomplished, but challenged with his weight his entire life, Jay’s appearance on NBC’s Biggest Loser as a final 4 contestant with his daughter Jennifer gave his career an expanded platform to explore “health + wellness.”
And it was his TEDx Talk and book “Smartphone Fit” co-written and designed with his wife Kim that became the catalyst for Fortune 500 companies to hire him for their corporate wellness keynotes and C-Suite and executive retreats.
As a member of Faith Popcorns Brain Reserve and a Managing Partner of Shurn Group I Wellness Matters, companies also seek out Jay’s branding, marketing and communication expertise as well.
Jay is a popular television and radio guest on such programs as Today, Good Morning America and Fox & Friends, and his wellness and lifestyle thought-leadership has appeared in Time, The New York Times, Readers Digest and countless other publications. In addition, Jay is a wellness-ambassador and major-brand spokesperson for over 20 leading companies, including Cargill, Kraft, Starbucks, Chobani, Cigna, NBC, Biggest Loser Resorts, Asics, Body Media, Flywheel Sports and Summer Fit.
When Jay’s not writing for his “Global Moving” website #couchkills or motivating others through his one-to-one coaching, or corporate wellness speaking engagements, most likely he’s getting in his 20,000 steps a day goal exploring Manhattan, his energetic and creative loadstone.
BIGGEST LOSER FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/JayLynnJacobs
BIGGEST LOSER TWITTER https://twitter.com/JLynnJacobs
SMARTPHONEFIT FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/smartphonefit
GLOBAL “MOVING” WEBSITE #couchkills – https://couchkills.com
LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayjacobs
Dave Rendall
During the last fifteen years, David Rendall has spoken to audiences on every inhabited continent. His clients include the US Air Force, Australian Government, and Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, United Health Group, Fannie Mae, and State Farm.
Prior to becoming a speaker, he was a leadership professor and stand-up comedian. He also managed nonprofit enterprises that provided employment for people with disabilities.
In between presentations, David competes in ultramarathons and Ironman triathlons.
David has a doctor of management degree in organizational leadership, as well as a graduate degree in psychology. He is the author of three books:
– The Four Factors of Effective Leadership
– The Freak Factor
– The Freak Factor for Kids
Keynote Presentation Descriptions:
*(David’s NEW 2017 Keynote): Oppositioning: One Surprising Strategy for Innovation and Differentiation
What can tiny houses, Spartan races, knuckleball pitchers, armless archers, Snapchat, unibrows, and Minecraft teach us about innovation and differentiation?
We all know that innovation and differentiation are essential for success in our careers and our companies. But developing and implementing truly unique ideas and practices seems very difficult, and most people and organizations fail in their efforts to be more creative and distinctive.
The solution to this problem is surprisingly simple. Once you learn this singular method for finding unconventional ideas, you’ll dramatically improve your ability to stand out and you’ll have an endless supply of original breakthroughs. You’ll go from unconventional to unforgettable to unstoppable.
*Funny for a Change: Using Humor to Create Serious Transformation
Is your organization confronting major change? Is your industry experiencing significant challenges? Are you feeling overwhelmed and frustrated? Maybe you just need a good laugh.
Making people laugh is very similar to making people change. We can learn how to transform ourselves and our companies by understanding what it takes to be funny.
Humor surprises people, pushes boundaries and tells the truth. Great comedy requires the right blend of timing, restraint, humility and emotion. Applying these same principles to change management will help you succeed during turbulent times.
The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness
What’s your problem? I’m serious. What do you wish you could change about yourself? What is the complaint that you hear the most from those closest to you, your friends, co-workers, and family members? Are you too loud or too quiet, too hyperactive or too sedentary, too organized or too messy? You get the idea.
So, what should you do? Most people think that they should find and fix their weaknesses. Unfortunately, this just leads to frustration and failure. Your weaknesses are actually the best clue to your strengths. Furthermore, building your strengths, not fixing your weaknesses, is your best strategy for success.
This presentation will encourage you to become more of who you are, not to turn you into someone else. It’s about becoming more different and more unique, not more average and more mediocre. You will learn how to:
- Discover your distinctive strengths and weaknesses
- Frame your unique characteristics in a positive way
- Find situations that highlight your positive qualities
- Maximize your self-control
- Implement permanent procrastination
Dave has many additional topics he speaks on.
Jim is known as the “Crazy Glue” for entrepreneur families. His popular “Board Meeting” strategy and other simple frameworks are helping thousands of business leaders worldwide reconnect where it counts the most: at home.
His firm, Board Meetings, LLC, specializes in retreats, workshops and private consulting for entrepreneurs, looking to strengthen their family lives while still succeeding in business. Jim’s ability to build immediate trust and create consistent results for his clients (and their children) has given him the opportunity to work with top organizations around the world including EO, YPO, Gathering of titans, Mastermind Talks, Harvard University and several top companies including Advisors Excel, Keller Williams and more.
Through his work with entrepreneur families over the years, Jim has also become a leader in the movement to improve the education system for our children. (A growing concern in many entrepreneurial circles). Sharing his own family’s journey into alternative education and the creation of his “Education Matrix”, Jim shows parents how to get involved in their children’s education without feeling overwhelmed and to ensure their kids are receiving the most important lessons rarely taught in school.
In addition to Family Board Meetings, LLC, Jim owns a private real estate investment company that has done over $200 million in transactions. He is also the author of the #1 parenting book, “The Family Board Meeting.”
Jim is an avid surfer and enjoys traveling with family and friends, especially his beautiful wife, Jamie and their four children, Alden, Leland, Maggie and Sammy. Jim’s greatest adventure to date: donating a kidney to the greatest guy on the planet, his father.