Virtually Speaking

Jen Gottlieb is an expert at helping people and brands to be confidently seen! Jen is the founder of a full-service PR agency, awarded “Best New Agency” in the 2019 Bulldog Awards, is a powerful influencer with 250,000 social media followers, and has been featured on many top podcasts, as well as in Forbes, Business Insider, Shape, Women's Health, Goop, and on Good Morning America, PBS, Well + Good, and more. As a Former VH1 host and Broadway actress, Jen uses her decade of performance and mindset experience to inspire entrepreneurs and leaders connect better with their teams, the media, and ultimately, themselves. Jen is half mindset coach and half media coach. As one of the leading PR execs and minds in the country, her passion is giving clients and audiences the confidence, authority, and social proof/ credibility to place them at the top of their industry. Along the way, Jen helps them leverage their own strengths, transforming them into the best version of who they are. In between being on Broadway and VH1 to now owning a PR firm, Jen created and ran a fitness training and high-performance mindset coaching brand helping celebrities, CEOs and entrepreneurs transform their bodies and, frankly, their lives. Helping clients shed up to 70 pounds was incredible, but her favorite part was seeing them shine. Beyond stepping into a smaller suit or dress, they were now stepping onto the stage, stepping in front of the camera, stepping into their full potential. Jen wanted more of that. So now, she's living out her full potential, excited to inspire your audience from the stage. To get to know or book Jen as a speaker: https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/jen-gottlieb/.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Natalie Nixon, PhD, has been called the “Creativity Whisperer for the C-Suite,” a top change management keynote speaker, consultant, and a strategy, foresight, and innovation expert. She is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning book The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition. Seth Godin said that Natalie “helps you get unstuck and unlock the work you were born to do!” In 2021, Fast Company named her a World Changing Ideas Honoree and Real Leaders named her a top 50 Keynote Speaker in the world for 2022. Featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and INC, she advises leaders on unique approaches to process transformation and leverage creativity as an innovation resource to more rapidly achieve priority business goals. A hybrid thinker, Natalie consistently applies her background in cultural anthropology, fashion, design thinking and dance. Natalie is an early-stage investor at two social impact ventures, valued for her ability to work at the intersection of commercial value and stakeholder equity. For more on Natalie or to book her to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/34773. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Lt. Col. Waldo Waldman, "The Wingman", and a real TOP GUN, is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller "Never Fly Solo," which draws from his experiences as a decorated F-16 Fighter Pilot and businessman. Waldo flew 65 combat missions and as result earned numerous awards in the Air Force, including the Air Medal, the Aerial Achievement Award, the Air Force Commendation Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal. Waldo is a hall of fame speaker who also earned an MBA, and as a businessman he was named one of 40 under 40 business leaders in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Journal. He's appeared on Fox News, Harvard Business Review, NBC, Inc. Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, and on CNN interviewed by Sanja Gupta. For more or to book Waldo to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/6542?btsc=1Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Nonny de la Peña is regarded as one of the most influential pioneers in virtual and augmented reality and immersive technologies and journalism. In 2022 Nonny received a Peabody Award, introduced by the Oscar Award Winning Director Alejandro Iñárritu, and in 2022 she was also inducted into the SXSW Hall of Fame. Nonny was named Wall Street Journal Technology Innovator of the Year, A Wired Magazine #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change, and she has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative” and she was one of CNET's 20 Most Influential Latinos in Tech for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling. Her latest endeavor is as the Founding Director for Narrative and Emerging Media at Arizona State University, campus located in Downtown L.A. As a Harvard Graduate, a New America Fellow, Yale Poynter Media Fellow, and winner of the Knight Innovation Award, Nonny is widely credited with creating the genre of immersive journalism. She is currently a member of the BAFTA virtual reality board, and is a former correspondent for Newsweek. Nonny's virtual reality work has been featured by the New York Times, BBC, Mashable, Vice, Wired and many others. Showcases and Talks around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals, The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Games For Change. She has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print, film and TV and her spatial narratives are consistently met with critical acclaim. Video of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu presenting the Peabody Award to Nonny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqoz7KZdyaY&t=0s For more on Nonny or to book her to speak: https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/nonny-de-la-pena/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Greg Schwem is more than a comedian; he is one of the most successful and in-demand motivational corporate comedians in America. As a stand-up comedian, Greg has opened for Chris Rock, Jay Leno, Celine Dion, Kenny Loggins, Pat Benatar, Leann Rimes, Keith Urban, and many more. He has appeared on Sirius Satellite Radio and Comedy Central, and he has a new 2022 special on Dry Bar Comedy called "You Can't Quarantine Laughter." Greg gets rave reviews and incredible audience engagement (and tons of laughter) every time he is booked. He's spoken professionally for over two decades to over 1000 organizations, from the likes of Mcdonald's to the CIA. For more on Greg or to book him to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com...Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

As Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, Duncan Wardle and his team helped Imagineering, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, and Disney Parks to innovate, creating magical new storylines and experiences. He is a renowned expert in developing innovative, magical brands, engaging stories, and creative experiences that drive results. Duncan is a multiple TED speaker and contributor to Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, & the Harvard Business Review. He teaches innovation Master Classes at Yale, Harvard, and Edinburgh University and has won impressive AWARDS such as an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration, Edinburgh Napier University. The White House American Citizen Award and the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Duncan's Theory of Creativity™ unique design thinking creative process and tools have created innovative business results for Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilms as well as other Fortune 100 companies such as Pepsi, NBA, NBCUniversal, Coca-Cola, IBM, Princess Cruises, Apple and more. For more on Duncan or to book him to speak: https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/duncan-wardle/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Eric Saperston is an Award Winning Filmmaker of the "Most Memorable Documentary of the Past 10 Years Award" at the South by Southwest Film Festival for his acclaimed film “The Journey,” where Eric called up extraordinary people and asked them to have a cup of coffee. Celebrities like Billy Crystal, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Carter, Ann Richards, as well as powerful business luminaries like Marshall Goldsmith joined him and had impactful conversations about what traits make them who they are. Eric is also the bestselling author of “Live In Wonder: Quests, Quotes, & Questions To Jumpstart Your Journey.” Today, Eric has an upcoming digital series called “Three Things,” where he interviews more transformative people like Woody Harrelson, Shep Gordon, and Henry Winkler. The series is based on a very successful game and team building exercise he created. Eric has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, The New York Times, and has been a world renowned speaker for the past 15+ years, delivering his expertise on communication, leadership, and performance.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Jeffrey Gitomer is known as the King of Sales. A columnist, a speaker with over 2500 speeches given worldwide, a consultant, a sales trainer, and a multiple bestselling author of numerous books that have sold millions of copies including the #1 selling sales book of all time - "The Little Red Book of Selling", and the #1 NYT Bestsellers "The Sales Bible" and "The Little Gold book of YES! Attitude", and over a dozen and a half more, all of which have been #1 bestsellers on Amazon and appeared over 750 times on best-seller lists worldwide. He is one of the top 5 bestselling sales book authors of all time. His online content has millions of views, 100ks subscribers, and his podcast "Sell or Die" has over 1.5M downloads. Jeffrey has been featured in Time Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and countless more. For more on Jeffrey or to book him to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/3710?btsc=1.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Kindra Hall is the bestselling author of “Stories that Stick” which debuted at #2 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, and is a USA Today, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly bestseller. Forbes said "Stories that Stick may be the most valuable business book you read.” Her January 2022 Book Titled “Choose Your Story, Change Your Life: Silence Your Inner Critic and Rewrite Your Life from the Inside Out” is critically acclaimed and sure to be a bestseller as well. Kindra has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, New York Post, Investors Business Daily, and more. Kindra is a regular columnist for Inc. Magazine and is the Former Chief Storytelling Officer of SUCCESS Magazine where she interviews icons like Deepak Chopra, Daymond John, and Misty Copeland in an effort to hear and share their stories of success. Kindra is a former vice president of sales for a multi-million dollar enterprise, and now teaches others how to build better relationships, become better leaders and increase revenue by maximizing their untold stories. Kindra has her Master's Degree, is a national champion storyteller, a published author, 2014 Storytelling World Award recipient, and is behind the scenes managing stories for best-selling authors, CEOs and thought leaders. For more on Kindra or to book her to speak: https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/kindra-hall/ Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Vince Poscente is a multiple international bestselling author, a Winter Games Olympian, and a Hall of Fame speaker. Author of the New York Times bestseller The Age of Speed and the international bestselling phenomenon, The Ant and The Elephant - Leadership for The Self, Vince has a new book, titled The Earthquake – Your Journey From Setback to Breakthrough, set to be released this month. The book is endorsed by The Dalai Lama, who said this book "will inspire many to meet the difficult challenges of life.” At age 26, Vince decided he was going to become an Olympian. He went from being a recreational skier into one of the top 10 speed skiers in the world in four years. In the past decade, Vince has led expeditions for novices up to the summit of the Himalayas. As a renowned expert on mindset, resiliency, and overcoming setbacks, he‘s had an incredible speaking career for the past two decades. MPI ranked Vince one of the "Top 10 Motivational Speakers in the World," and Meetings & Conventions Magazine named him "Meeting Planners' Favorite Speaker." For more on Vince or to book him to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/10?btsc=1 Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Walter Bond is a former undrafted NBA 6th man, who played for the Dallas Mavericks, The Utah Jazz, and the Detroit Pistons. He later became a sports broadcaster, a television host, and entrepreneur. Walter is also a multiple bestselling author whose third book was released in 2020, titled: Swim!: How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next Level Success. Walter is a legendary presenter who has achieved Hall of Fame Speaker status, speaking on over 2000 stages worldwide – delivering his expertise in Teamwork and Culture, Resilience & Attitude (the Shark Mindset), and Peak Performance.For more on Walter or to book him to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/1979Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Dr. Brad Nieder perfectly coined the phrase that best describes who he is... "The Healthy Humorist.” He's a very funny MD and a clean comedian who blends healthcare humor with wellness advice in an uplifting message. Brad is a graduate of Stanford University, where he was the founding member of the improv comedy troupe, the SIMPS. Later, he was a medical student at University of Colorado School of Medicine, with a residency that followed at the Medical College of Virginia. Brad is a co-author of the book Humor Me, has created comedy programs for the stage and video, and earned the prestigious Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, speaking to hundreds of companies and organizations over the past 15+ years. Brad brings his hilarious comedy to the stage, while delivering tangible takeaways, medical facts, and research behind the old adage, that “Laughter is the Best Medicine.”Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Brett King is an International Bestselling Author whose books have been released in over a dozen languages, achieving bestseller status in 20 countries. Brett hosts the world's first and #1 ranked radio show on FinTech called “Breaking Banks” (180 countries, 7 million listeners). He is a media personality who covers the future of business, banking, technology, and society, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN, CNBC, BBC, ABC, Fox, and Bloomberg. Brett advised the Obama administration on Fintech policy, advises regulators and bank boards around the world on technology transformation, and has spoken in over 50 countries. He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Moven, a successful mobile start-up, which has raised over US$47 million to date, with the world's first mobile, downloadable bank account, available all over the world. Brett was named the “Godfather of Fintech” by The Australian, voted American Banker's Innovator of the Year, and voted the world's #1 Financial Services Influencer by The Financial Brand. His fifth book, Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane, was an international bestseller, top 10 in North America and China, and the book remained in the top-10 on Amazon for 2 years. Bank 4.0, which followed, spent 2 years on the Amazon bestsellers list for Banking books. His coming book for the post-Coronavirus world is entitled The Rise of Technosocialism and is due out November 21, 2021. For more on Brett or to book him to speak:https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/19933?btsc=1 Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Cassandra Worthy is the world's leading expert on Change Enthusiasm. She inspires top talent to thrive in the face of merger, acquisition, and other major disruptions. Cassandra is a two-time TEDx speaker, and the author of the August 2021 book titled “Change Enthusiasm” which Hit #1 on Amazon's New Releases in Work Life Balance list within the first week and was recently nominated as a Fall 2021 ‘Next Big Idea', a list curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant. In addition to being a disruptive thought leader, Cassandra is an executive, a former Fortune 100 innovation leader, and senior chemical engineer with nearly two decades in the CPG industry and over a decade of M&A experience. And she delivers something truly unique and fresh.. For the first time simplifying how to shift the macroscopic cultural mindset to embrace change through motivating the individual at the microscopic level. Arming individuals with the means to harness the power of emotion, a resource in infinite supply today, to embrace and accelerate change and transformational journeys. For more on Cassandra or to book her to speak: https://speakers.calentertainment.com/profile/31805...Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Josh Linkner is a well-known thought leader and author of two New York Times Bestsellers, Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention, plus the bestsellers Hacking Innovation and his 2021 book, Big Little Breakthroughs. He is a five-time tech entrepreneur, serving as founder and CEO of each company, driving a combined exit value of over $200 Million. One of Josh's ventures was as founder and CEO/Chairman of ePrize, the largest interactive promotion agency in the world. He is a founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners, which helps rebuild his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Josh is a weekly contributor to Inc. Magazine, Forbes, Detroit Free Press, and has been featured by many other international media. He has received high praise from people like Magic Johnson, Seth Godin, Steve Case, and from the chairmen of companies like US Bancorp and Groupon. Josh moves audiences to action with practical and effective approaches to driving better business outcomes via creativity, innovation, reinvention, and hyper-growth leadership. Josh is also a professional jazz guitarist, so creativity comes natural to him.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Sarita Maybin is an internationally recognized communication expert who teaches us how to navigate the most difficult of conversations. The well-known speaker and Bestselling Author, Les Brown, perhaps put it best when he said “Sarita Maybin's skillful combination of positive examples and practical phrases will transform your communication experience”.Sarita literally wrote the book on how to answer the perpetually perplexing question: If You Can't Say Something Nice, What DO You Say? She continues the conversation in her new 2020 book, Say What You Mean in a Nice Way.In her 20+ years as an international speaker Sarita has spoken for TEDx and worldwide in more than 10 countries. She has received numerous awards including: International Who's Who of Professional Women, Who's Who in the Southwest, Toastmasters Winner, and was voted a Top 5 Communication Speaker. Sarita is a former Chapter President of the National Speakers Assn and a former university dean of students. She has been featured in the media including by Fox, ABC and Forbes.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Kenny Tedford Jr. was born almost totally deaf, partially blind, and with brain damage. He has also survived cancer, heart attacks, and temporary paralysis from breaking his neck. Despite all of these challenges, Kenny has accomplished an enormous amount as a man of many talents: An author, humorist, life coach, motivational speaker, counselor, teacher, ambassador, master storyteller, actor, and entrepreneur.Kenny was told by his teachers, counselor, and the Board of Education that he would never pass the 3rd grade. He proved them wrong by graduating with honors and then attending Gallaudet University for the Deaf in Washington, D.C. He later transferred to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN., earning his B.A. in Theatre and then went on to earn a Masters Degree in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University. Kenny has served as the Executive Director of both the Tennessee Council for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing and the Communications Center for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing. He has also worked as a career counselor and employment specialist for the disabled, and was appointed as a Red Cross Ambassador representing the United States around the world.Kenny will inspire you with his compelling storytelling, his hilarious sense of humor, and his strong faith - even in the face of adversity. He has shown by his life that disabilities, heart attacks, falling off a cliff, and cancer can all be used for good.For more on Kenny or to book him to speak:https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/kenny-tedford/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Tim Sanders is a former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo (2001-2005) and the current Vice President of Customer Insights at Upwork. Tim is an award-winning, bestselling author of five books, including “The Likeability Factor”, and the New York Times bestseller, “Love Is The Killer App: How To Win Business And Influence Friends”. His publications have over one million copies in print worldwide.Tim was an early-stage member of Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com, which had the largest opening day gain in IPO history. Yahoo! later acquired Cuban's company for almost six billion dollars and Tim became Yahoo!'s Chief Solutions Officer and leadership coach. He's served on advisory boards for several other startups, including the social reading website Goodreads, which was purchased by Amazon in 2014.For the last several years Tim's research has centered around speeding up innovation through better leadership and collaboration. As a global thought leader, Tim has appeared in Fast Company, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, CBC, and many others.In this conversation, the topics are: burnout, the new work environment, the empowerment of consumers and employees, leadership, collaboration, mentorship, and wellness.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Jim “The Rookie” Morris is a bestselling author who was portrayed by Dennis Quaid in the hit Disney film “The Rookie”. Jim's amazing life warranted major Hollywood studios fighting for the right to tell his story. Achieving impossible feats is what Jim has done throughout his life. Overcoming a very abusive father, 70 surgeries, a failed MLB career, substance abuse, and even Parkinson's Disease. He is truly a blessed man, who was meant to move and inspire millions of people. After winning the state championship as a wingback, punter and kicker for the legendary Texas high school football coach Gordon Wood, (playing football because they didn't have a baseball team) he went on to pitch in the minor leagues but soon retired after having a losing record and major arm surgeries that forced him to stop. 10 years later, Jim promised the high school baseball team he coached that he would try out again for the majors if they won the championship. So, at age 35 he did, and he was shocked to find out he was throwing at 98 MPH, 10 miles an hour faster than he ever had in his early 20s. His story was well known to all of the MLB and eventually Disney came with an offer to bring it to the big screen. The star-studded and award-winning movie went on to make $100 Million Dollars. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Seth Godin is a remarkable entrepreneur, international best-selling author, and expert on marketing, communication, entrepreneurialism, and leadership. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 20 best-selling books, including “The Dip,” “Linchpin,” “Purple Cow,” “Tribes,” and “What To Do When It's Your Turn.” His most recent books, “This is Marketing” and “The Practice,” were instant bestsellers around the world. Seth also founded two major companies, Squidoo and Yoyodyne – which was acquired by Yahoo! In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame as well. He might be the only person in both. Seth is regularly featured by media worldwide including Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, Inc Magazine, Adweek, The Motley Fool, NPR, and by Time Magazine who ranked Seth's blog, “This is Seth's Blog,” as one of the top 25 in the world. Seth's very popular podcast “Akimbo” is listened to weekly by millions. He is followed by millions across the social platforms and his content online has been viewed by tens of millions. For more on Seth or to book him to speak:https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/seth-godin/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Dr. Deborah Berebichez is a Chief Data Scientist, who made history as the first Mexican woman to graduate from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in physics. Deborah has been the co-host of Discovery Channel's "Outrageous Acts of Science" for the past eleven seasons, where she uses her physics background to explain the science behind extraordinary engineering feats. Deborah has been featured by many media outlets worldwide, including in Forbes, Wired, The New York Times, US & World News Report, and on The Travel Chanel, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Univision, NatGeo, and many more. Deborah's work in science education and outreach has been widely recognized by The Wall Street Journal, Oprah, TED, and by organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) where she was named the IF/THEN Ambassador for inspiring and empowering young women to learn science and to improve the state of STEM education in the world.Deborah completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University's Applied Math and Physics Department and at NYU's Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Vinny Lingham is a serial entrepreneur, and one of the most recognized and influential blockchain and cryptocurrency experts in the world. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Civic Technologies, which is a blockchain-based identity management company. Vinny is one of the Sharks on “Shark Tank South Africa,” and he is a general partner of the investment firm Multicoin Capital, one of the world's largest crypto funds investing in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.Vinny is often affectionately referred to as the Oracle of Bitcoin when featured by major media outlets like Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Business Insider, Coin Desk, and many more. His vision for the best usage of the blockchain is to create security, privacy, and identity verification and protection.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Mark Eaton is a legendary former NBA All Star, who was the most dominant shot blocker of his era, becoming the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year twice and setting the record (which still stands today) for the most shots blocked in any season in NBA History, (456 – which is an average of 5.56 per game) and nobody has ever come close!His bestselling book, The Four Commitments of a Winning Team – with a foreword written by NBA Legend and Hall of Famer John Stockton – enables industry leaders, teams and individuals to outsmart, outlast, and outperform their competition and achieve record-breaking success.Mark's story is an incredible and improbable journey, which goes from a high school basketball bench-warmer to a 21-year- old auto mechanic with no future in basketball, to ultimately becoming a record-breaking NBA player and All Star!He is an expert on team building and business building, and teaches organizations how to employ the leadership principles and coaching techniques he mastered in his twelve-year NBA basketball career, one of which is knowing your limitations and becoming great at what you do best.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

James Sun is a serial technology entrepreneur with several exits and is currently the CEO of Beautytap, and the Owner of Dramabeans. James was the first Asian male to land a spot on the NBC hit reality TV show “The Apprentice” in season 6, and became the first Asian finalist in the history of the show. After The Apprentice James became the host of his own TV show on The BBC, called “Sun Tzu's War on Business” where he was tasked with and successfully accomplished turning around 12 companies in 11 different countries in a span of 18 months.James is a champion of corporate diversity and inclusion, and an expert in the global marketplace and workforce, working with corporations to tap into their diverse employee cultures to not only empower them, but to give diversity cues to the company about how the products they sell are perceived, useable, and best presented to all cultures and ethnicities around the world.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Noah Wilson-Rich has a Ph.D. in behavioral ecology, is a viral TED speaker with millions of views, and a bestselling author. Noah founded The Best Bees Company which has thousands of beehives for research on corporate campuses and rooftops nationwide, as well as collaborations with MIT, Harvard, TED, National Geographic, and NASA. He's also known as the ‘beekeeper to the stars'.Each client beehive is a bio-indicator for environmental health, including acting as active data sources for NASA's studies on pollinator populations and climate change, Harvard's studies of pesticides in the environment, and National Geographic's reporting of pollinator habitat.As an academic scientist, Noah has held faculty appointments in biology at Tufts University and Northeastern University and his research focuses on what's saving bees, rather than solely on what's killing them. Using a custom-built digital platform to collect bee health data at scale, Noah makes an out-sized impact on the larger mission to save the bees while helping clients understand the quantifiable impact they have on the environment by opening their rooftops to pollinators.Noah has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Fortune, Business Insider, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and many more.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Sasha Strauss is perhaps the most compelling thought leader and expert on brand strategy in the world – as his resume will show, transforming major brands the likes of PayPal, Lego, Google, Disney, Adobe, Amgen, ADP, and more, at the C-Suite level. Sasha is a globally recognized and award winning builder of consumer and marketplace brand messaging, employee onboarding, internal organizational messaging on purpose, and bringing the various “silos” within a company to work together. Sasha focuses on how PR, Marketing, and Customer Relations all work together in a single, focused, and aligned way.Years ago, when Sasha started delivering his “Rise of The Herogen” keynote (which has been delivered in 20 countries), he accurately predicted and defined the digital new world/ the new normal we now live in.Sasha is an expert in: leveraging emerging technologies, understanding what the consumer wants and how they think, and defining an organization's internal message and purpose – then getting that message out to the masses in a relevant way that resonates.Sasha has taught brand strategy for the past decade to graduate students at the MBA programs at UCLA, USC, and UCI, where he remains one of the highest-rated faculty members.For more on Sasha or to book him as a speaker: https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/sasha-strauss/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Jay Samit is a serial entrepreneur and disruptor. He has worked with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen, the Pope, and the President of the United States. He's the most recent former Vice Chairman of Deloitte. Over the decades Jay has built and sold many of his own companies, has been an executive or senior management at major companies including Sony, EMI and Universal Pictures. He has taken an equity stake in more than 80 companies, has raised more than $800 million for start-ups, has helped grow multibillion dollar juggernauts such as LinkedIn and eBay before they even IPO'ed, and has revamped governments.Jay talks about the importance and practice of being disruptive in your industry, which is the mantra he has had for decades, himself disrupting and causing major changes in industry after industry. His international major bestseller, “Disrupt You!”, now in print in dozens of languages, is critically acclaimed and a must-read according to the heaviest hitters in business. His March 2021 release, “Future Proofing You: 12 truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling your Destiny in an Uncertain World”, is critically acclaimed and set to be another bestseller.Jay has always been at the forefront of emerging trends and is today known as a world renowned expert in Digital Tech, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR), Smart Wearables, The Sharing Economy, and Autonomous Tech.Jay has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg, CNBC, WIRED, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Economic Times, Ad Age, Investors Business Daily, Tech Crunch, The Los Angeles Times, Yahoo, and more.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Kenyon Salo energizes and inspires us to take more risks, to get outside our comfort zones, and to create more experiences that impact others – living our “Bucket List Life.”Kenyon is a professional athlete, adventurer, and skydiver with over 7000 jumps. He has been flying via parachute into Sports Authority Field at 60+ mph, ending with a soft tip-toe landing on the ten-yard line, for every Denver Broncos home game for the past 9 years as one of five members of the Denver Broncos Thunderstorm Skydive Team.In his talks, he has a rare ability to capture and engage everyone in the room via his energy, his riveting storytelling, and even by creating content that delivers to each of the Four Color Personality Types by speaking to the core motives and natural talents that everyone experiences as human beings.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Andy Stumpf is a retired Navy SEAL who is highly decorated including Five Bronze Star Medals (four with Valor) and the Purple Heart. In Andy's illustrious 17-year SEAL career he became a member of the most elite counterterrorism unit in the military, SEAL Team Six, which is a small unit that is tasked with some of the nation's most critical missions, and which is the subject of countless Hollywood movies. One of Andy's team's missions was rescuing Jessica Lynch during the Iraq war. On another mission, Andy was shot at close range with an AK-47 by an Iraqi insurgent.Andy executed hundreds of combat operations throughout the world in support of the Global War on Terror. He became a commissioned officer, the first E-6 selection commissioned through the Limited Duty Officer Program in the history of Naval Special Warfare.Andy is also one of the top skydivers and base jumpers in the world and held the world record jump for longest distance flown in a wingsuit – which was a jump from 36,000 feet and covered over 18 miles distance.Andy has his own popular podcast called “Cleared Hot”, and has been featured across all major media including on CNBC, Inc.com, The New York Times, WIRED, multiple appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and on CBS' TV Reality Show “Hunted” as a hunter for fugitives.For more on Andy or to book him to speak: https://www.calentertainment.com/portfoliotype/andy-stumpf/.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Emily Harrington is a professional rock climber and adventurer who has been a prominent and leading figure in the climbing community since she was a teenager. Her early years were defined by her successes on the USA Climbing Team on the national and world competition circuit, including 5 US National Sport Climbing Championships and 2 North American Championships. Emily's true passion lies with outdoor climbing and exploring the mountains.Since shifting her focus from the competition, Emily has established numerous first female ascents of 5.14 sport routes, summited Mount Everest, and has been on expeditions all over the world attempting big wall free climbs and high-altitude peaks in Nepal, China, Myanmar, Crimea, and Morocco. In 2020, Emily achieved a lifelong dream and a career milestone, becoming just the fourth woman ever to free-climb El Capitan in one day, and the first woman to ever do it via the famed Golden Gate route. El Cap is the largest piece of granite in the world and stands 3,200 feet tall. One of her two climbing partners during this incredible feat was El Cap “Free Solo” climbing legend, and her friend, Alex Honnold.With a highly-anticipated documentary about her story on the way later this year, only the sky is the limit for Emily. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, National Geographic, CNN, NPR, Sports Illustrated, The North Face and many more.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Scott McKain: Are You Iconic? Distinguish Yourself & Your Company In Today's Changed WorldScott McKain, the author of four #1 business bestsellers on Amazon, is known as a customer experience and distinction expert who teaches companies and people how to stand out from the competition. He has played the villain in a Werner Herzog film that Roger Ebert called one of the 50 “great movies” in cinema history, he has been booked to speak by Arnold Schwarzenegger for an event on the White House lawn in front of the President of the United States, he's been a successful entrepreneur, and has been the member of multiple Boards of Directors. The tapestry of Scott McKain's distinctive experiences have blended to create the inimitable content that makes him one of the world's most in-demand business experts and speakers. Today, he's a Corporate Educator in Residence at High Point University, a member of the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame, a member of the Sales and Marketing Hall of Fame, along with Zig Ziglar Seth Godin and Dale Carnegie, and his latest book titled “ICONIC”, was named by Forbes one of the “Top Ten Business Books of The Year” and by American Express as one of the “Six Books to Help You Innovate” through the pandemic.

Mark Scharenbroich is a bestselling and award-winning, author and speaker who is inducted in the National Speakers Assn Hall of Fame. He's an Emmy Award(r) winning writer/producer and the recipient of several international film awards.As a young speaker, Mark appeared in a Josten's award-winning film, “The Greatest Days of your Life…(so far)” which featured Mark speaking and has been viewed by millions of people worldwide. The film was awarded the Golden Apple and the Silver Screen Award.Mark's brand and his mantra is “Nice Bike”, and it's more than just a compliment, or a metaphor, but a powerful engine fueled by the three actions of acknowledging, honoring and connecting with others, which he turned into his critically acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling book: “Nice Bike – Making Meaningful Connections On The Road Of Life”, winning the Gold Axiom Business Book Award, and the Silver IBPA Ben Franklin Award.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Since 2013, Dr. Stephen Klasko has been the CEO of Jefferson Health and the President of Thomas Jefferson University, one of the nation's fastest growing academic health institutions. Under his leadership and his vision of re-imagining health care, Jefferson Health expanded from 3 hospitals to 14, employing 35,000 people. Jefferson has also been one of the very best at protecting their staff and doctors, with a less than 1% rate of infection of COVID, where the nation's average is at 3-4%.Stephen's track record of success at creating and implementing programs that are shaping the future of health care earned him a place among Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2018; He is also ranked #2 on Modern Healthcare's list of Most Influential People in Healthcare. For 2018-19, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Thomas Jefferson University Hospital among the nation's best in 10 specialties. In 2020, he was named the first Distinguished Fellow of the World Economic Forum.In 2020, Stephen published two books: “Un-Healthcare: From Sick Care to Health Assurance”, and “Patient No Longer: Why Healthcare Must Deliver the Care Experience that Consumers Want and Expect”. His best-selling 2018 book is titled, “Bless This Mess: A Picture Story of Healthcare in America”.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

From his incredibly successful role on ABC's smash hit, “Shark Tank”, to his distinguished status as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship for President Obama, Daymond John has become globally recognized for his relentless commitment to promoting and supporting entrepreneurs.Daymond initially made his mark as the entrepreneur and branding expert behind the groundbreaking lifestyle brand, FUBU, which has eclipsed more than $6 billion in global retail sales.In 2009 Daymond joined ABC's “Shark Tank”. Now, after 12 seasons, multiple Emmy Awards, multiple Critic's Choice Awards, millions of dollars in investments, and creating many millionaires, the show has become one of the most successful business reality series of all time. Daymond has been a mainstay of the cast of Sharks and is now affectionately referred to as, “The People's Shark.” He also is the most successful investor of all the sharks!Daymond has written five books and is a Three-Time ‘New York Times Best-Selling Author'… the only New York Times best-selling author of any of the Sharks. Daymond is a recipient of more than thirty-five awards, including the Brandweek Marketer of the Year and Ernst & Young's Master Entrepreneur of the Year.

Paul Smith is one of the world's leading experts on organizational storytelling. He's one of Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers and the author of three Amazon #1 Bestsellers: “Lead with a Story” (now in its 11th printing, and published in 7 languages around the world), “Sell with a Story”, and “The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell”; in addition to “Parenting with a Story” and his newest work, “Four Days with Kenny Tedford”. Paul is a former executive at The Procter & Gamble Company and for the last decade+ has trained executives at international giants like Google, HP, Ford, Bayer, and many more.Paul holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a 20-year veteran of P&G, where he worked mostly as the director of consumer and communications research for the company's $6 billion global paper business where he led a research team across four continents. He also held leadership positions in corporate finance, manufacturing plants, and sales working closely with major global retailers like Walmart, Costco, and Sam's Club.After documenting thousands of stories along the way as research for his books, Paul has become a renowned expert on how to identify and craft an effective and compelling story. He helps companies and their leaders craft their corporate stories and teaches the art and science of storytelling and leadership so leaders and team members can be more effective at communicating and selling.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Mike Walsh is an authority on disruptive innovation, digital transformation, and new ways of thinking for the past two decades. A global nomad, futurist, and author of three bestselling books, Mike advises some of the world's biggest organizations on reinvention and change in this new era of machine intelligence.Mike's views have appeared in a wide range of international publications including Inc. Magazine, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. A regulator contributor to the Harvard Business Review, his writings explore a wide range of leadership topics including data-driven decision making, agile organizations, algorithmic management, and Arificial Intelligence ethics. Mike interviews provocative thinkers, innovators, and troublemakers on his podcast, “Between Worlds”.His latest book, “The Algorithmic Leader” (2019) was selected to be given to the world leaders and executive attendees of the Ambrosetti Global Forum in Italy. “Futuretainment”, Mike's first book Released in 2009, predicted how the smartphone would reshape the media and marketing industry, and the imminent rise of social media, digital influencers and streaming entertainment. In his 2014 book, “The Dictionary of Dangerous Ideas”, Mike anticipated breakthroughs in micro satellite networks, cryptocurrencies, remote work, digital protest movements, self-driving cars, drones and digital biology.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Tommy Davidson is a legendary comedian and one of the best multi-talented entertainers in comedy. His impressions, his dancing, his singing, his acting, and his stand-up comedy have filled up TV and movie screens since the '90s.A star of the legendary and breakthrough TV show “In Living Color”, he has gone on to appear in major motion pictures including “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls”, and alongside Samuel Jackson and Halle Berry in “Strictly Business”, as well as in many other movies. He starred in several of his own comedy specials, has had multiple recurring appearances on hit television series including Martin, MADtv, Everybody Hates Chris, Black Dynamite, I'm Dying Up Here, and countless more, and has appeared on several recent game/ reality programs including Worst Cooks in America and as the host of 37 episodes of Vacation Creation.Tommy has made numerous appearances on the likes of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan Obrien, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The TODAY Show, The View, Wendy Williams, The Bernie Mac Show, The Arsenio Hall Show, and many more.In Tommy's 2020 critically acclaimed book “Living In Color – What's Funny About Me” he reveals truths about his life that are unfathomable and nothing less than inspiring.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Erik Qualman is a 5 Time #1 Bestselling Author of books on Digital Leadership including “Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence”. Qualman's work from “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business” has been featured on 60 minutes and The Wall Street Journal. His 2020 critically acclaimed book “The Focus Project – The Not So Simple Art of Doing Less” was released early due to popular demand during the pandemic.A former sitting professor at Harvard & MIT's edx Labs, Erik has been called a Digital Dale Carnegie and The Tony Robbins of Tech. NYU Stern signified Qualman is to digital leadership what Deming is to quality and Drucker is to management. Erik received an honorary doctorate for his groundbreaking work “What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube”.Erik has put on performances in over 55 countries and has reached over 40 million people with his books and content, and was voted 2nd Most Likeable Author behind Harry Potter's JK Rowling. He also owns a film and animation studio which has produced disruptive movies for fortune 1000 companies like Disney, Cartier, and Chase (one of these videos appears at the end of this interview)Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Brent Bushnell is the CEO and Co-Founder and of the amazing Two Bit Circus. His is a huge name in tech, games, and building connective, fun, immersive environments. Brent's award-winning micro amusement park in the Downtown L.A. Arts District, Two Bit Circus, has won global recognition including being named by Fast Company as one of the Most Innovative Game Companies of 2020 and receiving Trip Advisors' Traveler's Choice Award – rated in the top 10% of attractions worldwide. Brent also won Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough Innovator Award.Two Bit Circus combines Virtual Reality, Interactive Gaming, Escape/ Story Rooms, a 100 seat interactive Game Show Theater, a Robot Bartender, and so much more! They've attracted huge celebrities and a ton of press, being featured on The TODAY Show, in People Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, WIRED, and many more.Brent is an Electrical Engineer, Software Developer, Immersive Entertainment and Human Engagement Expert, STEAM authority, and pioneer in Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, (starting with some very early major VR projects many years ago for the likes of the NFL and NASCAR).Brent was also the on-camera inventor for the hit TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, and is responsible for well over 70 million views on the web working with major brands, including building a huge Rube Goldberg machine creating a viral music video for the band OK Go's song “This Too Shall Pass”.Brent is the Chair of The Two Bit Circus Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization that works with educators and schools to bring STEAM (Science Technology Entertainment Art and Math) learning through exhibits and activities held in schools around the country.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Erica Dhawan is the world's leading authority on 21st-century Collaboration and Connectional Intelligence. She is the co-author of the bestselling book “Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence”, which was named #1 on What Corporate America is Reading. Her much-anticipated follow-up title, coming out in 2021, is titled “Digital Body Language”, which decodes the new signals and cues of effective collaboration in a digital-first human workplace.Erica was named by Thinkers50 as “The Oprah of Management Ideas”. She was ranked #1 on Women Keynote Speakers for 2020 by Real Leaders and was in the Top 10 Management Experts in 2020 by Global Gurus!Erica speaks on global stages like The World Economic Forum at Davos and TED as well as to the biggest companies in the world. She writes for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. Erica has degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School. Erica challenges audiences and organizations to unlock the collective power of teams, business units, customers and other stakeholders both in person and virtually.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Tom Edwards is a marketing and technology luminary with a deep understanding of technical detail who focuses on future-proofing the biggest companies and brands in the country. Tom was the Chief Digital and innovation officer of the #1 ranked Advertising Agency in the U.S. according to Advertising Age magazine. Recently, he has recently been recognized by Advertising Age as Marketing Technology Trailblazer, The 2020 Global Icon Top 50 Global Marketers by OnCon, The Professional of the Year Marketing & Emerging Technology, and Tech Titans' Technology Advocate Award.Tom regularly provides thought leadership commentary online driving millions of views with his viral Blackfin 360 blog and in business and advertising publications. His TEDx talk has half a million views.Tom speaks regularly as a futurist on emerging technology and its impact on consumer behavior/ experience via data design, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, wearables, gaming, and mobile. He outlines the exponential acceleration of experience through technologies that empower consumers, intelligent systems that enhance, and contextual and ambient environments that will redefine our reality. This discussion highlights the convergence of experience and explores the evolution of mobile and our virtual assistant as well as what happens when it's no longer just about the consumer and we are marketing to algorithms.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist with more than 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and innovation. He is the Founder and Chair for Exponential Medicine, a program which explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential to reshape the future of health and biomedicine. In 2020 Dr. Kraft became the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force: made up of 60 leading Universities, Fortune 500 and startups, focused on catalyzing new and existing solutions.As a speaker and thought leader, Dr. Kraft's TED and TEDMED talks plus other speeches and interviews online have millions of views, as he offers a compelling fast-paced look at the present, immediate future, and next few years of innovations in healthcare and medicine. Dr. Kraft is passionate about new tools, apps, tests and wearables that by capturing our data combined with AI, are revolutionizing the way we monitor our health and draw a path to wellness – changing the health industry's focus from reacting and treating sickness to preventing it.Kraft has conducted extensive research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine with multiple scientific publications, medical device, immunology and stem cell-related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco. Kraft is the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and he founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell-based regenerative therapies. He is an advisor to the XPRIZE Foundation (where he conceived of the Medical Tricorder XPRIZE and is helping lead a new cancer-focused XPRIZE) and advises several digital health and life science companies.Kraft is an avid pilot and served for 14 years as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 and F-16 fighter squadrons in the Air National Guard. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Dr. Pippa Malmgren is a multiple bestselling author who is an expert in the Economy, Leadership, and Technology. She is a former economic advisor to the U.S. President, The British Prime Minister, and to the National Economic Council. A two-time World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow, Pippa is an internationally regarded financial authority and trend spotter who takes on economics through a unique holistic lens, showing companies and individuals how they can extract valuable insights and economic implications by tapping into subtle signals strewn throughout our daily lives. Also a successful technology entrepreneur who exited from her robotics company, she shares her techniques for not only forecasting trends, but finding opportunities and fully capitalizing on them. Dr. Malmgren is one of the few experts who accurately predicted the 2007-2008 Real Estate Bubble, BREXIT, and Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Pippa is the international bestselling author of “Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy”, “The Leadership Lab” (which won the Independent Press Award 2020 – Leadership Category and was the Business Book of the Year 2019 in the UK Business Book Awards), and “Geopolitics for Investors”. In her timely and critically acclaimed 2020 book, “The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership”, Pippa and her co-author argue that the spectacular leadership failures that we have witnessed in recent history, stretching across business, community life and politics, can be explained by a lack of balance.Forbes has called @DrPippaM a “Must Follow” on Twitter since 2015. In 2019 Computer Weekly named Dr. Malmgren as one of the Most Influential Women in Tech in the UK. In late 2018, she was named one of the Fifty Top Inspiring Women in the UK and one of the Top 100 Women in Technology by @WATC_WeAreTech. In 2018 she was listed as one of the Most Influential Economists in the World, one of the Most Influential in Geopolitics, Top 100 Women in Blockchain, 5th Most Powerful Women in Finance, and the 3rd most important Influencer on Robotics on Twitter (2017).Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Vanessa Van Edwards has made her life's work investigating the science of people. She's the bestselling author of “Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People”, which has been translated into 16 languages. Her videos online have been viewed by over 30 million people and hundreds of thousands of people have taken her communication courses online.Vanessa has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Today Show, and many more. She studies the hidden forces that drive our behavior patterns and she's cracked the code! Vanessa works with small businesses, entrepreneurs, and the biggest companies in the world, teaching valuable shortcuts, systems, and behavior hacks for taking charge of our interactions at work or anywhere.When you understand the laws of human behavior, you can get along with anyone, and your influence, impact, and income will all increase as a result! You will improve your interpersonal intelligence, make a killer first impression, and build rapport quickly and authentically in any situation – negotiations, interviews, parties, and pitches. You will never interact in the same way again!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Sekou Andrews is one of the hottest and most unique speakers in the business today. A Grammy-Nominated Spoken Word Artist for his album Sekou Andrews and The String Theory. He is Forbes' Defacto Poet Lauriet of Corporate America. You can find him presenting on the biggest corporate event stages in the world, or delivering a tear-jerking standing ovation performance in Oprah's backyard for Barack Obama or Maya Angelou. Quincy Jones is quoted saying, “Sekou is my secret weapon when I want my events to have that extra spark of distinction…my staff knows my mantra – ‘If I could have anyone perform at this event, I WANT MY POETIC VOICE!'”A schoolteacher turned actor, musician, two-time National Poetry Slam Champion, entrepreneur, and the award-winning pioneer of the cutting edge new speaking category, Poetic Voice Speaking. A new type of speaker and artist who seamlessly blends inspirational speaking with spoken word poetry, like a perfect mix of Hamilton meets TED.Sekou talks about the story of his craft, what audiences want, how he does it, and how storytelling can be lifted up into a new kind of art form that advocates for our organizations and touches our minds and our hearts even more deeply.At 18:26 Sekou performs his incredibly moving Grammy-nominated piece, “Love Says”.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Jim Kwik is the world's #1 expert in brain/ mind optimization, memory improvement, and causing accelerated learning. His Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller, instant New York Times Bestseller, and #2 Bestselling Book on Amazon, “Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life”, is a blueprint for the brain and how to flip your mindset, ignite your motivation, and master the methods to transform and unleash the brain's superpowers. The book is endorsed by an incredible list of physicians and business, sports, and celebrity personalities including Beth Comstock, Quincy Jones, Stan Lee, Maria Shriver, Will Smith, Jeffrey Cummings, Gerard Butler, Alex Rodriguez, Tom Bilyeu, Maria Shriver, Novak Djokovic, Dr. Daniel Amen, Natasha Bedingfield, Eric Schurenberg, Peter Diamandis and many more.Jim's acclaimed podcast “Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik”, is one of the most popular in the world, with tens of millions of downloads, and his online video content has hundreds of millions of views.Jim is the brain coach to a who's who of the top business magnates, pro athletes, political leaders and Hollywood elite, and speaks with the biggest companies on the planet. He's been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Business Insider, CNBC, and many more.It all started with a major childhood brain injury which caused Jim to create strategies to dramatically enhance his mental performance. Since then he's dedicated his life to helping others unleash their brain's potential.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Kevin Brown is one of the most in demand speakers today. He is the author of the best-selling, acclaimed book, “The HERO Effect® – Being Your Best When It Matters the Most”. He is a branding and culture expert with a 30+ year career in franchise development. He spent the last 19 years of his corporate career as an executive that built a little-known family business into the #1 franchise in their industry with annual revenues exceeding $2 billion dollars.Kevin has received numerous honors, including being named one of the ‘Best Keynote Speakers of 2019' by NorthStar Meetings Group; one of the ‘Top 41 Motivational Speakers Who Can Energize Any Sales Team' by Resourceful Selling.Kevin is so well-liked because he is as talented a presenter as they come, a riveting storyteller, very funny, and delivers real content that can change your life.For more on Kevin or to book him to speak, use this URL: speakers.cal-entertainment.com/profile/32335Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Steve Farber re-defines what it means to be a leader of substance, significance, and success. The Huffington Post named Steve the #1 Business Speaker To See and he's one of Inc. Magazine's Global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts.Steve is a multiple bestselling author including his first smash hit “The Radical Leap”, hailed as one of the 100 Best business books of all time. “Greater Than Yourself” is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestseller. And in 2020, he released his latest critically acclaimed book, “Love is Just Damn Good Business”, which is endorsed by Jack Canfield, Stedman Graham, Sally Hogshead and more.These bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed books put the principles of Extreme Leadership into easily understood terms and show us how to take the LEAP in business using Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof.For more info on Steve, or to book him to speak, use this URL: speakers.cal-entertainment.com/profile/5320Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Esther Wojcicki is known as The Godmother of Silicon Valley, a California Teacher of the Year Award winner, a bestselling author of two books, and a teacher whose many students, and her own three daughters, have gone on to change and impact the world greatly. Steve Jobs even made sure that his kids were Esther's studentsEsther's has two bestsellers are: “How to Raise Successful People” and “Moonshots in Education” She's the mother of three incredible daughters: Anne is the Founder of 23 and Me, Susan is the CEO of YouTube, and Janet is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of San Francisco.Esther has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Wired, Time Magazine, The Financial Times, The LA Times, Psychology Today, Business Insider, and many more, and is the author of viral blog posts for the Huffington Post.She's always been at the forefront of emerging trends in education and has been intimately involved with Google and GoogleEdu since its inception, where she was one of the leaders in setting up the Google Teacher Academy.In this conversation, Esther and Chris talk about her effective and widely respected approach of collaborative leadership and teaching. This style has led her to be widely recognized as one of the most important and impactful educators in our country.For more info or to book Esther to speak, click here: https://www.calentertainment.com/port…Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Chris Voss is the author of the major bestselling book, “Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It”, which has been called one of if not the best books on negotiation of all time and was one of the top 10 Best Selling Books of all of the books sold on Amazon for over a year. His 2020 Masterclass has been one of the most popular Masterclasses on the platform, and his many videos online of his speeches and interviews have millions of views.Chris was the lead international kidnapping negotiator for the FBI, as well as the FBI's hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council's Hostage Working Group. Before that, he served as the lead Crisis Negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI.Chris has been featured widely by the media including with Anderson Cooper on CNN, on CNBC, in TIME magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Fortune, The Washington Post, and many more.Derek Gaunt is the bestselling author of “Ego Authority Failure”. He was a commander of hostage negotiations teams in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and today is a hostage negotiation and incident command subject matter expert who frequently speaks at hostage negotiations and SWAT conferences across the country.Derek spent the majority of his law enforcement career in the Criminal Investigations Section as a detective, supervisor and eventually commander of major crimes. In 1997, he took his passion for interpersonal communications to the next level, becoming a hostage negotiator.Derek Gaunt and Chris Voss have been friends for 20 years – which makes this discussion entertaining, collaborative, and quite memorable! They have been teaching, training, and giving people negotiation superpowers together for the last decade. Here, they deliver tangible takeaways and tools that you can use immediately to make you a better negotiator, communicator, and leader! Using Chris and Derek's tools, anyone will learn how to get what they want in negotiations, but also how to communicate better with anyone in their lives – employees, teammates, children, spouses, clients, and customers!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/

Chad Hymas is called one of the “10 most inspirational speakers in the world” by the Wall Street Journal. He is a bestselling author – selling millions of books, and he is a quadriplegic wheelchair athlete who holds the world record for longest distance wheeling a wheelchair – 513 miles (from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas)! He is the youngest person ever to receive the Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE) and the youngest ever to be inducted into the National Speaker Hall of Fame.In this conversation, Chad and Chris explore Chad's moving life story and his areas of expertise: Change, Perspective, Leadership, Vision, and Safety. Chad is a master storyteller and speaks on how our thoughts and words create our future. His story of overcoming adversity, dealing with incredible change and circumstance is one you will never, ever forget!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.calentertainment.com/virtually-speaking/