Talent Showcase

Business Speakers Bureau & Entertainment, highly recommends the following outstanding speakers:

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Christopher Anbari is a crusader with a cause. He's not only provocative, he connects with the audience because he draws from extensive personal and business experience. Anbari has 26 years of experience facilitating change with nearly 600 North American-based companies and 30,000 leaders, making him a pioneer and leading expert on integrated management and organizational development. He has traveled to over 20 countries expanding his mind and enriching his perspective on global business management and cultural diversity. He has published multiple leadership and business development articles and written two books, "I, The Best Seller", Volumes One and Two.

Making the Case: Employee Engagement by Christopher Anbari

walter2 Walter Bond: No One Can Stop You But YOU! is one belief that Walter Bond has embraced and built both his personal and professional life around. A former NBA player, sports broadcaster and successful entrepreneur, Walter speaks to the heart of your attendees. Whether you want to deliver pure motivation, develop a plan of action, or work together at a higher level, Walter delivers. Walter knows what it is like to have a dream and relentlessly go after it. Understanding that no one can stop him has challenged Walter to work hard and maintain the winning attitude needed to achieve greatness for himself and his family and impart this belief using real life examples to the thousands of lives he touches each year.
catesheadshot_copy Dr. Jeanette Cates combines 30 years in Adult Education with more than 25 years in technology to bring you the exciting world of Online Success Technology! She is the creator of the Online Success System and operates more than 200 active websites.

As an online pioneer she has taught thousands of people how to make a living on the Internet. Her fast-paced, information-packed presentations and her knack for explaining cutting-edge technology in easy-to-understand terms have gained her the reputation of being The Technology Tamer(tm).Presenting hundreds of teleseminars and webinars over the past ten years, she teaches those same skills to her students and clients.

Why Webinars Make Sense For Your Business by Jeanette Cates

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Chuck Cote is one of those speakers with infectious enthusiasm. His style blends over twenty-five years of experience of corporate and entrepreneurial experience with inspiring stories and concise action steps to help people achieve excellence in their lives. Chuck is also a recent survivor from a battle with cancer, which has heightened his insight and ability to stir people to action and appreciation for life.

tom-drews Tom Drews is the CEO and Founder of What Works! Communications, a company that helps people to design and deliver effective virtual presentations. He is considered to be a leader in the field, having trained the entire sales and marketing teams at WebEx in the recent past. Cisco has also hired his company as the exclusive provider of virtual presentation training for their entire staff of 65,000. His clients include Google, Symantec, CLIF Bar McKesson and Citrix Online.
gary_danielson Gary Danielson, a 13-year National Football League veteran and former Purdue University quarterback, joined CBS Sports as lead analyst for the CBS Television Network's coverage of college football in 2006.

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Michael E. Gerber is the author of 13 business books, including the mega-bestseller The E-Myth Revisited - Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. His revelutionary perspective has become the gold standard for small business development throughout the world, becoming what INC Magazine calls: “The World’s #1 small business guru,” and one of Business Week’s bestselling authors of past decades. Michael E. Gerber is the founder of E-Myth Worldwide, the coaching, training and education firm he created in 1977 to transform the development of small businesses worldwide.  Now approaching its 32nd year, Michael E. Gerber’s extraordinary work has achieved stunning results by transforming more than 65,000 businesses in over 145 countries.

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Val Gokenbach has been in administrative healthcare positions for over thirty years. She possesses a doctoral degree in management and organizational leadership and a masters degree in business administration. Val lectures on Health, Wellness and Leadership topics and is author of her own wellness book "Tap Dancing Through Life: Seven steps to finding your rhythms and the life of your dreams." She is featured in Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul: A second dose and Nurse Executive: The four principles of Management. As a professional dancer and fitness instructor for over 40 years, Val has led a dual life as a fitness presenter, consultant and dance instructor. She worked for Aerobics Fitness Association and traveled extensively presenting health and wellness programs for fitness instructors and the general public.

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Ken Gronbach is a gifted public speaker and a nationally recognized expert in the field of Demography and Generational Marketing. An accomplished President and CEO, Ken has proven success in creating value, leading companies and planning for the future with uncanny accuracy.  Ken entertains his audiences with his own special brand of wit, humor and clear communication. He makes the science of shifting demography come alive with real life examples that make it relevant to today's culture, business climate and economy. Ken is a marketing guru who regularly provides counsel to Fortune 500 companies as well as large and small privately held businesses across the United States. In his new 2008 book "Age Curve, How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm," Ken takes you through a fascinating common sense understanding of shifting demography and the related opportunities and challenges.

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Jack Perkowski is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ASIMCO Technologies, one of the most important players in China's automotive components industry. Jack founded ASIMCO in February 1994 after spending three years investigating opportunities in Asia and China. Well before others recognized the significant role that China would play in the global economy, Jack was on the ground doing business in the country.  With 17 factories in eight provinces and 52 sales offices located in every corner of the country, ASIMCO Technologies is unique. It is a foreign invested company, headquartered in Beijing, which was established in China specifically to serve the China market. Under Jack's leadership, ASIMCO has gained a reputation for developing local management and integrating a broad based China operation into the global economy. ASIMCO was twice named one of the "Ten Best Employers in China," ranking third in the last survey conducted by Hewitt Associates and 21st Century Business Herald.

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John Pullum has entertained and motivated audiences across the globe with his unbelievable mind reading abilities and motivational presentations. John is an actor, comedian, motivational speaker all in one. He takes the mysterious and makes it hilarious. If his face looks familiar you may have seen him on one of his many appearances on Discovery Channel. Whether he's in front of a corporate or college audience, John will amaze, amuse and motivate your audience.

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Billy Riggs is more then just an entertainer, magician or speaker. He is The Attitude Dude - a unique communicator, motivator and wizard who magically changes the lives of his audience by revealing to them the secret to their happiness, prosperity and success: attitude! On stage, Billy Riggs has plenty of attitude! He skillfully weaves humor, audience participation and world-class illusions into a highly motivational program. Renowned as the world's first and only dis-illusionist, Billy Riggs presents incredible grand illusions, while shattering the illusionary thinking that hinders personal growth, performances and success. Plus, he shares with his audience the little magical difference that will make a definite difference in their lives. PMA (Positively Magical Attitude!) Billy Riggs has entertained, motivated and adjusted attitudes of more then a million people on five continents for audiences of 20 to 20,000.

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Jorge V. eSa' is the author of Strategy Moves, a book that provides 14 complete "attack" and "defense" strategies to give a business competitive advantage in the marketplace. For example, Toyota used the strategies to conquer world markets.  He has a Master's Degree from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management in California, where he studied with Peter Drucker, and a PhD in Business Administration, from Columbia University. Professor Vasconcellos e Sá has undergraduate degrees in Economics and Business Administration, and a Graduate Degree in Macroeconomics.  He was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair (by the Jean Monnet Foundation at Brussels) in 1997, the highest European academic award, and has received several distinctions including the Fulbright, Beta, Gamma and Sigma fellowships. He is currently a full time professor at UTL.

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Chuck Wassberg, CIC is the founder and CEO of The Wassberg Syndicate. His area of specialty is key agency-related trends in insurance, putting them into a historical perspective leading up to the why we have today's current marketplace conditions. He then projects where things are going in the immediate future. Chuck is an accomplished speaker on Sale and Motivational Topics - with an emphasis on Producer Motivation, compensation, and relationship-building for both veteran and newly-hired individuals. His Third Wave techniques are designed to be vastly different from any of today's Second Wave techniques. His program entitled "Tomorrow's Selling in Today's World" is a ground-breaking concept for Third Wave selling techniques.

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Jim Whitt was raised in the cattle fields of Oklahoma and then became a top producing marketing executive with two Fortune 500 companies and today uses "Cowboy Psychology" to help humans stop acting like animals! Armed with a degree in animal science, he provokes people to challenge what they do, why they do it, and how to change it. His presentations are punctuated with his unique brand of humor that draws on his experiences as a cowboy and feed salesman. Imagine Will Rogers as a management consultant, and you've got a picture of Jim Whitt on the platform. Topics include: The Motive in Motivation, Purposeful Leadership, Psychology of Change.

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Michael Wickett is considered one of the top five Motivational speakers, Sales Trainers and Personal Development Coaches in America. He is one of only five speakers who have been selected by the prestigious Nightingale Conant Company to have four or more audio programs produced. Michael's programs on Selling Skills and Creating Customers for Life have earned his clients exponential growth within months of his training. His latest album "The Keys to Personal Success and Happiness" is an empowering program on emotionally letting go and the power of forgiving others in order to move forward in your life. Michael's presentations are filled with life examples and stories that capture the audience and move every listener to new levels of success.

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Michael Williams is a nationally recognized expert on the global economy, capital flow and market dynamics with a unique ability to explain complex subjects in a simple to understand, thought- provoking manner. His research has been regularly featured in national business publications such as The Financial Times, Barron's, and The Wall Street Journal and covered on hundreds of television interviews on global financial networks. As a Global Strategist, Mike has been captivating audiences for almost two decades. Mike's broad range of experience includes market investments, debt restructuring, advising on equity infusions, and corporate and real estate acquisition and development.

Current Financial Insights from Michael Williams