Joan Brock
Prior to her loss of sight, Joan worked at The Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School, where she frequently addressed groups on behalf of the school. From there it was a natural transition to a professional speaking career. She now resides in Arizona, traveling extensively on speaking engagements. Joan is the co author of More Than Meets The Eye, which has been translated into several languages and is also a Reader's Digest Condensed Book. It was released June 16, 2003 as a Lifetime Television Movie. She won the hearts of the insurance industry's "Million Dollar Round Table" and the NBC Today Show with her story of courage, perseverance and acceptance.  Joan's keynote address, More Than Meets The Eye, is a surefire attention grabber as Joan draws parallels between her own story and the challenges which face organizations. The very nature of today's business environment means the possibilities of merger, reorganization, or economic turndown are constantly on the horizon, and organizations must absorb such events with a minimum of disruption. As Joan puts it, "Life is full of irreversible opportunities, and you have a choice to see them as assets or obstacles." Urging audiences to "play the hand you're dealt," Joan helps organizations see corporate challenges from a new perspective.

TOPICS:
• Change
• Women's Issues
• Insurance

Dr. Ava Cadell
"Sex is one of the greatest gifts to the human race. Sharing yourself with someone worthy of your affection and trust is the most precious thing one can give to another." Dr. Ava Cadell, 1998.  Cited as one of America's leading ‘Sexologists' by Cosmopolitan Magazine and sex guru of all gurus by Redbook Magazine, Dr. Ava Cadell is truly an extraordinarily accomplished woman. A highly sought-after speaker everywhere in the U.S. from Boston to Los Angeles and throughout Africa, Asia and Europe, Dr. Cadell's lectures on the topics of romance, relationships and sexuality consistently draw sell-out crowds.   Dr. Cadell has a Doctorate of Philosophy in Human Behavior from Newport University, California and a Doctorate of Education in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.  Dr. Cadell is the author of four books, Love Around the House, Confessions to a Sexologist, The Stock Market Orgasm, 12 Steps to Everlasting Love and a couples enrichment program consisting of six one hour audiocassettes and a hundred page workbook called Passion Power, currently a five star choice on Amazon.com. Her mission is to promote the benefits of healthy and loving sex to individuals and couples around the globe.

Christine Clifford
Best Selling Author and Authority on the Use of Therapeutic Humor
Christine Clifford Beckwith was the top salesperson in the multi-billion dollar retail services industry for more than eight years. In 1994, she signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Proctor & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight. That same year, diagnosed with breast cancer, Clifford Beckwith went on to write the first of her six books in a comical portrayal of her story in a book titled, Not Now...I'm Having a No Hair Day! Today, she helps companies with their branding and positioning as a partner in Beckwith Partners, and she is CEO/President of The Cancer Club, a company that markets humorous and helpful products to people with cancer. Her book, You, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself, which she co-authored with her husband, Harry Beckwith, will be released in March 2007.

Laughter: It's Good Medicine
In spite of many health crises in her immediate family, and her own battle with breast cancer, Clifford Beckwith is still laughing! In this multimedia presentation she helps organizations and individuals find the humor in life's adversities.

An Afternoon of Hope, Laughter, and Positive Thinking
Clifford Beckwith shares all the hilarious things that have happened to her as she faced breast cancer at the age of 40. She uses these stories and her legendary sense of humor to inspire others to find the bright side of life's challenges.

Am I Out of Sick Days Yet?
Chronic illness can wreak havoc on an office, especially with employees trying to "fill the gaps" of an employee absence. Learn how to deal with the changes in the office, ways to offer support, and methods to deal with the challenges.

 Diane Dennis holds a degree in nursing, a certification in training and development, is a Life Transition Coach, author, and a newspaper columnist. Diane is president and founder of Inspired Media Communications, a multi-media PR firm. Her clients include world renowned and best-selling authors Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Bonnie Eaker Weil, Ph.D.

As a writer, Diane’s articles have been published in local, regional and national magazines.

Diane’s accomplishments include radio show producing and hosting, voice over work for television and radio, and television producer.

Jill Eikenberry
An accomplished actress with a string of theater and feature film credits, Jill played activist counselor Ann Kelsey in NBC - TV's hit series, "L.A. Law." Jill's portrayal of Ann Kelsey has earned her four Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Golden Globe Award. Her stage, screen and TV accomplishments are too numerous to mention, including co-producing and hosting "Destined To Live," a one hour documentary for NBC-TV, which dealt with the emotional aspects of breast cancer, from diagnosis to recovery. Jill herself had battled the disease in 1986 and was aware of the importance of letting other women know that they were not alone and could recover and lead full and normal lives. Jill and Michael are now dedicated to tell their important story with humor and hope, always stressing the importance of breast cancer education, early detection research, and treatment.

Linda Evans 

Actress, wellness advocate and author, Linda Evans is best known as Krystle Carrington, the classic beauty in ABC's "Dynasty." She has numerous film and television roles to her credit, including the popular series, "The Big Valley." Ms. Evans is the author of Linda Evans' Beauty and Exercise Book, which deals with women's physical and mental well-being. She speaks to wellness groups across the country about living a healthy lifestyle. She is a spokesperson for various women's health and wellness products. Topics include Women and Self-esteem and Being the Best You Can Be.

Shery L. Granader
Sherry Granader is the national spokesperson for Tidal Greens - visit www.tidalgreens.com - an excellent supplement that includes 3 types of seaweed and is 60 X more potent than all the super green foods combined! She has shared the stage with such celebrities as Whoopi Goldberg, Governor Ann Richards and Suze Orman. She has cooked for her favorite bodybuilder and his family – Lou Ferrigno, The Incredible Hulk, champion boxer Evander Holyfield and shared her nutrition expertise with Chuck Norris. Sherry is a Fitness Consultant, Herbalist, National Speaker, Author, Writer of 2 columns and is a regular guest on radio and television shows all across the country. She does 6-8 radio shows every morning in the United States and Canada helping women to balance their hormones naturally and is a Radio Host for Health Point Radio.

TOPICS:
q ELIMINATE FALSE FAT! – The audience will learn the top 6 most highly reactive foods that can make you look 10-15 pounds heavier than you really are and what you can do about it TODAY!
q YOU ARE NOT GOING CRAZY! – There is a way to balance your body naturally without synthetic hormones. Learn ways to detoxify the body and bring it back into balance. Feel and look great as you approach and reach menopause and beyond. It can be done!

Topics Include:
q The Power of Laughter: 7 secrets to living & laughing in a stressful world
q The Power of Laughter on the job: How to put laughter to work in the workplace
q The Healing Power of Laughter: 7 Secrets to living & laughing in health care
q The Power of Laughter in Sales: 21 secrets guaranteed to make you irresistible to your prospects

Lori Hanson

Lori Hanson is a leading authority on eating disorders. She battled with bulimia and her self-image for 34 years. She has expertise on the subject that can only be gained by experience. After watching many victims go in and out of treatment repeatedly Lori decided there had to be an alternative to traditional treatment. She followed a holistic approach (mind, body and spirit) and by learning that we are designed to self-heal found the connection to her personal power which led to her healing.

Author of The Balance Book Series, Lori shares her story and approach to recovery in her award-winning book It Started With Pop-Tarts® . . . An Alternative Approach to Winning the Battle of Bulimia. Her second book is Teen Secrets to Surviving & THRIVING, How to Deal with Stress, Be Confident and Feel Great.

Kathie Hightower

Kathie's audiences laugh, learn and leave knowing how to decrease their stress and increase their energy — and how to tap into daily delight and creativity at work and in their lives. They learn to tap into the possibilities even in times of major change and reduced resources. Her experience as an Advertising Agency Account Executive, a Fortune 500 HR Director, Pharmaceutical Sales Rep, Advertising Sales Rep, and an Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel taught her how to proactively handle stress and increase her own energy, creativity and fun. Author of Simple Joys: Little Things that Make a BIG Difference and Your Enchanted Life: A Journal for Discovery and Delight, Kathie is published nationally and internationally. The U.S. Army has hired Kathie many times to provide inspiration and practical ideas to spouses dealing with the challenges of deployments and of military life. She shares those same skills with other groups dealing with change and challenges outside their own control, from corporate support staffs to teachers to healthcare workers to displaced employees to senior audiences.

TOPICS:
q Reinvent Your Life to Reinvigorate Your Career
q How to Keep Yourself Up in Challenging Times
q Joyful Living -- At ANY Age!

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant
Humor/Motivational Speaker/Stress Management Expert/Women's Health Consultant
Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant has been helping audiences manage stress, improve their health, deal with change, and flex their funny bones for more than thirteen years (although she'll deny being old enough to have had a career that long!).  Her presentations are so funny audiences spit coffee out their noses, but at the same time, they go home with easy-to-implement, practical tools they can use in their everyday lives.    In 2003, Leigh Anne won the Erma Bombeck Award for Humor Writing. She has thirteen published books and writes regularly for The Comic News, Diet & Fitness, and Low Carb Energy, Family Circle, Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications and the Los Angeles Times. She has also been published in numerous magazines and newspapers, such as the Funny Times, Good Housekeeping, Gooddog, Dogfancy, The Womans' Journal, One2One, and Best Friends. Leigh Anne's book, Yoga for Your Funny Bone: Exercises to Strengthen Your Comedy Writing recently won the 2007 Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor award.

Topics Include:
q Don't Get Mad, Get Funny:  Using Humor to Manage Stress
q I'm not Getting Older, I'm Getting Better at Denial:  How to get the most out of your laugh lines
q Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: If you're a women, chances are you keep dozens of balls in the air every day and all that juggling can not only wear out your body, but your mind and soul as well. 
q We Don't Pay You to Have a Good Time: Using Humor to Survive Conflict and Change at Work 

Patt Schwab, Ph.D., CSP
Dr. Patt Schwab holds academic degrees in History, Student Personnel, and Administration. She also holds the highest earned designation awarded by the National Speakers Association, the CSP, or Certified Professional Speaker. A firm believer in taking humor seriously, Patt combines years of hands-on management, teaching and training with 11 years of working as a full time professional speaker in Europe, Canada and the USA. Her programs are packed with humor, insight, and practical tips for managing people, coping with change, and enriching work and home life. Patt encourages her audiences to use humor to rise above workplace challenges, insisting that the fresh perspective humor provides helps reaffirm competence and identify what really matters. Patt's latest book is:
What's So Funny About Long-Term Care? 
Tips, ideas and examples of how patients and caregivers bring humor to long term care.

What's So Funny About Long-Term Care? Lots!
Just because illness enters one door of our life does not mean joy and laughter leave through another. A good dose of humor encourages us to rise above our problems and embrace life in fresh, inventive ways.
What's So Funny will:
* Make you laugh.
* Give you fresh ideas.
* Inspire you to bring more humor into your life.
* Motivate you to bring humor into the lives of others.
Specifically written for individuals involved in long-term care, What's so Funny is about real people adding humor to real long-term care and rehab situations. It will remind you that: Those who laugh . . . Last!
As a bonus, many of the ideas in the book can be used to get more humor in your life whether or not you're in a long term-care setting.

Dr. Sherrill Sellman
Dr. Sherrill Sellman is a doctor of traditional naturopathy and natural health. She is internationally respected as a dynamic lecturer, authoritative writer and investigative journalist, assisting women to access truthful information and safe holistic solutions regarding the many aspects of their hormonal health and wellbeing.  She is the author the best selling book " Hormone Heresy: What Women MUST Know About Their Hormones" and her latest book " What Women MUST Know to Protect Their Daughters From Breast Cancer".

 Sherrill is also a psychotherapist, health journalist and hormone wellness coach. She teaches, lectures and consults worldwide.  She is also a sought-after keynote speaker and educator, providing classes, seminars and lectures in The US, Canada, Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Her areas of expertise include: the myths and truths of menopause, hysterectomies, perimenopause, menstrual wisdom, practical holistic solutions for regaining hormonal balance, osteoporosis, breast cancer prevention, permanent weight loss, food as medicine, and stress management.  She has also conducted corporate trainings on stress management, personal development, and women’s wellness.

Sherrill has been a guest on over 1400 radio and TV shows She has also written over 500 articles for newspapers, health magazines and trade journals published in the U.S. the UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, Canada, and Holland including: Total Health, Alternative Medicine, Well Being Journal, Natural Health, Alive Magazine, (Canada) Nexus Magazine, Icon (the UK), and Kindred Spirit (UK). Sherrill is a passionate, inspiring and powerful voice for the empowerment and health of women.

TOPICS:
q Hormone Myths, Hormone Truths: What Every Woman MUST Know
q Hormone Balance: The Feminine Path to Power
q Our Health Is in Our Hands; The Keys to Breast Cancer Prevention
q How to Grow Younger as You Grow Older
q Health Survival Strategies for the Corporate Woman

Jody Stevenson
In 1991, Jody Stevenson founded the Portland, Oregon based company, Doorway to Your Destiny, Llc, a center for coaching, classes and clarity.  For over 25 years, Jody has specialized in working with people who want to experience vibrant health, harmonious relationships, expanding prosperity, loving partnership, and a powerful purpose.  By blending modern day techniques and ancient wisdom, she has assisted over 20,000 people in changing their beliefs from lack to abundance, sorrow to joy, and burnout to balance.  By clearly defining the 10,000 year-old principles for living life with a peaceful mind and a joyful heart, Jody has transformed her own life and inspired countless others.  Since 1991, Jody has been a full-time destiny coach, professional speaker and author.

Marcia Wallace 
Actress, comedienne, Marcia Wallace, has been paid for doing what she loves since 1967. Prior to her Emmy award-winning role as Bart’s teacher on "The Simpsons," Marcia was best known as Carol Kester, the red-headed receptionist, on the classic television sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show." Marcia reprised that role when she guest starred as Murphy Brown’s 66th secretary, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Last year, she reunited with Murphy as a member of her breast cancer support group and with her old boss, Bob Newhart, on "George and Leo." Marcia has guest starred on dozens of television shows, appeared on stage all over the country and her voice can be heard on many animated series and commercials. Also a breast cancer survivor, Marcia has emerged as one of America’s leading speakers on contemporary women’s issues, her experiences with stress in the family and women’s self-esteem.

Marcia Wieder
Oprah Winfrey c As the CEO of Dream Coach™ Inc. her mission is to transform the conversation in the world around dreams from fear and fantasy to hope and possibility through action and results. She has written several books, writes a monthly column for the San Francisco Chronicle and has been featured in her own PBS-TV special. Marcia has appeared often on Oprah and The Today Show. As a former president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Marcia was regularly in the White House and met three U.S. Presidents.  She founded and leads Dream Coach™ University, where she certifies coaches from all over the world to lead her work. Her most exciting new venture is called My Dream Circle, a community for big dreamers. Marcia is the recipient of the Small Business Administration's Women in Business Advocate of the Year, and (although she doesn’t drink it) the Chivas Regal Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She lives near her "dream" city of San Francisco where she is pursuing her dream of living at the water, balancing work and play, with much more emphasis on play.

Topics:
q Igniting Passion in Your Work & Life
q On Your Way in Just One Day
q Dare to Dream: Big, Bold and Outrageous