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| Profit with Meaning |
| A Global Online Conference Presented by IONS Wisdom Business Network |
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| Presenters |
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| World-class presenters will share their perspectives on key trends and developments
in business for the 21st century. |
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| Presenters include: |
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Patricia Aburdene
Co-author, Megatrends Series Books
Patricia Aburdene is a world-renown speaker, author and architect of corporate
transformation. Having won global recognition as co-author of the Megatrends
books, Patricia embarked on new studies integrating business research and spirituality.
She now inspires audiences with a concrete blueprint of how values, consciousness
and leadership will heal today's economic crisis.
Her new book, Megatrends for Managers, , will be
published in 2005. Patricia co-authored the New York Times number one bestseller
Megatrends 2000, the bestselling
Re-inventing the Corporation and Megatrends for
Women with John Naisbitt and was Naisbitt's collaborator on the publishing
phenomenon Megatrends which topped best seller charts worldwide. |
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John Byrne
Editor in Chief, Fast Company Magazine
John A. Byrne, is the editor-in-chief of Fast Company magazine and the author
of eight books on business, leadership, and management. He joined Fast Company
in April 2003, and is working to reinvent the 8-year-old business magazine, which
has a circulation of 730,000 and a readership of more than 3.5 million.
Before his current position, Byrne was a senior writer at BusinessWeek
in New York and the author of 57 cover stories at the magazine. His articles have
explored the fairness of executive pay, the folly of management fads, and the
governance of major corporations.
Byrne's last book is Jack: Straight from the Gut,
collaboration with former General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jack Welch. The
book debuted at the very top of The New York Times ' bestseller list and has sold
more than 1.5 million copies in hardcover around the world. He is also a frequent
commentator on television, having appeared on CNN's Moneyline and CNBC's Squawk
Box and Business Center shows. |
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Tom Gegax
Former CEO, Tires Plus Stores
Tom is Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the $750 million upscale retailer,
Tires Plus, which he co-founded and sold to Bridgestone/Firestone in 2000. Tires
Plus had mushroomed from a concept sketched on a restaurant napkin to an upscale
11-state chain of 150 retail stores. While Tom and his co-founder owned Tires
Plus, they never had to solicit outside investment capital or relinquish any ownership
to anybody outside of the company.
Tires Plus' vigorously healthy corporate culture was legendary for its focus on
the intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of its employees
(or "teammates," as Tom prefers to call them; similarly, he refers to
customers as "guests"). Countless other organizational leaders have
modeled their own culture on the Tires Plus template after witnessing firsthand
its invigorating effects. |
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Lion Goodman
Everyday Awakening
Lion Goodman is a life and business success coach, internationally published author,
workshop leader, and entrepreneur. He was the CEO of an executive search firm,
The Goodman Group, for eighteen years. As a coach to both executives and entrepreneurs,
he helps his clients achieve extraordinary results in both their business and
personal lives. He can be reached at 415.472.6500, or via email: lion@everydayawakening.com. |
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Frank Lampe
Founding Editorial Director, LOHAS Journal
Frank J. Lampe is president and chief executive officer of Silvercliffe Media
Inc., a media consulting firm. He also serves as National Publications Director
for New York-based Dragonfly Media Inc., which owns and operates healthy living
magazines in five North American markets. Most recently, Mr. Lampe was the conference
director and editorial director for Conscious Media Inc., where he continues to
serve as a consultant. In 1996, he co-founded Natural Business Communications,
now a division of Conscious Media. The company identified and quantified the $226.8
billion U.S. "Lifestyles Of Health and Sustainability" (LOHAS) market
and the LOHAS consumer. Conscious Media publishes the
LOHAS Journal, the LOHAS Journal Weekly
and LOHAS Journal's FactBook and produces the LOHAS
8 Forum.
Before Natural Business, Mr. Lampe was the editorial director for the Natural
Products Group at New Hope Natural Media, where he oversaw operations for the
company's numerous natural products titles. He also served as the associate publisher
of the company's trade titles and oversaw the seminar program of the company's
two annual trade shows. In addition to extensive sales and marketing experience,
Frank is an internationally known author, analyst and lecturer on natural foods,
healthy living, socially responsible business and conscious consumers. |
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Daniel Robin,
Raising Affinity Capital, Venture Catalyst, In3 Inc.
Daniel N. Robin, managing director of In3 Inc., has more than 20 years financial,
executive/board and venture catalyst experience. Specializing in sustainable investment
strategy, business case analysis and presentation, Mr. Robin serves on the board
of several In3-funded organizations, and is founding principal of Daniel Robin
& Associates, an international management consulting, training and mediation
firm established in 1985.
Author of more than 100 articles on leadership, communication, and professional
development, Mr. Robin consults to organizations such as Hewlett Packard, myCFO,
and Seagate, numerous public benefit corporations, governments and educational
institutions. After completing his formal education at UC Santa Cruz (1981, Computer
& Information Science) and UC Berkeley (1984, Marketing and Quality Management),
Mr. Robin received certificates in public speaking, coaching, and NeuroLinguistic
Programming (NLP Comprehensive). |
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Michael Sauvante
CEO, Rolltronics
Mr. Sauvante is the entrepreneurial catalyst and visionary of the Rolltronics
team with 20+ years business experience in creating and running his own companies.
He is recognized and respected as an expert in the start-up phase of business
development. One of Mr. Sauvante’s strongest attributes is his ability to
build relationships and create strategic alliances with other high technology
companies—one of the critical success factors in the development and commercialization
of Rolltronics products.
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Henry Stewart
CEO, Happy Computers
Henry Stewart is the founder and Chief Executive of Happy, a training company
based in London. Although only employing 40 people, Happy has won wide recognition
for its innovative approach to management and to customer service. Recent achievements
include winning the contract to provide content for the largest e-learning project
ever to take place in Europe, with the aim of training half a million people in
the National Health Service in IT skills.
In 2003 Happy (previously known as Happy Computers) won the UK's equivalent of
the Baldridge award: as overall winner of the Management Today Service Excellence.
It was also named as Family Friendly Employer of the Year and one of the two best
small businesses in the UK for 'Impact on Society'. |
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Cynthia H. Stringer
Founder, Success by Design, Inc.
Cynthia began coaching in the early 1990's and has served over 10,000 people as
a career and business coach, inspiring educator and Master networker. She is a
pioneer in her field and dedicated to assisting people in moving forward with
their goals. Programs designed through her company, Success By Design have been
replicated and used in various industries. Clients and participants report feeling
more clarity, motivation and confidence leading to effective career results. Her
style is direct, intuitive, and comprehensive. |
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Phil Wellman
President and Creative Director, Wellman Advertising and Design
Phil Wellman has been President and Creative Director for Wellman Advertising
and Design since 1982. His pioneering customer-driven approach to advertising
and design has been responsible for the success of companies in wide variety of
industries. Phil’s personal passion for typographic design has resulted
in high praise and numerous awards.
"My objective is to position
clients to profit meaningfully. In other words, by identifying and meeting real
customer needs, they optimize their opportunity to achieve a deeper sense of purpose,
creative satisfaction and abundant financial reward." |
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Ruby Yeh
WBN Founder & Conference Executive Producer, Wisdom Business
Network
Ruby's high tech career began with sales executive and strategic marketing positions
in Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T and Wang Computers. She was bitten by
the entrepreneurial bug when she joined a venture-backed software start-up and
grew their international division from zero to $20+ million in less than four
years, and later assumed another multi-million dollar P&L role to run the
European division of another software company. Most recently, Ruby was founder
and president of a Silicon Valley Interactive TV community application software
company. She has a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Northeastern
University.
With her experience in running online communities and creating software for the
non-technical mass market, her passion is to harness the power of technology to
gather and mobilize people to transform the world. Her vision for the Wisdom Business
Network is to convert it into a for-profit entity to become a "trusted agent
portal" for the Business Cultural Creatives market, based on Harvard professor
Shoshana Zuboff's seminal book, the "Support Economy" model. Ruby's
goal is to establish an innovative social for-profit entity that can continue
to benefit IONS by designating a percentage of WBN's profit to the non-profit
IONS, and possibly offer a DPO (Direct Public Offering) to the WBN membership.
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| "I was surprised at how much enthusiasm
was generated by the participants in this on-line format, and impressed at both
the tools and techniques used to bring us into a community quickly and easily." |
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Barbara Densmore,
President, Working Smarter SP Ltd. |
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| "The iCohere Collaborative Learning conference
changed the way I think about conferences. It was easy, engaging and best of all,
collaborative!" |
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Greg Davis,
Director, eEngagement
American Express |
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