Motivational / Inspirational Speakers

American Program Bureau’s (APB) motivational and inspirational speakers share stories and life experiences that empower, inspire, and motivate audiences to reach for their aspirations while achieving personal or professional satisfaction and success.
 
Wayne Dyer Wayne Dyer

One of the most popular authors and speakers on motivational topics, Dyer is often credited with beginning the self-development movement. Author of "Your Erroneous Zones", "You'll See It When You Believe It" and "What Do You Really Want for Your Children".

Bob Losyk Bob Losyk

A high impact and humorous speaker, Losyk has focused twenty years of experience on creating usable techniques and strategies that get immediate and long-term results. As the founder and President of Innovative Training Solutions, his clients include Subway, AT&T, American Express, IBM, Marriott, Hyatt Hotels, and TCBY.

Jeff Tobe Jeff Tobe

Tobe's extensive background as an award-winning sales and marketing entrepreneur has made him the leading authority on creativity and innovation in business. Tobe, who has owned his own advertising agency for the past 10 years, believes in the power of creativity to manage the change that is inevitable with innovation, and ...

Stacy Allison Stacy Allison

As the first American woman to climb Mt. Everest, Allison combines her business acumen and her spirit for adventure in her dynamic presentations to encourage and inspire you to take a visionary look at opportunities and thrive through leadership, courage, teamwork, risk taking, and personal accountability.

Maxine Clark Maxine Clark

As one of the true innovators in the retail industry, she has been renowned in her 30-year career for her rare ability to spot emerging retail and merchandising trends and insight into the desires of the American consumer generated growth for retail leaders, including department store, discount and specialty stores. She ha ...

Cary Mullen Cary Mullen

In his 10 years as a member of the Canadian National ski team, Mullen experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.Through his keynote presentations and corporate solutions, Mullen shares his understanding of what it takes to compete and win in the international arena and his Process for Success to help individ ...

Roger Nierenberg Roger Nierenberg

After a distinguished career at the helm of two American orchestras, Roger Nierenberg is now emerging as a creative force for innovation in the presentation of symphonic music. Nierenberg created the "Music Paradigm in 1995," an interactive learning experience for organizations. Each session of "The Music Paradigm" is cust ...

Marilyn King Marilyn King

While preparing for her third Olympic Team in the grueling five-event pentathlon, an auto accident rendered King unable to train physically. Miraculously, she placed second at the 1980 Olympic Trials. She has transformed the thinking skills she used into powerful tools that work for all of us.

Eric Chester Eric Chester

Chester's high-energy speeches are designed to give teachers the motivation, knowledge, and techniques for overcoming the challenges they face: substance abuse, low self-esteem, lack of respect for differences, apathy, and lack of direction. His presentations show the "Why" Generation how to escape the "follow-the-crowd/pe ...

Jack Canfield Jack Canfield

Chairman of the Foundation for Self Esteem, Canfield has been conducting intensive trainings and seminars on self-esteem, peak performance and results management for more than twenty years.

Desi Williamson Desi Williamson

Williamson's high-impact programs are based on 20 years on the front line in sales, management, and marketing; building multi-million dollar businesses, managing multi-million dollar budgets, and developing people potential at powerhouse corporations such as Johnson and Johnson, Johnson Wax, and PepsiCo.

Marc H. Morial Marc H. Morial

In a distinguished professional career that has spanned 25 years, Marc Morial has served as one of the most accomplished servant-leaders in the nation.

Paul Orfalea Paul Orfalea

As the founder of the leading business service chain, Kinko's, Orfalea embodies what it takes to succeed in corporate America. By combining creativity and innovative thinking with a compassion for people, he led his company from a small stand to a chain of 1,500 branches.

Dean Karnazes Dean Karnazes

“Dean Karnazes might just be the fittest man in the world,” writes Men’s Fitness. A remarkable athlete and marathon runner, he is the author of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner. Always wanting to do more, to give more, to help others in need, Karnazes has raised hundreds of thousand ...

John Cassis John Cassis

Known throughout America for his positive and uplifting attitude, former California Angels baseball player, Cassis has been using humor to enlighten audiences for over twenty years. As founder of the Cassis Group, he shines in motivating others in team building and achieving ultimate performance excellence whether in the o ...

Vijay Amritraj Vijay Amritraj

Sickly as a boy growing up in India, Vijay Amritaj was urged to take up a sport to improve his health. He chose tennis and went on to become one of the world’s premier tennis players. His tennis accomplishments include being ranked the Number 1 Asian player and one of the top ten players in the world. He earned the honors ...

Catherine Crier Catherine Crier

As host of her own court television show, Catherine Crier Live, Crier is a woman with a spirited passion for justice. In addition to hosting her show, Crier is also an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas.

David Collins David Collins

When Collins co-founded SCOUT Productions in 1994, it was with a fierce commitment to empowering creativity with production expertise. That dedication is embodied in SCOUT's breakout reality programs Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Knock First. Both programs were created and executive produced by Collins ...

Chuck Reaves Chuck Reaves

As a consultant, Reaves helps companies achieve impossible goals. As a speaker, he helps audiences do the same. His ability to deliver a powerful, concise and entertaining message has earned him recognition from two United States Presidents.

LeAnn Thieman LeAnn Thieman

LeAnn Thieman is a nationally acclaimed professional speaker, author, and nurse who was "accidentally" caught up in the Vietnam Orphan Airlift in 1975. Her book, This Must Be My Brother, details her daring adventure of helping to rescue 300 babies as Saigon was falling to the Communists. Newsweek magazine fe ...

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