Thought Leaders are recognized by peers for having innovative ideas,
unique perspectives, and provocative positions. They discuss why differentiation
matters and move the conversation forward. Discover the different directions
your thinking could take to find new solutions.
Speakers Connection is proud to represent Thought Leaders
for 2013. For your next event, invite one of our Thought
Leaders to challenge your thinking and find new solutions!
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Chip Bell, PhD
Topics: Customer Service, Innovative Service Strategies, Customer Loyalty
- Frequent Speaker to Fortune 100 Companies on Innovative Customer Service Strategies
- Author of: Wired and Dangerous: How Your Customers Have Changed and What to Do About It
Dr. Bell reveals the best practices from the organizations leading the customer loyalty charge, giving audiences powerful cutting-edge ideas and unique strategies they can put into practice the minute they leave his keynote. Leadership Excellence Magazine listed him among the top 30 thought leaders.
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Rick Brinkman, ND
Topics: Communication, Customer Service, Leadership
- Co-Author: Dealing With People You Can`t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
- Voted "Funniest Speaker of the Year" by Sales Forum
Dr. Rick Brinkman has been sharing his human behavior insights and practical communication strategies in his trademark entertaining and educational style since 1980. A Best-selling Author and Communications Expert, he demonstrates how to turn difficult customers into "life long" customers.
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Aaron Carroll, MD, MS
Topics: Healthcare Reform, Information Technology, Healthcare Futurist
- Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research
- Expert on Cost, Quality & Access in Healthcare
- Leading Pediatric Informaticist in the U.S.
Dr. Carroll, a leading expert on health care reform, uses publicly available data and unbiased research to cut through the rhetoric and clearly explain the issues with our current system. He explains how the Affordable Care Act really works, details what it contains, and how it will be implemented over the next decade.
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Bruce Clark, DPH
Topics: Marketing, Management, Leadership
- Visionary & Thought Leader on Business & Marketing Implications of the New Consumer
- Authority on the Future Demands and Challenges Presented by the New Consumer.
- Produced the PBS Series "Caring for an Aging Society"
Dr. Bruce Clark's comprehensive multimedia presentations focus on the trends that will shape, and literally reinvent, the future and illustrate the profound impact this business/social revolution will have on your marketing communications.
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Scott Deming
Topics: Customer Service, Branding, Customer Experience
- The Business Journal Award: "Most Inspiring Business of the Year."
- Best-Selling Author: The Brand That Cried Wolf
Scott Deming is taking his nearly thirty years of advertising and marketing experience and showing proof positive that "relationships rule" and building a "brand" through emotional experiences, not just great advertising is the key to sustainable personal and professional success.
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Bob Farrell
Topics: Customer Service, Servant Leadership, Restaurant Management
- Customer Service Guru
- Best-Selling Author: Give 'Em The Pickle
- 130 Farrell's Restaurants - One of the 1st National Full-Service Chains
Farrell believes serving others is our #1 priority, coupled with a service-oriented attitude of high service standards that you live by every day and a commitment to teamwork.
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Cynthia Green, PhD
Topics: Memory Fitness, Sales, Leadership
- One of America's Foremost Memory Fitness and Brain Health Experts
- Expert in Improving Your Memory to Boost Sales Skills
- Author of Total Memory Workout Now in its 10th Printing
Nationally recognized expert in memory fitness and brain health, as well as an acclaimed author, respected keynoter, and author of "30 Days To Total Brain Health."
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Joe Greer, MD
Topics: Inspiration, Policy & Poverty in America
- Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
- Opened Camillus Health Concern (CHC) to Treat the Poor & Homeless Populations of Miami
- Assistant Dean for Homeless Education at the University of Miami School of Medicine and Chairman of Digestive Management at Mercy Hospital
Moving easily between the worlds of Anglo and Spanish, rich and poor, powerful and helpless, Dr. Greer is a living, spirited testimony to the difference one committed individual can make in the lives of others.
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Carl Hammerschlag, MD
Topics: Healing In Community, Leadership, Change
- Past Chief of Psychiatry at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center
- One of the World's Leading Proponents of Psychoneuroimmunology (Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine)
- Expert on How to Survive in Rapidly Changing Cultures
Psychiatrist, author, speaker and master story-teller. Whether it's leadership and authenticity or surviving in rapidly changing times, Dr. Hammerschlag delivers with unique insights and a sharp sense of humor.
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Stephen Kiernan
Topics: Culture & Society, Health & Wellness, Personal Commitment, Hospice
- Award-Winning Journalist
- Author of Last Rights & Authentic Patriotism
- Described as a healer of the divide between 'the right' and 'left'
To restore America, Stephen encourages his audiences to become 'Authentic Patriots' and act in common purpose for the good of the country.
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Dennis Snow
Topics: Customer Service, Service Excellence
- Featured Guest "Expert" on Business News-Talk Radio Shows
- Author: Lessons from the Mouse: A Guide for Applying Disney World's Secrets of Success to Your Organization, Your Career, and Your Life.
Dennis Snow provides a "how-to" program for creating a service-driven culture. His programs deliver strategic tools that can be used to raise the bar of service throughout your organization, resulting in "walk-through-fire" customer loyalty.
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