Misc Business Speaking

Cynthia Lay, owner of SpeakerWebsites.com, works closely with professional speakers who want to build credibility, establish a strong online presence, and get paid to speak. In addition to providing custom website design services for speakers, Cynthia consults in the areas of public relations, social media, and product creation. She has more than 25 years of experience in traditional & digital marketing, PR, and consumer behavior. If you’re looking for a pro who knows the speaking industry, you’ve found her!

Selected Speaking Topics:

• 9 Secrets to Healthy Travel – This presentation will help you reduce stress, sleep better and stay balanced while traveling by focusing on natural/healthy choices that you can make while on the road.
• Adventures in Integrative Healing – This presentation will provide you the information to better understand the different types of natural healing modalities that are available to you. John will discuss the impacts of modern day life, and how these integrative health options can help you achieve optimum health.
• Pearls of Wisdom – Are you burned out with your job? Are you beginning a new career in a company? This presentation is filled with life/work lessons based on a 30-year career at IBM. John will provide his best tips regarding networking, balance and health insights based on his experiences.

Dr. John Ayo is a Naturopath, Speaker, Author and Certified Biofeedback Specialist (CBS.) He has been researching mind/body/spirit topics since 1976. He worked in sales for IBM for 27 years, where the stress of “Corporate America” caused him to examine his priorities in life. He began having health issues around 1999 that could not be addressed by the traditional medical model of “fixing symptoms”. This led him on an amazing journey back to health . . . and to his true passion. His mission is to make a positive and meaningful difference in people’s lives by sharing the information that he has researched on natural health solutions. He attracts clients who are interested in taking responsibility for their health, and learning about ways to balance mind, body and spirit.

Lin O’Neill speaks on:

• If You Put Fences Around People, You Get Sheep! – A look at the leadership that is required when sparking and sustaining innovation is the goal.
• Watching the Monkey Instead of the Organ Grinder – A look at organizational politics and power
• Good Teams Equal A Good Profit Picture
• Managing High Maintenance Employees
• Can You Ever Have Too Much Leadership?
• Anyone Can Lead When Things Are Going Well
• Participation Means Everyone But Me – Why Teams at the Top Don’t Understand Employee Participation
• If You Ask a Question and No One Answers – A Look at Pseudo-Participation
• Service With a Smile Just Isn’t Enough Anymore
• Victims Are Only Attractive to Bullies – Real and Perceived Helplessness in the World of Work
• Boredom Kills More People Than Stress
• Sacred Cows Aren’t Cholesterol Free

Lin O’Neill, founder and President of Futures Consulting is a consultant with in-the-trenches experience. She uses her blended background (operations and H.R.) to guide the transformation of individuals, teams, and organizations desiring enhancement or in conflict into profitable, high performers who achieve or exceed their goals.

As a former Vice President of Inflight Service and Corporate Officer for Continental Airlines, she managed several thousand employees and was responsible for inflight service quality.

Today, through Futures Consulting, O’Neill helps her clients solve the stickiest people problems, both in the corporate and non-profit sectors. She knows how to empower employees while driving results, encouraging creativity, resolving conflicts, and reaching closure. Whether on site with a client or delivering a keynote address, she brings extensive experience in culture change, turnarounds, business process definition, and multi-level cross-functional team building to her engagements.

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Is Your Superpower Actually Your Kryptonite? – “You’re great at THAT!” Have you ever heard those words and felt a little twinge deep down? The truth is, you ARE brilliant, talented, and amazing. Sometimes, your superpower comes from this beautiful well of talent that you were born with; and, sometimes, that superpower comes from a more difficult place, a wound, a hardship, a trauma, which can make it like kryptonite to your long-term peace and sustainability.  In this talk, Gini discusses her walk through darkness to discover that the very things she thought were her superpowers were actually the coping mechanisms of a traumatized childhood. Through awareness, she was able to transform daily trauma at work into peace, joy, and nurturing her true talents and now she is passionate about helping others do the same. Get ready to embark on a journey of gentle self-realization that will provide real-life tactics for differentiating wounds from true talents, allowing you to step fully into your REAL superpowers!
• Generation Why: How to Stop Hating Your Most Important Customers – Millennials get a bad rap from just about everyone, in this talk Gini will take a deep dive into the Millennial mindset and how to win over the generation that are soon to be their most important customers. Millennials simply will not do business “old school,” and in this talk she will discuss why and how to adapt business to win in the “new school.”
• Solve it Forward: The WIN-WIN-WIN of Selling the Solution – In this talk Gini goes in depth on how to quickly identify the driving human need and position solutions to appeal to that need so to create a win for both company and client.
• Psychic Solutions for Non-Psychic People: It’s Not What You Think – In this talk Gini will detail how to make their clients feel like they are a mind reader by giving exactly what their clients want, often before they have to ask. There is nothing better for a client than to feel that a company “really gets them” and when there is a problem, that the solution is even better than what they had expected.
• Rock the Stage – Gini teaches speakers and aspiring speakers to create a talk that is clear, concise, and converts, learn the easiest ways to get paid on stage, map your talk to attract your Ideal Audience, and get your audience to lean in and say: “I Want That!”

Gini Trask was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated with a BA in Theater from the University of Northern Colorado. By that time Gini Trask was already an entrepreneur. She moved back to Texas and launched into partnership with her mother in a Bus Charter business that expanded to a multi-million dollars enterprise. Her ability to operate and grow companies to multi-millions of dollars in revenue for other people became the driving force for Gini Trask to start her own Company Top Tier Travel which has since become a multi-million-dollar success, creating one-of-a-kind incentives and experiences for tens of thousands of travelers in the corporate and network marketing space.

Throughout her professional life Gini has been sought after for her ability to make find solutions and facilitate outcomes as if by magic. Her attraction to running businesses in the travel, hospitality, and retail space and working with corporate and network marketing clients is their need for solutions are a win for both the customer and the company. Her turning point came when she realized that the need for solutions that bridge the gap was bigger than her small sphere of companies and clients. Everyone should understand how to create solutions that go beyond compromise. So, she set to bring her methods for “Solving Problems Forward” and “Creating a WIN WIN WIN” to the world at large.

Gini Trask now travels the world as a speaker and consultant helping companies and individuals to go beyond compromise to creating solutions that truly make everyone feel that they have “won”. She teaches the understanding of core needs, solving problems “forward”, and the super powers that can transform any issue into an opportunity to WIN.

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Connecting with People with No Screens in Between – 70% of HR Managers say they can’t find people with good interpersonal communications skills, yet 90% of promotions are based on these skills.
• Winning People Skills I Learned at 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – A former social misfit and submarine diving officer teaches us how to thrive in social interactions and read those invisible clues of how we communicate non-verbally every day.

Senior Chief Petty Officer (Ret.,) Speaker, Trainer, Behavioral SuperPowers Coach, Engager, Body Language Trainer, certified by The Science of People. As a non-verbal communications coach, Craig is on a mission to help everyone thrive in social situations, because “we all win when we have great interactions.”

Businesses today are struggling to find new employees who know how to communicate and interact well in person. Craig will teach us science-backed strategies we can use to help us and the young people in our lives how to feel both seen and heard.

“Hi, I’m Coach Craig. For years I felt like I missed class the day they gave out the book of social grace. It seemed everyone had a rule book for successful social strategies – everyone but me.

After decades of frustration, I discovered the hidden science of why people act the way they do in social situations.

I am a Body Language Trainer, certified by The Science of People. More simply, I am a People Skills coach – on a mission to help everyone thrive in social situations, because we all win when we have great interactions.”

Selected Speaker’s Topic Titles:

• Reprogramming Nature’s Computer: 7 Brain Hacks For A Better Life – With the popularity of books like Psycho-Cyberneticsby Maxwell Maltz and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, most people are familiar with the idea of autosuggestion. Autosuggestion is the process of programming one’s mind to bring about more resourceful behaviors. Although many people are aware of autosuggestion, few practice it. The highest level performers in any field train their minds regularly to achieve success. If you desire to be a top performer in sales, business, speaking, or life, you simply cannot ignore the importance of mindset. In this informative talk, Sean teaches you 7 powerful tools to upgrade your thinking and upgrade your life.
• 5 Strategies to Shrink Stress – Conquering stress is paramount for a healthy lifestyle. Not only is stress uncomfortable, it is deadly. Stress is the root cause of disease. This is because stress suppresses the immune system. When you are under stress, your thinking becomes cloudy and you make poor decisions. Such cloudy thinking makes it much harder to achieve your goals. In this informative talk, Sean will give you 5 strategies to shrink stress and its negative impacts on your life.
• 7 Tools to Transform Bad Habits Into Better Behaviors – Habits are automated strategies to meet specific needs. Getting control over your habits is important to be healthy, happy, and to achieve your goals. Most people try to deal with bad habits by fighting against them. This is an ineffective and frustrating strategy. In this talk, you will learn how habits are structured and how to identify your underlying needs. You will learn 5 practical, easy to use tips to transform bad habits into better behaviors.
• Hypnosis Methodologies for Medical Professionals – The mind tells the body what to do. This simple fact is the reason the mind must be addressed when working with health issues. More and more medical professionals recognize the importance of a holistic approach for health care. Hypnosis is one of the most effective and powerful tools in a complementary approach to heal the body. Medical professionals will learn about the effectiveness of hypnosis for a variety of conditions. Scientific evidence on medical hypnosis compared to other methods will be presented in conjunction with case studies. After hearing this talk, medical professionals will be well-informed on the use of hypnosis as a complement to traditional medicine.

Sean Maness is a Certified Hypnosis Practitioner (CHP), and a member of the International Board of Hypnotherapy (IBH).

Mr. Maness trained at the Hypnotherapy Academy of America in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He specializes in helping people improve their confidence and performance in life through the power of the mind. He works with a wide variety of clients from public speakers to business people and athletes. Another focus of Maness Hypnosis is physician-prescribed hypnosis. Under the supervision of the client’s primary care physician, Mr. Maness helps people improve all aspects of health through teaching self-hypnosis and other self-care tools. He also works with smoking cessation and weight control.

Prior to becoming a Hypnosis Practitioner, Mr. Maness was a professional musician. He holds degrees in trumpet performance from Eastman School of Music and the University of Houston. As a musician, he performed with many professional ensembles in both the United States and abroad. He was a core member of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra (Japan) from 2010-2013.

Mr. Maness resides in Irving, Texas with his wife Xiaolei.

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• Trust, Trustworthiness, Trust Habits™ – What is trust? How does it behave (through the 8 laws of trust)? What makes a person trusted by another person? How to form habits that change behaviors, build trust, and transform organizations.

Dr. Yoram Solomon is the author of The Book of Trust (now in 3rd edition, and the most comprehensive book ever written about trust), the book series Can I Trust You? and host of The Trust Show podcast. He has published 16 books, 22 patents, and was one of the creators of Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 technologies, for which he was dubbed “TI’s Great Innovator.” Dr. Solomon was named by Innovation Excellence as one of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers,  and by Thinkers 360 as one of the top 20 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Culture.  He was a columnist at Inc. Magazine,  Innovation Excellence,  and other publications, where he published more than 300 articles.

Dr. Solomon holds a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University, an MBA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an LLB from the Tel-Aviv University Law School, and an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ort Singalovski College. He completed the executive Marketing Management Program at Stanford University and the Developing the Strategic Leader program at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Colorado Springs. Dr. Solomon is certified by CCL to administer the KEYS and SKILLSCOPE assessments and is an authorized provider of school board training by the Texas Education Agency.

He has founded several startups and sold a startup company in Silicon Valley. He has held various positions from General Manager of a $100m business unit in a Fortune 200 company to a Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, and to CEO.

Dr. Solomon is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Southern Methodist University, and formerly at the University of Texas at Dallas.

A National Speakers Association Professional Speaker, he spoke in several different national and regional conferences, including the Human Resources Southwest Annual Conference, the Association for Strategic Planning National Conference, CDX Annual Conference, Meeting Planner International (MPI) Annual conference, and many more, to audiences in excess of 2,000, both in-person and virtually.

Yoram was the host of the first TEDxPlano in 2014, and spoke at TEDxOakLawn in 2018 and TEDxPlanoSeniorHS in 2022. His customers include a wide range of Fortune 500 companies as well as startups, for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations, in a broad spectrum of industries from technology to retail, healthcare, defense, and education. He served companies such as AT&T, Dannon, Amway, Texas Instruments, Medical City, and many more, who described his keynotes and workshops as transformative.

In 2015, he was elected to the Plano Independent School District Board of Trustees. Yoram served in the IDF 35th Airborne Paratrooper brigade and as a USAF CAP pilot and Aerospace Education Officer.

Selected Speaking Topics:

• Market Dominating Position – Mike shows business owners how to generate more clients, close more sales, and increase their overall revenue and profits; quickly and inexpensively. He has helped business owners find $17,000 in potential new revenue is as little as 45 minutes.

Mike Montes is a Kingdom Entrepreneur. Although the statement seems simple, it’s from that statement, he finds his purpose.

He is the founder of Breakthrough to Impact, an online platform designed for people who are looking to break through their limiting beliefs and take their business or life to the next level. He has also founded Yavin Digital, a digital marketing agency that specializes in helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses using social media. Mike also co-founded CoPlay which helps people live out their passions by connecting them with others who share those same interests.

Mike is the author of a book on entrepreneurship, Don’t Pee In Your Lemonade and is working on his second book, Finding the Great in all Your Good. He is also getting ready to write his third book, Give to Give. His YouTube channel features videos about how to make money online, Mike’s entrepreneurial journey, and how you can become a better leader.

Selected Speaker Topics Include:

• Claim Your People at Work: How Inclusive Leaders Keep Employees Engaged and Productive – In this talk, Dea shares her 5 Facets of Magnetic Leadership to expose the bottom line causes of the Great Resignation and how to keep your best people from leaving for greener pastures. There are workshops and team activities available for this topic as well.
• 3 Components of a Yawn-Free Meeting – Dea teaches how to create FIT Meetings, those that are full of value, where the team knows where they’re going and where they came from, and leave the attendees energized and ready to implement the tasks the meeting outlined. She has shared this topic in-person and online, to rave reviews.
• Connecting is More Powerful Than Collecting – Dea is a Master Networker and has Built Communities of Professionals and Supporters several times. This talk about fostering relationships instead of gathering business cards and data is ideal for Networking Groups and Chambers of Commerce.

Originally from Mississippi, Dea Irby has lived in 5 Southern states, in 15+ different homes serving churches with her pastor-husband, owning & operating a tea room, and now as a Realtor® in North Carolina. The common thread throughout her life is building real community wherever she has lived: in the home with 8 children, in their churches, and in her businesses.

She is a TEDx Speaker (The Magic of the Meal), a published author (A Dollop and a Pinch: Recipes and Stories from the Baron York, An Ox in Your Kitchen: A Devotional Journal for Young Mothers, Like Dew on the Grass: A Devotional Journal for Women Seeking God, Molding Global Citizens: a Guide for Parents, Nurturing Visionary Dreamers: a Guide for Parents,) and a contributing author in 9/11 That Beautiful Broken Day and in three Chicken Soup for the Soul Collections (Set Outside Your Comfort Zone, The Forgiveness Fix, and Believe in Angels.)

Now an award winning speaker, she is also a frequent podcast guest, finally an empty nester after 45 years, and occasional sprint triathlon participant.