Speaker Resources

  • Kristen Swinehart

    Selected Topic Titles:

    • Break Through The Turbulence of Grief – Grief can come from a variety of situations, from the loss of a job to the loss of a loved one. No matter what the grief arises from it can leave us feeling a multitude of emotions and often stuck in our tracks without knowing how we will move forward. In this talk Kristen will give us tools to use during tough times to keep us flying forward.

    As a professional Psychic/Medium, Kristen knows the experience of grief intimately as well as the impact it can have on one’s life.  Having lost her father at 18 years old, she began to question and dive deeper into life AFTER death, ultimately leading her to realize she is a psychic medium and can communicate with spirits on the other side.

    Kristen left her corporate career as an attorney to pursue helping others to move through their grief using her powerful and accurate mediumship.  Now she holds group readings at corporations, works with families of high-profile individuals who have passed and helps private clients move through any form of grief they may be experiencing, from the loss of a job to the loss of a loved one.

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  • Robert Butwin

    Selected Speaker’s Topics:

    • Permission to Prosper in Questionable Economic Times
    • 5 A’s in the Law of Attraction
    • Master the Art of Networking
    • Transitioning From an Employee to Entrepreneur Mindset
    • ABC’s to Being a Successful Entrepreneur

    Robert Butwin grew up in a family of successful businesspeople and self-made millionaires.  Early in his business life he made a crucial decision to leave behind all the “Country Club Smart” ways of his business upbringing and pursue the more personally satisfying financially secure profession of Network Marketing.  He entered the network marketing field on a part-time basis 35 years ago. After recognizing its potential and learning the ropes, he became a full-time network marketer. He is psychologically unemployable and has not worked a job since September 7, 1990.

    Robert’s successful career has earned him the respect and admiration of colleagues throughout the profession.  He has been associated with several MLM firms and each time became one of their top income earners.

    Robert is active in leadership roles with several organizations, including the Social Networking Association which is the industry’s professional organization.  In 2009 he was honored by being inducted into the MLMIA Hall of Fame.  He has been a contributing writer for many professional trade journals, is the author of the best-selling book Street Smart Networking and has produced many CD’s.  He has traveled to Europe and Asia many times sharing his insights and wisdom to help entrepreneurs accelerate their success.

    Robert and his wife Bonnie live in the beautiful wine country of Northern California.  He walks his talk, living an incredible lifestyle that includes playing basketball most weekdays from 11 – 2 and spending time with his two grandsons.

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  • Howard Berg

    Selected Speaker Topics:

    • Double Your Productivity Using Proven Brain-Based Learning Strategies – Imagine completing your required reading in hours instead of works. Imagine being able to spice up your existing presentations with new information that makes them irresistible. Now Imagine, increasing productivity, increasing profits, and having more time to do the things you love. You Can Have All That. The World’s Fastest Reader will reveal his super-fast learning strategies for zipping through information at blazing fast speed so you can accomplish this and much, much more.
    • Maximum Power Reading: The Speed Reading And Accelerated Learning Secrets of the World’s Fastest Reader – Each day the decisions you make are only as good as the information you base them upon. Let the world’s fastest reader share his reading and learning strategies with you! Howard describes a more visual method for reading and guarantees your total satisfaction with how his techniques help your reading needs.
    • The Super Writing Secrets™ of The World’s Fastest Reader – Howard shows how to output text in record time by overcoming writer’s block. Put this problem in the past as he shows the audience, among other things, How to organize their thoughts so their complex writing assignments can be completed quickly and efficiently, How to sustain writing under the pressure of a deadline so the job gets completed on time, and How to juggle multiple writing tasks to achieve peak efficiency.

    Howard Berg helps professionals, associations, companies, colleges and universities, students, and baby boomers maximize their ability to learn faster, comprehend better, and retain more in this information-rich world. For the past 30 years, he has been teaching people how to increase their reading speed, but more importantly how to develop a total learning solution in their lives. 
    His work has been featured on over 1,100 radio and television programs. You might have seen him with Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning as SONY’s E-Reader spokesperson, or reading the 1,500-page Health Care Bill on Cavuto in just 50 minutes, and then performing a complete analysis. 

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  • Kerin Groves
    • Secrets of Fifty-Year Marriages – Practical keys to success from couples in my research on happy long-term relationships
    • How I Hated College but Ended Up with a PhD – An encouraging message for parents and students who aren’t sure they’ll survive higher education.
    • Resilience: Wisdom from The Greatest Generation – How the strengths of WWII and Depression-era survivors can inspire the rest of us in modern times.
    • Flow: How to Find It and Keep It in your Work Life – Explore how to re-engage in your current career or figure out what you’ll do NEXT.

    Kerin Groves is a professional counselor, career coach, educator, and researcher. She has over 25 years of experience in small businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, corporations, health care systems, and higher education. A lively and engaging speaker, Dr. Groves is an expert in human behavior and communication. Her specialty areas are aging, long-term relationships, lifelong career development, and positive psychology.

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  • Wanda La Russa

    Selected Speaking Topics:

    • Let’s Chat Positivity: 3 Effects of Positive and Negative Thoughts – Studies show that a person with a positive outlook is happier, healthier, feels more successful, and believes that they can overcome any obstacle and difficulty. During this talk, Wanda illuminates the effects of positive and negative thoughts and shows how to create habits of Positivity.

    • Let’s Chat Presenteeism: The 5 Effects Positivity Has on Your Bottom Line – In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business world, companies constantly search for ways to boost productivity and enhance their bottom line. While factors like technology, strategy, and market conditions play crucial roles, recent research has shed light on the undeniable link between a positive outlook and productivity, ultimately influencing the financial success of organizations. Wanda is an expert on turning positivity from a feel-good idea to a business strategy with tangible effects on the bottom-line.

    Wanda has been trained by some of the top leaders in the self-improvement industry such as: public speaker and self-development author Brian Tracy, speaker and author Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Secret – the Law of Attraction,) Chris Gardner (speaker whose life was the basis of the movie The Pursuit of Happiness,) and participated in a workshop conducted by Oprah Winfrey.

    Wanda has trained independent consultants, distributors, and sales representatives from companies including Mary Kay, Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Scentsy, PartyLite and more. She has also spoken for Boards of Directors, school retreats, sales trainings, community & corporate events, and meetings of national and global organizations, such as Soroptimist International of America, American Business Women’s Association, and more.

    Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she brings her experience and knowledge of diversity and multiculturalism to her presentations. Wanda studied Human Development as a part of her Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, East Bay and has continued to learn and research self-development, human dynamics, mental health, relationships, and mindset.

    Wanda has a special place in her heart for uplifting girls and women by teaching, inspiring, motivating, and empowering them to enrich, improve and enhance their well-being, personal relationships, and professional lives. Her volunteer work includes: Girl Scouts of America, Girls on the Run, Inc., YMCA Youth & Government, PTA Patterson Unified School District, MOPS International, and LovePacs to name a few.

    Wanda has served in numerous leadership and membership roles including:
    Chapter Member, Lakeside Leaders of American Business Women’s Association
    President & Board of Directors, Soroptimist International of Dallas
    President & Board of Directors, Soroptimist International of Patterson
    Parent Representative & Board of Directors, Bengals Youth Football & Cheerleading Organization
    Founding Member & First President, Business Women’s Connection

    She has also received the following awards and recognition including:
    2022-2023 Woman of the Year – Lakeside Leaders of American Business Women’s Association
    2012 State of California Senator Anthony Canella Certificate of Recognition for Volunteerism
    2011 Ambassador of the Year, Patterson-Westley Chamber of Commerce

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  • Gini Trask

    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.

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  • Southwestern Consulting

    Sales & Leadership Consulting

    Southwestern Coaching Programs

    Whether you’re a budding novice or a seasoned veteran in your sales career, one of our four targeted coaching programs will equip you with the skills and strategies needed to excel to the next level.

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  • Yoram Solomon

    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.

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  • Cindy Baccus

    A fun and enthusiastic expert, Cindy consistently achieves outstanding results for her clients, whether that’s in leadership training or social media. For the past 21 years, Cindy has been dedicated to sales and marketing with a special focus on Social Media Marketing. She recently launched her first book about Facebook Personal Profiles.

    Speaker’s Topic Titles:

    • 5 Steps to Having Your Best Day Ever! – Tired of showing up to work grumpy, unorganized, and unhappy? Do you dread calling your clients or meeting a new group of people? Cindy has put together a list of ways you can have a great day every day. This step-by-step guidance will show you how to set better priorities, make our time go further, ace every interaction, be our smartest selves, strengthen our personal impact, be resilient to setbacks, and boost our energy and enjoyment. Not only will this boost your job satisfaction, but also your performance at work. Your family will notice a difference the very first day you begin to implement the 5 Steps to Having Your Best Day Ever.
    • Cindy Shares Outta The Box Leadership Lessons for Women – Not so long ago, most people only associated leadership with men. The fie following leadership lessons are ones that men can learn from their female counterparts and appreciate them more. You will enjoy an outta the box speaker that is funny heart breaking honest and motivational. The intent is to give you knowledge and skills that you need to be the best leaders you can be.
    • 5 Elements to Turning a Failure into a Success – The greatest lessons we learn in life are from our losses. Everyone experiences loss, but not everyone learns from it. We will explore the most common lessons we learn when we experience loss within our business and personal lives. Learn how to turn a set-back into a step forward by using 5 Key Elements that make up the DNA of those who do turn their failures into successes. It does take discipline to do the right thing when you may find yourself in the dumps. You will not only gain knowledge, but a roadmap to help you change your mindset.
    • A True Sales Leader is One Who Knows the Way, Goes The Way, and Shows the Way – Leadership may seem like a simple concept, but it perplexes many. So many of the best sales managers still mistake the job title for something more crucial to sales success – leadership. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked: leadership is defined by results, not attributes. Cindy offers practical insight into learning how to lead the person who matters most – yourself.  Everyone will learn, whether you are aspiring to positions of leadership or a veteran leader who aims to build and improve upon the steps that led you to the front of the line.
    • Leadership is not a Plaque on the Wall or a Corner Office – We strive for positions and put our hope in recognition, but that’s not all. You don’t need to hang a plaque on the wall; your actions will tell your team what type of leader you are and how you will create a good environment for their personal growth. Leadership is an Action, Not a Position. Remarkable leaders add value to the growth and development of others. Get beyond the plaque on the wall and learn how to enhance your personal leadership skills beyond the corner office and into a successful team.
    • 5 Essential Qualities for Entrepreneurial Leadership – Are entrepreneurs born or made?  This is a question endlessly debated in startup circles. Entrepreneurs are a different breed of leader.  Renegades, rebels, world changers, innovators, black sheep, risk takers, workaholics – these are just a few of the names we are called by both who love us, and those who don’t understand us. As you grow your business and make your mark on the world in your own unique way, it will be useful to keep the 5 Essential Qualities top-of-mind when defining your own leadership identity. These are fundamental and unforgettable for success.  Your leadership skills can only show improvement if you are committed to daily personal growth activities.

    Cindy has successfully trained more than 5,000 people in positions of CEO, CFO, Entrepreneurs, Upper Level Managers, and more. When Cindy speaks, attendees leave with a deeper understanding of her topics and how they relate in the real world. She delivers consistent value with strategies that can be implemented immediately. Her enthusiastic attitude is contagious and her audiences always want more.

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  • Shiraz Baboo

    Selected Speaker Topics:

    • Surrender the Struggle to Release the Pain – How unconscious stories you don’t even know about are affecting your prosperity, relationships, and health as your grow your business. How the stories of the people around you are affecting you.
    • The Problem is Actually the Solution: Why you secretly want that big problem to stay and don’t realize it. – How to create bigger results in your business and your life with simple tools. How you are addicted to situations of struggle in your business.

    Shiraz Baboo is an Award-Winning Author, International Speaker, and Reality Shifting Specialist. Entrepreneurs, Coaches and Healers hire Shiraz to rewrite their business stories, and with them, their reality because most people are unknowingly addicted to stories of adversity and struggle and left with a lack of success, confidence, and freedom. Shiraz helps you to eliminate, terminate, and annihilate your unconscious addiction to these stories in order to ignite a stream of high paying clients while fuelling an abundance of free time, money, and energy.

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