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 HARRY DENT
Future Trends • Business Strategy • Change • Investments
Harry Dent is a Harvard MBA, speaker, seminar leader, experienced CEO, manager, and consultant. His book, The Great Boom Ahead, is an international best seller, published in six countries. His most recent book, Job Shock, covers trends in the workplace. Dent has been featured in Fortune, Success, and Omni magazines, as well as on Good Morning America, CNBC, PBS, and other media. Using exciting new research and hands on business experience, he brings a uniquely positive view of the future into practical application at all levels, including business strategy jobs, organizational change, technology, and investment. CA 
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 PAUL KARASIK
Finance • Motivational • Sales • Humor
Paul Karasik is one of the most popular speakers in the financial industry. He is the author of four all-time business classics including: Sweet Persuasion and Sweet Persuasion for Managers, and Seminar selling for the Financial Industry. Paul provides America's brokers, insurance agents, bankers, financial planners, and financial industry leaders state-of-the-art "educainment." His program, Winning is based upon 18 years of research into the secrets of success in sales and management. This inspiring and energizing program provides the strategies and techniques that will enable financial industry professionals to achieve their long and short term goals. NJ 
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 RICHARD H. KIRCHEN
Financial Planner • Retirement • Estate Planning
As a seminar leader, Chartered Financial Planner and estate planner, Richard Kirchen is well qualified to guide corporations and individuals toward their lifetime desires and financial dreams. A combination of more than 25 years in financial services, sales, and management has provided him a rich background enabling him to recognize, and transfer human potential into personal achievement. His extensive education in insurance, financial planning, and securities, and his sincere interest in helping others, enable him to deliver a wealth of valuable and practical information that directly impacts the bottom line. Proven strategies and reliable results are the benchmark of his life-long career. CA 
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 HAROLD J. MEYERMAN
Banking • Global Capital Markets • Management
In all aspects of the banking industry, Harold Meyerman stands out as an exemplary and consummate professional. As the former CEO and President of First Interstate Bank, Ltd and a senior Managing Director of The Chase Manhattan Bank/Chase Securities, Mr. Meyerman, through his lectures, clearly identifies the challenges and provides substantial insights into investment banking, retail banking as well as economic outlooks with a view into both the U.S. and international economy. Prior to First Interstate Bank, Mr. Meyerman was group head for Bankers Trust Company, Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in London. Among his many corporate and board affiliations, he is currently a Director of an asset management holding company. Mr. Meyerman holds degrees in Commerce & Business Administration and in Law. He is multi-lingual, speaking English, Dutch, German and French. With his professional and personal experience in the banking industry, he provides his audiences with a wealth of solid information that can affect their daily business, client, investment, career and life choices. CA 
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 PAUL ZANE PILZER
Author, Unlimited Wealth • Economist
Author of two national best-selling books, Unlimited Wealth and Other People's Money, Pilzer is a regular commentator on CNN, National Public Radio's Marketplace, and Larry King Live. He was an appointed economic advisor to the Reagan and Bush Administrations, and has been a candidate for the U.S. Congress. As a young entrepreneur, he earned his first $1 million before he was 26 and is currently the Managing Partner of a $300 million real estate and information company. Mr. Pilzer is a frequent lecturer around the globe. His works have been published in Japan, Taiwan, and the Russian Republic. TX 
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 ROGER B. PORTER
Economics • Government • Strategic Management
Roger B. Porter is the IBM Professor of Business and Government and Master of Dunster House at Harvard University, as well as a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His teaching and research focus on the relationship between business and government, strategic management, and domestic and international economic policy. Dr. Porter has served for more than a decade in senior economic policy positions in the Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush Administrations. In the George H. W. Bush Administration, he served as Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy from 1989 to 1993. From 1985 to 1989, Dr. Porter was Professor of Business and Government at Harvard University and Faculty Chairman of the Program for Senior Managers in Government. Dr. Porter received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, receiving his B.Phil. degree from Oxford University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Presidential Decision Making, and, more recently, Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium. He is a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a member of the board of directors of the White House Historical Association, and a member of the advisory boards of the European Institute, the George Bush School of Public Service at Texas A&M University, the Center for Presidential Studies, and the American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research. MA
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 DON REYNOLDS
Futurist • Economic Forecaster
Reynolds, founder of 21st Century Forecasting, is a leading speaker on business strategy, demographics, future trends, and technology. Author of a "Ten Year Economic Forecast" for the Texas House of Representatives Don has written over 150 articles on trends and the economy. A "hands-on" economist, he serves on an investment advisory committee for a $10.8 billion stock portfolio. His accurate predictions on interest rates, oil prices, and technology trends have won him numerous accolades. A popular speaker, he has presented for such companies as Arthur Anderson & Co., Boeing, Ford, IBM, and the U.S. Department of Labor. TX
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 DAVID L. SMITH
Economist • Futurist • Author
David L. Smith is an economist and futurist whose views have intrigued U.S., Canadian and international audiences over the past 17 years. Combining disciplines not often found together - mathematics, history, politics, philosophy - Mr. Smith enlivens his presentations with original, through-provoking insight. Recurring themes in Mr. Smith's presentations include the critical role of energy and technology in defining the human enterprise; the "megacycles" of economic history; the transformation of the global economy presently underway; the opportunities and dangers associated with current U.S. fiscal and monetary policy, energy policy and volatile financial markets. Mr. Smith provides logical and useful predictions about the economic, financial and social conditions we are likely to encounter as we enter the 21st century. TX
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 TERRY SULLIVAN
Business Ownership • Valuing Businesses • Franchising
As a small business owner, franchise owner, and trade association President, Terry Sullivan has managed and seen the small business world from many angles. His perspectives range from finding the best fit for a business owner to evaluating both franchises and independently owned businesses for purchase. Recognizing that several key factors impact the success rate for business owners, Terry challenges prospective owners to link their emotional ownership drivers (and passion) with thorough and practical analysis that will ensure profitability and work satisfaction. Along the way he will help you to anticipate hidden obstacles that will enhance your success. "So You Want To Be A Business Owner." "Evaluating Franchises." You'll find Terry Sullivan engaging, inspiring and most of all practical. OR
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