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FIVE STAR Speaker Spotlight Newsletter – Issue 11, September 2008

FIVE STAR Motivational Speakers (http://www.fivestarspeakers.com/) is honored to be celebrating our 20th year in business in 2008. We could not have made it if not for our thousands of outstanding clients and for that; we can only say Thank You! By the end of this year, nearly 3.6 million people will have attended a meeting or event of a FIVE STAR motivational speaker or entertainer. We speak to your success bringing world-class resources to propel your people and the growth of your organization. We look forward to continuing our relationship with you! Next year we will celebrate our 20th year in business! We look forward to continuing our relationship with you!

FIVE STAR Speakers is your ticket to a meeting audiences will LOVE and a message they will LIVE! We match your needs with world-class resources to ensure your group will BELIEVE in your message, INSPIRE your leaders, CONNECT with customers, GROW your business ... and CELEBRATE! Whatever the topic, the industry, the audience, the budget, or the timeline ... we know the proven motivational speakers and more who will make you look great! We Speak to Your Success! (See also http://www.fivestarspeakers.com/international-speakers-trainers-bureau/speakers-trainers-news.aspx)

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P.S  Do not forget we have a LIVE Motivational, Business, and Keynote Speakers; Entertainers Showcase this Fall - November 5 in Chicago and November 6 in Kansas City! Contact us for more information!

Hot Speaker

Dr. Christine Dumas - Lifestyle, Consumer Health and Fitness Reporter, Author and Speaker

Motivational Speaker, Health & Wellness Reporter, and Author, Dr. Christine Dumas is a lifestyle, consumer health and fitness reporter, author and speaker. Since 1996, her stories have appeared on NBC News Today and NBC News Weekend Edition Today. She also reported on health, lifestyle and fitness features for Weekend Today, at the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina from 2003-2006.

Christine is also featured regularly on Weekend Live on Fox News Channel, as well as on the Sirius Stars Network, where she regularly comments on topical issues across lifestyle and the currency of conversation. She has been featured on both Oprah and The View. Christine has been chosen to be the national spokesperson for Kellogg’s 2008 Healthy Beginnings campaign – where she will reach over 33 million American households in national newspapers alone...more on Health and Fitness Speaker, Christine Dumas

Fee Range: $20,000 +

Travels From: Los Angeles, California, USA United States of America

Featured Business and Leadership Speaker’s Book Review

Chin Ning-Chu - Business Speaker and Author

International #1 best-selling author published book "The Asian Mind Game, Do Less, Achieve More" and "Thick Face, Black Heart." Outsold Hilary Clinton and Tony Robbins in Asia and Australia. Her work is highly praised by the Wall Street Journal, Linden, Financial Times and USA Today. She is the foremost leader in leading you to discover how universal Eastern thought can assist you in becoming a wildly innovative, rapidly adapting, insanely creative businessperson. She will motivate, entertain and inspire the best. Her refreshing viewpoints include turning liabilities into assets, profiting through surrender, achieving the state of natural knowing. Chin-Ning's speaking style is truthful and humorous while her message is profound and thought provoking. Her speeches have legs. They walk home with the attendees. Good ideas and practical solutions that stay with them for a long time to come....more on Business Speaker and Leadership Expert Chin-Ning Chu

Fee Range: $15,000 +

Travels From: San Francisco, California, USA United States of America

Musical Entertainment

Tonic Sol-fa - Musical Entertainment and A cappella Group

FEATURED AT OUR CHICAGO SHOWCASE ON NOVEMBER 5TH!

Although they are simply four voices and a tambourine, Tonic Sol-fa has spent the past decade on the road carving their niche as the nation's top vocal group. In that time, this quartet has been named one of the top five must see groups in America, has been awarded numerous original song and album awards in pop, gospel and holiday genres, appeared on NBC's Today Show and in the pages of Newsweek magazine. Outings with Jay Leno, Shawn Colvin, Lonestar and Garrison Keillor have propelled album sales to more than 1,000,000 copies (mostly sold from the back of their trailer!) and have earned the group thousands of intensely loyal fans...more on Corporate Entertainers Tonic Sol-fa

Fee Range: $7,500 +

Travels From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, United States of America

Simon T. Bailey, CSP, Author of Release Your Brilliance

Leadership Expert and best-selling author, Simon T. Bailey writes business books including “Release Your Brilliance.” Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be...more on Motivational Speaker and Leadership Author Simon T. Bailey

Fee Range: $15,000 +

Travels From: Orlando, Florida, USA, United States of America

John Naber - Olympic Champion, Broadcaster and Author

Motivational Speaker, Olympic Gold Medalist & Leadership Speaker, John Naber is one of America’s most successful Olympic champions....more on Motivational Speaker, Olympic Champion, Business Speaker, Leadership Speaker John Naber

Fee Range: $10,000 +

Travels From: Los Angeles, California, USA, United States of America

BELIEVE:

Curtis Zimmerman - Empowering Individuals and Organizations to Live Life at Performance Level

Motivational speaker and as an author, Curtis has impacted over one million people throughout the nation with his life-changing messages and award winning programs. Audiences connect with Curtis through his interactive style and approachable manner. He incorporates the skills he gained from over twenty-five years in the entertainment industry into his powerful programs, cleverly balancing the connection between education and entertainment. Curtis is an expert at transforming organizations by inspiring individuals to live their life at a higher level of performance. ...more on Motivational Speaker and Author, Curtis Zimmerman

Fee Range: $11,000 +

Travels From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, United States of America

CONNECT:

Curt Coffman - Best-Selling Author; Leader in Human Potential and a Positive, Customer-Oriented Work Environment Keynote Speaker Motivational speaker, business speaker, independent researcher, author, and consultant, Curt Coffman was Global Practice Leader for employee and customer engagement consulting with The Gallup Organization for 22 years. Since joining Gallup in 1983, he has consulted with many Fortune 100 and 500 companies, and his work spans the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His consulting insights help organizations measure and manage workplace and customer conditions that show linkage to business outcomes. His mission is to help organizations understand the key characteristics of a positive, productive, customer-oriented work environment. His research and consulting insights help organizations measure and manage workplace and customer conditions that show linkage to business outcomes...more on Leadership and Motivational Speaker Curt Coffman

Fee Range: $25,000 +

Travels From: Denver, Colorado, USA, United States of America

INSPIRE:

Walter Bond, CSP - Motivational, Business and Leadership Speaker with Humor

No One Can Stop You But YOU is one belief that Motivational speaker Walter Bond has embraced and built both his personal and professional life around. Understanding that no one can stop him has challenged Walter to work hard and maintain the winning attitude needed to achieve greatness for himself and his family and impart this belief using real life examples to the thousands of lives he touches each year...more on Leadership and Motivational Speaker Walter Bond

Fee Range: $10,000 +

Travels From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, United States of America

GROW:

Jerry Haney - Mature Workers... Don’t Let Them Get Away

Jerry Haney has invested most of the last thirty years in a number of key leadership positions in two business cultures that during their zenith have been recognized as outstanding examples of effective enterprise cultures, Xerox Corporation and Marion Laboratories.

During the years Jerry was at Xerox, the company grew from a small company of 3,500 employees to one with $16 billion in sales and 97,000 employees. It not only had a great organizational culture but was the "Cinderella of Wall Street" as well. Marion was recognized for its outstanding stock performance during the 80's and for generating the highest sales and earnings per associate in the pharmaceutical industry. The company was recognized as one of the very best companies to work for in America....more on Business and Leadership Speaker Jerry Haney

Fee Range: $7,500 +

Travels From: Kansas City, Missouri, USA, United States of America

CELEBRATE:

Pete Peterkin – Barack Obama Impersonator

Motivational Speaker Pete Peterkin is being called the most versatile and exciting entertainer in show business today! A master of over 300 celebrity impressions, Including his latest impression as Barack Obama, 25 musical instruments, and an amazing variety of dance styles, Mr. Peterkin's services are in constant demand year-round....more on Corporate Entertainer and Impressionist Extraordinaire, Pete Peterkin

Fee Range: $10,000 +

Travels From: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, United States of America

Jennifer Cook

Meet Jennifer Cook, an essential member and huge support to our sales team and connection to our entire database of over 18,000 speakers! Jennifer has been with FIVE STAR since May 2000...more on FIVE STAR Speakers Senior Marketing Assistant, Jennifer Cook

Join Us for our LIVE motivational, inspirational, business growth, leadership, humorists, nutritional, healthcare and keynote speakers Showcase this Fall in Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois! Speaker line up will be mentioned in our next Spotlight. To Sign Up or For More Details on the LIVE Fall Motivational Speakers and Entertainers Fall 2008 Chicago & Kansas City Showcase.