AIM Success and Development Plus, together with Inspire Leadership Consultancy, is pleased to present the 5 biggest names in the world of change all in a single event, exclusively organized for innovative individuals and corporations in Cebu - Giant Impact's Leadercast: Voices of Change.
We would like to personally invite you to be part of this life-changing program to be held on December 1, 2012 from 1:30pm to 5:30pm at the SM City Cebu Trade Hall 3, SM City, Cebu.
In this event, you will hear the most sought after international and local speakers, all converge in a single event, all to educate us about the concept of innovation, leadership, and change. Four international speakers will share their ideas through videocast while Mr. Francis J. Kong will be present live to contribute his knowledge.
About the Speakers:
John Maxwell
Leadership Expert & Best-Selling Author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John C. Maxwell is an internationally respected leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 19 million books. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of EQUIP, a non-profit organization that has trained more than 5 million leaders in 126 countries worldwide. Each year he speaks to the leaders of diverse organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, the National Football League, the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the United Nations. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, Maxwell has written three books that have sold more than a million copies: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, andThe 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. His blog can be read at JohnMaxwellOnLeadership.com.
Seth Godin
Entrepreneur, Marketing Expert, & Best-Selling Author of 12 Books Including “Linchpin”
Seth Godin is the author of twelve books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. His books have been translated into more than 33 languages, and his ebooks are among the most popular ever published. He is responsible for many words in the marketer’s vocabulary, including permission marketing, ideaviruses, purple cows, the dip and sneezers.
His latest book Linchpin hit the top ten on Amazon the first day it was released. Seth’s book, Tribes, is a nationwide bestseller, appearing on the Amazon, New York Times, BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry’s leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998. Godin worked as VP Direct Marketing at Yahoo before leaving to become a full time speaker, writer and blogger.
He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by BusinessWeek.
Suzy Welch
Best-selling author, television commentator, and noted business journalist
Suzy Welch, a contributor on business and economic issues for Good Morning America, is a noted journalist and author. In April 2009, Suzy published 10-10-10: A Life Transforming Idea (Scribner), which was a New York Times best-seller and has been published in 32 languages. She is also the co-author of Winning, and its companion volume, Winning: The Answers, which she wrote with her husband, Jack Welch. In 2010, the Welches launched an accredited online MBA program through Chancellor University. Suzy graduated from Harvard University in 1981 and from Harvard Business School in 1988, where she was named a Baker Scholar. Her professional experience includes several years at Bain and Company and as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review. Suzy has considerable non-profit board experience, including service on the Board of Trustees at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless and at Drexel University, where she also holds an honorary Doctorate.
Frans Johansson
Best-selling author of The Medici Effect
Frans Johansson is the best-selling author of The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts and Cultures. Translated into 18 languages, The Medici Effect was named one of the top 10 best business books by Amazon.com. In his book and in his presentations, Frans clearly shows how the best ideas and innovation come from collaboration between people with diverse experiences, skills, expertise, perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. Frans has lived all his life at the intersection where ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide. He was raised in Sweden by his African-American-Cherokee mother and Swedish father. Frans earned his BS in environmental science at Brown University and his MBA at Harvard Business School. He founded both a Boston-based software company and a medical device company operating out of Baltimore, Maryland and Stockholm, Sweden. He has written articles on healthcare, information technology and the science of sport fishing and has been featured on CNN’s AC360, ABC’s Early Morning Show, and CNBC’s “The Business of Innovation” series along with Jack Welch and Muhammad Yunus.