inkWELL Press Founder & CEO Tonya Dalton gives her take on being more productive daily by figuring out and focusing on your passions instead of on other people’s fires.

You'll Learn:

1. Where overwhelm truly comes from
2. How to craft the three components of your personal North Star
3. Approaches for doing a brain dump that boosts productivity

About Tonya:

Tonya Dalton is a highly sought-after productivity expert and successful entrepreneur. Tonya started her current business, inkWELL Press, in 2014 and quickly built it into a seven-figure company providing organizational tools & education to thousands of people around the globe. Her goal is to help you use the power of productivity to achieve your dreams and find fulfillment in all aspects of your life. She’s also the host of   Productivity Paradox.

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Andy Hill shares how he got his pay bumped in three different ways...and how to keep that money from flowing out.

You'll Learn:

1. How to figure out when you should change companies
2. Tips to boost the trait that helps you get a pay bump
3. The best mental trick for saving money

About Andy:

Andy Hill is award-winning corporate event marketing professional that has managed programs for luxury brands such as Gulfstream, Bentley and Audi of America. During his 15-year career, he's grown from entry level to Director level by exceeding his client's and his management's expectations each year. 

Maryann Karinch shares how to give information-rich responses and make connections that will steer conversations and interactions in your favor.

You'll Learn:

1. The difference between answering vs. responding
2. Three ways to use keywords for memorability
3. Body language tips for forming a connection

About Maryann:

Maryann Karinch has written numerous books on human behavior and health, including eight with Gregory Hartley that feature insights into reading and using body language. She uses this expertise in coaching business executives, law enforcement personnel, and other professionals in detecting deceit, defusing tense situations, and negotiating with both friendly and hostile sources.

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Communications expert and pitch champion Chris Westfall illustrates how leadership is a language of the heart and how to achieve it through a perspective change.

You'll Learn:

1. The three ways that people listen to each other
2. Two ‘you’ phrases that will help you get what you want
3. The thought that makes the impossible possible

About Chris:

Chris is national pitch champion and an award-winning MBA instructor at a top-20 program, He’s the official ‘pitch coach’ at the fifth-largest university in the USA – where his strategies have helped raise over $30 million for student start ups. Originally from Chicago, Chris resides in Houston, TX with his wife and two daughters, and is an avid supporter of the performing and visual arts.

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G2 Crowd Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Bonnici shares his five steps for figuring out and advancing along your career path.

You'll Learn:

1. Two core principles for mastering your craft
2. How to get good at giving and receiving feedback
3. Two LinkedIn tricks that make all the difference

About Ryan:

Ryan Bonnici is the Chief Marketing Officer of G2 Crowd, where he's driving growth of the world's leading B2B technology review platform that's helping more than 1.5 million business professionals make informed purchasing decisions every single month. Prior to G2 Crowd, Ryan held several leadership roles in some of the most well-recognized companies in the tech industry. He served as the senior director of global marketing at HubSpot, where his efforts led to triple-digit growth for the company's marketing related sales.

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Karin Hurt discusses how the fear of speaking up hampers organizational growth and what you can do about it.

You'll Learn:

1. Three steps for overcoming the fear of speaking up
2. Approaches to encourage others speak up using the only UGLY framework
3. The primary way we dampen the willingness of others to speak up

About Karin:

Karin has over two decades of experience in customer service, sales, and human resources. She’s the award-winning author of two books: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results-Without Losing Your Soul and Overcoming an Imperfect Boss.

A former Verizon Wireless executive, Karin transformed customer service outsourcing (96M calls/year) to reach parity in quality with internal centers and developed a leading sales team that won the President’s Award for Customer Growth.

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Communication expert Dr. Nick Morgan describes how the five problems of virtual communication have made the world angrier over the last decade, and what to do about it.

You'll Learn:

1. The magic question that bridges much of the virtual gap
2. How bad online behavior is leaking into face-to-face communication
3. How video calls confuse our sixth sense and exhaust us

About Nick:

Dr. Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication theorists and coaches. A passionate teacher, he is committed to helping people find clarity in their thinking and ideas – and then delivering them with panache. He has been commissioned by Fortune 50 companies to write for many CEOs and presidents. He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, to appear on the Today Show, and to deliver an unforgettable TED talk. He has worked widely with political and educational leaders. And he has himself spoken, led conferences, and moderated panels at venues around the world.

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Miracle Morning author Hal Elrod condensed the six habits of the most successful people in history into the SAVERS acronym and describes how they changed his life—and how they can change yours, too.

You'll Learn:

1. Approaches for silence that generate new ideas
2. How NOT to do affirmations
3. The impact of tiny amounts of exercise

About Hal:

He is one of the highest rated keynote speakers in America, creator of one of the fastest growing and most engaged online communities in existence and author of one of the highest rated, best-selling books in the world, The Miracle Morning—which has been translated into 27 languages, has over 2,000 five-star Amazon reviews and is practiced daily by over 500,000 people in 70+ countries.

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“King of Sales” Jeffrey Gitomer discusses his new book Truthful Living, a compilation if the wisdom of Napoleon Hill. He also hashes out his tips for persuasion and personal development.

You'll Learn:

1. Why Napoleon Hill is still worth listening to 100 years later
2. The number one thing people don’t do that will benefit them
3. The five most important words in the English language according to Napoleon Hill

About Jeffrey:

Jeffrey Gitomer is the New York Times bestselling author of some 15 books on personal development, attitude, and sales, including The Sales Bible, The Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude, 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling, and award-winning The Little Red Book of Selling, which has sold more than five million copies worldwide and is cited as an essential work in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Widely known as the King of Sales, Gitomer is a dynamic keynote speaker whose social media footprint reaches millions. He is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Columbia Business School professor Hitendra Wadhwa defines inner mastery and shows how to achieve it.

You'll Learn:

1. The five pillars of inner mastery
2. Key questions and framework for daily reflection
3. Two strategies for redirecting your emotions positively

About Hitendra:

Hitendra Wadhwa is Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School and founder of the Institute for Personal Leadership (IPL).  Hitendra graduated from the University of Delhi in mathematics and received his MBA and a PhD in Management from MIT.  He has received the 2015 Executive-MBA Commitment to Excellence Award, the 2012 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2008 Columbia Marketing Association Award for the Most Dynamic and Engaging Professor.

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Success 101 podcaster Jarrod Warren details an evening routine that will grant you a deep, restful sleep—and a successful way to tackle your day.

You'll Learn:

1. How to turn stress around with your perspective
2. Eight tips for a solid evening routine and quality sleep
3. Why to consider taping your mouth shut, literally

About Jarrod:

Jarrod is the managing director of a financial planning practice and hosts the Success 101 podcast.

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Founder of the British Academy of Sound Therapy Lyz Cooper explains how different sounds—or sonic vitamins—can help you relax, get energized, and/or enter a flow state.

You'll Learn:

1. The types of music that energize and soothe
2. Why it’s good to break up focused work with sound breaks
3. How to manipulate sound to get into the zone

About Lyz:

Award-winning entrepreneur and author Lyz Cooper has been working in the holistic health field for 33 years and with therapeutic sound since 1994. She has developed a range of techniques which have been shown to help improve health and well-being using therapeutic sound and music and is considered to be one of the thought leaders in the field of therapeutic sound today.

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Emma-Kate Swann shares how increased awareness enables you to be a better employee and a better person.

You'll Learn:

1. The four key practices for becoming more conscious
2. Tips for becoming more secure in your identity
3. Six ways to counter  your fear responses

About Emma-Kate:

Emma-Kate Swann is the Vice President of Leadership & Transformation at Healthy Companies International working alongside a team to both support and lead key client engagements. As part of her mission to bring about positive, healthy outcomes, Emma-Kate coaches executives on optimizing their performance, helps organizations navigate through change, and guides executive teams in building more productive relationships. She is also actively involved in the design and implementation of leadership development programs at all levels within client organizations.

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