Cindy Cannon is a founding Partner of  Growth    Management Group. GMG is a consulting practice specializing in professional recruiting, career assessment and training. Cindy shares her experience and knowledge helping to strengthen businesses and motivate their employees. She is known as an expert in her field and has created and developed a series of programs called, “The Insider Secrets to Interviewing.” Recognizing each organization has a unique mission, GMG delivers a very unique program specifically tailored to each company and individual.

Cindy is also an Inspirational Speaker and published author sharing her incredible story of how she lived through and conquered 15 surgeries, a very real near death experience, an extremely painful rare chronic disease and still achieved an awarded elite status as a nationally recognized top recruiter.

Today, Cindy is a graduate of the Bill Gove Speaking school and a sought after speaker in the non-profit, public and private sectors.

Cindy is the Immediate past District 14 Governor for the State of GA for Toastmasters International where she led over 4,800 members and 270 clubs to being #4 in the world and #1 in North America. Cindy has reached the highest achievement that Toastmasters International offers, a Distinguished Toastmaster.

Cindy’s entire purpose in life is to share with you her belief you can do anything that you want to do no matter the circumstances. You just need to know how.

Please visit www.gmgweb.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/cindycannon to learn more

Steve Cohn, CSP, ATM-B helps companies and people Make Business Personal Again to create better and more successful relationships with customers, prospects, employees and each other.

Steve lives and breathes customer relationships.  He has spent much of his more than 25-year professional career studying the way people communicate with each other and how their actions affect their businesses, their relationships, and their environments. From this, he has found that true, loyal customer relationships can only happen when we truly focus on and communicate with the customer.

Steve has extensive experience as a seminar leader and consultant in call center, corporate, and retail customer relations as well as interpersonal and written communication. He has worked with such diverse organizations as Delta Air Lines, IBM, E.ON Energy (UK), Federal Express Worldwide, Atmos Energy, Mazda, KeyCorp, Nestle, Raymond Weil, the City of Los Angeles, University of Louisville Health System and many others in more than 35 states and six countries.

His incredible speaking ability and rapport with audiences and clients helped him earn the designation Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) from the National Speakers Association in 2002. The CSP  designation is the highest earned designation in the speaking and training business.

Steve is a past-president of NSA-Georgia, a state chapter of the National Speakers Association. He is the author/co-author of three books.  You can learn more about Steve at www.peopletopeoplelearning.com, follow him on Twitter http://twitter.com/stevecohncsp, or follow his blog, It’s Not Rocket Service at www.stevecohn.wordpress.com

Bill is an ATM-G, successful past Area and Division Governor, CL, one of the original members of Speakers Roundtable and a past president of the club.

A professional speaker and mentor, Bill is a respected resource in the business world and the Trade Show Marketing Industry.  He brings over 30 years of business executive and successful “Insider” experience to his audiences and clients.   He’s a  firm believer in the fact that personal growth fosters business growth.

Bill is a member of National Speakers Assn., Board Member of NSA-Georgia, American Bonsai Society, EACA, TSEA and other associations.   Visit Bill at http://www.KovachCommunications.com, Ecademy, LinkedIn or Twitter

With his degree in Marketing Jon Schwartz decided there’s no business like show business, and has been performing professionally for the past 35 years! 

He has toured prisons with a production of Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot and has performed mime at Carnegie Hall.  Jon also worked with Tennessee Williams in the world premiere production of Tiger Tail and worked on ships as cruise director and entertainer. 

For the past 18 years Jon and his wife Ginny King have been producing shows for the event business in Atlanta.   Jon has written, produced and directed fourteen interactive mysteries that have been produced at over 350 corporate events. 

In February of 2004 Jon, as Vinny Verelli, won the NSA Comedy Idol Competition in St. Louis and recently won the Toastmaster’s State of Georgia humor and table topics competition.  In December 2007, Vinny was the closing keynote speaker at the 2007 CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) convention in Halifax.  Jon is currently the president of NSA Georgia.

www.motivatethis.net

Kelly Vandever is the president of Communications for Everyone, LLC, a firm dedicated to Speaking, Training and Coaching that Speaks to You! With more than 20 years of combined management experience as a military officer and a manager in three fortune 500 companies, Kelly blends practical, real-world perspective with high-energy delivery. Her interactive style and positive, forward-looking approach have been engaging and encouraging audiences for years.

Kelly is an award-winning speaker with Toastmasters and was named Toastmaster of the Year for the state of Georgia in 2007. She is also Chair of the Independent Trainer and Consultant Special Interest Group of the American Society of Training and Development Atlanta Chapter, and an associate member of the National Speakers Association Georgia Chapter.

For more information about Kelly and Communications for Everyone, please visit the company web site at www.CommunicationsForEveryone.com.