Speakers
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Steve Wake is a management consultant, specializing in Earned Value Project Management. He provides advice, guidance, and training. He is Chairman of the APM Earned Value Management Specific Interest Group and Director of Steve Wake Projects Ltd. He chairs, speaks, writes, and is an accomplished event organizer. He is seen as a UK expert and champion of the subject of earned value.
Steve founded and is Chairman of the APM Earned Value Specific Interest Group. He established reciprocity between the US ANSI EV Guideline and the UK APM Guideline. Steve also chairs the APM SIG-Steering Group with oversight of all APM’s SIG activity and strategy.
He is a member of the APM Knowledge Directorate and participates on the APM Nominations committee. In 2009, he helped found the EVA-Europe initiative and chaired the first conference at CERN Geneva and is a member of the core author group for the revision of the PMI Second Edition of the Practice Standard for Earned Value Management.
MONDAY MORNING KEYNOTE MOTIVATIONAL & LEADERSHIP SPEAKER
Don Yaeger
As the author of 16 books, four of which became instant New York Times best-sellers, Don Yaeger has developed a reputation as one of America’s most provocative journalists. His award-winning writing career, including 10 years as Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated, has led to guest appearances on every major talk show in America - from Oprah to Nightline; from CNN to Good Morning America.
Few can lay claim to as exciting and colorful career as Don. In his 20-plus years as a journalist, he has conducted interviews with some of the greatest athletes of our time – Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, Emmitt Smith, Serena Williams, Jimmy Connors and countless others. He has lived with Walter Payton, writing the NFL legend’s autobiography as Payton courageously battled cancer, and even interviewed the President of the United States in the Oval Office.
Using lessons learned from a lifetime in sports, Don shares the formula that he has seen in the great winners he’s worked with – and explains how that formula can work for others.
What Makes the Great Ones Great
As a sports writer and author of 16 books, Don has had a front-row seat with some of the greatest winners in athletics, including Walter Payton, Jimmy Connors, Dot Richardson, Shaquille O’Neal, Michael Jordan, John Wooden, Pat Riley, and Dale Brown. They are legends in their own right, but does anyone believe the athletes mentioned above are really the GREATEST athletes of their time, physically? Remember, Jordan wasn’t even the first pick of the draft. O’Neal didn’t make his high school varsity team until he was a junior. Payton had to go to a small black college because bigger schools didn’t want to risk a scholarship on him. Connors, at 5-10, 155 pounds, was dwarfed by most of his competitors. But each became a champion through strengths and skills that had nothing to do with physical prowess.
Using rich, personal accounts gathered from more than 20 years of interviews with many of today’s sports legends and business leaders, Don has distilled Sixteen Consistent Characteristics of Greatness. Don shares these characteristics with audiences in an easy, engaging style, which helps participants realize that they, too, can achieve a higher level of personal success.
Following each story, Don reveals the characteristic that that particular athlete personified and how each audience member can use that characteristic to achieve a higher level of professional and personal success. He offers tangible tips that they can use to apply each winning characteristic to their life. They will leave the presentation with a newfound understanding of the value of associating themselves with the best in their business, preserving their integrity, and using adversity as fuel to propel them past personal and professional obstacles.
