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Michael Ross Lipkin
president
Environics/Lipkin
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Since July 1 1993, Lipkin has helped over 500 companies bring out the best in their people so their people could bring out their best for their customers. And he would love to do the same for you and your team.
In 1980, he graduated with a business degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. Then he became a brand manager at Colgate Palmolive. Following that, he became a board member at Grey Advertising South Africa, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada in 1987 where he became an Account Director at Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies.
In 1992, following Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and the end of Apartheid, he returned to South Africa where he launched his own training and motivation company, Touch The Sky Inc. Over the next ten years, he published seven books and helped transform the nation into one of the world’s most vibrant democracies.
Lipkin returned to Canada in 2002 to launch Environics/Lipkin, a global research and motivation company with the Environics Research Group, one of Canada’s largest and most sophisticated polling companies. Since then, he has published bestselling books, including– Star Power, One Life, One Meeting, How To Build Preeminence One Conversation At A Time. All his books and programs are a fusion of the celebrated Environics Social Values Research and his own experience with over a million people in 43 countries over the past sixteen years.
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Michelle M. Smith
vice president, Business Development
O.C. Tanner
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Internationally renowned as a passionate and highly respected authority on leadership, workplace culture and talent, Michelle is an accomplished international speaker, strategist and author. Named as one of the Ten Best and Brightest Women in the incentive industry and to the Employee Engagement Power 100 list, Michelle is a Change Maker, Top Idea Maven, and President’s Award winner. She’s contributed to several books, appeared on television, radio, and in publications all over the world. Michelle is the Past President of the FORUM for People Performance at Northwestern University, President Emeritus of the Incentive Marketing Association, and was the Founder and Editorial Chair of Return on Performance Magazine.
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Eric Chester
founder/CEO
Reviving Work Ethic
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Eric Chester is an acclaimed in-the-trenches workforce researcher and thought leader who’s been studying, analyzing, speaking and writing about attracting, managing, motivating and retaining top talent since 2001.
He is frequently mentioned or quoted in the national and international media such as Good Morning America, ABC 20/20, Fox News, NPR, and CNBC and in publications like Forbes, USA Today, and the Huffington Post.
He is a bestselling author of 5 published leadership books, several of which have become national bestsellers. Eric Chester has delivered more than 3000 paid keynote speeches on three continents. He is a Certified Speaking Professional and was inducted into the National Speakers Association’s acclaimed Hall of Fame in 2004.
Eric lives in Golden, CO with his wife and family.