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Incredible Speakers with Hot Topics and Books for Fall 2008
October 7, 2008
Stretch your mind, and your horizons, with these great speaker authors.
Sean Wise - Business Superhero
Highly successful venture capitalist Sean Wise is a modern day business superhero who's helped raise more than $2 billion. A self-proclaimed "comic book geek," Wise is now sharing his business superpowers with other entrepreneurs in his new book and speaking topic, How to Be A Business Superhero. Wise compares the strategies of super-icons with modern-day business tactics to create the ultimate business persona. When Wise isn't fighting business super-villains, he's behind the scenes advising the hit CBC business reality TV show, Dragons' Den.
Chris Turner - A Tour of the World We Need
An acclaimed author and journalist, Chris Turner is passionate about sustainable living. After spending a year travelling the world in search of sustainable environments, he now writes and speaks about what he saw and learned while surveying the globe. His book,
The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need, is a best seller. Turner is also author of the international best-seller,
Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation.
Dr. James Orbinski - Doctor and Humanitarian
As a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, Dr. James Orbinski is a passionate and devoted humanitarian who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 on behalf of MSF. In 1994, he agreed to serve as Chef de Mission for MSF during Rwanda's civil war. There, he and his team tried to help some of the thousands being killed by genocide. He is a Research Scientist and Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Political Science, the founder of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, a not-for-profit pharmaceutical research and development entity focused on the disease of the South, and recently he co-founded Dignitas International, an organization focused on community-based treatment, care and prevention of HIV in the developing world. Based on his experiences with MSF, Orbinski explores suffering and humanitarianism today in his current best-seller
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century.
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