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Warren Gibbs, John Miller & Mary Riesberg
Warren Gibbs is originally from Orlando, FL, and relocated to Gulf Breeze in 2015 with TEKsystems. Warren started his career in Human Resources working for Disney from 2010 – 2013, and eventually moved into a recruiter role with TEKsystems in late 2013. He is currently the Account Manager for Application and Infrastructure services in the Pensacola/Mobile markets for TEKsystems. Warren also serves as an Advisor for the IT Advisory committee at Pensacola State College. He attended Columbia College in Missouri for a B.S. in Human Resource Management. Warren spends the majority of his time developing relationships within the Pensacola/Mobile markets to impact strategic initiatives and project deadlines of his clients through obtaining top IT resources.
| Meet Mary Riesberg |
| Mary Riesberg As a well-recognized communication skills expert, professional speaker, leadership trainer and author, Mary Riesberg works with individuals to empower them to have confidence when speaking to an audience of 1 or 1000. Mary has over 24 years of experience transforming beginners/professional speakers, radio and news personalities, government officials and singers to become a Total Impact Speaker ™ A few of Mary’s associations include Chick-fil-A, Met Life, United Cerebral Palsy, American Society of Training and Development, American Business Women’s Association and the Global Christian Professional Women’s Association. |
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| Mary has had a life-long passion with communication and speech. When Mary was a young girl she had a speech impediment causing her to lack self-confidence and feel ashamed to speak. Mary can truly understand the anxiety and fears associated with public speaking. She can also understand the freedom and excitement that comes with communicating freely. It was her experiences as a young girl that inspired Mary to pursue her career as a Speech-Language Pathologist and obtain a master’s degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences. Mary’s experience has taught her that speech can be difficult, but when mixed with proper instruction and passion, speech can become a beautiful masterpiece. |
Mary complements her speaker and voice coaching with Team Communication and Leadership training as a Founding Partner of the John C. Maxwell Team of speakers, coaches and trainers. She is a licensed facilitator of the Path Elements Profile and Personality Insights DISC profile.
Mary is a Certified Christian Life Coach and has just released her book entitled, Center Ring: 7 Steps To Finding Balance and Momentum In Your Walk With Christ. |
When Mary is not coaching others you can find her on stage speaking on her most requested keynote topics:
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Power Speaking Strategies for Success |
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Find Your Passion, Find Your Voice |
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Team Communication and Leadership |
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Reclaim the Brilliance in People, Teams, and Companies |
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Finding Balance in a Busy World |
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| Most importantly, Mary is a wife and mother to three wonderful children. She resides in Pensacola, Florida. For more information, Contact Mary at 850-380-2586 or email at mary@maryriesberg.com |
5 FUN FACTS ABOUT MARY
- Mary is a Certified Hula Hoop Instructor
- Mary’s favorite travel food is Peanut M&M’s
- Mary loves animal crackers with peanut butter stacked with chocolate chips
- Mary’s favorite movie is the Wizard of Oz (she really likes those ruby red slippers!)
- Mary wears a tiara when she needs a little inspiration when writing
JOHN MILLER
As a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker, I can offer you workshops, seminars, keynote speaking, and coaching, aiding your personal and professional growth through study and practical application of John’s proven leadership methods. Working together, I will move you and/or your team or organization in the desired direction to reach your goals.
I have an extensive background in Information Technology, primarily in the Healthcare Industry. During this time, I have seen good leadership; but more commonly, I have witnessed a dire need in both industries for effective leadership that produces positive outcomes. Healthcare, more than ever before, requires the utmost in good leaders who know how to add value to their workforce; thus creating an environment of peak productivity. Likewise, other industries, businesses and organizations can benefit greatly from the development of good leaders.
I have read and put to practice self-improvement and leadership materials for years, especially those of John C. Maxwell. When the opportunity arose to join with his team to build a legacy of coaches and teachers, I jumped at the chance. Training under John and his world-class mentorship team has been the highlight of my life. It has fulfilled my passion to surround myself with individuals living and breathing best practices in the leadership and personal development community, so I can share that experience with others.
My observations and experience, coupled with my burning desire to add value to people and use the skills I have been trained for, will most assuredly make a difference in your organization and help you reach new levels of achievement.
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SIMON SINEK
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Presentation:
Understand how to create an ideal environment in which people can be at their best.
When the conditions in our organization are right, we naturally trust each other and cooperate. But when leaders neglect the environment in which people must work, politics, silos, cynicism and self-interest prevail. The best leaders knowhow to build those conditions and the best organizations are the ones in which people work together to confront danger and seize opportunities. Simon will explain what it takes to create an environment in which people work as they were designed – together. It is under these conditions we are at our natural best.
Biography:
Optimist and author, leadership authority
Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist. He teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people go home every day feeling fulfilled by their work, Simon is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them. A trained ethnographer, he is the author of two books: the bestselling Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action and Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t. He is best known for popularizing the concept of Why and for the talk he gave on the subject on
TED.com.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live them and Reach Your Potential
Presentation:
Identify practical principles which can be applied in developing one’s personal growth.
John C. Maxwell makes the case that personal growth is the only vehicle by which individuals arrive at their full potential. Drawing from his own journey of self–development, John shares proven principles for upgrading your capacities to lead others and generate results. As he consistently makes plain, growth doesn’t happen automatically. To get where you want to go in life, personal development cannot be overlooked, postponed, or taken for granted. John will articulate truths you can apply immediately to make the most of your time, talents, and influence.
Biography:
Leadership expert, bestselling author, and coach
John C. Maxwell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 26 million books, was identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the world’s most influential leadership expert by Business Insider and Inc. magazines in 2014. In that year, John also received the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network. His organizations — The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, and EQUIP — have trained more than 6 million leaders in every nation.
DAN CATHY
John C. Maxwell Interviews Dan T. Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A: Leadership Lessons
Presentation:
Learn qualities and attributes of strong and effective leadership from a proven successful CEO of Chick–fil–A, Inc.
Reflecting on his leadership achievements, Dan will share the “secret sauce” behind growing Chick–fil–A from one restaurant in 1946, to becoming the largest quick–service chicken restaurant in the US, with sales in 2015 exceeding $6B. Combining Innovation and a strong values system, Dan shares how strong leadership and unwavering principles create a recipe for tremendous reward in their business.
Biography:
Chairman, President, and CEO of Chick-fil-A
Dan Cathy has served since 2013 as Chairman, President and CEO for Chick-fil-A, one of North America’s largest family-owned businesses. As head of the quick-service chicken restaurant, Dan has taken an unconventional, yet personally and professionally rewarding approach to Chick-fil-A leadership. Spending the majority of his time traveling to the Atlanta-based chain’s restaurants, he believes working in the field enables him to personally convey his servant spirit to the company’s 70,000-plus employees.
LIZ WISEMAN
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Presentation:
Learn 5 Key Disciplines that turn smart leaders into genius makers.
We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders.The first type drains intelligence, energy and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them.These are leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are Multipliers. Liz will explain how to be aMultiplier and 5 Key Disciplines that go with it.
Biography:
Researcher, executive advisor, speaker, and President of the Wiseman Group
Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. She is the President of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. She is the author of three bestselling books: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
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