All Topics in Chicago
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Six Sigma and Finance Intersections
Diane Davidson, Finance Transformation Leader, Clever Fox, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechAs a practitioner with a Six Sigma Green Belt, I am seeing demand for Six Sigma principles being used in the Finance industry. Six Sigma is typically viewed as a tool only used for Supply Chain, Logistics or Operations. Finance organizations are using Six Sigma principles such as Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen Events to bring standardization and efficiencies to their business processes. MORE >
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Senior Living Myths Unmasked
Andrea Donovan, President, Andrea Donovan Senior Living Advisors
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Request This Free SpeechHaving toured more than 450 senior communities, Andrea offers advice about what to look for when searching for alternative living for a senior. Her researched facts will demystify the myths.
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Self-Defense for Seniors
Peter Honigmann, Founder and Head Instructor, Best Defense Concepts, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Request This Free SpeechI've been teaching teaching self-defense to seniors at libraries, senior centers, park districts and retirement centers throughout Northern Illinois since 2012. My presentations to seniors focus on being observant, using verbal skills to de-escalate a situation, complying with demands for property, and then only as a last resort using very simple self-defense techniques to disable an attacker, including: the use of a cane or walking stick, improvised weapons such as pens, flashlights, and magazines, and the use of pepper spray. MORE >
I include inspiring stories of other seniors who have successfully defended themselves against various attacks.I am only available to give presentations weekday evenings and weekends, and limit my travel to suburbs north of Chicago.
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Seeing Into Strength
Robert Kingett, Author
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Request This Free SpeechRobert Kingett is no longer accepting speaking requests through Free Speakers so visit Robert's website for the most up to date speaker topics and pages at https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/live/
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Sailing and Life
Bob Bernstein, MBA, Sailor and Author, My Sailing Odyssey
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Request This Free SpeechI recently have written a book "My Sailing Odyssey" that has connections at many levels between my life experiences and sailing.
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Running, it seems that now days people are either running towards some thing or away from it.
Adam Johnson, Dynamic Life Strategist, Asjohnson Agency
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement
Request This Free SpeechI am a recovering runner—not in the athletic sense, but in the race of life. For years, I ran toward success, love, and new opportunities while also running from my past, my fears, and even myself. I chased achievements in real estate, trucking, Insurance, and supply chain distribution, but true fulfillment only came when I stopped running and embraced my purpose. MORE >
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Rising Economic Inequality: how much, why it happens, why it matters, and what we can do about it.
Ed Spire, Co-lead, Restore our Democracy Project, NWSOFA-Indivisible
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Request This Free SpeechEconomic inequality has been rising in the US for decades, damaging our economy and society in the process. This presentation will discuss how high it has become, why it happens, how it damages our country, and what we can do about it.
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Riding the Wave
David R. Nielsen, President, Big Wave Advisors
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Request This Free SpeechCan the study of ocean waves can help forecast financial markets? As with waves on the ocean, financial market activity ebbs & flows in cycles that repeat. David developed a method that forecasts financial markets with proven precision. This talk will debunk traditional investment principals and give you a completely new insight into investing.
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Retirement Plans: What You Know, What You Think You Know and What You Really Don’t Want To Know
Sanford J. Prizant, President, The Prizant Group, Ltd.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Request This Free SpeechThis is an all-inclusive presentation (Think of those all-inclusive resorts!) that was given to the practice managers at the American Association of Orthopedic Executives in April of 2015. The goal was to reaffirm conventional knowledge, educate on present day plan design and fee disclosure issues, and warn of the terror that an IRS/DOL audit will bring upon your house. This presentation is about one hour and is extremely fast paced, informative, and entertaining. MORE >
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Retirement Planning – From Incubation to Manifestation
Karen L. DeRose, Certified Financial Planner, DeRose Financial Planning Group
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Request This Free SpeechThis program will focus on the psychological and financial strategies and opportunities that help people transition to retirement.