(CNN) — The United States does not know where ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is and does not believe the National Transitional Council has a lock on his whereabouts either, a senior U.S. official told CNN Thursday.
That information came after Anees al-Sharif, a spokesman for the new Tripoli Military Council, said anti-Gadhafi fighters had cornered the fallen Libyan leader and that he had no means of escape. Al-Sharif did not divulge a location.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said earlier this week that officials believe Gadhafi is on the run. “I don’t have any information as to exactly where he’s located,” he said.
Two Libyan convoys passed through Niger this week, officials in that country said. Initial speculation was that Gadhafi was in one of those groups, but on Thursday a second senior U.S. official said the United States now has a list of officials from Libya who were in both convoys.
There were “no marquee names,” or anyone who was named in U.N. Security Council resolutions, the second source said. The official would not say who was in the convoys but said Gadhafi’s security chief was not among them, refuting reports that said he left in the convoy.
The Nigerien government is talking to the NTC about what the new Libyan leadership wants to do with those in the convoy but the NTC hasn’t decided whether it’s worth it to bring them back, the source said.
Libyans are leading the search for Gadhafi. The Central Intelligence Agency has agents in the area, and the United Kingdom, France, Jordan and Qater have special forces in the country as well, NATO and U.S. defense officials tell CNN. However, the mission of those agents is not necessarily focused on hunting for Gadhafi.
In Washington, Capt. John Kirby, spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted Thursday that the U.S. mission in Libya is to protect citizens and “is not about capturing or finding Col. Gadhafi.”
Questions about Gadhafi’s whereabouts intensified after the fall of Tripoli and reports that his wife, daughter, two sons and other family members fled to neighboring Algeria, which described its acceptance of the family as a humanitarian gesture.
The International Criminal Court asked Interpol on Thursday to issue Red Notice arrest warrants for the fallen Libyan leader, wanted for alleged crimes against humanity.
“Arresting Gadhafi is matter of time,” said Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
A Red Notice allows Interpol, the international police agency, to widely circulate arrest warrants with an intention to extradite suspects to the criminal court.
The International Criminal Court also asked for Red Notices on Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, and his brother-in-law, Abdullah Al-Senussi, who served as the regime’s intelligence chief. They are also wanted for alleged killings and persecution in the Libyan uprising that erupted in February.
Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is believed to be in Sirte, one of the last pro-Gadhafi strongholds in Libya, said the first senior U.S. official.
In addition, that official said another son in is believed to be in Bani Walid, one of the last loyalist strongholds, about 150 kilometers (some 90 miles) southeast of Tripoli. A third son, Mutassim, is believed to be in a town whose name is not a familiar one, the official said. The official did not have the town’s name and could not immediately remember it.
But earlier, Abdallah Kenshil, a National Transitional Council member who is negotiating with tribal leaders for a loyalist surrender, said two of Gadhafi’s sons had been spotted in Bani Walid.
“We know that Saif al-Islam Gadhafi and Mutassim Gadhafi are inside Bani Walid,” Kenshil said. “Eyewitnesses we know by name inside Bani Walid told us they saw them.”
Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was considered the most influential of Gadhafi’s sons. Mutassim Gadhafi served as his father’s national security adviser.
Two other sons, Khamis and Saif al-Arab, are believed to be dead.
CNN could not independently confirm any of the interim council’s statements. Anti-Gadhafi fighters have made claims before about the arrests or killings of Gadhafi’s sons which later were proved false.
Gadhafi has not been seen in public in months.
In recent days, a Syrian television station has aired several messages allegedly from Gadhafi.
“Moammar Ghadafi himself incited violence against our peaceful message in a message broadcast on Al-Rai-TV,” NTC member Kenshil said, referring to an audio message purportedly from Gadhafi aired Wednesday.
“He asked his supporters to destroy the mosque where the negotiations with Bani Walid elders took place,” Kenshil said.
Kirby, the Joint Chiefs spokesman, told journalists at Pentagon briefing that the United States believes Gadhafi forces are still a danger and some troops continue to be loyal to the Libyan leader.
Neither Kirby nor George Little, the new Pentagon spokesman who appeared with Kirby at the briefing, would comment on recent reports by CNN and others of shoulder-fired missiles and other weapons being looted from Libyan storage facilities, but Kirby did say the U.S. has told the NTC it needs to get control of the various weapons stashes around the country.
Little also said the United States remains confident that chemical weapons material in Libya remains secure and said the material has been under constant watch for months.
After the news reports about the looted weapons, the Obama administration again contacted members of the TNC to express their concern about those weapons getting into the hands of U.S. adversaries, according to a senior U.S. official. Two senior State Department officials confirmed that the State Department has intensified outreach to the TNC in the past few days, based on several reports about the missing weapons.
“We don’t know who grabbed them or where they are,” the senior US official said of the missing weapons. “We are deeply concerned they are all accounted for. We are hoping the TNC will do what needs to be done.”
The official pointed out that the United States was concerned about Libyan surface-to-air missiles getting into the wrong hands even during the Gadhafi regime. It’s also understood that some rebel forces broke into government warehouses in the early days of the conflict to arms themselves.
The concern now is weapons that have been seized by loyalist fighters or that could have been sold to members of terrorists such as al Qaeda operatives in North Africa.
A NATO source told CNN that the alliance believes some weapons have “gotten out” either to loyalists forces or other adversaries outside Libya. But he emphasized the alliance has “no idea of the quantity or even whether they’re operational.” A key issue is whether any of the missing weapons also have functioning battery power assemblies and firing mechanisms.
He emphasized that NATO also has regularly talked to the TNC about the problem.
Libya’s new leaders, meanwhile, have imposed a Saturday deadline on Gadhafi loyalists to lay down their arms or face military force. The calm that prevailed during negotiations for surrender shattered in Bani Walid Thursday as loyalists fired on advancing opposition fighters.
The anti-Gadhafi fighters were on a reconnaissance mission when they came under fire in Wadi Dinar, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) outside Bani Walid, Kenshil said.
One opposition fighter was injured in the abdomen, he said. The opposition returned fire and killed a pro-Gadhafi fighter.
Meanwhile, trucks armed with anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers pulled into a base 30 kilometers (nearly 20 miles) southwest of the coastal city of Misrata Wednesday.
The fighting force known as the Victory Unit was back from its patrol of the desert landscape separating Bani Walid and Misrata, loyal to the NTC.
The 70-kilometer (44-mile) buffer zone had been quiet for the past two weeks amid negotiations between tribal leaders from Bani Walid and representatives from the NTC.
“We don’t want more bloodshed,” said Antar Al Birra, the commander of the Victory Unit. “Too many people have died, so we hope the negotiations will be successful.”
Al Birra’s forces are battle-hardened from months of heavy fighting, and with Gadhafi’s forces against the ropes, he said the battle to take the city will be short.
“If we are ordered to take the city, it won’t take us long, maybe two or three hours,” Al Birra said.
Many soldiers on the front hope for a peaceful solution. But as Saturday’s deadline loomed, many were anxious as hope of success began to fade.
“Negotiations have completely failed,” said Shamsaddin Ben Ali, an NTC spokesman. “We won’t agree to their demands.”
These demands include NTC forces entering the city unarmed, refraining from searching houses and — the most contentious — a full pardon for the people of Bani Walid.
“We won’t grant amnesty because there are people with blood on their hands, and we want them to face a trial,” Ben Ali said. “I predict fighting to resume on Saturday.”
What’s a blogger to do when his blog is in turmoil
Well, blog about it, of course.
Or, in the case of TechCrunch’s MG Siegler, maybe “rant” is the more operative verb. On Tuesday morning, the powerful, frothy-mouthed tech blog’s No. 2 man went off the digital rails, bemoaning a website that’s “on the precipice” and “may be over” as we, the People of the Internet, know it.
“As soon as tomorrow, Mike may be thrown out of the company he founded,” he wrote, referring to Michael Arrington, who founded TechCrunch. “Or he may not. No one knows. And if he is, he will be replaced by — well, again, no one knows. No one knows much of anything. Certainly no one at TechCrunch. This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total f—ing dark.”
The controversy stems from Arrington’s recent decision to start a venture capital firm that would fund some of the companies his blog writes about.
All of this happened out in the open, and AOL, which bought TechCrunch last September, seemed fine with it at first, according to media accounts. It even invested in Arrington’s new $20 million venture, called CrunchBase.
But journalists and other media outlets started lobbing criticism at TechCrunch and AOL, saying it’s unethical for a guy who runs a blog as big as TechCrunch to also control a massive pot of money that could help make or break the subjects of its articles.
Then AOL said Arrington had stepped down from his post and could write for the site, but only as an unpaid blogger.
Siegler has plenty to say about all of this (note: If you’re in AOL’s human resources department, I think you’ll definitely want to keep reading):
“AOL seems to think that by cutting off the biggest conflicts — ones so big that they’d obviously have to be disclosed — that they’ll be a bastion of integrity in the editorial landscape,” he wrote.
“What a bunch of horse s—. The conflicts we need to worry about are the ones not disclosed.”
David Carr, a media critic at The New York Times, doesn’t buy this argument, in part because millions of dollars are at stake.
“TechCrunch is capable of tearing the limbs off a baby company, but it’s been a generally nurturing place for start-ups when Mr. Arrington has skin in the game,” he wrote in a much-circulated column.
Carr writes: “At this point, it seems that AOL executives would open up a lemonade stand in front of their headquarters if they thought it would help their bottom line. But the idea of a news site that covers every aspect of nascent tech companies sharing a brand name and founder with a venture capital firm financing these same companies seems almost comically over the line.”
Other journalists have defended TechCrunch and Arrington.
“Arrington, remember, started TechCrunch not as a journalistic venture but instead to gather and share information about startups and to promote himself as an investor. He is returning to his roots,” writes Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City University of New York.
Arrington isn’t trying to be an impartial journalist, Jarvis writes on his blog, BuzzMachine. “He’s trying to get information,” he says. “He does it well. He has covered startups better than any big paper.”
The Atlantic Wire says the whole thing is “playing out like a Shakespearean tragedy.”
For his part, Siegler thinks his blog can survive all this turmoil — even without Arrington. But TechCrunch won’t be the same, he writes, since Arrington’s savvy and personality percolate through all of the website’s content.
“Could TechCrunch survive without Mike Arrington? Probably. We’re doing so many pageviews now, and the machine is so profitable, that you can plug in other parts and it will run. But without him, it will not be the same. You might not think you’ll miss what he brings, but you will. Quite often, you never even see what he brings. But it permeates the entire site.”
In the grand scheme of things, human beings are just animals like any other and as such, we are equipped with all the necessary senses for survival.
So – why have we developed an inability to actually see something for what it is? So often, we twist it into something we either hope it is, or even something we don’t want it to be – but how does that tendency equate to anything useful in our overall ability to move forward and survive?
We are now a far more sophisticated animal than we were, even a thousand years ago. The human brain continues to develop in line with the seemingly unstoppable advancements we are making toward uncovering the secrets of the earth and the galaxies beyond.
This makes sense, as greater exploration needs a greater brain to handle it – so where does our ability to distort reality, fit in to all of this? Of what possible use is it and more importantly, where is it leading us to?
In the millennia to come, will twenty-first century man be remembered as the forerunner to humans who went on to develop extra sensory powers – or will we be seen as the last in a long line of humans who never took their neurological potential, seriously?
Or maybe we’re just taking the easy route through evolution avenue and seeing the world as we want to see it – instead of changing it to how it really should be.
Connecting and collaborating with men can often be difficult. Just like everyone, they move through stages of their lives, and at each stage the focus is completely different. A young boy looks to discover new and exciting things. A young man, looks for adventure. A grown man will look to settle down, and begin to think about leaving a legacy. And an old man, focuses on building up and indulging the his grandchildren. Dean Kosage artfully explains these 4 stages of men, and teaches how to connect and collaborate with men going through each of these stages.
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Mr. Kosage has more than 16 years of professional experience and specializes in motivational speaking and life coaching. An entrepreneur at an early age, he owned a restaurant and online retail stores with affiliates worldwide. By age 23, he gained such success that he was able to retire and focus his attention on Kosage Motivation, Inc., where his goal is to motivate individuals to exit “survival mode” and to enter “success mode” to take positive charge of their lives. What spurred this focus on personal growth was Dean having to recover from a divorce after a 2-year marriage at a very young age. He decided to follow in the footsteps of many of the top authors and speakers he had been studying and to turn his pain into a victory and to pursue excellence in relationships. Within one year after his divorce, Dean went from the typical debt and chaos that suddenly becoming a single parent brings to breaking records in business and being recognized on stage with his daughter to over 30,000 people.
With a 73% divorce rate and the massive amount of personal debt in this country, many good people are looking for examples of individuals who have made comebacks in their personal lives as well as their careers. Thousands of people in multiple countries have gained inspiration and made their own comebacks due to counseling with Dean personally or through his CDs or seminars. It was this large and sudden fan base that has lead to Mr. Kosage being recognized for building one of the largest social networks across 18 countries. He has released seven CD’s pertaining to leadership that have gone multi-platinum. Prior to founding Kosage Motivation, Inc., he cut his teeth and learned the ropes of the trade with the World Wide Group and proudly achieved the company’s Executive Diamond position. Dean gives all of the credit of his financial success and his ability to deal with people to being mentored by the leaders in the World Wide Group.
Mr. Kosage has a passive income stream from his health and beauty and sports nutrition company that has allowed him to pursue multiple passions today. A truly multi-faceted individual, Dean works on various entertainment projects funding movies and helping musical artists remix albums. He attributes his success, as well as his drive and perseverance to pursuing education outside and beyond what the conveyor belt school systems allow our teachers to teach.
Dean believes there is an army of people out there today who have been exposed to personal growth through the multiple outlets that have popped up in this country. It is this ever-growing group of people that Dean is in popular demand with. Companies like NIKE helped to brand this generation of people who crave to be free, to be wild at heart, and to want to lead healthy lifestyles. Often this rising group of people are drawn to extreme sports or to living outside the Matrix…not out of trying to escape life but to keep life from escaping them! We now know you can do all this and be great parents…high school and college were not the best years of your life, and 40 IS the new 20! “But with money”!
Mr. Kosage was the recipient of the Single Parent Award and the Public Speaking Circuit Award.
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When Dean Kosage was young, his family owned a fleet of charter sailboats, and many of their customers were successful musicians. He was attracted to the lifestyle, showed early talent, and began making music videos when that industry was in its infancy.
But after he enrolled in college courses in film and music, he began to weigh his chances of making it in the business and realized he probably wouldn’t have full creative freedom – or financial stability. So when a lawyer he met introduced him to the Independent Business Ownership Plan, it seemed perfect: He’d build the Quixtar business first and use the income to finance his music career.
But the “backup plan” grew so quickly that Dean had to make some changes. He discussed the options with his father (then living in California) and his mother (in Washington).
“I brought them with me to a couple of seminars and introduced them to the people who were training me,” says Dean. “They saw for themselves that this wasn’t a ‘get-rich-quick’ scheme – that my sponsors were experienced and had integrity. My sponsors couldn’t guarantee that I’d get results. They couldn’t even guarantee I’d show up. But if I did, they’d be there for me.” Dean made the decision to leave school and sell the restaurant he owned, and within two years, he reached Emerald.
Shifting gears
One of the first things you notice when you meet Dean Kosage is his intense directness. He looks you right in the eye, and it feels as though you’re the only person in the room with him. He makes his points strongly, leaning in close to convince you, laughing as he sees you get the point, then relaxing while he ponders a question. While his attention doesn’t seem to waver, he’s also watching what’s going on around him – asking a team member to provide details about a recent event, reminding a colleague to pick up his daughter from school, answering his phone, sending a quick email, then returning to the conversation and picking up the thread where he had dropped it.
Dean admits to being a “type A” personality, saying it was hard at first to listen to the people who were mentoring him. But, he adds, “It’s important sometimes to let go of what you think and just follow where you’re being guided. After all, if advice always made sense to you, you wouldn’t need it, right?”
Other barriers he faced in building his business included his age, his divorce, being a single parent (to Teagan, 9), and, oddly, being ambitious. “People sense your drive and it makes them wonder if you’re talking to them just to get something. I had to learn how to shift gears, from being a go-getter to just giving people my time. It got easier when I had more stability, when I learned to relax, when I remembered how to have fun.”
Fun for Dean now includes having time to pursue his passions, including playing in a band and investing in motion pictures. “It’s just been wonderful,” says Dean, smiling, “I can play in these areas without having to worry about making money.” He runs and lifts weights, and recently learned to do a standing back tuck. He and Teagan took surfing lessons and he looks forward to making international travel his next adventure with her.
Building his team
“The guy who invited me to my first meeting saw my ambition,” says Dean. “Not how young I was, or the fact that I was single, or into the music scene, or wild at heart.”
Now, as he recruits, coaches, and trains his own business teams, Dean follows in his sponsor’s steps, looking for diversity. “I think about building a team like putting together an image campaign. I need some young singles. Some busy moms and young suburban couples. Some grandmothers and some mid-level managers. I need people who fit the demographics I’m trying to reach.”
What are those demographics? With an organization stretching up and down the West Coast, from Vancouver to points south of Los Angeles, his group is a mixture of culturally and ethnically diverse Gen Ys, movie and music personalities, rural and suburban professional couples, people in middle management and in corporate jobs, and college students and retirees.
“I don’t want to build business teams that look just like me,” Dean says emphatically. “They wouldn’t be much fun – and they wouldn’t last. If you’re willing to change yourself and look for people who are not like you, your business develops a new kind of depth and staying power.” And, as he looks out the windows that frame the snow-capped mountains turning pink in the rays of the setting sun, he adds, “If you can’t do that, I think the size of your business will always be limited by the numbers of people you can relate to, comfortably.”
While Dean doesn’t believe it’s important for his teams to be like him, it is important for them to learn the principles and skills he can teach them, like time management, conflict resolution, budgeting, and life coach-ing. As he explains, “My biggest surprise? How few people are consistent. I thought it would be about massive hard work, style, or personality. But it’s about showing up, on time, with a good attitude – something I wasn’t always so good at myself!”
He also recognizes that everyone has a different motivation for getting into the business. Some may just want a little extra monthly income, while others are actively looking for an exit strategy. Dean says, “As a leader, I have to be able to use the busi-ness as a magnifying glass, putting it in front of anyone’s hopes and then helping them figure out what they can do to reach their goals.”
Just like you
“This business is perfect for young singles,” Dean says. “You’re Gen Y, and your Boomer parents, the media, the reality of the corporate world, they all tell you a job, no matter how good, is not forever. Everyone says, ‘Remember to live life. Follow your dreams.’ So, these kids work as cell-phone reps or baristas instead of at a Fortune 500 company, in a cubicle. That gives them more freedom to drop everything and go snowboarding, skiing, or participate in extreme sports.”
He says he’s not describing “slackers,” but people with ambitions and dreams who are trying not to sell out as they explore their passions, who want to find a better balance in life than they think is possible if they follow a traditional career path. “What I can show them is that a Quixtar business may give them the financial flexibility to follow their passions, maybe in less time than the path they’re on right now.”
Single parents are another group that Dean attracts, based on his own example of how he did it solo. When his business was small, he explains that he could handle all its facets by himself, fitting the work in around his schedule. Learning that his time management was not as good as it needed to be, as he says, laughing, “Gave him a growth oppor-tunity.” Later, when his business grew, he was able to pay for a crew of assistants or managers, when he needed them. Dean’s success as a single earns him speaking invitations to groups inside and outside the Quixtar business.
Dean, who was once married, says marital status in this business is immaterial. “We went through a divorce in the public eye. I worried about what people would think. Would couples still listen to me?” Some of them didn’t, he says, but he kept reminding people in his organization why they’d gotten into the business in the first place – not to follow Dean, but to use this business to make their own dreams come true.
Ultimately, Dean and his ex-wife have been able to rebuild their friendship and have found ways to share parenting.
Success in this business lets him provide more for Teagan and gives him more quality time with her. “I can take her to games, we can do goofy things together, and she’s able to laugh a lot more now.” Gesturing to Teagan, who is happily digging in the sand nearby, he says, softly, “She may not understand all the details of what I do, but she sees me working with people and she knows it’s something that makes a difference. She wouldn’t learn that if I had a job that took me out of the house every day.”
You already do what I do
How do you attract a grandmother, an extreme athlete, a busy young mother, and a middle manager to the same business? “You start with understanding that it’s all hard work,” Dean explains. “It’s about showing up and being prepared and looking beyond the Friday paycheck. It’s about dealing with no-shows.” And then, he says, it’s about explaining that they already have most of the life skills they need – they’re already mentors and coaches.
Grandparents, he explains, have a wealth of experience in raising children, holding families and generations together, with the patience to wait for lessons to sink in and understanding to come. “Like my own mom,” he chuckles. “She goes, ‘Wait a minute. You mean all I have to do is go through the hassle of raising three kids again, only this time, instead of bills for college, I get an income?’ It’s not about the internet or about being tech-y. It’s about using your people skills.”
Mid-level managers, who may recruit and train for a corporation, are already skilled at time management, hiring, firing, and quickly spotting leaders. An athlete who loves energy drinks, protein bars, and supplements is likely to have lots of friends who want to give them a try. Busy moms juggling multiple responsibilities tend to manage time well, and often have strong networks of equally time-challenged friends who are happy to buy the products.
“Suddenly, you’re helping people reach their dreams,” Dean points out. “You won’t believe how good that feels!” Someone might say, ‘I’m a very talented guitar player and I love music, but the bottom line is I have to pay my bills and I’m spending all my time waiting tables.’ Nothing’s worse than sensing your talent slipping away while you pay your bills.” Ask people to give you a chance to earn their business, says Dean. And then send them to your website.”
Dean believes it’s Quixtar’s internet model that makes it all possible, especially the fact that the Corporation is ranked the number-one online retailer of health and beauty products. He points out that with Personal Websites, it’s easy for any IBO to create a website linked to Quixtar.com and encourage consumers to buy products through it – things they would buy anyway, like protein bars, nutritional supplements, and weight-loss, or home-care products.
The team that wins
Having enjoyed the benefits of a mentoring organization, Dean now offers it, too. And he takes risks with it. “If you get close enough to anyone, you can see weaknesses along with strengths,” he points out. “People aren’t perfect, but we expect more out of a mentor. Still, I decided the fellowship was worth the risk. If you come to dinner here, I want you to feel that you know me – and you belong here. Playing, having fun, working hard – it builds a really tight bond.”
He also reaches out to disadvantaged kids in the community, introducing them to his friends who are winners in local sports or business. “We show them what it’s like to be around people who are positive, who have good values. We show them it’s OK to dream and to be ambitious. We show them we have faith in them.”
“It’s funny,” Dean muses, “but doing this always reminds me that my life isn’t that important. What matters is, what are you doing with your life? Is there some way I can help? And for that, I can thank my mom, who convinced me it was important to try to change the world, to make a difference.
“A lot of times, I think I read a question in people’s eyes: ‘If I’m being shown this business by someone who’s pretty big, is there room for me? Are they going to help me or just make their money and leave?’ “That’s the great thing about the Plan. I don’t care how many ‘Super Bowls’ I’ve won. I’m assembling a team to win the next one coming up. I guarantee you: Whoever showed you this business, they have a game coming up that they need to win, too. They would love to find the spot on their team where you fit.”
John Assaraf (star – The Secret), Jim Bunch (creator – The Ultimate Game of Life), Mari Smith (Social Media expert) and Dean Kosage (Global Trends expert) team up to deliver a powerful yet intimate Workshop.
The Ultimate Wealth Workshop will be a 2.5 day personal development workshop filled with hands-on exercises & live interactive coaching all with less than 150 attendees. The Workshop will run from Friday, October 23rd – Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at the San Diego Convention Center.
Workshop Agenda:
• Learn how the Wealthy Think & Respond in order to remain prosperous during uncertain times
• Understand the most misunderstood aspect of money in today’s changing environment
• Discover how unconscious beliefs and habits are directly affecting your Bottom Line
• What if you had a 90-day plan to TAKE ACTION toward creating Ultimate Wealth?
Jim Bunch – “Creating Ultimate Wealth”. Jim Bunch has over 18 years of professional speaking experience internationally through which he has helped over 7.000 people make major life and business changes. Jim serves as a member of the Transformational Leadership Council with Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), John Gray and John Assaraf). Jim was also involved with building Bamboo.com grew from 6 employees to 1,500 in one year, then it went public in 9 months. www.jimbunch.com
John Assaraf – “Creating the Millionaire Mind-set”. John Assaraf is one of the leading experts featured in the film and book, The Secret. John has been a student of personal development and the science of achievement for over 25 years therefore is recognized internationally for his entrepreneurial success and study of peak-performance thinking and behavior. John was also involved with building Bamboo.com. John has been featured on Larry King Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and dozens of others media venues globally. www.johnassaraf.com
Mari Smith – “Monetizing Social Media”. Known as “The Pied Piper of the Online World”, by FastCompany.com. Mari Smith is a Relationship Marketing Specialist who has helped independent professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners accelerate their profits using an integrated social media marketing strategy. She recently shared the stage with Yanik Silver, Bill Glazer, Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Joel Bauer, Brian Tracy, Joel Comm, Joe Polish and Paula Abdul. www.marismith.com
Dean Kosage – “Global Emerging Trends” Inducted by Strathmore Who’s Who – Worldwide as an honored lifetime member for his exceptional work in Leadership development, Life Coaching, and Motivational Speaking , Dean Kosage has built an organization that spans 18 countries. He has produced 8 CDs on Thought Leadership that have sold worldwide. Recently Dean has co-founded and serves as President of Star Alerts a Social & Mobile Media Distribution Company and Defining Moments Publishing “a company designed to highlight those rare but unknown people of character. ” www.deankosage.com
