Mark Silver at the Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Mark Silver will be giving a workshop at the Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, January 25 - 29, 2008.

Mark is the author of "Unveiling the Heart of Your Business: How Money, Marketing and Sales Can Deepen Your Heart, Heal the World, and Still Add to Your Bottom Line," and "Creating Heart-Centered Websites: Content, Strategies and Technology on How the Web Can Support Your Business."

He is the founder of Heart of Business, and a fourth-generation entrepreneur, and is a Sufi spiritual master teacher in his lineage. He has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs who are wanting to make a difference in the world, but who also need to make a profit.

Mark Silver will be offering a workshop titled "Creating a Quality Business: A Sufi Spiritual Approach on Creating Lasting Quality."

Quality is the hinge on which your business either lives or dies. Without a quality product or service, and without your business feeling like it is a quality business, trust can't be built, and people won't become repeat customers. In business, the search for quality can become an overwhelming, frustrating, and exhausting 'grail' that never feels done.

Is there an approach to creating quality that can nourish you instead of depleting you? Can you have excellence without striving? Is there a value that your business can evidence that infuses the physical and practical, and yet isn't about micro-managing every detail?

The Sufis have a 1500 year-old approach, tested with generations of students through the centuries, to expressing lasting quality. When you learn this approach, then quality springs from your heart and your business carries that seemingly magic 'spirit' that people naturally gravitate towards, without exhausting you trying to 'attract' them.

This workshop will help you understand the profound spiritual source of quality, and how to access it and infuse it into any business no matter how much chaos is happening around you.

Learn the ancient Sufi spiritual practice of Remembrance, and how to access the heart's wellspring of quality at a moment's notice, no matter what's going on.

Experientially explore and express the unique Jewel of quality your heart carries, so you can trust your personal relationship with quality, and the profound effect it has on people and systems around you.

Learn how to begin to apply this ancient approach to quality in a current situation, product, or offering in your business right now, in very practical ways.

Other esteemed presenters at the conference include Stephen M R Covey, Chip Conley, Carol Pearson, Tom Dailey, William Strickland, Robert Ouimet, Brian Nattrass, Aaron Feuerstein, and many more.

Michael Gelb at the Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Michael Gelb will be giving a workshop at the Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, January 25 - 29, 2008.

Michael is the world's leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. His publications include "Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique" and "Present Yourself! Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills." His best-selling audio programs include: "Mind Mapping: How to Liberate Your Natural Genius" and "Work Like Da Vinci: Gaining the Creative Advantage in Your Business and Career."

A former professional juggler who once performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, Gelb introduced the idea of teaching juggling as a means to promote accelerated learning and team-building. He authored "More Balls Than Hands: Juggling Your Way to Success by Learning to Love Your Mistakes."

A fourth degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, Gelb is coauthor of "Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through the Martial Art of the Mind." A passionate student of the Renaissance and the nature of genius, Gelb ignited the current fascination with all things Da Vinci with "How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day," "Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds," "Da Vinci Decoded" and "The Spirit of Leonardo."

His latest book is "Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor," coauthored with the great-grand-niece of Thomas Edison.

Michael will be offering a workshop titled "Create Like Leonardo/Innovate Like Edison."

Thinking creatively, learning faster and leading change - these abilities are at a premium in a highly competitive global business environment. What if you could call on history's greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, to be your personal mentor in cultivating these highly prized elements of human capital? In this unique and inspiring program, you will learn the seven principles for thinking like Leonardo.

The principles are:
- Curiosita' - An insatiable quest for knowledge and continuous improvement
- Dimostrazione - Learning from experience
- Sensazione - Sharpening the senses
- Sfumato - Managing ambiguity and change
- Arte/Scienza - Whole-brain thinking
- Corporalita' - Body-mind fitness
- Connessione - Systems thinking

Other esteemed presenters at the conference include Stephen M R Covey, Chip Conley, Carol Pearson, Tom Dailey, William Strickland, Robert Ouimet, Brian Nattrass, Aaron Feuerstein, and many more.

Laurie Beth Jones at the Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, NM

Laurie Beth Jones will be giving a workshop at the Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, January 25 - 29, 2008.

Laurie Beth Jones has written and developed multiple bestselling books on the topics of leadership, spirituality, team dynamics, and personal growth. Her first bestseller, Jesus, CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership, burst on to the national scene and created a dialogue about the importance of treating coworkers with respect as well as realizing the spiritual side of business.

Beginning with a $500 loan from her mother, Laurie Beth Jones has managed to build a multimillion-dollar enterprise that includes a leadership and development training organization, a publishing company, numerous real-estate investments, and two nonprofits. She is currently committed to seeding seven microlending institutions in central Mexico, which specifically empower the disenfranchised to become entrepreneurs.

Recognizing the importance of using universal language and metaphors to convey deeply held spiritual truths, Laurie Beth Jones has been called by Ken Blanchard, "One of the Great Thought Leaders of Our Time."

Specializing in teaching and creating practical, memorable applications of universal truths, Laurie Beth Jones uses humor, self-awareness, and a deep and a profoundly rich speaking style to engage others in their own transformation, both at home and in the workplace.

Her other books include, The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life, Power Of Positive Prophecy, Teach Your Team To Fish, Life Coach Journal and The Four Elements of Success.

The 28-Day Challenge is a diagnostic tool for businesses based on twenty-eight principles, gleaned from hundreds of proven best practices, that can help transform a team into a powerful and productive entity.

Laurie Beth Jones has become one of the world's leading consultants for businesses that want to take their work and their workers to unparalleled levels of performance, satisfaction, and success. She lives out her mission daily, which is to "recognize, promote, and inspire the divine connection in herself and others." www.lauriebethjones.com

Jones will be offering a workshop titled "The Four Elements of Success - Igniting Teams and Increasing Results."

The secret to team success is "elemental." You depend on groups. You depend on the successful outcomes of teamwork. And the keys to productive relationships - whether in a billion dollar organization or a family - are as basic as fire, water, wind and earth.

In the Four Elements of Success, Laurie Beth Jones challenges you to look at the elements of creation to find a wisdom that is profoundly simple. With her trademark clarity and refreshing emphasis on speaking straight to the heart, The Four Elements workshop unlocks this ageless wisdom and marries it with a modern personality theory.

Does Your Team Need PEP?

We believe the workplace should be a fulfilling and productive experience because that is where most of us spend most of our time.

Are all resources aligned for both near and long-term growth?

Is your team being transformed or deformed through your systems of operation?

Are you micromanaging your team into oblivion, or releasing them into their highest performance?

Does everyone on your team really know the vision and mission of the organization?

If you answered "no" to any of the four questions, you are not getting the most of the team that has been entrusted to you.

Other esteemed presenters at the conference include Stephen M R Covey, Chip Conley, Carol Pearson, Tom Dailey, William Strickland, Robert Ouimet, Brian Nattrass, many others.

Come celebrate yourself with morning yoga classes, 5 very special evening events and much, much more. Recharge your spirit!

Aaron Feuerstein at The Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Aaron Feuerstein will be giving a workshop at The Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, January 25 - 29, 2008.

Aaron Feuerstein is president and CEO of Malden Mills, producer of the revolutionary fabric Polartec. He is a symbol of a socially responsible business owner who rules by his conscience.

Workshop: The Lowering and Curtailment of American Wages Endangers the Future of Our Democracy.

Goal: The reduction of the corporate practice of off-shoring by establishing government regulations and parameters for world trade.

1. Off-shoring should include all of the social legislation presently part of federal law: labor safety, social security, disability, outlawing of slavery, health, insurance, etc. in order for products made abroad to be imported into the USA.
2. Just as U.S. patents give competitive protection to the creator of patents, any product which results from the patent must be made in the USA for the life of the patent.
3. The reduction of off-shoring will result in more security for American labor and less anxiety, a major improvement in the country's mental health.

Other esteemed presenters at the conference include Stephen M R Covey, Chip Conley, Carol Pearson, Tom Dailey, William Strickland, Robert Ouimet, Brian Nattrass, Laurie Beth Jones and many others.

Come celebrate yourself with morning yoga classes, 5 very special evening events and much, much more. Recharge your spirit!

Carol Pearson at the Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Carol Pearson will be giving a keynote address as well as a workshop at the Ninth International Conference on Business and Consciousness in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, January 25 - 29, 2008.

Carol Pearson, PhD, is Director of the MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and a Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

Her publications include The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes that Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World; The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes; Mapping the Organizational Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change; What Story Are Your Living?; Educating the Majority; Magic At Work: Camelot, Creative Leadership and Everyday Miracles, Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator; and Organizational and Team Culture Indicator.

Dr. Pearson's prior academic experience include positions as Academic Vice President of Goucher College, Director of Women's Studies at the University of Colorado and the University of Maryland, and Director of Transformational Leadership Certificate Program at Georgetown University. In addition, she was Senior Editor of The Inner Edge: A Resource for Enlightened Business Practice, a magazine designed to apprise leaders of emerging ideas and breakthrough practices. www.herowithin.com

Carol will be presenting a keynote address:"Finding the Story Behind the Story: Narrative Intelligence as a Transformational Leadership Tool" at the conference.

Everyone knows that thriving in today's fast-paced, globally complex world requires new ways of thinking, feeling and acting. Yet, it is another thing altogether to live and work in a way that is personally satisfying and professionally successful. Individuals, companies and even whole countries make choices that are dictated by unconscious, archetypal structures that are too often mistaken for "reality." This presentation assists leaders in gaining the narrative intelligence they need to decode their own unchallenged assumptions as well as those of others, to recognize the unwritten rules governing organizational cultures, and to articulate narratives that can inspire others to think and act in ways appropriate to the daunting task of meeting the challenges of our time, however great or small.

In Carol's workshop, "Shifting the Story: Living Your Work Life as if it Were a Great Movie", she will show you how you can maximize all fun and joy of your favorite movie by re-writing the script you play out in your work life.

If your business were a movie with you as its main character, would you want to watch it? If not, what story would you like to be living? I got the idea for this workshop when I was consulting on a Hollywood script that had an ending that just did not sing. The same strategy that helped me recommend an optimal ending works in real life too. This program will allow you to have some fun thinking about your work life as a movie you have entered and to fine-tune your work/life plot to achieve the feel-good quality of a first-rate Hollywood hit.

Other esteemed presenters at the conference include Steven M R Covey, Chip Conley, Tim Dailey, Lance Secretan, William Strickland, J Robert Ouimet, Aaron Feuerstein, Brian Nattrass, Laurie Beth Jones and many others.

Come celebrate yourself with morning yoga classes, 5 very special evening events and much, much more. Recharge your spirit!