Latina Health Care Consultant Receives Innovation Award
Woman Impacting Public Policy announced that Leonor McCall-Rodriguez has been selected to receive the WIPP AT&T Innovator of the Year Award-Los Angeles, for 2011. Women Impacting Public Policy will recognize her as an innovative business owner for her work with One Voice Insurance Services. The award will be presented at the WIPP event in Los Angeles on July 13, 2011 titled, “Looking Ahead: Healthcare Policy, Trends and Business Opportunities.”
Latina Launches Reinvention Book for Women
Across geographies, culture, and time, Leonor McCall-Rodriguez, has traveled a unique and inspiring journey. Her newest book "Reinventing Yourself in The Face of Change: The Formula for Change - Enabled Success" is a moving tale that will empower readers to navigate change, and also drive it in their own lives. In this book, she shares the secrets that led her to become a “change-enabled” woman, entrepreneur and professional.
Readers will learn of the signals, tools, and energizing determination she used to overcome challenges of relationships, career, and culture while embracing opportunities along the personal and professional road to fulfillment.
She also shows how to build a one-page marketing plan for love, like the one she wrote to find the love of her life.
This book will help you:
-Drive, survive, and thrive through significant turns in the road.
-Prepare to welcome moments of change.
-Discover the insights of personal branding.
-Unleash the power of reinventing yourself in the face of change.
-Master the step-by-step reinvention process that will change your life.
Leonor McCall-Rodriguez is known for her consulting work in marketing, business development, and diversity. She has many certifications in her field and is an accomplished entrepreneur, speaker, panelist, and blogger. Winner of the 2009 Brillante Award from the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s, the National Latina Business Woman Association’s Corporate Leader award, and included in both Hispanic Business magazine’s Elite Latinas and Latino Corporate Elite, honoring high-ranking Hispanics in Corporate America.
Latino Artist Pepe Serna Launches ISD Programs to Boost Student Achievement
A leader in diversity performances, Pepe Serna, continues to tour with his One Man Show "El Ruco Chuco Cholo Pachuco,” to the delight of school district audiences around the country.
New programs by Pepe Serna include:
Pepefied Sernafied Breakthrough Improv Workshops, where teachers and students learn and use Improv techniques under the direction of renowned artist, Pepe Serna, achieving creative and empowering skills applicable to their lives and work.
Character Education through Breakthrough Improv: Pepe Serna has appeared in over 100 films, 300 TV shows, and has been a motivational speaker for over 40 years. With the Character Education through Breakthrough Improv program, Pepe Serna is now concentrating on our youth to help motivate and inspire them toward academic achievement. This program allows students to explore who they are, where they come from, and apply this knowledge to help them do their best.
Principals and school administrators report these programs align with the mission of school districts and energize students with a long term impact on education results. For more information and references, visit latinospeakersbureau.com or call 310-937-2789.
Fundraising ideas for Summer
Several colleagues have asked us this week about fund development and what we are seeing in the marketplace. When planning an event, timing is everything and with the assistance of Latino Speakers Bureau that operates at no cost to you, event planners and your organization can fill a theater, a ballroom, or a stadium to generate much-needed funds.
These ideas from projects with other clients include using one speaker or even hosting a Distinguished Latino Speakers Series for an unforgettable multi-day event that makes a cultural statement for your organization.
On the motivational side, Joachim de Posada continues to be the biggest draw as an international motivational speaker of Latino culture. He is speaking in Amsterdam this week and is the most visible of Latino best-selling authors today. He is the only Latino to speak twice for TED and he is constantly on tour to some part of the world. He is at the top of his game with book sales approaching the 3 million mark and is a wonderful, warm, bright, and funny international speaker.
One of our newest speakers is Sonny Melendrez, who is a unique Latino with his cartoon character voices and stories of finding success and achieving dream in entertainment. Audience are enthralled hearing about the most loved cartoon characters of all times, and the fantasy and power of communication and media in the voices of one man who has reached the top.
Emmy Award winner,Tony Plana, of CBS “Ugly Betty” fame is also a big draw for events. Tony delivers powerful Hispanic Heritage keynotes as well as pro-education and pro-literacy presentations. He is currently filming a new series for CBS, so dates must be booked well in advance.
Performance speakers are in high demand for Summer programs and fundraisers. Suggestions for easily “packing the house” are:
-Freddie Ravel, with a highly customizable program called Tune Up for Success, a name that can be adapted to your mission. Freddie appeals to audiences of all ages and is an extraordinary speaker as the Grammy-nominated pianist pumps up the audience in an indescribable way. Appropriate for outdoor and indoor events, Freddie’s stage event for you can be combined with a private evening event for your sponsors and leadership. From jeans to tux, Freddie has performed for Apple, Disney, and other major corporations where he has been a huge hit. Freddie needs to be booked soon as he plays with Carlos Santana's world tour.
-David Gonzalez. David is a master storyteller, so every time he begins to speak, audiences are riveted to his every word. It's hard to describe, but his videos show his craft (see them at bestkeynotes.com). He is an unusual mix of speaker, artist, performer that brings the audience members on a journey that always seems much too short. David’s programs can also be tailored to your message and mission.
-Gregorio Luke. Another master storyteller, Gregorio has taken his presentations of Latin Art and culture to extraordinary heights. His "Murals under the Stars" presentations lend themselves to indoor settings as well as open forums and even large parking lots for an unforgettable evening of projection of art, context, and enthralling stories. His award-winning world-class Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera presentations combined or as stand-alone events are unique.
-Bill Santiago, author of Spanglish, comedian Bill Santiago is a young NY journalist-turned-comedian who offers fundraisers two options: a comedy keynote based on his latest book and the humor of bilingualism, and also a new highly interactive performance called The Funny of Latin Dance. In this show, Bill walks the audience through different styles of Latin dance with stories and the humor of how we connect to music. Guests get to come on stage making the event different every time, so you can have 2 shows running back-to-back in a theater, for example, and have a double event fundraiser.
If you need a musical closing to your event, we suggest Latino music legend, Chris Montez, internatiomal Top 10 recording artist of Let's Dance and The More I See You fame who presents a preview of his soon to be released bio-pic "The Chris Montez Story" leading into a live musical presentation. Share memories of the iconic who toured with The Beatles (they opened for him) and songs that will make the audience get up and enjoy the memories.
And of course, we are doing a lot of Latino Comedy fundraisers around the country and you can book a Latino comedian to host this and bring other comedians along. Our funny Latino showcase can be seen at http://www.hispanicfunnyspeakers.com including Shayla Rivera, Funny Rocket Scientist and Debi Gutierrez, The Mommy Comic, and others on tour for nonprofit events across the U.S..
We are currently booking Hispanic Heritage events, so getting the dates you want means you need to hurry. For video clips and more details, visit our new website at bestkeynotes.com
U.S. Hispanic best-selling author, Joachim de Posada Motivates Holland Global Summit
Best Keynote by Latino Storytelling Performance Speaker Engages Global Audiences
Latino Storytelling Performance Speaker, David Gonzalez is back on tour!
Teachers’ conferences and universities have long embraced presentations by New York’s Hispanic performance speaker, David Gonzalez, and now corporate America has finally discovered his innovative performance keynotes.
Latino Speakers reports that Gonzalez, “perpetually on a tour in some part of the world,” according to the staff, Is once again in the middle of a busy performance and keynote speaking tour this Spring. A huge draw for university events, school district conferences, and corporate gatherings, professional Hispanic speaker, David Gonzalez, has applied his teaching and entertainment training in developing a unique approach to theater and educator motivational keynotes.
His presentations for young people have been widely acknowledged as unique and cutting edge. In 2006 he received a Drama Desk Nomination for "Unique Theatrical Experience". All along he has integrated music, video design, and poetics at a new level of excellence and daring. Also, in the field of Music Therapy, he has developed a new way of incorporating mythology and storytelling into the practice. His doctoral dissertation looked at this singular performance speaking work in depth and is studied and cited for its style and substance.
An education advocate, David Gonzalez is a strong proponent of storytelling methods as a vehicle for promoting literacy. Considered an educator of educators, Gonzalez is the founder and artistic director FourRiver Arts Institute, offering professional development programs in the field of education. To book a keynote, seminar, or program with Dr. David Gonzalez, call 310-937-2789 or e-mail speakers@bestkeynotes.com
Clients and media heap praise on Latino speaker, David Gonzalez and his work...
"You will be immeasurably enriched and have an incredibly rewarding experience. David and his team are gifted and honored storytellers, but they are also extraordinary teachers. David taught me to overcome my insecurities about building storytelling into my classroom literacy program." - Dr. Michael Shaw, Professor of Education, St. Thomas Aquinas College
“David Gonzalez is a superb storyteller. He is also an accomplished actor, dramatist, musician-and a teacher. These qualities all come into play as he assumes a multitude of roles on stage. From a Nuyorican child steeped in thousand-year old magic to a Russian prince learning the values of life, Mr. Gonzalez seems to know them all intimately. Schoolchildren adore him - perhaps because they are so deeply drawn into his stories that they don't notice they are being taught something: for each story has a bearing on their own lives, often in a moving, profound way.” -Scott Noppe-Brandon, Executive Director, Lincoln Center Institute.
“David Gonzalez's workshops, residencies and performances move, inspire, and engage students and teachers alike on a compelling journey to deeply meaningful places. An opportunity to work with this master teaching artist and performer is to discover the power of performance, storytelling, music, and poetry as a means to transform the teaching experience.” - Tracy Arnold Warzer – Director, Outreach Arts-in-Education, Great Neck Arts Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, A Kennedy Center Partners-in-Education Affiliate
For bookings for keynotes, seminars, or programs with Dr. David Gonzalez, call 310-937-2789 or e-mail speakers@bestkeynotes.com
Best Keynote by Latino Storytelling Performance Speaker Engages Global Audiences
Latino Storytelling Performance Speaker, David Gonzalez is back on tour!
Teachers’ conferences and universities have long embraced presentations by New York’s Hispanic performance speaker, David Gonzalez, and now corporate America has finally discovered his innovative performance keynotes.
Latino Speakers reports that Gonzalez, “perpetually on a tour in some part of the world,” according to the staff, Is once again in the middle of a busy performance and keynote speaking tour this Spring. A huge draw for university events, school district conferences, and corporate gatherings, professional Hispanic speaker, David Gonzalez, has applied his teaching and entertainment training in developing a unique approach to theater and educator motivational keynotes.
His presentations for young people have been widely acknowledged as unique and cutting edge. In 2006 he received a Drama Desk Nomination for "Unique Theatrical Experience". All along he has integrated music, video design, and poetics at a new level of excellence and daring. Also, in the field of Music Therapy, he has developed a new way of incorporating mythology and storytelling into the practice. His doctoral dissertation looked at this singular performance speaking work in depth and is studied and cited for its style and substance.
An education advocate, David Gonzalez is a strong proponent of storytelling methods as a vehicle for promoting literacy. Considered an educator of educators, Gonzalez is the founder and artistic director FourRiver Arts Institute, offering professional development programs in the field of education. To book a keynote, seminar, or program with Dr. David Gonzalez, call 310-937-2789 or e-mail speakers@bestkeynotes.com
Clients and media heap praise on Latino speaker, David Gonzalez and his work...
"You will be immeasurably enriched and have an incredibly rewarding experience. David and his team are gifted and honored storytellers, but they are also extraordinary teachers. David taught me to overcome my insecurities about building storytelling into my classroom literacy program." - Dr. Michael Shaw, Professor of Education, St. Thomas Aquinas College
“David Gonzalez is a superb storyteller. He is also an accomplished actor, dramatist, musician-and a teacher. These qualities all come into play as he assumes a multitude of roles on stage. From a Nuyorican child steeped in thousand-year old magic to a Russian prince learning the values of life, Mr. Gonzalez seems to know them all intimately. Schoolchildren adore him - perhaps because they are so deeply drawn into his stories that they don't notice they are being taught something: for each story has a bearing on their own lives, often in a moving, profound way.” -Scott Noppe-Brandon, Executive Director, Lincoln Center Institute.
“David Gonzalez's workshops, residencies and performances move, inspire, and engage students and teachers alike on a compelling journey to deeply meaningful places. An opportunity to work with this master teaching artist and performer is to discover the power of performance, storytelling, music, and poetry as a means to transform the teaching experience.” - Tracy Arnold Warzer – Director, Outreach Arts-in-Education, Great Neck Arts Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, A Kennedy Center Partners-in-Education Affiliate
For bookings for keynotes, seminars, or programs with Dr. David Gonzalez, call 310-937-2789 or e-mail speakers@bestkeynotes.com
Parents and High Risk Workers Seek Resilience and Stress Management Help
A new, highly requested motivational keynote program deals with resilience training. Also available in seminar format, Arizona-based clinical psychologist and Yoga Master, Dr. Andy Erlich, offers valuable tools audience members can practice on site and immediately apply to benefits their work lives.
Resilience training, emotional intelligence keynotes, and stress management programs by Dr. Andy have been conducted with parents of special needs children and at autism conferences as well as with professionals in high-risk professional environments including air traffic controllers meetings,fire fighters groups, law enforcement workforce training, IRS personnel,consumer-facing staff, surgeons conferences, and teachers conferences. Dr. Erlich offers depth, knowledge, support, and a different perspective in his keynote that helps adults deal with challenging responsiblities. More information on the progams by Dr. Andy, now on a world tour, can be found at http://www.bestkeynotes.com/Dr_Andy_Erlich.html
Dr, Andy's most requested program, Freeing the Giant, is based on the true life experiences of his Uncle Jake, a true life giant of Barnum and Bailey Circus fame, and master of opportunities in life with an enduring, moving legacy in this keynote of resilience, empowerment, and success.
Latino Speakers | Hispanic Speakers | Diversity Speakers Summer Tour
Inspirational Hispanic Speakers on 2011 U.S. and Global Tour
In Spring and Summer 2011, professional Hispanic speakers are hitting the road with their motivational, inspirational, and funny conferences across borders. Latino Speakers Bureau founder, Leonor McCall-Rodriguez, explains: “While Hispanics have achieved great business success and excelled in all walks of U.S. life, they had largely gone unrecognized by the international speaking circuit. Latino Speakers Bureau had its origins in a research project I conducted in 2002, that reported outstanding inspirational and motivational Latino voices were unseen by media outlets and event planners because they lacked a showcase. Thus Latino Speakers Bureau became a collaborative effort to offer organizations and conference planners access to Hispanic role models, Latino industry experts, diversity keynotes, and corporate trainers as well as best selling Latino authors and inspirational voices,” McCall-Rodriguez said.
Jose Galvez, distinguished Hispanic Pulitzer Prize Award winning photographer who has recorded images of Latino culture over decades is a 2011 inductee to Latino Speakers Bureau. Galvez offers a fascinating combination of traveling photo exhibit and inspirational keynote presentation, a moving conference of one man’s journey from his time as a shoeshine boy to the heights of journalistic success. Galvez offers the perfect conference for education, youth Summer programs, Hispanic Heritage keynotes, and commencement events. Dates are still available for the tour.
Latino Speakers announced Joachim de Posada has just completed the Verizon Wireless Small Business event tour for New York, Philadelphia, and D.C. Colleagues at Latino Speakers Bureau congratulate the best-selling international author and Hispanic motivational speaker for completing another cycle on his 2011 U.S. and world keynote speaking tour where audiences eagerly await the opportunity to hear his energizing presentation based on his book, “Don’t Eat the Marshmallow Yet!,” quickly approaching the mark of 3 million books sold.
Hispanic business diversity trainer and HR keynote speaker, Pegine Echevarria, is on tour across the Southwest this Spring and is accepting speaking dates in Texas, California, and Arizona until the end of June. Contact speakers@bestkeynotes.com for more information or call 310-937-2789 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 310-937-2789 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Latino comedians continue providing the relief of laughter to conferences across the country and Funny Rocket Scientist - Latina speaker, Shayla Rivera, took the stage last week in Texas for the 2011 Hispanic Leadership Banquet by Zavala Hispanic Cultural Initiative.
Celebrity award winning Latina actor and TV host, and humorous Hispanic speakerr, Debi Gutierrez,”The Mommy Comic,” has just keynoted the 2011 Dinner Dance Gala for the Latino Chamber of Commerce of Pueblo, Colorado.
Latino journalist speaker and Hispanic author keynote speaker, Bill Santiago is now touring California with a a presentation based on his book, “Spanglish”, delighting audiences with his unique humorous perspective on culture, language, and what’s funny about it all.
For more information on these and other top Latino keynote speakers, visit bestkeynotes.com or call Latino Speakers Bureau at 310-937-2789.
Sonny Melendrez, Hispanic Cartoon Voice Artist & International Motivational Speaker Joins Latino Speakers
California-based Latino Speakers Bureau announced the induction of celebrated Hispanic talent, Sonny Melendrez, to its diversity motivational speakers showcase. Hispanic media personality, and motivational media speaker, Sonny Melendrez inspires with a motivational keynote that reflects on his journey as a celebrated radio and television personality. As a Latino inspirational speaker, Melendrez travels around the country and globe to entertain and inspire both on stage and on the air.
As an international motivational speaker and gala master of ceremonies, Sonny Melendrez applies his unique talent to rally people behind local and national causes. He has helped to raise over 100 million dollars in funds, goods, and services for nonprofits over the last 25 years.
National and international conferences, corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, colleges, and universities have been inspired by Sonny Melendrez and his captivating motivational presentations. Latino author, Sonny Melendrez, delivers a captivating message as he shares the powerful benefits to be found in positive living through personal and powerful stories of encouragement, comfort, and joy. His motivational keynotes based on his book and audio book, “The Art of Living With Enthusiasm,” are designed to energize audiences to get involved and make a difference in the world around them and embrace a positive attitude in work and life.
