About Us...
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 Bill Gove (1912-2001)
The Father of Professional Speaking
Founder of Bill Gove Speech Workshop
(1947).
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 Steve Siebold, CSP, CPCS
Certified Professional Corporate speaker
President
Bill Gove
Speech Workshop |
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Kevin Houser, CPCS
Certified Professional Corporate Speaker
Executive Vice President
Bill Gove Speech Workshop - Philadelphia |
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Gary Plessl, CPCS
Certified Professional Corporate Speaker
Executive Vice President
Bill Gove Speech Workshop - Philadelphia |
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Neil McCallum
Certified Professional Corporate speaker
Executive Vice President
Bill Gove Speech Workshop |
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Chris Igwe, CPCS
Certified Professional Corporate Speaker
Executive Vice President
Bill Gove Speech Workshop - Europe |
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Pamela Igwe, CPCS
Certified Professional Corporate Speaker
Executive Vice President
Bill Gove Speech Workshop - Europe |
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Bill Gove, 1912-2001, served as a corporate executive with
Beechnut Manufacturing throughout the 1930's and later joined 3M Corporation in
the 1940's. In 1954, the Sales and Marketing Executives of America named Bill
Gove America's # 1 salesman. Mr. Gove's extraordinary success created a strong
demand for him as a speaker at corporate meetings and conventions around the
world. Throughout the remainder of the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 90's, Bill Gove
delivered over 5,000 paid speeches and traveled the equivalent of 22 times
around the world. Mr. Gove spoke in places such as Carnegie Hall, Madison
Square Garden, The Shrine Auditorium, Chicago's International Amphitheatre,
Royal Albert Hall in London, and many others. In 1972, Bill Gove was elected
first President of the National Speakers Association, where he served two
successful terms. In 1976, Mr. Gove was inducted into the International
Speakers Hall of Fame, and in 1980, he received the Oscar of Public Speaking,
the prestigious Cavett Award. In 1991 Toastmasters International honored him
with the Golden Gavel Award. Past recipients include Walter Kronkite, Dr. Joyce
Brothers, and Deepak Chopra.
Bill Gove influenced, taught, or mentored
most of today's most successful presenters, and his influence can be felt
throughout the profession. Due to his platform prowess and willingness to guide
the leaders in the profession during the early years, Bill Gove was known
around the world as the father of professional speaking. On December 9, 2001,
Mr. Gove died of heart failure at age 89. His last speech was delivered in
Sanibel, Florida on September 25, 2001. |
 Steve
Siebold is a former professional tennis player and national coach. He
is the best selling author of "177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class".
Siebold's Mental Toughness clientele includes world-class athletes, Fortune 500
Companies, and entrepreneurs. Siebold and partners have built two companies
from the ground up into national concerns. Steve is considered one of the
fastest rising professional speakers and consultants in the United States and
Europe, in the field of Mental Toughness Training for salespeople.
Siebold's articles appear regularly in various publications throughout the U.S.
His column appears monthly in Networking Times, an international industry trade
magazine. Steve Siebold and Bill Gove met in 1996, and became best friends and
business partners and formed the Gove-Siebold Group. From 1996 to 2001, they
shared stages around the world and spoke to over 30,000 people.
Today,
the company remains focused on helping people develop world-class performance
skills to convert their dreams into reality. |
Kevin Houser Executive Vice President of Bill Gove Speech
Workshop - Philadelphia. Kevin is a professional speaker trained by
Gove-Siebold Group, a member of National Speakers Association (NSA), and is
Past President of The Sunrise Toastmasters Group. Kevin uses his experience as
a professional speaker to lead financial seminars and public speaking
workshops.
Kevin is also a Certified Financial Planner™
(CFP®) and Chartered Retirement Plans Specialist ™ (CRPS®) with
over fifteen years of experience in the wealth management industry. Kevin
graduated Magna Cum Laude from Moravian College with a degree in Financial
Economics.
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Gary Plessl Executive Vice President of Bill Gove Speech
Workshop - Philadelphia. Gary is a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®)
and a non-practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Gary has fifteen years
of financial services experience in taxation and financial planning. Gary has
specialized in the unique financial planning needs of senior executives and
business owners. Gary has used his training as a professional speaker to build
a successful wealth management practice through leading financial
seminars.
Gary holds an MBA in Finance and a BS in Accounting from
Lehigh University.
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 Chris Igwe is Executive
Vice President of the Bill Gove Speech Workshop Europe. Chris is an
entrepreneur with several international businesses across various countries.
His career started in Civil Engineering working on some of Europe’s most
prestigious international projects and later became an authority on
international retail and retail real estate through working for major global
brands, before setting up his own businesses.
Chris was born and raised
in Nigeria and has been described as one to “spearhead the new dawn”
due to his vision on what it takes to achieve and maintain success now and in
the future.
Chris is regularly invited to speak at international
corporate events and has also been feature extensively in many of Europe’s
leading trade publications. Chris has trained with, and been mentored by, many
of the world’s leading thinkers in their field. He uses his experience as
a professional speaker to provide key note speeches on cross border retail,
sustainable business building, and executive leadership in a competitive world.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Newcastle
University in England and a Master of Science in Geotechnical Engineering from
Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Chris is a Chartered Engineer, a
European Engineer and a member of major trade associations, the International
Council of Shopping Centers and also the Urban Land Institute. |
 Pamela Igwe is Executive
Vice President of the Bill Gove Speech Workshop Europe. Pamela runs her own
successful business as an Independent Midwife with over 25 years of experience
in the field of midwifery and alternative therapies. She has trained and
practiced in many different countries including England, Scotland, France, The
Netherlands, Australia and Canada.
Pamela has been trained by the Gove
Siebold which enables her to use these speaking skills not only in the public
speeches she has given, but also in the smaller groups she addresses as part of
the support she gives to couples preparing for the new baby.
Pamela was
educated at Harrogate College for Young Ladies in England and later at
Simpson’s Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. She holds several
qualifications- Registered General Nurse, State Registered Midwife, Neo Natal
Nurse, Reflex Zone Therapist, Taoist Baby Massage, Aromatherapist, and Bowen
Technique. |
 Neil
McCallum (Bio to come). |
Dr. Tony Alessandra is a former professor
of marketing who has authored and published 12 books including: The Platinum
Rule, Collaborative Selling, and The Art of Managing People, not to mention
over 50 audio and video programs. Since 1976, he has given over 2,000 keynote
speeches and seminars for numerous Fortune 500 companies, including: AT&T,
Coca-Cola, GE, GM, IBM, The New York Times and Prudential. |
 Ty
Boyd is unparalleled in the nation as a speaker and communications
coach. He has delivered keynotes and conducted seminars on five continents to
more than a million people. He is one of the few speakers worldwide to receive
the speaking industry’s highest honors, including the Oscar of the
National Speakers Association—The Cavett Award.
Ty has been
inducted into both the Broadcast Hall of Fame and Speaker Hall of Fame. He is
also a member of Speakers Roundtable, considered the top 20 speakers in the
country. |
 Bill
Brooks is one of the world's premiere resources for sales and business
leadership. Known for his success as a corporate coach, sales visionary,
consultant, speaker and entrepreneur, Bill brings real-world advice, carefully
researched facts, memorable humor and powerful stories to the platform in order
to shake up, wake up and motivate audiences in ways that produce lasting
results. His goal? To give individuals and organizations the tools and vision
they need. whether it be in sales, leadership, management or change. in order
to succeed in the diverse marketplaces of the world.
Bill speaks from a
lifetime of accomplishment and firsthand experience. Besides his award-winning
career as a speaker for over two decades, he has a wealth of industry knowledge
and skills to draw from after delivering programs in over 350 different
industries. During a 25-year career, he has been CEO of a $300 million
corporation, top sales producer in an 8,000 person sales force, business award
winner, corporate board member, a winning football coach for fourteen seasons
and CEO of an international consulting firm. Bill knows what it takes to
motivate and lead teams to victory. An inductee of the Professional Speaker
Hall of Fame, he is an acclaimed communicator, coaching such top firms as
Andersen Consulting, BMW, Hewlett-Packard and hundreds of others. Bill also
holds the two highest designations awarded to management consultants. |
Jim Cathcart is one of only 12 speakers in the world who hold
the following honors: President of the National Speakers Association
(1988-1989), Speaker Hall of Fame, CPAE (1985), Certified Speaking
Professional, CSP (1981), and winner of The Cavett Award (1993). Jim is also a
member of the exclusive Speakers Roundtable, 22 of the most popular speakers in
the world.
Among professional speakers worldwide, Jim Cathcart is a
leader. He has risen to the top of his profession through more than 20 years of
presentations to a worldwide audience and decades of unselfish service to his
profession. He believes in serving his industry as well as his customers. |
 “She is one
of the most electrifying speakers in North America," says Meeting and
Conventions magazine.
Her clients agree. "Fripp is the most
reliable, versatile, easy to work with, hassle-free, customer-friendly speaker
we've ever booked," says Dan Maddux, Executive Director of the American Payroll
Assn. Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE was a successful entrepreneur
in a service industry for twenty-four years. Today she is an award-winning
international speaker who has addressed audiences on four continents.
The first woman president of the National Speakers Association (1984-85), she
received their CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation in 1981 and
their CPAE Hall of Fame Award in 1983 for professionalism and excellence in
speaking. In 1996 she received the Cavett Award, the annual "Oscar" of the
National Speakers Association.
Fripp was the founder and president of
the largest National Speakers Association chapter, NSA/Northern California. A
leadership award, the "Frippy," has been named after her, and she is a member
of the prestigious Speakers Roundtable, consisting of twenty-two of the most
successful, in-demand speakers in the country. |
 For more
than 15 years, Randy Gage has been helping people transform
self-limiting beliefs into self-fulfilling breakthroughs to achieve their
dreams. Randy's story of rising from a jail cell as a teen, to a self-made
millionaire, has inspired millions around the world. This compelling journey of
triumph over fear, self-doubt, and addiction, uniquely qualifies him as an
undisputed expert in the arena of peak performance and extraordinary human
achievement. His story and the way he shares it, demonstrate the true power of
the mind over outside circumstances.
Randy captivates audiences through
his unique and memorable personal stories, teaching them the lessons learned
from his own rich life. His in-the-trenches experiences in direct selling, as
an entrepreneur, and in life, help people see how they can transform challenge
into choices, obstacles into opportunity, and tragedy into triumph.
His
keynote speeches, books, tapes, and other learning resources are packed with
take-home content you can apply immediately in your life and business. More
than just rah-rah rallies, an interaction with Randy provides the true
inspiration that empowers people into self-motivation, and the action steps to
achieve success.
Randys How to Earn at Least $100,000 a Year in Network
Marketing series is the #1 selling album in direct selling history. And his
Escape the Rat Race audiotape has introduced the industry to millions of
prospects all over the world. Randy has conducted live programs in ten
countries, and his materials are used in countless more. Randy will get people
on-track, laser-focused, and fighting for their dreams again. |
 Who is
Mark Victor Hansen? And why is everyone talking about him?
Mark Victor Hansen has a lifelong mission: to save lives, fortunes and futures.
For more than 25 years, he has influenced society's top leaders and the general
public on a global scale. He is the man who built up a speaking and writing
empire spanning some 63 separate publications of audio programs, training
videos, books, articles, special reports and specialty items. And he earns
millions of dollars every year just from speaking engagements and book
royalties alone.
Mark Victor Hansen is also the CO-creator of the
widely successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The series TIME magazine
calls "The publishing phenomenon of the decade" has collectively sold over 30
million copies in North America alone, making it one of the most successful
publishing "franchises" in America. |
 Don
Hutson's careers in speaking, management and sales have brought him
many honors. He successfully worked his way through the University of Memphis,
graduating with a degree in Sales. After becoming the #1 salesperson in a
national training organization, he established his own training firm and
shortly thereafter was in demand as a professional speaker.
Don has
addressed over two-thirds of the Fortune 500 Companies and is featured in over
80 training films. Today he is Chairman & CEO of U. S. Learning and makes
over 120 speaking appearances per year. Perhaps you have seen him on national
television where he is regularly featured on both the Public Broadcasting
Station and the TPN Satellite Network.
He is also the author of "The
Sale" and is the co-author of three other books.
Don was elected by
his peers to the presidency of the National Speakers Association, and he has
received its prestigious "Cavett Award," as member of the year. He was also
honored as the 1991 recipient of the International Speakers Hall of Fame Award,
and Don was recently named the 1998 Consummate Speaker of the Year. |
Bob Proctor is an author, lecturer, counselor, business
consultant, entrepreneur, and teacher preaching the gospel of positive
thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential. In that endeavor, he
follows in the footsteps of such motivational giants as Napoleon Hill, Earl
Nightingale and Wallace D. Wattles.
But Proctor carries the message of
these great teachers a step higher and explains in terms understood by tots and
tycoons alike how a person goes about recognizing the potential and how to
apply this effort in setting and achieving life goals. As an attendee at one of
Proctor's seminars put it: "Bob Proctor. brings all the great wisdom of
Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles and others into a coherent whole that anyone can
take home and apply." |
 Would you respect a
man who came to the United States as a teenager with no knowledge of English,
no contacts and only $50 in his pocket, yet ended up a multimillionaire? Would
you listen to what he has to say about success?
Meet Nido
Qubein, who is chairman of an international consulting firm and
recipient of the highest awards given for professional speakers, including the
Cavett (known as the Oscar of professional speaking) and the Speakers Hall of
Fame. Toastmasters International named him the Top Business and Commerce
Speaker and awarded him the Golden Gavel Medal. He served as president of the
National Speakers Association, which has a membership of 4,000 professionals.
Nido has been the recipient of many honors including the Ellis Island
Congressional Medal of Honor, a Doctorate of Laws degree, and induction into
Beta Gamma Sigma, the honor society for business leadership.
Nido’s business savvy led him to help start a bank in 1986 and today he
serves on the board of a Fortune 500 financial corporation with 55 billion
dollars in assets, 17,000 employees and over 1,000 offices in nine states. He
serves on the boards of 17 universities, companies, and community
organizations, including all three of his alma maters. |
 Introducing
Brian Tracy. Many years ago, Brian Tracy started off on a
lifelong search for the secrets of success in life and business. He studied,
researched, traveled, worked and taught for more than thirty years. In 1981, he
began to share his discoveries in talks and seminars, and eventually in books,
audios and video-based courses. The greatest secret of success he learned is
this: "There are no secrets of success." There are instead timeless truths and
principles that have to be rediscovered, relearned and practiced by each
person. The central question of Brian's search was, "Why do things happen the
way they do?" And the only real measures of a principle or practice were, "Does
it work? Does it get results? Is it effective? Is it an improvement on what is
already being done?"
After many years of traveling and working in more
than 80 countries, in many companies and industries, the answers began to
emerge. Brian added several thousand hours of university study and taught his
ideas to more than 1 million people. His programs are now in 18 languages in 31
countries. Brian's gift is synthesis - the ability to take large numbers of
ideas from many sources and combine them into highly practical, enjoyable and
immediately usable forms that people can take and apply quickly to improve
their life and work.
Brian has now brought together the best ideas,
methods and techniques from thousands of books, hundreds of courses and work
with individuals and organizations of every kind in the U.S., Canada and
worldwide. Brian presents each video seminar with intelligence, humor, energy,
insight and a rare combination of thought-provoking practical ideas. You learn
quickly and easily from each video seminar or audio tape program - and get
immediate results when you apply his time-tested strategies to your work and
personal life. |
 Recognized as one
who can educate, motivate and entertain, Jim Tunney has worked
with many Fortune 500 companies, from Apple to Xerox, All-State to State Farm,
Cadillac to Toyota, Frito-Lay to Nabisco, Arco to Unocal, teaching the skills
needed to set S.M.A.R.T. goals and produce effective action.
Drawing from
28 years' experience as an educator and 31 years as an NFL referee, Jim
emphasizes ways to develop and monitor accountability and builds teams that
work with synergy and organizational responsiveness. His essays on motivation,
productivity and self-management appear in business and trade magazines. In his
book, Impartial Judgment, "the Dean of NFL referees" calls pro football the way
he sees it. The book chronicles his career in the NFL. Jim Tunney, Ed.D., is a
CSP and CPAE and has received both of the National Speakers Association's
highest awards for professional excellence. |
 Founder
of a preeminent training company, Wilson Learning Corporation, Larry
Wilson created programs that helped Fortune 500 companies worldwide
achieve higher levels of performance through people. In 1982 he sold his share
of Minnesota-based WLC in order to pursue an emerging vision of change
management and leadership development, and he founded Pecos River Learning
Center in 1985, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pecos River itself became a
human resource brand signifying growth, leadership, and change management for
thousands of employees, managers, and top leaders from some of the largest
companies in the world. Thirteen years later, Larry sold his ownership in Pecos
River to AonConsulting and he is again free to pursue a solo career dedicated
to the joy of helping people in organizations release their spirits by
releasing their courage and creativity. |
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Dave Yoho is America's leading small business consultant and a
dynamic motivational speaker. He has represented most Fortune 500 companies and
hundreds of small businesses (powerful hands-on training techniques) and has
appeared in over 100 training films (video). He is featured on the best selling
audio series "Closing The Sale" and has developed specialized models for
selling home improvement and other construction products. 
