Journey To Success

John Churchill started his career in 1964 training Navy cadets on basic flight instruments. After 20 years of military service and 24 years of working with Fortune 500 companies such as Kimberly Clark and Nabisco, he finished his corporate career in major industries serving as a Training Manager for Gerdau Ameristeel. As the Training Manager, Churchill was responsible for both training and Industrial Training Systems for Gerdau Ameristeel’s North American steel mills.    Most recently, he was the Director of Corporate Training and Continuing Education for Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis. He currently serves as the College's Executive Director for Workforce Development.    John speaks to Journey to Success Radio on the training program that is having a tremendous impact in the Memphis, TN business community. The Industrial Readiness Training (IRT) course is a centerpiece of the Made in Memphis Initiative. The goal of Made in Memphis is for local manufacturers, educational institutions, and Workforce Investment Network (WIN) and its partners to work together to create a pipeline of skilled workers to meet the hiring needs of manufacturing employers, and to prepare local job seekers with the skills they need to get good jobs in manufacturing.    IRT is a four week program at Southwest Tennessee Community College designed to prepare individuals for jobs in local manufacturing and industry. The training teaches and measures foundational technical, academic, and interpersonal knowledge and skills that have been identified by local industry leaders as critical to long-term employee success.

Heralded as a steady Team Builder and Spiritual Life Coach, Taylor Tagg has vision for helping people breakthrough barriers and resolve internal conflicts. Taylor delivers high value leadership and inner success strategies for people of influence who want to make a positive difference in the world. The results are significant transformations from feeling trapped and stuck into higher levels of emotional wholeness, freedom, and self mastery. 

 

Taylor is an expert on the topics of Forgiveness, Overcoming Adversity, Building a Solid Spiritual Foundation, and Sowing the Seeds of Heart Centered Success. Among holding a Master’s degree in Business, Taylor is also a Certified Instructor through the Napoleon Hill Foundation and the Midwest Institute for Forgiveness.

Taylor is the author of two personal growth books. His first book, Enrich Your Sunrise, is a program designed to bring your life complete fulfillment and vibrancy. Just released is his second book titled The Path to a Peaceful Heart: Tearing Down the Walls of Childhood Trauma and Finding Freedom, Understanding, and Purpose. (Both books are available at Amazon.com)

Inez Blackburn is a globally recognized speaker and industry leader, innovator and pioneer in launching global brands with over 25 years experience. She has worked with many Fortune 500 companies and led numerous executives through her Positioned for Profit Seminars and Marketing to the Max Workshops. She has been on the Dean’s list for excellence in teaching for 10 years and is a featured trainer at numerous executive events. Her first book Pride Passion Profit – 7 Steps to Category Development has sold over 5,000 copies and is well positioned to help companies take their category plans to the next level.

Inez is currently the Director of Research at The Institute for Retail Innovation and Education (The Central Group) and an Adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Wright State University, and S.P. Jain University in Singapore and Dubai.  Inez conducts both quantitative and qualitative research in a State of the Art Research facility and ROI Lab leveraging best in class technologies and research protocols.

Inez is often featured at conferences around the world and conducts training seminars on Category Development, Shopper Marketing, Product Life Cycle Management, Supply Chain Strategy and Marketing according to the Art of War, Generation Text and The Era of Postponement.

Carolyn Martin is the president of Sponsor Energy.  Sponsor Energy is a retailer of electricity operating in Alberta, Canada with a very unique business model.  They have partnered with local charities and donate 50% of their corporate profits on each customer’s electricity usage to the charity that the customer has chosen to “sponsor”.  Some of these Albertan charities include: Inn From the Cold, Neighbour link, The Calgary Drop-In Centre, The Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge food banks, Meals on Wheels and the Alberta Cancer Foundation.  

Sponsor Energy became available on Sept 1 to Albertans, but launched their campaign on Oct 11 during the Alberta Homeless Awareness Week. Carolyn’s story was recently covered by CBC news, and is receiving attention across Canada.

http://www.sponsorenergy.com/

Grace is a CAPPA Canada (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association) Certified Labour Doula and a Childbirth Educator/Prenatal Instructor. She has her World Health Organization 20 hour lacation management certification as well as being trained as an official HypnoBirthing® Doula. She is the mother of three beautiful girls, and has an amazing supportive husband Danny.

Having experienced three very different births of her own (epidural, natural childbirth, and cesarean), Grace understands the anxiety and confusion that can sometimes be associated with childbirth and the choices involved with labour and delivery. This is why she is so passionate about labour and delivery and believes that every woman deserves the best, most fulfilling birth experience possible. Grace has supported families in the Halton/Peel Region as well as the GTA through labour and delivery. She has served on the board of her community residence association reaching out to families in her community, and has lead a support network for married couples through Heartland a Church Connected.

Brand Management Agency founder Daniel Schneider brings eight years’ experience as a media relations specialist, marketing advisor and project manager. Beginning his career as a sculptor, he saw an opportunity to promote fellow artists, actors, musicians, filmmakers and other creative talents. 

 His interest in marketing and communications expanded into sectors such as lifestyle and consumer goods, while he developed a particular interest in small businesses and start-ups. Daniel also teaches public relations at Humber Institute of Technology.

Howard Partridge grew up on welfare in Mobile Alabama and left home at 18. He arrived in Houston, Texas on a Greyhound bus with only 25 cents in his pocket.

At age 23, he started his first business out of the trunk of his car and built it up to a multi-million dollar enterprise. He has owned 8 small businesses altogether and owns 3 companies at the time of this printing.

He is president of Phenomenal Products, Inc. which helps small business owners stop being slaves to their business by transforming it into a predictable, profitable, turnkey operation.

For the past 15 years Howard has helped small business owners around the world dramatically improve their businesses. He currently has coaching members worldwide, is the exclusive small business coach for the Zig Ziglar corporation, is an independent, and a certified coach with the John C. Maxwell team.

Howard has led hundreds of seminars, webinars, workshops and holds his own live multiday events which have featured some of America's top business trainers including Michael Gerber, Bob Burg, Dr. Joseph A. Michelli, and American legend Zig Ziglar.

Since 2003, Mohamed has been helping unfulfilled corporate professionals set their heart & soul free from the prison of the paycheck and start following their passions and making a significant contribution.

He is known for his series of interviews with ultra-successful people about their secrets of transformation and success, having recorded over 150 interviews with the world’s leading success and business gurus like Jim Cathcart, Tony Alessandra, Michael Gerber, Mark Sanborn, and many more.

He took what he learned and blended it with timeless success principles, first recorded by the Ancient Egyptians sages to create a proven framework for passionate living.

This unique blend of the philosophies of then and now will show you how to create a lifestyle that reflects what matters most to you and resonates with your heart’s desires.

On May 19, 2009, his first book, The Pharaohs’ Code, was the #1 bestselling motivational book on Amazon.com. This book is your personal Rosetta Stone for unlocking the true meaning of your life.

In his blog, he shares transformational insights from the lives of inspiring role models to inspire and motivate you to listen to your heart and transform your life from making a living to making a difference.

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Follow Your Passion and Feel The Pride

A resident of Wise, Virginia, the birthplace of Napoleon Hill, Don Green brings nearly 45 years of banking, finance, and entrepreneurship experience to his role as Executive Director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. His first youthful business venture was charging admission to see his pet bear—yes, the living, growling kind! Since 2000, Green has traveled worldwide and used his finance skills to grow the Foundation’s funds in order to continue the Foundation’s educational outreach to prisons. Green has both modeled leadership skills as a CEO and taught them through the PMA Science of Success course at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Don specializes in discussing his personal experiences in leadership and providing audiences with proven methods of applying Dr. Hill’s success philosophy to business.  He was recently featured in a presentation on the Importance of Entrepreneurship in a National Economy by Dr.

Peter Yun at a United Nations Forum.

Scott Duffy is a high-energy author, speaker, and strategist. He began his career working for best selling author and speaker, Tony Robbins, and went on to help launch small businesses that became big brands like CBS Sportsline, NBC Internet, and FOXSports.com. Next, he founded Smart Charter, an online booking tool for private aviation, which was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. Scott is a passionate advocate for entrepreneurship and has been a frequent guest in numerous media outlets including CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Week. Scott currently lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.