The Team
American Speakers Bureau Career Institute Team Members
In Frank Candy’s career, he has worked with, trained and consulted with thousands of professional speakers, trainers, authors, experts and consultants, helping them to build their careers and teaching them how to position themselves to to be recognized experts, do a whole lot of good in the world and make a ton of money
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Dr. Miller has been a professional public speaker, coach and lifelong trainer. His former students and clients include: Olympic Gold Medal Winners, Major League Baseball players, National Football League Players, Movie and TV Network Personalities.
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Career Institute Advisors for Public Speakers training
Nikki Stone Olympic Gold Medallist
America’s first-ever, Gold Medal Olympic Champion in the sport of inverted aerial skiing.
Nikki earned 35 World Cup medals, eleven World Cup titles, four national titles, two yearlong Aerial World Cup titles, and a World Championship title.
For more than 20 years Elsom Eldridge, Jr. E.dM, CPC, CPMC, has been involved in producing more than 500 seminars and workshops, attracting more than a million participants, and has been a marketing consultant to many speakers, authors and consultants.
For over thirty years, Dr. Nate Booth has been relentlessly studying, applying, and coaching others in the art of thriving in times of rapid change. He is one of only two people to win the Speaker of the Year Award three times from American Speakers Bureau
Rick Searfoss, Colonel, USAF, Retired Astronaut
Space Shuttle Mission Commander
Astranaut Success Programs
Chief Judge for the highly successful and innovative Ansari X Prize competition for a $10 million prize to the first private team to develop and fly a reusable human-carrying spacecraft.
Vice President of the Zero Gravity Corporation, XCOR Aerospace Corporation flight test, leader and spokesperson for numerous space entrepreneurial ventures.
Gary Gray is a former professional baseball player, pilot, humorist, stand-up comic, race car driver, public speaker, actor, and voice over specialist. He enjoys dancing and volunteering for charities.
With over 17 years experience in sales and marketing management, Kimberly Judd-Pennie founded CyberMark International Inc. in 1994. As the president and CEO, she has been invited to be the keynote speaker at internet marketing seminars. She authors a monthly “Cyber-Business” column for a major Southern California newspaper “The Desert Sun”. Kimberley has two sons, a wonderful husband, and a German Shepard named Danny.
Chuck Carmen’s professional experience includes being an executive with IBM, the regional owner of one of the most highly recognized franchises in the weight loss industry, an educator in higher education, owner of a sports marketing agency, a recognized legislative advocate, and as a highly honored healthcare and non-profit executive. In his spare time he enjoys volunteering for charities, golf, race cars, motorcycles, and flying.
A master business entrepreneur and world-class sales trainer, for over twenty years! Barry Cassidy has been at the front of the line for the technology revolution. He and his wife have four great kids, and a cat named Melissa. Barry is a pilot, enjoys riding motorcycles, and working out.
Clay Cotton is a master Internet marketer and one of the nicest people you could ever meet, or hear play the piano. What Do Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, Hank Williams Jr., B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Chuck Berry, Boz Skaggs, Charlie Musselwhite, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, Etta James and scores of other music legends have in common…? Answer: They got hooked on the amazing, little-known PIANO MANIA style of pianoman Clay Cotton. Clay and his wife Kim live in Northern Arizona
Karen Peterson has planned over 5,000 meetings and events during her career, including special event work for Sun Flooring, the largest floor covering company in the Southeast and the Tupperware Corporation. In her 14 years with Tupperware she has planned well over 2800 meetings from their National Sales Conventions, Incentive Programs, Special Projects for the President and managed the company’s Travel Department which generated revenue over 8 million a year.In 2000 she decided to open her own Independent Event Planning company and handles Events and Incentives for a variety of clients across the country. Karen is one of the founding members of the local chapter of Meeting Planners International where she was the Chapter president in 1988 and held various board positions from 1985 til 1995. She was the Chapter Planner of the Year in 1989.
