Speakers

Patricia Fripp

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Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales trainer and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, ministers, and…

Patricia Heaton

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Heaton was born in Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of well-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton. Her mother died when she was a small child.…

Paula Abdul

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Rarely in the history of entertainment has there been an artist equally recognized, awarded and celebrated in front of the camera as well as behind the camera, as is Paula…

Paula Deen

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Hundreds of patrons line up everyday in front of the The Lady and Sons restaurant in Savannah for just a glimpse of the owner. Paula Deen’s best selling cookbooks, her…

Paula Zahn

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A veteran news anchor, Paula Zahn offers audiences an insider’s view of what it’s like to work at a major news outlet, illuminating the people and forces currently shaping our…

Perez Hilton

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Perez Hilton describes himself as “the Internet’s most notorious gossip columnist.” Since 2004 his online gossip site has been one of the most popular and controversial on the web. Born…

Peter Guber

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Peter Guber, Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, has been a force in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. He has leveraged his creativity and business acumen into…

Piers Morgan

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Born in England in 1965, Piers Morgan started out as a newspaper reporter. He landed the job of editor of the News of the World in 1994 and moved over…

Ping Fu

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She co-founded Geomagic and has led its growth from start-up to worldwide leader in the digital shape sampling and processing (DSSP) industry. Geomagic has attracted more than $8 million in…

Queen Latifah

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During her childhood, Latifah sang in the Shiloh Baptist Church choir and performed the song ‘Home’ in a high school production of ‘The Wiz’. She had lessons from her father…