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Coach Jim Johnson, Speaker and Author

June 9, 2022 by John Ray

Business Leaders Radio

Coach Jim Johnson, Speaker and Author

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Coach Jim Johnson, Speaker and Author

On this episode of Business Leaders Radio, Coach Jim Johnson, former high school basketball coach turned speaker and author, joined host John Ray to discuss leadership and teamwork principles he shares with audiences around the country. Coach Jim discussed the J-Mac miracle game, which won the ESPY for “Best Sports Moment,” developing a personal mission statement, building trust within a team, and much more.

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Coach Jim Johnson, Speaker and Author

Over 30 years of experience developing winning high-school basketball teams, including 428 career victories, sets the stage for the unique credibility and power of Coach Jim Johnson’s message.

Many speakers talk about leadership, but it’s rare to find a speaker who has, quite literally, lead thousands.

Based on what transpired in a few short moments in early 2006, Coach Jim Johnson is now an authority on the subject of realizing your dreams. In his many public-speaking appearances, the Rochester, New York resident relates his role in a basketball game that got Hollywood calling. He also emphasizes the importance of teamwork and sportsmanship, delivering his talks with a heartfelt style that has brought audiences to their feet.

Coach Johnson has developed winning high-school basketball teams for 30 years, taking over three losing varsity programs and turning them into winners in short periods of time. Of his 428 career victories, one, in particular, will surely never be duplicated.

On Feb. 15, 2006, Coach Johnson made the kindhearted gesture of inserting his autistic manager, Jason McElwain, now known to the world as J-Mac into Greece Athena High School’s final home game, which the Trojans won 79-43. J-Mac scored 20 points in just over four minutes, including six three-point baskets, to become an instant national celebrity. Coach Johnson, also, was featured in major news outlets around the country.

To make the Hollywood ending complete, Greece Athena captured the first Section V title of Coach Johnson’s career a few weeks later.

That one victory continues to reverberate into countless lives as audience after audience is touched by a wave of courage and tenacity and witnesses what true leadership can accomplish.

Coach Johnson is the author of “A Coach and a Miracle”, available here.

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Questions and Topics

J-Mac miracle game
How do you develop a personal mission statement?
How do you build trust with your team?
What are the keys to effective communication?
How do you get buy-in for your team’s mission?
What are keys to effective goal setting?

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National Speakers Association with Stephanie Angelo, Noelle Stanley, Dr Karen Jacobson and Dan Shinder

March 14, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

National Speakers Association with Stephanie Angelo, Noelle Stanley, Dr Karen Jacobson and Dan Shinder

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National Speakers Association with Stephanie Angelo, Noelle Stanley, Dr Karen Jacobson and Dan Shinder

National Speakers Assocation (NSA) provides professional speakers with the comprehensive resources, mentoring and professional connections they need to become more efficient and more effective in all aspects of their trade. Our 3,400+ members reach audiences as thought leaders, authors, consultants, coaches, trainers, educators, humorists, and motivators. Anyone who uses the spoken word to impact listeners can benefit from NSA membership.

NSA-Arizona is an award-winning chapter of the National Speakers Association. It is the original home chapter for the greatest speaking professional in the world Cavett Robert (1907-1997). Robert was the Founder and Leader of the 3800-member strong National Speakers Association, the respected national organization of expert professionals who deliver messages to order.

NSA Arizona Chapter
www.nsa-arizona.org
480-968- 7443
NSA International Conference Center
1500 South Priest Drive
Tempe, AZ

NSA National Offices
www.nsaspeaker.org
480.968.2552
1500 South Priest Drive
Tempe, AZ 85281

Guest Co-Host, Stephanie Angelo is a Mastermind group leader for enterprising people in a range of industries, from marketers to designers, financial planners, and physicians. Like an architect for business she helps entrepreneurs and solopreneurs grow and build their own enterprises.

She has a unique talent for connecting people and creating collaborative relationships that result in quantifiable growth. She’s sought out for mastermind group membership so people, and their business, can benefit from her skills.

She is a professional speaker and member of National Speakers Association, speaking on Innovative Accountability Programs and Strategic Thinking. Stephanie is also a member of Society for Human Resource Management. In both 2008 and 2009 she received the Best of Tempe Award in the Lecture & Seminar Bureaus category. She was awarded the AZCADV 2010 Desert Sunflower award for Allies. She was named a Finalist in the Best Entrepreneur – Service Businesses – Up to 100 Employees category for the 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

StephanieAngelo.com
Stephanie Angelo on Linkedin

Noelle Stanley, a Certified Holistic Nutrition Educator, life coach and professional speaker brings her captivating knowledge and passion to transform individual and corporate health and productivity by digesting complicated concepts and goals into simple, immediate, and effective nutritional and lifestyle choices. Inspired by new awareness, you will be motivated to take small steps, leading to an immediate feeling of success and genuine, lasting, positive results.

Noelle’s corporate clients reduce their health care costs and absenteeism, while profiting from healthier, more energetic, more productive employees. She offers expertise in motivation, cleansing and detoxification, food allergies, long term healthy weight control, nutrition for medical conditions, children and adolescent nutrition, nutrition for the aging, fitness plans, stress reduction, supplement use, and a variety of other health and wellness topics.

Noelle Stanley is the founder of My Body Balanced where she creates innovative techniques and concepts to improve individual and corporate health by combining the best of ancient and modern wisdom.

MyBodyBalanced.com
Noelle Stanley on Linkedin

Dr. Karen Jacobson is a High-Performance Strategist and Speaker. She is the creator of the High-Performance Triad and author of Power Conversations. Dr. Jacobson works with entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals showing them how to play at the top of their game by providing strategies to align engage and lead High-Performance Teams.

DrKarenJacobson.com
Dr Karen Jacobson on Linkedin

Dan Shinder is the Founder of Drum Talk TV and Social Media On Steroids. Social Media On Steroids is a series of products, which include Social Media Marketing Education, Consulting and Service Providing.

Everything Dan teaches is based on the strategies he has developed to get Drum Talk TV, a lifestyle media company, to 100k engaged followers on Facebook in the first year, and now 1 Million Followers just before the five-year anniversary—100% organically. Dan has a passion for teaching others how to do what he has done.

The education is provided in a variety of formats, from open enrollment workshops and seminars to presentations to teams on-site for companies to Online Webinars and VIP+ Days for individual clients as a retreat at his home in the mountains of Globe, AZ

SMOSMasterClass.com
Dan Shinder on Linkedin

Special Edition: “Speaking Insights” with the National Speakers Association Georgia

June 18, 2014 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: “Speaking Insights” with the National Speakers Association Georgia

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NSA Georgia is the leading source in Georgia for community, education and entrepreneurial business knowledge needed to be successful in the speaking profession. Our members include professional speakers, aspiring speakers, authors, consultants, salespeople, trainers and vendors for the speaking industry. We meet in the Atlanta area the third Saturday morning each month. You can learn more at www.nsageorgia.org.

“Speaking Insights” is a quarterly program of the Georgia chapter of the National Speakers Association. Each show will feature professional speakers who share their insights on how to succeed in the speaking business.

Our Co-Hosts:

NSA Georgia president (2013-14) Desmond “Dez” Thornton is an idea enthusiast with a natural ability to transform complex ideas into simple, sequential steps. His passion for words and commitment to service led him to discover his labor of love, professional speaking. He spreads this love by dedicating himself to the advancement of professional and beginner speakers who strive to articulate their vision with the clarity and enthusiasm necessary to inspire action. Dez can be reached at dez@desmondthornton.com.

In an attention-deficient, entertain-me-now, wait-while-I-post-that-on-my-Facebook kind of world, the typical business presentation doesn’t measure up. NSA Georgia president (2014-15) Kelly Vandever works with organizations and individuals whose presentations need to get results. An award-winning speaker herself, Kelly helps clients improve their presentations using old school and hi-tech techniques, all while annihilating bullet points and making this world a better place for business audiences everywhere. You can reach Kelly at SpeakingPractically.com, at 770-597- 1108, tweet @KellyVandever, or www.facebook.com/speakingpractically.

Our Guests:

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D., is a professional speaker and author who helps introverts lead with quiet confidence. Her bestselling books, The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength and Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference have sold over 60,000 copies and been translated into eleven languages.

Jennifer has spoken at hundreds of organizations including GE, AT&T, NASA, Freddie Mac, Boeing, Turner Broadcasting, the CDC and the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam. She is a fourteen-year faculty member of the American Management Association and was the “Madrina” (Godmother) speaker at the Universidad Americana’s

Commencement in Paraguay. Jennifer has also been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week and the Wall Street Journal and was featured in a cover story of Time Magazine.

A member of the Georgia chapter of the National Speakers Association, she is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), granted to only 8% of NSA members. She heads up the Global Task Force of the Berrett-Koehler Author’s Co-op.

Jennifer attended her first National Speakers Association convention in San Diego seven years ago and has been hooked on NSA ever since. Please visit her site for a free introvert quiz and downloads of her book and audio excerpts at www.jenniferkahnweiler.com. She is active on Twitter at jennkahnweiler and she promises to follow you back.

Special Edition: “Speaking Insights” with the National Speakers Association Georgia

September 16, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: “Speaking Insights” with the National Speakers Association Georgia

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The Georgia chapter of the National Speakers Association mission is simply this: We are a supportive community that inspires, educates and provides networking opportunities to those who want to develop their speaking careers or use speaking to enhance their businesses. Our members include professional speakers, aspiring speakers, authors, consultants, salespeople, trainers and vendors for the speaking industry. We meet in the Atlanta area the third Saturday morning each month. You can learn more at www.nsageorgia.org.

Our Co-Hosts:

Our Guests:

Martha Lanier is a nationally recognized keynote speaker who provides entertaining and action-packed programs for women’s events. Since overcoming severe stage fright and her fear of skydiving, becoming an Iron Girl Triathlete at 62 and surviving both breast cancer and a heart attack, she inspires the women in her audiences to use humor, a positive mindset and lifestyle changes to turn their challenges into achievements. Her book, Pink Lemonade: Mastectomy Tips and Insights from a Breast Cancer Survivor, provides hope and courage to women who are newly diagnosed, as well as their family and friends. Martha joined NSA Georgia in 2002 and has served five years on the executive board of directors, including president (2006-2007). She can be reached at www.MarthaLanier.com and 404-216-0586.

Ken Futch is a Certified Speaking Professional and author of Take Your Best Shot – Turning Situations into Opportunities. His message helps businesses become more profitable and employees more productive. A former president of NSA Georgia, Ken has been a full-time speaker for over 25 years. He delivers keynotes and seminars that help individuals recognize and take advantage of the opportunities still obtainable in turbulent times. Audiences often describe him as motivational, Insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny. Ken can be reached at ken@kenfutch.com or 770 939-6200.