Book Author Series Kicks Off: Leadership, Interpersonal Skills and Global Finance

We're speaking with members of Global Chamber® who are book authors to gain insights from them on their information, inspiration and leadership. The topics will be of keen interest to members AND you'll want to hear about the journeys of each of these magnificent authors.

The programs are weekly through July and August. Special thanks to Gloria Petersen for her innovation and persistence to move this book author initiative forward.

See below for the first 3 programs. All the leaders spotlighted are extraordinary, and the conversations are outstanding! Listen in to learn on the topic, get connected to the global tribe and learn more about being a book author. Click any and all the links below!

Conversations with Authors

• Global Interpersonal Skills with Jacqueline Wales, Michael Quigley and Gloria Petersen
• Global Leadership with Lanie Denslow, Dwaine Canova and Michael S. Seaver
• Global Financial Success with Junko Horvath, Dale Walters and Michael Tucker
• Global Innovation with Susan Lindner, Alex Devereux and Lon Safko
• Exporting and Globalization with Zach Selch, Lothar Soliwon and Erika Amoako-Agyei
• Learning Through Story with Professor Roberto Ancis and Victoria Ancis
• Healthcare and Lifestyle with Debbie Howard, Rick Shapiro and William Harding
• Intercultural Success with Rochelle Kopp, Kyle Hegarty and Terri Morrison

Globinar #1 on Global Interpersonal Skills - Watch HERE.

Moderator: Alex Devereux

• Jacqueline Wales
• Michael Quigley
• Gloria Petersen

Globinar #2 on Global Leadership - Watch HERE.

Moderator: 'Prof' Roberto J. Ancis

• Lanie Denslow
• Dwaine Canova
• Michael S. Seaver

Globinar #3 on Global Financial Success - Watch HERE

Moderator: Lanie Denslow

• Junko Horvath
• Dale Walters
• Michael Tucker

Biographies

Jacqueline Wales

Jacqueline Wales is the author of three books including The Fearless Factor and The Fearless Factor @ Work. Her books are guides to acquiring the skills toward greater self-awareness, effective communication, and better decision-making to enhance career and life. Her website is www.thefearlessfactoratwork.com and her books can be found on Amazon here.

Michael Quigley

Michael Quigley, BA (Hons) 1st class, MA, PGCE, is a former primary school teacher with extensive experience of teaching, coaching, leading and team membership, coupled with a life-long enduring passion for and interest in fitness, wellbeing and growing people. He is a published author and regular blogger as well as the creator of online professional and personal development courses with his company Kataholos. He has over 10 years of teaching experience and has delivered training sessions over the last three years for the North and Western Chamber of Commerce, Boost Business Lancashire and the Preston and Blackpool/ Blackburn and Burnley/Kendal/Bristol/Manchester/Scotland Chartered Institute of Insurers regions and Internationally to over 20 countries for Russell Bedford International and Stockholm University.

Michael has an extensive experience in public speaking, delivering for both the public and private sector regionally, nationally and internationally. One of his favourite training deliveries was for Russell Bedford International was at their Managers and Young Partners Conference in Malta, where he delivered a keynote speech and workshop on world class leadership. Michael is a frequent blogger, writing monthly for his Kataholos web site. And he is currently finishing writing his second Kataholos book, Loving leadership.

Gloria Petersen

Gloria Petersen is founder and director of Global Protocol Academy, LLC., which has provided seminars and training in professional presence, business/cultural etiquette, and international protocol for over 30 years. Gloria is the author of a professional development four-book series entitled, The Art of Professional Connections: (1) Seven Steps to Impressive Greetings and Confident Interactions, (2) Success Strategies for Networking in Person and Online, (3) Dining Strategies for Building and Sustaining Business Relationships, and (4) Event Strategies for Successful Business Entertaining. The series also serves as a companion textbook to the Global Protocol Academy SME training modules. Details about Gloria’s books can be found at artofprofessionalconnections.com. Available in soft cover and eBook formats at amazon.com.

Alex Devereux

Alex Devereux, the Founder of The Devereux Group has always focused on demystifying and making improvements to challenging situations by producing winning, sustainable outcomes with a futuristic approach to management solutions. As a highly respected and trusted leader, many of his clients from New York to Los Angeles, Japan to Hong Kong, Israel to Ghana have been seeking advice from him for decades.

Alex believes in building sustainability through non-zero-sum gain and works to create win-win relationships. For example, one long-time wealth management client launched the first Open-Ended Fund Company (OFC) in Hong Kong. To top it off, she is a female executive. Another client garnered a 23% year-over-year increase on a $395M budget with a non-selling customer service team. His team achieved half of the $90M goal from new and recovered business in less than two quarters.

In Alex’s new book, SMART Decision Making in a New Tech Paradigm, he describes how to develop competencies for making reliable and predictable decisions faster with consistency and the least amount of resistance and anxiety. This book is especially applicable for organizational leaders who find themselves paralyzed and unable to trust their quick decision-making process in the middle of chaos where they must change to adjust quickly to a paradigm shift in their industry or economy.

Alex has a structural engineering degree from IIT (Illinois Tech) in Chicago. He has an MBA, a Masters in eLearning Technology and Design, and another Masters in eLearning Corporate Training and Knowledge Management graduating magna cum laude; a graduate of the Jonah Program® AGI, Goldratt Institute and is a certified Knowledge Manager and Knowledge Environmental Engineer. Alex was a Chair for a School of Drafting and Design and School of Business. He is an Advisory Cloud Advisor for Startup companies, a Certified Game-Thinking® graduate and a published author.

Lanie Denslow

Lanie Denslow is an author, international speaker and trusted advisor on how culture shapes business practices and business protocol. Based in Silicon Valley, she is known for using humor and candor to help others grasp the complexity of today’s global business environment. Lanie is the author of World Wise: What to Know Before You Go (link here) and co-author with Allyson Stewart Allen of Working With Americans. (www.workingwithamericans.com)

Founder and Principal of World Wise Intercultural Training & Resources, Ms. Denslow holds a BS degree from Antioch University and both a Masters of International Business and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She served as the Director of International Affairs for The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and as President of Protocol & Diplomacy International.

Dwaine Canova

Dwaine Canova is a business builder and author with extensive global experience. He grew his largest organization from napkin drawings to 3,000 employees in 5 countries. His current focus is developing exceptional executive teams. So, no surprise, the title of his most recent book is Exceptional Executive Teams.

Read more about all of Dwaine's books here www.DwaineCanova.com and about his company here www.Zynity.com.

Michael S. Seaver

Michael S. Seaver is an award-winning executive coach, leadership consultant, keynote speaker, and author. He’s on a mission to unlock human potential to help people uncover and live their purpose, and live a more meaningful and authentic life. His unique methodology has revolutionized how leaders can live authentically and how organizations engage employees. He offers no-nonsense strategies to help people find confidence in their life’s narrative, commonalities across generations working today, and ways to communicate with emotional intelligence. Michael’s newest book, I Know, is available in print, ebook, and audiobook. For more, visit michaelsseaver.com.

'Prof' Roberto J. Ancis

‘Prof.’ Roberto J. Ancis is CEO, Coaching Professors, Inc. and CEO, Consulting Professors Online, LLC. Native of Florence, Italy, a scientist, business entrepreneur, international business consultant, and book author, ‘Prof.’ Ancis, as he is called by his MBA students at the University of Phoenix, founded his Strategic and Marketing Business Consulting Group in 1981, in West Los Angeles, California. Having personally assisted more than 350 innovation technology clients, and trained over 65,000 seminar participants, in 2006, ‘Prof.’ Ancis moved to Arizona, as CEO of Coaching Professors, Inc, a consulting company providing strategic business and creative marketing advisory, sales re-engineering, consumer buyer research and psychology, and business metrics. In 2018, still active as CEO of Coaching Professors, Inc, ‘Prof.’ Ancis started Consulting Professors Online, LLC, a company totally dedicated to Online Consultancy, advising foreign business how to enter the U.S. Market. Since 1999, Associate Faculty with the University of Phoenix and Certified Online MBA Instructor.

Junko Horvath

Junko Horvath is a CEO of Fujiyama Wealth Management in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ and Certified Financial Transitionist® (CeFT®). She is an author of Amazon’s popular book list, “Women In Financial Transition”. With over 20 years of experience, she helps clients through Life Transitions, which are monumental events in one's life that may require a financial expert - such as suddenly becoming single by the death of spouse, transitioning through a divorce, receiving an inheritance, moving from the work force into retirement, selling a business, or winning the lottery. She is an eighth-time recipient of the Five Star Wealth Manager Award which is given to the top 3% of financial advisors in Atlanta. There are only 56 advisors who received this award more than eight times. In 2014 and 2015, she received the Women’s Choice Award by the WIFE organization as one of the Top 100 Financial Advisors in the U.S. She has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, CNBC, USA Today, Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Jewish Times, and Business RadioX.

Junko grew up in a traditional Japanese family where her father was a corporate executive and her mother was a homemaker. Her father managed the entire household's financials and her mother didn’t know anything about money except the allowance she received from husband monthly. Her mother’s lack of financial independence made Junko determined to be a completely independent woman. After Junko moved to the US, she realized that many American women, those who are older, tend to give financial responsibilities to their spouses. She decided to become a wealth manager in order to help women become aware of the importance of financial independence and to gain the confidence in doing so.

She lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband, Stephen and her mother whom she brought over from Japan seven years ago with her father who rests in peace in heaven. She has two married daughters, Dr. Yael and Adina & their families in Philadelphia, PA and Silver Spring, MD.

Dale Walters

Dale A. Walters, CPA, PFS, CFP® (U.S. and Canada) is the Director of Canada-US Tax Services at BeachFleischman, one of Arizona’s largest locally owned CPA firms.

Dale is a licensed certified public accountant and has earned the personal financial specialist designation, as well as being one of the few people that have earned the Certified Financial Planner™ designation in both the US and Canada.

Dale has 40 years of experience and is a frequent speaker on US-Canada financial planning and tax related issues, and is the author of Buying Real Estate in the US – The Concise Guide for Canadians and is the co-author of Taxation of Canadians in America: Are YOU at risk? and Taxation of Americans in Canada: Are YOU at risk?

Having owned and run many businesses over many years, Dale understands the needs, frustrations and challenges of business owners. Dale has experienced the decisions to be made with regards to structure, compensation and benefits, pricing, marketing, hiring, culture, mergers and ultimately the successful transition of a business to the next generation of leadership.

Dale is a former collegiate wrestler and four-time World Heavyweight Karate Champion. Dale is also fourth-degree black belt in Judo and a first-degree black belt in the Israeli self-defense system of Krav Maga.

Michael Tucker

Michael Tucker is an ICF certified executive coach, consultant, published author, entrepreneur, international speaker and tech product development enthusiast. He is committed to the acceleration, advancement and conscious evolution of the global human family.

As the founder of Tucker Coaching & Consulting, Michael coaches and consults executives, entrepreneurs, leaders and teams around the world. He specializes in supporting those who seek to align with their higher-Self for the purpose of carrying out their soul's work on a global scale. Leaders coached by Michael cultivate and refine their leadership and teaming abilities, gain access to enhanced creative capacities, elevate their listening and communication skills to resolve conflict, and improve their ability to mentor and develop organizational talent and future leaders.

Michael is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Family Life Coaching Association. He currently serves on the Board of the Unified Progress International (UPI) Loan Fund, Arizona's only Black-led loan fund and economic development organization focused on providing affordable personal loans to marginalized communities in Arizona. He is a United States Air Force veteran, has a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina, a Master's degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma and a Postgraduate Certificate in Executive & Professional Coaching from the University of Texas-Dallas. Michael enjoys playing tennis, hiking, and traveling. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona with Ellen, his wife of 13 years.

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