Distinguished Lecture Series
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High profile entrepreneurs and business leaders interested in participating as a Distinguished Lecture Series speaker should contact the Office of Development at (954) 262-5008. |
Past Speakers
| Maureen Shea | CEO, Right Management Florida/Caribbean |
| Robert P. Kornahrens | CEO and President, Advanced Roofing and Business Hall of Fame inductee |
| Bob L. Moss | Chairman and CEO, Moss & Associates and Business Hall of Fame inductee |
| Lisa Lutoff-Perlo | Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame inductee and President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises |
| Jorge M. Pérez | Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame inductee and founder and CEO of The Related Group |
| Mark B. Templeton | Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame inductee and Former CEO of Citrix Systems |
| Per-Olof Lööf | Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame inductee and CEO of KEMET |
| Steven J. Halmos | Previous Entrepreneur and Business Hall of Fame inductee |
| Joe Atkinson | Region President, Wells Fargo |
| Neal Asbury | CEO The Legacy Companies |
"America Must Believe in Itself Again: Rediscovering Our Faith in Entrepreneurialism Can Solve Everything" |
| Richard P. Goudis | Chief Operating Officer Herbalife |
"The Turnaround from Within" |
| Dr. Kingsley R. Chin | President, CEO, CTO Spine Frontier, Inc. |
Founder, MD, Inventor, Entrepreneur |
| James Donnelly | Founder and CEO Castle Group |
"LifeShaping℠ - How to Live Your Life Consciously" 2014 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Honoree |
| Dr. Guy Harvey | Artist, Scientist, Cinematographer Guy Harvey, Inc. Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation |
2014 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Honoree |
| Manuel D. Medina | Founding and Managing Partner Medina Capital |
2014 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Honoree |
| Ben Baldanza | President & CEO Spirit Airlines |
"Taking off in the Business World" |
| Napoleon Brandford III | Co-Founder/Chairman Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., LLC |
"Blueprint to Success" - A Q&A Session |
| Paul S. Hill | Director of Mission Operations, NASA | "Translating Mission Control Leadership into the Boardroom" |
| Grant Cardone | International Sales Expert, Author & Coach | "Sell or be Sold" |
| Seth Goldman | Honest Tea | "Mission in a Bottle" |
| Lillian L. Lambert | Author, Speaker & Entrepreneur | "The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond" |
| Armando Leighton, Jr. William E. Mahoney, Jr. Thomas H. Shea |
Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Honorees | The Path to Hall of Fame Entrepreneurial Success |
| Raul Pupo | Entrepreneur, Author & Educator | The Correlation Between Service Management and Profitability |
| Carl DeSantis | Former Chairman Rexall Sundown, Inc. |
"Life After Sundown" |
| George Feldenkreis | Chairman, CEO, Perry Ellis International |
"Retail's Changing Landscape" |
| John V. Gillies | Special Agent in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Miami |
"Corruption, Ethics, and Its Effect on the Business Environment" |
| Bonnie C. Hathcock | Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Humana Inc. |
"Business and Social Protocol: Building Your Personal Brand" |
| Peter A. Manos | "History of Electro-Mechanical Cardiac Devices and World-wide Distribution" | |
| Frank McKinney | The Maverick Daredevil Real Estate Artist |
"The Three Headed Monster - Bubble-Proof Real Estate, Innovation & The Tap" |
| Nancy H. Bailey | Chairman & CEO Nancy Bailey & Associates, Inc. |
"Her Story" |
| Joe Natoli | Senior Vice President for Business and Finance, Chief Financial Officer University of Miami |
"Changing Careers: from newspaper publisher to Higher Ed." |
| John Polstein | CEO Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions |
"Navigating Growth: Lessons Learned" |
| Jordan B. Zimmerman | Founder & Chairman Zimmerman Advertising |
"His Story" |
| Mark A. Emkes | Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc. Bridgestone Firestone, N.A Tire, LLC |
"Gaining Traction in a Global Economy" |
| Lou Gerstner | Retired Chairman & CEO IBM Corporation |
"His Story" |
| Kenneth J. Kies Managing Dir, Federal Policy Group |
Managing Director Clark Consulting |
"Tax & Budget Policy: A Look Backward and Forward" |
| Marilyn J. Ounjian | CEO, CareersUSA | "Tough Times Don't Last, Tough People Do!" |
| John F. Tenaglia | John Tenaglia Consulting, Inc. | "His Story" |
| John E. DiBenedetto | Vice President, Learning & Development Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
"The Transformation of Wal-Mart's Training Into the World's Largest Corporate University" |
| Arthur J. Falcone | Co-Chairman & CEO Falcone Group, LLC |
"His Story" |
| Robert L. Johnson | Black Entertainment Television & the RLJ Companies |
"The BET Story" |
| George C. Nolen | Siemens Corporation | "His Story" |
| Beverly Raphael | President & CEO RCC Associates, Inc. |
"The RCC Story" |
| Carl Singer | Chairman, Viragen, Inc. | "His Business Philosophies & Experience" |
| Adrienne Arsht | Chairman, TotalBank | "Walking in Other People's Moccasins" |
| H. Wayne Huizenga | Chairman, Huizenga Holdings, Inc. | Greatest Entrepreneur's Insights |
| Stephen A. Ross, Ph.D. | MIT Sloan School of Management | |
| N. K. "Trip" Tripathy | President, Macy's Florida, Inc. | "The Changing Face of Retailing" |
| Christopher Asplundh | Chairman & CEO Asplundh Tree Expert Company |
"Developing and Operating a Successful Family Business" |
| Phil Bakes | Far & Wide Travel Corporation | |
| Larry Bossidy | Former Chairman & CEO & Author Honeywell International, Inc. |
"Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done" |
| The Honorable Clarence Thomas | US Supreme Court Associate Justice |
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| G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. | Chairman & CEO General Motors Corporation |
| Melvin Chasen | Intercede | "An Entrepreneur's Journey" |
| Dr. Paul Hersey | Center for Leadership Studies, Inc. | "Situational Leadership" |
| Kenneth Langone | Invemed Associates, LLC | "The Langone Story" |
| Frank McKinney | Entrepreneur, Author, Philanthropist | "Make It Big!" (49 secrets for building a life of extreme success) |
| Alan Potamkin | Co-Chairman Potamkin Companies |
"Consolidating the Nat. Automotive Retail Industry w/out Eliminating the Entrepreneurial Spirit of the Local/Dealer Operator" |
| Douglas Warner, III | JP Morgan Chase & Co, Inc. | |
| Jack Welch | Former Chairman & CEO, General Electric Jack Welch, LLC-Consultant |
"Advice from General Electric, Corporate Success to Today." |
| Michael Bienes | Entrepreneur/Philanthropist | "Making It: Success and Failure in Today's World" |
| Michael Carricarte, Sr. | Amedex Insurance Group/ USA Medical Services |
"Think Big" |
| Nicholas Castaldo | President & COO Pollo Tropical |
"Positioning" |
| Jorge de Cespedes | President, CEO & COO Pharmed Group Corporation |
"Corporate Culture, Can it Affect the Bottom Line?" |
| Debi Davis | Founder, Fit America |
"Planning for the Future" |
| Dr. Paul Hersey | Center for Leadership Studies, Inc. | |
| Susan Kronick | Group President, Federated Department Stores, Inc. |
Department Store Concept and Current Opportunities |
| Michael E. Maroone | President & COO AutoNation, Inc. | "AutoNation: The Road to Becoming America's Largest Automotive Retailer" |
| Joseph Natoli | President, The Miami Herald | |
| Charles L. Palmer | President & CEO North American Co., Ltd. & North American Company, L.L.C |
"How to Manage Venture Capital and Business Development Activities" |
| Alfredo Salas | CEO, Koning Restaurants International (Pizza Hut) |
"The Company's Vision" |
| His Excellency Sir Orville Turnquest |
Governor-General of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas |
"Globalization" |
| Mitchell W. Berger | Partner, Co-Chair, Founder - Berger, Davis & Singerman, P.A. |
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| David I. Blyer | Co-founder, President & CEO, SPSS Vento Software Group |
"Maintaining Entrepreneurial Vision" |
| Rick Case | Chairman & CEO Rick Case Automotive Group |
"Delivering Superior Customer Service" |
| Debi Davis | Founder, Fit America | "Diet and Nutrition" |
| Steven J. Halmos | President Halmos Holdings |
"SafeCard Services, Inc." |
| Hamid Hashemi | President & CEO Muvico Theaters |
"Muvico Theaters" |
| Richard Langhorne | President The Langhorne Company |
"Crisis & Reorganization Management" |
| James Randi | 2000 James Randi Educational Foundation |
"Investigations of Claims of Psychic, Supernatural, and Paranormal" |
| Michael Scheck | Sweet Paper Sales, Corp. | "The Family Business" |
| John Tenaglia | Broadcasting Consulting Services |
"His Story" |
| General Charles E. Wilhelm | United States Southern Command | "Personal Path to Success" |
| Ronald M. Bergeron | President Bergeron Land Development, Inc. |
"The Bergeron Story; How the West (Davie) was Developed" |
| Frederick A. DeLuca | President & Co-Founder Subway Restaurants |
"Franchising" |
| Debi Davis | Founder, FitAmerica | "Personal Path to Success" |
| Carl DeSantis | CDS International Holdings, Inc. Rexall-Sundown |
"How to Create a Vitamin Empire from a Dream" |
| Caesar Souza | Odebrecht | "How Odebrecht is Developing Its 'Global' Strategy" |
| Rosa Sugranes | Chairman, Iberia Tiles | "What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur" |
| Sanford Ziff | Sunglass Hut | "Millennium Presentation on Business & Entrepreneurship" |
| Itchko Ezratti | Founder & President G.L. Homes |
"Attitudes for Success in Florida in a Private Business" |
| Richard Langhorne | President The Langhorne Company |
"Business Ethics - Financial & Real Estate Specialists" |
| Ovid Lewis | Former President Nova Southeastern University |
"Legal Reasoning" |
| Charlie Pearlman | Atlas, Pearlman, Trop & Borkson, P.A | "Emerging Business - Legal &Other Considerations" |
| Sanford Ziff | Sunglass Hut | "Succeeding in Today's Business World: Entrepreneurship" |
| George Zoley | Wackenhut | Wackenhut Privatization & Management Concepts |