Jack Canfield
- Leading Expert in Peak Performance Solutions
- Beloved Originator of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series
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Jack Canfield Speaker Biography
As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre - and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of more than 125 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise, keynote speaker Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success.
Behind the empire, Time Magazine called the "publishing phenomenon of the decade" is America's leading expert in creating peak performance for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, corporate employees, and educators. Over the last 30 years, his compelling message, empowering energy and personable coaching style has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve their dreams.
Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack has studied and reported on what makes successful people different. He knows what motivates them, what drives them, and what inspires them. He brings this critical insight to countless audiences internationally---sharing his success strategies in the media, with companies, universities and professional associations.
Jack is a Harvard graduate with a Master's Degree in psychological education and one of the earliest champions of peak-performance, developing specific methodologies and results-oriented activities to help people take on greater challenges and produce breakthrough results.
His proven formula for success reached global acclaim with his most recent National Bestseller, The Success Principles™: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. This new standard in self-improvement contains 64 powerful principles for success utilized by top achievers from all walks of life and all areas of commerce. The Success Principles ---and the entire empire of "Principles" books, products, coaching programs and branded retail merchandise ---is Jack’s most recent offering to the more than 100 million readers he currently reaches worldwide.
His other best-selling books --- The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win, You’ve Got to Read This Book!, and The Key to Living the Law of Attraction , --- have generated millions of bookstore and Internet sales, and have launched complementary products such as audio programs, video programs, corporate training programs and syndicated columns to enthusiastic individuals and corporate buyers. His audio program, Maximum Confidence, has sold more than 350,000 copies through Nightingale-Conant alone.
He is the Founder and Chairman of The Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California, which trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and motivated individuals how to accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals. Jack is also the founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Westlake Village, California, which provides self-esteem resources and trainings to social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
Jack wrote and produced the Goals Program, a video training program for California welfare recipients. To date, the program has been responsible for helping 450,000 people get off welfare.
Motivational speaker Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, a billion dollar empire that encompasses licensing, merchandising and publishing activities around the globe. Jack's nationally syndicated newspaper column is read in 150 papers worldwide, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® radio shows are syndicated throughout North America. Chicken Soup for the Soul® has also been a featured television program on both the PAX and ABC networks.
Jack's background includes a BA from Harvard University, a Masters degree in Psychological Education from the University of Massachusetts, and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Santa Monica, Parker College of Chiropractic and St. Ambrose University. Over the past 30 years, he has been a psychotherapist, an educational consultant, trainer and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem and peak performance.
Jack Canfield holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List. He also holds the Guinness Book World Record for the largest book-signing ever for Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul. And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY (American Booksellers Book of the Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year --- honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marketer.
Jack has also been a featured guest on more than 1,000 radio and television programs in nearly every major market worldwide - many of them on a repeat basis. A sample of these shows include Oprah, Montel, Larry King Live, 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Fox and Friends, The CBS Evening News, The NBC Nightly News, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live!, PBS, QVC and many others.
Jack is a featured teacher in the movie “The Secret”, “The Opus”, “The Cure”, "The Tapping Solution”, and “Yes IS the Destination...No is How You Get There.” He has recently been filmed for inclusion in two more films entitled “Discover the Gift” and “Awakening.” His Dream Big Collection informercial has also been seen on television stations across the United States and Canada.
Jack is the founder of the Transformational Leadership Council, an international professional organization for owners of transformational training and coaching companies and thought leaders in the field of personal and organizational training. He has conducted more than 2500 training groups, workshops, and seminars and has consulted with and spoken to more than 500 school systems, universities, corporations, hospitals, professional associations and mental health organizations in 32 countries around the globe.
Some of Jack’s distinguished clients include: Virgin Records, Sony Pictures, Merrill Lynch, Monsanto, Hartford Insurance, Glaxo Smith-Kline, Scott Paper, Coldwell Banker, Federal Express, TRW, Ameritech, NCR, Young President’s Association, Chief Executives Organization, General Electric, U.S. Department of the Navy, Siemens, Cingular Wireless, Accenture, Children’s Miracle Network and hundreds of others.
He has been inducted into the National Speakers Association's Speakers Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the Rotary Club's Paul Harris Fellowship, is a recipient of the Golden Plate Award from the National Achievement Summit, and received the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Massachusetts. He has also been named Motivator of the Year by the Business Digest twice, received the Speaker of the Year Award from the Society of Success and Leadership and received the National Leadership Award and the Champion’s Award from the National Association for Self Esteem.
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THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Greater levels of performance and achievement are attainable by anyone. Yet most people have never learned the proven self-empowerment tools and time tested performance strategies that are the basis for personal and professional success.
Over his 30-year career, Jack Canfield has developed the specific methodology and results-oriented activities required to help participants take on greater challenges and produce breakthrough results. Jack’s Ten-Step Action Plan shows exactly how to plan for and create greater achievement. In fact, it’s a proven blueprint for living a life of expanded results, greater impact and more measurable on-the-job performance.
By participating in this content-rich program, audience members will leave excited about the potential they have for their career, their company, their personal life and their success goals. But more than just a motivational experience, this program offers the actual methods, strategies, activities and exercises participants need to achieve what they want...and what you as a company or professional association want for them!
Participants will learn how to:
- Take 100% Responsibility for Their Lives
- Decide What They Want and Be Willing to Pay the Price
- Invest Every Day in Developing Their Knowledge Base and Core Skills
- Manage Time the Way Successful Entrepreneurs Do
- Say No to the Good, So They Can Say Yes to the Great
- Take Five Action Steps Each Day Toward Achieving Any Goal
- Climb Under the Wing of Someone Who Can Help Them on Their Path
- Face Up to What Isn’t Working in Their Lives
- Focus on Their Unique Abilities
- Celebrate Their Victories as a Way to Insure Future Success
- Transcend Other People’s Limiting Beliefs and Opinions About Their Goals
- Develop and Trust Their Intuition and Reasoning Abilities
- Change Their Outcomes By Reacting Differently to Any Event
Audience members experience immediate results by putting the principles into practice, right at the event. As a teacher from the smash hit The Secret, Jack cango one step further and integrate "The Law of Attraction" into his message, empowering the audience to manifest and visualize their true goals, producing an experience like no other!
Ask About Jack’s Other Exciting Programs...
THE KEY TO LIVING THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
Ever since the ground-breaking documentary film, The Secret, introduced the law of attraction to the masses, people have been struggling to fully understand, and implement the strategies necessary to benefit from this powerful universal law. In this exciting new program, Jack clearly explains what you need to know, and what you need to do in order to attract what you want in life. Jack will take the audience, step-by-step, through the process of increasing their awareness of the power of their thoughts and them to create an amazing future—one that is filled with love, joy, abundance and personal fulfillment.
THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES FOR WOMEN
This program is designed specifically for women executives, entrepreneurs, independent sales professionals and other women’s groups. The Success Principles come alive as women learn the proven self-empowerment tools and performance strategies that are the basis for personal and professional success.
THE POWER OF FOCUS
This program contains Jack’s “disciplines of success” that high achievers practice in a systematic way—and focus on for consistent, breakthrough results and optimum success!
