Founder and co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul book series; Mark Victor Hansen is an inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer and author. Chicken Soup books are one of the most successful publishing franchises in the world today, with 140 million books sold internationally and more than 100 licensed products. Mark has appeared on Oprah, CNN, and The Today Show and has been featured in USA Today, The New York Times and Entrepreneur Magazine.

LynneCox's most remarkable accomplishment was swimming more than a mile in the freezing waters of Antarctica. Although hypothermia would set in most humans inside of five minutes, Cox was in the water for 25 minutes swimming 1.06 miles. She is author of Swimming to Antarctica, and Grayson, the true account of her encounter with a lost baby gray whale during an early morning workout off the coast of California, was published in 2006.

Flashover Seminars' impactful events take you deep into a world in which life and death decisions are made every day and a deep connection to one's teammates is essential for survival, and allows you to experience first-hand the teambuilding strategies and "Incident Command" skills you'll need to handle all of your business fires with confidence.

Most famous for winning the Tour de France a record seven times consecutively, Lance Armstrong has been named Sportsman of the Year, by Sports Illustrated. He is a survivor of testicular cancer.

Pat Croce graced the cover of Success magazine as the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team. He is a nationally-renowned motivational speaker, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller "I Feel Great and You Will Too!".

Keith Harrell, CSP, is a life coach who specializes in changing behaviors through a positive attitude. His new book Attitude is Everything: Ten Life Changing Steps to Turning Attitude Into Action provides the reader a 10-step program for tuning up their attitude and improving their professional and personal life. Harrell was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame in August 2000.

Jack Canfield, CSP, CPAE, is the co-author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. He is the author and narrator of several bestselling audio and video cassette programs and three other books, including his latest The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal, and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty.

Two-time World Champion Adventure Racer and San Diego Firefighter Robyn Benincasa knows about creating Human Synergy - "that magic that allows groups of ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things together". She has studied Extreme Teamwork in the jungles of Borneo, the Himalayan peaks of Tibet, the rivers of Fiji, and the epic brush fires of Southern California. She has emerged from these grueling challenges with her refreshing perspective on what it takes to build the kind of world class teams that succeed against all odds, triumph in the face of adversity and go the distance in any endeavor.

Does your company speak in one voice? Share one vision? Move in unison? Act as one? At age 26, Vince decided to take up speed skiing and pursue it competitively. Only 4 years later, he was vying for Gold in the Winter Olympics. Vince delivers a series of proven strategies for attaining and sustaining peak performance, on both a corporate and individual level.

Dara Torres is the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics and one of few to win a medal in each. At the age of 40 and only 15 months after giving birth to her first child, she won gold in the 100 meter freestyle and later broke her own American record in the 50 meter freestyle, a record she set 26 year earlier at the age of 15.