Sam Horn has an impressive personal and professional background that
contributes to her being a sought-after keynote speaker,
best-selling author, respected creative consultant, and an in-demand
media resource. A partial list of credentials includes:
· * An award-winning professional
speaker who has presented
programs to more than half a million people worldwide since 1981 and
for such corporate and convention clients as Hewlett-Packard,
Fortune 500 Forum, NASA, the IRS, Lockheed Martin, ASAE,
United States Tennis Association, the U. S. Navy, National Governors
Association, Loma Linda University, Associated General Contractors,
State of Hawaii, Booz Allen, and America Bankers Association.
· Sam was
honored as the top-rated speaker at both the 1996 and 1998
International Platform Association conventions and was selected as
the 2003-2004 Outstanding Capital Speaker. Her programs are
frequently the most well-attended and highly-rated at conferences as
they’re known for being fun, fast-paced, and full of real-life ideas
participants can use immediately to reap real-world results.
*
A
respected author of well-reviewed books from major publishers including
Tongue Fu!®, ConZentrate, What's Holding
You Back?, and Take The Bully By The Horns, all from St.
Martins Press. These have been sold around the world (China, Japan,
Argentina, France, and Germany); favorably reviewed in dozens of
publications including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal,
Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Investors
Business Daily, Foreign Service Journal, Dallas
Morning News, and Readers Digest, and endorsed by many
best-selling authors including Stephen R. Covey, Anthony Robbins,
Jeffrey Fox, Susan Jeffers, Dave Pelzer, Susan Forward, Rabbi Harold
Kushner, Richard Carlson and John Gray.
Her most
recent book POP! Stand Out in Any Crowd (Perigee, Sept. ’06)
has received enthusiastic testimonials from such respected
business thought-leaders as Jeffrey Gitomer,
(Little Red Book of Selling), Mark Victor Hansen, (One
Minute Millionaire), and Ken Blanchard who said it is a,
“Lively, fun, inspiring guide to getting heard, getting remembered,
and getting results.”
· * A
frequent media guest who
has been interviewed on every major network (NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX)
and on dozens of radio shows including National Public Radio and Dr.
Laura. Her work has even been featured on Jay Leno’s Tonight
Show and To Tell The Truth, where she and her Tongue Fu!®
team stumped the panel.
· *
Originator of innovative communication
and creative methodologies.
Sam
created the trade-marked communication methodology of
Tongue Fu!® and has licensed dozens of instructors around
the world (Australia, England, Canada, 10 different states) to teach
this program through her Tongue Fu!® Training Institute.
Executive Book Summaries
said “Tongue Fu!® is a gold mine for anyone who deals
with the public and Sam has added to the legacy of ideas on how to
deal with people left by Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and
Dale Carnegie."
· As the
creator of The POP! Process (patent pending), Sam developed 25
innovative ways to craft one-of-a-kind titles, slogans, and brands
that help professionals and their projects become one-of-a-kind
instead of one-of-many so they can break out instead of blend in.
She teaches her process in a variety of formats including one-on-one
consulting, conference keynotes, POP! Institutes, CD series, and in
her newest book
*
Sam has been privileged to work alongside such famous authors,
screenwriters, and directors as Ron Howard, James Brooks, Garry
Marshall, Frank McCourt, Richard Paul Evans, Nicholas Sparks, Sue
Grafton, Tami Hoag, and Tony Hillerman. She also has worked with
top decision-makers from all the major publishers and with the
country’s top agents. She annually coordinates the
Non-fiction-Business-Self Help Retreat group the week before Labor
Day weekend.
· *
Sought After Creativity Consultant.
Young Presidents Organization asked
Sam to coordinate the Creativity Alive series for their Family
University in Ireland in 2005.. Sam arranged for Pulitzer Prize
winning humor columnist Dave Barry, Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with
Morrie), and Andy Andrews (The Travelers Gift) t to
participate and facilitated their programs along with her own POP!
presentation.
Sam has had
the privilege of consulting with hundreds of clients to help them
craft one-of-a-kind identities that helped their priority projects
POP! out of the pack and get noticed and bought. Clients have raved
about her ability to help them crystallize next steps that
catapulted their ideas and offerings from obscurity to the
spotlight.
* Leader in “Infopreneur”
industry. Sam founded the National Speakers Association chapter
in Hawaii and served as its President for two years. She has
presented for more than 25 NSA chapters around the country, keynoted
at the Toastmasters International convention, delivered
pre-conference workshops for International Coach Federation, spoken
at Mark Victor Hansen’s Mega Book weekend, spoken at 10 national NSA
conventions, chaired NSA’s Writers/Publishers PEG, and coordinated
the Writers Track for their Cancun University.
