For Immediate Release
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National Speakers Association Announces 2009-10 Board Officers
(TEMPE, Ariz. -- August 4, 2009) The National Speakers Association (NSA), the leading organization for professional speakers, elected four of its 2009-10 NSA Board of Directors to officer positions at the 2009 NSA Convention in Phoenix, Ariz.
Kristin Arnold, CSP, MBA, CPF, CMC, of Scottsdale, Ariz., assumes the president-elect position; Laura Stack, CSP, MBA, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., was elected vice president; Ron Karr, CSP, of Westwood, NJ, assumes the treasurer position; and Ronald P. Culberson, CSP, MSW, of Herndon, Va., was elected secretary.
Arnold is a high-stakes meeting facilitator, trainer and keynote speaker. She has worked with senior executives, project managers and team leaders, challenging their traditional notions about teamwork. Arnold is on the Executive Development Faculty in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. She is the author of several books in the Extraordinary Team series as well as a newspaper columnist and contributing author to a myriad of other team-based books and publications such as The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, Harvard Business Update, USA Today and Selling Power. She also served as 2001-02 President of the Downtown Hampton (Virginia) Development Partnership.
Stack is a personal productivity expert who helps busy professionals achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a Denver-based firm that specializes in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. Since 1992, she has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress and saving time in today's workplaces. Stack is the best-selling author of The Exhaustion Cure, Find More Time and Leave the Office Earlier. She has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, and Xerox, and she is the creator of The Productivity Pro® line of Day-Timer®. Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of employee productivity and workplace issues, Stack is frequently featured in national media outlets. Her Fortune 500 client companies include IBM, Starbucks, GM, McDonalds, Nestle, EMC, VISA, MillerCoors, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco Systems.
Karr is an internationally acclaimed business development expert. A captivating speaker and in-demand business consultant, he is president of Karr Associates, Inc., a business consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations and professionals generate remarkable sales and operational results. He is the author of the acclaimed books: Lead, Sell or Get Out of the Way, The Titan Principle®, and co-author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Great Customer Service. Karr is Past President of NSA's New York City Chapter (formerly NY Tri-State Chapter) and a two-time recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Service.
Culberson offers funny presentations that show how humor can redefine excellence for healthcare leaders and staff to improve the quality of patient care. As the Director of Everything! at FUNsulting, etc., Culberson emphasizes the use of humor as a tool to cope with stress, manage conflict, spark creativity and ultimately achieve a higher level of productivity and contentment in your business and personal life. He is a humor columnist, the author of Is Your Glass Laugh Full? Some Thoughts on Seeing the Humor in Life, and a contributing author to Humor Me and Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul II. Culberson also served as 2002-03 President of NSA's Washington, D.C. Chapter and received the Chapter Member of the Year Award in 2004.
The National Speakers Association (NSA) is the leading organization for professional speakers. NSA's thousands of members include experts in a variety of industries and disciplines, who reach audiences as trainers, educators, humorists, motivators, consultants, authors and more. Since 1973, NSA has provided resources and education designed to advance the skills, integrity and value of its members and the speaking profession. Visit NSA's Web site at www.nsaspeaker.org.
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