The Circuit Speaker program is a way for your chapter or institution to identify high quality speakers for your meetings or educational sessions.  Each year, ERAPPA identifies a high quality speaker and shares information about the speaker with region membership.  Each year at the, at the Annual Meeting, the circuit speaker for next year is announced.  An attempt is also made to have the new speaker make a presentation or conduct a program at the meeting.  A listing of circuit speakers and some information about them follows.  Financial support for Circuit speakers is available from ERAPPA through the Partners in Education (PIE) program that provides $1,500 each year to support educational programs at the chapter level

Dr. Steve Sobel

 Dr. Steve is nationally recognized for his creative approach to presentations where you are involved, entertained and learning all at the same time.  You leave a Dr. Steve presentation with a new perspective and the confidence to act on the issues presented.  An accomplished speaker, author and media commentator, Dr Steve Sobel is also the founder of the New England Institute for Stress Management, a Massachusetts based facility under his direction.  Despite a busy schedule, Dr. Sobel has a reputation for accessibility and a consistently dynamic focus.  He has had numerous repeat engagements at educational institutions, major corporations and non-profit organizations.

Employing an enjoyable and entertaining approach, Dr. Steve can help you create custom programs to deal with a range of issues including customer service, change leadership, team work and dealing with difficult people.  To read more click here: pdf

Robin Lawton

Creating a Customer Centered Culture: The best-selling author and dynamic presenter provides a new way of thinking about leadership, innovation and quality applied to knowledge and service work.  You will be challenged, stimulated and equipped to think differently about what you do, who you do it for and why. Robin can be reached at her website www.imtc3.com

Charles Prather

Charlie has been working in the areas of creativity and innovation for over 20 years and was the first manager of DuPont’s Center for Creativity and Innovation.  In his role as consultant to leaders and organizations he has worked with such clients as Alcoa, Hewlett Packard, DuPont and Dow Chemical.  Charlie holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from NC State University and can be reached at cwprather@aol.com.

Learn about Bottom Line Innovation

Bottom Line Innovation is a logical process that develops new, useful, and unexpected alternatives to meet business challenges in a team setting.  You will develop powerful innovative alternatives to your opportunities or problems that your competition has yet to conceive.  People commit to take specific actions so that the workshop is not just another activity - it leads to solid results.

James Cole

James Cole is a consultant to management, and an educator, trainer and presenter on organizational excellence. James brings to his work a unique combination of management and consulting knowledge and practical experience.

He has integrated the principles of total quality management, empowerment, principle-centered leadership, socio-technical systems, total customer service and organizational development into his “System for Leadership, Management and Organizational Design”, which is presented through the Principles of Excellence, a product unique to CommTech Transformations.

He enhances his work with additional expertise in strategic planning, theory of constraints, behavior management and change implementation.  During his 25 year career at Eastman Kodak’s Colorado Division he developed a powerful and highly effective approach for assisting organizations in transforming their thinking processes, beliefs and business strategies in order to achieve dramatic improvements in results. Jim holds a Bachelor Degree from California State University at Los Angles and did graduate work on an MBA at the University of Rochester . He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. Jim can be reached at JOCole14@aol.com

Jack Osborn

Jack Osborn is able to conduct presentations on a wide range of construction and environmental legal issues. Jack ‘s practice concentrates in complex construction, environmental and real estate litigation focusing on the representation of owners of real property and those architects, engineers, environmental consultants and contractors who serve those owners. The firm’s owner-clients include hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, health care facilities, airports, school districts, office buildings, industrial properties, auto dealers, residential properties, colleges and universities. A thorough, long-term knowledge of real estate, construction, architecture and the environmental industry together with comprehensive experience in dealing with government are critical ingredients in the firm’s success.

Please go to www.osbornlaw.com to find information about Jack Osborn. 

Billy Riggs

Billy Riggs has been called "The Dr. Phil of Magic," and is America’s source for all things attitude!  Through television, radio, books, videos, his helpful website (billyriggs.com) and live keynote speeches Billy has used an unusual blend of comedy, music, magic, and motivation to spread his positive attitude to more than a million people on five continents.  A spellbinding communicator, Mr. Riggs honed his uplifting message and speaking skills in the pulpit, founding one of America’s fastest-growing churches at the age of 29.  Though his presentations now are secular, audiences sometimes sense the old preacher in him, stirred by his sincerity and power on the platform.  In 2002, Mr. Riggs was presented the highest earned award of the National Speakers Association: the Certified Speaking Professional.  Since 1995, he has breathed The Magic of Attitude into people, companies and organizations.

But the goose bumps aren’t always the result of dramatic oratory.  When Billy Riggs appears, things on stage begin to disappear!  Using world-class magical illusions to drive home his points, The Magic of Attitude presentations have transformed hundreds of otherwise ordinary conferences into something truly special.  His quick wit and quicker hands spread laughter and raise morale as listeners learn to reshape their destinies with a wave of life’s magic wand: attitude!

Go to http://www.theattitudedude.com for more information on Billy Riggs