Barbara Glanz, CSP, works with organizations that want to improve morale, retention and service and with people who want to rediscover the joy in their work and in their lives. She is the author of eleven bestselling “how-to” books and is known as “the business speaker who speaks to your heart as well as to your head.” 

Glanz has presented to conferences, associations, and organizations worldwide. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association 2002 to 2005 and has presented on all 7 continents and in all 50 states. She is ranked one of the top 10 speakers at SHRM's Annual Conferences from 1997 to 2003.

Glanz was chosen by Meeting Professionals International as one of only 34 Platinum Speakers worldwide and featured in two of Westcott Communications’s most successful live satellite TV performance.

She has also been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX-TV, PAX-TV, WGN, CNBC, and on radio and in print nationwide. More than just an exciting speaker, consultant, and author, Glanz lives and breathes her personal motto "Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm.™"

Spreading Contagious Enthusiasm--Creating Workplaces of Passion, Purpose and Productivity

Current research shows that only about 12 to 15% of American workers are giving their very best to their jobs. 8 to 10% are burned out with no life. However, that leaves 75 – 80% of our workforce who are just doing enough to get by. Just imagine what could happen to the productivity in your workplace and your chapter or state council if you could inspire those individuals to do their very best! You will learn how to create an environment where people treat one another like valuable human beings with a sense of mission that their work is important and where appreciation and joy are present, no matter how serious the work may be. Barbara will provide dozens of real-life, creative, low cost, immediately applicable ideas you can implement in your own workplace using the acronym CARE:

C = Creative Communication
A = Atmosphere and Appreciation for All
R = Respect and Reason for Being
E = Empathy and Enthusiasm

She will spread her “contagious enthusiasm” to maximize personal productivity and organizational success, and you will leave with a powerful understanding of the difference you can make every single day!

Former network correspondent for both CBS and ABC, Renee Poussaint is a recipient of three national Emmy awards for her work on ABC's Prime Time Live for reporting, writing, and interviewing. She has done more than 100 in-depth interviews with icons from the political, entertainment, and educational worlds. Poussaint has reported from hotspots around the world including Haiti, South Africa, and Uganda, has faced armed overseers at a southern immigrant labor camp and hostile bikers at a bar in Ku Klux Klan territory.

Speaker and Moderator. Poussaint is a frequent speaker and moderator, and her focus centers on such issues as improving personal and professional communication, intergenerational leadership, women's leadership issues, and personal stories behind the scenes with Civil Rights leaders.

Poussaint is the co-editor of the book (with Camille Cosby), A Wealth of Wisdom: Extraordinary African American Elders Speak. The book made it on to the New York Times best-seller list and included anecdotes (both serious and humorous) from interviews of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou, Coretta Scott King, and Sidney Poitier, among others.

Poussaint is the creator of the documentary filmmaking company Wisdom Works. Among her productions is the acclaimed documentary Tutu and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace. The film, which aired on PBS, was shot at the infamous slave port Goree, Senegal, and brought together Archbishop Desmond Tutu, celebrated historian Dr. John Hope Franklin, and 21 high school students from three different countries, who represented 13 different ethnicities and five different religions. The students, some of them hostile to each other, lived together and came up with concrete proposals on how to move beyond their ethnic and religious stereotypes and achieve greater understanding and reconciliation in the 21st century. The riveting documentary was used by educational and community groups across the country to encourage frank discussion of the biases that separate us. Her work as a documentary filmmaker has also appeared on Discovery, A&E, and Lifetime.

Poussaint is the former CEO and co-founder (with Camille Cosby) of the non-profit organization The National Visionary Leadership Project, whose work is housed in the Library of Congress. NVLP was created to record and preserve extensive videotaped interviews with extraordinary African American elders. NVLP also set up college branches to teach students how to do videotaped interviews with inspiring local community elders. All of those interviews are housed in the Library of Congress as part of the official National Visionary Leadership Project Collection.

Poussaint is an independent consultant and community activist, working with nonprofits to help them better define their message for a larger audience. She also continues her local volunteer activities including tutoring, mentoring, and reading newspapers for the blind. She has a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College, a master's in African Studies from UCLA, and honorary doctorates from Georgetown University and Mount Vernon College.