Steven Iwersen
Steven Iwersen, CSP is the President of Aurora Pointe, LLC, an international speaking and leadership development firm. He has been a professional speaker for more than 30 years and has been in active leadership roles since 1981. He is the author of The Porcupine Principles: How To Move Prickly People to Preferred Outcomes and Porcupine Philosophy: 365 Leadership Points to Ponder.
As a Keynote speaker and relational leadership expert, he has spoken to 700+ audiences during the last 12 years on the subject of creating a leadership culture. His expertise is in leading people and organizations through change.
Steven is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) – a designation that only 1200 speakers worldwide have earned. He was the Co-Host of the NSA “Voices of Experience” Audio & Video Magazine in 2015-16.
Devin Henderson
A multi-talented powerhouse: an author, experienced presenter and seasoned performer, Devin Henderson has logged thousands of performances as an award-winning comedian and magician, and in-demand keynote speaker over his nearly two decade professional career. Devin is a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), and his passion is using his unique talents and experiences to inspire individuals and organizations to discover their greatest potential and keep going no matter what.
In 2014, Devin was honored when America’s Got Talent invited him to audition in Hollywood for Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel after the producers saw videos of his magic performances on YouTube. Although he did not pass the audition and the segment never aired, it was an amazing and pivotal moment in Devin’s career and life. The America’s Got Talent let-down, coupled with other competition losses, helped shape the message he now shares with his audiences about accepting disappointing experiences as teachable moments and spingboards to something greater.
Anyone who meets Devin soon learns there are always new levels of potential available to them, and achieving greatness in work and in life requires commitment, risk, perseverance and is a daily, on-going process. Devin helps people define and strive for their best all while maintaining positivity, humility, a sense of humor, and most importantly, a vision for new possibilities. To share this message, Devin’s full-length keynote includes a unique combination of magic, storytelling, and audience interaction that audiences have called “unreal,” “unexpected,” and “unforgettable.” Devin is happily married to the world’s most amazing woman and they have six daughters. Yes, six. Daughters.
Mark Johnson
Colonel Mark Johnson is one of America’s top motivational speakers, traveling the world and the United States inspiring audiences to achieve great success, above and beyond their expectations. Born in Warrensburg, this native son has made presentations in every U.S. state and twelve nations overseas. Mark has led a fascinating life, full of travel and death-defying adventure. He survived numerous harrowing life and death situations during his twenty-one years as a Colonel in the Green Berets. He commanded specially-trained and educated teams that our nation selected for the most dangerous and hazardous missions. He conducted operations, many of a sensitive and classified nature, in over fifty- five nations on four continents. The invaluable lessons he learned in Leadership, Motivation, and Team Building, were shaped in times of extreme danger on the battlefields of the world. He learned to inspire those in his care to fearlessly excel despite enormous odds and he now translates those valuable lessons to today’s business world, community leaders, and classrooms of all levels. He is a highly decorated combat veteran; having received over twenty awards, including the Bronze Star, earned for his heroic leadership during the first Gulf War. He also fought in Somalia, popularized by the movie “Blackhawk Down”. He is a Master Parachutist, having made over two-hundred jumps, and has been awarded the foreign parachutist badge from fourteen nations.
Since 9 / 11, Mark has been continuously called upon to assist our nation in the Global War on Terror, returning frequently to the Middle East and Asia. He has spent months in Iraq and Kuwait, teaching Counter Insurgency to battle staffs and commanders of all services. Mark spent 8 years on the faculty of the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, working for General David Petraeus, among others. He instructed and mentored many Special Operations leaders of today, including the current commander of SEAL Team Six, the unit responsible for conducting the Osama Bin Laden raid. Despite the fact that Mark is in high demand on the speaking circuit, he finds time to teach multiple leadership courses each semester at two Community Colleges in the Kansas City area, including Longview College in Lee’s Summit, MO. He also provides leadership and planning training to state and community leaders, as well as academic leaders from numerous colleges and universities in the U.S.
He is the author of two books: “How to Get Anyone to Follow You Anywhere: Green Beret Secrets to Leadership and Team Building”; and his latest, “Lessons in Leadership: Straight Talk from a Green Beret”, in which he was invited to the White House to present to former President Bush and wife Laura, and who kept his signed copy in the den at the White House.