Dr. Layne Longfellow integrates a distinguished academic background with an extensive performing career. As Director of Executive Seminars for The Menninger Foundation, he designed and conducted training for principal executives of major multinational corporations. Founding his own company, Lecture Theatre, Inc., he pursued his dream of presenting ideas and substance as entertainment - the multi-media presentation of information through lecture, photo and video images, graphics and music. Since its world premiere at the Young Presidents Organization’s International University, the format has been widely influential in the field of professional speaking. Dr. Longfellow has presented Lecture Theatre over 2000 times internationally. Stretching boundaries once again, in 1989 he premiered an entirely new Lecture Theatre on environmental themes as the keynote address for the National Speaker’s Association; this produced an invited address to principal executives of DuPont, then the world’s number one polluter. Two decades later, our changing Earth is THE topic of our time. Layne Longfellow's 1983 "Beyond Success" presentation was selected among the 12 best of the past 25 years; "The Mountain Waits," a CBC documentary of Longfellow's mountaineering seminar for executives, was awarded the Gold Medal for Outdoor Films at the New York Festival of TV and Film. He is the author of Imaginary Menagerie, a children's book, "Visual Feast," a book of visual puns (both Chronicle Books), several Lecture Theatre audios and videos, and cocreator of "Body Talk" and "Feel Wheel," psychological games released by Psychology Today for professional use. His essay on the relationship between ecology and the economy, "The Language of Commerce Interprets Living Systems," is in Discourses in Search of Members (University Press of America, 2002). His early neuro-psychological research appeared in Science. Dr. Longfellow is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude graduate of Ohio University. He received his Doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he was a Fellow of the National Science Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He was a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow with Dr. Carl Rogers. As Vice President of Prescott College, Layne Longfellow designed a curriculum so innovative it was described in World Book Encyclopedia. He developed Executive Wilderness Seminars at The Menninger Foundation and expanded this format to Canada's Banff Centre, where expeditions included mountaineering, rafting, canoeing, sailing and skiing. "Layne Longfellow possesses that very special gift of being able to create a spirit-changing moment with people. I've seen him captivate and move thousands of people through his platform mastery. His depth and conviction combine with passion and reverence to truly reach inside and change you. He is, as a speaker, what the rest of us aspire to be. " - Jim Cathcart, award-winning speaker & author of 15 books. ""A triumph of Longfellow family genetics!" - Art Linkletter, radio & TV legend. Titles It's Not The Economy, (Stupid), It's the People - Self Worth, Net Worth, and the American Dream The Insight of a Scholar The Inspiration of a Motivational Speaker The Music and Humor of an Entertainer The Wisdom of an Elder Topics Entertainment, Stress, Diversity, Music, Coaching, Executive Development, Management, Education Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $7,500 - $9,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State AZ Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.