Rory Vaden, Generation Y’s entrepreneur extraordinaire, relates profound truths coupled with humorous examples giving business professionals powerful life management skills to become self starters who can take control of their destiny. Becoming the youngest black belt in Shao-Lin Kung Fu in the state of Colorado taught Rory that success was the product of action. He graduated from college Magna Cum Laude with degrees in Management, Accounting, and Leadership. At 23, he earned his MBA from one of the top business schools in the nation, The University of Denver. During his college tenure, Rory worked full time with a nationally known book distributor where he built a half-a-million-dollar business by the time he was 22. He personally recruited, trained, and motivated nearly 60 college students to work 80 hours a week during their summers selling children’s educational books door to door. Rory worked in the trenches right along with those students achieving award after award including Top Salesman 5 years in a row. In 2007, Rory became The World Champion of Public Speaking first runner-up for Toastmasters International out of 25,000 entries worldwide. He is the author of the book, " No Laughs to Know Laughs: How to be Funny to Make More Money", and the audio series entitled, The Audience is NOT in their Underwear: How to Craft Truly Compelling Presentations and Deliver Them Like a Champ. Today, Rory Vaden is co-founder of Success Starts Now!, a multi-million dollar professional development company that hosts city-wide sales training conferences and offers personalized coaching and customized sales training all over the world. He connects with business professionals world-wide through powerful seminars and speaking engagements. Titles Take the stairs: Success means doing things others don't want to do Topics Attitude, Business, Coaching, Executive Development, Financial, Generations, Global Business, Leadership, Management, Motivation, Performance, Sales, Success, Youth 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 TN/CO 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.