Jack Canfield

Leading Expert in Peak Performance, Author, Speaker

America’s  #1 Success Coach
Co Author NYTimes #1 best-selling book series, Chicken Soup for the Soul
Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List.

As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre – and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of more than 123 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise (and over 500 million copies in print worldwide), Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success.

Profile

Behind the empire Time Magazine called the "publishing phenomenon of the decade" is America's leading expert in creating peak performance for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, managers, sales professionals, corporate employees, and educators. Over the last 30 years, his compelling message, empowering energy and personable coaching style has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve their dreams.

Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack has studied and reported on what makes successful people different. He knows what motivates them, what drives them, and what inspires them. He brings this critical insight to countless audiences internationally---sharing his success strategies in the media, with companies, universities and professional associations.

Jack is a Harvard graduate with a Master's Degree in psychological education and one of the earliest champions of peak-performance, developing specific methodologies and results-oriented activities to help people take on greater challenges and produce breakthrough results.

His proven formula for success reached global acclaim with his most recent National Bestseller, The Success Principles™: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. This new standard in self-improvement contains 64 powerful principles for success utilized by top achievers from all walks of life and all areas of commerce. The Success Principles ---and the entire empire of "Principles" books, products, coaching programs and branded retail merchandise ---is Jack’s most recent offering to the more than 100 million readers he currently reaches worldwide.

Jack Canfield has a message of success for your audience, as well as an fun and entertaining style that will make your entire organization shift into high-gear, both personally and professionally!

As an internationally recognized leader in peak performance strategies, Jack delivers his innovative, unique and powerful success principles to enthusiastic audiences around the globe.

Industries from Healthcare, fortune 500 companies, manufacturing direct sales, real estate, higher education and many more have been inspired and empowered by Jack's powerful message. Jack knows how to accelerate the personal achievement and life fulfillment of individuals and organizations everywhere, and has created the definitive method to help people create breakthrough results in everything they do.

Not only will your audience be inspired and motivated to achieve greater success, they will learn to up-level all their efforts. Jack will provide the tools necessary to meet challenges, adapt to change, shape perspectives and solve problems.

Client Testimonials

Your real-life stories on how to achieve success had the perfect mix of humor and encouragement. It is not always difficult to find successful individuals, but seldom does one come along with the ability to motivate a group as well as you motivated ours."
- Mark Dixon, Children's Miracle Network
 
"You did a great job conveying your passion for what it takes to be successful. There was so much spirit in the room and they attendees were quite pumped. Hearing your stories and anecdotes motivated our members to pursue their dreams. One of our principles of learning is to surprise, challenge and delight our members. You certainly helped us deliver!”
 - Anne Blouin, Vice President, Learning & Community, ASAE  The Center for Association Leadership
 
"Your keynote in Las Vegas was right on target, captivating and entertaining a diverse audience of fast-charging entrepreneurs from 43 countries.   Especially appealing to me was the way you supported much of your message with credible and topical scientific research.  There wasn't any fluff.  Your insights into the universal principles of success and the power of focus were delivered in a clear, engaging style that prompted listeners to immediately and profitably put the guidance to use.  RE/MAX continues to richly benefit from our relationship with you and your organization. I also appreciate the help you've provided to many of our 115,000-plus Associates through your monthly coaching visits in several RE/MAX regions. "
- Vinnie Tracey, President, RE/MAX International

“Thank you for your outstanding contribution to our company. Your Success Principles can be applied to everyone building their business and also their personal life. You have such a masterful talent of relating your Success Principles and making them come alive for our Associates. This will help catapult their business to the next level. Thank you for your spirit, enthusiasm and truly caring to help people become the best they can be.”
- Kathy Coover, Executive Vice President, Isagenix International

Speech Topics

The Keynote

This engaging, thought-provoking program will leave your conference or meeting participants energized and excited about the material they have just learned. Though the time spent with participants during a Keynote is brief, Jack Canfield is a master at using illustrative examples, humorous anecdotes and proven research results to present the most important highlights in a way that stays with the audience even after they've proceeded to their next program  session. Please allow 1-2 hours.

The Keynote Experience

The perfect way to begin — or end — any convention, conference or retreat, The Keynote Experience gets participants involved with the material — and each other. Using his unique blend of humor, stories, theory, research and low-risk interactive exercises, Jack Canfield creates an environment of high energy, mutual support and commitment to growth designed to encourage participants to get to know one another while simultaneously learning the important principles of personal growth and self-empowerment.
Because it includes exercises and activities not presented in the standard keynote address, The Keynote Experience is an ideal choice for longer keynote programs. Please allow 2-4 hours.

The Workshop

This 4- to 8-hour program utilizes exercises, activities and group experiences, rather than simple lecture, to achieve awareness and personal growth among participants. This is best suited for groups where participants work closely together or know one another. Includes important learning tools and handouts. Please allow 4-8 hours.

The 2- or 3-Day Training

Ideal for groups where participants will encounter peak performance or self-empowerment issues on an on-going basis. Provides the most in-depth coverage of the material available, with voluminous workbook and learning tools included. Allow 12-18 classroom hours.

The Success Principles Training for Professionals

A 2- to 3-day interactive seminar designed to give professional trainers the skills they need to facilitate The Success Principles in-house — for new hires, work groups and other special employee populations. Jack will work directly with your trainers, emphasizing familiarity with the curriculum, activities and exercises necessary to prepare your in-house trainers to deliver a powerful. inspirational and informational program.

Biography

Jack is a multiple New York Times bestselling author. His other best-selling books --- The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win, You’ve Got to Read This Book!, and The Key to Living the Law of Attraction , --- have generated millions of bookstore and Internet sales, and have launched complementary products such as audio programs, video programs, corporate training programs and syndicated columns to enthusiastic individuals and corporate buyers. His audio program, Maximum Confidence, has sold more than 350,000 copies through Nightingale-Conant alone.

He is the Founder and Chairman of The Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California, which trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and motivated individuals how to accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals. Jack is also the founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Westlake Village, California, which provides self-esteem resources and trainings to social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals. Jack wrote and produced the Goals Program, a video training program for California welfare recipients. To date, the program has been responsible for helping 450,000 people get off welfare.

Jack is the founder and former CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises, a billion dollar empire that encompasses licensing, merchandising and publishing activities around the globe. Jack's nationally syndicated newspaper column is read in 150 papers worldwide, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® radio shows are syndicated throughout North America. Chicken Soup for the Soul® has also been a featured television program on both the PAX and ABC networks.

Jack's background includes a BA from Harvard University, a Masters degree in Psychological Education from the University of Massachusetts, and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Santa Monica, Parker College of Chiropractic and St. Ambrose University. Over the past 30 years, he has been a psychotherapist, an educational consultant, trainer and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem and peak performance.
Jack Canfield holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List. He also holds the Guinness Book World Record for the largest book-signing ever for Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul. And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY (American Booksellers Book of the Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year --- honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marketer.

Jack has also been a featured guest on more than 1,000 radio and television programs in nearly every major market worldwide - many of them on a repeat basis. A sample of these shows include Oprah, Montel, Larry King Live, 20/20, Inside Edition, The Today Show, Fox and Friends, The CBS Evening News, The NBC Nightly News, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live!, PBS, QVC and many others.
 
Jack is a featured teacher in the movie “The Secret”, “The Opus”, “The Cure”, "The Tapping Solution”, and “Yes IS the Destination...No is How You Get There.” He has recently been filmed for inclusion in two more films entitled “Discover the Gift” and “Awakening.” His Dream Big Collection informercial has also been seen on television stations across the United States and Canada.

Jack is the founder of the Transformational Leadership Council, an international professional organization for owners of transformational training and coaching companies and thought leaders in the field of personal and organizational training. He has conducted more than 2500 training groups, workshops, and seminars and has consulted with and spoken to more than 500 school systems, universities, corporations, hospitals, professional associations and mental health organizations in 32 countries around the globe.

Some of Jack’s distinguished clients include: Virgin Records, Sony Pictures, Merrill Lynch, Monsanto, Hartford Insurance, Glaxo Smith-Kline, Scott Paper, Coldwell Banker, Federal Express, TRW, Ameritech, NCR, Young President’s Association, Chief Executives Organization, General Electric, U.S. Department of the Navy, Siemens, Cingular Wireless, Accenture, Children’s Miracle Network and hundreds of others.
He has been inducted into the National Speakers Associationʻs Speakers Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the Rotary Clubʻs Paul Harris Fellowship, is a recipient of the Golden Plate Award from the National Achievement Summit, and received the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Massachusetts. He has also been named Motivator of the Year by the Business Digest twice, received the Speaker of the Year Award from the Society of Success and Leadership and received the National Leadership Award and the Champion’s Award from the National Association for Self Esteem.

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