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Dan Clark was one of five elected inductees into the National Speakers Association Speakers Hall of Fame. Since its inception in 1977, only 195 professional or celebrity speakers have become Hall of Fame members including Ronald Reagan, Colin Powell, Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale, Art Linkletter, Norman Vincent Peale, Art Berg, and Keith Harrell. Hall of Fame inductees are selected for their mastery in seven areas for speaking excellence: Originality of Material; Uniqueness of Style; Experience; Delivery Technique; Client and Peer Image; Reputation and Professional Integrity; and Ability to Relate to their Audiences. In 1987, prior to his induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame, Dan was the youngest ever to earn The Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, conferred by the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers onto candidates who go through a five-year process where they must receive excellent ratings from past clients on performance evaluations, document that they have served a wide variety of at least 100 clients, take part in ongoing education, submit testimonial letters from their clients, and provide samples of their promotional materials. Dan is President and CEO of the international communications and high performance consulting firm Clark Success Systems, a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning athlete, university Professor, adventurer, journalist, gold record songwriter/recording artist, philanthropist, and one of the most sought after speakers on the platform today. Described as “a master motivator with an extraordinary intellect,” Dan Clark is leading an international movement to teach leaders and organizations how to transform themselves from successful to significance. While others preach, “think outside the box,” Dan asks, “what if the answers are still in the box?” Having fought his way back from a paralyzing injury that cut short his American football career, Dan’s unique and comprehensive understanding of how to get from where we are to where we want to be, ignited a desire in him to share his revolutionary insights with the world.
Consequently, Dan was sponsored into the National Speakers Association by world renowned motivational teacher Zig Ziglar, and has since spoken to over 4,500 audiences, to millions of people in all 50 states, in 50 countries, has been invited to share his innovative and counter-intuitive views on significance, leadership, resiliency, increasing productivity, building team unity, and exceeding internal and external customer expectations with many of the world’s most significant organizations. Dan has also had the honor of presenting his ideas at the Festival of Thinkers in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to the general assembly of the United Nations World Congress, to the senior leadership of the United States military, and to U.S./Coalition combat troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa.
As a prolific writer, Dan is a New York Times best-selling author of 20 books, and a primary contributing author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, where he has been published in more than 40 million books in 40 languages worldwide. Dan’s story “Puppies for Sale” was made into an award winning film at Paramount Studios starring Jack Lemmon. Dan is also a Gold Record-winning songwriter and a journalist who has interviewed many of the most famous movie, sports and music celebrities on the planet. As an adventurer, Dan has soared to the edge of space in a U2 Spy Plane, flown fighter jets with the Air Force Thunderbirds, flown over Baghdad at 100 feet and 100 mph in a Black Hawk helicopter, raced automobiles at Nurburgring, raced dog sleds in the arctic (spending the night in an igloo at 60 degrees below zero), won an “America’s Cup Class” sailboat race in the Pacific, and carried the Olympic Torch in the 2002 Winter Games. As a philanthropic patriot, Dan serves on the International Board of Governors of Operation Smile, and with the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force on his National Civic Leaders Board.

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\"The Main Thing Is to Make the Main Thing the Main Thing\"
In this powerful, highly entertaining and stirring keynote speech, Dan Clark will make your audience laugh, think, feel and realize that it’s easier to act their way into positive thinking than to think their way into positive action. Clark always researches to understand your organizational culture, products and services. This is an unforgettable opening or closing general session keynote with the perfect blend of facts and feelings, stand-up comedy, video, music, psychology, athletic intensity and inspirational stories, customized around your meeting themes.

\"You Can’t Quit, It’s a League Rule\"
It’s not just about the team. Teams lose! Some of our favorite sports teams lose every game in a lousy last place season. Some teams even make it to the championship game and then lose. They have coaches and managers who know everything about the game and have players who work hard, but they still lose. Corporations go bankrupt every day. Organizations lose effectiveness. It’s not just about the team, it’s about WINNING and winning has two “i\'s” in it. In this exhilarating multi-media delivery, Dan teaches how teams that WIN have the most “i” players on them.