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Linda Austin
St. Louis , MO
314-822-1170
moonbridge@earthlink.net

Linda grew up listening to her mother's stories of
childhood in Japan around the time of WWII and
wrote Cherry Blossoms in Twilight to preserve
those memories. She is an advocate for lifewriting
and encourages others to capture their own
memories and those of their elders.

Topics:
• Capturing Our Stories
• Writing Your Story
• Japanese Culture

Fee: Negotiable
Expense Reimbursement: negotiable

Website: moonbridgebooks.com
Blog: moonbridgeblog.blogspot.com

 


 




Bill Collier
Fenton, MO
bill@collierbiz.com
314-221-8558
www.collierbiz.com

Speaker info:
Bill Collier has real-life experience starting, growing,
buying and selling successful companies, using his
own money. He knows what it's like to have to
"make payroll." Bill is an entrepreneur turned bus-
iness consultant. An accomplished speaker,
Bill mixes personal experience, food for thought
and humor into every presentation.
 
His first book, How to Succeed as a Small
Business Owner ... and Still Have a Life
, has
reached #1 in the "Work/Life Balance" book
category on Amazon and has been featured
in numerous media outlets. Bill's articles appear
regularly in St. Louis Small Business Monthly
and other periodicals.

Types of presentations: Keynotes, breakout sessions,
training, workshops, meeting & business planning facilitation.
 
Fees: Negotiable
 
Topics:

  • How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner ... and Still Have a Life, This presentation is also available customized for non- small business audiences:
  • How to Succeed in Business ... and Still Have
    a Life
  • Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Employees
  • Excellence: Better than Yesterday & Better than the Competition
  • High-Impact, Common-Sense Marketing for the Small Business Owner
  • The Practical Power of Open-Book Management

See more at:
collierbiz.com/speaking_and_presentations.htm

 


 



Rebecca Rengo MA, MSW, LCSW, ACSW
St. Charles, MO 63304
Phone: 636-300-3948
rebecca@beyondchronicpain.com

Rebecca Rengo speaks from experience!
Her engaging style and real life examples make
her a perfect choice for anyone to learn new
strategies that can be implemented immediately.
Organizations and professionals have adopted
her philosophy and experienced dramatic changes
with increased functioning, decreased pain and
depression and improved relationships for the
people they serve.

Her expertise in the industry has led her to present
at conventions, seminars and workshops all over
the country and in Canada. She has been
interviewed on radio, television, and in newspapers
nationwide and on the Internet. She is the author
of Beyond Chronic Pain: A get-well guidebook to
soothe the body, mind & spirit, as well as several
published articles and audio programs.

President of the Missouri Pain Initiative Past
Faculty Washington University School of Medicine,
Department of Neurology Past Faculty St. Louis
University School of Medicine, Department of
Psychiatry As seen on Health.com, a division of
Time, Inc.

Topics:

  • Beyond Chronic Pain
  • Examine the complexities with managing pain and how to overcome them
  • Define specific issues with the elderly and how to intervene
  • Learn how to assess for pain, even in the Alzheimer’s patient
  • Discover techniques to help people become more functional & cope
  • Identify the consequences of unrelieved pain
  • Increase accountability for effective pain management
  • Implement non-pharmacological strategies

Website:
beyondchronicpain.com

 


 



Lynnette Schuepbach
Highland, Illinois
618-558-0054
LSchuepbach@wisperhome.com

Whether she is speaking to students, parents,
teachers or organizations, Lynnette's entertaining
presentations encourage literacy and creativity.
She'll give information and facts or teach you
hands-on projects in a way that keeps audiences
interested as well as motivated to find their own
way to fulfill a life's dream.

Topics:
• Puppetry Brings Books to Life (Hands-on)
• Creativity Games
• Taking Care of You - The Road to Creativity
• Creativity! How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Bring in the Creative Cavalry (Hands-on)
• Illustrating - Pictures Tell the Story (Hands-on)

Speaking Fee: Negotiable
Expense Reimbursement: Negotiable

www.KidsDoRead.com

 

 


 


David Strom
St. Louis, Mo.
(310) 857-6867
david@strom.com

David is passionate about technology and loves to
share his knowledge with audiences ranging from
rank beginners to the most geeky. David has
spoken around the world at numerous conferences
from Sydney to Caracas to Tokyo and back.
He does keynotes, break-out sessions, small
and large groups, and hands-on workshops.

David is a frequent contributor to the New York
Times, has appeared on numerous TV and radio
shows such as ABC World News Tonight and
NPR's Science Friday talking about technology.
He has started dozens of magazines—including
being editors- in-chief at Tom's Hardware, Network
Computing and DigitalLanding.com—and
contributed to many technology Web sites.

Topics:
• How to pump up your business on the Internet
• Giving Thanks to Bill Gates
• How to pick the right technology for your business

Speaking fee: negotiable
Expenses reimbursed: for travel outside of
St. Louis metro area
Websites: 
webinformant.com
strominator.com
mediablather.com



Edward F. Sylvia, MTS
Troy, IL 62294
618-558-0903
edsylvia@staircasepress.com

Philosopher/Theologian Ed Sylvia makes
connections between the everyday and the
extraordinary with a unique spiritual perspective.
Whether he’s talking about “Inner Gardening,
“Neuroscience and Proper Fishing Technique”,
or reading his original “Stories for Children and
the Wise,” he challenges and inspires with start-
ling concepts and sometimes a touch of humor.

Ed attended the School of Visual Arts in New
York and went on to a career writing for some
of the world’s largest advertising agencies in
New York, St. Louis and Chicago. He received
his Master of Theological Studies at the Pacific
School of Religion in Berkeley, CA and a Cert-
ificate of Swedenborgian Studies from the
Swedenborgian House of Studies. He is a mem-
ber of the Center for Theology and the Natural
Sciences (C.T.N.S.) and the Swedenborg
Scientific Association (S.S.A.). He lives with
his wife Susan in a solar house on a ten acre
“homestead” just outside St. Louis, in southern
Illinois. Edward is continually working on both
his inner and outer gardens and has many other
projects in the works, including books, articles,
documentaries and screenplays.

Author of Sermon From the Compost Pile: Seven
Steps Toward Creating An Inner Garden
, his next
book, Proving God, will fulfill a continuing vision that God’s fingerprints of love can be found everywhere in the manifest universe.

Ed will tailor a presentation to any spiritual topic.

Sample Topics:
• Growing Your Inner Garden
• Love is the Ultimate Science
• A 22,000 Year Old Christmas Card
• The New Physics and The New Jerulsalem
• Spiritual Beauty Tips
• Proof of God
• Living Forever

Speaking fee: negotiable
Expenses: reimbursed for travel outside of St. Louis metro area
Website: edwardfsylvia.com
Blog: thegodguy.wordpress.com

 

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