Inspirational Latina Speaker Janet Perez Eckles to Receive Media Award

Latina Speakers announced today that La Prensa newspaper, the largest Hispanic publication in Central Florida recognized inspirational keynote speaker and motivational Hispanic author, Janet Perez Eckles, with the “2011 Latina Women who Make A Difference Award.”
Janet Perez Eckles is an inspirational Latina author and inspiring keynote speaker based in Florida. Perez Eckles was diagnosed with blindness later in life but uses her moving personal story to speak about hope and victory. In addition to inspirational speaking, Janet Perez Eckles is also the author of "Trials of Today, Treasures for Tomorrow: Overcoming Adversities in Life" and founder of Islands of Peace Ministries. Perez Eckles has been married to her husband for over 30 years and is the mother of 3 boys, one of whom is waiting for her in heaven.
Latino Speakers Bureau showcases successful Hispanics who are Latino professional keynote speakers who tour the world.

Hispanic Students Request Inspiring Latino Commencement Speakers

Latino Speakers Bureau cited higher demand from campuses with high Hispanic density around the country as students increasingly request top level Latino speakers take the commencement stage in 2011. Latino Speakers was born in 2003 to showcase successful Hispanics speakers and their best keynotes because founder, Leonor McCall-Rodriguez, felt outstanding Latino keynote speakers were unrecognized in the U.S. and international markets.
"There are so many distinguished Latino speakers available today on the keynote speaking circuit. We work with campuses to get them on the speakers' schedule early, so they can host a high-level event, " said McCall-Rodriguez. "If you want to inspire and motivate students, try Pulitzer Prize Award-winning speaker, Jose Galvez, Latino best selling author, Joachim de Posada (almost 3 million books sold), former Smithsonian Insitute director, Dr. Refugio Rochin, or award winnng speaker and master storyteller, David Gonzalez. Other motivational speakers in high demand are former U.S. treasurer, Rosario Marin, MSW Pegine Echevarria, and Emmy Award winning keynoters, Tony Plana and Debi Gutierrez. Commencement is a moment for celebrated speakers, inspirational keynotes, and too big a day to settle for less than the best," concludes Latino Speakers Bureau's McCall-Rodriguez.

Researcher Works to Prevent Hispanic Kids from Dropping Out of School

Latino Speakers Bureau announced today that Dr. Karina Reyes, a Chicago-based clinical and community psychologist, diversity http://www.bestkeynotes.com/Karina_Reyes.html, academic opportunity motivational keynote speaker, and education author has joined its keynote speakers lineup. With fellow education advocates at the bureau, her keynotes offer insights and strategies for helping Hispanic youth through key transitions and improving education initiatives.
Dr. Karina Reyes is an Associate Professor of psychology in the Clinical and Community and Prevention Research programs of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Education expert speaker, Karina Reyes, teaches undergraduate students and trains future psychologists in the graduate program.
A recognized Latina professional speaker in the field of academic performance, Dr. Karina Reyes focuses on the prevention of high-risk behaviors and the promotion of Latino academic achievement and successful high school completion in urban minority, low-income communities where educational resources limit opportunity and contribute to the poor outcomes of many of these youth. Dr. Karina Reyes’ work includes a search for those factors that promote youths’ resilience and those that protect them against the significant risks in their lives and communities. Karina Reyes has examined factors that heighten youths' vulnerability for maladjustment during normative school transitions; the role of peer, family and school support in academic success; youngsters' attitudes and perceptions about school; and their involvement in high-risk behaviors like gang involvement, substance abuse, and premature sexual behavior.
Her research also examines the role of environmental factors in school outcomes, such as school and neighborhood violence, demographic variables, and school administrative structures and policies.
Dr. Karina Reyes’ work has been published in multiple professional psychological journals, and other related focus in her work is on enhancing understanding about diversity and its value in different settings and importantly, how to achieve it. An award-winning teacher at the most racially and ethnically diverse public university in the United States, Dr. Karina Reyes has applied her knowledge and expertise with the student population of UIC, including faculty and administrators. Dr. Reyes believes engaging education stakeholders expands the reach of diversity efforts and her lecture discusses common barriers to diversity in educational or work arenas and strategies that work.
Keynote programs by Karina Reyes include:
 Education Insights for Leaders: Promoting High School Completion Among Minority Youth
 Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem
 Good Parenting: What Is It and What Does It Get You?
 Rethinking High School Dropout: Who’s Really to Blame?
 Urban School Secrets for Promoting Effective Learning
 The Educator as Leader: Guiding Students Toward Academic Success
 What Makes Students Tick: Urban Classroom Lessons for Turning around the High School Dropout Rate
Information on Dr. Karina Reyes can be found at LatinaSpeakersBureau.com where she joins other education advocates such as Chicano artist Simon Silva, award-winning actor-director Tony Plana, success expert and career coach, http://www.bestkeynotes.com/Pegine_Echevarria.html<, and New York's talented art educator, inspirational speaker, Magdalena Gomez.
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What did one Hispanic Engineer say to Another Hispanic Engineer?

To find out, you’d have to follow the national tour of Shayla Rivera , the “Funny Rocket Scientist”. Shayla Rivera is a preferred speaker for engineers and professionals of science because is a peer who knows how to make them laugh and has been a frequent SHPE keynote speaker ,celebrated by fellow Hispanic Professional Engineers and other professional conferences. Shayla Rivera's career path gives a unique twist to her humor as the Hispanic engineer turned comedian, actor, producer is a frequent funny keynote speaker at professional conferences and enjoys sharing a moment of humor as a keynoter with Aerospace Engineers, Biomedical Engineers, Chemical Engineers , Civil Engineers , Electrical Engineers , and Environmental Engineers.

Yes, Latina motivational speaker Shayla Rivera , the “Funny Rocket Scientist” is taking takes her unique humor to 2011 engineer conferences and special events for engineers and professionals of science, including Industrial Engineers Manufacturing Engineers, Naval Engineers, , Mining Engineers, Nuclear Engineers, Petroleum Engineers, Software Engineers, and Systems Engineers. You can also see more about Shayla Rivera at http://www.bestkeynotes.com/Shayla_Rivera.html

“Our clients explain that when engineers gather, an engineer speaker, one of their own can surely make them laugh,” said NSHP Leonor McCall-Rodriguez of Hispanic Funny Speakers. For more information on Shayla Rivera’s keynotes, seminars, and emcee services, contact speakers@bestkeynotes.com or call 310-937-2789.

Joachim de Posada logs 3.5 million life-changing motivational miles

Life on the road has become commonplace to Joachim de Posada, the result of the unique journey from a newspaper route to authoring a best-seller. The international motivational speaking celebrity found his life changing in parallel to that of millions who have heard the empowering message of his insightful book, “Don’t Eat the Marshmallow… Yet.,” fast approaching 3 million books sold worldwide in 20 languages. International best-selling author and motivational keynote speaker, De Posada, has traveled to 60 countries, logging an impressive 3.5 million life-changing motivational miles.
Hispanic keynote speaker, De Posada, fluent in English and Spanish reads every note as fans share the effect of the Marshmallow Principle. Sometimes it’s a simple change like setting up a savings account. At times, it’s involves a major career or business decision. Whatever the case, the number of fans who e-mail, tweet, use Facebook, and text Joachim de Posada each day remind him of how one man’s voice affects change in the world. Beloved by his readers, the professional business speaker finds his days full of reminder-moments of the privilege of empowering audiences and touching lives on the path to success. Thus he has been intercepted while carrying his lunch tray at the Los Angeles Convention Center by an employee who was reading his book and he found himself entering a hotel elevator in Bolivia only to see the operator reading his book as she went up and down floors. Such is a day in the life of Joachim de Posada.
His most recent speaking engagements brought him to the stage in England and Germany, and Switzerland where he took the stage alongside Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Joseph Stiglitz. “Speaking in Switzerland for a very prestigious company and sharing the stage with Dr. Stiglitz was really a treat, more so when he opened his speech quoting my Marshmallow story! In fact, he said that in the example I gave of two out of three children eating the marshmallows, the two that ate them were Americans, and the one that didn’t was Chinese, going on to tell the audience that the savings rate is America is close tozero while the Chinese save 50% of their earnings. Believe me, now more than ever, we must change our consumption habits, control our deficit or we are in great danger as a nation," said De Posada.
All this in a speaker’s day's work. Then he was off to Honk Kong to speak at the Asia Consciousness Conference.
This global tour itself is a reflection of transformation and just five years ago clients primarily viewed Latino motivational and inspirational speakers as exclusive of Hispanic Heritage events and diversity training. Recent years have brought increasing demand of Hispanic speakers and authors as the gateway has opened for others because Joachim de Posada has taken his expert motivational message across geographies. “Many of our clients are multi-national corporations that host conferences and meetings around the world, and due to his ability to connect with audiences from South Africa to Taiwan, Honk Kong or to Mexico City, Joachim de Posada is in high-demand for business events and corporate motivational speaking,” said Leonor McCall-Rodriguez. Joachim de Posada offers a variety of keynotes and programs tailored to event themes and messages. For more information, visit http://wwww.bestkeynotes.com