Steve Forbes

America's Promise for Hope, Growth and

Opportunity

Visionary Business Leader,

President & CEO

of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes

Magazine

A true visionary, it is not surprising that Mr.

Forbes is a strong proponent of the project

management profession--and a friend of PMI

specifically.

You won't want to miss his inspiring and

informative address on economic trends for

the US, and what that portends for us as

project managers, local to global leaders, and

citizens of our communities.

The company's flagship publication, Forbes, is

the nation's leading business magazine, with

a circulation of over 900,000. Forbes and

Forbes Global together reach a worldwide

audience of nearly five million readers.

A widely respected economic prognosticator,

he is the only writer to have won the highly

prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The

prize was formerly given by U.S. Steel

Corporation to the financial journalist whose

economic forecasts for the coming year proved

most accurate.

In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes

campaigned vigorously for the Republican

nomination for the Presidency. Key to his

platform were a flat tax, medical savings

accounts, and a new Social Security system for

working Americans. Mr. Forbes continues to

energetically promote this agenda.

Mr. Forbes is the author of A New Birth of

Freedom, a book of bold ideas for the new

millennium.

Sherry Lansing

Leadership: What It Takes To Be First In

Hollywood, Business, Philanthropy & Life

CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Trailblazer who became the first woman to

head a major film studio as Chairman of

Paramount Pictures

Ms. Lansing earned a reputation as a

trailblazer, visionary leader and creative

filmmaker throughout her film career, and will

deliver an enlightening and inspiring address

on leadership.

During almost 30 years in the motion picture

business, she was involved in the production,

marketing and distribution of more than 200

films, including Academy Award® winners

Forrest Gump (1994), Braveheart (1995), and

the then highest grossing movie of all time,

Titanic (1997).

In 1984, she became the first woman to head

a major film studio when she took the top job

at 20th Century Fox.

Later, as an independent producer, Lansing

was responsible for such successful films as,

Fatal Attraction, School Ties, Indecent

Proposal, Black Rain, and The Accused.

Returning to the executive ranks in 1992,

Lansing was named Chairman of Paramount

Pictures and began an unprecedented tenure

that lasted more than 12 years (1992 - 2005)

during which the studio enjoyed enormous

creative and financial success.

"I left Paramount at the ripe young age of

sixty," noted Lansing. "A generation ago, that

would have been retirement age. But my

generation has more energy, more drive, and

a greater life expectancy than any group of

retirees before us. We are going to be here

for two decades or more past 'retirement' age

and we want to do something relevant in the

so-called third act of our lives."

For Lansing, that "something" is the creation

of The Sherry Lansing Foundation, a not-for-

profit organization dedicated to cancer

research, education, art and culture.

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Business As Combat

Real fighter pilots applying combat techniques

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