Lessons Learned From The Dalai Lama, Richard Branson and 25 Thought Leaders

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dr. Stephen Covey, F.W. deKlerk, and over 25 other incredible world and thought leaders. Engage Today 2009 was truly the most spectacular event we’ve ever held, and while it was incredibly exhausting, the feedback has been out of this world. One of the key things I learned is that “The Power To Engage” is becoming a major theme for people – becoming engaged in your life, your business and your community is a powerful thread that every one of our speakers and presenters shared. What so many people seem to be missing in their life is that they’re not engaged with something that they’re excited and passionate about.  I believe we’re in the midst of some massive changes and readjustments in peoples’ attitudes and priorities.  One of the things that’s come clear to me is that ENGAGEMENT is a very powerful concept, and I think we’re on the leading edge of a major movement in society and culture. We’re in the process of working on a program that will continue to bring the message of Engagement to the world on a regular basis, and our intention is to have Engage Today become an annual event – a gathering of people who are committed to growth, contribution and prosperity in the New Economy. My business partner Kourosh and I, and our entire team, were absolutely exhausted at the completion of the event — but it was worth all of the work and effort.  If you were there, you already know what a powerful experience it was. The other thing it allowed us to do is get insight from so many incredible people.  We tried to get as many backstage interviews with the speakers as we could, and here is just one example of the interviews we got. F.W. deKlerk is the former President of South Africa, and engineered the end of apartheid, and released Nelson Mandela.  In this exclusive interview at Engage Today, he talks about how he felt the day that Nelson Mandela was finally released. Wow. Talk about a world leader .. one of the most important historical events of the century, and he was there to talk about how he personally felt when it happened.  And, his keynote presentation was also mesmerizing! This event was the starting point of what seems to be quickly turning into a movement – we’ve already announced Engage Today 2010, and we plan to make it even more amazing and powerful than this year!  Admittedly, we’re not sure how we’re going to top the speakers and experience from this year, but we’re confident that we will.  I do apologize that I haven’t had time to get many blog posts done in the last month due to the event, but I promise that you’ll be getting a lot of new information and video clips from some of the best presentations and speakers at the event. Also, if you want to access a whole bunch of video content from the event (for FREE), just go to the main site at www.EngageToday2009.com.  We’ve loaded over 40 videos there, featuring some of the best parts of the entire event and lots of cool comments from speakers and attendees.]]>