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Iyanla
Vanzant, nationally recognized inspirational speaker and
hailed as among the "most dynamic African-American
speakers in the country" will deliver the keynote at
the opening luncheon on Thursday, June 23 at the Wells Fargo
sponsored African American Business Summit 2005. Themed
BUSINESS REDEFINED: An Extraordinary Experience for
Exceptional Business People, this four-day event is
scheduled June 23rd - 26th at the Westin Mission Hills
Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs), California.
Iyanla Vanzant is a speaker in a class all her own. She is:
an author, an attorney, an enterprise, an astute
businesswoman an orator, a sister-friend, a benefactor of
the many causes she holds dear, a mother, grandmother, and
wife.
For 18 years she has studied everyone and everything that
spoke to personal strength, personal growth and empowerment.
She then integrated that information with her own
experiences and developed a common sense approach for
addressing life’s challenges. Her frank,
down-to-earth, and inspiring manner of addressing life’s
issues resulted in the publication of ten books, over a span
of seven years, five of which have been deemed by the New
York Times as best-sellers. Her work, she says,
“Teaches people how to move beyond, whatever has happened
in their lives in order to do and be what we came to life to
do and be. We are divine!” Iyanla teaches that
you cannot expect to evolve politically, socially or
economically until you evolve spiritually. It is this
message, which she conveys with love, humor and humility
that has earned for her an Honorary Doctorate of Humane
Letters from Medgar Evers College of the City University of
New York.
Someone once called her, “A Guru from the hood.”
Iyanla laughs as she responds to the question. “I
used to be just another Black woman, but today, I am a child
of God! This means I am unique, but I am not special.
I am an ordinary person who is dedicated to doing extra
ordinary things in the service of God and God’s people.”
According to all accounts, she does very special things to
and for anyone who is in her presence. For registration and
more information regarding the African American Business
Summit 2005, please visit http://www.aabs2005.com/
or call (323) 299-6000.
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