It’s National Mentoring Month. However, High Point University celebrates and fosters mentorship year-round. One of HPU’s most prolific advocates for mentorship is university President Nido Qubein. Through one-on-one meetings, course offerings and more, Dr. Qubein guides students to become the…
This interview of Dr. Tony Alessandra was originally published on The Legacy Project. The Legacy Project is an initiative that hopes to inspire you through providing you with unlimited access to extraordinary individuals, each of whom have achieved Greatness in…
It’s hard to believe that 2015 is over. I had so many incredible opportunities to help companies large and small build more "bankable" leaders and therefore more bankable businesses. As is always the case, my clients taught me some powerful lessons that haven’t…
This podcast interview with Dr. Nido Qubein was conducted by Misti Burmeister and was first published on mistiburmeister.com. Beyond being one of the most articulate communicators on the planet, Dr. Nido Qubein is a humble leader, with a waiting line…
Last week, my mom told me a gem of a story. She was 23 and had just started her first year as a high school English teacher. One day, she got out the record player as part of a lesson,…
I left my home some 7,000 miles away with little money in my pocket. I was eager – and just 17. My father had died when I was 6, and I came to America for college with the words of…
This interview with Shawn Achor by Brigid Schulte was featured on The Washington Post To those who think of happiness as a “nice to have” luxury or something that comes after a lifetime of sacrifice of single-mindedly driving to achieve a…
"When the time to perform arrives, the time to prepare has passed." Fellow SpeakersOffice speaker and Olympic Pommel Horse Gold Medalist with a perfect 10 in 1984, Peter Vidmar, used that line a few years ago. I asked for his…
Last weekend, on a beautiful Colorado spring day, I went for my first bike ride of the season. I was huffing and puffing up an especially endless hill, gazing longingly at the top -- it felt miles away. I’ll never make it, I groaned. I’m…
March 20 was the International Day of Happiness - a time to reflect on how our emotional and social connections are more valuable to our happiness than any material goods we could buy. Live Happy produced a 24 hour live stream of interviews on the International Day of…
High Point University's Class of 2015 celebrated commencement weekend with broadcast legend Tom Brokaw - named one of the nation's top commencement speakers by the Huffington Post. More than 10,000 family and friends attended HPU Commencement Weekend, while thousands more watched…
“Practice as if it’s competition, but compete as if it’s practice.” ~ Peter Vidmar James McPartland, author of Unopened Gifts, talks with Olympic gold medalist, Peter Vidmar about time & emotional management in this video interview on HavItTV.com. In this interview with…
There's one thing that all geniuses have in common, and it's something critically important too. Despite the myth of the isolated loner writing a great novel in his log cabin, geniuses are almost never solitary individuals. On the contrary, they're…
