Largest-ever Free Conscious Business Telesummit on Conscious Capitalism

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Before yesterday, I’d never heard of Joie de Vivre Founder Chip Conley

So I went to watch his TED Talk to get the best of his thinking and became totally engaged with his vision.

I highly recommend you watch it too. To get a feel for who he is and what he’s up to- then register for the Enlightened Business Summit  to get more of Chip and his friends. (it’s free, and you don’t even have to leave home or office, even better .

We all know business needs to shift.  These are the people leading that shift with their ACTIONS,  not their talk.

Here’s the release for your reading pleasure:

Joie de Vivre Founder Chip Conley to Host First Ever Free Online “Enlightened Business Summit”

Largest-ever Conscious Business Telesummit Oct. 25-29 to Emphasize Conscious Capitalism with Thought Leaders Tony Hsieh, John Mackey, Tim Ferriss, Google’s School of Personal Growth Creator Monika Brekker, Stephen M. Covey, and 35 Other Leading Business Thinkers

San Francisco, Calif. (Oct.18 , 2010) – Joie de Vivre Hospitality Founder and Executive Chairman Chip Conley has teamed up with The Shift Network, an online education company, to launch the groundbreaking Enlightened Business Summit. This free online event, to be held October 25-29, is the first to bring together top CEOs, bestselling authors, business change leaders and conscious entrepreneurs to share best practices on how business can fuse enlightened values with increased profits. Business leaders large and small will learn practical steps to create successful companies with great cultures that generate both passion, purpose and profits. Participants can register at enlightenedbusinesssummit.com/.

Conley, who will emcee the five-day telesummit, is author of PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow and founder of Joie de Vivre, the second largest independent hotel company in the U.S. He was one of only two business thought leaders invited to speak at TED this year, where he recommended organizations re-examine the metrics they’re using to measure success.

Spurred by his belief that companies must adopt a new paradigm of business leadership to survive, he collaborated with Stephen Dinan, CEO of The Shift Network, to bring together 40 leaders, CEOs, authors, visionaries, and provocateurs he most admires and who are on the cutting-edge of business thinking.

Headline speakers include Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Delivering Happiness, as well as other New York Times bestselling authors such as Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week) and Stephen M. Covey. The Summit roster also includes notable conscious capitalist CEOs such as John Mackey of Whole Foods, George Zimmer of The Men’s Wearhouse and Casey Sheahan from Patagonia as well as Kleiner Perkins partner Randy Komisar and the creator of Google’s School of Personal Growth, Monika Broecker.  The unique summit will give live, direct access to speakers for free, with most leaders offering 30 minutes of their most important insights in a manner akin to the TED conference.

“In an age of cynicism about capitalism, this Summit will be a powerful antidote,” Conley says. “Anyone who’s involved with business will benefit from our extraordinary line-up of speakers who are creating businesses that truly serve people, planet, and profits. Each speaker will share their specific strategies so that tens of thousands of business professionals can harness their insights and create their own revolution in how business is done.”

Conference topics include:

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Where are the Women Business Thought Leaders?

That’s a question I’ve asked for a while now and none of the pretty enlightened leaders I know seem to have a clue either. So, I thought it would be fun to plan to find them and when I do, they’ll appear in this category.

In 2006, I was a partner in a thought leadership publishing venture called 9th Element Press and we published our first award-winning business book, The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader. It was written in record time by one of the most talented women thought leaders I know, Jan Phillips.

To become a thought leader, you have to be an original thinker because thought leaders don’t become that way by thinking someone else’s thoughts. (makes sense).

The Art of Original Thinking engages you in a 3 part process:

• Release the Past,
• Embrace the Present
• Create the Future

It’s truly a ground breaking business book that introduces you to some of today’s most original thinking companies (and I guarantee they aren’t ones you’re used to reading about) and how they are increasing global consciousness and doing well while doing good.If you know a woman who you consider a thought leader, send me a note and tell me why and I’ll consider adding her to this section…

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