
As every month passes, the number of ISIF teachers and instructors gets bigger and bigger. With their help, our School is creating multimedia courses, conducting webinars, releasing video master classes, and conducting on-site training.
Thanks to the knowledge and experience of our trainers, mentors and teachers, ISIF students can learn all they need to know about financial success, realize their dreams, become the masters of their lives, and take command of their time, money and health.
For us it is a great honor to work with and learn from these outstanding people of our time. It is with great pleasure that we present to you some of our School's great trainers and mentors of financial success.
Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma is one of the most acclaimed experts in leadership training in the entire world. The majority of people know Robin as the outstanding author of some of the most interesting books ever written, among which are such international best sellers as The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, The Saint, The Surfer and The CEO and Who Will Cry When You Die.
Having earned two degrees in Law, including a Masters of Law, and having made an outstanding career as a civil litigation attorney, Robin made the decision to leave this successful career. For many years Robin studied leadership and success, traveling to study with teachers from various countries. Then he decided to start on his personal goodwill mission; to share what he had discovered with people all over the world.
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Robin Sharma has spoken at more than 85 conferences organized by many companies that are on the Forbes 500 list. Microsoft, GE, Nike, BP, FedEx, IBM, NASA, Yale University and the Harvard Business School have often invited Robin Sharma to meet their employees and partners.
According to a recent independent poll of the world’s leadership gurus held by www.leadershipgurus.net, Robin ranks with the top ten speakers in the world, along with Tom Peters, Jack Welch and John Maxwell. He regularly makes appearances on prominent international TV channels such as CNN, MSNBC, BNN and the Biography Channel.
Robin is known as ‘the leader of leaders’ and has won the confidence of many in the field of leadership and personal success training. Many top executives from some of the largest companies and institutions all over the world ask him for advice on how to manage properly and succeed in their businesses. Robin is famous for his dynamic, goal-oriented, inspirational and practical speeches that always yield impressive results.
During speeches given at seminars and via correspondence studies, Robin uses his own vivid style when presenting information and his unique ability to communicate stories of success. His interaction with the audience motivates people to take action. His speeches are vast in content, and people can apply his advice in practice to become more successful.
Robin often makes appearances on TV, and has often worked on stage with such people as Bill Clinton, Jack Welch, Ken Blanchard, Stephen R. Covey and many other outstanding personalities of our time.
His books have been published in more than 50 countries and translated into more than 70 languages. His book, The Saint, The Surfer and The CEO, was the number one bestseller at www.amazon.com for weeks on end, and caused undying admiration among readers and publishers alike. His book, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, was the best selling book in history in countries including Turkey, Japan, Spain, England, Mexico, Singapore, Puerto Rico and South America, as well as being the fifth best selling book in Israel, and remaining in the top ten best sellers in India for two years.
Robin is the founder of the The Robin Sharma Foundation for Children, a non-profit organization that helps needy children become Leaders.
Don Failla
Don is a professional business coach, who has helped more than one million people to build multi-level marketing organizations (MLM). He is the author of the best selling books The 45 Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life and The System: The 3 Steps to Building a Large, Successful Network Marketing Organization, which have been printed in over 20 languages and have sold millions of copies.
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Don Failla is the creator of the concept of "Own Your Life", and has over 42 years experience in building MLM teams. According to experts, Don is one of the leading multi-level marketing gurus in the world.
Don Failla has a degree in sociology from the University of Washington.
Today, Don Failla is helping millions of people around the world to become masters of their own lives through special training courses and seminars.
Sahar Hashemi
Sahar studied at Bristol University and gave up her professional job as a lawyer in London to start her own business.
On November 2nd, 1994 Sahar Hashemi and her brother, Bobby, an investment banker, were sitting in a London cafe. Sahar complained about the lack of availability of cream cappuccino in London, and her brother suggested that she launch her own coffee shop chain. This is how Coffee Republic began.
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In April 2001, the founders of Coffee Republic, whose brand was named as one of the five symbols of modern business in Britain, withdrew from day to day management of the coffee empire and decided to write a book about its creation as they knew they had a lot to tell. As a result, the bestseller, Everyone Can Do It, came off the press.
Sahar has been named one of the “100 most influential women in Britain” by the Daily Mail, one of the “top 35 women in British business under 35” by Management Today, as well as one of the “20 most powerful women in Britain” by The Independent on Sunday. Her media appearances include CNN Business Breakfast, BBC2, Radio 4, LBC, Radio 5 and BBC London amongst many others. She was awarded fifth place in Shell's LiveWIRE survey of inspirational role models along with Richard Branson and James Dyson.
Mike Lipkin
Mike Lipkin is a leading trainer and expert in the field of motivation in North America. Renowned as an ‘outstanding Canadian speaker,’ Mr. Lipkin is also the author of four best selling books: Keeper of the Flame, One Life, One Meeting — How To Build Preeminence One Conversation At A Time, Luck Favors The Brave, and On Fire! The Art of Personal Consistency.
Mr. Lipkin is the president of motivation and sales at Environics Research Group, one of the leading research companies in Canada. His personal goal is to help people achieve success by providing them with the information that will spur them to action.
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Mike Lipkin helps people boost their personal productivity and create a strong team around them. Over the course of a decade, Mr. Lipkin helped over a million people all across the world reach their goals through his talks, TV appearances, seminars, books and programs. In the past year alone, he has led more than 150 programs for 40 organizations in 19 countries across the world, from Japan and Turkey to South Africa, the US, and Canada. Since July 1993 he has helped more than 500 companies bring out the best in their employees, so that they can, in turn, bring their best qualities to their interactions with clients. In a single year, the ever dynamic Mr. Lipkin participates in more seminars, master classes, focus groups, sales meetings and corporate events than any other professional speaker.
Mike Lipkin´s regular corporate clients include Deloitte, IBM, BMO Nesbitt Burns, TD Canada Trust, Manulife, Pfizer, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Petro-Canada. He has shared a stage with Bill Clinton, David Miller, Anthony Robbins, John Von Aiken, and many other prominent figures.
Mike Lipkin is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he studied business. In 1987, he immigrated to Toronto, Canada where he became an account director at Ogilvy Mather, one of the leading global advertising agencies.
In 1992, Mike returned to South Africa, where he started his own training and motivation company, Touch the Sky Inc. He went on to publish seven books over the next ten years.
In 2002, Mike Lipkin returned to Canada and founded Environics/Lipkin, a global research and motivation company, together with Environics Research Group, one of the largest and most creative research companies in Canada. Since then, he has published four bestsellers, including his most recent book, One Life, One Meeting — How To Build Preeminence One Conversation At A Time. All of Mr. Lipkin´s books and programs combine Environics´ renowned research on social values and insights from his personal experience of working with over a million people in 43 countries for the past 16 years.
Nancy Failla
Nancy is a professional trainer of success and leadership, a shining motivator, a successful entrepreneur and the well-known author of many books regarding multi-level marketing.
She has co-written many books with her spouse, Don Failla, including the book The System: The 3 Steps to Building a Large, Successful Network Marketing Organization. Her books, The Time for Women is NOW and Fun to Be Free, have been published in many countries around the world.
In 2009, Nancy, together with her husband, Don Failla, created the exclusive Master of Network Marketing Course for ISIF students.
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Nancy Failla has a degree in Radio-TV Journalism from the University of Oregon.
Today Nancy Failla travels with her husband, Don, all over the world, for more than 300 days a year, meeting with people who share their own dreams of becoming the masters of their own lives.
Adrian Webster
Adrian is one of the greatest and best selling authors in Great Britain. His first book, Polar Bear Pirates and Their Quest to Reach Fat City, is being sold worldwide.
Adrian is actively gaining new admirers. Among his grateful clients today are Siemens, HSBC, Hewlett-Packard, and many other companies in various countries around the world.
Today Adrian is one of the most popular motivational speakers in Great Britain; he knows how to inspire common people to make cardinal changes in their own lives.
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He is a great motivator and extremely humorous, refreshingly unique and certainly a very successful individual.
He cuts through complex motivational psychobabble, making it fun, relevant and useful. Adrian’s presentations lift people's spirits and prepare them for the road to success. They go away smiling and ready to achieve personal success.
His burning desire to inspire others and his unique mix of motivational terminology and characters help people from all walks of life achieve outstanding results.
Adrian Furnham
Professor Adrian Furnham is a Doctor of Psychology at Oxford University. He was educated at the London School of Economics and at Oxford University.
He is a teacher at Pembroke College at Oxford University, and works as a professor of psychology at the University College of London.
The lectures he gave became widely popular abroad, especially at the University of New South Wales, Henley Management College, the University Business School in Hong Kong, as well as at the University of the West Indies.
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Adrian Furnham is the author of many best selling books, including Culture Shock, The New Economic Mind, The Psychology of Money, The People Business, People Management in Turbulent Times, and Just for the Money?
Adrian Furnham regularly writes for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, and appears on international radio and television shows.
He has been a consultant to many multi-national corporations, including Cathay Pacific Airways, Barclays Bank, Marks & Spencer, Air New Zealand, Channel Four, Boots and Hotels Ritz.
The British Psychological Community has called Adrian Furnham the second most productive psychologist in the world between 1985 and 1995! In 2007, he was nominated by the HR magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in the field of HR.
Mark Bernberg
Mark graduated from UCT with double honours in Economics and Finance. In 2004, after a successful career in investment banking in London, he returned to South Africa to start up a wholesale trading business in precious stones.
Following the sale of this business to a multi-national conglomerate, he turned his attention to the strategy of business interaction.
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In 2006 he founded The Poker Room — a unique and entrepreneurial venture — educating corporates in the art of strategic decision making, negotiation and sales techniques using the medium of poker.
Mark’s passion, enthusiasm and dynamic speaking capacity, combined with an energetic and completely out-of-the-box conceptually unique presentation, has seen him address more than 50 of South Africa’s Blue Chip companies.
Jonathan Gabay
Jonathan Gabay is a creative branding expert, founder of Brand Forensics. He is rated in the top three most popular lecturers at the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Leading business organisations as well as UK FTSE companies in sectors ranging from finance and technology to FMCG and travel, feature Jonathan’s award winning copywriting and marketing strategies and he is popularly regarded as one of the foremost independent creative’s in the field.
Among Jonathan’s clients are such companies as: BMW (UK) Ltd, Orange, Allen- Vanguard, Wescot Credit Services, TetraPak Ukraine, Shell, Vipnet, GJ Sheppard BI Worldwide and many others.
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His vast experience of working for some of the best known creative agencies and cutting edge brands in the industry — including heading up departments at the UK’s top agencies — has shaped his work as an author, Jonathan has authored 12 best selling business books, such as Teach Yourself Copywriting, Teach Yourself Marketing, Gabay's Copywriting Compendium, many of which are now recognised at benchmark texts for marketing study and have been translated throughout the world.
As a journalist, Jonathan regularly delivers incisive comment and analysis in the national and trade press, including The Independent, Guardian Unlimited, Scotsman, Creative Match, What’s New in Marketing, as well as on CNN, SKY, BBC, Channel 4, Fiveand ITN.
Chris Widener
Chris is a popular businessman, writer and speaker. He is the founder of the Made for Success, one of the world's leading companies in the field of personal development.
Chris is a recognized leader in the new generation of personal development trainers. He lives by and uses the strategies and tools that he shares with millions of people worldwide.
Chris Widener is a popular trainer and consultant. Among his clients are many high-ranking officials of the US Administration, heads of companies, and sales managers in the most diverse businesses.
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Jayne Storey
Jayne Storey has many years of experience developing techniques to maximize personal, professional and organizational potential.
She is a member of the Women's Institute of Management and the International Stress Management Association. She holds a Certificate from the International Therapy Examination (ITEC) in Anatomy, Physiology and Remedial Massage. She is an instructor in the Chinese internal martial arts of Chi Kung and Tai Chi, which concentrate on reducing stress and cultivating internal health and well-being.
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Jayne Storey works as a Personal Coach for individuals who seek to achieve maximum levels of energy and efficiency. Her personal motivation program stems from her long experience of motivating individuals to excel, and is a highly effective tool for individuals committed to achieving excellence in their personal and professional life. Her stress maintenance and energy training seminars strengthen the immune system, increase energy levels and the ability to cope under pressure.
As a speaker she covers the following topics:
- Creating and maintaining a positive self-image — the basis upon which all success and achievement is formed.
- Enhancing personality power — surrendering to your personal vision and obtaining your goals.
- Unlimited energy — how to create and maintain maximum levels of energy, efficiency and enthusiasm.
- Desire, endurance and will to succeed.
Jayne is the founder of the Independent Tai Chi Organization, a school specializing in the application of internal energy for confidence, fitness and self-defense. She has just released an instructional video, Tai Chi — Energy Training for Mind and Body. The video takes the viewer through the fundamentals of Tai Chi and has generated enormous public interest.
Philip Hesketh
Philip Hesketh is one of the best professional and most popular speakers of our time in Great Britain, and author of the international bestseller on the psychology of persuasion, Life’s A Game So Fix The Odds.
Philip Hesketh is a psychology graduate from Newcastle University, and gained invaluable experience working at one of the world’s biggest companies, Procter & Gamble.
In 1986 Philip became one of the founders of Advertising Principles in Great Britain. He took his advertising agency to 17 consecutive years of growth from zero to billings of £48 million. However, Philip decided to sell his successful business to become a full-time professional speaker on the topic of ‘The Psychology of Persuasion and Influence’, which he has been studying his entire working life.
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Philip Hesketh is a real master of communicating with an audience. He has a potent mix of well-researched techniques and his own persuasive, thought-provoking and highly entertaining methods, which make up his unique and recognizable style.
Among Philip Hesketh’s grateful clients are the employees and leaders of various companies, such as Hoseasons Holidays, F&C Management Ltd, Mölnlycke Health Care, Willowbrook, The Explorer Group, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Ronseal, BP International, Royal Mail, TNT Express, Chelsea Building Society, ACP Media, Bristol Myers Squibb, Danisco NZ Ltd, QBE Insurance, Hawkins Watts and Vodafone NZ.
Shirley Hickman-Smith
Shirley Hickman-Smith is one of the leading speakers in the National Speakers Association of Southern Africa and among the best in her profession. She has 8,000 hours of personal training and 700 presentations to thousands of grateful students under her belt.
Her reputation is impeccable, and her talks are set apart by her deep understanding and the special atmosphere she creates. Shirley can reach the hearts and minds of an audience like no other.
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Top managers from companies such as First Rand Bank, Selectronix, and Ernst & Young speak of Ms. Hickman-Smith's talent with warmth and gratitude.
Her talks go beyond theory, providing concrete instructions that have helped many people take control of their lives and become more successful.
Andy Edwards
Andy Edwards is a renowned expert in communications and the author of online bestsellers I've Upped My Sales — Up Yours! and Beyond Mars & Venus. For the past 20 years he has owned and run a successful consultancy, helping thousands of organizations and individuals increase their contribution and their net worth. Andy’s services are successfully used by Barclays, Simplyhealth, Paul Smith, JP Morgan and many others.
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He is an experienced coach, having qualified and worked as a coach long before the term became commonplace. He founded the popular and transformational BALANCE intensive coaching workshop and has authored many articles, e-books and papers in subjects including personal development and influencing skills. A sought-after conference speaker, Andy is booked throughout the UK and beyond, recently working for large energy related organizations in the Middle East.
Penny Mallory
Penny Mallory is now one of the UK´s most famous and sought after motivational speakers. She is also one of the few successful women rally drivers and the first woman in the world to drive a World Rally Car (the Formula One of rallying)!
Among her clients are such giants of the world business, as: Esure, Nissan, Honda, GM/Opel, Visteon, Skillnet, Rotary International, Blackberry, Service Network North East, KPMG, Greater Manchester Strategic Heath Authority, Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermarston and many others.
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Penny Mallory became The National Ladies Champion Rally Driver in 1993.
Besides sport, Penny Mallory is a highly respected motoring journalist.
Penny writes articles for various popular magazines. Guest features on TV programs include presenting her own feature, Dashboard Divas for This Morning (ITV), as well as on Watch Dog BBC TV, Britain´s Worst Roads BBC TV, and a thirteen part series for BBC UK Style.
Kevin Chaplin
Managing Director of the South African Ubuntu Foundation, voted top guest speaker at UCT for 2005, writer.
Kevin grew up in KwaZulu Natal, spent 10 years in Gauteng before moving to Cape Town in 2000.
He graduated with a BComm degree majoring in Accounts and Business Economics from UNISA as well as an Associate Diploma in Banking. He recently completed the UCT Graduate School of Business Executive Management Development Programme.
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In October 2006 Kevin took up the position of Managing Director of the South African Ubuntu Foundation and Amy Biehl Foundation, incorporating the SA Business Development Institute, Ubuntu Leadership SA, The South African Academy of Entrepreneurship, Ubuntu Events Management & Festival 2008, Ubuntu Business & Motivational Speaking.
He was previously Provincial Manager, First National Bank Western Cape and prior to that Sales and Service Director Cape Town, Director Human Resources & Admin FNB First Commerce Gauteng and National Industrial Relations Manager.
Rebecca Baldridge
Rebecca is a professional investor with unique knowledge in the fields of sales, marketing, capital creation and financial literacy. She has extensive working experience in international and fast-developing markets.
She is an excellent speaker, who has great financial, analytical and literary skills and abilities. Rebecca holds a degree in financial analysis.
Rebecca Baldridge has held management positions in some of the leading companies around the world, such as Lehman Brothers, The Bank of New York and JPMorgan Asset Management. In addition, as an independent consultant, she has helped many major companies, such as Merrill Lynch, Enterprise Funds, and Mark Stevens & Company.
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Rebecca Baldridge obtained a classical education, which has allowed her to succeed in life, including a Master’s of Business Administration degree in finance and marketing from Purdue University, Krannert Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor’s of Political Science degree from the University of Illinois. She is a member of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) and a member of the Association of Professional Investors of Great Britain (NYSSA). She holds a Financial Analyst of Great Britain degree.
Today, Rebecca Baldridge is a successful woman, and is ready to support people anywhere in the world in their desire to learn everything they can about financial success!
Siyabonga Mapoko
Siyabonga Mapoko (Siya) — the founder of iCaptive — is also the author of Conversations with JSE AltX Entrepreneurs.
Over the past five years Siya has done a lot and has had a lot of fun — he has moved from studying science at UCT and in England; to equity trading at Investec Asset Management; to starting businesses in digital media (iCaptive) and publishing; to writing and publishing a book; to touring the country speaking to business audiences, thousands of students and entrepreneurs; to becoming one of the youngest directors to sit in the board of one of SA’s top Outdoor Media companies. He was also a finalist for the 2008 KPMG/Cape Times Business Personality of the Year Award: Editor’s Award.
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Since the release of his book in May 2008, Siya has been invited to speak at some of the most innovative companies, business associations and universities, ranging from the likes of Deloitte, Build It, to institutions like the University of Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, UCT Graduate School of Business and Vaal University of Technology. He has also been invited to speak and keynote at the annual SME Survey Events in Sandton, Cape Town and Durban.
Ben Hewitt
Ben Hewitt is a personal and executive coach and public speaker, living and working in London.
While addressing and coaching people online, one to one and in large groups and audiences, Ben has developed a contemporary coaching style based on what he calls The Design Principles of Life, from which any issue, both personal or business oriented, can be handled with a powerful and creative response. The approach motivates, educates, inspires and entertains all those Ben works with.
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Ben began his career as an entrepreneur, which in many ways he still is. By his mid twenties, he had built up a group of companies that employed around 50 people. Two and half years later he had become Director of Business Development in a division of a globally recognised US investment bank, but was still searching for fulfillment in the workplace. Leaving the financial district to make a documentary film about the US gambling industry, Ben happened across an extraordinary individual in Phoenix, Arizona, whose influence persuaded him to stop what he was doing altogether, and completely re-shape his life.
Over a four-year period, he plunged headlong into the word of personal development and enlightenment, undergoing a period of extreme personal and professional transformation, from stressed out city executive to spiritually realised coach and speaker. He has trained with some of the finest, advanced and cutting edge trainers in the USA and UK, building his own 'Library of Power,' reading hundreds of books, papers, studies, journals and articles on human consciousness and potential.
During this period, he attended over 60 transformational events and completed developmental seminars and meditation processes that lasted for up to six months in some cases.
Ben has lived in an ashram in India, learning to work with people in some of the most advanced, demanding and confrontational group therapy processes in the world, and even spent time with indigenous Shaman from Cacamas and Shipibo in the jungles of Peru, training in ancient Amazonian spiritual procedures.
Returning from his travels at the beginning of 2009, Ben now speaks and shares of his experiences to a variety of audiences. His whole approach to Personal Development defies categorisation, but broadly takes in the teachings of Transpersonal Psychology, Ontology, NLP, the Pyschology of Yoga, Meditation, Integral Theory, Evolutionary Enlightenment and any other inclusive form of wisdom, poetry and teaching.
Simon Scotting
Simon is a certified financial analyst and a professional investor helping thousands of well-to-do people and companies worldwide to form effective investment portfolios and earn profits even during the most trying times.
Simon Alexander Scotting works in the fully developed and in newly developing financial markets. He acts as consultant to both private and corporate investors.
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He holds a Bachelor’s of Philosophy degree from San Diego State University and a Master's degree in International Business and Finance from the University of Sydney. Simon Scotting has worked in some of the largest investment companies in the world, such as HiFX Financial Services.
Combining his classical education and enormous practical experience, Simon Scotting is among the leading portfolio managers of Great Britain and the USA.
Currently, Simon Scotting is helping many leading companies, all over the world, to overcome the consequences of the financial crisis, and is successfully delivering educational speeches to private investors in many countries worldwide.