Maine Speakers

Fee Range: $25,000–$40,000
Travels From: ME

Rafael J. Grossmann Zamora, MD, FACS, is originally from Caracas, Venezuela. After doing his surgery residency in Ann Arbor, MI, he has developed as a General, Trauma, Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic surgeon and now practices in Maine, USA. Throughout his career, he has focused in tapping the paradoxical power of technology to coexist with a better, more humane medical care. As a healthcare futurist, being a full-time practicing surgeon, gives him the rare skills, qualities and advantages that clinicians have but most technology innovators lack. As an Exponential Medicine/ Singularity University alumnus and faculty, his passion is about the intersection of Innovation Technology and Healthcare. He was the first doctor to use Google Glass in the operating room which made him a disruptor in healthcare. He is has been a keynote speaker on all continents.

Fee Range: $13,000–$15,000
Travels From: ME

Shawn Hunter is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, recovering corporate refugee, and currently Founder and President of Mindscaling, a company dedicated to creating beautiful, and intelligent online learning products. Until July, 2015 Shawn was Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Solutions at Skillsoft. For over a decade Hunter has interviewed, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions. He started this journey as an entrepreneur, and later expanded that business for Skillsoft. Weaving in personal life stories and meaningful interviews with business leaders around the world, Hunter presents the reader with twelve critical competencies that are consistently present in the daily behaviors of today’s most successful leaders. Shawn’s latest book is Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors that Lead to Big Impact.

Fee Range: $10,000–$24,000
Travels From: ME

Patrick Ibarra, co-founder and partner of the Mejorando Group, is available to speak at conferences, conventions, and other meetings of government leaders and officials. Mr. Ibarra speaks on a wide variety of contemporary topics relating to trends impacting the public sector and organizational and individual performance, including The Next Government Workforce, Employee Engagement, Disrupting the Status Quo of We’ve Always Done It That Way, Driving Innovation and Reimagining Leadership. He consistently receives rave reviews for his presentations as a result of his energetic style, his ability to connect with an audience, and his willingness to impart actionable information.

Fee: $8,000
Travels From: ME

Sally Kohn is one of the leading progressive voices in America today. A frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, she explores political division, hate, otherizing, diversity and identity — and how we can solve the deep problems of our past and present.

Fee Range: $20,000–$30,000
Travels From: ME