You know you could be waking up on fire every day. You could be accomplishing truly meaningful things. Have a powerful impact on the world. Do something you were born to do. You could be surrounded by alive, engaging people — people you admire and respect and who admire and respect you. You could be living a bold and passionate life.
It’s true — your life could be like this. You’ve probably felt it. Maybe you’ve even done something about it, yet still know you can improve your game.
You’ve probably had some kind of wake-up call in your life …
You’re no longer convinced that a bigger paycheck, a nicer house, a cooler car, more “toys,” or a sexier partner are going to bring more meaning into your life. You’re beyond those clichés, beyond pursuing someone else’s dreams. You know there’s more to life than what you’ve seen and done so far.
Because you’ve had this ‘A-HA,’ you get that those old desires are a dead-end road.
You know there’s something bigger for you … yet merely knowing isn’t enough.
Life may feel like it’s stuck in a rut. You keep doing the same things — or maybe even different things — but none of them truly resonate as that missing piece. The thing that really sets the clear direction for your life and brings you alive … from the inside out. And as long as it’s missing, your life will keep feeling empty.
Of course, maybe you don’t feel that way. Maybe your life is going exactly the way you want it to. You wake up inspired. You jump out of bed knowing exactly what to do. Your power and impact are growing. You’re totally alive and achieving huge things …
If that sounds like you, you’ve probably discovered that one core thing ALL men need to live a rich, fulfilling and meaningful life.
Like every hero who ever lived…or was imagined, a man needs purpose. It’s what gives him energy. Direction. Focus. A sense of power by bestowing his unique gifts and talents upon the world that needs his passion, creativity and care.
But how do you find it — and live it?
If you’re not really inspired or fully engaged…if you’re not growing in your power…if you’re not living the absolutely bad-ass life you know is meant for you …
Then now is the time to step up to the plate. To get crystal clear on your purpose.
It’s time for you to start. To heed the call. Time to put first things first … to discover and start living your purpose as a man.
You’ve likely been waiting for a sign. This is it. It’s time to answer the call.
And like any heroic call, you cannot go it alone. Join us as we set out together on a mission of discovery.
The journey before us is one all men face, and it’s best taken together.
From February 27 through March 2, 2013, dozens of luminaries came together to shine a light for us. These men have lived big lives, they have struggled, grown, and conquered. They’ve done the most important thing any man can do: stepped up and served. Now it’s your turn.
Be part of the shift that is happening: “Wake up. Don’t delay. Live big. Give your gifts … every day.”
The Power of Purpose Online Summit is a FREE public service program of The ManKind Project USA, part of a global nonprofit charitable organization [501(c)(3)] that conducts challenging and highly rewarding programs for men at every stage of life.
Dan Millman is a former world-champion gymnast, Stanford coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. He is the author of the international best-seller Way of the Peaceful Warrior, as well as three books on purpose -- The Life You Were Born to Live, Living on Purpose and The Four Purposes of Life.
After half a lifetime exploring the heart of various wisdom traditions, he has dedicated his life to teaching the Peaceful Warrior's Way, and bringing greater clarity, purpose, meaning, and perspective to men and women from all walks of life.
Dan’s other books, including No Ordinary Moments, The Laws of Spirit and The Journeys of Socrates, have inspired millions of readers around the world.
Dan brings a practical, light-hearted approach to the challenges of everyday life at work and at home. As a former athlete, he prefers practical outcomes to abstract philosophy. His purpose is to teach, to share, and to remind people of what they already know but might have forgotten. Dan’s presentations range from 20-minute keynotes to full-day and weekend presentations, to week-long intensive trainings.
Married for over 30 years, Dan and his wife live in northern California.
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As the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a new and significant genre. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of more than 123 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise, Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success. Over the last 30 years, his compelling message, empowering energy and personable coaching style has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve their dreams.
Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack has studied and reported on what makes successful people different. He knows what motivates them, what drives them, and what inspires them. He brings this critical insight to countless audiences internationally---sharing his success strategies in the media, with companies, universities and professional associations.
His proven formula for success reached global acclaim with his most recent National Bestseller, The Success Principles™: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. This new standard in self-improvement contains 64 powerful principles for success utilized by top achievers from all walks of life and all areas of commerce.
Jack is a Harvard graduate with a Master's Degree in psychological education and one of the earliest champions of peak-performance, developing specific methodologies and results-oriented activities to help people take on greater challenges and produce breakthrough results.
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Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before experiencing his now famous conversation with God. The “Conversations with God” series of books that emerged from those encounters has been translated into 37 languages, touching millions and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives. Seven of the books in that series reached the New York Times Bestseller List, “Conversations with God, Book 1” occupying that list for over two-and-a-half years. The most recent of Neale’s 28 books include “When Everything Changes, Change Everything” (2010), “The Storm Before the Calm” (2011), and “The Only Thing That Matters”, released in October, 2012.
In order to deal with the enormous response to his writings, Neale has created several outreach projects, including the CWG Foundation, CWG for Parents, Humanity’s Team, the Changing Change Network, and The Global Conversation, all accessible at the www.CWGPortal.com, and all dedicated to help the world move from violence to peace, from confusion to clarity, and from anger to love.
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Chris Attwood is co-author of the New York Times bestseller, “The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose”. He is an expert in the field of human consciousness and is also deeply grounded in the practical world of business.
During the past ten years he has become one of the leading trainers and authors in the transformational industry, creating programs such as the Enlightened Millionaire Program and co-founding Healthy Wealthy nWise magazine. He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council, which includes over 100 of the top speakers, trainers and authors in the world and of the Expert’s Industry Association.
Chris is an expert in creating “enlightened alliances,” having played a key role, with his business partner, Janet Bray Attwood, in arranging 70% of the interviews for the movie phenomenon, The Secret, and in creating the alliance relationships that launched #1 NY Times bestselling author, T. Harv Eker, in the United States.
Chris is committed to the experience and expression of the unlimited potential of the heart and mind. It is this commitment that weaves throughout his courses and workshops.
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Richard Leider is Founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm that has created a wide array of programs and experiences for clients such as AARP, Caterpillar, Ericsson, Habitat for Humanity, and MetLife.
Richard is the author of eight books, including three best sellers, and his work has been translated into 21 languages. “The Power of Purpose” and “Repacking Your Bags” are considered classics in the personal growth field.
Richard is consistently rated as one of the top executive coaches in the world. He is ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the "Top 5" most respected executive coaches, by Linkage as one of the "Top 50" executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a "legend in coaching." He is an Executive Fellow at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management and is a guest lecturer in the Harvard Business School and Duke Corporate Education.
Considered a pioneer in the field of "positive aging," Richard's work has received recognition from the Bush Foundation, from which he was awarded a Bush Fellowship. Richard is arguably one of the most in‐demand coaches in the world. For over 30 years he has helped more than 100,000 people from over 50 corporations discover the power and possibility to pursue life's big question: "What gets you up in the morning?"
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Tim Kelley is an acclaimed speaker, coach and author. He is the author of “True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You Are Meant to Make”, and co-author of the best-selling book, “Wake Up... Live the Life You Love: Living on Purpose”.
Tim has inspired countless audiences with his message of hope and empowerment and has helped many leaders find their life's purpose. He has trained hundreds of coaches, facilitators, and consultants and has transformed entire organizations by working with their executive teams to bring passion and inspiration throughout their work force. His clients include Hewlett Packard, American Airlines, Deloitte & Touche, Charles Schwab, Bayer, in addition to numerous smaller companies and startups.
Tim is certified by Helen Palmer to teach the Enneagram, a Certified Dream Coach®, and also a trained Voice Dialogue facilitator. Additionally, Tim has commanded military organizations, including an ammunition handling team, an amphibious assault craft unit, a submarine repair unit, and an at-sea cargo handling detachment. He is a skilled navigator and a decorated Naval Reserve officer. Before beginning his career as a speaker, author, and consultant, he was a development director at Oracle Corporation, where he worked for eight years. Tim holds a bachelor's degree in theoretical mathematics from MIT.
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Coach Michael Taylor is an entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker and radio show host. He considers himself to be an irrepressible optimist with a passion for the impossible. He has dedicated his life to empowering men to live extraordinary lives and therefore he writes books, facilitates lectures and provides a radio program dedicated to assisting men in this endeavor.
He is launching a new television series titled “A New Conversation With Men” (based on his book of the same title) in which he shares insights and wisdom to support men in embracing a new paradigm of masculinity.
When he’s not writing or lecturing he enjoys, books, computers, movies, listening to 70’s & 80’s soul music, meditating and hanging out with his wife Bedra. He is happily married with three grown children and currently resides in Stafford, Texas, just south of Houston.
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Mike is the author of two books, Focus on the Good Stuff and Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken. He’s an expert in teamwork, emotional intelligence, and the powers of appreciation and authenticity, and delivers keynotes and seminars that empower people and organizations to be more successful.
Mike’s clients include some of the top organizations and institutions in the world, such as Google, Wells Fargo, Adobe, Gap, Twitter, the San Francisco Giants, New York Life, Stanford University, Chevron, and many others.
Prior to his speaking and writing career, Mike was drafted by the New York Yankees out of high school, but turned them down and chose to play baseball at Stanford University where he pitched in the College World Series. After college, Mike was drafted by the Kansas City Royals. He played three seasons in the Royals organization before arm injuries ended his playing career while he was still in the minor leagues.
Mike and his work have been featured on ABC News, on the Oprah radio network, and in Forbes. He’s a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and his books have been translated into twelve different languages.
He, his wife Michelle, and their two daughters, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Bill Kauth was a psychotherapist and business consultant in 1984 when he conceived and co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure (now presented by The ManKind Project) to well over 50,000 men in 48 centers in 8 countries around the world.
In 1992 St. Martin’s Press published his book “A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men’s Support Groups”. As a social inventor over the last two decades, Bill also co-founded the Spiritual Warrior, Inner King Training and in 1995 launched the Warrior-Monk Training Retreat.
Feeling called in 2006 to build safe, trusting, long term, committed, local communities of men and women, Bill, with his wife Zoe Alowan, founded Gift Community and co-authored the book “We Need Each Other: Building Gift Community”. Together, with a focus on catalyzing “families of choice” and “gift tribes,” they have delivered 60+ seminars and tele-courses around the world.
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Rich Tosi is the co-founder of the ManKind Project, a nonprofit international men's educational organization that empowers and transforms men to realize their full potential. Over 50,000 men have participated in ManKind Project trainings. Rich served as ManKind Project President for its first 12 years, and continues to sit on the Executive Committee as a consultant and mentor to this fast growing international organization. There are currently ManKind Project Trainings in the US, Canada, England, South Africa, France, Australia, New Zealand and Germany.
Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1963, he was commissioned as an Officer in 1969, seeing combat in Vietnam and completing his tour of duty as a Captain. He worked as an Industrial Engineer for General Motors. His ability to work with GM's highly unionized workforce allowed him to make a number of significant contributions to GM. One was the Occupational Ergonomics program he created at a Milwaukee plant which eventually became GM's worldwide model for ergonomics. He was also involved in creating a very successful Cost Reduction process as well as participating in the transition to the GM Production System.
Rich Tosi has a BA in Chemistry / Math from Vanderbilt University, and lives with his wife, Char, in Michigan.
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Integral Enlightenment founder Craig Hamilton is a pioneer in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. As the guiding force behind Integral Enlightenment, Craig offers spiritual guidance and teachings to a growing international community of thousands of students in 40 countries around the world. Through his online Academy for Evolutionaries, he teaches a series of experiential telecourses guiding participants through a process of spiritual awakening into an “evolutionary relationship to life.”
Craig’s work at Integral Enlightenment integrates decades of intensive spiritual practice with insights gleaned during his eight years as Senior Editor of the award-winning magazine, What Is Enlightenment? magazine. In his current work, he is helping to articulate an authentic evolutionary spirituality—an “integral enlightenment” which illuminates the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution.
Craig is a founding member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, a member of Deepak Chopra’s Evolutionary Leaders Forum, and was a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
His conversations with other luminaries form the basis of the acclaimed webinar series’, “The Great Integral Awakening: Pioneering A New Spiritual Path,” and “Awakening the Impulse to Evolve: The Birth of Evolutionary Spirituality.”
Craig lives with his wife, Claire, in San Rafael, California.
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Lion Goodman is co-founder of Luminary Leadership Institute, an accelerated initiatory program for leaders of businesses and organizations. He helps high-achieving individuals, executives and business owners discover their true purpose, live into their highest virtues, and fully manifest their own unique and extraordinary life. Lion is also the creator of The BeliefCloset® Process, a methodology for permanently transforming beliefs at the core of the psyche, which he has taught to hundreds of coaches, therapists and healers around the world.
Lion is the author of four books: “Creating On Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifestation”, “Transform Your Beliefs”, “Menlightenment – A Book for Awakening Men”, and “The Heart of Healing” with Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, and others.
Lion is a co-founder of The Tribe of Men, an initiatory program for men in Northern California. He served as Director of Men’s Programs for The Shift Network, where he produced the Ultimate Men’s Summit, a ten-day tele-summit with more than 20,000 participants. He also produced and directed the Shift Men’s Initiation, which drew men’s leaders from 12 countries.
He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, but considers himself to be a world citizen.
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Randy Crutcher, M.A. Ed.D has been an active participant in the human potential movement for over 40 years. As a trained therapist and research psychologist he was part of ground-breaking work in developing effective group treatment for men who batter after opening one of the nation’s first education and support centers for men’s health and well-being in the 1980’s. As a professor and program director on college campuses in the 1990’s he specialized in working with students in transition, helping people discover their passions and learn the skills of personal mastery and leadership.
Today he is a personal and professional development coach, facilitator, and consultant to organizations. He works on a team with Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood, co-authors of the New York Times best-selling book, The Passion Test. Randy trains and supports people and organizations to use powerful Passion Test tools that are helping people in 45 countries to gain greater clarity, passion, purpose, productivity and life fulfillment.
Find out more about Randy and his coaching work at: Quantum Leap Coaching »
Gregg Levoy is the author of “Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life”, rated among the "Top 20 Career Publications" by the Workforce Information Group and a text in various graduate programs in Management and Organizational Leadership. He has presented at the Smithsonian Institution, Environmental Protection Agency, National League of Cities, National Conference on Positive Aging, Microsoft, British Petroleum, the Universities of California/Colorado/Washington/Arizona/Nevada/Wisconsin/Texas and others, American Counseling Association, National Career Development Association, Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, ManKind Project Men’s Conference, and others, and has been a frequent guest of the media, including ABC-TV, CNN, NPR and PBS.
A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, and former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer, he has written about the subject of callings for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Reader’s Digest, and many others, as well as for corporate, promotional and television projects.
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Chris is a trainer, coach, speaker and founder of The Ascendant Company, a leadership development organization committed to helping individuals lead more potently from their passions and purpose in both their personal and professional lives.Chris has trained and coached hundreds of individuals to achieve greater success in their businesses and their lives. In partnership with The ManKind Project®, he recently created The Power of Purpose Summit and the Man On Purpose online course. He is also the co-creator, with Amy Ahlers, of the ongoing tele-series, New Man, New Woman, New Life.
Chris is the former Chief Development Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Evolving Wisdom LLC, an online learning company that produces virtual courses with leading luminaries in the personal development arena. At Evolving Wisdom he co-developed The Way of the Evolutionary Man tele-summit with host Craig Hamilton. Chris was an invited speaker for The Shift Network’s Ultimate Men’s Summit in 2011.
In addition to his leadership development work, Chris has spent over 24 years as an executive, entrepreneur, consultant and business coach, working in Fortune 500 companies and owning his own eco-adventure travel company.
Chris graduated from Stanford University where he studied Political Science. He lives with his wife in Northern California.
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George is a noted attorney, intervention coordinator, lecturer, workshop facilitator and poet. He has organized his entire life around this singular purpose: “To bring men and women to life by providing space and services for transformation, healing and reconciliation.”As a facilitator George concentrates his work in the areas of Self-Care, relapse prevention, spirituality and men's issues. Recently, George co-created and delivered a new possibility for transforming the political discourse and landscape in America. The experience, known as “A Parallel Democracy-A Place Beyond Politics”, was launched on January 19, 2013.
George is a certified Full Leader of men's educational trainings for The ManKind Project, an international non-profit men's support organization. And he served as The ManKind Project International Chairman from 2008 until 2011. George also coordinates interventions for persons who are afflicted with a broad range of problems including alcoholism, addiction, gambling, depression and anxiety.
George was born in Lima, Peru and came to the U.S. as a boy. He obtained his law degree from Southern Methodist University and his Bachelor's of Arts Degrees from Hillsdale College. George lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and two daughters.
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