Mark Victor Hansen

Mark Victor Hansen's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
In the area of human potential, no one is better known and more respected than Mark Victor Hansen. Known as "America's Ambassador of Possibility" and "One of the Top Ten Motivational Speakers," Mark Victor Hansen is in high demand as a keynote speaker by many of North America's top corporations and professional associations worldwide. The Chicken Soup for the Soul idea was just one of many that has propelled Mark Victor Hansen into a worldwide spotlight as a sought-after keynote speaker, best-selling author and marketing maven. His credentials include a lifetime of entrepreneurial success, in addition to an extensive academic background.

Mark Victor Hansen is also a prolific writer with many popular books such as The Power of Focus, The Aladdin Factor, Dare to Win and others. Mark Victor Hansen has also made a profound influence through his extensive speaking presentations and enriching articles in the areas of big thinking, sales achievement, publishing success and personal and professional development.

Mark Victor Hansen's energy and exuberance travels still further through mediums such as television (Oprah, CNN and The Today Show), print (TIME, US News & World Report, USA Today, The New York Times and Entrepreneur) and countless radio and newspaper interviews as he assures people that, "You can easily create the life you deserve."

Mark Victor Hansen is also known as a passionate philanthropist and humanitarian, working tirelessly for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross, March of Dimes and Childhelp USA among others.
In the last twenty years, Mark Victor Hansen has made over four-thousand presentations to more than 2 million people in 32 countries. He has spent a lifetime dedicated to his mission of making a profound and positive difference in people's lives. Mark Victor Hansen is an enthusiastic crusader of what's possible and is driven to make the world a better place.

More About Mark Victor Hansen . . .
The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans honored Mark Victor Hansen with the prestigious "Horatio Alger Award." Each year, this association honors American leaders who personify the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories written by 19th century American author Horatio Alger, Jr. As an award winner, MarkVictor Hansen's extraordinary life achievements stand as a powerful example that the free enterprise system still offers opportunity to all.

In 2000, Northwood University honored Mark Victor Hansen as the "Outstanding Business Leader of the Year." In 2002, the University of Toledo presented him with an Honorary PhD in Business Administration and established the Mark Victor Hansen Entrepreneurial Excellence Fund, that will help shape the minds of future business leaders and assist in the development of the faculty who will teach them.

Mark Victor Hansen is also the founder of annual conferences where he coaches and teaches new and aspiring authors, speakers and experts on building lucrative publishing and speaking careers.

• The Power of Focus - How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty in Troubled Economic Times:
  

  Based on the best-selling book Mark co-wrote with Jack Canfield and Les Hewitt, "The Power of Focus" marches past pie-in-the-shy hopes and dusty well-intentioned plans to immediate organization, clarity and action in every facet in your life. You'll find that, by giving this plan your priority and commitment, you'll be creating absolutely revolutionary, permanent movement forward. Learn how to get past old procrastination patterns and ingrained habits that keep you from your targets. Create healthy new strategies and implement consistent persistence. Learn when to ask and when to act. And find ways to scrabble over any barrier or stalling tactic to achieve your better future, your fully realized and capable you.

• The Aladdin Factor - How to Ask for and Get Everything You Want:
  

  How many times have you heard the statement, "All you had to do was ask"? Too often we settle for lives less ordinary. We suffer through unfulfilled relationships, stifling career paths, and frustrating, dead-end communication with anyone from waiters to world leaders because of one simple factor: We haven't learned how to ask, or we don't feel we deserve it. With humor and understanding, Mark Victor Hansen teaches you exactly how to ask for startling and immediate results in every facet of your life.

• Sell Yourself Rich - A Proven Path to Your Financial Freedom:
  

  What master salesman Mark Victor Hansen can teach you about sales in just one day, most people couldn't learn in a lifetime. Born an optimist and silver-tongued persuader, Mark Victor Hansen has devoted years of his life to tweaking his own sales skills while seeking out and applying the best from the rest of the world's sales masters. Designed specifically for commission salespeople and independent professionals, Sell Yourself Rich will help you attain the time, money, freedom you want and deserve. Hone your sales mentality, presentation, scripts and negotiation techniques to razor-edge sharpness, and still enjoy a sales career of high integrity, lifelong client friendships and enormous income realization with these easy-to-implement new skills.

• How to Outperform Yourself - Expanding Your Vision of What's Possible:
  

  What's keeping you from your living a magical and fulfilled life is not in your bank book, your family history, your previous choices, or the people around you. Granted, these issues can be factors that keep you from your better life . . . but the fact is, what's keeping you from your dreams is you. In this session, Mark Victor Hansen pulls from the vast reservoir of research and solution he's compiled throughout his career, to first help you recognize and nail down your specific fears. Then, the extraordinary process of a better life begins as you immediately begin to create goals, visualize their achievement, banish negative self-talk and insert positive affirmation into your life, and learn how to shift problems into opportunity to reap the rewarding life you deserve.

"Wow! You did such an amazing job. The Turner employees felt especially honored to have met you. You made us all feel like we could more forward in such a positive way in life with your creative exercises for personal and professional focus. You were a major hit!”

---Robyn Spizman
Turner Broadcasting

"I knew you would be the perfect speaker for our group, but I was surprised by the incredible interaction you had with the audience. I was amazed at how you kept them involved, responsive and laughing for the entire 90 minutes! You left our 20th Anniversary Convention truly energized!"

--- Laurie Van Horn
Discovery Toys