The Motivator

Raleigh, NC

$500 and up

Travels up to 120 miles

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Overview

Dr. Earl Johnson is a visionary leader, empowering motivator, dynamic speaker, trainer and life coach. He is a frequent speaker in churches, business conferences and retreats. He is the author of four books, including “leadership principles for small businesses.” Earl has over twenty-five years of experience as a public speaker and is well received in local, regional and national circles. He has received numerous speaking and leadership awards. Dr. Johnson is a frequent guest on various radio programs and is often called on to comment on current events. Earl is skilled in leadership development and conducts workshops tailored to meet specific needs for any organization.


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Booking information

Price range: $500 and up

Languages: English

Gig length: 45 - 120 minutes

What to expect

You will be inspired by Earl’s life story of overcoming, overachieving and over accomplishing life’s challenges. He has a compelling story to tell about his journey from a small rural town in Southeastern Virginia to the bright lights of New York City and beyond.

He’ll discuss how difficult the journey was, how he survived depression, anxiety, hopelessness, low self-esteem and a chronic case of the fear of failure.

You will learn five unique choices necessary to overcome any adversity and achieve greater victory in your business, your leadership and your life.

With Dr. Johnson’s inspiring messages, you can feel confident that that your audience will learn new ideas that’s guaranteed to fire up, pump up, and inspire them to achieve greater success.

Whether he is speaking on a unique topic that’s tailored to your audience or conducting a leadership training session, you can expect for your audience to receive and discover unique qualities about themselves and their ability to perform seemingly impossible tasks.

Earl’s inspiring story of overcoming tremendous odds to achieve the level of success he has will captivate your audience and convince them that greatness lies within them.

His life transforming messages are spoken with grit, passion and heartfelt emotions. His strategies, which are consistent with his relationship with John Maxwell and Les Brown, as well as his own published books, seeks to propel others to action without being judgmental or overbearing.

When you book Earl you will get valuable information for long term development, action steps that can be used immediately, strategic results and useful solutions relevant to your groups challenges, needs, and goals.

You and your organization will be inspired, pumped up and ready for action after spending time with one of the most dynamic speakers of his generation.

Some unique features include:

Leading others before leading yourself

The cost of effective leadership

Putting your dreams to test

The 21 laws of irrefutable leadership

The 10 laws of effective communication

How to add value to others

Building self confidence

The 15 laws of growth

Personal branding

Five keys to achieving your objectives

Experiencing phenomenal growth

The power of networking

As an inspiring speaker, motivatior and leadership trainer, Earl will encourage your group to take action today, now and live in the moment.

About

Dr. Earl C. Johnson is one of the most dynamic public speakers of his generation. To his friends he is known as a “speaking machine” because of his passion in speaking and motivating others. He has spoken before thousands and has over twenty five years of speaking experience directed to various audiences.

When it comes to leadership training and development, Dr. Johnson is one of the best in his field. As a John Maxwell Certified Team Member, he has perfected the art of leading mastermind groups, facaliting effective workshops and developing leadership programs for businesses, churches and non-profits. His newly published book, “Leadership Principles for Small Businesses,” is being recognized by many as a valuable tool to enhance leadership effectiveness.

Johnson teaches from a six core system developed by John Maxwell as part of the Maxwell system. The material he presents is the best available in the industry. He is also the author of four books written from different genres.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a concentration in religion from Virginia Union University; a Master of Divinity Degree from The Samuel Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Va.; and a Doctor of Ministry Degree in Metro-Urban Ministry from New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the nation's oldest seminary, located at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

As a theologian, leadership trainer, author, coach, motivational speaker and former pastor of over twenty years, Dr. Johnson brings an array of experience to his profession.

He is also the founder of The Success Dream Center, which is designed to help people from all ages and stages in fulfilling their dynasties.

Additional community involvement includes: Board member, Common Cause; Board member, SERA (Southeast Raleigh Assembly); Board member, General State Baptist Convention of North Carolina; The American Baptist Churches USA, Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, National Speakers Association, National Speakers Bureau, Habitat for Humanity, the Raleigh-Wake Missionary Baptist Association Board of American Baptists of the South.

In the academic area, Dr. Johnson was a former adjunct professor at Essex County Community College in Newark, NJ and at Burlington County Community College in Burlington, NJ, Buena Vista HS in Lexington, Va, where he taught world religion, homiletics, public speaking, African American religion and medical and Christian ethics.

Awards:

Religion awards from NC African American Women Association

10th Annual Fair Housing Award

NAACP man of the year

City of Raleigh Men's Fellowship Award

City of Raleigh Fair Housing Board

National Pan Hellenic Council of GRA for outstanding Leadership

Outstanding contributions to Wake County Child Welfare Families

Achievements:

John Maxwell Certified Independent Team Leader

Advocates for Education and leadership in community service/dedication

Majestic Leaders Approaching Philippi

Articles in the News & Observer Newspaper

Former Award Winning Reporter

Articles in the Washington Post

Radio program each Sunday at Shaw University 10am programming

Interviewed on NPR

Interviewed by the GRIO

Interviewed by Gazette Virginia

Perform seminars across the Nation

Work with inner city youth

Created church related programs for coaching and leadership development

Developed a Youth Leadership Academy

Dr. Johnson, is a native of South Boston, Virginia. He is a socially active individual who shows concern for others. He loves people and helping individuals reach their full potential. He is married and the father of two children.

He is widely known as being affable, friendly, socially conscious, wonderful father and husband, gregarious, determined, effective leader, and a man of the people.

For more information, please visit his website at (link hidden).

Additional booking notes

Because of my unique programming and services not much is required of except good lighting, an adequate sound system, platform for speaking, comfortable tables and chairs for your audience and PowerPoint projectors or the ability to connect computer equipment and a podium.

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