How do you build a $100 million business as a speaker with honor, graciousness, and generosity? It's simple! Recognize your Privilege of the Platform and aim to serve others. In this live, virtual Fireside Chat, Naomi Rhode, CSP, CPAE and former NSA President, will sit down with Alaina G. Levine and discuss how she launched and grew a speaking business that spans the globe and allows her to continuously give back to the community. Naomi will share her secrets of success, how she got started and how she scaled, and what speakers at all levels can do to advance their goals in service of others.
This live, virtual event is the first in a series of NSA Arizona Fireside Chats, intimate conversations with Speaking Leaders and Legends about their careers, craft, and counsel for building, growing, and scaling muy caliente speaking businesses. Audience members are invited to ask questions and the recordings are made available to NSA Arizona members.
About Naomi:
Naomi Rhode (pronounced Rhode E), CSP, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®, a graduate and alumni of the year of the University of Minnesota, has spoken annually before thousands of healthcare professionals and their team members, corporations, conventions, non-profit organizations, and Christian ministries, sharing her expertise on leadership, team building, life and interpersonal relationships. Naomi stimulates her audience to achieve new levels of professional and personal growth. She has spoken in all 50 states and 15 foreign countries, and is a member of Speakers Roundtable, a recipient of the prestigious Cavett Award, and Past President of the National Speakers Association and The Global Speakers Federation.
Naomi is co-founder of SmartPractice, and POP, (Privilege of the Platform). For the multitudes that have heard her, Naomi’s warmth, enthusiasm and unique insight into the dynamics of person-to-person relationships have made her a “Remembered Experience”. In addition to being a much-sought-after professional speaker, and emcee, she is the author of four inspirational books, 'My Father’s Hand, The Gift of Family, A Legacy of Love', 'More Beautiful Than Diamonds, The Gift of Friendship', and has co-authored Speaking Secrets of the Masters, Meditations for Road Warriors and many other multi-authored books. She has also produced many audio and video series including 'Marriage: A Celebration of Unity and Uniqueness' and is a clinician and leader at the annual Staff Appreciation Seminar in Hawaii. Naomi is also a proficient Speaking and Life coach. Together, Naomi and her husband Jim, who is also a CSP and former President of NSA, have been a team in building the speaking business and their companies. They have 3 children, 12 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren. They are blessed together, and a blessing to others.
