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is an American motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is
best known as the founder and co-creator of The New York Times No. 1
best-selling "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently
has over 65 titles and 80 million copies in print in over 37 languages.
According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor
Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.
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With a BA from Harvard University, a Masters from University of
Massachusetts, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Santa Monica,
Canfield has been a high school and university teacher, a workshop facilitator,
a psychotherapist, and for the past 30 years, a leading authority in the area of
self-esteem and personal development.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The
Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. Self Esteem Seminars
trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees on how to
accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals, while The
Foundation for Self Esteem provides self-esteem resources and trainings to
social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals. Canfield is
also the President of Souperspeakers.com, a speaking resource service that
provides inspirational speakers for event planners worldwide.
Canfield has traveled to over 21 countries, delivering hundreds of keynote
speeches, workshops and trainings each year. As part of his presentation style,
he always uses inspirational, motivational and uplifting stories to help his
audiences discover, experience and retain key concepts and approaches. After
each session, audiences everywhere had encouraged him to put his stories into a
single book.
In 1990, while on an airplane home, he felt that it was time. He shared his idea
with author Mark Victor Hansen during breakfast one day. Hansen liked the idea,
and so began the Chicken Soup for the Soul phenomenon. But with their busy
schedules, translating what worked on the podium onto the written page proved
more challenging than either of them had anticipated. After three long years,
the two had compiled just sixty-eight stories — a far cry from the 101 they
believed was the magic number for a successful book. Nonetheless, their
successful partnership has spawned many other titles that have made them
enormously famous.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning
America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN’s Talk Back Live, PBS and the BBC. Today, he
speaks shares his success strategies with companies and associations worldwide.
The most recent book Canfield has written was the 2005 publication of The
Success Principles. In it Canfield shares 64 principles that he and other people
have utilized to achieve great levels of success.
motivational speakers
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