Rob Dubin
Rob Dubin is an in demand keynote speaker and corporate trainer specializing in employee happiness, engagement and resilience. He is a serial entrepreneur who created multiple 7 figure businesses and he has partnered with dozens of Fortune 500 companies to craft their marketing messages, improve training and increase profits.
After a near death wilderness survival experience that was international news and resulted in a call from the President of the United States Rob focused more his life on understanding human happiness and life fulfillment. At the age of 42 he and his wife sold their home, bought a sailboat and set off to sail around the world. They went on to spend the next 17 years living on their sailboat and learning about happiness from people in over 100 countries.
Rob has studied happiness with Yale University and spoken on Happiness at Harvard University. He has appeared on stage with Tony Robbins and Les Brown, on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox and others. His TEDx talk on Happiness was viewed over 250,000 times in its first three months. A book Rob co-authored focusing on Employee Happiness is an Amazon No. 1 Best Seller and Barnes and Nobel No. 4 in business books. He interweaves the science of human happiness with lessons learned at sea resulting in presentations that are memorable, inspirational and give sound strategies for creating happier people starting immediately.
Avish Parashar
Avish grew up in “exotic” Poughkeepsie, NY and now makes his home in Philadelphia, PA. Though he performed all through high-school, he decided to stop performing when he went to college to “focus on his studies” (his parents were very proud of this decision).
That resolve lasted only a few months, as the first time he saw an improv comedy show he fell in love (his parents were slightly less proud). One week later he auditioned for the campus improv group, got in, and the rest is history. After graduating, he started Polywumpus Improv Comedy, which performed regularly in and around Philadelphia for seven years. Avish closed up Polywumpus to focus on the speaking and training side of the business – using improv comedy as a tool to teach valuable business skills such as creativity, innovation, and adaptability.
Weaving together humorous stories, jokes, audience interaction, and improv comedy games, Avish keeps the audience engaged while imparting a key lesson: Planning is Important, but Improvising is Essential! No matter how well you plan, things will go wrong, surprises will arise, and the Universe will throw you a curveball. Your success and sanity are directly related to how you respond these challenges. By the end of one of Avish’s presentations you will have key tools to flow with all that life throws at you. Avish has spoken to the very creative (actors and directors), the very un-creative (accountants), the very casual (college students), and the very business-like (sales professionals). The end result is always the same – smiles, laughs, and a new way of looking at life and business.
Avish is the author of “Improvise to Success!” and the Amazon best-selling, “Say ‘Yes, And!'” (And yes, his parents are once again very proud.)