Computer science professor Randy Pausch, who was dying of pancreatic cancer, stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, 2007, and gave his last lecture, advice on “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”—since then, footage of the last lecture has been seen by tens of millions of people on television and the Internet.

Join Jeffrey Zaslow, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-author, with Dr. Pausch, of the international bestseller The Last Lecture, and discover Randy’s unique vision and insights into how to achieve career and personal goals.

Sharing lessons learned in his many hours writing the book with the professor, Zaslow brings an unforgettable first-hand look into a story that has captivated people worldwide.

Daniel Pink is an expert on innovation, competition, and the changing world of work. His most recent book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, is America’s first business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga, and reveals six essential lessons for thriving in the business marketplace.

Pink, a Contributing Editor at Wired and former speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, is also the author of the New York Times and BusinessWeek best-seller A Whole New Mind—the groundbreaking guide to surviving, thriving, and finding meaning in an outsourced, automated, upside down world.

Join Dan for unique insights into what makes talented people tick, and the essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend in the current-day business environment.

Discover the power of effective, strategic employee recognition. The relationship between recognition and improved business results is highly predictable—it's proven to work. But it's not the employee recognition some of us have been using for years.

Chester Elton, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance, reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken—including case studies from Disney, DHL, KPMG, and Pepsi Bottling Group—which shows definitively that frequent and effective recognition is the central characteristic of the most successful managers.

Learn remarkably simple but powerful recognition methods which you can easily learn and begin practicing for immediate results. Great recognition doesn't take time, and it doesn't take budget-busting amounts of money—but it leads to dramatically greater business success.

You've seen Wendy Liebman on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, HBO, and Comedy Central's The Daily Show (to name a few).

In 20 years of performing stand-up comedy, Wendy Liebman has learned valuable lessons that can be applied to any career—"Timing is everything. Time is everything else," and "Pray that no one throws anything at your head."

Wendy was named the comedians' spokesperson for Rx Laughter, a research project aimed at finding the actual physical links between humor and healing, laughter and health. Experience Wendy's unique comedic style in a special evening performance and help recover your good humor with Rx Laughter.