Clint Cora Launches Motivational TV Show

Toastmasters DTM and motivational speaker Clint Cora has launched a new online Motivational WebTV show. It will be a fairly regular series discussing motivation, achieving success as well as diversity issues. The most current episode can be viewed right at the top of the Clint Cora website homepage.

College Speaker Clint Cora Enhances Campus Diversity Program

College speaker Clint Cora enhanced his college campus diversity program to reflect the current needs of the audience. This is something that all speakers should keep in mind when creating or updating their speeches or speaking programs. The fact in the college scene is that many students worry about finding their first big career jobs after graduation. So Clint added a job hunting component in his college diversity program to help students with great tips on resumes, job interviews and networking given this new world of diversity. This is making diversity skills practical. See the new description of his college speaking programs.

Diversity and Personal Development

Since our communities are becoming more diverse, one of the ways we can all grow as part of our own personal development is to expose ourselves to more diversity. Get to know people from other cultures, races and countries. We have great opportunities to do this right at our own Toastmasters club. When doing so, you will likely be faced with lots of foreign sounding names. So it's a great idea to confirm people's names and don't be shy to ask how to correctly pronounce their names. When people see that you are making an effort to pronounce their names correctly, it really opens up communications and shows that you care enough. This alone is a skill that is great for personal development.

Updated Motivational Speaker Video

Clint's updated motivational speaker video is now online at the middle of his homepage. There are also diversity bits from both corporate and college audiences. Renu from our TM club is also featured in this video.

Expecting New Posters Here On Our Toastmasters Club Blog

Additional club members, particularly from our Toastmasters club executive, will hopefully begin to start posting here on our blog. It would be great to get other comments and opinions on the meetings of our club.

Clint will be posting here less often as he concentrates on his own blogs including;

Motivation Diversity Success Blog

Pharmaceutical Sales Drug Representative Blog

Martial Arts Blog Bulletin

Inuit Native Art Blog

Scuba Diving Blog

Martial Arts Weapon and Campus Diversity

Unlike most diversity speakers, Clint Cora utilizes martial arts elements in his talks. Here is a campus showcase video clip that shows how he ties in university campus diversity with his martial arts weapon, the bo staff. Of course, since the bo staff is his top martial arts weapon to use in competition, Clint physically demonstrates some of the moves on stage with this weapon, much to the delight of audiences.

Next Book Will Be On Diversity

The next book project of motivational speaker and Karate World Champion Clint Cora will definitely be on diversity to complement his Kick Down Diversity Barriers talk. He's already scheduled writing time about five days per week for the next two months to this project. Hopefully, there will be a new book ready shortly after New Year sometime. Current book titles by Clint can be seen at his website. You can read the foreword to The Life Champion In You book there.

Government Letter About Motivational Diversity Presentations

Here's the actual letter I received from the Business Services Branch of the Ontario government regarding the two presentations I did at their meeting a few weeks ago. They booked me to do both my motivational and diversity presentations. Since any future bookings requesting both keynotes (motivational and diversity or the same keynote for two separate audiences) will probably involve having me present during the same day (and even back to back with a break in between), I will probably set a special rate for these double bills.

PDF Of Sexy Diversity Press Release

The PDF version of this week's Sexy Diversity press release is now available for reporters/writers of print media and online publications. This PDF version is brought to you by PRLog, an online press release website.

Canadian Motivational Speaker To Start Work On Next Book

Canadian motivational speaker Clint Cora will start to work on his next book project which will be on diversity since this is his other area of specialization. Clint's 'The Life Champion In You' complements his motivational talks and since demand for his diversity presentation is increasing, a book to complement it would be a logical step.

Sexy Diversity Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Yes, Diversity Can Make You Sexy!

Toronto, Ontario, Canada - October 22, 2009 - Diversity, inclusion and equity are important factors promoted in society these days, especially in companies. However, sometimes diversity is considered as just another politically correct topic that doesn’t grab much public interest. Fortunately according to motivational and diversity speaker Clint Cora, diversity can certainly be a very sexy topic.

Cora claims that personal skills, which he refers to as ‘diversity skills’, developed from interactions with a wide variety of people from different cultures make an individual more attractive and sexy. He even proves his claim with a fun audience activity during his talks.

Women Prefer Mr. Worldly

The ladies in his audiences are presented profiles of two different men. Bachelor number one is the ‘Sports & Beer’ guy who only likes to talk about sports and is not well traveled resulting in a very narrow exposure to different cultures. He’s the typical meat and potatoes man, preferring to stick with very standard cuisine with a few bottles of beer.

In contrast, bachelor number two through his travels around the world has been exposed to many different foreign cultures, people, food, customs and languages. This man is definitely more ‘worldly’ than the first one.

When the women are asked to choose which guy they think would be a more interesting date based on just these characteristics, Cora reports, “They always overwhelmingly vote in favor for Mr. Worldly.”

Diversity Skills Make People Sexier

This proves that if a man immerses himself with culture and develops the diversity skills to be able to interact well with many different people, he will probably be considered sexier than other men who are much less cultured.

This can work for the ladies as well since cultured and sophisticated women are often considered more sexy than those who are not adventurous enough to appreciate diversity.

Cora says, “Let’s face it, anybody who has experienced the world is always more interesting to talk to compared to somebody who hasn’t ventured out too far from home.” He goes on to add that, “A diverse environment also offers ideal opportunities for people to develop diversity skills.”

Since diversity skills are now essential to both business and personal success in a diverse society such as North America, Clint Cora, a well-traveled former corporate executive and karate world champion, presents a program called ‘Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success’ at companies, universities and colleges – see www.clintcora.com for more info and articles on success. Being skilled in diversity is indeed very sexy.

Contact Information:

Clint Cora
www.clintcora.com (high resolution photos available at website media section)
905-814-5763
contact@clintcora.com

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Clint Cora Interviewed By Campus Magazine

I just finished my interview with Jungle Campus magazine - they wanted my insights on stereotypes about women in careers and my observations from my corporate world experience. This was of course linked to diversity and people skills. I gave the writer some juicy real life stories. The issue should come out in the winter sometime.

Hotel Rwanda Movie and Rwandan Genocide

I just saw the movie Hotel Rwanda this weekend which was about how a hotel manager saved the lives of hundreds of people during the Rwandan genocide. The movie and some subsequent online research finally gave me a better understanding of what happened during this terrible period in Rwanda. It's absolutely incredible and sad how such a thing can still happen in modern times. We would think that our capacity to hate and discriminate should be diminished in humanity by now but looks like that's not the case unfortunately. This is yet another reason why diversity education is so important in our society so that something as horrible as the Rwandan genocide never happens again. At least this movie made me feel good that I as a human being, am doing something good for society by promoting and speaking on diversity.

Diversity Can Make You Sexy

Diversity is often a topic these days that fits under the politically correctness category and therefore not a very sexy topic. However, it doesn't have to be that way. Diversity can indeed make you sexy and everyone likes to be sexy. So here is a new article that discusses just how diversity can make you sexy!

Use Diversity Success Stories In Job Interviews

I spoke at an executive networking meeting this morning at the Metro Toronto Convention Ctr and did my 'Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success' presentation. Again, one of the tips I gave them was to be proactive and use diversity success stories in job interviews. Many companies want people who can work well with many types of people, ie., have great diversity skills. To talk about your past successes with diversity will really make you stand above the rest of the job market crowd since most of your competitors wouldn't even be thinking about talking about diversity during a job interview or an interview for a promotion to a more senior position. For more details on this area, see Diversity In Job Interviews.

New Campus Diversity Article By Toastmaster DTM

Diversity expert, speaker and Toastmasters DTM Clint Cora has a new article on diversity published in a college activities magazine by the organization COCA and in this article, Clint mentions that diverse student populations will benefit greatly from diversity skills development not only for enriched campus life but also for future careers since much of the working environment is so diverse.

Advice For College Students Facing Job Market

I was asked by a college magazine on some advice to give to college students, particularly seniors who will be facing the job market. Since I speak at colleges, one of the things that I tell students all the time is that they should work to develop their people skills, ie., their ability to interact well with lots of different types of people. People skills will be more important than their grades when determining how successful they will be in their future careers. Also, because we live in a more diverse society now, it is important for students to be able to work with people from all different backgrounds and cultures. This is what I do in my college diversity presentations. People and diversity skills, whether acquired through part time work, volunteer work or even extra-curricular activities with people other than their friends, will separate these forward thinking students from their competition in the job market. Of course, this will work equally well for those who have already graduate too.

Star Trek Is A Great Example Of Diversity

I saw the latest Star Trek movie yesterday and much like other types of movie (Star Wars, etc) in this science fiction genre, there is often a mix of different human races as well as aliens working together. This is a great example of diversity working at its best and this latest Star Trek movie was no exception. Seeing a developing friendship between Kirk and Spock was a real pleasure. Having said that, seeing Spock kissing with Uhura was certainly not expected!

Using Diversity In Job Interviews

Recently when I presented 'Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success' for an executive networking group, I suggested to them that one of the most powerful strategies that can be used during job interviews either externally (for new positions) or internally (for job promotions) involves diversity skills. The group thought that was the most important learning point for them. So I decided to write a new article based on this strategy of using diversity skills in job interviews. College and university grads will be able to use this strategy as well.

Corporate Diversity A Huge Observation

I was the guest keynote speaker at the annual general meeting for a career skills company last week where they had 150 staff from nine different branches come together for an entire afternoon. One of the huge observations I made right away was the high level of corporate diversity among the staff. Many races, cultures and a few handicapped individuals were represented. I will be the guest speaker for a local telephone company later this coming week and I expect a similar observation since utility companies also tend to have much corporate diversity. Although both of my keynotes for these two companies are motivational, I would think (hope) that they will want me to return to do a corporate diversity talk given their diverse staffs.