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Dana LaMon is an internationally-known motivational speaker and author who has inspired people from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Africa, Botswana, and over half of the States of the U.S. He has been a professional speaker for over fifteen years. He earned the distinction of World Champion of Public Speaking in 1992 from Toastmasters International. The following year Toastmasters added to his honors the Accredited Speaker designation, an accolade given to fewer than 60 Toastmasters in the organization's 82-year history. Dana LaMon is the author of the motivational books THE SOUL'S MIRROR: Reflections on the Fullness of Life, published in 1997, and THE EXCELLENCE BOOK: 104 Principles for Living and Working, published in 2000. In 2004 he published MASTER THE CEREMONIES: The Emcee's Handbook for Excellence. Dana has been blind since age four. Growing up in Compton, California, as one of twelve children, he now lives in Lancaster, California, with his wife Jacqueline and their four children. Despite Dana's visual disadvantage, he earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Yale University and a law degree from the University of Southern California. He has been a member of the California State Bar since 1978. Dana currently serves as an Administrative Law Judge for the California Department of Social Services. He has held such position since 1981. Dana LaMon is the owner of ImageWorth, a company founded in 1991. Through this business he promotes his Principles for Meaningful Living. He gives motivational keynotes and seminars covering the topics of performance excellence, benefiting from change, risk taking, overcoming challenges, and diversity and inclusion. He speaks to audiences from corporate executives to kindergarten students and from religious congregations to prison inmates. |