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Networking Brilliance
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NATURAL • NURTURING • NETWORKING
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Awaken Your Voice
There has never been a better time to bring into the open, conversations around Diversity and Inclusion.
Book Brilliance Publishing is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. We are:
• an organisation that is built on collaboration • an organisation that values a sense of community and
‘belonging’ • an organisation that respects and understands difference, diversity and inclusion • an organisation that represents authors, entrepreneurs and speakers of all backgrounds, regardless of colour, class, race, sexuality and education.
Our VALUES: INTEGRITY – built on Honesty, Open-Mindedness, and Trust
RELIABILITY – built on Productivity, Efficiency, and Excellence
COLLABORATION – built on Partnership, Empowerment, and Creativity Our MISSION: We deliver proven success strategies to heart-led authorpreneurs, empowering them to go Beyond their Book, and make a difference in the world.
Our VISION: To build a brilliant global community of heart-led authorpreneurs, guiding them to extra-ordinary happiness, success and prosperity.
With such a solid foundation built on integrity and collaboration, you can understand that networking is also a fundamental facet of Book Brilliance Publishing’s business and we are committed to and embrace all the joy, insight and ‘ah ha’ moments it brings.
At our Awaken Your Voice networking monthly event, the evening is all about finding your voice, sharing your story, and talking your truth. Whether you are an aspiring author or speaker and entrepreneur today, Awaken Your Voice is a platform enabling you to be seen, heard and noted. Each month an invited guest speaker, who is making a difference and impact as an authorpreneur, talks about their experiences.
To ensure its brilliant success, our invited great speakers inspire our guests and we provide breakout rooms for people to get to know each other and share their stories. We also encourage the audience through the open mic sessions to speak their truth as well as engage in intimate conversations through questions and answers with our guest speaker.
As part of our commitment to D&I, we have a D&I Ambassador, Carol Edmondson, who supports our work reflecting her own mission in this area.
Remember, different backgrounds offer diversity of thought, ideas and knowledge.
Brenda Dempsey – Publisher and CEO of Book Brilliance Publishing champions Diverse Authors, Speakers and Entrepreneurs, leading them to extra-ordinary success.
Carol Edmondson – Diversity & Inclusion Ambassador for Book Brilliance Publishing. Carol is a woman of faith, a wife, mother of an amazing son, public speaker, event lead, and host for Kaushalya UK’s online platform for Women Empowerment, and more recently ‘Men Are From Mars’ events which is a mix of male and female speakers.
Voice & Pen
Robert Kiyosaki
I am a firm believer in collaboration, and it begins with networking, where you can build strong, lasting relationships. It is an opportunity to meet like-minded people with a similar purpose, drive and intention of making a difference in the world.
Whether you are an author, speaker or entrepreneur, vital to your success is communicating with clarity for a more significant impact, influence and inspiring others into action. Voice & Pen’s vision is to build a community of business owners who communicate with more significant impact and at the same time, create a profitable business. Voice & Pen offers an opportunity for you to be spotlighted through the Author’s and Expert’s Voice and Open Mic. It is the place to be seen, heard and noted as an author when you launch your book with Book Brilliance Publishing.
At the heart of being an author, speaker or entrepreneur lies great business brilliance and at Voice & Pen, you will have the opportunity to listen and learn from many experts in the business, publishing and public speaking worlds to elevate and expand your business.
THE INFLUENCER’S VOICE
Dr Shama Hussain
Dr Shama Hussain is a philanthropist, academic and founder of the International Institute of Influencers. Read on to find out why she truly believes in Education for Life.
Who has been the greatest inspiration in your life so far, and why? When it comes to inspiration, where do I start?! Scientifically speaking, inspiration means taking oxygen in, taking in life. So, my MOTHER is my inspiration as she has given me oxygen and life. Yes, every mother in the world is an Inspiration, not excluding my mother. Even though she doesn’t know much about worldly education, she has taught me all the ethics of education of life. She introduced the word ‘resilience’ into my life. When I was scared of uncertainty, she was the one who taught me that NOTHING is more important than YOU. She taught me not to value these uncertainties and challenges in life. That’s the reason I am not scared of anything in life. My only challenge or competitor is MYSELF. She has taught me the emotional, mental and spiritual factors required for the iceberg of life. Finally, I AM COMPLETE BECAUSE OF HER.
Why is education so important to you? In my opinion, education remains when one has forgotten what one studied in school. I believe real education brings peace to the soul and resiliency in life and fulfils the purpose of life. There would be no hatred, no wars, if the real spirit of education prevailed in everyone’s heart. So I advocate Education for LIFE, rather than education for living. We can appreciate the essential ingredients of life like Gratitude, Compassion, Passion, Peace, Brotherhood and Happiness.
What was the catalyst for you to create the International Institute of Influencers? A dream when you dream alone is just a dream, but a dream you dream together is a reality. This was the catalytical force that laid the foundation for the International Institute of Influencers. It’s my vision to spread the realistic value of education in the world. “Humanisation of Education” means Education for LIFE, not just for Living - it’s not just a thought, it’s taking Action. When we promote this by building individual influencers globally, we will not find any wars globally. We need great leaders now who are Influencers. A leader cannot influence until s/he becomes an influencer. So if we need great leaders in the world, we need to build influencers. I wanted to create the ripples of positivity and empowerment by creating a vast network of influencers worldwide. I want to spread the message of resilience through our influencers worldwide.
What is the success of this initiative so far? International Institute of Influencers is spreading the humanisation of education in every school, college, university, and individual through our eight verticals: ITF (International Training Forum), IHS (International House of Speakers), IAWI (International Association of Women Influencers), IBI (International Bank of Influencers), IAFB (International Academic Fraternity Board), ISFB (International Student Fraternity Board), YLP (International Youth Leadership Programme), I-TRANSFORM and GLOBAL EXPRESS TV. We provide training to different parts of the world through our core values of Leadership, Resiliency, Integrity, Accountability and Emotional Intelligence. We have impacted many individuals and organisations. We have built many influencers, and they are our brand ambassadors who are spreading the mission of humanisation of education. We are not building just Education; we are building Values and Emotional Intelligence. We have spread across Nigeria, Southeast Asia, Canada, India and the UAE.
Miss Brenda, you are one of the kind human beings and an empowered influencer that I have met through this International Institute of Influencers. How are you ensuring a global impact of your vision? I believe in the survival of the fittest idea conceived by Charles Darwin; therefore it is part of my vision that we be the best version of ourselves. I am sure after this pandemic, everybody must embrace this attitude and come out of the old leadership and education system norms. Through the re-invention of leadership, we are influencing the impact and ethics of Influencers by 360 degrees. We want to root for others and watch them grow.
What else have you developed as part of the III? As a part of III, in addition to empowerment and training, I have developed a bond, a global family of influencers. These elements are what III has earned; a unique family of influencers who are ready to spread the ripples of positivity and empowerment. How do you intend to inspire the next generation of leaders? The secret recipe to inspire the next generation for outstanding leadership is to develop Emotional Intelligence. I firmly believe it is the only ingredient that can take us out of the bumpy roads and rollercoaster ride of the post-pandemic world.
In addition, we have IHS (International House of Speakers), where we enhance the spirit of authentic leadership by giving voice to the voiceless. We are building influencers, so we are building Leaders. Join us on this fantastic journey of INFLUENCERS…
