STEDMAN GRAHAM will speak at the 8th edition of the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) and receive the Career Excellence Award

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STEDMAN GRAHAM will speak at the 8th edition of the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) and receive the Career Excellence Award

 

Montreal, August 22, 2012 - Best-selling author, educator and entrepreneur Stedman Graham will present a conference entitled “The Nine-Step Plan for Success” at the 8th annual Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) on September 27, 2012. He will also receive the 2012 Career Achievement Award in recognition of his entire professional career. Thus, the Festival recognizes his extraordinary contribution to corporations and non-profit organizations through training in identity development, leadership, diversity training, personal wellness and personal and professional branding. The Festival will also pay tribute to his community involvement and philanthropy, particularly concerning youth.

 

“Stedman Graham is one of today’s leading authorities on emotional intelligence. His training seminars are highly effective because they make you focus on maximizing the true leader within yourself.” -David M. Reynolds, CFM, Former Vice President, Associate Director – Merrill Lynch.

The Montreal International Black Film Festival is much more than a festival. It exposes viewers to international Black realities through cinema and other forms of expression.”We want the festival to be a place of inspiration, motivation and development for filmmakers, but also for individuals who want to further their professional and personal lives. We have the privilege of hosting Stedman Graham as the first of what is sure to be many great speakers, and to award him with the Festival’s Career Excellence Award.” – Fabienne Colas, President – MIBFF Founder.

STEDMAN GRAHAM – BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

 

As an executive, best-selling author, educator and speaker, Stedman Graham works with corporations, organizations and non-profits in the areas of identity development, leadership, diversity training, personal wellness, and personal / professional branding. Clients have included Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo, Georgia Pacific, Pro-Line International, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Manpower, CNN, GlaxoSmithKline, Plains Capital Corporation, American College of Sports Medicine, YMCA, U.S. Olympic Committee, U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps, Credit-Suisse First Boston, Harvard and Wharton business schools and the U.S. Department of Education.

 

Graham has authored ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success and Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success.  Graham’s new book, Identity: Your Passport to Success, published by Pearson Education, was released in 2012.

Within two weeks of its release, Identity: Your Passport to Success reached number six on the Wall Street Journal Business bestseller list.

The 8^th MIBFF will take place from

September 19 to 30, 2012!

 

Presented by Global Montreal, the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) was created in 2005 by the Fabienne Colas Foundation, anon-profit organization dedicated to promoting Cinema, Art and Culture. The mission of the MIBFF is to stimulate the development of the independent film industry and to showcase more films on the realities of Blacks from around the world. The Festival wants to promote a different kind of cinema, cinema that hails from here and from abroad and that does not necessarily have the opportunity to grace the big screen, groundbreaking cinema that moves us, that raises awareness and that takes us all by surprise! The MIBFF wants to deal with issues and present works that raise questions, that provoke, that make us smile, that leave us perplexed, that shock us… A fresh new look at black cinema from the four corners of the globe!