ADA, Okla., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (NYSE: PPD) announces that Stedman Graham, best-selling author, educator and businessman, will share his 'Nine Steps to Success' during a keynote address at the Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. International Convention March 20 at the Cox Business Services Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. He is expected to speak at 9 p.m.
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Mr. Graham is chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management and marketing consulting company based in Chicago. As an educator, he has presented, consulted, and conducted trainings with corporations, organizations, and nonprofits across the country on the topics of maximizing leadership, achieving success, growing a business, embracing diversity, achieving optimal health, and personal and professional branding.
He is the author of ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers, 'You Can Make It Happen: Nine-Steps to Success' and 'Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success.' The steps he outlines include encouragement to 'create a vision' and 'take the high road even if it is the hard road.'
His background as an educator includes serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he taught a leadership course based on his Nine-Step Process. At the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, he taught a course entitled, 'The Dynamics of Leadership.' He also founded and directed George Washington University's Forum for Sport and Event Management and Marketing.
In 1985, Mr. Graham founded the nonprofit AAD Education, Health and Sports (formerly, Athletes Against Drugs.) He is actively involved in leadership efforts and programs in South Africa. Closer to home, he founded Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro, NJ, and Concerned Citizens of Lake Waccamaw, NC. He is a member of several boards, including the national board of Junior Achievement (JA) and the 7-Eleven Education Is Freedom Foundation. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. He holds a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University. He received a master's degree in Education from Ball State University and an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Coker College, where he is also a distinguished visiting professor. Mr. Graham will be available for media interviews to discuss his appearance at the Pre-Paid Legal Convention.
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