Iyanla Vanzant to present opening Keynote at African American Business Summit 2005

Released on = May 30, 2005, 9:13 pm

Press Release Author = Adrienne S. Lamm/Turning Point Communications

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = African American Business Summit 2005 Kicks into high gear with nationally known motivational and inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant on June 23, 2005 at the Westin Mission Hills Resport and Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA

Press Release Body = Iyanla Vanzant, nationally recognized inspirational speaker and hailed as among the "most dynamic African-American speakers in the country" will deliver the keynote at the opening luncheon on Thursday, June 23 at the Wells
Fargo sponsored African American Business Summit 2005. Themed BUSINESS REDEFINED: An Extraordinary Experience for Exceptional Business People, this four-day event is scheduled June 23rd - 26th at the Westin Mission Hills Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs), California.

Iyanla Vanzant is a speaker in a class all her own. She is: an author, an attorney, an enterprise, an astute businesswoman an orator, a sister-friend, a benefactor of the many causes she holds dear, a mother, grandmother, and wife.

For 18 years she has studied everyone and everything that spoke to personal strength, personal growth and empowerment. She then integrated that information
with her own experiences and developed a common sense approach for addressing life’s challenges. Her frank, down-to-earth, and inspiring manner of
addressing life’s issues resulted in the publication of ten books, over a span of seven years, five of which have been deemed by the New York Times as
best-sellers. Her work, she says, “Teaches people how to move beyond, whatever has happened in their lives in order to do and be what we came to life to do
and be. We are divine!” Iyanla teaches that you cannot expect to evolve politically, socially or economically until you evolve spiritually. It is this
message, which she conveys with love, humor and humility that has earned for her an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.

Someone once called her, “A Guru from the hood.” Iyanla laughs as she responds to the question. “I used to be just another Black woman, but today, I
am a child of God! This means I am unique, but I am not special. I am an ordinary person who is dedicated to doing extra ordinary things in the service
of God and God’s people.” According to all accounts, she does very special things to and for anyone who is in her presence.

To join Iyanla and to learn more about this dynamic 4 day event, please visit www.aabs2005.com or call (323) 299-6000.

For Media Credentials to Event contact: Adrienne S. Lamm, PR/Media and Marketing, E-Mails: alamm@turningpointmagazine.com and TS7895@aol.com, or call (323) 299 -
6000 ext.107 before June 10, 2005.

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Web Site = http://www.AABS2005.com

Contact Details = Adrienne S. Lamm
PR/Media/Marketing
African American Business Summit 2005
(323) 299-6000 ext. 107
alamm@turningpointmagazine.com