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Keynote Speakers
John Resnick
John Resnick is the creator and host of the nationally syndicated radio program, Legends of Success with John Resnick. The show includes rare one-hour interviews with America’s top CEO’s and business leaders including Jack Welch of General Electric; Jon Huntsman, Founder & Chairman of Huntsman Corporation; Steve Forbes, President & CEO of Forbes, Inc.; Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks; Evelyn H. Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of The Estee Lauder Companies; William Randolph Hearst, III, and many others.
Legends of Success debuted on January 12, 2002, on a single station in Harrisburg, Pa., and is now syndicated on over 80 affiliates and 58 digital cable television systems (audio channels) in the United States. A major objective of the program is to share the personal journeys of how America’s most successful business icons overcame obstacles and setbacks to make it to the top. Mr. Resnick strongly believes that it is vital to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of our students and young people by providing them with astute role models who have accomplished the dreams to which these new entrepreneurs aspire.
John Resnick is also a nationally recognized business succession and estate planner with Resnick Associates, a second generation firm with offices in Harrisburg, Pa. and Overland Park, Ks. For more than 20 years, Mr. Resnick has worked with successful family business owners throughout America in designing business succession and estate plans to enable them to survive from generation to generation.
Mr. Resnick has served as an adjunct professor of family owned business at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and has lectured at Susquehanna University, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Widener University School of Law, Elizabethtown College, and Messiah College. In 2007, John was invited to be the course instructor of "Due Diligence of Trust Owned Life Insurance" conducted by Bucknell University for the Pennsylvania Bankers School of Trust & Wealth Management. Mr. Resnick’s courses on business succession, buy-sell agreements and life insurance have been certified by the Pennsylvania Board of Accountancy for continuing education and attended by over 2,000 CPAs. Mr. Resnick is a board member of the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers based at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His articles have been published by newspapers and business journals throughout the U.S.
In November 2006, John Resnick conducted his first Legends Live Event featuring keynote speakers Steve Forbes and Dr. Patrick T. Harker, Dean of the Wharton School. The sold-out event paid special tribute to The Vista School of Central Pennsylvania, an organization assisting young children with autism.
John and his wife Billie live near Harrisburg, Pa.
