John James Santangelo C.Ht., nationally acclaimed speaker, author, seminar leader, and performance coach has been a guiding force in empowering corporations, businesses and individuals to unleash their natural inner ability and communicate their needs to produce outstanding results.  He is the founder and president of Maximum Success Empowerment Seminars, a performance coaching and training company dedicated to teaching empowering communication and behavioral skills.

John began his career as a certified health and fitness consultant, a Toastmaster award recipient, a volunteer 'Big Brother' of the Big Brother and Sisters of America Association, and a spokesperson for the Make-A-Wish foundation. John has worked with The Learning Annex, Muscular Sclerosis Society, Mary Kay, Well Point, Xerox, RE/MAX Realtors, the Teamsters Union, and post 9/11 as head trainer to the US Army counter-intelligence team.