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Detroit. Michigan Cobo Center
The Rejects
All the Square Pegs in the Round Holes
The Rejects Conference goal is to bring together people who feel left out and different, the true sqaure pegs in round holes. Helping to establish a positive outlook on failure and how accepting failure is a recipe for success. While providing skill settings to build self confidence to help ensure overall day to day happiness and fufillement by using rejection as a way to become a stronger and more independent minded individuals that seek out failure in order to reach their highest leven of potential.
About
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5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Registration / Happy Hour 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Stefan Seigmeister
Schedule
Day 1
8:30am – 10:00am Registration Open / Continental Breakfast 10:00 Welcome! 10:30 am – 11:20am Elizabeth Gilbert 11:30 am – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30 am – 1:20 pm Dr. Ivan Joseph 2:30 am — 3:20 am Astro Teller 4:30 am – 5:20am Break 5:30pm – 6:00pm Jia Jang 6:00pm – 7:15pm J.K. Rowling
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Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer.
HAPPINESS BY DESIGN
At the age of 19, he applied for the University of Applied Arts Vienna to study graphic designing. Although, at first he was refused the admission on the basis of his amateur drawing, his application was accepted on second attempt. In 1987, owing to his remarkable performance, he earned a Fulbright scholarship for the New York based Pratt Institute. Sagmeister returned to Austria after three year of studies in United States. He chose to do community service for refugee center instead and afterwards remained in Austria for a while. There he continued to pursue graphic designing and then moved to Hong Kong in 1991. He was landed a job as a typographer in an advertising agency. In 1992, the agency was asked to design a poster for the 4As advertising awards Ceromony. A Few months later, He decided to move to new York City where he co-founded a design firm named “Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. with Jessisca Walsh in New York City.
Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of, running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home. Success, Failure, and the Drive to Keep Creating
She’s a longtime magazine writer, covering music and politics for Spin and GQ as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for two movies so far and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Places To Eat Nearby
Cabo Center
Hard Rock Cafe
Dime Store Anchor Bar Cobo Joe’s
Top of the Pontch
Granite City Food & Brewery
Detroit River
Joseph is currently the Director of Athletics at Ryerson University, leading the department of Athletics and Recreation in their pursuits, which includes managing eleven varsity teams and more than twenty intramural leagues. Joseph is responsible for leading a referendum, which resulted in the procurement of the Maple Leafs Garden as a space for Ryerson students. He drafted a future-oriented plan for the Athletic Departments goals and vision in becoming one of Canada’s top athletic programs.
Joseph obtained a degree from Graceland in Physical Education and Health before pursuing an MS in Higher Education Administration from Drake University and a Ph.D. from Capella University in Sports psychology.
Dr. Ivan Joseph The Skill of Confidence
Dr. Astro Teller is currently Captain of Moonshots (CEO) of X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory for building magical, audacious ideas that through science and technology can be brought to reality. Astro is also co-founder and a current Director of Cerebellum Capital, Inc, a hedge fund management firm whose investments are continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Astro was also the co-founder and CEO of BodyMedia, Inc, a leading wearable body monitoring company that was sold to Jawbone in 2013.
Astro Teller
The Unexpected Benifit of Celebrating Failure
Jia Jiang is the founder and CEO of Wuju Learning, a company that trains organizations and employees to turn rejections into opportunities. He is also known as the Rejection Guy.
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Jia’s story started when several years after Jia Jiang’s career in the corporate world, he took a risk and stepped into the unknown world of entrepreneurship, which resulted in everyone’s biggest fear, rejection.
Jia Jang
A world where there are opportunities behind every rejection. This became the catalyst that set Jia on the path to his true calling. To conquer the fear of rejection, Jia embarked on a personal quest and started a video blog to face 100 Days of Rejection. His journey revealed a world that was hidden in plain sight, a world where rejection can become an advantage instead of a setback, and where there are opportunities behind every rejection. It has become Jia’s mission to help others to discover that world for themselves.
The hidden opportunity behind every rejection
J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.They have become the best-selling book series in history. and been the basis for a series of films over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until she finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, in 1997. There were six sequels, the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in 2007.
J.k. Rowling
Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.In October 2010, Rowling was named the “Most Influential Woman in Britain� by leading magazine editors.
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The Fringe Benifits of Failure
Charles H. Wright Musuem
Fox Theater
Comercia Park
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
St Louis Arena
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