Want to standout and star in your own career in whatever field you've chosen? Want to hear behind the scenes stories involving some of the biggest names in music and entertainment? Want to learn what it was like to work with Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Rogers and dozens of other superstars? Here's your chance!
You and a guest will enjoy lunch with master career strategist and legendary entertainment industry executive, Ken Kragen in the Los Angeles area.
Ken will share the proven techniques that he teaches in his "Stardom Strategies" classes at UCLA and at corporate and non-profit lectures all over the country. These life-changing techniques will transform your thinking and help you maximize success in any career or in your business. He'll share a concept called "The Magic of Threes" that can be used immediately in business and for personal growth, as well as other great marketing concepts. You’ll hear fascinating and behind the scenes stories from his long and illustrious career, and updates on Ken’s current projects that include documentaries on We Are The World, Hands Across America and former clients Kenny Rogers, Harry Chapin and more. Ken is also a climate activist who will be involved with next year’s 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. You’ll get a sneak preview of the Earth day project that hopes to get billions of participants from around the world engaged in making a difference on environmental issues.
Ken Kragen is a best-selling author (Life Is A Contact Sport), a sought after motivational speaker (Accomplish The Impossible!, How To Get Caught Telling The Truth, etc.) and a busy non-profit consultant. He's also a long time successful TV & film producer and music manager. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Ken's renowned career far transcends the music and entertainment industries where he has spent many incredibly successful years. His extraordinary background includes creating and organizing the historic humanitarian projects We Are the World, which became the biggest-selling record of all time and will be celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2020, raising over $64 million in aid, and the “Hands Across America” campaign, which raised $34 million to fight hunger and poverty. He is also known for his management of such globally celebrated artists as Harry Chapin, Lionel Richie, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton John, The Bee Gees, Kenny Rogers, Burt Reynolds, The Smothers Brothers and many others leading him to be one of the original inductees to the Personal Manager’s Hall of Fame. Most recently Ken was the featured speaker at the Second Annual Chief Digital Officer Summit at Time Warner in New York. Among his many accolades, Ken is one of a very few private citizen recipients of the United Nations Peace Medal; two MTV Awards, an American Music Award, and several Emmy nominations.
Noah McMahon of Anonymous LLC who won the experience in 2017 said, “I bought lunch from the WhyHunger Auction with Ken Kragen two years ago and between the advice he gave me and his terrific behind-the-scenes stories he told it was a terrific time. In fact, we hit it off so well we have continued to be of great help to each other ever since. He has a truly unique prospective on business, careers and life.”