Syndicated columnist and best selling author Harvey Mackay, whose
columns appear weekly in Providence Business News, will be in Rhode
Island for a special breakfast program sponsored by PBN and the
University of Rhode Island at URI’s downtown Providence campus, at 9:30
a.m., Thursday, Feb. 18.
Called by Fortune Magazine “Mr. Make Things Happen,” Mackay has been
rated by Toastmaster’s International as among the top five speakers in
the world. Two of his books (Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten
and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt) are among the top 15
best-selling motivational books of all time, according to the New York
Times.
Bestselling author
His Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You’ll
Ever Need made the New York Times bestseller list 12 days after its
release on April 20, 1997, and remained there for five months.
Sharkproof, Mackay’s third book, was also a national bestseller.
Tickets for the event are available from the PBN at 401-273-2201,
extension 200. Tickets are $25 and include a copy of Mackay’s newest
book (released Jan. 6, 1999), Pushing The Envelope: All the Way to the
Top.
Harvey is one of the top motivational writers of this era,” said the
late Norman Vincent Peale. “He’s been an inspiration to me, as well as
to thousands of others.”
He also meant a lot to thousands of Minnesotans, playing a key role in
bringing the 1992 Super Bowl to Minneapolis, obtaining an NBA franchise
(Minnesota Timberwolves), getting the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
built, bringing in Lou Holtz to coach the University of Minnesota
football team (he subsequently became the coach at Notre Dame and
recently signed to coach at the University of South Carolina).
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And Holtz says of Mackay: “Harvey Mackay may be the most talented man I
have ever met. His ability to solve problems, enjoy each day to the
fullest and be genuinely concerned about his fellow man is a combination
that is rarely found in one individual.”
Mackay is chairman and CEO of Mackay Envelope Corporation, an $85
million company he founded when he was 26. Mackay Envelope employs 500
people and manufactures 17 million envelopes a day.
He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Stanford
University Graduate School of Business Executive Program.
He has served as president of a number of local and national business
groups, and currently serves as a director of Robert Redford’s Sundance
Institute and the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
