About the speaker

Some people will tell you that Iyanla Vanzant is a speaker in a class all her own. For 18 years she studied everyone and everything that spoke to personal strength, personal growth and empowerment. She then integrated that information with her own experiences and developed a common sense approach for addressing life’s challenges. Her frank, down-to-earth, and inspiring manner of addressing life’s issues resulted in the publication of ten books, over a span of seven years, five of which have been deemed by the New York Times as best-sellers.
Some say Iyanla is not a speaker. They say she is a teacher. Delivering more than 250 keynote addresses annually, she teaches a common sense process for discovering your spiritual identity and its inherent power. Her work, she says, “Teaches people how to move beyond, whatever has happened in their lives in order to do and be what we came to life to do and be. We are divine!” Iyanla teaches that you cannot expect to evolve politically, socially or economically until you evolve spiritually. It is this message which she conveys with love, humor and humility that has earned for her a Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York.
It has been said that Iyanla is an enterprise, and a astute business woman. There is already a line of Hallmark cards based on the timeless messages from her book, Acts of Faith. The line has been expanded into an array of products which bear her messages and likeness. Her debut effort in the recording industry, In The Meantime: The Music That Tells The Story, climbed the Billboard chart from position#17 and to #1 within two weeks. The CD featuring a combination of music and spoken word spawned a thirty-one city tour, in which seventeen markets sold out. As the Chief Executive Officer of Inner Visions Worldwide, Inc. Spiritual Life Maintenance Center in Silver Spring, MD, she conducts workshops, classes and coordinates a nationwide, correspondence prison ministry with more than 3,500 incarcerated members in over 150 penal institutions. In October 2000, Iyanla headed the faculty of the Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development, offering a two-year certification program in Spiritual Counseling and Life Coaching, based on the principles upon which her best selling books are based.
Still others will say that Iyanla Vanzant is a spiritual visionary. Her commitment to the spiritual evolution of humanity, particularly women and children, is evidenced by her tireless efforts on their behalf. “The best I can do for others, is to provide them with an example of how life works.” The efficacy of her message is evidenced by the way she lives her life, offering hope and inspiration to people of all ages, races, and nations. Her greatest accomplishment, she says is being a grandmother and seeing, “How good I look on other people!” So, just who is Iyanla Vanzant?
The world knows Iyanla as an author, an orator, a sister-friend, a benefactor of the many causes she holds dear. We know she is a Yoruba Priestess and an ordained minister. But is she a teacher? Writer? Women’s Rights Activist? Children’s Advocate? Visionary? We know she is an attorney. An internationally sought after speaker. A mother, grandmother, and wife. Someone once called her, “A Guru from the hood.” Iyanla laughs as she responds to the question. “I used to be just another Black woman, but today, I am a child of God! This means I am unique, but I am not special. I am an ordinary person who is dedicated to doing extra ordinary things in the service of God and God’s people.” According to all accounts, she does very special things to and for anyone who is in her presence.

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