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Nancy Brinker
Founder & CEO, Susan G. Koman Foundation
Nancy G. Brinker ignited the global breast cancer movement 27 years ago by promising her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died at age 36 of the disease, that she would put an end to the shame, pain, fear and hopelessness caused by breast cancer.
In 1982, when Ambassador Brinker with a handful of dedicated friends founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, there was an enormous stigma around breast cancer—newspaper editors told her they would not print the words "breast cancer," no one talked openly about the disease, and there were few, if any, support groups. Few treatment options existed for breast cancer patients and hardly any researchers focused on the disease. Read More
Within a few years, Ambassador Brinker, who led a relentless, one-woman breast cancer information and awareness campaign, succeeded in breaching the silence surrounding the disease, fundamentally changing the way it is talked about and treated. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is now the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists, and its Race For the Cure is the most successful fundraising and education event for charity ever created.
Ambassador Brinker pioneered cause-related marketing, which has enabled millions more people—from top executives to everyday consumers—to join the fight against breast cancer. To date, Komen for the Cure has played a role in every major advance in breast cancer and is now the world's largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against the disease.
Globally known as a change agent, Ambassador Brinker was included in TIME's "100 Most Influential People" in 2008. She served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary from 2001-2003 and most recently served as U.S. Chief of Protocol from 2007-2008 where she was responsible for coordinating ceremonial events for visiting heads of state as well as overseeing all protocol matters for Presidential or Vice Presidential travel abroad. In 2008, President George W. Bush appointed her to The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees.
Ambassador Brinker has received numerous accolades for her work, including the prestigious Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, the Forbes Trailblazer Award, Ladies Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century and Biography Magazine's 25 Most Powerful Women in America.
Promise Me, Brinker's touching memoir, was published in September 2010 and immediately hit The New York Times bestsellers list. She is also the author of Winning The Race: Taking Charge of Breast Cancer.
In 2009, President Barack Obama honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for this work. The same year, she was named Goodwill Ambassador for Cancer Control for United Nations' World Health Organization, where she continues her mission to put cancer control at the top of the world health agenda.
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Speaking Topics
The Art of Seeing the Invisible
Just as her passion to find a cure to breast cancer created the world’s largest network of survivors and activists fighting the disease, Ambassador Brinker motivates corporate audiences in every industry and sector to excel in “The Art of Seeing the Invisible”—pursuing bold goals that may seem invisible and making them inevitable. With 25 years of experience transforming a small living-room operation into a billion-dollar global network against breast cancer, Ambassador Brinker shares the leadership lessons that every executive and employee needs to know to build their company, energize their teams, strengthen their brand and institutionalize a Culture of Innovation that allows organizations to stay ahead of the competition and achieve world-class results.
The Patient Empowerment Revolution
Drawing on her pioneering experience of transforming the way the world talks about and treats breast cancer—and warning how the baby boom will become an unprecedented “cancer boom”—Ambassador Brinker argues that today’s “Patient Empowerment Revolution” will only succeed if patient-centered care becomes the central organizing philosophy of a 21st Century healthcare system. A former member of the President’s Cancer Panel and one of America’s foremost patient advocates for a quarter century, Ambassador Nancy Brinker addresses the key challenges facing the delivery of affordable, accessible healthcare in the United States today.
Brave Enough!
As one of Biography Magazine’s “25 Most Powerful Women in America,” Ladies Home Journal’s “100 Most Important Women of the 20thCentury,” and TIME Magazine’s 2008 “100 Most Influential People,” Ambassador Nancy Brinker energizes women executives, entrepreneurs and business owners to overcome the unique challenges facing female business leaders and seize the unprecedented opportunities of today’s business world. She shares her experience of founding, building and guiding the world’s largest network of breast cancer survivors and activists, Ambassador Brinker inspires women to be “brave enough” to pursue their professional ambitions, to persevere in the face of barriers and to become mentors and models to the next generation of women leaders.
Winning the War!
As one of the world’s foremost cancer advocates, a three-decade cancer survivor and catalyst of the global grassroots breast cancer movement, Ambassador Nancy Brinker inspires cancer patients and their families to win their personal war with this devastating disease while urging the international community to recognize and confront the coming “cancer tsunami.” Warning that the global cancer burden will more than double in the coming decades—with perhaps 27 million cancer cases every year—Ambassador Brinker calls for a unprecedented and urgent international campaign to save the lives of millions around the world. Ideal audiences: cancer patients/survivors networks and international health organizations
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Notable Works
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Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer
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Winning the Race : Taking Charge of Breast Cance
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