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2009 LET'S TALK! Topics
| Topic | Discussion Leader | Description |
| Beyond the Headlines: Inside Broadcast News | Kelli Arena | Senior Correspondent - CNN News 1985-2008 |
| Coaching Skills for Leaders - Coach Your Employees to Exceptional Performance | Kathleen A Bowersox, M.Ed., LPC, LPBC | President of Quantum Leap Success Coaching; Executive, Career, and Licensed Professional Business Coach |
| Today's Crisis in K-12 Science & Math Education in Texas Schools: Can We Rise Above the Gathering Storm? | William R. Brinkley, Ph. D. | Senior Vice President for Graduate Sciences, BRASS Chair and Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. |
| Looking at Lincoln After 200 Years: Our Greatest President | T. Tolbert Chisum | Chairman, President, and CEO, The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, Springfield, IL |
| The Globalization Debate: The Effects of Globalization and What Lies Ahead | William K. "Bill" Dabaghi | Managing Member, Maxima International LLC, Washington, D.C |
| Is the Pain Real or Psychogenic? Chronic Pain Management Alternatives | James S. Flowers, Ph.D. | President and CEO, Health Trust LLP |
| Whatever Happened to the War on Dru+A3gs? | Stanley E. Furce | Director, Houston High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program. |
| Traditional American Cowboy Music: The Real Songs and Stories | The Gillette Brothers Guy and Pipp Gillette | Internationally renowned recording artists of cowboy music and poetry; Owners, Camp Street Cafe and Store, Crockett, Texas |
| The U. S. Banking Crisis | Samuel P. Golden | Managing Director and CEO, Alvarez and Marsal Financial Industry Advisory Services. |
| Energy Sources: The Truth about Coal, Wind, Oil and Gas | Russell D. Gordy | President, Gordy Oil Company; Managing Partner, SG Interests, Inc.; Managing Partner, RGGS Mineral Operations. |
| Patriotism, 9-11 and History: What You Don't Know CAN Hurt You | James L. Haley | American Author and Historian. |
| Patterson vs Harris: The Last World Heavyweight Title Fight in Wrigley Field Los Angeles | Roy R. "Cut N' Shoot" Harris | 1958 Boxing Heavyweight Title Contender; 1955 Texas Heavyweight Champion; Montgomery County Clerk for 28 years; Attorney; featured in 1984 biography, "Cut 'N Shoot, Texas: The Roy Harris Story," by Robin Navarro. |
| Forgive Us Our Press Passes | Mickey L. Herskowitz | Warner Endowed Chair in Journalism, Sam Houston State University; award- winning sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle |
| From Victims to Criminals: How to Talk to Anyone (and Get Them to Talk to You) | Jenna L. Jackson | Producer, CBS News 48 Hours; co-author with correspondent Peter Van Sant, a true-crime book about one of their murder cases, "Perfectly Executed" |
| A Historical Perspective of Walt Disney Records and the Future of Digital Sales | Ted Kryczko, | Vice President, A&R Catalog Development, The Walt Disney Company |
| Marketing Yourself in Today's World: First Impressions and Creating Your own Value for the Ultimate Career Success | Brenda J. Love-Jones | President, Love Advertising, Inc. |
| The Unthinkable - Who Survives When Disaster Strikes?: Words of Wisdom from a Real Tsunami Survivor | Janet Foltyn McAfee | President, Foreign Operations |
| The Gallery Story | Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale | Owner, Gallery Furniture of Houston; Co-authored the book "Always Think Big." |
| The Expropriation of Russia's Largest Oil Company "Yukos" and What It Means About the Rule of Law and Doing Business in Russia | Bruce K. Misamore | Former Chief Financial Officer, Yukos Oil Company, Russia. |
| Oil and Gas - Challenges in the Marketplace | John Randolph "Randy" Parten | President, Parten Oil Company, Houston, and President, Acadian Railway Company |
| Your Favorite Films and Why | Ralph W. Pease, Ph.D. | Professor of English, Sam Houston State University; Recipient of the 1987 Piper Professor Award |
| At the Death House Door | Reverend Carroll L. Pickett | Former Chaplain, Texas Department of Criminal Justice; author of "Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain." |
| How to Create Great Art and Save the World at the Same Time | Gary L. Powell | Conductor and Session Producer for Walt Disney Records |
| Investigating the Russian Mafia | Joseph D. Serio | Criminal Justice doctoral student, Sam Houston State University, and Project Manager, Correctional Management Institute of Texas |
| Why Are the Cajuns in Louisiana? The Untold Story | Terry M. Thibodeaux, Ph. D. | Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sam Houston State University |
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