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Mr. Lou Myers is Chairman, Chief Enlightenment Officer and Corporate Storyteller for GBI. Mr. Myers is also Chairman of the Urban Futurist Organization and The Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre.
"King Hedley II" represented Lou Myers second appearance in this critically celebrated August Wilson play. He wonthe NAACP "Best Actor" Awardfor his role of Stool Pigeon in "King Hedley II." "The Color Purple" marked Lou Myers fourth Broadway appearance. He is best known as the irascible restaurant owner "Mr. Gaines" on the, hit Television series "A Different World". He was recently awarded the coveted "Living Legend Award" from the National Black Theatre Festival. Mr. Myers first appeared on Broadway with the Negro Ensemble Companys production of "The First Breeze of Summer," "Ma Raineys Black Bottom" and the Lovable, suit selling, gambling, piano playing, uncle in August Wilsons Pulitzer Prize Play, "The Piano Lesson." He previously won the off-Broadway Delco "Best Actor" Award for the tap dancing bodyguard in "Fat Tuesday." Mr. Myers also preformed at local New York concert halls, cabarets, night clubs, colleges and universities, Off-Broadway, American Place production of "Do Lord Remember me and a long list of Regional Theatres. He wrote, produced and co-directed off Broadway his critically acclaimed one man show "Just a Little Bit Something" and his historical play "Foot Steps from Before."
He was founder and director of the "Tshaka Ensemble Players," who for eight years, during Black History month, continually performed the historical and educational play "Foot Steps From Before" which was written and produced by Mr. Myers. They also toured in the acclaimed play, "Shakespeares Julius Caesar," set in AFRICA He served as the griot and dancer for several dance companies such as the Dinizula Dancers, Drummers and Singers. He was a regular feature at the New York Museum of Natural History for (8) years. He reads, writes and speaks French, German, Spanish and some African Dialects Mr. Myers received his Masters and is currently a candidate for the PhD. in Comparative Literature.
Mr. Myers has come a long way from the mountains of West Virginia to his new adopted home playing New York street festivals, block parties, parks, playgrounds, schools, hospitals, jails, senior centers. He was a regular feature at the New York Museum of Natural History for eight (8) consecutive years. Mr. Myers also preformed at local New York concert halls, cabarets, night clubs, colleges and universities, Off-Broadway, American Place production of "Do Lord Remember me and a long list of Regional Theatres. Mr. Myers received his MBA in Theatre at New York University and is currently working on his PhD in Literature.
He was founder and director of the "Tshaka Ensemble Players," which toured in the acclaimed play, "Shakespeares Julius Caesar," set in AFRICA He served as the griot and dancer for several dance companies such as the Dinizula Dancers, Drummers and Singers and narrated the story in three languages. He reads, writes and speaks French, German, Spanish and some African Dialects
Mr. Myers is best known as the irascible restaurant owner "Mr. Gaines" on the, hit Television series "A Different World". His other Television credits include: EVE, All About the Andersons, E.R., Malcolm & Eddie, Jet Jackson, The Cosby Show, Touched By An Angel, Jag, The Sentinel, Bag Dad Caf, The Sinbad Show, Living Single, Thea, The Jamie Fox Show, Mama Flores Family, Private Affair and Riot.
Lou Myers can be seen in The Fighting Temptations, Lakawanna Blues (HBo), Friday After Next, The Wedding Planner and has been seen in such movies as Passions of Darkly Noon, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Bullworth, Tin Cup, Cobb, Volcano, Everything's Jake, The Stand In, All About You and Goodbye Lover.
He began singing Jazz and Blues with the touring company of "Negro Music in Vogue." His Cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, as well as Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel.
Mr Myers is a futurist, historian, mentor, lecturer, trainer and has toured Colleges, Universities, Hospitals, Jails, Schools, and Senior Citizens Centers performing, storytelling our ancestral history and speaking on panels with professors and business experts around the world about new trends in business and urban community economic development. He has a masters in Theatre and Today is preparing for his P.HD in comparative literature. He speaks, reads and writes German, French, Spanish and a few African Dialects. also.
Tonia McDonald was selected and joined 49 of California’s Top Women Corporate Executives, Business Professionals, Educators and State Government & Non-Profit Leaders in Leadership California a prestigious, yearlong program for 50 women leaders from across the state of California. The Annual Issues Program (AIP) provides focused development of women leaders, exposing them to critical public and private sector issues and enhancing their competitive knowledge. It connects women leaders from across the state with each other and with top decision-makers, thinkers and practitioners.
Through GBI she lead the collaborative partnership with Los Angeles downtown community development agencies, corporations, colleges and universities to create a multi-media, entertainment, technology Incubator in the Historic Core of downtown LA. Over 50 companies were incubated which helped to create 300 new jobs in a depressed and high unemployment area. In April of 2000, she and her GBI partner received the White House Millennium Council Award for “...modeling hope, imagination and courage in incubating small businesses in Los Angeles”.
Also through GBI she lead the team collaborative partnership with the Port of Los Angeles to create a series of interactive cooperative workshops focused on Small and Mid-sized Companies partnering with and doing Business successfully with China. These workshops brought together Chinese buyers from China, U.S. Bankers, Export Officials, and other partners crucial for trading successfully with China to over 400 small and mid-sized companies from southern California.
Ms. McDonald has also designed computerized telecommunication systems for the Chicago Board Trade stock market floor worked in the electrical manufacturing industry, served on the Board of Directors of several technology companies and as a corporate lobbyist for the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS).
She has co-authored a book on business incubation and published many articles and niche market magazines that focused on future trends. Currently, she is launching The Urban Futurist Publication and Newsletter to address and track the economic, technological and educational trends of urban communities.
She has served as the President and coordinator for the Greater Los Angeles Area Futurist a partner and Chapter of the World Future Society and is a Strategic Business Futurist focusing on the human side of enterprise, education and communities. One way she is helping to inform and educate Communities about the future is through yearly conferences that focus on modeling positive scenarios of the future.
As part of his research, Mr. McDonald has met and interviewed famous and notable wealth creators including Ray Kroc of McDonalds, Walt Disney of Disney, W. Clement Stone - the Father of Motivational Speaking, Jack Goldsen - founder of FTD Florist, MCI, and the AirPhone, and Dr. George Kotsmetsky - founder of Teledyne Corporation and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas in Austin.
As a nationally recognized Urban Futurist, Paul McDonald has taught students, conducted workshops, and participated in Strategic Alliance and Think Tank Conferences at HarvardUniversity, MIT, Yale, University of Texas at Austin, ChicagoStateUniversity, LoyolaMarymountUniversity, UCLA and San DiegoStateUniversitys Minority Business Development Corporation and San Diego State Foundation.
In his capacity as a "Zero Time Scholar", Paul McDonald has served as a new business development consultant for Amway, Operation PUSH, IBM, Fidelity Union Life, Encyclopedia Britannica, the World Bank, Philadelphia International, Curton Records, Eddie Thomas Productions, the Jackson Five Productions, Major League Baseball and Professional Athletes, Equity Life Insurance, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, the Port of Los Angeles, and Economic Development Department for the City of Los Angeles among many others.
Paul McDonald is the "imagineer" of the blueprint for the implementation of the GBIs Collaborative Demonstration Project which is based on the "worlds best practices". This project is envisioned to serve as an economic engine for the development of multimedia "edutainment" based small businesses within underserved communities to power and broadcast the rebirth of viable new urban business communities in Zero Time. He is responsible for keeping this innovative project on track and focused on results. His background includes 25 years of entrepreneurial, small business and Corporate experience, extensive research, implementation, and teaching of human performance technologies, as well as designing innovative approaches to fostering innovation and creativity. In the entrepreneurial arena, he has researched and modeled successful, economies, institutions and businesses in technology, publishing,and and more. He has been using modeling/simulating and scenario techniques in the field of small business, and community, corporate training and consulting ever since. His training and facilitating experience has enabled him to test and refine his research and futurists approaches to managing change and navigating the new economy.
Mr. McDonald has pioneered the incorporation of modeling, simulating and scenario planning experiential strategies into his work with cities, corporate executives, small business owners, educators and inner city youth. He has worked and lead many events at Loyola Marymount University , (A GBI sponsor and partner) and many other colleges and universities, corporations, and community groups. Mr. McDonald has influenced the learning of college, university professors, instructors, students and personnel, cities, community organizations, small business and corporate personnel. as well as non-profit agencies. He has coached, mentored and partnered with colleges, universities, community organizations, corporations several nationally known Corporate CEO's and scientist.
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Global Business Incubation, Inc. is a non-profit research corporation whose mission is to promote the development and growth of urban enterprises through business incubation and other cooperative strategies. Global Business Incubation., Inc., (GBI) (501 c3) is a research development organization that catalyzes the business development process of launching an idea, a business, and a community through growing cooperative business incubator cluster models that grow companies. GBI serves as a facilitator of diverse projects, including business incubators, teaching factories, neighborhood cooperatives, youth training, apprenticeship and entrepreneurial programs, job training programs, technology innovation and other mechanisms that provide a synergistic approach to reviving the urban small business community. _____________________________________________________________ The Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre in Association with Global Business Incubation will produce Thought provoking shows to stimulate, educate and inform our youth, our elders, our communities and nation. The Focus will be on “Building the Corporation of the Future” using the thinking of our fore fathers with today’s new tools and technology to create a better future for families and community.
Young Adults will be cast to apprentice with Lou Myers and other professionals to role-play in a reality TV show about how to change our community and create jobs..
Young Adults have a chance to Compete for apprenticeship slots and a chance to learn wealth creation and become a member-owner of the Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre.---- GBDA CORP HQ scenario motion picture project.
Elders, Parents, teachers, business professionals and Friends are encouraged to support our young men and women and participate as mentors advisors and partners on one of ten smart teams. In the APPRENTICESHIP (a play on Donald Trump's apprentice), a GBI, LOU MYERS SMPIT, MATAH scenario motion picture project.
Dr. Yeh has founded three successful software companies and was an early pioneer in developing software for the Internet industry. He has also served as a consultant to several countries including the United States, Sweden, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore and the United Nations; as well as several world-class organizations including IBM, AT&T, Samsung, Siemens (Germany), Agribusiness (Brazil), Fujitsu (Japan), NEC (Japan), Hitachi (Japan), Price Waterhouse, and the Singapore Housing and Economic Development Boards.
He chaired a blue-ribbon committee for the U.S. Department of Defense to develop its software vision, which later became the U.S. STARS program with more than $100 million invested. During the early 1980’s, Dr. Yeh helped design Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III), and directed a national team from 13 elite universities to start China’s first software revolution.
Dr. Yeh is a prolific writer, and has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, more than 120 scientific articles, and was a columnist for BIT, Japan’s most popular computer magazine. Most recently, he co-authored the groundbreaking book “Zero Time” with Dr. Keri Pearlson and Dr. George Kozmetsky, who is widely regarded as the driving force and Dean of Austin Texas’s high-tech business incubation,entrepreneurial movement. Dr. Yeh’s new book “The Art of Business” will be published in the spring of 2004.
He is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as the Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE Computer Society. His activities in Software Engineering not only helped the IEEE Computer Society to reinvent itself, but also were instrumental in pushing the whole software industry forward. Dr. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park over a 20 year period. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, both departments gained top-ten ranking nationally. He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China.
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Best Known at "Mr. Gaines" from the hit TV Show "A Different World"
Ms. McDonald is President of Global Business Incubation, Inc. (GBI) (501 c3) Through her leadership GBI provides a wide range of services from focus group development to arranging strategic alliances, from training leadership teams to facilitating executive board meetings. 
Paul G. McDonald is Founder and Chief Research Officer for Global Business Incubation, (GBI) a highly effective researcher, innovator futurist, communicator, facilitator, and change agent. Over a 25 year period, he has documented and benchmarked the blueprints of successful entrepreneurs, corporations, business incubators, cooperatives, teaching and testing factories, economic development programs, and community and business wealth creation models and systems used around the world including: Sunkist Corporation, Control Data Corporation, Mondragon, REACH, Silicon Valley, McDonalds, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, The Irish Answer, The Ben Franklin Partnership, and The Austin Technology Incubator.
Dr. Raymond Yeh