TEDxByronBay - Leela Cosgrove - The Identity Principle

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2010 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Five years ago, Leela Cosgrove was just another office drone working temporary admin jobs to make ends meet. After being plucked from obscurity and apprenticed to a self-made millionaire, she founded Business Writers Anonymous and established herself as Australia's #1 Information Product Specialist. She's known as "the chick who can monetise anything".

Over the last 5 years, Leela has worked with some of the biggest names on the Australian and US speaking circuits, producing more than 100 products across several industries that have created in excess of $5Milllion in value for her clients. In 2009, she increased her own business by 400% in the middle of the Global Financial Crisis.

Leela's mission is to unleash an army of authentic and congruent next generation Rockstars to wreak havoc and turn the speaking and business development 

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