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.