Buckeye Reflections: Legendary Moments from Ohio State Football

• Feb 14: BOMA: Business Owners and Managers Association, Cleveland, Ohio chapter
• Feb 28-Apr 11: 6-week webinar on book writing/publishing
• Mar 3: Book signing at Eastwood Mall/All Things Buckeye in Niles, Ohio with two-Time OSU All-American and Rimington Trophy Winner Billy Price
• Mar 19: Pro Football Hall of Fame lunchtime keynote and book signing in Canton, Ohio (covered in The Canton Repository)
• Apr 14: Ohio State University spring football game pre-game radio show on the Fan
• Apr 18: Book signing and presentation at Westlake Porter Library in Westlake, Ohio
• Apr 19: Private fundraising event with special guest appearance by OSU head coach Urban Meyer
• Apr 24: Book signing and presentation at Dover Library in Dover, Ohio
• May 1: Book signing and keynote address at National Football Foundation annual awards dinner in New York City
• May 4-6: Toastmaster conference in Kansas City; keynote, breakout session and book sales
• May 18-20: Toastmaster conference in Erlanger, Kentucky: keynote, breakout session and book sales
• June 16: Autograph session at Creekside Blues & Jazz Festival in Gahanna, Ohio
• November 14: Gahanna Rotary Club, Gahanna Ohio
• November 16: Hilliard Rotary: Annual "Ohio State-U of Michigan Roast" with approx 600 audience members
• November 19: Byers Automotive Annual Client Appreciation Lunch
• November 23: Ohio State Alumni chapter dinner, Worthington Ohio
• November 27: Ohio State Alumni chapter dinner (Cleveland, Ohio chapter), Annual Football Banquet

Jack Park has presented his award-winning leadership development program, The Leadership Secrets of Football’s Master Coaches, to clients in 47 different states. He has delivered more than 100 keynote addresses for Ohio State University Alumni Clubs in 19 different states. His Certified Speaking Professional designation, the CSP, has been granted to fewer than 8% of the 3,800 members of the National Speakers Association.

Jack is an Ohio State Football radio commentator each season for Sports Radio 97.1 The Fan. He is the author of The Ohio State University Football Vault with Foreword by Jim Tressel, and The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia with Foreword by Kirk Herbstreit.

Jack played football and basketball at New Lexington High School and has been honored with membership in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He writes a weekly football column for The Columbus Dispatch, and is featured frequently in football programming on ESPN, The Big Ten Network, and TWC.

Jack is a CPA. He received his MBA from The University of Pittsburgh and his BS from The Ohio State University. He is a member of The Football Writers Association of America and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Maureen Zappala, a New York City native, is an award winning speaker, author and presentation skills coach. She has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and spent 13 years conducting jet propulsion research at the NASA Lewis Research Center (now the NASA Glenn Research Center) in Cleveland, Ohio. She became the youngest and first female manager of NASA’s Propulsion Systems Laboratory.

She’s the founder of High Altitude Strategies, a speaking and coaching organization where she works with high-performers who struggle with the “Impostor Syndrome,” the internal voice that says “I’m not as smart as everyone thinks I am!”

In 2009, Maureen was in the top 10 of 30,000 contestants in the Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking contest. She’s the author of “Great Speakers are Not Born, They’re Built” and “Over-Achiever, Under-Believer: How to Match Your Confidence to Your Competence” (to be released in 2018). She’s a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), and is the 2017-18 President of the NSA-Ohio chapter. Maureen lives in Medina, Ohio.