Mark Victor Hansen
Encyclopedia
Mark Victor Hansen is an American
inspirational and motivational speaker
, trainer and author
. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul
" book series.
Along with business partner, Jack Canfield
, Hansen is best known for creating what Time
magazine called “the publishing phenomenon of the decade”. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are one of the most successful publishing franchises in the world today, with more than 140 million books sold internationally and more than 100 licensed products. The name “Chicken Soup” was chosen because of the use of chicken soup as a home remedy for the sick. The first Chicken Soup book, published by Health Communications, Inc., sold more than 2 million copies. There are now over 140 million copies in print and in 54 languages worldwide.
Hansen has appeared on Oprah
, CNN
and The Today Show and was featured in Time
, U.S. News & World Report
, USA Today
, The New York Times
and Entrepreneur Magazine
.
Hansen is currently working on a new book due out in September and co-authored with Robert Allen
titled "Cash in a Flash." It is the sequel to #1 The New York Times
Best Seller, "The One Minute Millionaire."
One of Hansen's most recent books, co-authored with Art Linkletter
, is "How to Make the Rest of your Life The Best of your Life."
In 2005 he co-wrote, along with Robert Allen
, the book "Cracking the Millionaire Code" in which he highlights several self-made millionaires such as Bob Circosta
, Michael Dell
, Bill Gates
, Alexander Graham Bell
, Oprah Winfrey
, and others, using them as examples of how to build wealth.
In 2004 Hansen was inducted into the Sales & Marketing Executive International’s Hall of Fame, receiving the Ambassador of Free Enterprise award. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Visionary Philanthropist for Youth Award by Covenant House
of CA.
In 2002 The University of Toledo
presented Hansen with an Honorary PhD in Business Administration and established the Mark Victor Hansen Entrepreneurial Excellence Fund that will help shape the minds of future business leaders and assist in the development of the faculty who will teach them.
In 2000 The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans honored Hansen with the prestigious Horatio Alger Award as an American leader who personifies the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories written by nineteenth century American author Horatio Alger, Jr.
In 2000 Northwood University
honored Hansen as the Outstanding Business Leader of the Year.
Hansen is involved and supports charities such as Horatio Alger
Scholarships, Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross
, Operation Smile
, Oceana
, March of Dimes
, Covenant House and Childhelp USA.
Hansen graduated from Southern Illinois University
in 1970 with a B.A. in speech communications. Hansen says that he also earned two master's degrees at the university, but, according to university officials, this is not true.
Hansen currently partakes in a late-night infomercial
with scam artist Anthony Morrison named "The Hansen Report." The two engage in a faux interview about a book that teaches techniques for earning money. The book is written by Morrison who runs several businesses which the Better Business Bureau and others have identified to be scams.
United States
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inspirational and motivational speaker
Motivational speaker
A motivational speaker or inspirational speaker is a speaker who makes speeches intended to motivate or inspire an audience. In a business context, they are employed to communicate company strategy with clarity and help employees to see the future in a positive light and inspire workers to pull...
, trainer and author
Author
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. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Soul is a series of books, usually featuring a collection of short and dense inspirational stories and motivational essays. The 101 stories in the first book of the series were compiled by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.There have been over 200 titles...
" book series.
Along with business partner, Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, which currently has nearly 200 titles and 112 million copies in print in over 40 languages...
, Hansen is best known for creating what Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
magazine called “the publishing phenomenon of the decade”. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are one of the most successful publishing franchises in the world today, with more than 140 million books sold internationally and more than 100 licensed products. The name “Chicken Soup” was chosen because of the use of chicken soup as a home remedy for the sick. The first Chicken Soup book, published by Health Communications, Inc., sold more than 2 million copies. There are now over 140 million copies in print and in 54 languages worldwide.
Hansen has appeared on Oprah
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
and The Today Show and was featured in Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
, USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and Entrepreneur Magazine
Entrepreneur Magazine
Entrepreneur is a publication that carries news stories about entrepreneurialism, small business management, and business opportunities. It is published by Entrepreneur Media Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California....
.
Hansen is currently working on a new book due out in September and co-authored with Robert Allen
Robert G. Allen (author)
Robert G. Allen is a Canadian-American businessman, financial writer, real estate investor, and motivational speaker.Allen was raised as a member of the LDS Church and lived in Tahiti as a missionary for two years...
titled "Cash in a Flash." It is the sequel to #1 The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
Best Seller, "The One Minute Millionaire."
One of Hansen's most recent books, co-authored with Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter
Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio-TV for 19 years...
, is "How to Make the Rest of your Life The Best of your Life."
In 2005 he co-wrote, along with Robert Allen
Robert G. Allen (author)
Robert G. Allen is a Canadian-American businessman, financial writer, real estate investor, and motivational speaker.Allen was raised as a member of the LDS Church and lived in Tahiti as a missionary for two years...
, the book "Cracking the Millionaire Code" in which he highlights several self-made millionaires such as Bob Circosta
Bob Circosta
Bob Circosta is television's first ever home shopping host and has achieved over one billion dollars in personal product sales on live television. His offices are in Clearwater, Florida, just a few miles from the Home Shopping Network's corporate building...
, Michael Dell
Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Inc. He is the 44th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$14.6 billion in 2011, based primarily on the 243.35 million shares of Dell stock worth $3.5 billion that he owns,...
, Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
, Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
, Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011...
, and others, using them as examples of how to build wealth.
In 2004 Hansen was inducted into the Sales & Marketing Executive International’s Hall of Fame, receiving the Ambassador of Free Enterprise award. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Visionary Philanthropist for Youth Award by Covenant House
Covenant House
Covenant House is the largest privately funded agency in the Americas providing shelter, food, immediate crisis care, and an array of other services to homeless, and runaway youth. In addition to basic needs, Covenant House provides a continuum of care to homeless youth aged 16–21 designed to...
of CA.
In 2002 The University of Toledo
University of Toledo
The University of Toledo is a public university in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The Carnegie Foundation classified the university as "Doctoral/Research Extensive."-National recognition:...
presented Hansen with an Honorary PhD in Business Administration and established the Mark Victor Hansen Entrepreneurial Excellence Fund that will help shape the minds of future business leaders and assist in the development of the faculty who will teach them.
In 2000 The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans honored Hansen with the prestigious Horatio Alger Award as an American leader who personifies the virtues and principles inherent in the success stories written by nineteenth century American author Horatio Alger, Jr.
In 2000 Northwood University
Northwood University
Northwood University is a private university with multiple locations. The school has four residential campuses: Midland, Michigan , Cedar Hill, Texas , West Palm Beach, Florida and a joint program with Hotel Institute Montreux in Montreux, Switzerland, began in 2001...
honored Hansen as the Outstanding Business Leader of the Year.
Hansen is involved and supports charities such as Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans
The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans is a nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Virginia, that was founded in 1947 to honor the achievements of outstanding Americans who have succeeded in spite of adversity and to emphasize the importance of higher education...
Scholarships, Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross , also known as the American National Red Cross, is a volunteer-led, humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief and education inside the United States. It is the designated U.S...
, Operation Smile
Operation Smile
Operation Smile is a not-for-profit medical service organization based in Norfolk, Virginia , founded in 1982. A secular NGO, the children's medical charity provides cleft lip and palate repair surgeries to children worldwide, assists countries in reaching self-sufficiency with these surgeries, and...
, Oceana
Oceana (non-profit group)
Oceana is the largest international ocean conservation and advocacy organization. Oceana works to protect and restore the world’s oceans through targeted policy campaigns....
, March of Dimes
March of Dimes
The March of Dimes Foundation is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.-Organization:...
, Covenant House and Childhelp USA.
Hansen graduated from Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...
in 1970 with a B.A. in speech communications. Hansen says that he also earned two master's degrees at the university, but, according to university officials, this is not true.
Hansen currently partakes in a late-night infomercial
Infomercial
Infomercials are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or website. There are long-form infomercials, which are typically between 15 and 30 minutes in length, and short-form infomercials, which are typically 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length. Infomercials...
with scam artist Anthony Morrison named "The Hansen Report." The two engage in a faux interview about a book that teaches techniques for earning money. The book is written by Morrison who runs several businesses which the Better Business Bureau and others have identified to be scams.
External links
- http://www.markvictorhansen.com/
- http://www.chickensoup.com/
- http://www.crackingthemillionairecode.com/
- http://www.hci-online.com/mhansen
- http://www.oneminutemillionaire.com
- http://www.hcibooks.com
- http://www.smei.org
- http://www.childhelp.org