Videos Archives - Master Coach Barbara Hofmeister

J.K. Rowling at Harvard

J.K. Rowling giving an entertainment and motivational commencement speech at Harvard University. “I cannot criticize my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor. And I quite agree with...

MERYL STREEP AT BARNARD

Meryl Streep may be best known as a 16-time Academy Award nominee and two-time winner, but in her fantastic 2010 commencement speech at Barnard College, Columbia University’s women’s-only sister institution, she reveals herself as equal parts political...

Jeff Bezos at Princeton

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.”...