Are you looking for an excellent motivational speaker? Dr. Alok Kalia fits the bill! From a forty-five minute talk at a lunch-and-learn to a three-hour presentation at your annual convention, Dr. Kalia will enthrall, entertain, and educate your audience.

To schedule a speaking engagement, call Dr. Kalia on (832) 331-3307 or e-mail him at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Speaking fees are listed at the end of this document.

A Brief Biography:

Dr. Kalia has consistently been named as one of the Best Doctors in America. He recently retired as a Professor from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. During his 25-year career as a specialist physician, Dr. Kalia edited two medical textbooks, contributed chapters to 16 other medical books and received numerous teaching awards. He has given more than 80 invited presentations in the USA and abroad.  

In the past few years, Dr. Kalia has become increasingly interested in strategies for healthy eating and effective life-long weight management. He believes that good health starts with the right knowledge, and his presentations are designed to provide that knowledge.

Content Summary:

Dr. Kalia’s uses his experience and skills as a medical teacher to take his audience for guided tours inside and outside the body: inside the body to understand how it works, and outside the body to understand the food that we eat. His goal is to empower individuals to regain control of their eating habits, health, and weight.

In his presentations, Dr. Kalia makes complex medical concepts come alive for a lay audience. Why, and how, does the body make fat? Why is it easier to lose weight than to keep it off? Why does weight loss slow down after the first few pounds? Why is fat around the waist more dangerous than fat anywhere else? What are the mechanisms of hunger, and how can we use this knowledge to our advantage? What is “insulin resistance”? How much weight does a person need to lose to turn back the complications of obesity?

And the foods that we eat: What, really, are omega-3 and omega-6 fats and why are they important? What is the difference between grass-fed and grain-fed beef? Why do we need antioxidants, and is it OK to get them in a pill? What is soluble and insoluble fiber? What is the difference between all-purpose, enriched, whole-grain and stone-ground flour? What does "organic" really mean? What is the role of exercise in weight loss?

At the end of each session, Dr. Kalia pulls all this information together to generate suggestions for healthy eating that you can use in your busy life. He then throws open the session for questions. What do you want to know more about? Cholesterol? Osteoporosis? High-fructose corn syrup? Quinoa? Ask away!

Evaluations:

Dr. Kalia is a motivational speaker for Vistage^®, a national organization dedicated to improving the efficiency of senior business executives. He does three-hour presentations for Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, and Chief Operating Officers. Each presentation is independantly scored by these busy individuals. You waste their time, and they will let you know! Here are a couple of Dr. Kalia’s evaluations. Additional references can be provided on request.

Vistage Chief Executive Group 3468:

Overall evaluation

Quality of content: 5.0 (on a scale of 5)

Quality of Delivery: 5.0 (on a scale of 5)

% Recommendation (for other groups): 100%

Comments:

Excellent. Very good presenter. Extremely knowledgeable. Explains when offering opinion versus fact which was great.
Believable, straightforward common sense approach that relates to me.
Excellent delivery and read the audience very well.
Highly applicable to everyone's health.
Excellent! Very informative. Things I never knew.
Alok is very timely and informative. He is very knowledgeable.

Perfect sense of why we need to understand how a diet works.

Vistage Key Executive Group (CFOs, COOs, etc.) 9099:

Overall Evaluation

Quality of content: 5.0 (on a scale of 5)

Quality of Delivery: 5.0 (on a scale of 5)

% Recommendation (for other groups): 100%

Almost the perfect speaker.

Very polished speaker.

Great content that could easily be applied to daily life.

May want to arrange giving presentations to each of our employees at the job site. More people need to hear this information.

Very interactive- made difficult concepts easy to understand a lot of very good material.

Excellent delivery great humor and he stayed on subject. It was a very informative presentation.

Presentation, format, content was excellent.
More people need to grasp over the information on health, weight, diet, execise that he has to offer.

List of Presentations in 2010:

American Bus. and Professional Women, Houston, TX. September

University of Texas at Brownsville, TX. August

Vistage Small Business Group 2259, St. Petersburg FL. August 

Church of Christ, Texas City TX. July 

Vistage Chief Executive Group 115, New Orleans LA. June

Vistage Key Executive Group 743, New Orleans, LA. June  

Vistage Chief Executive Group 2096, Miami FL. May

Vistage Chief Executive Group 2094, Miami FL. May

League City Public Library, League City, TX. May

Loren Cook and Associates, Cancun, Mexico. April

Parker Drilling, Houston, TX. March

Houston City Club, Houston, TX. March

Bridgeway Software Corporation, Houston, TX. February

Seabrook Intermediate School Seabrook, TX. February

Space Center Intermediate School, Webster, TX. February

League City Intermediate School, League City, TX. January

Vistage Chief Executive Group 3468, San Diego, CA. January

Upcoming Presentations in 2010:

First Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston, TX. November

Vistage Chief Executive Group 3031, Austin, TX. November

Seabrook Intermediate Science Magnet School, TX. September

Vistage Chief Executive Group 2092, Tampa, FL. September

Vistage Key Executive Group 2102, Tampa, FL. September 

Marathon Petroleum, Texas City, TX. September

Speaking Fees:

1. Formal presentations at annual meetings, conventions, and other organized events: $1500

The goal of these presentations is to promote educated eating and health improvement. Each entertaining (but factual) presentation lasts up to three hours, covers a variety of topics, and ends with a set of clear take-home messages. A question and answer period follows the presentation. Attendees receive a handout with a summary of the presentation and a list of action items.

Presentations outside the Houston area require compensation for travel, meals, and accommodation.

2. One-hour presentations: No charge

These include “lunch and learn” meetings, monthly meetings of professional groups, and presentations to schools, churches, libraries, city employees and other non-profit organizations. These informative presentations hit selected highlights and include an action plan.

3. Weight Management Workshops: $120 per attendee (minimum 10 attendees, maximum 25)

These practical workshops are specifically designed to promote weight loss and improve the health of employee groups. The workshops are based on rational and scientific principles and go far beyond “Eat this, don’t eat that, exercise.” The goal is to promote a life-long change in each attendee’s approach to food and eating. Losing weight is relatively easy; keeping it off is hard. This is where the workshops shine!