Dr. Stephen Covey, renowned leadership expert and the author of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People addressed an audience of leading CIOs at the CIO 100 Symposium through a new model for telepresence-enabled lecture services.

The 'Interactive Forums', using telepresence solutions from Polycom allow Stephen Covey, to speak at the conferences and events, and consult with business and government leaders anywhere, anytime.

Leveraging Polycom telepresence, the Interactive Forums improve access to Stephen Covey for conferences and events and save a considerable amount of time and travel costs, thereby delivering a more cost-effective model for the organization and its customers.

E. Boyd Craig, the Executive Director of Franklin Convey company explained, 'Dr. Convey is only one man and there is huge demand from him around the world. The power of Polycom telepresence is that we can bring him anywhere anytime without him getting out of his office.' Dr. Stephen Covey has chosen Polycom video conferencing because he can see people face-to-face and can have genuine communications with many people at once.