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GRACE under pressure is a LinkedIn Live Interview show that poses questions to thought leaders and doers whose ideas and actions are helping us come to a greater understanding of ourselves and the greater opportunities that await us. GRACE under pressure is a show that reveals what is too often dismissed as the “soft stuff” – the caring, the connecting, and commitment we feel toward others. GRACE under pressure provides insights into how leaders can show empathy in ways that bring people together for common cause, to achieve intended results, and to facilitate improved connections among colleagues. Now more than ever we need one another. GRACE under pressure will be a means to explore what it means to be a fully human leader, one who seeks to make where we work a place where people can connect as colleagues and maybe even as friends.
Rachel Adams is a writer and Professor of English at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous academic articles and book reviews, as well as three books. Her most recent book is Love, Money, Duty. She is also the author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, published by Yale University Press, Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (both published by the University of Chicago Press). Rachel is co-editor, with Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin, of Keywords for Disability Studies, published by New York University Press. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, and the Times of London. She also blogs for Huffington Post. www.racheladams.net
Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir is an Icelandic thought leader, author, award-winning serial entrepreneur, advisor and public speaker. She is the co-director and scriptwriter of the documentary film InnSæi: The Power of Intuition.
Hrund brings a unique perspective to how we lead, live, innovate and make better choices in times of uncertainty, transition and noise. A firm believer that the change we now need in the world starts from within us, she draws on her experience having leading roles in the areas of development and post-conflict reconstruction with the UN in Europe and Asia, innovation, investments, sustainable and circular business transition, the arts and education. She was the first woman to chair Iceland's largest public innovation fund, she was the managing director of Iceland’s sustainability centre Festa, programme director of UNIFEM in post-war Kosovo, and designed and directed Prisma, a diploma university program, recognised by the Nordic Council for best responding to 21st century work place challenges.
Hrund is an Advisory Council member at Yale’s International Leadership Centre and has been recognised for her work as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Cultural Leader and Yale World Fellow. She has qualifications from Yale, Harvard Kennedy School, the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, Oxford Said Business School and the University of Iceland. www.hrundgunnsteinsdottir.com
Charles Rosin is an Emmy-nominated writer-producer for television series such as Beverly Hills, 90210, Northern Exposure, and Dawson's Creek. Charles has taught writing and the art of pitching a television series at UCLA and USC, as well as Stand-Up Comedy for at-risk Middle School kids in Los Angeles. He is the creator of the “Rosin Report,” a monthly newsletter that offers readers an eclectic, personalized and somewhat nostalgic look at the people and places of Los Angeles where he resides. Charles.rosin@gmail.com
Elizabeth Rosner is an author and teacher whose work focuses on the redemptive power of storytelling and deep listening. Her six books have been translated into twelve languages and have received literary prizes in the US and abroad. Her most recent book, THIRD EAR: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening, blends personal stories of growing up in a multilingual household with multidisciplinary research about sound and silence in the natural world. Her previous book, SURVIVOR CAFÉ: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, and her first novel, THE SPEED OF LIGHT, won Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize in 2002, judged by Elie Wiesel. Elizabeth leads writing workshops internationally; her teaching carries forward a message of perseverance and tenacious optimism. www.elizabethrosner.com
Founder of Abella Consulting and Say It Skillfully Inc., Molly Tschang helps senior management and their teams to Win As One.Across 81 mergers and acquisitions, Molly has helped management navigate the human after-effects of intense change. She guides leaders to commit to each other’s success as they learn to thrive in complex internal environments. Through Say It Skillfully, Molly teaches people at all levels to communicate skillfully and authentically to be seen, heard and understood on their most important and challenging topics.Molly's first book with co-author Marshall Goldsmith will release May 20, 2025. Until then, enjoy a free 12-minute audiobook sneak peek of the Me-You-We framework—a game changer for expressing yourself with confidence and listening with intention sayitskillfully.zoundy.com/me-you-weMolly hosts the popular Say It Skillfully podcast and video series and is a TEDx speaker and member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches. She serves on the boards of several privately-held companies, the Cornell Engineering College Council, and Community Solutions (2021 winner of the $100 million MacArthur Foundation “100 & Change” award for accelerating an end to homelessness). She holds a BS in chemical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from UCLA. In her downtime, Molly enjoys tennis, yoga and cooking with family and friends. A 2024 highlight was a week at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca!
Morton Sherman, PhD, is the retired Senior Associate Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and a long-time educator who is dedicated to assuring learning at the highest possible levels for all students. An educator for 40 years, Sherman has served as a superintendent at schools across the country. He is a founding member of Public Schools for Tomorrow and currently serves on The Executive Committee of the board for the Goldie Hawn Foundation. In the past, he has served as a member of the board of directors with the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria, the Minority Student Achievement Network, Jason Learning, the National Superintendents Roundtable, and the Education Research and Development Institute. Sherman has received numerous awards throughout his career including a national community service award, Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals’ Pathfinder Award (2012), the American School Board Journal’s Magna Award (2012) and the Outstanding School Administrator Award (2003) by the New Jersey Music Educators Association. Sherman earned his doctorate in educational administration from Lehigh University, his master’s degree in English education from the University of Delaware, and his bachelor’s degree in English from Pennsylvania State University. He is the co-author of the book Resonant Minds: The Transformative Power of Music, One Note at a Time(foreword by Goldie Hawn; Bloomsbury) www.resonantminds.com
MICHAEL VORENBERG is the author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment, which was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was used as the basis for the screenplay of Stephen Spielberg’s 2012 film, Lincoln. His newest book is Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War. He is also the author of The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents, as well as a number of essays on legal and constitutional history. His writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, Politico, and the Washington Post. He teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. https://michaelvorenberg.com
Garry Ridge served as Chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company for 25 years. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego, where he teaches the principles and practices of corporate culture in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program. His newest book is “Any Dumbass Can Do It.”
Garry’s philosophy on company culture is based on Aristotle’s quote – “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” Turning that into action, he believes that all leaders can create a workplace where you go to work each day, make a contribution to something bigger than yourself, learn something new, feel safe, are protected, and are provided freedom by a set of values and go home happy!
He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called ‘Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A.” A native of Australia, Mr. Ridge holds a certificate in Modern Retailing and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. www.thelearningmoment.net
Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, Globe and Mail, and USA Today bestselling author of seventeen novels, including her newest, The Story She Left Behind. She’s also a podcast host of original content for her novels, Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis.
Her books have been translated into over 20 languages and have been the Barnes and Noble Book Club Pick, Amazon Editor Pick, Goodreads Book of the Year finalist, People Magazine Choice, Book of the Month Selection, and more. She is the recipient of The Christy Award “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for Becoming Mrs. Lewis.
She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti also was a contributor to the monthly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. She’s published in numerous anthologies, articles, and short story collections, including an Audible Original about Florence Nightingale, titled Wild Swan narrated by the Tony Award winner, Cynthia Erivo.
Growing up in Philadelphia as the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she’s lived up and down the East Coast from Philadelphia, to Florida, to Atlanta. She now lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Patti attended Auburn University for her undergraduate work and Georgia State University for her graduate degree. Once a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, she now writes full-time. Married to Pat Henry, the mother of three and grandmother of two. Here website is www.patticallahanhenry.com
You can find more here on her substack: https://patticallahanhenry.substack.com
Joel Salinas, MD is a behavioral neurologist and clinician scientist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, founder and Chief Medical Officer at Isaac Health, and former Harvard Medical School faculty. He is the author of Mirror Touch: A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain and co-author of CONFLICT RESILIENCE: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In. For more details, visit www.conflictresiliencebook.com.
John Baldoni likes to call himself the world’s worst golfer for as much golf as he plays. His lack of talent for the game has not dimmed his ardor for the game itself and the friends he has made playing it.
Golf Lessons: Chips, Chunks and Cheers is a love letter to the game – a collection of poems about the experience of playing and camaraderie it can produce. Baldoni distills wisdom with wry insight and joy. Baldoni’s own photography makes Golf Lessons a book to read and re-read one poem or a handful at time.
Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History, and Becoming Ghost. Her writing has been published in The New Republic, The Nation, and McSweeney’s and she has received awards from MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her newest book is "Becoming Ghost." She currently lives in New York. www.cathylinhche.com
Davin Salvagno is a bestselling author and dynamic speaker known as one of the top voices on purpose and leadership. His bestselling books include: “Finding Purpose at Work” and his new book “Thieves of Purpose: 12 Mindsets Robbing You of Your Purpose and Potential.”
Davin is also the CoFounder of The Purpose Summit, one of the most significant annual gatherings of purpose-driven leaders and organizations in the world.
After spending nearly two decades serving in various leadership roles in operations, human resources, marketing, and finance, Davin found a passion for inspiring leaders to revisit their founding purpose for who they are, and what they do.
Since 2018, he has served as an Executive Coach to many CEOs and as a leadership and organizational development consultant to a wide variety of companies in the retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and financial service sectors.
His clients have included many Fortune 500 companies, universities, and collegiate teams, and his work has been featured in Forbes, Worth, Newsweek, and the Harvard Business Review.
He is an honored member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches, which recognizes the best coaches in the world, a member of C12 Business Forums, a global peer advisory group comprised of 4000 Christian CEOs and Buisness Owners, and is represented by Greg+Miller Agency, which represents the world's most diverse, engaging, and influential speakers, authors, and thought leaders.
Davin is originally from Philadelphia, PA and recently moved from Michigan to Charlotte, NC with his wife Amy, their two children, and their Golden Retriever, Brinkley.
For books, podcasts, resources, or speaking inquires, please visit DavinSalvagno.com
Deborah Paredez is Chair and Associate Professor of Writing at the School of the Arts and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Paredez is the author of four books: the critical memoir American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous (Norton, 2024), the scholarly study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke, 2009), and the poetry collections This Side of Skin (Wings Press, 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers' League of Texas Poetry Book Award and a New York Times New and Notable Book. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Theatre and Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
Deborah Paredez https://www.deborahparedez.com
Dr. Margie Warrell (pronounced Mar-gee), is a five-time
best-selling author, keynote speaker, leadership coach, and Forbes
columnist. With twenty-five years of experience living and working
around the world - from Papua New Guinea to Singapore - she has
dedicated her life to helping people close the divide between the
potential they hold and the actions they take.
From her humble beginnings on a small farm in rural Australia to
her current role as a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry and Advisory
Board member for the Forbes School of Business & Technology,
Margie has learned that developing our capacity for courageous
action is essential for every worthwhile endeavor.
A mother of four and an advocate for women's empowerment, she inspires others to live bravely, rise stronger, and refuse to settle in any aspect of life.
www.margiewarrell.com
Performance psychologist Noa Kageyama (NY License #19280) is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. A conservatory-trained violinist with degrees from Oberlin and Juilliard before completing a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Indiana University, Noa now specializes in working with performing artists, teaching them how to utilize sport psychology principles and more consistently perform up to their full abilities under pressure.
He has conducted workshops for institutions ranging from Northwestern University, New England Conservatory, Peabody, Eastman, Curtis, McGill University, and the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music, to programs such as the Starling-Delay Symposium, The Perlman Music Program, and the National Orchestral Institute, and for organizations like the Music Teachers’ National Association, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Sphinx Organization, the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.
Noa’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, CNN, Slate, TED-Ed, Musical America, Strings Magazine, Strad, and Lifehacker. He has taught over 8000 musicians, educators, and learners through his online courses, and authors The Bulletproof Musician - a performance psychology blog and podcast which reaches over 45,000 subscribers every week.
www.bulletproofmusician.com
A combat veteran and former paratrooper, Bill Glose has written hundreds of articles, short stories, poems, and essays for numerous publications. Prisons, VA hospitals, universities, and writers’ conferences are among the many venues where Glose has given lectures and taught creative writing workshops. In 2011 he was named the Daily Press Poet Laureate and in 2017 he was featured by NPR on The Writer’s Almanac. His book, All the Ruined Men, won the 2023 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Other honors include the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Award and the Dateline Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Bill Glose is the author of five books of poetry including the much-acclaimed, Half Man and a new collection of short stories, All the Ruined Men. His website is www.billglose.com
Teresa M. Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Her most recent book, Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You, presents insights from a decade of research on the psychological, social, and life restructuring challenges of retiring. Her colleagues Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram collaborated on that work. Before turning her research interests to the retirement transition, Teresa devoted over 40 years to researching creativity and innovation. She was instrumental in establishing the social psychology of creativity – the study of how the social environment can influence creative behavior, primarily by influencing motivation. Her research on creativity appears in her books, Creativity in Context and Growing Up Creative, as well as numerous articles for scholars and practitioners. Extending that research, she studied how everyday life inside organizations can influence people and their creativity, productivity, commitment, and collegiality, by affecting inner work life – the confluence of motivation, emotions, and perceptions. The findings of that research appear in her coauthored book (with Steven Kramer), The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.
Teresa’s work has appeared in over 100 scholarly journal articles and a variety of other outlets, including Harvard Business Review, as well as several edited books. She has presented her work to audiences in a variety of settings, including Pixar, Genentech, TEDx Atlanta, Apple, Pfizer, and The World Economic Forum in Davos. She consults to companies and nonprofits and has served on a number of boards. She has received a variety of awards, including the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizational Behavior Division, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference, an honorary doctorate from BI Norwegian Business School, and election to the 2024 Thinkers50 Hall of Fame. www.retiringbook.com
Kim B. Clark joined the Harvard faculty in 1978 and served as dean of the faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005. He also served as the fifteenth president of Brigham Young University-Idaho from 2005 to 2015, Commissioner of Education for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2015 to 2019, and is Distinguished Professor of Management at Brigham Young University.
Mary Olson-Menzel has over 30 years of leadership across media, tech, healthcare, and many other industries globally. She is the Founder and CEO of MVP Executive Development, a national leadership, coaching, and organizational management consultancy with offices in Connecticut, New York, and Illinois. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups with a broad reach of industries from FinTech to Football (the NFL). As a seasoned executive leadership coach, Mary works with both companies and individuals to unlock the potential that improves business performance and catalyzes growth. Her coaching methods bring a fresh lens to business and a perspective that nurtures teamwork and helps drive results through grace, empathy, and "Humane Leadership".
Before starting her company in 2012, Mary was a partner at two leading global executive search firms. She also spent a decade at Tribune Company in Chicago as National Managing Director of Talent, leading a team of 40+ human capital professionals. This is where her understanding and expertise in recruiting and coaching were honed. She worked closely with 20 newspapers, 27 television stations, and hundreds of digital assets across the country to attract and retain the best and the brightest. In her early years, Mary worked in both the tech space and media and entertainment, where she started her career as a television reporter.
Driven by an innate curiosity and a deep passion for her work, Mary has dedicated her life to helping leaders at all levels channel what “lights them up” and inspires them into more fulfilling and successful personal and professional journeys. Mary earned her MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Public Relations from Illinois State University.
Mary currently lives in Westchester, NY, with her husband, three kids, and their Goldendoodle, Wrigley. She is a part of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches, which brings together the world's leading executive coaches, consultants, speakers, authors, iconic leaders, and entrepreneurs. Mary volunteers for various charities locally as well. Her newest book is “What Lights You Up? Illuminate Your Path and Take the Next Big Step in Your Career.” www.maryolsonmenzel.com
Frank Andre Guridy is an award-winning historian and the author of three books. He is a history and African American studies professor and the executive director of the Eric H. Holder Institute for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia University. His newest book is “The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest and Play.” https://history.columbia.edu/person/guridy-frank/
Terence Mauri is a global expert on the future of leadership, AI, and disruption. As founder of the future trends think tank Hack Future Lab and an acclaimed author, Mauri spearheaded a movement for leaders to find the upside of disruption and rethink leadership for a post-AI world.Mauri’s actionable insights and bold thinking have been featured in The Economist, Forbes, Inc. BBC, Reuters, Business Insider, and The Drucker Forum. He has been described as “an influential and outspoken expert on the future of leadership” by Thinkers50, the global authority on today’s top business thinkers. Follow Terence on Twitter/X @terencemauri or visit www.terencemauri.com.
Anne Chow was the first woman and first woman of color to hold the position of CEO at AT&T Business in 2019, overseeing more than 35,000 employees who collectively served 3 million business customers worldwide during her time there. She is currently the Lead Directoron the board of Franklin Covey, serves on the board of 3M and CSX, and teaches at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Here are sample clips on Harvard Business Review’s Race at Work, WFAA and MSNBC. Her newest book is LEAD BIGGER: The Transformative Power of Inclusion Her website is www.theannechow.com
Travis Rieder, PhD, is a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where he directs the Master of Bioethics degree program. He holds secondary appointments in the departments of Philosophy and Health Policy and Management, as well as the Center for Public Health Advocacy. His first book, a memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal, was named an NPR Best Book of 2019, and his TED Talk on the same topic has been viewed more than 2.5 million times. He has been interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air and his opinion writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, and Psychology Today. www.travisrieder.com
Steve Almond is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His essays and reviews have been published in venues ranging from the New York Times Magazine to Ploughshares to Poets & Writers, and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Mysteries, and Best American Erotica. Almond is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Steve cohosted the Dear Sugars podcast with his pal Cheryl Strayed for four years, and teaches Creative Writing at the Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and Wesleyan. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, with his family and his anxiety.
One of Canada’s highest-rated clinical psychologists, Dr. Monica Vermani is a public speaker, teacher, and author in the field of mental health and wellness. In her private practice, Dr. Vermani provides a multi-faceted treatment approach in treating adolescents and adults suffering from trauma/abuse, mood, anxiety, substance addictions, and other related conditions and disorders, as well as family and couples therapy. She employs a dynamic range of techniques and evidence-based treatment modalities, including psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, (CBT), Mindfulness Meditation – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)/Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Breath~Body~Mind (BBM), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming (EMDR).
Dr. Vermani’s Start Living Corporate Wellness programs were created out of her belief in the importance of good mental health in the workplace. Start Living Corporate Wellness programs support and facilitate individuals’ efforts to overcome the barriers that prevent them from living their best and most authentic life.
Dr. Vermani’s game-changing Start Living Corporate Wellness programs address the underlying mental health issues that impact individual employees and teams. Through a dynamic suite of psycho-education, training, and support, Start Living Corporate Wellness programs keep employees engaged, supported, happy, and whole.
Dr. Vermani believes that good mental health doesn’t just happen, that it deserves the same time, attention, understanding, and effort as our physical wellbeing. To that end, Dr. Vermani’s latest book, A Deeper Wellness, and its companion online A Deeper Wellness Life Lessons mental health program provide the tools to create a deep, authentic sense of wellness and wellbeing. Drawing from her 25 years of clinical practice, she takes readers through the same tried and true multi-disciplinary approach to treatment that has been successful in creating incremental, meaningful change for hundreds of patients and groups. Dr. Vermani has placed her expertise in media outlets including Parade, Vitamin Shoppe, CTV Northern Ontario, HIVE, Hamilton Today With Scott Thompson, and Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, Shondaland, HuffPost, and Well and Good. https://www.drmonicavermani.com
Ashley Goodall is a leadership expert who has spent his career exploring large organizations from the inside, most recently as an executive at Cisco. He is the co-author of Nine Lies About Work, which was selected as the best management book of 2019 by Strategy + Business and as one of Amazon’s best business and leadership books of 2019. Prior to Cisco, he spent fourteen years at Deloitte as a consultant and as the Chief Learning Officer for Leadership and Professional development. His newest book is “The Problem with Change.” www.ashleygoodall.com
Barbara Kellerman is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. She was the Founding Executive Director of the Center, and a member of the Kennedy School faculty for over twenty years. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, Christopher Newport, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She also served as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the University of Maryland.
Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A. M.Phil., and Ph.D. (in Political Science) degrees from Yale University. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. At Uppsala (1996-97), she held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies. Kellerman was cofounder of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and is author and editor of many books. Kellerman has also appeared on media outlets such as CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, Reuters, and BBC, and has contributed articles and reviews to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review.
JEFF WETZLER is co-CEO of Transcend, a nationally recognized innovation organization, and an expert in learning and human potential. Wetzler combines unique leadership experiences spanning more than 25 years in business and education, as a management consultant to the world’s top corporations, a learning facilitator for leaders around the world, and as Chief Learning Officer at Teach For America.
Jeff earned a Doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in psychology from Brown University. Based in New York, he is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow. His newest book is ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life. https://www.askapproach.com/
Kandi Wiens, EdD is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Master’s in Medical Education Program and the Penn Health Professions Education Certificate Program. As a sought-after international speaker, Dr. Wiens is co-founder and chief research officer of Big Sky Leadership Labs, where she leads and conducts evidence-based research on executive performance, emotional intelligence, burnout, and resilience. Her work has been prominently featured in the Harvard Business Review and in several Harvard Business Review Press books.
A Senior Fellow at Penn, Dr. Wiens is Academic Director of the PennCLO Master’s Program and teaches various graduate-level and executive-format courses. She has designed and delivered over 2,000 leadership development programs focused on helping leaders build and leverage their emotional and social intelligence to amplify their positive impact and protect themselves from burnout.
Dr. Wiens holds a doctorate from the Penn Chief Learning Officer executive doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon, and a B.S. in business administration from Montana State University.
ALEXANDRA O. HUDSON is passionate about how ideas and storytelling can
change people’s lives. A writer and popular speaker, she also is the founder ofCivic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness, and truth. She was named the 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to CBS News, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek.
She earned a master's degree in public policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Scholar, and is an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy. She is also the creator of a series for The Great Courses,Netflix for lifelong learners, called Storytelling and The Human Condition. Her bestselling book, “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves,” was published by St. Martin’s Press, and was selected as a “Must Read” book by The Next Big Idea Book Club. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband and two children.
https://alexandraohudson.com
Arun Gupta, CEO of NobleReach, is a venture capitalist, Lecturer at Stanford University for “Valley Meets Mission”, and Adjunct Entrepreneurship Professor and Senior Advisor to Provost at Georgetown University, and author of, “Venture Meets Mission”.
Arun is active in the emerging technology, entrepreneurship, public policy, and venture finance communities. He is passionate about inspiring students to pursue mission-oriented entrepreneurial careers.
At Stanford University, Arun serves on the Stanford in Washington (SIW) Advisory Board, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Advisory Council, and is a Faculty Lecturer teaching ” Valley Meets Mission: Purposeful Entrepreneurship with Government” at Stanford in Washington. The class highlights his venture capital and academic experience building successful mission-oriented ventures at the intersection of the government, mission, technology, and entrepreneurship.
As a Partner at Columbia Capital, Arun’s investment career spanned eighteen years including initiating the firm’s Cybersecurity and Government technology investments with a focus on National Security, AI, and SaaS/Cloud infrastructure sectors. Prior to joining Columbia Capital in 2000, Arun was at Carlyle Venture Partners focused on software investments.
Arun has lived in the Washington DC metropolitan area for over 40 years and has been actively involved in local community organizations focusing on coaching youth sports, inner city educational programs, and food insecurity programs for vulnerable communities. Arun has been happily married for 27+ years to Dr. Anjali Mehta Gupta and has three wonderful children. www.venturemeetsmission.comhttps://noblereachfoundation.org
Robert Waldinger is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and cofounder of the Lifespan Research Foundation. Dr. Waldinger received his AB from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and he directs a psychotherapy teaching program for Harvard psychiatry residents. He is also a Zen master (Roshi) and teaches meditation in New England and around the world. Robert is the co-author of the book The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study on Happiness www.robertwaldinger.com
Dr. Oleg Konovalov is a global thought leader, author, business educator, consultant, and C-suite coach. His newest book is The Fisherman’s Path to Leadership: 224 Lessons from the Wisdom of Nature.
Oleg is named among the top eight global experts in leadership and shortlisted for the Distinguished Award in Leadership by Thinkers50 (2021). He is on Global Gurus Top 30 in Leadership, is the #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Award), and has been named one of the Global 100 Inspirational Leaders 2022, along with Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey.
Having been named “the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership” by many leading authorities of our time, Oleg is considered #1 in the world in the field of vision and visionary leadership.
He is the author of The Vision Code, Leaderology, and other books.
www.olegkonovalov.com
Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton are among today’s most influential voices in workplace trends. They have spent more than two decades helping clients build high-performance cultures. In their work, they provide solutions for leaders looking to enhance employee engagement, teamwork, and wellness. Their work is supported by research with more than 1 million working adults across the globe, revealing the proven secrets behind high performance cultures and teams.
They are founders of The Culture Works, a global consultancy, and authors of multiple award-winning #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestsellers such as All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, and Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.
They have been called “fascinating” by Fortune and“creative and refreshing” by the New York Times. They have appeared on NBC’s Today show, CNN, and CBS 60 Minutes and are quoted frequently in The Economist, Fast Company, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal.
Gostick & Elton are founding members of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches cohort; hosts of the podcast Anxiety at Work; and in 2023 both ranked in the top 10 Global Gurus in the categories of Leadership and Organizational Culture. www.adriangostick.com
www.chesterelton.com www.thecultureworks.com
Lauren Wesley Wilson is one of the nation’s leading thought leaders on media relations, diversity and inclusion, and crisis communications. At 25, she became the founder and CEO of ColorComm Corporation. Prior to that, she worked as a communications strategist at a prestigious crisis communications firm in Washington, D.C., where she oversaw media strategy and crisis communications for international governments and stakeholder engagement for consumer brands. She previously served on the Glass Lions Jury at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France. She graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in political science and from Georgetown University with an M.A. in communications. She resides in New York City.
William Ury is one of the world’s best-known experts on negotiation, and the co-author of Getting to Yes, the all-time bestselling book on negotiation with more than 15 million copies sold. A co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, Ury has served as a negotiator in many of the toughest disputes of our times, taught negotiation to tens of thousands, and consulted for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, the White House, State Department, and the Pentagon. He has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts from strikes to family feuds, US partisan battles to wars in the Middle East, Colombia, Korea, and Ukraine. An acclaimed speaker with two TEDx talks and millions of viewers (The Walk from “No” to “Yes” & The Power of Listening), Ury lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and host of the Remarkable People podcast. He was the chief evangelist of Apple, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador, and special assistant to the Motorola Division of Google. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He lives in Watsonville, California. His newest book is Think Remarkable. www.guykawasaki.com
Gareth Higgins was born in Belfast in 1975, grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles, and now lives in the US. He writes and speaks about the power of storytelling to shape our lives and world, peace and making justice, and how to take life seriously without believing your own propaganda. He has been involved in peace-building and violence reduction in northern Ireland and helping address the legacy of conflict, received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast, and helped teach the world’s first graduate course in Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He also helped found the Wild Goose, New Story and Movies & Meaning festivals. Gareth leads retreats in North America and Ireland; and he founded The Porch Magazine.
Brian McLaren says Gareth’s new book How Not to be Afraid is “a beautiful book”, Kathleen Norris says it’s “a necessary book”, and Micky ScottBey Jones says it’s “a much-needed resource for skill-building through our fear and trauma, so that we might create the belonging and communities we desire”. Nadia Bolz-Weber says “I totally trust Gareth Higgins when he writes about his own fear and how it’s actually possible to transform it into something powerful, something capable of healing us and the world.” Pádraig Ó Tuama says “Gareth Higgins is a friend. This book is too.” Find out more at www.hownottobeafraid.com
Ari Weinzweig, Co-founding Partner of the Zingerman's Community of Businesses, is a line cook turned CEO and thought leader. He shares his learnings about positive business through his prolific writing. The first four books in his Guide to Good Leading series explore the principles, beliefs, and pillars of the Zingerman's organization. His newest work is the artisan pamphlet, A Taste of Zingerman's Food Philosophy.
Ari is still actively engaged in many aspect of the day-to-day operations and governance of the eleven Zingerman's businesses across Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2017, Ari was named one of "The World's Top 10 CEOs (They Lead in a Totally Unique Way)" by Inc. Magazine.
Ari regularly travels across the country and world on behalf of Zingerman’s, teaching organizations and businesses about Zingerman’s approach to business through keynotes and private training. Contact him at ari@zingermans.com
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, is a psychiatrist, public health doctor, and non-fiction writer. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Public Health, who has served as Chief Medical Officer and EVP of McLean Hospital, Mental Health Commissioner of NYC (in the Bloomberg administration), and Chief Medical Officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health. He has published fourteen books and approximately 500 articles for print and online publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, and US News and World Report (where he wrote an opinion column for three years). His newest book is “Caiught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcare.”
https://www.askdrlloyd.com
Davin Salvagno is the Founder & CEO of PurposePoint, the Cofounder of The Purpose Summit, and the author of “Finding Purpose at Work." He is an inspirational speaker and thought leader known for connecting purpose, people, and performance. Having spent nearly two decades serving in various leadership roles in finance, human resources, operations, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies, his insights and talks have helped hundreds of organizations across the world engage their purpose and inspire their people. https://www.purposepoint.com https://www.thepurposesummit.com
K. Scott Griffith is the founder and managing partner of SG Collaborative Solutions, LLC, an enterprise risk management firm specializing in reliable performance in high-consequence industries and organizations.
Clients include Harvard’s Mass General Brigham health system, the California hospital and medical associations, Global Medical Response, and numerous other transportation, healthcare, first responder, and law enforcement organizations. He is the author of the world’s first Collaborative High Reliability® and Collaborative Just Culture® improvement programs, independently audited and certified by DNV, a world-leading international accreditation organization.
Scott gained his reputation for world-class reliability and collaborative skills through success in high-consequence industries across the globe. He came to prominence as a leader in the field of aviation as an international airline captain and chief safety officer at American Airlines, and is widely recognized as the father of the airline industry’s landmark Aviation Safety Action Programs (ASAP). His newest books is “Managing Risk.”
https://sgcpartners.com/faculty/scott-griffith/
HORTENSE LE GENTIL is a world-renowned executive leadership coach, speaker, and author. She guides CEOs and senior executives on their journey from hero leaders to human leaders. Guided by 30 years in business, working across industries—including media consulting and advertising—and as an entrepreneur. Hortense was a 2021 and 2023 nominee for the Thinkers 50 Coaching and Mentoring Awards, and has been ranked #5 on the Global Gurus list by World Management Global Gurus.
Hortense is a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered™ coach and a member of MG100 Coaches. Author of THE UNLOCKED LEADER: Dare to Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, and Shine Your Light in the World (Wiley, September 26, 2023), and ALIGNED: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be (2019), Hortense is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and ThriveGlobal.com, and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Business Insider. She is based in New York. www.hortenselegentil.com
Proceeds from The Unlocked Leader will go to support the work of the JedFoundation.org that focuses on helping teens with their mental health.
Tim Brown is an award-winning writer with 25 years’ experience covering Major League Baseball at the Los Angeles Times, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Los Angeles Daily News and Yahoo! Sports. He co-wrote, with Jim Abbott, the New York Times bestseller, “Imperfect: An Improbable Life.” He resides with his wife, Kelly, in North Carolina. ww.bytimbrown.com.
Tony Martignetti is a trusted advisor, leadership coach and facilitator, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. He brings together over 25 years of business and leadership experience and extreme curiosity to elevate leaders and equip them with the tools to navigate through change and unlock their true potential. He has been recognized by Thinkers360 as one of the Top Voices in Leadership and by LeadersHum as one of the Biggest Voices in Leadership in 2023.
Before becoming the founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of Inspired Purpose Partners, Tony was a finance and strategy executive with experience working with some of the world's leading life sciences companies. Along his journey, he also managed small businesses and ran a financial consulting company.
Tony hosts The Virtual Campfire podcast and is the author of “Climbing the Right Mountain: Navigating the Journey to An Inspired Life" and "Campfire Lessons for Leaders: How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward.” He has been featured in many publications, including Fast Company, Forbes, Life Science Leader, and CEO Today.
https://www.inspiredpurposecoach.com/virtualcampfire
Dr. Philip M. Brown, Jr., MD, also known as Doc Philip Brown, is an accomplished physician, author, public speaker, and healthcare leader with a reputation for asking questions that help people think differently.
Dr. Brown is the UNC-Wilmington Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2021 and a member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches. He is also an accomplished public speaker and co-hosts the Podcast Unlikely Intersections. Additionally, he is an Amazon Best-Selling Author of "Do You Speak Patient" under his pen name Doc Philip Brown.
As a physician, Dr. Brown believes that patient care must be founded on trust, empathy, and listening. He also believes that medical professionals should become skilled at explaining things to patients in ways they can understand and that the patient relationship must be built on a foundation of trust. Dr. Brown believes that patients should be co-creators in their care plan in order to survive medical challenges and reach their highest level of health, and that empathy creates context for optimal patient care. He excels at helping develop inclusive high performing teams and is an inspiring speaker on topics ranging from physician leadership to equity and inclusion.
https://docphilipbrown.com/
Dan Pontefract is the founder and CEO of Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture. He works with firms such as Salesforce, Canada Post, BMO, Nutrien, TD Bank, Autodesk, Amgen, and others to help shift their culture, employee experience, leadership practices, and operating ways. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business.
Dan is the best-selling author of five books: WORK-LIFE BLOOM: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes (2023), LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters (2020), OPEN TO THINK: Slow Down, Think Creatively, and Make Better Decisions (2018), THE PURPOSE EFFECT: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization (2016) and FLAT ARMY: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (2013).
Dan is on the Thinkers50 Radar list, HR Weekly’s 100 Most Influential People in HR, PeopleHum’s Top 200 Thought Leaders and Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 leadership speakers.
Notably, Dan is a proven leader with real-world, game-changing and award-winning experience. Previously as Chief Envisioner and Chief Learning Officer at TELUS—a Canadian telecommunications company with revenues of over $14 billion and 50,000 global employees—he launched the Transformation Office, the TELUS MBA, and the TELUS Leadership Philosophy, all award-winning initiatives that dramatically helped to increase the company’s employee engagement to record levels of nearly 90%. Despite leaving full-time in 2018, Dan continues to work with TELUS as Director of the TELUS MBA and on a retainer to assist TELUS clients as needed. Previous to his ten years at TELUS, he held senior executive positions over twelve years with SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
Dan’s career is interwoven with corporate and academic experience, coupled with an MBA, B.Ed and multiple industry certifications. He is a renowned speaker, invited to deliver over 600 external keynotes and presentations, including four TED Talks. Dan also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. www.worklifebloom.com
Jerry Colonna is a leading executive coach who uses the skills he learned as a venture capitalist to help entrepreneurs. He is a co-founder and CEO of Reboot, the executive coaching and leadership development company, host of the Reboot Podcast, and author of Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong (HarperBusiness; Nov. 2023), and Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up(HarperBusiness, 2019). He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients design a more conscious life and make needed changes to their career to improve their performance and satisfaction. Previously he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. He joined JPMP from Flatiron Partners, which he launched in 1996 with partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early-stage investment programs in the New York City area. He lives on a farmin Longmont, Colorado. www.reboot.io
Jared Fishman is the founder and executive director of Justice Innovation Lab, an organization that designs data-driven solutions for a more equitable, effective, and fair justice system. Justice Innovation Lab uses a collaborative approach to help justice system decision-makers identify and fix inequities in their jurisdictions.
Prior to founding Justice Innovation Lab, Mr. Fishman served for 14 years as a senior civil rights prosecutor at the US Department of Justice, where he led some of the most complex civil rights prosecutions in the country, securing convictions in high-profile cases involving police misconduct, hate crimes and human trafficking. He received multiple awards from the Department of Justice for distinguished service, including the Civil Rights Division’s highest award for excellence in legal advocacy.
Mr. Fishman began his career at the US Department of State, where he worked to rebuild legal systems in post-war Kosovo. He has also served as a line prosecutor at the Washington, DC US Attorney’s Office, where he handled domestic violence and sex offense cases.
He regularly speaks on issues of data-driven criminal justice reform, police accountability, hate crimes, and human trafficking. He serves as adjunct faculty at Georgetown University and at the George Washington University Law School. Jared is also the author of “Fire on the Levee,” a book about his experience as a civil rights attorney in New Orleans prosecuting the murder by police and its subsequent cover-up.
Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties for more than 25 years. She teaches executives and MBA students on human resource strategy to transform organizations, women in leadership and senior executive programmes. In 2019 she was awarded the LBS Excellence in Teaching prize and Thinkers50 ranks her among the world’s top management thinkers.
She is also the author of Working Identity (updated edition, 2023) and her work has been featured in international news media. Herminia speaks on leadership and transformation for organizations worldwide, and at conferences that include TEDx, WIRED Smarter and the World Business Forum.
https://herminiaibarra.com
Sally Susman is Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Pfizer. She is also Vice Chair of the Pfizer Foundation.
Sally leads engagement with all of Pfizer’s external stakeholders, overseeing communications, corporate responsibility, global policy, government relations, investor relations, and patient advocacy.
Before joining Pfizer in 2007, she held several senior communications and government relations roles at Estée Lauder Companies and the American Express Company. https://www.sallysusman.com
Mahesh M. Thakur is an AI expert who helps businesses and leaders successfully deliver their AI-enabled Strategy. He has professional work experience with F500 companies, including Microsoft, Intuit, Amazon, and Intel. He defined how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning would improve the relevance of Bing Search results. Bing servers 1.3 Billion visitors per month.
Mahesh is the former CEO of PhotoWeaver and an experienced Board Member. Mahesh elevated the leaders he worked with by identifying their strengths and presenting them with opportunities and projects to thrive. He brought out the best in them by always knowing what inspired them to bring their best to work. He did this by coaching his leaders on delegation, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, decision-making, and clarity. www.maheshmthakur.com
Lucy Parker and Jon Miller work together helping companies get to grips with their role in society.
Lucy Parker is a former BBC documentary maker. She moved into business as a coach to executives on strategic communications. Today she is well-known as a top corporate advisor. In government, she led the UK Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Talent and Enterprise.
Jon Miller left an award-winning career in advertising to help businesses play a more positive role in the world. He is the founder of Open For Business, a coalition of 40 global companies campaigning for LGBTQ+ rights in countries hostile to LGBTQ+ people.
Jacquelyn Lane is the president of the 100 Coaches Agency and codesigner of their proprietary curation process and relationship-first philosophy. She has been with the agency since its founding and is a critical pillar of the 100 Coaches Community.
Jacquelyn comes to the world of executive coaching through her previous roles in the energy industry and lifelong commitment to improving the lives of all people by elevating the quality of leadership.
Scott Osman is the founder and CEO of the 100 Coaches Agency andco-designer of their proprietary curation process and the company’s relationship-first philosophy. In his role as CEO, he establishes the vision for the company, leads partnerships and business development, and serves as a leading light of the 100 Coaches Community, which he cofounded with Marshall in 2016. He is the cofounder of Methods by 100 Coaches, the online learning platform. www.becomingcoachable.com
Scott Jeffrey Miller was raised in Central Florida and began his leadership journey early as the student body president of his high school where he fell in love with ~~power~~ politics. After working on numerous local, state, and national political campaigns, Scott joined the Disney Development Company where for nearly four years he was part of the team that designed and built the famed city of Celebration, Florida (Walt Disney’s original vision for EPCOT Center).
At the age of 26, Scott ~~left~~ was kicked out of Disney in Orlando, and moved to the next natural place for a good Catholic boy in his twenties: Provo, Utah. Now at first blush, this might seem ~~genius~~ insane, but he fell in love with Utah’s ~~mountains~~ lack of humidity and joined the FranklinCovey Company.
Recruited by Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s team, Scott built a 26-year career in the world’s most respected and influential leadership development firm serving in nearly every role imaginable. From a front-line salesperson, to project manager, sales leader, general manager, vice president, chief marketing officer to executive vice president of thought leadership, Scott’s experience at FranklinCovey shaped his views on ~~leadership~~ being a human and somehow found himself married at the age of 41 and ~~begrudgingly~~ lovingly the father of three ~~rascal~~ angelic sons.
Scott’s professional roles evolved as he became a multi-bestselling author, radio and podcast host, leadership coach, columnist, and global keynote speaker. He continues to consult with FranklinCovey and is proud to continue their collaboration as he expands his own influence through new books, speeches, and coaching offerings.
Scott currently serves as the Special Advisor on Thought Leadership for the Franklin Covey Company and is the host of their weekly podcast series, On Leadership with Scott Miller. Scott also hosts FranklinCovey’s monthly book club on Bookclub.com which debuted in April 2021. Additionally, Scott is the prolific author of numerous books, writes a column for Inc. Magazine, and keynotes for clients around the world.
The Millers live in Salt Lake City with their two ~~annoying~~ treasured dogs and live every day full of gratitude for all their blessings.
Welcome to Millerland! www.greatmentorship.com www.scottjeffreymiller.com
Tanveer Naseer is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and award-winning leadership writer. He is also the Founder and CEO of Tanveer Naseer Leadership, a leadership corporate training and consulting firm that works with executives and managers to help them develop practical leadership and team-building competencies to drive organizational growth and development.
Tanveer's work and writings have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Economist Executive Education Navigator, CBC Radio Daybreak, Global News, and the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center.
Tanveer is the recipient of several awards and recognitions as one of the world's top thinkers in the leadership sphere, including being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts.
Tanveer has been very active on speaking circuit, giving keynotes and workshops on leadership and empowering employees to audiences across Canada, United States, Europe, and the Middle East in a wide range of industries in both private and public sectors.
His keynotes and corporate training sessions have received rave reviews from clients including Boehringer Ingelheim, Capital One Canada, Henkel, TJX Canada, Boston Children's Hospital, CMHC, Dematic, Tomlinson Group, ERAC, Project Management Institute (PMI) New Jersey, McGill University, Lonza Group, VIPAR, Boehringer Ingelheim Canada, NAED, and the Government of Canada. He's even given a TED talk titled “Forget Passion – Purpose is the Real Spice of Life”. www.tanveernaseer.com
Tom Burbage retired from the Lockheed Martin Corporation in April 2013. He was the President of the Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Company and the Executive VP/GM for both the USAF F-22 Raptor and the multi-service, allied next generation fighter, the F-35.
Prior to joining Lockheed, Mr. Burbage was a Naval Aviator, completing the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School in 1975. He has accumulated more than 3,000 hours in 38 different types of military aircraft. As a reservist he retired as a Navy Captain in 1994.
Mr. Burbage has received numerous industry awards, including the U.S. Naval Academy/Harvard Business Review Award for Ethical Leadership; the Aerospace Industry Personality of the Year; the Society of Automotive Engineers Leadership in Aerospace Award; the Donald C. Burnham Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Silver Knight Award from the National Management Association; three Aviation WeekMagazine Laurels Awards and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots James H Doolittle Award for outstanding accomplishment in technical management and engineering achievement in aerospace technology. He was elected an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in recognition of notable contributions to the arts, sciences and technology of aeronautics and astronautics. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Burbage received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and holds master's degrees in Aeronautical Systems from the University of West Florida and Business Administration from UCLA. Tom and his wife, Ellen, reside in Alpharetta, Ga., and have three daughters and twelve grandchildren. The authors’ website is
https://f35insidestory.shop
Dr. Omékongo Dibinga is an international speaker, trilingual poet, talk show host, rapper and professor of Intercultural Communication at American University, where he also serves as a faculty affiliate to the Antiracist Research & Policy Center. He has studied at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Georgetown, Morehouse and The Fletcher School, where he earned his M.A. in Law & Diplomacy. He worked for four years as the lead Teaching Assistant to Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at Georgetown University. Dr. Dibinga earned his Ph.D. in International Education Policy at The University of Maryland (UMD) where his dissertation centered on the global hip-hop phenomenon and JAY-Z. At UMD, he worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Diverse Students initiative. Dr. Dibinga has also worked with school districts on culturally relevant instruction throughout the United States.
His Urban Music Award-winning work has best been described by poet Nikki Giovanni as “outstanding, exciting, and new while being very old.” His first book, From the Limbs of My Poetree was lauded by Essence Magazine as “a remarkable and insightful collection of exquisite poetry that touches sacred places within your spirit.” He was one of five international recipients out of 750,000 entrants to win the inaugural CNN iReport Spirit Award, receiving over 1 million views on CNN.com.
Dr. Dibinga’s writings and performances have appeared in O Magazine, BET, NPR, Music Choice, Voice of America and the BBC. He has written songs for major motion pictures as well as organizations including NASA and the Enough! Project. He has spoken before the United Nations and conducts leadership training overseas for the State Department, as well as for corporate, government and educational organizations across the country on issues centered on leadership, antiracism, diversity and inclusion. www.liesaboutblackpeople.com www.omekongo.com
Caroline Webb is an executive coach, author, and speaker, who specializes in showing people how to transform their life and work for the better by applying insights from the behavioral sciences (behavioral economics, psychology and neuroscience). Her book on that topic – How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life – has been published in 17 editions and over 60 countries. It was hailed by Forbes as one of their “must-read business books,” by Fortune as one of their top “self-improvement through data” books, and by Inc magazine as one of the “best 15 leadership and personal development books of the past five years.” The book also won plaudits from publications as diverse as the Financial Times, TIME, and Cosmopolitan magazine.
Caroline has created two LinkedIn Learning programs, including her newest on science-based leadership. Caroline is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey, where she was previously a Partner. www.carolinewebb.co
Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal (pronounced Stay-skull) is the Founder and Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Resilience Leadership Institute (RLI), she is recognized #1 international expert on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing in both leadership and life. Her mission is to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, by enhancing hope, healing, and health as well as increased consciousness and enhanced leadership through the practices of resilience. She also serves as the Chief Wellness Officer for Lifewrite, a platform leveraging the latest in AI technology dedicated to enhancing mental health and wellbeing through by harnessing the power of our human expression through writing. Global Gurus has recognized her as a Top 30 Thinker in Leadership, she is a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach Globally (MG100), and she was a finalist for the Tony Hsieh Award focused on people who are leading progressive and innovative change in the area of human capital. Her work has been featured by Fox and NBC News, Bloomberg Business, Thrive Global, and Forbes. Her TEDx talk entitled “How Resilience Breaks Us Out of Our Vulnerability Cage” has been viewed over 1 million times! LA Progressive magazine calls her “the go-to person” and “a secret weapon” for CEOs and executive leadership teams who want to find their edge as well as rise above the competition. Her bestselling book entitled The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why some flourish when others fold debuted at #3 in the world on Barnes & Noble and topped the book charts at #1 for Personal Growth and Self-Help & Relationships.
By conducting two decades of original research on resilience, Dr. Taryn Marie developed the empirically based framework, The Five Practices of Highly Resilient People and believes that resilience is the key to individual, teams, and organizational growth and acceleration across the globe. Prior to founding RLI, she served as the Head of Executive Leadership Development & Talent Strategy at Nike, as well as Head of Global Leadership Development at Cigna.
Dr. Taryn Marie earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, along with master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and completed pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. She is the host of the top 5% acclaimed podcast Flourish or Fold: Stories of Resilience, where well-known people tell their lesser well-known story of facing challenge to remind us that adversity is a necessary ingredient in life.
She is honored to serve as a sought-after trusted advisor and board member to amplify resilience, engagement, and talent strategy. Her two sons, Samson and Sawyer are always teaching her about resilience! www.resilience-leadership.com
Joe Hart began his career as a practicing attorney. After taking a Dale Carnegie Course, Joe reassessed his career path and future, ultimately leaving the practice of law, going to work for a top real estate company, and then founding an innovative e-learning company called InfoAlly. After selling that business five years later, Joe became the president of Asset Health, a US-based health and wellness company—all before becoming the President and CEO of Dale Carnegie in 2015. In 2019, the CEO Forum Group named Joe as one of twelve transformative leaders, giving him the Transformative CEO Leadership Award in the category of the People. He is the host of a top global podcast, “Take Command: A Dale Carnegie Podcast”, and he speaks around the world on topics such as leadership, resilience, and innovation, among other things. Joe and his wife, Katie, have six children, two dogs, and one cat. He is an active marathoner, having run many races, including Boston, New York, Chicago, Berlin, Detroit, and Toronto.
https://www.dalecarnegie.com/en/joe-hart
Michael J. Gelb is the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. A pioneering practitioner and thought leader in the fields of creative thinking, executive coaching and conscious leadership, he is the author of 17 books including How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Innovate Like Edison, The Art of Connection, The Healing Organization (with Raj Sisodia)andMastering the Art of Public Speaking.Michael’s books have been translated into 25 languages and have sold more than one million copies.
In 1999 Michael received the “Brain-of-the-Year” award from the Brain Foundation, other winners include Stephen Hawking, Garry Kasparov and Bill Gates. In 2003 Michael received a Batten Fellowship in Innovation from The University of Virginia and co-directed the acclaimed Leading Innovation Seminar at the Darden Graduate School of Business for more than 10 years. In 2020 he was invited to become a Senior Fellow of the Center for Humanistic Management at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business. In 2021 Michael was invited to become a member of the MG100 Coaches group. Michael is also a master teacher of the Alexander Technique, aikido and qigong and a professional juggler who performed with the Rolling Stones. Information about Michael, plus links to Michael’s books, including his classic tome, “How to Think Like Leonardo” are at MichaelGelb.com)
Michael Bungay Stanier helps people know they’re awesome and they’re doing great.
He’s best known for his book The Coaching Habit which is the best selling book on coaching this century and is considered a classic
His most recent book is How to Work with (Almost) Anyone and it shows how to build the Best Possible Relationship with the key people at work.
He founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that has trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like in organizations from Microsoft to Gucci.
He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University ... where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian ... and which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston.
Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident” ... was sued by one of his Law School professors for defamation ... and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter ... and called The Male Delivery. www.mbs.works
Sally Jenkins has been a Washington Post columnist and feature writer for 25 years. She was twice the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was named the winner of the Associated Press Red Smith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sports journalism.
She has been named a columnist of the year four times each by the Associated Press and is the author of 12 books of non-fiction, four of them New York Times bestsellers. Jenkins also spent seven years as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated magazine, and other work has appeared in Smithsonian, Tennis Magazine, Golf Digest, and ESPN Magazine.
In 2005 she was the first woman to be inducted in the National Sportwriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1982 and resides in New York. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sally-jenkins/
Fritz Seyferth and his team at FS/A have been helping organizations access their untapped potential, paving the way for achieving consistent, sustainable Peak Performance. By combining a systems engineering mindset with a deep understanding of human motivation, Fritz shares how a meaningful life is enhanced when we partner with like-minded people who make the shift from me to team.
Fritz learned early in life to be flexible and open to change, and to understand there are many ways to succeed: He lived in seven cities in five states before starting kindergarten in Covina, CA, and then moved to Swarthmore, PA, before settling in Darien, CT, where he finished high school.
Understanding how things work—and taking them apart and putting them back together to work even better—has always been a fascination for Fritz, whether it is a bicycle, plant layout, or organization.
He was fortunate to compete at the highest levels in college, as a professional athlete, and in business. His more than forty-year study of leadership and exceptional teams has provided an intimate understanding of the principles and disciplines found in the most successful leaders and organizations.
https://team-fsa.com/
JIM HARTER, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist, Workplace for Gallup. He has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness, including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human potential and business unit performance. The bestselling author of 12: The Elements of Great Managing, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements,Wellbeing at Work,and the No. 1 Wall Street Journal bestseller It’s the Manager, Harter has also published articles in many prominent business and academic journals. His newest book is Culture Shock, a look at the workplace of today in the wake of the pandemic and the move to remote and hybrid environments. www.gallup.org
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/469790/culture-shock.aspx
William D. Eggers is executive director of the Deloitte Center for Government Insights and a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Solution Revolution and If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, both from Harvard Business Review Press.
Donald F. Kettl is a professor emeritus, former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He was previously the Sid Richardson Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include, most recently, The Divided States of America and Can Governments Earn Our Trust?
Eggers and Kettl’s newest book is Bridge Builders: How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems.
https://www.amazon.com/Bridgebuilders-Government-Transcend-Boundaries-Problems/dp/1647825113/
Alan Mulally is one of the world’s most recognized CEOs for his contributions and industry leadership. Honors include being named No. 3 on Fortune’s “World’s Greatest Leaders” list, one of the 30 “World’s Best CEOs” by Barron’s magazine, “Industry Leader of the Year” by Automotive News magazine, one of “The World’s Most Influential People” by TIME magazine, “Chief Executive of the Year” by Chief Executive magazine, “Man of the Year” in the automotive sector by El Mundo and “Person of the Year” by Aviation Week magazine. Alan Mulally served as president and chief executive officer of Ford Motor Company and was a member of the company’s Board of Directors from September 2006 to June 2014.. Prior to Ford, Mulally was named Boeing’s president of Commercial Airplanes in September 1998. The responsibility of chief executive officer for the business unit was added in March 2001. Alan has also been honored with the American Society for Quality’s Joseph M. Juran Medal for excellence in executive leadership for Quality, the Automotive Executive of the Year Award, the Edison Achievement Award and induction into the Kansas Business Hall of Fame. Mulally served on the President’s Export Council, which was formed in 2010 to advise U.S. President Barack Obama on export enhancement and ways to encourage companies to increase exports and enter new markets. He previously served as co-chairman of the Washington Competitiveness Council, and sat on the advisory boards of NASA, the University of Washington, the University of Kansas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of England’s Royal Academy of Engineering. For a selection of articles about Alan Mulally visit https://theengineunderthehood.substack.com/p/alan-mulallys-engine Alan Mulally Biography Work Is Love Made Visible: A Collection of Essays About the Power of Finding Your Purpose from the World’s Greatest Thought Leaders, Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah McArthur, foreword Alan Mulally. “A Conversation with Alan Mulally about His “Working Together”© Strategic, Operational, and Stakeholder-Centered Management System,” Alan Mulally and Sarah McArthur, Leader to Leader, Volume 104. The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations - Great Results, foreword and chapter by Alan Mulally about how leader humility enables and nurtures effective working together by great teams, Marilyn Gist, PhD. Lessons from Leaders, Marshall Goldsmith, Sam Shriver, Kathy McDermott. “To Serve Is to Live” “Engineer of the Year Alan Mulally” Lawrence D. Maloney, Design News, March 4, 1996. Twenty-First Century Jet: The Making and Marketing of the Boeing 777, Book and Video, Karl Sabbagh. American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, Bryce Hoffman. “American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company” Summary, Brady Pyle, Out of This World Leadership. Willow Creek-Working Together, Alan Mulally, September 8, 2016. “The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development,” an Gottfredson, Morgan James Publishing, October 2022. “Former CEO Alan Mulally Is Who CEOs Need to Be Today,” Article + Video, Dan Pontefract, Forbes, July 2022. Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams and Organizations, James Lewis. “How to Become a Game-Changing Leader,” Doug Ready, Alan Mulally, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2017, Vol. 59 No. 1, pp. 63-71. “Working Together” Leadership and Management System to Create Value for All the Stakeholders and the Greater Good, The Forum Club Interview with Alan Mulally, January 24, 2023
Kevin Griffin is an award-winning songwriter, producer, and performer whose songs have sold in excess of eighty million copies and been streamed over a billion times. He is best known as the singer and founding member of the platinum-selling rock band, Better Than Ezra. His new book is "THE GREATEST SONG: Spark Creativity, Ignite Your Career, and Transform Your Life."
Kevin has written numerous #1’s and had songs performed by artists such as Taylor Swift, Train, Sugarland, Dierks Bentley, Christina Perri, Hunter Hayes, James Blunt, and many more. He is a co-founder and partner in Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival located in Franklin, Tennessee, and has served as a writer-in-residence at NYU’s Clive Davis School of Music.
Griffin lectures internationally on creativity to groups and companies ranging from Live Nation, Google, Spotify and Disney to Nike, YPO/WPO and Salesforce. He lives with his family in Franklin, Tennessee. https://www.kevingriffinmusic.com
Author, Catalyst, and Executive Coach Laura Gassner Otting inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo by helping audiences think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their current, limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, corporate, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares audiences to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges by helping them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.
Laura’s rebellious and entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started when she dropped out of law school to join an unknown southern governor’s presidential campaign, and ended up as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped shape AmeriCorps.
She left a leadership role as the youngest Vice President at a nationally respected search firm when she realized that her boss’s definition of success didn’t align with hers and, instead, founded and ran one of the fastest growing search firms in the country, partnering with the full gamut of mission-driven executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold that firm to the team who helped her build it, both because she was hungry for the next chapter and because she held an audacious dream of electing our nation’s first female president. (Whomp whomp.)
Since that time, Laura has appeared regularly on Good Morning America and the TODAY Show, and her writing has been seen in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, HR Magazine. Laura is the author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (2019), which debuted at #2 on the Washington Post bestseller list (right behind Michelle Obama), has been translated into Arabic, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese, and German, and which Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts chose as one of her Favorite Books of 2019, as well as Mission-Driven: Moving from Profit to Purpose (2015). Her newest book is Wonderhell.
Through her own commitment to give back, Laura has helped build a local Montessori school, co-founded a women’s philanthropic initiative, advised a start-up national women’s PAC, grew a citizen-leadership development program, and completed five charity-inspired marathons, projects emblematic of her passions and values. She’s turned on by the audacity of The Big Idea and that larger-than-life goal you just can’t seem to shake. She’s an instigator, a motivator, and a provocateur, and she’s never met a revolution she didn’t like, just ask her enduringly patient husband, two almost-grown sons, and troublesome puppy with whom she lives outside of Boston, MA. www.wonderhellbook.com
Constance Dierickx is a sought-after advisor to boards and senior executives in high-stakes leadership situations including strategic pivots, CEO transitions, board conflict, and crisis. Constance’s newest book is Meta-Leadership – See what others don’t and make great decisions.
Constance has consulted with dozens of boards and over 500 executives on five continents. She has worked with companies from the Fortune 50 to high-tech start-ups. Clients call her “The Decision DoctorÒ” in recognition of her ability to help them with high-stakes decisions. She has helped clients increase share price (1400% for a retail brand), revenue (27%) and margin. CEO transition clients retain over 90% of unsuccessful internal candidates who contribute for at least three years after the transition.
Recognized as an expert on governance and executive leadership, Constance has been interviewed by National Public Radio for Marketplace Morning, The Wall Street Journal, and Chief Executive and writes for Harvard Business Review and Forbes as well as Directorship, Boards and Directors, and Corporate Board Member. In 2021, The Society for the Advancement of Consulting named her Consultant of the Year in recognition of her achievements and contributions to the profession. Prior to starting her own firm, she led the Board Services practice for a global boutique firm. She is the author of High Stakes Leadership (2017), The Merger Mindset (2018) and the forthcoming The Vibrant Board (2023.)
She is Vice-Chair of the board of Mary Baldwin University, former chair of the board for The Partnership Against Domestic Violence and is Past-President of OnBoard. She is a member of the Association for Psychological Science, The Association for the Advancement of Consulting, and Marshall Goldsmith’s MG100 Coaches. www.constancedierickx.com
David Noble has more than two decades of global experience advising CEOs, their teams, major investors and star athletes on leadership and strategy, and serving as a top executive. David’s personal purpose is to help leaders get to clarity and personal growth on the issues that matter most to them.
He was named by Thinkers50 as one of the world's top coaches, was a Managing Partner at two leading global strategy consultancies, and was a senior operating executive, including CEO of the world’s first digital bank.
He is co-author with Carol Kauffman of REAL-TIME LEADERSHIP: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High.
david.noble@view-advisors.com
https://rtlinstitute.com
Cathal J. Nolan is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Professor of History and Director of the International History Institute at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.
Cathal’s newest book is Mercy: Humanity in War. He also is the author of 14 books of diplomatic and military history. The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars are Won and Lost (Oxford 2017), received the Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History. It was also the first winner of the Distinguished Book Award from War on the Rocks. Nolan has guest lectured at various universities across the United States and internationally. He has also spoken to the Chautauqua Institute, Marine Corps University, National World War II Museum, New York Historical Society, New York Military Affairs Symposium, Smithsonian Journeys (Normandy), U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, U.S. Army War College, National Intelligence University Alumni Association, World Affairs Forum, Center for Military and Diplomatic History, and run a training course for young diplomats at the MoFA in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2011.
He has been interviewed on CBS Radio, Radio Free Europe, Newstalk (Ireland), BBC Mundo, PBS, C-Span, New Books Network, The East-West Institute, The Dead Prussian and Dangerous History. He consults on military history to the PBS science series NOVA, and is principal military history adviser to the American Heritage Museum. His teaching has won multiple awards, at different universities. His overseas community service started as a volunteer teacher for two years in rural northern Nigeria, with the Canadian University Service Overseas. He returned to development work as faculty adviser to BU Global Water Brigade and Public Health Brigade, leading five student groups to Honduras to build potable water pipelines and infrastructure in arid, isolated mountain villages.
https://www.bu.edu/history/profile/cathal-j-nolan/
https://youtu.be/s2Nne8yUk_k
Julia Fabris McBride is CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center, where more than 15,000 people around the world have attended programs since 2007. A certified coach, former actor and co-author of Teaching Leadership, Julia splits her time between Wichita and Matfield Green, Kansas. Her newest book, written with co-author Ed O’Malley is When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved
https://kansasleadershipcenter.org/when-everyone-leads/
Dana Rubin is an award-winning journalist, consultant, speechwriter, and speaker focused on expanding diverse voices and viewpoints in the public discourse. Dana works with organizations to support underrepresented voices to become experts, brand ambassadors, rainmakers, and role models for the next generation. She writes and speaks about the history of women’s speech and voice. https://speakingwhilefemale.co/book/
“No one understands the treasures to be found in life stories better than James R. Hagerty,” the New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene said in an advance review of Hagerty’s “Yours Truly.”
“Yours Truly” provides inspiring examples of life stories including both personal triumphs and disasters and injecting a dose of humor whenever possible.
At The Wall Street Journal, Hagerty is known for writing about people who weren’t famous but lived fascinating lives. His motto: If obituaries can’t be fun, what’s the point of dying?
“Yours Truly” explains why and how people should take charge of the narrative of their life by writing or recording their memories, in long or short form. Having written more than 1,000 obituaries in the past seven years, Hagerty believes that everyone has interesting stories to tell and that preserving them can be the best gift ever given to friends and loved ones. “Being famous is not a prerequisite for valuing and preserving your best stories and the lessons you’ve learned,” he says.
Contrary to popular belief, telling and preserving those stories isn’t a chore to be taken up only in old age, Hagerty writes. Instead, young and middle-aged people should start keeping notes, recordings and annotated pictures.
Hagerty, who grew up in North Dakota and has lived in Pittsburgh since 2005, is The Wall Street Journal’s lead obituary writer.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-r-bob-hagerty-38371a6/
How many people can say they’ve never worked for anyone else? Selling eggs door-to-door at 14 years old began a lifetime of self-employment. As a speaker and small business consultant, Jeffrey Shaw helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their businesses in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and strategies to compose the often-chaotic pieces of life and business into sustainable success.
Jeffrey’s TEDxLincolnSquare talk is featured on TED.com and he’s the host of the top-rated podcast, The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Successand LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible. www.jeffreyshaw.com
Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, international mindfulness expert and award-winning author. Featured as an expert in The Mindfulness Movie and profiled in The Living Spiritual Teachers Project, he currently writes Psychology Today’s Practical Mindfulness Blog.
A prolific writer whose career spans over 35 years, Donald has authored over 20 acclaimed and pioneering books on spirituality and mindfulness. His best-selling The Mindfulness Toolbox won two national publishing Ben Franklin Gold awards as best book in both the Psychology and Mind-Body-Spirit categories. Two other books, Clearing Emotional Clutter and The Mindfulness Code, were chosen as “One of the Best Spiritual Books of the Year” by Spirituality & Practice.
Donald spent several years as an adjunct professor at both the Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and Portland State University. He also served the community as past Vice-President of the international organization, The Center for Mindful Eating. As a speaker and trainer, he has taught mindfulness and practices for stress reduction, depression and anxiety to over 15,000 health care and business professionals.
His newest book Travelers, is a novel about a grieving psychologist who is struggling with the agonizing loss of his daughter. When a mysterious traveling pet therapist, a sentient canine, and suicidal young patient come to the psych ward, the doctor is forced to confront his ideas about consciousness, reality and even the nature of death. Travelers is a story about overcoming grief while finding hope, healing and renewal.
https://mindfulpractices.com
Social psychologist David Myers is a communicator of psychological science to college students and the general public.
His scientific writings, supported by National Science Foundation fellowships and grants, appeared in three dozen academic periodicals, including Science, the American Scientist, the American Psychologist, and Psychological Science.
David has digested psychological research for the public through articles in four dozen magazines, from Scientific American to Christian Century, and through seventeen books, including general interest books and textbooks.
His research and writings have been recognized by the Gordon Allport Prize, by an “honored scientist” award from the Federation of Associations in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences, by the Award for Distinguished Service on Behalf of Personality-Social Psychology, and by three honorary doctorates.
For David’s most cited research visit Google Scholar. For information on his textbook audiences, visit hereand here (from the Columbia University-related Open Syllabus project, which has harvested information from online syllabi representing ”around 5-6%” of all U.S. college courses).
In recognition of his collaborative efforts to transform the way America provides assistive listening for people with hearing loss (see hearingloop.org), he received “the 2011 American Academy of Audiology Presidential Award,” the Walter T. Ridder Award from the Hearing Loss Association of America, and Oticon’s 2013 hearing Advocacy Award. From 2013 to 2017 he represented Americans with hearing loss on the Advisory Council of NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders. www.davidmyers.org
Emily Falvey is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter & alumna of Belmont University's Curb College, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2018 with a B.A. in Songwriting & a B.B.A. in Music Business. Falvey signed an exclusive, worldwide publishing agreement with SMACKSongs in April 2018. The single she penned for Big Loud artist MacKenzie Porter, “Seeing Other People,” recently reached #1 on the Canadian country airplay chart. Falvey has other recent & upcoming releases with artists such as Walker Hayes, Carly Pearce, Sam Fischer, Jimmie Allen, Tiera Kennedy, Callista Clark, Madison Kozak, Josh Kerr, Jake Scott, and more. Falvey is a member of the AIMP Songwriter Series class of 2019, was voted "Favorite Songwriter" by Young Entertainment Professionals (YEP), & was named to the inaugural Nashville Briefing 30 Under 30 List. In addition to her day-to-day work as a professional songwriter, Emily currently serves as Young Alumni Regent on Belmont University's Board of Trust, works as an adjunct professor in Belmont's Songwriting department, serves as Secretary of Mental Health Initiative & gives back to K-12 students as a songwriting instructor & music industry liaison for Writers Room U. Emily also offers a service for aspiring songwriters. You can find it on Instagram @cuppawemilyfalvey along with her profile @emilykfalvey. https://www.smacksongs.com/emily-falvey
Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s premier expert on women’s leadership, is an internationally best-selling author, speaker and leadership coach. This week she is being inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, which honors those whose thinking has shaped the field of leadership worldwide. She also ranked number 5 among the world’s thought leaders by Global Gurus.
Sally’s newest book is Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace.
Sally’s book, How Women Rise, co-authored with Marshall Goldsmith, examines the behaviors most likely to get in the way of successful women. Rights have been sold in 22 languages.
Previous books include The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as the classic in its field and continuously in print since 1990, and The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, which explores how women’s strategic insights can strengthen their careers. The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations, was cited in The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books on leadership of all time and is credited with bringing the language of inclusion into business.
www.sallyhelgesen.com
Jason Davis has spent his entire two decade career in the music industry and worked with many worldwide stars, including Boyz ll Men, Sugar Ray, P. Diddy, Alabama, Lonestar, Dolly Parton, among many others before working in Christian music. Davis is an entertainment industry executive with a broad range of titles including award winning songwriter, award winning author, independent record label president, executive TV producer, entertainment consultant, former Senior VP of A&R for Dolly Parton's management company CTK management and a serial entrepreneur. He also is the author of two books, “Your Love Pursues” and “Business Backwards.” He has also secured record deal offers with CEO's from the largest music companies in the world, including Capitol Records, Sony, Interscope, Island / Def Jam, Epic, Atlantic, RCA, and J Records. Traveling between New York, London, Los Angeles, Miami and Nashville, he built a reputation working with the top songwriters, producers, and recording artists in the entertainment industry on a global level. Over the span of his career, he has not only pioneered new approaches to the signing and development of some of the world most successful recording artists and songwriters such as Anne Wilson, who recently was nominated for a Billboard Award. He has consistently championed innovative business models and partnerships with a wide range of companies around the world. His career began as a songwriter when he was discovered by Grant Cunningham, the former VP of A&R for Sparrow Records. Davis went on to write a #1 Billboard hit, received several ASCAP songwriting and publishing awards, and was nominated for a Latin music award. Davis has also co-founded other cutting edge entertainment companies such as: One One 7, Noble Management, and Awaken Records. He is also co-president and partner of booking agency Higher Level Agency. https://oneone7.com/
http://www.noble-management.com/
Joel Garfinkle is recognized as one of the top 50 executive coaches in America. Global Gurus named Joel #14 on its list of the top 30 global coaching experts. He is also a Master Certified Coach (MCC) — the highest level of achievement in coaching — and author of 11 books and over 300 articles on leadership. Joel has been an interviewed expert for the following publications:HBR, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, Forbes, CNN, NYT, and NPR. His client list for executive coaching and corporate training includes Google, Amazon, Starbucks, Bank of America, Microsoft, Oracle, Deloitte, Ritz-Carlton, Genentech, NBC, the NBA, and many other prestigious companies. His newest book is “Executive Presence.” https://garfinkleexecutivecoaching.com/
Ed Batista has been an executive coach since 2006, working with senior leaders who are facing a challenge or would like to be more effective or fulfilled in their roles. He also spent more than a decade as a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Most of Ed’s clients are technology company CEOs, but he works with leaders in fields from investing to biotech. Issues he addresses with clients include managing relationships with key employees, improving leadership team dynamics, transitioning from technical expert to leader, evolving company culture, and better self-care.
Ed’s work as a coach began after a 15-year career in management, during which he took two years off to earn an MBA at Stanford and helped launch three new organizations. is married to Amy Wright, and they lived in San Francisco from 1990 to 2020, when they relocated to a farm 40 miles north of the city. In addition to his MBA, Ed earned a BA in History, magna cum laude, from Brown University. He writes about coaching and related issues at www.edbatista.com.
Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of the world’s leading industrial designers. She has designed hundreds of products, from toilet seats to office systems to potato peelers to concept cars. Her newest book, Design the LONG Life You Love.
You’ve probably held or sat on something she has designed for Herman Miller Knoll, Target or Toyota, among many others. Her work has earned her several nicknames—Queen of Toilets, Queen Bee (for offices), Design Evangelista. Interior Design Magazine awarded her Best Of Year Product Designer of 2020.
She is one of the Most Creative People In Business according to Fast Company. She was shortlisted among the world’s top 8 coaches by Thinkers50 for Marshall Goldsmith Distinguished Achievement Award for Coaching and Mentoring. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and is recognized as "The #1 Coach for Life Design.”
Her design process, Deconstruction:ReconstructionTM, is the red thread across all her work, including this book.
Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Ayse was born in Turkey and came to New York City with a Fulbright scholarship, where she now lives and works. www.aysebirsel.com/newsletter
www.designthelonglifeyoulove.com
Tom Peters is coauthor of “In Search of Excellence”—the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever.
Twenty books and forty years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the “management guru industry” he single-handedly invented. What’s new? A lot. As CNN said, “While most business gurus milk the same mantra for all it’s worth, the one-man brand called Tom Peters is still reinventing himself.” His most recent effort with coauthor Nancye Green is “Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence.” (Ideapress Publishing).
Tom’s tireless focus is on putting people first and developing leaders who stay in intimate touch with the front-liners who do the real work. In November 2017, Tom received the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award. Effectively, all of Tom’s written and speech material covering the last 20+ years is available— free to download at tompeters.com and excellencenow.com. www.tompeters.com
- SRIKUMAR RAO is an elite coach who works with a select group of entrepreneurs, professionals, and senior executives who are already successful and are now ready to make a dent in the universe. They recognize that life is a spiritual journey and wish to imbue that understanding into every facet of their lives.
Millions of people have listened to Dr. Rao’s TED Talk and other recordings and attended his programs and workshops. He leads you into a rabbit hole, and you determine how far you want to go. You may wish to travel only a short distance and settle for a life in which you are much more successful, have better relationships, and enjoy more peace. Or you may wish to go all the way and reach what sages have called by many names, such as enlightenment, Nirvana, and awakening. Be aware that if you get there, there will be no you left to celebrate this.
The reason Dr. Rao’s approach is so effective is that he draws from the world’s greatest masters. They understood human dilemmas and came up with solutions that have been tested over millennia and proven to work. Dr. Rao is unique in his ability to convert these powerful teachings into exercises acceptable to intelligent people in a postindustrial society. This is why clients seek his sage counsel on both personal and professional matters. Coaching with Dr. Rao will make you exponentially more successful if you are diligent in your practice.
Dr. Rao holds a PhD from Columbia Business School, and his courses have been among the most popular and highest rated at many of the world’s top business schools. His work has been covered extensively by major media worldwide. He is the author of Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots: The Movers and Shakers’ Guide to Unstoppable Success; Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies for Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life and Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful—No Matter What. He is also the creator and narrator of the audio learning course The Personal Mastery Program: Discovering Passion and Purpose in Your Life and Work.
Learn more about Dr. Rao’s work at https://theraoinstitute.com. You can reach him at srikumar.rao@theraoinstitute.com. You can find his book “Modern Wisdom, Ancient Roots” on amazon.
Chad Lawson, a Steinway Artist and composer, has released numerous number one recordings including his most recent release, “You Finally Knew” (Decca Records/Universal), recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.
He has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's All Things Considered and is usually found on concert stages around the world (at least...until Covid hit the playbill). He began the podcast, Calm it Down, after receiving countless emails from listeners detailing how his music is helping them calm their anxieties and emotional struggles. “I simply had to do something.” he states. “I wanted to go deeper in trying to help others in their most difficult times of life.”
During the pandemic, Lawson widened his reach with the launch of “Calm It Down” in September 2020, a turn of events that’s further heightened his sense of purpose. A fully independent one-man show, “Calm It Down” finds Lawson expounding on an inspired range of topics (forgiveness and anxiety, butterflies and Snoopy), setting his insightful yet charmingly candid ruminations against a tranquil backdrop of his own solo piano music.
Referring to himself as “an extreme empath by nature,” Lawson began classical training in piano as a child and later developed a thriving career as a jazz pianist, but eventually felt compelled to follow an entirely new direction in his music. “The reason I stopped playing jazz is that I didn’t feel it connected on an emotional level,” he says. “When I made my first solo piano album, I was incredibly sick with ulcerative colitis and found that creating this music was very healing to me. Then after I put it out, I started hearing from listeners who’d say things like ‘I just lost a loved one and felt like you were holding my hand through the most difficult time in my life.’ That’s when things started making sense for me, in terms of making emotion the core of everything I do.” As his audience grew exponentially, Lawson soon found himself featured on the likes of “CBS Sunday Morning” and NPR’s “All Things Considered,” in addition to turning out a series of #1 releases and landing high-profile sync placements with such shows as “The Walking Dead” and “Viceland.” www.chadlawson.com calmitdownpodcast.com
Julia Boorstin is CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. She also plays a central role on CNBC’s bicoastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” delivering reporting, analysis, and CEO interviews with a focus on social media and the intersection of media and technology.
In 2013, Boorstin created and launched the CNBC Disruptor 50, an annual list she oversees, highlighting private companies transforming the economy and challenging companies in established industries. She also helped launch the network’s ‘Closing the Gap’ initiative covering the people and companies closing gender and diversity gaps.
A graduate of Princeton University, she has been a reporter for Fortune magazine, as well as a contributor to CNN and CNN Headline News. She was also an intern for Vice President Gore’s domestic policy office. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. www.juliaboorstin.com
Carol Hutchins wrapped up her 38th season at the helm of the University of Michigan softball program in 2022. The winningest coach in NCAA softball history, Hutchins has guided the Wolverines to an NCAA title and 22 Big Ten Conference titles and solidified Michigan among the top softball programs in the country. She was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006.
With a career record of 1,707-551-5 over her 39 total seasons as a NCAA head coach, Hutchins is the winningest coach in NCAA softball history.
"Hutch" has been a part of the Michigan softball program since 1983 when she joined the staff as an assistant coach under Bob DeCarolis. She moved into the head coach position in 1985 and, in each of her 38 head coaching seasons, has continued Michigan's tradition of softball success. Michigan has never suffered a losing season in program history.
Hutchins has led the Wolverines to the Women's College World Series on 12 occasions, and, in 2005, the Maize and Blue became the first program east of the Mississippi River to claim the NCAA national championship when it defeated UCLA in the championship series. Michigan's record-setting 2005 season was the culmination of two decades of dedication for Hutchins and her current and former players and coaches. In that magical season, Michigan set records in a number of categories, including:
- First softball national championship
• A program-best 65 wins
• A program-best 32 consecutive victories (spanning 47 days, from Feb. 13 to March 30)
• First No. 1 ranking (March 22)
• First No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament
• First victory over a top-ranked opponent (6-2 win over No. 1 Arizona)
Before becoming Michigan's third softball coach, Hutchins spent one year as the head coach at Ferris State University (1982). While at Ferris, she led the Bulldogs to the NCAA Division II National Tournament and was selected Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Hutchins was an assistant coach at Indiana University (1981) -- under legendary coach Gayle Blevins -- and at Michigan (1983-84).
Hutchins founded the Michigan Softball Academy in 2010 in conjunction with the program's annual "Pink Game." The academy is a one-night on-field clinic for adults that raises funds for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer organization. Hutchins and the Michigan softball program initially formed an affiliation with Making Strides Against Breast Cancer for its annual walk in 2007. Since then, the Wolverines have raised more than $1,000,000 for the American Cancer Society.
https://mgoblue.com/sports/softball/roster/coaches/carol-hutchins/5645
Thomas E. Ricks is the author of multiple bestselling books, including First Principles, The Generals, and Fiasco, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A member of two Pulitzer Prize–winning teams in his years at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, he has been called “the dean of military correspondents.” He lives in Maine and Texas. His newest book is “Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968.” Twittter @TomRicks1
Celeste Headlee is an internationally recognized journalist and radio host, professional speaker and author of bestselling book We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Her latest is Speaking of Race: Why Everyone Needs to Talk About Racism and How to Do It. Her TEDx Talk, 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation, has been viewed over 26 million times. Close to 50,000 talks have been given at 10,000 events since the TED program launched in 2009, and Celeste’s talk is one of the 10 most-watched talks posted on TED’s homepage.
In her 20-year career in public radio, Celeste has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Broadcasting and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, Here and Now, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Celeste is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media, serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project, and received the 2019 Media Changemaker Award.
She is the host of Newsweek’s “Debate” podcast, and hosts a podcast for the National Gallery of Art called “Sound Thoughts on Art.” She is also the host of “Women Amplified,” a podcast from the Conferences for Women, the largest network of women’s conferences in the nation, drawing more than 50,000 people to its annual events.
Celeste is also the president and CEO of Headway DEI, a non-profit that works to bring racial justice and equity to journalism and media through targeted training and interventions, and she serves on the board for the National Center for Race Amity. Celeste is the granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, known as the Dean of Black American Composers and she is a trained operatic soprano. She lives in the DC area with rescue dog, Samus. WEBSITE: https://celesteheadlee.com/
Steve Lopez is a Los Angeles Times columnist, four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author. He has been a columnist for Time magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune, after beginning his career in 1975 as a sportswriter. He is the winner of more than a dozen national journalism awards, including the H.L. Mencken, Ernie Pyle and Mike Royko awards.
Lopez has written three novels and a best-selling non-fiction book, The Soloist, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the PEN USA Award for Literary non-fiction. The book was the subject of a Dreamworks movie by the same name. His latest book, Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement, from Some Who’ve Done It And Some Who Never Will, will be released in November 2022. Steve.Lopez@LATimes.com@LATSteveLopez Facebook.Steve.Lopez.Independence
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-lopez-3929962/
L. Gregory Jones is President of Belmont University, a position he has held since June 1, 2021. He was educated at the University of Denver (B.A. and M.P.A.) and Duke University (M.Div. and Ph.D.). He holds honorary doctorates from Lycoming College and North Carolina Wesleyan University. He is committed to serving in the Nashville and middle Tennessee region to strengthen partnerships and cultivate flourishing across the region.
Greg is known as a leader and strategist whose creative engagement has helped institutions across the world and in local communities to create transformational resource models. Greg’s global imagination has guided business, education, and religious leaders in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. Greg has a particular gift for incubating talent, ideas, and networks across disciplines and sectors. He is passionate about re-shaping cultures within and across organizations and coined the term 'traditioned innovation' to capture how he re-frames complex challenges to seize significant opportunities. He is known for an entrepreneurial mindset as well as emphases on character and purpose in higher education, emphases in his leadership at Belmont.
Greg previously served as Dean of Duke Divinity School (1997-2010 and 2018-2021). Between 2010 and 2018, Greg served in a variety of roles, including Vice President and Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Programs at Duke University, and also as Provost and Executive Vice President of Baylor University. He has also served in strategic advisory roles with several foundations. He is the author or editor of 19 books, and has authored more than 200 essays/articles. He is known for books on forgiveness (Embodying Forgiveness and the co-authored Forgiving as We’ve Been Forgiven), Christian leadership (the co-authored Resurrecting Excellence) and social innovation (Christian Social Innovation). His most recent book is the co-authored Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas(2021).
https://president.belmont.edu
Morag Barrett is a best-selling author and the passion behind SkyeTeam, an award-winning leadership development company. Morag is the co-author of her newest book, You, Me, We: Why We All Need a Friend at Work (and How to Show Up as One).
At last count Morag has supported the development of more than 10,000 leaders from 20 countries and on 6 continents.
Morag has contributed to CIO, Entrepreneur, and the American Management Association, amongst others. She is also a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches organization and is recognized by Thinkers360 and PeopleHum as an HR Thought Leader to Watch. For fun you'll find Morag enjoying a glass of wine, ballroom dancing, or playing the bassoon. www.skyeteam.com
Barry Kibrick is a recipient of the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his service to the country. He was acknowledged for his work as producer/host of his series Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick and for his educational, instructional, and professional development multi-media productions that benefit the citizenry.
He is a three-time EMMY winner for best host and show for his series Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick seen on PBS stations throughout the country for 25 years, and now he transformed the series into a podcast and YouTube show by the same name.
Barry is currently writing his first book and will continue to create content for people to develop a deeper understanding of their world and a greater appreciation for their role in it.
On his PBS Barry's guests have included: dignitaries like, Queen Noor of Jordan; Secretary of the United States, Warren Christopher and Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. Director and Producers the likes of: Sir Ridley Scott; Jerry Bruckheimer; Ron Howard; William Friedkin and David Cronenberg. Authors, artists, and musicians like: Anne Rice; Ray Bradbury; Walter Mosley; Mario Puzo, Richie Havens; Chaka Khan; Luis J. Rodriguez; Victor Villaseñor; Dave Winfield; Kirk Douglas; Erica Jong; Elmore Leonard, James Elroy and hundreds of others.
To date on his podcasts guests have ranged from John Densmore, co-founder, and drummer of the iconic rock group The Doors to Nobel Laurette Physicist -Frank Wilczek and Chief Decision Scientist of Google, Cassie Kosovo.
www.barrykibrick.com
Kim Samuel is an activist, educator, and movement builder. She is the founder of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness and an academic lecturer at institutions including Oxford, Harvard, and McGill Universities. Samuel was recently named visiting scholar at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford and the first-ever Fulbright Canada ambassador for diversity and social connectedness. She lives in Toronto. Her new book is On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation. www.onbelongingbook.com www.kimsamuel.com
Dr. Abraham Khoureis is a multi-talented thought leader with knowledge and expertise in a variety of business disciplines and academic settings. He founded and operate several businesses and currently holds numerous professional State licenses and credentials. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration, emphasis in Management from Northcentral University, San Diego, California; and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Management from the University of Redlands, Redlands, California. He was honored by the University of Redlands (Redlands, California) as the 2018-2019 Mentor of the Year. He successfully completed two leadership programs with Harvard Business School - Online: Entrepreneurship Essentials, and Sustainable Business Strategy. Currently, he is a Core-Adjunct Professor with the University of Redlands School of Business & Society, where he teaches graduate-level organizational behaviors and management courses. Dr. Khoureis has a strong background and expertise in organizational leadership, behaviors and management. His academic research led to the creation of the Degree Attainment Model, a factor-based model when applied properly may help professional disabled students complete their degrees in higher education. Thus, as a Disability Rights Advocate, he is very passionate about placing professional disabled students into higher education.
Dr. Khoureis’ leading research resulted in the creation of the Compassionate Leadership Model and Pyramid. He is considered as the Ambassador of Compassionate Leadership. Dr. Khoureis is also a SAG-AFTRA Franchised Talent Agent. In this professional capacity, he guides and enhances (as needed) the developments of his represented professional talent. He is the Creator, Executive Producer and Host of the globally recognized and influential "who's who" global leadership show "Leadership & Politics with Dr. Abraham," where thought leaders in different fields share with him and his audience their latest books and insights. He is the organizer and moderator of the successful "Virtual Global Thought Leader Symposium." As a leadership, management, leadership problem-solver, business and political campaign advisor, mentor, and coach, the knowledge and expertise Dr. Khoureis might bring into your organization and academic setting may be unique and unparalleled experience. www.drabrahamkhoureis.com
Dr. Abraham Khoureis is a multi-talented thought leader with knowledge and expertise in a variety of business disciplines and academic settings. He founded and operate several businesses and currently holds numerous professional State licenses and credentials. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Business Administration, emphasis in Management from Northcentral University, San Diego, California; and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Management from the University of Redlands, Redlands, California. He was honored by the University of Redlands (Redlands, California) as the 2018-2019 Mentor of the Year. He successfully completed two leadership programs with Harvard Business School - Online: Entrepreneurship Essentials, and Sustainable Business Strategy. Currently, he is a Core-Adjunct Professor with the University of Redlands School of Business & Society, where he teaches graduate-level organizational behaviors and management courses. Dr. Khoureis has a strong background and expertise in organizational leadership, behaviors and management. His academic research led to the creation of the Degree Attainment Model, a factor-based model when applied properly may help professional disabled students complete their degrees in higher education. Thus, as a Disability Rights Advocate, he is very passionate about placing professional disabled students into higher education.
Dr. Khoureis’ leading research resulted in the creation of the Compassionate Leadership Model and Pyramid. He is considered as the Ambassador of Compassionate Leadership. Dr. Khoureis is also a SAG-AFTRA Franchised Talent Agent. In this professional capacity, he guides and enhances (as needed) the developments of his represented professional talent. He is the Creator, Executive Producer and Host of the globally recognized and influential "who's who" global leadership show "Leadership & Politics with Dr. Abraham," where thought leaders in different fields share with him and his audience their latest books and insights. He is the organizer and moderator of the successful "Virtual Global Thought Leader Symposium." As a leadership, management, leadership problem-solver, business and political campaign advisor, mentor, and coach, the knowledge and expertise Dr. Khoureis might bring into your organization and academic setting may be unique and unparalleled experience. www.drabrahamkhoureis.com
Chuck Snearly is an award-winning writer whose work includes speeches, annual reports, web content, video scripts, press releases, brochures, ad copy and more. Prior to forming his communications consulting company, Speech Right, Inc., he worked in public relations at Ford Motor Company for 30 years, including 14 years as Chief Speechwriter, writing more than 1,000 speeches for senior executives. He has written one non-fiction book, Speech Right, which is used as a speechwriting textbook in college classes. He has also written two novels, The Guardian of Detritus and Far Out Man, both are comic crime mysteries set in Detroit.
Mr. Snearly specializes in speechwriting. His clients have included Ford Motor Company, Royal Dutch Shell, the Bosch Group, Dean Foods and the University of Detroit Mercy. He has written speeches for the senior executives of two of the top five biggest companies in the world, six chairmen of the board, a famous/infamous Detroit politician and a member of British Parliament. In addition to working as a freelance speechwriter, he has done communications consulting with the Detroit Economic Club and guest lectured at the University of Michigan, Albion College and Indiana University.
Mr. Snearly has won numerous awards, including Award of Excellence for Speechwriting, International Association of Business Communicators; Grand Prize Winner for Annual Report Letter, International ARC Awards; First Place for Narrative Presentation, Annual Report Competition, American Business Communicators; Award of Excellence, Video Documentary, 13th Annual Communicator Awards.
www.chucksnearly.com
Chuck Snearly is an award-winning writer whose work includes speeches, annual reports, web content, video scripts, press releases, brochures, ad copy and more. Prior to forming his communications consulting company, Speech Right, Inc., he worked in public relations at Ford Motor Company for 30 years, including 14 years as Chief Speechwriter, writing more than 1,000 speeches for senior executives. He has written one non-fiction book, Speech Right, which is used as a speechwriting textbook in college classes. He has also written two novels, The Guardian of Detritus and Far Out Man, both are comic crime mysteries set in Detroit.
Mr. Snearly specializes in speechwriting. His clients have included Ford Motor Company, Royal Dutch Shell, the Bosch Group, Dean Foods and the University of Detroit Mercy. He has written speeches for the senior executives of two of the top five biggest companies in the world, six chairmen of the board, a famous/infamous Detroit politician and a member of British Parliament. In addition to working as a freelance speechwriter, he has done communications consulting with the Detroit Economic Club and guest lectured at the University of Michigan, Albion College and Indiana University.
Mr. Snearly has won numerous awards, including Award of Excellence for Speechwriting, International Association of Business Communicators; Grand Prize Winner for Annual Report Letter, International ARC Awards; First Place for Narrative Presentation, Annual Report Competition, American Business Communicators; Award of Excellence, Video Documentary, 13th Annual Communicator Awards.
www.chucksnearly.com
Eric Schurenberg is a successful media executive and award-winning journalist now dedicated to fighting the tide of toxic misinformation and polarization. Among other efforts in this area, he co-hosts a podcast called In Reality, with Joan Donovan of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.
Most recently, Eric was the CEO of Mansueto Ventures, the owner of Inc. and Fast Company media properties. During each of his four years in that role, the company recorded its best financial performance to date, as the brands expanded beyond print and digital into live and digital events, video, data, and recognition programs. Eric’s tenure culminated in his leading the company to the first profitable year in its history, 2021.
For the three years before becoming CEO, he was the editor-in-chief of Inc., during which time the magazine was twice a National Magazine Award finalist for general excellence, winning once. Before joining Inc, Eric was the founding editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com and the editor in chief of BNET.com for CBS Interactive; the sites together won more than a dozen awards for design and journalism during his tenure.
Outside of work, Eric is a private pilot and club tennis player, member of a tennis team that once won the Northern California Sectional Championships in its category. https://www.in-reality.fm/about/
Eric Schurenberg is a successful media executive and award-winning journalist now dedicated to fighting the tide of toxic misinformation and polarization. Among other efforts in this area, he co-hosts a podcast called In Reality, with Joan Donovan of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.
Most recently, Eric was the CEO of Mansueto Ventures, the owner of Inc. and Fast Company media properties. During each of his four years in that role, the company recorded its best financial performance to date, as the brands expanded beyond print and digital into live and digital events, video, data, and recognition programs. Eric’s tenure culminated in his leading the company to the first profitable year in its history, 2021.
For the three years before becoming CEO, he was the editor-in-chief of Inc., during which time the magazine was twice a National Magazine Award finalist for general excellence, winning once. Before joining Inc, Eric was the founding editor of CBS MoneyWatch.com and the editor in chief of BNET.com for CBS Interactive; the sites together won more than a dozen awards for design and journalism during his tenure.
Outside of work, Eric is a private pilot and club tennis player, member of a tennis team that once won the Northern California Sectional Championships in its category. https://www.in-reality.fm/about/
Mark Parsells is Founder and Managing General Partner of Montpelier Ventures. Mark is an experienced CEO and thought leader on the subject of leadership, currently ranked #14 in the world on the LeadersHum Global Power List of Leadership Thinkers in 2022. Mark coach’s CEOs of leading companies around the world as well as partners in private equity and venture capital firms on how to work with their portfolio CEOs to maximize the value of their firms’ portfolios. His global clients span the US, India, Brazil, and northern Europe. In addition, his firm facilitates the sale of businesses with revenues from $15-$100 Million in revenue. Mark spent 30+ years as a leader including roles as Chair and CEO of three FinTech (financial technology) companies backed by Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, and American International Group. In addition, he was President of #1 ranked Citibank Online in the United States and Citigroup’s Global Head of Online Banking Technology across 53 countries. He also ran multi-billion-dollar divisions at American Express and Bank One. Early in his career, Mark served as Special Assistant to US Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania. Mark has served on more than 20 boards including Rellevate, Soundview, Montpelier Ventures, and Inuheat currently. Prior boards include MIT’s Global eCommerce Board, Harris and Harris (NASDAQ: TINY); Citibank Delaware; Banc One Insurance, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce; as well as more than a dozen non-profit boards including as a Trustee of the Harrisburg Academy for almost a decade. He earned a BA in Political Science at Emory University; an MBA with a focus in Marketing and General Management at Cornell University; an MBA from KU Leuven in Belgium with a focus in Economics and Finance; and is an alumnus of the Graduate Management Program at Harvard Business School. https://www.mpven.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-parsells-7267785/
Mark Parsells is Founder and Managing General Partner of Montpelier Ventures. Mark is an experienced CEO and thought leader on the subject of leadership, currently ranked #14 in the world on the LeadersHum Global Power List of Leadership Thinkers in 2022. Mark coach’s CEOs of leading companies around the world as well as partners in private equity and venture capital firms on how to work with their portfolio CEOs to maximize the value of their firms’ portfolios. His global clients span the US, India, Brazil, and northern Europe. In addition, his firm facilitates the sale of businesses with revenues from $15-$100 Million in revenue. Mark spent 30+ years as a leader including roles as Chair and CEO of three FinTech (financial technology) companies backed by Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, and American International Group. In addition, he was President of #1 ranked Citibank Online in the United States and Citigroup’s Global Head of Online Banking Technology across 53 countries. He also ran multi-billion-dollar divisions at American Express and Bank One. Early in his career, Mark served as Special Assistant to US Senator H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania. Mark has served on more than 20 boards including Rellevate, Soundview, Montpelier Ventures, and Inuheat currently. Prior boards include MIT’s Global eCommerce Board, Harris and Harris (NASDAQ: TINY); Citibank Delaware; Banc One Insurance, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce; as well as more than a dozen non-profit boards including as a Trustee of the Harrisburg Academy for almost a decade. He earned a BA in Political Science at Emory University; an MBA with a focus in Marketing and General Management at Cornell University; an MBA from KU Leuven in Belgium with a focus in Economics and Finance; and is an alumnus of the Graduate Management Program at Harvard Business School. https://www.mpven.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-parsells-7267785/
John Spencer is the chair of Urban Warfare Studies with the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy. He is the author of Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership and Social Connections in Modern Warfare. This book has been endorsed by Generals David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal and HR McMaster.
John also serves as a colonel in the California State Guard with assignment to the 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guard, as the director of Urban Warfare Training.
John served twenty-five years on active duty in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier and is a highly decorated combat veteran. https://www.johnspenceronline.com
John Spencer is the chair of Urban Warfare Studies with the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy. He is the author of Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership and Social Connections in Modern Warfare. This book has been endorsed by Generals David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal and HR McMaster.
John also serves as a colonel in the California State Guard with assignment to the 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guard, as the director of Urban Warfare Training.
John served twenty-five years on active duty in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier and is a highly decorated combat veteran. https://www.johnspenceronline.com
Cher Murphy is an anthropologist, an executive coach, and a reticulist. Cher has spent the last 20+ years building teams in scaling portfolio companies for Venture Capital firms and Private Equity firms, or Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 organizations. Her expertise is advising leaders where a talent strategy is required to thrive in uncertainty and the quickening pace of change.
As a C-Suite Advisor on Talent, Cher partners with CEO’s, Executive Teams, and Boards to align the people strategy to the business strategy. She utilizes both leading-edge innovations in people strategy and executive coaching to enable companies to surpass positive earnings cycles while building resilient cultures.
Having consulted for Nike, Amazon, McKinsey & Company, Ford Motor Company, Wells Fargo, Patagonia, McDonald’s and Microsoft, Cher has partnered with large global organizations reaching an inflection point and needing leadership transformation. Working with Haven, WeWork, Chewy.com, and Opendoor during an extreme period of scaling, Cher supported leadership with building teams, strategy, and leadership capability.
Cher was the Chief People Officer for a global creative agency and the Chief Talent Officer for a research think tank that studies the people practices of high performing organizations. Prior, Cher was a founding Partner/Managing Director of multiple executive search boutiques focused on Human Resources and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion leadership.
Cher is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and is an Adjunct Professor for the MBA program at the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Cher is on the Board of Directors for AID International, a nonprofit that focuses on enabling Haitian communities to become self- sustainable and an advisor for HR Transform. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chermurphy/
Mark C. Crowley spent 25 years as an executive leader in the financial services industry before leaving to write the original version of this book. His last role was as senior vice president, and national sales manager, for investment products at one of the America’s largest financial institutions where he was named leader of the year.
Mark is a regular contributor to Fast Company magazine, and his work has been published by USA Today, the Huffington Post, Seattle Times, Forbes, ThriveGlobal, Reuters, The Great Place To Work Institute, and Gallup. He is also the host of the Lead From The Heart podcast. With an audi- ence in nearly 160 countries, he hosts discussions with world-class leaders whose work in some meaningful way reinforces the leadership philosophy and practices that comprise this book.
Mark is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s “100 Coaches” community and a graduate of the University of California—San Diego and the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington.
His website is www.markccrowley.com, where you’ll find new articles and information to help you put Lead From The Heart concepts into practice. It’s also where you’ll find every episode of the Lead From The Heart podcast. www.markccrowley.com
Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds degrees from Concordia University (Montreal), the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published more than 25 books and 100 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.”
He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and on the global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. His latest projects include the leading podcast, The Sydcast, that uncovers and shares the stories of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life, as well as a new series of online courses based on his life’s work available at Coursera.
https://faculty.tuck.dartmouth.edu/sydney-finkelstein/
Garry Ridge is chairman of WD-40 Company where he served as CEO for more than two decades. He is responsible for developing and implementing high-level strategies, all operations, and the oversight of all relationships and partnerships for the company.
Garry is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company, and his vision and leadership have positively impacted the WD-40 Company in both measurable and immeasurable ways.
Garry joined WD-40 Company in 1987 and has held various management positions in the company, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, and vice president of international. He has worked directly with WD-40 Company in over 70 countries.
Garry is an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego where he teaches leadership development, talent management, and succession planning in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program.
In 2009, he co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard outlining his effective leadership techniques, titled “Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy called ‘Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A.’ ”
A native of Australia, Garry holds a certificate in Modern Retailing and wholesale distribution and a Master of Science in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. www.thelearningmoment.net
Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in Iraq. His short story collection Redeployment
won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre, and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times. His nonfiction work won the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters in the category of Cultural & Historical Criticism in 2018. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the Brookings Institution'sBrookings Essay series. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University. His debut novel,Missionaries, was released in October 2020 with Penguin Press.
His latest book, a collection of essays, is Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War.
His website is www.philklay.com .
Wendy Smith is the co-author of Both/And Thinking. She earned her Ph.D. in organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, and is currently a professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics and Co-director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware.
Wendy’s research focuses on strategic paradoxes – how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory agendas. She studies how organizations and their leaders simultaneously explore new possibilities while exploiting existing competencies, and how social enterprises simultaneously attend to social missions and financial goals.
Wendy teaches leadership, organizational behavior and business ethics. She has taught MBAs and undergraduates at University of Delaware, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania – Wharton. Wendy was awarded the University of Delaware MBA Teaching Award in 2016. Wendy has also taught executive and senior leadership teams how to manage interpersonal dynamics, emotional intelligence, high performing teams, organizational change and innovation, managing in times of crisis, and managing strategic paradoxes.. www.bothandthinking.net
Marc D. Braun, former President of Cambridge Air Solutions, loves growth. As Marc says, “I love the uncomfortable feeling I get when stretching and growing as a leader. I love the uneasy feeling when businesses grow beyond their current capabilities. And I love being close enough to others to experience when they courageously grow. That's why I Coach CEOs and Senior Executives to lead fearlessly and to build courageous cultures of growth.”
Marc’s life purpose is to encourage (breathe courage into) others to become everything they were created to be. This passion has led to a lifetime of pursuing challenge after challenge, testing his potential and encouraging others to do the same.
For more than a decade Marc had the honor of stepping into leadership of Cambridge Air Solutions, an engineering and manufacturing company focused on providing market-leading HVAC technologies for the Commercial and Industrial Markets. Over the last decade, the team delivered 4X revenue growth and 10X profitability growth. Along with the financial gains, Cambridge became one of the most studied mid-sized manufacturing cultures in the US. Over 5000 people traveled from around the world to visit the Courageous Culture and be encouraged and inspired by the Cambridge employees. In July 2021, he stepped down as President after helping the owner transition to an internal successor. www.marcdbraun.com
Dan Pontefract is the founder and CEO of Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture.
He is the best-selling author of four books: LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters, OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT and FLAT ARMY. A renowned speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Dan is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and has garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career.
Dan is honoured to be on the Thinkers50 Radar list. HR Weekly listed him as one of its 100 Most Influential People in HR. PeopleHum listed Dan on the Top 200 Thought Leaders to Follow and Inc. Magazine listed him as one of the top 100 leadership speakers.
His third book, OPEN TO THINK won the 2019 getAbstract International Book of the Year. LEAD. CARE. WIN. was a finalist for the same award in 2021.
More information at www.pontefractgroup.com
Dr. Angela D. Thomas, also known as "Dr. A", has sustained success in her career as a healthcare executive and university professor. Her established career spanning over 20 years has led to national and international awards, presentations, and academic publications. As a Christian woman, wife, and mother, she dedicates much of her personal time to her family and to ministry in her local church, where she serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors, Women’s Ministry Director, and Director of Education. Learn more at www.DrAngelaDThomas.com.
Grace Ueng is founder and CEO of Savvy Growth, a leadership coaching and management consultancy founded in 2003. Her great passion to help leaders and the companies they run achieve their fullest potential combined with her empathy and ability to help leaders figure out their “why” are what clients value most.
Savvy’s core offerings are one-on-one coaching for CEOs and their leadership teams - aka the “corporate therapist and best friend at work” as well as conducting strategic reviews for companies at a critical juncture, aka the “secret weapon.” A TED speaker, Grace teaches workshops: Six Steps to Success: Building a Savvy Personal Brand; The importance of Empathy, Vulnerability and Psychological Safety; and Speaking Success: Creating the Active Asian Voice. Having battled a genetic predisposition toward depression her entire life, Grace is a lifelong student of positive psychology and happiness; she is hired to give keynotes on Happiness and Mental Wellness.
Grace held leadership roles at five high growth technology ventures that successfully exited through acquisition or IPO. She started her career at Bain & Company and then worked in brand management at Clorox and General Mills. She is a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School and holds a positive coaching certification from the Whole Being Institute and is currently continuing her lifelong study of happiness under Tal Ben-Shahar, the creator of Harvard’s most popular course ever. Grace authors a weekly column on Happiness and Leadership.
Grace and her partner, Rich Chleboski, a cleantech veteran, develop and implement strategies to support the growth of impact focused companies and then coach their leaders in carrying out their strategic plans. Their expertise spans all phases of the business from evaluation through growth and liquidity. http://savvygrowth.com
Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D. (Industrial/Organizational Psychology) SHRM-SCP is the Director of Research and Professor with Graduate Programs in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California.
Her recent work is focused on supporting organizations in creating systems for inclusive thriving informed by an understanding of intersectional diversity. In addition to belonging, inclusion, and diversity, her areas of expertise include organizational effectiveness, organizational culture assessment and change, facilitating creativity and innovation, and training and training evaluation.
Her peer-reviewed work was published in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice; Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, and Assessment Update. She is the editor of the upcoming book “Evidence-Based Organizational Practices for Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity” (Cambridge Scholars). https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludmila-praslova/
Chris Lowney vice chairs the board of CommonSpirit Health, America’s largest nonprofit health system with $29 Billion in revenues and more than 150,000 employees. He is a one-time Jesuit seminarian and later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co on three continents. He is a popular keynote speaker who has lectured in more than two-dozen countries, on leadership, business ethics, decision-making and other topics.
He is the author of six books and has co-authored two more. The bestselling Heroic Leadership has been translated into eleven languages and was named to the recommended reading list of the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. His A Vanished World relates fascinating stories of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Spain: Chris was featured in the PBS-aired documentary, “Cities of Light,” which echoed many of that book’s key themes. His other works include Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads, which has been called, “a book for the ages.” He won a 2018 Catholic Press Association award for Everyone Leads: How to Revitalize the Catholic Church. His latest work is Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life (and World), which won a 2018 Independent Press Award as a “Distinguished Favorite.” The book also won a Gold Medal in the 2019 Illumination Awards. www.chrislowney.com
Brian Underhill, Ph.D., PCC is the Founder and CEO of CoachSource, the world’s largest executive coaching firm, with over 1,100 coaches worldwide. He is also the co-editor of Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors, and Mastering Executive Coaching, the author of Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders, and author of numerous articles, chapters, and blogs in the coaching field.
Brian is an internationally sought-after speaker, with presentations on 6 continents, including The Conference Board, International Coaching Federation (international and regional events), European Mentoring and Coaching Council, Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Society of Consulting Psychology, World Business and Executive Coach Summit, Organization Development Network, and regional SHRM, ATD and other events.
Brian was nominated as a Thinkers50 Leading Global Coach in 2019, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Div.13 - Society for Consulting Psychology), and holds a Ph.D. and MS in Organizational Psychology. Brian resides in Silicon Valley where he enjoys racquetball, plays music as a worship leader and spends time with his family. www.coachsource.com
Phyllis Sarkaria is a certified coach, facilitator, and trusted adviser. She has held executive roles in government affairs and human resources and has had responsibility for functions as diverse as strategic planning, merger integration, and team effectiveness. She has led multi-million-dollar system implementation and integration initiatives and has worked closely with Commercial and R&D leaders to build capability in their functions and improve individual and organizational outcomes. Phyllis is the author of Courageous Clarity: Navigating the way forward on your leadership journey, the essential guide for leaders who want to inspire, influence, and engage their teams for greater results, Phyllis is also a published scholar on authentic leadership.
www.sarkariagroup.com
M Ó N I C A G U Z M Á N is a bridge builder, journalist, and entrepreneur who lives for great conversations sparked by curious questions. She’s director of digital and storytelling at Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan grassroots organization working to depolarize America; host of live interview series at Crosscut; and cofounder of the award- winning Seattle newsletter The Evergrey. She was a 2019 fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she researched how journalists can rethink their roles to better meet the needs of a participatory public. She was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle, served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes, and plays a barbarian named Shadrack in her besties’ Dungeons & Dragons campaign. A Mexican immigrant, Latina, and dual US/Mexico citizen, she lives in Seattle with her husband and two kids and is the proud liberal daughter of conservative parents. www.monicaguzman.com
www.braverangels.org
Diana Wu David, formerly an executive with the Financial Times, is a work futurist and CEO/board whisperer. She helps people and organizations understand the future to create inspiring futures that matter. Her clients have included Hashkey Digital Assets, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, London Stock Exchange, Mandarin Oriental, Wharf, Expedia, the World Bank and KPMG. She also teaches at HKU and Columbia Business School in Asia. She began her career and leadership education as an assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger.
A contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc, Global Focus and Nikkei Asia, she is also author of best-selling Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration, a book about how to adopt more agile mindsets and practices to prepare for success in a fast-changing world, across a 100-year life. www.dianawudavid.com
Davin Salvagno is the Founder & CEO of PurposePoint, the Cofounder of The Purpose Summit, and the author of “Finding Purpose at Work." He is an inspirational speaker and thought leader known for connecting purpose, people, and performance. Having spent nearly two decades serving in various leadership roles in finance, human resources, operations, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies, his insights and talks have helped hundreds of organizations across the world engage their purpose and inspire their people. https://www.purposepoint.com https://www.thepurposesummit.com
Becky Robinson is the Founder and CEO of Weaving Influence, a full-service marketing agency that specializes in digital and integrated marketing services and public relations for authors, business leaders, coaches, trainers, speakers, and thought leaders.
Since launching nearly a decade ago, the firm has provided a wide range of services to help clients launch more than 150 books, enabling authors to build their brands, acquire more business customers, and increase book sales.
Becky’s newest book with Berrett-Koehler Publishers is “Reach: Create the Biggest Possible Audience for Your Message, Book, or Cause,” which shares how to create the biggest possible audience for an idea, book, business, or cause. www.beckyrobinson.com
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Louis Carter is founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and author of more than 10 leadership/management books including the recent In Great Company. He was voted as one of Global Gurus Top 10 Organizational Culture thinkers. He hosts Leader on Newsweek Tuesdays at 12pm on LinkedIn Live and other Newsweek social channels.
His newest book is “In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance by Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace” (McGraw Hill) Louis Carter is known for creating the full system programs in leadership development, starting with his first book with Warren Bennis, Best Practices in Leadership Development, which profiled 12 Fortune 500 organizations and their leadership development programs including Bose, Imasco, Abbott, Colgate-Palmolive, and more. He is a partner with Newsweek to publish the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces and runs a separate BPI branded entity to provide benchmarking and data insights to Most Loved Workplace companies. www.louiscarter.com www.mostlovedworkplace.com
www.bestpracticeinstitute.org
Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D. BCC is CEO of Leadershift, Inc. a leadership development consultancy based in New York City and Amsterdam, and a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s top 100 Coaches.
A highly sought-after speaker, consultant and executive coach with over twenty-five years working with C-suite leaders worldwide, He is the Executive Director at the Institute of Coaching, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate, and also a Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Hull has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, and a wide range of media. He can be reached at www.jeffreyhull.com or at www.Instituteofcoaching.org.
Lindsey Pollak is a New York Times bestselling author and a leading career and workplace expert. She is the author of four career and workplace advice books including The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace and, her latest, Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work. Her speaking audiences and consulting clients have included more than 250 corporations, law firms, conferences and universities. For six years she served as an official ambassador for LinkedIn, and her advice and opinions have appeared in such media outlets as The TODAY Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and NPR. Lindsey is a graduate of Yale University and is based in New York City. https://lindseypollak.com
Bruce Rosenstein is Managing Editor of Leader to Leader, a publication of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum and Wiley/Jossey-Bass. He is the author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way, (McGraw-Hill and Brilliance Audio, 2013) and Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life(Berrett-Koehler, 2009).
He worked for USA TODAY from 1987-2008, as a corporate librarian and during the final 12 years, also as a writer about business and management books for the newspaper’s Money section. He is a regular writing contributor and member of the advisory board for Corporate Learning Network. He started a blog, “The Peter Drucker Files,” for Psychology Todayin January 2022. Since 1996, he has taught as an adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America Department of Library and Information Science. https://brucerosenstein.com
Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She's the author of Mastering Community, Mastering Civility, and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior.
Her speaking and consulting clients include Google, United Nations, World Bank, Microsoft, Genentech, Marriott, World Health Organization, and Cleveland Clinic. She has written for the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
She received her BA from College of the Holy Cross, where she was a member of the women's basketball and soccer teams, and her PhD from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Porath worked for International Management Group (IMG), a leading sports management firm.
DEEPA PURUSHOTHAMANis the co-founder of nFormation which provides brave, safe, new space for professional women of color and a Women and Public Policy Program Leader in Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to this, Deepa spent more than twenty years at Deloitte and was the first Indian American woman to make partner in the company’s history. Deepa was also Deloitte’s national WIN (Women’s Initiative) leader, the firm’s renowned program to recruit, retain, and advance women.
Deepa has degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard Kennedy School, and the London School of Economics. Deepa is an Aspen Fellow and speaks extensively on women and leadership. She has been featured at national conferences and in publications including Bloomberg BusinessWeek,and Harvard Business Review.Learn more at: https://www.deepapuru.com
Greg Voisen is thought leader in the personal growth and human potential movement. Founder of Inside Personal Growth a podcast program which reaches thousands of people on topics including personal growth, business, wellness, mastery and spirituality. Greg has interviewed over 900+ authors in these fields and has developed over 900 hours of recorded podcasts over the last 10 years. Greg has recently authored a new book entitled “Hacking the Gap-A Journey from Intuition to Innovation and Beyond”. Hacking the Gap focuses on the journey of the entrepreneur and inventor, and provides both practical and pragmatic advice on how to bring a new product or service to market. The book incorporates the years of knowledge Greg has compiled through his personal experiences in business and as a serial entrepreneur as well as the knowledge he has acquired through the interviews with hundreds personal growth authors, and business thought leaders through Inside Personal Growth. Greg’s primary focus is assisting small to medium size business owners with their everyday concerns. He advises his clients on financial management, human capital development, process improvement, and sales and marketing. His company eLuminate, Inc. has a team of six associates dedicated to fulfilling the needs of his clients. www.insidepersonalgrowth.com www.hackingthegap.com www.eluminate.net
David Novak is host of the top-ranked business podcast, How Leaders Lead with David Novak and Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, the parent organization to five non-profits dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life, from ages 5 to 65. A renowned expert on leadership and recognition culture, Novak is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen, among others. He is the Co-Founder, retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), one of the world’s largest restaurant companies with restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories. His newest book Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career. www.takechargeofyou.com
Mark Hefner, CEO of Power Navigation, is an advisor and consultant to C-Level Officers. He has a track record of helping clients grow revenue, profits and shareholder value through the development and implementation of new strategies and business transformation initiatives.
Mark has extensive international consulting experience working in Australia, Abu Dhabi, Brazil, Canada, Dubai, France, Germany, Guatemala, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Russia, Thailand and U.K. www.powernavigation.com
As a Harvard-trained negotiator with the richness of 30 years of negotiation and reading body language experience, Greg Williams, ‘The Master Negotiator & Body Language Expert,’ has taught negotiation strategies and reading body language skills in seminars, government, and corporate environments throughout the world.
In the capacity of TV News Contributor, Greg has appeared on all U.S. major TV networks and some in other countries. He has written seven books about negotiations and reading body language and is currently writing book number eight.
For the last four years, Global Gurus has ranked Greg as one of the top 30 worldwide experts in both negotiations and reading body language. He has also been recognized by LeadersHum 200 as a thought leader to watch in 2022. And Greg is also a member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches, an organization consisting of top business leaders, coaches, and thought leaders throughout the world. www.TheMasterNegotiator.com
Janice Perkins is the founder of Capacity Communications, which she created to examine individual levels of growth within organizations to find opportunities to boost productivity and profits through increasing individual capacity in our character. Janice also serves as VP of business development for Marshall Goldsmith’s Methods of Leaders.
Janice is a subject matter expert in the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches (ACEC) and a board member of Global Connections for Women Foundation (GC4W). She is actively engaged in volunteering and advising in her local community with the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coalition (MHSA) helping the community unite against homelessness, substance abuse and our current mental health crisis. Janice is a frequent speaker at international conferences on marketing, brand development, leadership and culture.
https://www.ihavecapacity.com
Erin A. Cech is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her research, which is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, investigates how seemingly benign and taken-for-granted cultural beliefs reproduce workforce inequalities. Her new book is “The Trouble with Passion: How Search for Fulfillment Fosters Inequality.” www.erinacech.com
Cali Williams Yost is the leading authority on high performance work flexibility. A visionary workplace futurist, strategist, author, and keynote speaker, Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, a solutions company helping organizations unlock performance and engagement by reimagining how, when, and where work is done. She coined and codified her concepts on the flexible future of work in the empowering book, Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, (Center Street/Hachette, 2013), and the critically- acclaimed, Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You (Riverhead/Penguin Group, 2004). www.flexstrategygroup.com
Jennifer J Fondrevay is the Founder of Day1 ReadyTM, a consultancy that advises forward- thinking business leaders, owners and C-Suite executives on how to prepare for the human capital challenges of M&A. As a Fortune 500 C-Suite “survivor” of three multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, Jennifer has been on all sides of the deal equation. She saw countless growth strategies fail due to a workforce that couldn’t pivot and adapt as quickly as leadership anticipated. She is the author of the book, “Now What?: A Survivor’s Guide for Thriving through Mergers & Acquisitions.”
When her Harvard Business Review (HBR) article, “After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company” went viral, Jennifer recognized the power and interest in a human-centric approach to business transformation, where employees are at the heart of the change. She shares her expertise as a contributor to: Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Thrive Global, American Marketing Association, Middle Market Growth; and as a frequent podcast guest and keynote speaker for HR conferences, associations and Fortune 500 companies. Jenniferjfondrevay.com
Alaina Love is the CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting (PLC), and developer of PLC’s groundbreaking instrument: The Passion Profiler™.
Prior to founding PLC, Alaina was Executive Director of Human Resources for Merck & Co, with responsibility for the HR services of over 15,000 employees worldwide. She’s also been a research scientist in the field of immunology and a clinical researcher monitoring international drug trials.
Alaina co-authored the book, The Purpose Linked Organization, which focuses on PLC’s research into the importance of purpose and passion in creating a fulfilled and motivated workforce. www.thepurposelink.com
Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change. He’s best known for his book The Coaching Habit which has sold close to a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews online. His newest book is How to Begin.
Michael founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led. They’ve trained hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like and their clients range from Microsoft to Gucci.
He left Australia about 30 years ago to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University ... where his only significant achievement was falling in love with a Canadian ... which is why he now lives in Toronto, having spent time in London and Boston. www.mbs.works www.howtobegin.com
GARY GENARD, Ph.D., is the founder of The Genard Method of performance-based public speaking training.
An actor, speech coach, and keynote speaker, he works with the world’s top brands, including Amazon, Google, IBM, Citigroup, Intel, Pfizer, McKinsey & Co., and the Boston Red Sox.
He also trains political candidates and diplomats at the U.S. State Department and the United Nations, and at NASA and both houses of Congress.
For the eighth consecutive year, Global Gurus has listed him as one of “The World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals,” while naming his “Speak at Your Best!” program as one of the top 10 speech training programs in the world. He has also been named as one of America’s 5 best speech coaches.
You’ll find his popular blog, “Speak for Success!” at www.genardmethod.com www.garygenard.com
Dean Miles is the founder and president of Bridgepoint Coaching & Strategy Group, a global executive coaching firm. He has spent his career coaching executives how to better lead themselves and their organizations. Dean is a master at understanding the needs of organizations and individuals. He has been coaching and facilitating programs for groups and individuals around the country on many organizational, inter-personal and personal topics since 1996. Dean's work with Fortune 500 CEOs has been featured in publications such as Forbes Magazine, Fast Company, CareerPro, Vistage & Inc. Magazine. www.bridgepointcsg.com
Ruth Gotian Ed.D. is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology Weill Cornell Medicine. Ruth is the author of is the author of the “The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance.” She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. She also has a weekly show and podcast by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success. In 2021, she earned the Thinkers 50 Radar award as the No. 1 emerging management thinker in the world. www.ruthgotian.com
Shannon Huffman Polson is the author of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the Most Male Dominated Organization in the World, and the founder of The Grit Institute, a leadership institute committed to ethical whole leader development with online and supported training.
As one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army, Polson combines her passion for creativity with firsthand experience in leadership and grit to deliver world-class training to companies and organizations. After serving for a decade in the armed services, including leading two flight platoons and a flight company on three continents, Polson earned her MBA at the Tuck School at Dartmouth. She went on to lead outstanding teams in the corporate world as well at Guidant Corporation (later Boston Scientific) and Microsoft Corporation. www.shannonpolson.com www.thegritinstitute.com
Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America and was recently named #8 on the Thinkers50 list for 2021, made up of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world. She is an award-winning author, a regular keynote speaker, and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Johnson is author of several top-selling books including "Disrupt Yourself" and "Build an A Team." Her latest book is "Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company." She is also the host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast. www.whitneyjohnson.com
Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a 2x TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. After interviewing 500 thought leaders on credibility, he created the Credibility Nation community, published a 7-country international bestselling book, delivered a TEDx, created courses, and is working on getting the definition of credibility rewritten in the dictionary.
Mitchell Levy is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books. He's provided strategic consulting to hundreds of companies and has been the chairman of a board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty-one years and prior to covid-19, regularly spent four weeks a year in Europe with family and friends. www.mitchelllevy.com www.credibilitynation.com
Elliott Masie is widely considered as the father of e-learning. His company Masie Innovation has provide online learning to companies around the world. Elliott also leads the Learning COLLABORATIVE, a coalition of 75 global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies. Members include Amazon, Zoom, Bank of America, Subway, The Hartford, and others.Elliott is also a successful Broadway producer of such shows as Kinky Boots, An American in Paris, The Prom, The CHER Show, Anastasia, The Play that Goes Wrong, SpongeBob The Broadway Musical, and, most recently, "Seared” and Mrs. Doubtfire!. Elliott created and hosted the Empathy Concerts each week during the Pandemic, combining business/learning leaders with Broadway Stars, as a free support for our workforces facing the stress and uncertainty of these times. www.masie.com
Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Loveand gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She is the author of “Design the Life You Love.” www.aysebirsel.com
Liz Wiseman is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and in 2019 was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world.
Liz is the author of New York Times bestseller “Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter,” “The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools,” and Wall Street Journal bestseller “Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.” Her newest book is “Impact Players.” www.thewisemangroup.com
Warwick Fairfax is the founder of Crucible Leadership, a philosophical and practical breakthrough in turning business and personal failures into the fuel for igniting a life of significance. He has been hailed by Forbes as offering “compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired by their work, but doesn’t.”
HIs new book is "Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance" www.crucibleleadership.com
Dr. Paul L. Corona is a clinical professor of leadership in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where his teaching and coaching ratings average 96/100.
Paul is also the founder of the award-winning Lee's 3 Habits system, which helps motivated professionals and organizations build stronger relationships and achieve greater happiness – and he's the author of The Wisdom of Walk-Ons: 7 Winning Strategies for College, Business and Life. As a Leading Global Coach award winner, Paul was considered for the first Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching & Mentoring Award (the Thinkers50 Awards have been called "the Oscars" of management thinking).
During the past 35 years, Paul has transformed himself from a business person into a performance improvement specialist. He previously held various leadership roles in Fortune 500 corporations, a Big 4 accounting and consulting firm, and primary research universities.
Most importantly, Paul is a husband, parent and friend. www.paullcorona.com
HUBERT JOLY is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy and is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor. www.hubertjoly.com
Michelle K. Johnston, Ph.D. serves as the Gaston Chair of Business at Loyola University New Orleans where she teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs in the College of Business. She is an award-winning professor studying leadership and business communication, and her research has shown a clear link between a team’s effective communication and its positive financial performance. She lives in her beloved city of New Orleans, Louisiana, with her daughter, Elizabeth. The Seismic Shift in Leadership is her first book. www.michellekjohnston.com
Niel Golightly is a Senior Counselor at Sard Verbinnen & Company, a global strategic communications firm. He is also founder and principal of Niel Golightly LLC, a leadership communications and coaching consultancy.
Niel has served as Chief Communications Officer at both Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (now Stellantis) and the Boeing Company. He has also held senior executive roles in global communications, sustainability and energy transition for Ford Motor Company and Shell Oil Company. He began his career as a U.S. Naval officer and carrier-based pilot. https://www.sardverb.com/who-we-are/our-people/niel-golightly/
Dorothy Dalton is an International Talent Management Strategist (CIPD) and Founder of 3Plus. She supports organisations which understand the connection between business success and gender balance, diversity, and inclusion. Her current projects are around “bias-managed” hiring and promotion systems to attract and retain top talent.
As a certified coach (CBC) and trainer she guides individuals to reach their career potential. She is a keynote speaker, facilitator, HR blogger and media contributor. www.3plusinternational.com www.dorothydalton.com
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a leading technology executive and entrepreneur, board member, and investor with twenty-five years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon, and Yodlee. Most recently, she served as president of StubHub. She is the founder and chairman of theBoardlist and has been profiled in Fortune, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and The New York Times, among others. She has been named one of Elle’s Power Women, one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company, and one of the Top 100 People in the Valley by Business Insider among many other accolades. She is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller, CHOOSE POSSIBILITY. www.choosepossibility.com
SimonMainwaringis founder & CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for purpose-driven brands. His newest book is “Lead with We.” Simon is a member of the Steering Committee of Sustainable Brands, the Forbes Business Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Simon was a Jury Member at the Cannes Lions Festival for the Sustainable Development Goals and Featured Expert Speaker in 2021 and his company, We First, is included in Real Leaders list for the Top 100 Impact Companies in the US and B Corp ‘Best for the World’ honoree for 2021. His first book, We Firstwas a New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of the Year by strategy+business. www.leadwithwe.com
Alisa Cohn is an executive coach who works with senior executives and high potential leaders to help them create positive permanent shifts in their leadership impact and the results they achieve. Her new book is called, “From Start Up to Grown Up.”
She was named the #1 Startup Coach in the world at the 2019 Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Awards in London, and also named one of the Top 30 Global Gurus for Startups of 2020.
She also works with executive teams to help them be stronger as a team, have the right conversations and take the right actions to move forward faster. www.alisacohn.com
Susan (Sue) Ashford is the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor in the Management and Organizations group at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business. She was previously on the faculty of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and received her MS and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University. Her new book is the “Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth.”
Nick Morgan, Ph. D. is one of America’s top communication speakers, theorists and coaches. He has been commissioned by Fortune 50 companies to write for many CEOs and presidents. He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, to appear in the media, and to deliver unforgettable TED talks. He has worked widely with political and educational leaders. And he has himself spoken, led conferences, and moderated panels at venues around the world. During the last election cycle, he provided expert commentary on the presidential debates for CNN. His latest book is Can You Hear Me?, on the perils of virtual communication, published by Harvard in 2018. www.publicwords.com
Marilyn Gist. Ph.D. inspires leaders to become just that by showing genuine regard for others’ dignity or sense of self-worth. is the author The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility, Marilyn has extensively studied why leader humility is the essential foundation of all healthy organization. She has validated her work with interviews of prominent CEOs of companies ranging from the Mayo Clinic and Ford to Starbucks and Costco. She adds value through ground-breaking insight: the six keys required for leaders to work together well with all stakeholders.
According to Marshall Goldsmith, “Marilyn Gist’s The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility, is a must-read for every leader.” This bestselling book has been featured in Forbes and Quartz, and Marilyn’s ideas on leader humility have appeared in The Hill, CEOWorld, Sirius SM Wharton Radio, and numerous podcasts. Ken Blanchard who authored The One-Minute Manager says, “This inspiring book belongs on the desk of every CEO and politician in America.” www.marilyngist.com
Jenn Lim is the CEO of Delivering Happiness (DH), a company she and Tony Hsieh (the late CEO of Zappos.com) cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. Delivering Happiness started as a book (New York Times and WSJ Bestseller and sold over 1 million copies) and evolved into a business consultancy and global movement that has impacted and inspired companies and organizations around the world. Jenn’s mission is both simple and profound: to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organization, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves. Her new book is “BEYOND HAPPINESS: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact” www.deliveringhappiness.com www.jennlim.com
Darcy Verhun is the President of FYidoctors, Canada’s leading diversified healthcare organization. Prior to joining FYidoctors he held executive leadership roles at Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton and Cap Gemini. Darcy is the editor of and contributor to “The Freedom of Constraints: Turn Obstacles into Opportunities.”
He is a Certified Corporate Director, Certified Management Consultant and member of Marshall Goldsmith's 100 Global Coaches (#MG100). He is known for the high energy and commitment he brings to everything. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcy-verhun
Jason Berry is the author of “City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300” (2018) It is the topic of his newly released film.
“His optimism, a faith of sorts, is grounded in the very story he tells,” Larry Blumenfeld wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “of a city still defined by ‘pageantries and memory rituals rituals of its varied people’ and’ ‘where people of different colors and cultures have daily interactions as they have done for generations.’ His book, an indispensable history, explains both what we might take care not to lose and why it’s so easy to believe it will always be so.” www.cityofamilliondreams.com www.jasonberryauthor.com
April Rinne is a change navigator: she helps individuals and organizations rethink and reshape their relationship with change, uncertainty, and a world in flux. A graduate of Harvard Law School, April is the author of Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change (Berrett-Koehler. April is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a trusted advisor to organizations such as Airbnb, Nike, Intuit, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, NESTA, Trōv, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, and governments like Singapore, South Africa, Canada, Colombia, Italy and India. www.aprilrinne.com
Henry Mintzberg is a writer and educator, mostly about managing organizations, developing managers, and rebalancing societies (his current focus). He holds the Cleghorn Chair of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, in Montreal, and has authored 20 books, which have earned him 21 honorary degrees. He co-founded international masters programs for managers (impm.org for business and imhl.org for health care), as well as CoachingOurselves.com, all novel initiatives for managers to learn together from their own experience. mintzberg.org www.rebalancingsociety.org
Howard H. Prager is President of Advance Learning Group, an author, speaker, executive coach and leadership consultant who strengthens people and organizations through his leadership insight and workshops. His newest book is “Make Someone’s Day.” https://howardhprager.com/make-someones-day/
Wally Bock is an author, blogger, ghostwriter, and book writing coach. He writes the popular Three Star Leadership blog. His Writing Edge blog has more than 1000 posts about how to write effective books, articles, and blog posts. These days his main work is helping experts write business books without going crazy or shredding their relationships. www.writingabookwithwally.com and www.threestarleadership.com
Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners. He coaches, writes, teaches, and speaks, mostly about leadership and also about life. His sweet spot is as a strategic thought partner to successful people who care about being exceptional leaders and stellar human beings. Peter is recognized as the #1 executive coach in the world by Leading Global Coaches. Peter co-authored “You Can Change Other People” with Howie Jacobson, Ph.D.
Howie Jacobson is an executive coach to clients ranging from startup founders to established and rising Fortune 100 leaders. He is director of coaching at Bregman Partners and head coach at the Healthy Minds Initiative. An author of multiple books, Howie’s writings have also appeared in Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. www.bregmanpartners.com
Scott J. Miller is FranklinCovey’s senior advisor on thought leadership, leading the strategy, development, and publication of the firm’s bestselling books on thought leadership. His newest book is Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights From Our Greatest Minds. Scott previously had a twenty-five-year career at FranklinCovey in which he served as chief marketing officer and executive vice president. Miller and his wife live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their three sons. www.scottjeffreymiller.com
Marshall Goldsmith’s Methods of Leaders is a global project started as a way to make the knowledge of the world’s most influential business thinkers from 100 Coaches accessible for current and future leaders around the world. Janice Perkins and Jeremy Chabot explain the process and the learning advantages individuals and companies can gain. www.methodsof.com
Terry Jackson Ph.D. is the COO and co-founder of Jackson Consulting Group. Jackson Consulting Group partners with Executives and Organizations to align Strategy, People, and Processes to optimize and sustain Peak Business Performance. His newest book is “Co-Creation Leadership: Helping Leaders Develop Their Superpower of Co-Creation for the Greater Good of the Organization.” www.jcgconsultinggroup.com
Susan Fowler has shared her message on optimal motivation, self leadership, and thriving together in all 50 states and over 40 countries. Now, with her latest book, Master Your Motivation: Three Scientific Truths for Achieving Your Goals, Susan is on a mission to help individuals master their own motivation, achieve their goals, and flourish as they succeed.
Thanks to this bestseller, translated into more than over a dozen languages, thousands of managers worldwide have learned how to activate their staff members’ optimal motivation. www.susanfowler.com
Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a 30-year track record of helping some of the world’s most influential executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. His newest book, based upon a decade of groundbreaking research, is “To Be Honest.” www.navalent.com
Deanna Singh, Founder/Chief Change Agent of the social-impact holding company, Flying Elephant, is known for giving audiences the tools and courage to imagine, activate, and impact the world. Deanna is the author of the forthcoming book, Actions Speak Louder, which will be published by Penguin Random House in May 2022. www.deannasingh.com/flying-elephant
Sanyin Siang helps leaders launch and create value by focusing on mindset, behavioral change, and team and culture building. Sanyin is a CEO Coach, Author, and the Executive Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University. Her thought leadership has appeared in Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN. She is a LinkedIn 2017 Top 10 Influencer and a 2018 Thinkers50 On the Radar. Her award-winning book, The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career helps readers build the leadership mindset for addressing the changes in their careers, businesses, and lives. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanyin/
Kent Taylor (1955–2021) was the founder, CEO, and chairman of the board of Texas Roadhouse restaurants. Special guests Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton remember Kent and tell the story of his memoir, “Made from Scratch.” One hundred percent of the profits from this book are donated to the company’s employee assistance program, Andy’s Outreach. https://www.amazon.com/Made-Scratch-Legendary-Success-Roadhouse-ebook/dp/B08W5H8ZJY
Dr. Mark Goulston, M.D. is a UCLA trained business psychiatrist, Marshall Goldsmith MG100 Coach, Founding Member of the Newsweek Expert Forum and the author or co-author of nine books with his book, "Just Listen," which has been translated into 28 languages, becoming the top book on listening in the world. www.markgoulston.com Mark’s newest concept is the Michelangelo Mindset, which works to “free the success within us.” www.michelangelomindset.com
Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Leadership Center and McNulty Leadership Program at the Wharton School. His newest book is “The Edge: How Ten CEOs Learned to Lead and the Lessons for All of Us. Mike is co-anchor for a weekly program “Leadership in Action” on SiriusXM Radio Channel 132, Business Radio. He can be reached at useem@wharton.upenn.edu.
Leslie Ehm helps entrepreneurs, top executives, leaders and teams in Fortune 100 companies learn how to embrace their superpowers, find their voices and become the badasses they were born to be. Leslie is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller “Swagger - Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want” www.LeslieEhm.com www.swaggerthebook.com
Bill Flynn is a successful serial entrepreneur and business who has worked with leading business leaders as well and their companies. Bill’s best-selling book is Further, Faster - The Vital Few Steps that Take the Guesswork out of Growth www.catalystgrowthadvisors.com
Dr. Leah Weiss, co-founder of the Stanford Compassion Cultivation Program (conceived by the Dalai Lama), and a longtime lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business. As co-founder of Skylyte (a venture-backed startup designed to help managers address workplace mental health challenges using data-driven solutions like AI to build more resilient teams), she has partnered with such clients as Stanford Health, the Mayo Clinic, Genentech, Google, Nike, NASA, and the European Commission. She is the author of “How We Work.” www.leahweissphd.com https://www.skylyte.io
Bonnie Marcus is an award-winning entrepreneur, Forbes contributing writer, and executive coach. Bonnie assists professional women to successfully navigate the workplace and position and promote themselves to advance their careers. Her newest book is Not Done Yet! How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Their Workplace Power It gives women the tools and the voice to defy ageist assumptions to stay marketable and keep their job. www.BonnieMarcusLeadership.com
Laura Berland is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Compassionate Leadership. Laura has developed a new model for these turbulent times that melds evidence-based principles of modern leadership and the latest scientific research with the wisdom of contemplative practices. Evan Harrel is the Co-founder and CEO of the Center for Compassionate Leadership. He leads the Center’s thought leadership efforts, the integration of scientific and business research into the work of the Center. www.centerforcompassionateleadership.org
G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management. His newest book is "The Conscience Code," which focuses on how individuals and leaders can assert their core values especially under stress. www.grichardshell.com
Scott O'Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment (HBSE), a global sports and entertainment company that includes some of the most iconic and innovative teams and brands in the world, including the Philadelphia 76ers (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). His book is "Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded and Thriving." https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-o-neil-057203/
John Baldoni stages a "reflective recital" covering themes of his newest book, "Grace Notes: Living in an Upside-Down World." John also accompanies himself on piano. www.johnbaldoni.com/gracenotes
Joe Trammell is the founder and CEO of Khorus Systems, a business management system that empowers CEOs to lead high-performance organizations, as well as the owner of Texas CEO Magazine, which reaches more than 10,000 CEOs across the state. A successful entrepreneur and CEO with 30 years of experience, Trammell is a pioneer in the field of CEO education. Joe is the author of the book, The CEO Tightrope. www.joeltrammell.com
Tricia Brouk is an international award-winning director. She has worked in theater, film, and television for three decades. Her work includes the writing of two musicals, both produced in New York City, a one-woman show, and four documentaries, two eligible for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominations. Her book, “The Influential Voice: Saying What You Mean For Lasting Legacy “was #1 New Release on Amazon in December 2020. www.triciabrouk.com Free download of Chapter 1 of “The Influential Voice” is available on this site.
Rhett Power interviews John Baldoni about his newest book, Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World. www.johnbaldoni.com/gracenotes
Diane M. Ryan is the Associate Dean for Programs and Administration in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. Diane’s teaching and research is focused on leader/ship development. She is a co-investigator on Project Arete – a 5-year longitudinal study of character and leadership development at the United States Military Academy. Dr. Ryan also holds a secondary appointment as Associate Professor in the Eliot-Person Department of Child Study and Human Development.
Lisa Nirell is the Chief Energy Officer of EnergizeGrowth®. Her award-winning books include EnergizeGrowth NOW: The Marketing Guide to a Wealthy Company and The Mindful Marketer: How to Stay Present and Profitable in a Data-Driven World. Lisa brings cutting-edge strategies and fresh ideas to audiences and clients who find her messages practical and inspiring. www.lisanirell.com
When Michael Lee Stallard worked in the technology sector and then on Wall Street, he observed differences in the cultures of organizations he worked with that negatively impacted morale and performance, which led him to ask, “is there a best culture?” In 2002, he left Wall Street to research organizational culture in-depth, ultimately writing two books about what he discovered, Fired Up or Burned Out (2007) and Connection Culture (2015), and co-founding Connection Culture Group. www.michaelleestallard.com and www.connectionculture.com
Amii Barnard-Bahn is a consultant to the C-Suite and leaders at global companies like Bank of the West, Adobe and The Gap. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives, she is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches, a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and the creator of the Promotability Index, which you can receive free by texting PROMOTE ME to 44-222. (https://www.barnardbahn.com)
Sara Canaday, author of Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional Wisdom for Breakthrough Performance,has a unique gift for connecting and communicating with her audiences to propel them from light-bulb-moment insight to strategic change. Moving far beyond the business-school basics, she helps people identify the professional blind spots that are preventing them from taking their careers – and their companies – to the next level. www.saracanaday.com
Cali Williams Yost is the leading authority on high performance work flexibility. A visionary workplace futurist, strategist, author, and keynote speaker, Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, a solutions company helping organizations unlock performance and engagement by reimagining how, when, and where work is done. https://flexstrategygroup.com
Irvine Nugent, Ph.D, author of “Leadership Lessons from the Pub,” is a crisis-leadership authority. He is passionate about empowering leaders with the tools to build trust, make deeper connections, communicate more effectively and build workplaces in which people thrive and realize their full potential. www.irvinenugent.com
Adrian Gostick is a global thought leader in the fields of corporate culture, leadership, and engagement. He is the co-author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, and Leading with Gratitude. His newest book is Anxiety at Work. It provides real-world strategies for addressing anxiety in ways that promote wellness at work and in life. www.anxietyatworkbook.com
Anthony Gostick is a contributing author of Anxiety at Work, a new book from Harper Business and co-founder of the mental health community
WeThriveTogether.Global.
David Brownis the host of the hit Wondery podcasts Business Wars and Business Wars Daily and the brand-new book, The Art of Business Wars. He is also the co-creator and host of Texas Standard, the Lone Star’s statewide daily news show, and was the former anchor of the Peabody award-winning public radio business program Marketplace. www.wondery.com
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox is a global expert on all things gender balance. She is the CEO of 20-first, a global consulting firm working with companies interested in capturing the competitive advantage of gender, nationality, and generational balance. https://20-first.com
David Nour, Thinkers 50 author of “Curve Benders,” is internationally recognized as the leading expert on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. www.nourgroup.com
Nancy Halpern is a nationally recognized leadership consultant and pioneer in the field of talent development who diagnoses political dysfunction in organizations. Nancy hosts the popular podcast, Political IQ. www.nancyhalpern.com
Rhett Power, co-founder of Courageous Leadership, successful entrepreneur and bestselling author, shares his thoughts on what it takes to lead your business and yourself in tough times. Rhett is also the long-time host of Power Lunch on LinkedIn Live. www.rhettpower.com
Joann S. Lublin, author of POWER MOMS: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life. Joann provides insights and lessons for women leaders who are facing the challenges of balancing choices of work and life. www.joannlublin.com
David Komlos, CEO of Syntegrity, has helped change the way many global leaders advance their top priorities, from Fortune 100 transformation to content creation in entertainment to improving access to life-saving products. He frequently speaks on complexity and solving-and-aligning-from-anywhere fast.www.syntegritygroup.com www.crackingcomplexity.com
Garry Ridge is chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company. He is passionate about the learning and empowering organizational culture he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company, and his vision and leadership have positively impacted the WD-40 Company in both measurable and immeasurable ways. Garry shares insights how to lead in crisis integrating purpose, empathy and learning. www.thelearningmoment.net
Dr. Paul Marciano is the world’s leading authority on employee engagement and respect in the workplace and has worked in the field of human resources for over 30 years. Paul earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Yale University where he specialized in behavior modification and motivation. His newest book is “Let’s Talk About It: Turning Confrontation into Collaboration.” www.paulmarciano.com
Pat Williams is a basketball Hall-of-Famer, co-founder of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and former general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers. Also one of America’s top motivational and inspirational corporate speakers, Pat has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies. His newest book is “The Reluctant Leader.” www.patwilliams.com Email Pat pw@patwilliams.com
Mark C. Crowley, bestselling author of “Lead from the Heart,” describes how executives can make positive impact on those they manage by acting with a sense of heart and appreciation for they people they lead. Mark’s insights are grounded in the science of the connection between mind and heart. www.markccrowley.com
Rick Newcombe, founder of the Creators Syndicate, discusses his new book, "The Magic of Lifting Weights.” Weight training, like exercise, can build personal resilience as well as a happier and healthier lifestyle. https://www.creators.com/categories/books [Watch documentary about the book here.]
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development. In 2021, she was one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking. www.ruthgotian.com
Stew Friedman, Ph. D., is a professor of practice at the Wharton School and co-author of “Parents Who Lead.” Stew has been writing and teaching the concepts of Total Leadership—how leaders integrate the domains of their lives--for the past three decades. www.stewfriedman.com www.totalleadership.org
Michael Bungay Stanier is a force for positive change. Michael will share insights from his newest book, The Advice Trap, that will give insights into how lead and live more purposefully. Curiosity is essential and it drives our ability to be mindful, humble and empathetic. www.boxofcrayons.com www.mbs.works
Lori Ames, founder and president of The PR Freelancer, provides insights into how authors can create higher levels of awareness for their books. Lori is a savvy entrepreneur who shares what it takes to succeed in times of crisis. (www.theprfreelancer.com)
Robert Glazer, founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, shares insights from his newest book, “How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace.” Robert advises us to create a workplace that ensures flexibility and accountability. www.robertglazer.com
Edy Greenblatt, Ph.D., author of the best-selling "Restore Yourself: The Antidote for Professional Exhaustion," provides timely insights into getting yourself into equilibrium to make yourself more resilient. Resilience is essential for mental, physical and spiritual health. www.edygreenblatt.com
Helen Riess, MD, is the founder of Empathetics.com, a company that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare, law enforcement, business, and education. Dr. Riess provides insights into the power of empathy and how we can become more caring and compassionate individuals and leaders. www.empathetics.com
Oleg Konovalov, one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy, discusses his new book, “The Vision Code.” Having a strong vision is essential to bringing people together for common cause to enable the organization to succeed and thrive together. www.olegkonovalov.com
Charlene Li, international-best selling author and entrepreneur, provides insights into innovation drawn from her newest book, The Disruption Mindset. Charlene’s advice is important to all executives creating and navigating change. www.charleneli.com
Doug Hensch, executive coach and author, shares insights into building resilience. He shares lessons learned from his mentor Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology. Doug also shares some insights into resilience that he gained as a college athlete. www.drhleadership.com and www.lookingforand.com
Martin Lindstrom, whom Time has dubbed one of the most influential thinkers of our time, discusses his newest book, “The Ministry of Common Sense.” Martin explores the role that empathy plays as well as spins stories that both charm us and illuminate us with wisdom. www.martinlindstrom.com
Craig Lemasters, CEO of the advisory firm GXG, talks about the concepts behind his new book, "UNSTUCK." Craig focuses on operator-based learning that unlocks the wisdom of others to achieve positive growth opportunities. www.gxg.com www.craiglemasters.com
Doug Conant, CEO of Conant Leadership and former CEO of Campbell Soup Co, shares the foundational aspect of leadership contained his book, “The Blueprint.” Doug has insights into leadership forged from adversity and grace that enable leaders to understand how they can lead more effectively. www.conantleadership.com
Tom Kolditz, Ph.D, executive director of the Doer Institute at Rice University, discusses how leadership development on the university level enables students to graduate with the skills necessary to lead themselves and their organizations effectively. Tom is a co-author of "Leadership Reckoning" that focuses on leadership development at the university level. www.doerr.rice.edu
Hortense de Gentil, a world-renowned executive coach, talks about her new book "Aligned." Hortense explains how alignment with our true selves enables us to live a more purposeful, productive and meaningful life. www.hortenselegentil.com
Jim Kerr, strategy/culture consultant and best-selling author, talks about his new book, "Indispensable," which focuses on what companies need to do to become more connected to their stakeholders--employees and customers. www.indispensable-consulting.com
Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations and best-selling author, shares stories about how and why the concept of Joy in the workplace is such a practical as well as an attainable goal. Rich is a gifted storyteller in particular when he tells stories about his leadership journey. www.menloinnovations.com
Todd Cherches, leadership consultant, adjunct professor at NYU and best-selling author, discusses the concepts behind his new book, VisuaLeadership. Todd's approach to visual thinking can help us see ourselves and others around us more clearly. www.toddcherches.com
Rebecca Heiss, Ph.D., is an evolutionary biologist, who shares her insights into human behavior that are linked to our psychology and physiology. Her advice on dealing with stress and fear are enlightening. www.rebeccaheiss.com
Ari Weinzweig, CEO and co-founder of Zingerman's, talks about his new book on humility. In addition to being a seminal force in the food industry, Ari is a prolific author and writes about leadership from a perspective of an entrepreneur as well as a seeker of knowledge and wisdom. You can find out more about Ari and his many books at www.zingtrain.com and www.zingermanscommunity.com. And for those interested in support the restaurant industry during the pandemic, please visit. https://www.pledgeling.com/maria
Pamay Bassey, Chief Learning and Diversity Officer at Kraft Heinz, shares insight into turning leaning into a habit so that it is practiced regularly. Those who make a habit of learning find new ways of meeting challenges and create new opportunities for themselves. Pamay is the author “My 52 Weeks of Worship,” a journey of faith. www.52wow.com
Dianna Booher, a world authority on communication and the author of 48 books, discusses the power of oral and written communications in person and online. Dianna's a gifted storyteller and provides examples to illustrate her lessons. www.booherresearch.com
John Strelecky, a mega-million best-selling author, discusses how purpose provides guidance for individuals, particularly in times of crisis. John also illustrates the concept of the "Big Five" as a means of revealing and illuminating life goals. www.johnstrelecky.com
Jim Kouzes, legendary HR leader/educator and multi-million selling author, shares lessons on “everyday leadership” from his newest book with co-author Barry Pozner. The book is “Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership” is a must-read for executives looking for insights into leading in times of crisis. www.leadershipchallenge.com
Tom Ricks, award-winning reporter turned best-selling author/historian, discusses his book, "First Principles," which focuses on the education of our Founding Fathers. Lessons learned then shaped our nation at its inception and resonate today.
Amii Barnard-Bahn, former CHRO and compliance officer turned executive coach, provides key insights into how to cope more effectively in times of crisis. She's the creator of the Promotability Index that can be found on her website www.barnardbahn.com
David S. Cohen Ed. D., organizational development practitioner, professor and author, discusses how values complement resilience, providing executives to lead more purposefully. www.sagltd.com
Eddie Turner, best-selling author and certified executive coach, discusses how coaching can enable executives to lead with authority, integrity and empathy. www.askeddieturner.com
Ron Kaufman is one of the world's leading expert in customer service and best-selling author of "Uplifting Service”! Ron provides insight into how the concept of CARE enables executives to make customer service sustainable for customers, colleagues and communities. www.ronkaufman.com