Bob Garfield

On the Media Co-Host Bob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer, and inveterate broadcaster. In print, Garfield's "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age has made him among the more pitifully groveled-before figures in trade-magazine hi…

Camp Jam INC

What do the legendary business teams behind Microsoft, Disney and Starbucks have in common with the Rolling Stones and U2? Each team consists of extraordinary individuals made even more extraordinary by the team they assembled, and even more so, because of how well they work together. Like …

Cheryl Cran

Cheryl Cran provides practical tools and creative strategies for individuals to take their current level of success and boldly grow it to the next level. The companies that Cheryl works with are top performing organizations with a strong focus on becoming a workplace of choice. The leaders of t…

Don Phillips

Since 1975, Don Phillips has been casting and producing hit Hollywood movies. His experience in the notoriously competitive film industry is invaluable to anyone interested in learning how Hollywood really works. Born the son of a preacher in 1940, Don has been called "The Man With the Golden E…

Ephren Taylor

Ephren W. Taylor II is the youngest African-American CEO of any publicly traded company ever--City Capital Corporation (OTCBB:CCCN). Described as "walking black history" by popular radio show host Tom Joyner, Taylor started his first business venture at age 12, when he began making videogames. …

Flashover Seminars

Flashover Seminars offer an experience which is a cutting edge journey into the "Extreme Teamwork" and "High Performance Leadership" necessary for success in today's fast-paced and time critical business environment -- led by the professionals who epitomize the term "performance under pressure"…

Gabor George Burt

Gabor is an internationally recognized expert on Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation; the highly acclaimed, new approach to creative strategy formation and implementation. Gabor is also the chief architect and original host of the Blue Ocean Executive Experience series, which is the p…

Dr. Gabrielle Morrissey

Dr Gabrielle is an in-demand public speaker whose dynamic style has earned her a stellar reputation as a presenter internationally. She travels the world delivering sexuality workshops and speaking at various events, and is a much sought after human sexuality and relationship expert for many co…

Jack Uldrich

Jack Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, independent scholar, sought-after business speaker, and best-selling author. His books include the best-seller, The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business, and the award-winner, Into the Unknown: Lea…

John Wood

At age 35, John left an executive career track at Microsoft Corporation to form Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that combines the heart of Mother Theresa with the scalability of Starbucks to help over one million children across the developing world break the cycle of poverty through the …

Kevin Asbjornson

Kevin Asbjörnson, MIM, is a Leadership and Performance consultant, international keynote inspirational speaker, Yamaha® Piano Artist, composer, contemporary pianist, and founder and principal performing artist of Inspire! Imagine! Innovate!, an international leadership and performance consortiu…

Libby Gill

An entertainment industry veteran, Libby Gill spent fifteen years heading public relations and corporation communications as Senior Vice President at Universal Studios; Vice President at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting. She was also the branding brain behind the launch of th…

Marc Woods

Marc had his left leg amputated because of cancer when he was seventeen. The day after he had his stitches out he went swimming and within a year he was swimming quicker with one leg then he did when he had two. His dream was to simply be the best that he could be and just 18 months after he fi…

Marilyn Tam

Marilyn Tam has had an extraordinarily diverse life, from her beginnings in a traditional Chinese family in Hong Kong to her meteoric rise in the international business world to become an influential corporate leader, speaker, corporate consultant, author and respected humanitarian. Her long…

Mark Jung

Mark Jung has spent the last 18 years as a successful internet CEO and entrepreneur. He is currntly the Chairman of ClearSpring Technologies. Most recently, Mark was the Chief Operating Officer of Fox Interactive Media (FIM) where he was responsible for all of its internet properties includi…

Marshawn Evans

MARSHAWN EVANS, J.D., has garnered a reputation as an inspiring, articulate and intelligent orator. The journey for Marshawn Evans stretches from being labeled a problem-child to becoming one of Glamour Magazine's and USA Today's top women in America. As an inspirational speaker, entrepreneur,…

Michael Chinich

For thirty years, Michael Chinich has been involved in the film industry, as a casting director, producer and executive producer. He and partner Don Phillips formed Talent Services Associates Inc. in the early 1970's and the rest is Hollywood history. "Discovering" Sissy Spacek in her Oscar win…

Dr. Muhammad Yunus

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen bank, is responsible for many innovative programs benefiting the rural poor. He is the developer and founder of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualif…

Premal Shah

Premal Shah believes your last name doesn't need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent in global poverty. After leaving his job as a Principal Product Manager at PayPal, it has taken Premal less then a year to make good on Kiva's pledge that all it takes to become a micro lend…

Robyn Benincasa

Robyn Benincasa was born in Long Island, NY, but spent most of her youth in Tempe, AZ, where she competed at the state and national level in gymnastics, diving, and cross country. After graduating from Arizona State University with a B.S. in Marketing, Benincasa accepted a pharmaceutical sales …

Scott Burrows

Scott has used his powerful success formula - Vision, Mindset and Grit during his entire life to maximize untapped potential, excel and surpass the competition. He played college football at FSU under Coach Bobby Bowden. He was a # 1 ranked kick-boxer having his last fight broadcast by ESPN. …

Scott Murray

From the Olympics to the U.S. Open, World Cup to the World Series, the Indy 500 to 30 straight Super Bowls, Scott Murray has covered them all. For close to a quarter of a century he was the award-winning Sports Director and Anchor at NBC, Dallas/Ft. Worth. Prior to that, Scott was based in Wa…

Dr. Soram Khalsa

Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Soram Khalsa is a clinical professor of medicine and past Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Environmental Medicine Center of Excellence at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also a member of the Bureau of Natu…

Terdema Ussery

Terdema L. Ussery II is in his 11th year as President & CEO of the Dallas Mavericks and President of the Dallas Mavericks Foundation. Ussery serves as an alternate governor for the Mavericks on the NBA Board of Governors. In addition, Ussery serves as CEO of HDNet, the nation's first all high-…

The Faith Club

After September 11th, 2001, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two mothers to try to understand and answer…

Vijay Govindarajan

Vijay Govindarajan's area of expertise is strategy, with particular emphasis on strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization. Prior to joining the faculty at Dartmouth, Govindarajan was on the faculties of The Ohio State University and the Indian Institute…

William McDonough

William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a …