The Afterburner Seminars, founded by ace fighter pilot Jim Murphy, provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive, high-energy experience that is custom-tailored to inspire leadership, integrated teamwork and the quick, flexible thinking essential to fighter pilots and business managers alike.

A Baptist minister, political and civil rights and social justice activist, and radio talk show host of Keepin It Real, Al Sharpton fights injustice wherever he finds it. He makes regular guest appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and MSNBC and is praised as "a man who is willing to tell it like it is".

Earning the prestigious, "Certified Speaker Professional" award, Albert Mensah has become one of the world's leading motivational speakers, leadership coaches and trainers for employees at top companies throughout the globe. Rising from his humble beginnings in Ghana, Africa, he has built a strong reputation among business leaders and corporate executives as the catalyst for driving employee morale, increasing work productivity, and enhancing team commitment through his energizing, inspirational, and often invigorating speaking engagements.

Writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism, Amiri Baraka is best known as the Father of the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka is committed to social justice like no other American writer. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Known nationally for being removed from her teaching position in the Philosophy Department at UCLA as a result of her social activism and membership in the Communist Party, Professor Angela Davis is a student, teacher, writer, scholar and activist working to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Professor Davis is a member of the Advisory Board of the Prison Activist Resource Center and is author of several books including Women, Culture & Politics, and The Angela Y. Davis Reader.

Author, screenwriter and film producer, Antwone Fisher's autobiography Finding Fish was he basis for the 2002 motion picture "Antwone Fisher". Antwone has been in a Hollywood producer and screenwriter for 16 years and has written 14 projects for the major studios. He is a professor at UCLA Extension and is writing another book titled A Boy Should Know How To Tie A Tie.

Accomplished stage actor Ben Vereen is one the most revered and respected actors and showman alive. He has earned the prestigious Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for "Best Actor in a Musical". In 2002, he received the Black Theatre Award. Performing worldwide, Vereen's acting credits continue to give us memorable roles. The lecture circuit has become an integral part of Vereen's career; as he has become one of the Nations' most requested speakers among audiences of all ages.

Born the youngest daughter of Coretta Scott King and the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bernice King began her oratorical journey when she spoke in her mother's stead at the United Nations when she was 17. Diverse, challenging, captivating, relevant and powerful are a few words that describe Bernice A. King. She is a woman gifted to change the lives of those who encounter her oration. Nationally and internationally known as one of the most powerful, motivating and life-changing orators, Dr. King leaves her audiences spellbound and challenged.

Bertice Berry is an award-winning entertainer, best selling author, lecturer and comedienne. She has won the coveted national Comedian of the Year Award, and has also named Campus Lecturer of the Year and Campus Entertainer of the Year. She had created a niche as both a gifted speaker with a comic edge and a comic with a serious message. Her busy schedule included over 200 appearances a year.