Founder of Strategos, an international management consulting firm and visiting Professor of Strategic Management at London Business School, Gary Hamel is the originator of the concept of core competencies. He is also the director of the Woodside Institute, a non-profit research foundation.

Re-elected to the US Senate with 81% vote, Sen. George Mitchell was also elected Majority Leader of the Senate. A former US Attorney and Federal Judge, for six consecutive years Sen. Mitchell has been voted the Most Respected Member of the Senate. While in the Senate, he has served on the Finance, Environment and Public Works and Veterans Affairs Committees.

Geraldine A. Ferraro is an attorney, journalist, author, business women, a Democratic politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice-Presidential candidate representing a major American political party and served in the 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A frequent columnist for, Newsweek International, Jeffrey Garten is widely known in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs. He was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton administration and former Dean of Yale School or Management. He has worked on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers.

One of television's most versatile reports and the longest-running co-host of Good Morning America, Joan Lunden is viewed as the consummate working mother and has continually surprised her audience. She is author of A Bend In The Road Is Not The End Of The Road and Wake Up Calls: Making the Most Out of Every Day.

John Kotter is a professor at the Harvard Business School and is regarded as an authority on leadership and change. He is a bestselling author of Leading Change and Our Iceberg is Melting. His articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period.

John Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold over 13 million copies of his 50 books. His organizations have trained more than 2 million leaders worldwide. He is the founder of INJOY, Maximum Impact, ISS and EQUIP, an international leadership development organization working to help leaders. It is involved with leaders from more than 80 nations.

JP Pawliw-Fry, Ph.D. is a highly sought after speaker on leadership, emotional intelligence and change-management, as well as being one of the highest rated lecturers at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management Executive Education Program. He now acts as an advisor to numerous Fortune 100 companies.

Dr. Kjell Nordstrom is a guru in the new world of business. The 2007 Thinkers 50, the world's ranking of management thinkers, ranked Nordstrom and his partner Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale at number 13 in the world. His dynamic style makes him a highly appreciated speaker. A 20-year veteran, he is a sought-after advisor and consultant to several large multinationals through out the world and has even worked with Tony Blair.

Motivational speaker, trainer, public leader, researcher and author, Marcus Buckingham has trained over 2 million people through his seminars, lectures and books. He focuses on strength-management that suggests any job should be tailored to fit the person rather than the other way around, also known as the "StrengthFinder". He has been featured on PBS and the Today Show.