Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. He has been ranked in the Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" consultants in the field of executive development.

Dr. Goldsmith's work has received national recognition from the Institute for Management Studies, the American Management Association, the American Society for Training and Development and the Human Resource Planning Society. His coaching process has been positively described in both the New York Times and the Financial Times.

Marshall is the author or editor of 48 books on management, including the bestselling What Got Your Here Won't Get You There, Triggers, The Earned Life, and How Women Rise.

Dr. Beverly Kaye is an early game-changer in the field of career development, engagement, and retention. She received the Industry Legend Award from i4cp and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Talent Development. She co-authored Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Up Is Not the Only Way, and Hello Stay Interviews, Goodbye Talent Loss. Her team collaborates with global organizations to customize her messages.

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of six books which between them have sold more than a million copies. Hes best known for The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of the century and already recognized as a classic.

Michael has spoken on stages and screens around the world in front of crowds ranging from ten to ten thousand. His TEDx talk has been watch by hundreds of thousands of people. Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and plays the ukulele badly. Hes Australian, and lives in Toronto, Canada.

David Burkus is a best-selling author, a sought after speaker, and associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University.

His newest book, Friend of a Friend, shows how to grow networks and build key connections based on the science of human behavior. He is also the author of Under New Management and The Myths of Creativity. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and his work has been featured in Fast Company, the Financial Times, Inc magazine, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, and CBS This Morning. He's delivered keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and the future leaders of the United States Naval Academy and his TED talk has been viewed over 2 million times.

Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., is an author, executive coach, and global speaker for corporations, associations, universities and government agencies. Her customized speeches and seminars offer strategies to more effectively lead change, foster collaboration, project leadership presence and reach high-level sales goals. She is a subject expert and media resource on the impact of body language on leadership results. Dr Goman has over 200 client organizations in 25 countries. She is the founder of Kinsey Consulting Services.

Dr. Goman is a leadership blogger for Forbes, and has served as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the International MBA program, at the University of California in the Executive Education Department, and for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at their Institutes for Organization Management. She is a frequent speaker for The Conference Board and has been featured at The Executive Forum and the CEO Roundtable. She is the author of 12 books, including The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help or Hurt How You Lead.

Ann Herrmann-Nehdi is CEO of Herrmann International, publisher of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument™ (HBDI™) which is based on extensive research on thinking and the brain. Multiple applications of whole brain technology™ include creativity, strategic thinking, problem solving, management and leadership, teaching and learning, self-understanding, communication and team/staff development.

Ann seeks to apply the principles of whole brain technology™ to her varied responsibilities: from day-to-day operations, to sales, to workshop design and presentations. Having resided in Europe for 13 years, Ann brings a global perspective to the company. Herrmann International, with affiliates world-wide, continues to research and develop products and applications in the fields of thinking creativity, and learning.

Mike Robbins is an expert in leadership, teamwork, and emotional intelligence. He is the author of four books; Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself - Everyone Else is Already Taken, Nothing Changes Until You Do and his most recent Bring Your Whole Self to Work.. He and his work have been featured in Forbes and Fast Company, on the Oprah Radio Network, and ABC News, among others.

Karin Hurt, along with her husband David Dye, founded Let's Grow Leaders, a training firm that empowers human-centered leaders to achieve breakthrough results while retaining their humanity. They offer tools and development programs that have helped tens of thousands of leaders in 14 countries.

Karin is an award-winning author of four books, including "Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict" and "Courageous Cultures." She also hosts the popular LinkedIn show, Asking for a Friend. She was recently named by Inc. Magazine as a Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker.

David Dye, along with his wife Karin Hurt, founded Let's Grow Leaders, a training firm that empowers human-centered leaders to achieve breakthrough results while retaining their humanity. They offer practical tools and leadership development programs that have helped tens of thousands of leaders in 14 countries since 2013.

David is an award-winning author of four books, including "Courageous Cultures" and "Winning Well." He also hosts the popular podcast, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul.

Ms. Linda Galindo is a former radio news personality, turned author, educator, and highly sought after speaker and consultant who is an expert in the field of executive leadership and accountability. Over the past 20 years, she has worked with CEOs, surgeons, elected officials and the leadership of organizations.

Ms. Galindo helps leaders realize their definition of success by applying a unique, transformational approach to personal accountability. She is a Faculty Member for the Governance Institute and Medical Leadership Institute and currently serves as a Board Member for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Center for the Public Trust. She has written over 100 articles on accountability and is the author of Way to Grow! Cultivating the Weeds, Daisies and Orchids in Your Organization and The 85% Solution; How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success - No Nonsense, No Excuses.

Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth. One of Inc. magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers, she's also the author of the bestseller Promotions Are So Yesterday. Julie partners with organizations worldwide to offer her expertise in leadership and career development and to design award-winning bespoke development experiences.

Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Program Innovation at Bryant University. He previously served on the faculty at Harvard Business School. Professor Roberto's research and teaching have earned several major awards including the 2006 Codie Award. He is a nine-time winner of the Outstanding MBA Teaching Award at Bryant University and has twice won Harvard's Allyn Young Prize for Teaching.

Professor Roberto is the author of three books; Know What You Don't Know, Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For An Answer, and his newest book Unlocking Creativity. Professor Roberto also created three best-selling audio/video lecture series for The Great Courses.

Dr Cynthia Scott is the founder of ChangeworksLabs where she brings experience releasing creativity and innovation as a leadership professor, organizational psychologist, board member, executive and change catalyst. She has translated her experience into writing 10 books, designing learning curriculums, programs, assessment tools and models to guide and inspire people to become creative sources of resilience for their teams and organizations.

Dr. Jennifer B. Kahnweiler is a bestselling author and one of the top global leadership thought leaders on introverts in the workplace. Her pioneering books, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, The Genius of Opposites, and Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces, have been translated into 18 languages. The Introverted Leader was named one of the top 5 business books by The Shanghai Daily.

Dianna Anderson, MCC, is the CEO of Cylient, and the creator of Cylient's unique, systematic approach for instilling coaching cultures - what Cylient calls Change-Able® organizations. The Coaching in the Moment® approach that Dianna created has enabled thousands of people, worldwide, to integrate coaching approaches into any conversation with anyone at any time in order to build connections and co-create new ways of thinking and working together.

Prior to graduating from Coach University in 1996, Dianna was a change management consultant working with an international consultancy doing large scale re-engineering projects. She is the co-author of Coaching that Counts, which offers a compelling business case for individual coaching in organizations. Dianna is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) through the International Coach Federation and hold an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, Canada.

Dr. Rick Kirschner is the creator of "The Art of Change" multimedia experience, and the "Quick Change Artist" training series, which improves creativity, team communication, initiative and performance.

Dr. Kirschner is an author or coauthor of eight audio and video programs on customer service, communication and creative living, and is coauthor of four books including the international bestseller, Dealing with People You Can't Stand. In addition to his difficult people training, programs include The Art of Communication: Confidence, Influence and the Power of Persuasion; The Art of Living: Change for the Better; and The Art of Teamship: Changing Your Organization For Good. Dr. Kirschner's work has been featured on CNBC's "MoneyTalk", in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Dr. Rick Brinkman is the developer of Conscious Communication program and the principal of Rick Brinkman Productions, Inc., a training and development company. He is the coauthor of five books including the international bestseller Dealing With People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, which has been translated into 20 languages. His other books include Life by Design, Love Thy Customer, Dealing With Relatives and Dealing With Difficult People. He has also authored 5 audio and 4 video training programs. Dr. Brinkman has been featured by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and Oprah magazine.

Dr. Dewett is one of the world's most followed leadership personalities. He is an expert on authenticity, a TEDx speaker, an Inc. Magazine Top 100 leadership speaker and a best selling author at LinkedIn Learning. Todd is a former award-winning professor and has been quoted widely, including the New York Times, BusinessWeek, TIME, and Forbes.

After beginning his career with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young he completed his PhD in Organizational Behavior at Texas A&M University. He has since delivered over 1000 professional speeches and created a body of work that has motivated millions of professionals around the world.

Jason Womack is an instructor at a university in Alabama, where he helps people prepare to thrive in command, not just survive their leadership tour. As an executive coach, Mr. Womack provides practical methods to maximize tools, systems and processes to achieve quality work/life balance. He has worked with leaders and executives for over 14 years in the business and education sectors.

Mr. Womack is the author of Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More, and The Promise Doctrine: A System for Consistently Delivering on Your Promises. Mr. Womack's ideas and philosophies have been featured in magazines and newspapers such as T&D (as a member of ASTD), Speaker (as a member of the National Speaker's Association), The Los Angeles Times and USA Today.

Debra Benton is the founder and president of Benton Management Resources in Ft. Collins, Colorado. She has 20 years of experience as a coach to CEOs and other executives. Her client companies have included Campbell's Soup, Dell Computer, McDonald's, and Time Warner.

Benton is regularly featured in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and has appeared on CNN, Today Show, Good Morning America, and the CBS News with Diane Sawyer. She is a speaker, blogger, and author of eight books, including Executive Charisma and How to Think Like a CEO. Her most recent offering is CEO Material: How to Be a Leader in Any Organization.

Scott J. Allen, Ph.D., is the Standard Products - Dr. James S. Reid Chair in Management at John Carroll University. Allen is an associate professor and teaches courses in leadership, management skills, and executive communication. In 2014 he was awarded the Wasmer Outstanding Teaching Award for his work in the classroom.

Scott has published more than 50 book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. His most recent project is a leadership textbook - Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success. In addition to writing and speaking, Scott consults, facilitates workshops, and leads retreats across industries. Scott is the chair and co-founder of the Collegiate Leadership Competition and has served on the board of the International Leadership Association, Association of Leadership Educators, and OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators.

Ann Tardy is the CEO and founder of LifeMoxie Mentoring and Leadership that has the mission of transforming corporate America by changing how people lead. Prior to founding LifeMoxie Ann was a Silicon Valley corporate attorney working on mergers, venture-backed financing and consulting with entreprenuers.

Ann is the author of four books; Ambition on a Mission, Moxie for Managers, Why Mentoring Matters, and her most recent book The Joy of Mentoring. As a speaker Ann influences audiences with her experiences and her 25 years of leadership. In 2012 Ann founded the Mentoring Council where program administrators, leaders, and HR professionals go to connect, share resources, benchmark progress, and exchange best practices.

Mr. Gregg Thompson is a facilitator, coach, author and speaker. As president of Bluepoint Leadership Development, he leads a talented group of worldwide professionals who design and deliver challenging educational experiences that accelerate the natural development of leaders. He brings 25 years of management and consulting experience in the technology, resources, manufacturing, environmental and financial sectors to his role at Bluepoint.

As a leadership coach, Gregg works with senior executives across North and South America, Europe and Asia. His demanding Appreciation-Confrontation- Accountability approach to coaching and training has earned him the respect of clients everywhere.

Mr. Thompson is an engaging speaker who frequently addresses leaders at Fortune 500 companies. His popular book entitled Unleashed!: Expecting Greatness and Other Secrets of Coaching for Exceptional Performance is based on the principles of the highly-experiential workshop. The second book in the series, published with Ron Crossland, is The Leadership Experience: From Individual Success to Organization Significance.

Deborah Grayson Riegel, MSW, PCC, combines expertise in cognitive, behavioral and social psychology, public speaking, and coaching. She has coached hundreds of thousands of professionals to communicate more effectively in industries ranging from advertising, financial services, and government to non-profits, pharmaceuticals, and technology.

Deborah serves as a Visiting Professor of Executive Communications at the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University, China, where she prepares senior leaders from around the world to communicate more effectively in a growing global marketplace. She is also an instructor of Management Communication at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Graeme Codrington is an expert on the new world of work and multi-generational workplaces. He is a keynote presenter, author, futurist, facilitator and strategy consultant working across multiple industries and sectors. Dr. Codrington's work focuses on trends affecting how people live, work, interact and connect with each other. He speaks on the TIDES of change, the five disruptive forces shaping the new world of work in the next decade: Technology, Institutional change, Demographics, the Environment and shifting Social values.

Dr. Codrington is the co-founder and a senior partner of TomorrowToday, a global firm of futurists and business strategists. He is also a guest lecturer at four top business schools, including the London Business School. He has won numerous awards for his speaking and facilitation, including 'Speaker of the Year' by the Academy for Chief Executives. Graeme has three best-selling books published by Penguin, including the award winning, Mind the Gap and Future-Proof Your Child. He is currently writing a book on Strategic Leadership Intelligence.

Robin Gerber is a national commentator and speaker on leadership. She has been published in numerous national newspapers and magazines, and has appeared on History Channel and Biography Channel programming, as well as The PBS Newshour, and CBS and FOX channel affiliates. Her articles have appeared in USAToday, the Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers and magazines. Robin is the author of Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage, Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon and Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her among other books. Prior to becoming an author, Robin practiced law in Washington, D.C. and worked on Capitol Hill. She has studied and written about leadership development since 1975.

He has authored four books, including The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis, and has published articles in numerous academic and professional journals.

Dr. Jeanne Porter King is the Founder of TransPorter Group Inc. and an inspirational speaker. She received both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University and her Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Ohio University.

Dr. Porter King has worked in a number of organizational development roles in Fortune 100 companies and has consulted with clients from the United States, Latin America and Europe in a variety of industry sectors. She has developed an award-winning program for women leaders entitled Leveraging Interpersonal Power for Women Leaders.

Dr. Joseph Ryan is the President and founder of True North Advisory Group and he teaches extensively at Wharton Executive Education. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, completed graduate business studies at The Wharton School, attended the GE Crotonville executive education program, and attended the Leadership in Professional Services Program at the Harvard Business School. His consulting and research interests include strategy implementation, strategic alliances, service management, best practices in change management, leadership development, and the design of customized executive education.

Maya Hu-Chan is an expert in global leadership, cross-cultural business skills and executive coaching. She is rated Top 8 Global Solutions Thinkers by Thinkers50, World Top 30 Leadership Gurus, and Top 100 Thought Leaders in Management & Leadership.

Harvard Business School has chosen her book Global Leadership: The Next Generation to be one of their Working Knowledge recommended books. She is also the contributing author for ten books on leadership and management.

Since 1988, Maya has trained and coached thousands of leaders in Global Fortune 500 companies and public sectors throughout The Americas, Asia, and Europe. She has lectured at the Brookings Institution, University of California San Diego, University of Southern California, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Chicago.

Dr. Marcia Reynolds is the owner and President of Covisioning, LLC. She is a past global president of the International Coach Federation and speaks and teaches topics related to leadership coaching and emotional intelligence worldwide.

Dr. Reynolds is the author of 3 award-winning books including Outsmart Your Brain and Wander Woman How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction. Her latest book, The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs, has been discussed in Fast Company, Forbes.com and on HR.com. She has appeared on ABC World News and is a regular blogger for top Psychology and Business websites.

Dr. John Austin is a Professor in the School of Leadership Studies at the Fielding Graduate University and president of Three Translation Leadership. He was previously a senior consultant for Decision Strategies International (DSI).

Dr. Austin has been on the faculty at Penn State University's Smeal College of Business and at The University of Washington. He's also taught Executives at The Wharton School and Duke Corporate Education. Dr. Austin's research has been published in leading management and applied psychology journals including Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science. His work has been recognized with three Best Paper awards from the Academy of Management and has been mentioned in a number of media outlets including CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.

Mr. Kaihan Krippendorff is the creator of The Fourth Option™ approach, a strategic methodology that teaches executives and businesses how to seize opportunities others ignore, unlock innovation, and build strategic thinking skills. A former consultant with McKinsey & Co., he has spent over a decade studying corporate conflict. He is the author of three business strategy books - The Way of Innovation, The Art of the Advantage, and Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile. An expert blogger with FastCompany.com, he has also been featured in key business media outlets, including BusinessWeek, The Miami-Herald, Harvard Business Review, National Public Radio, and Bloomberg Radio.

Dr. Julia Sloan is founder of Sloan International and author of the definitive book Learning To Think Strategically. She is widely recognized for her pioneering work in the application of complex cognitive theory to everyday global strategic thinking practice. Her work draws upon more than two decades of her own expatriate corporate experience in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the United States.Her work in organizations helps to align the business agenda with prevailing economic, cultural and social issues.

Dr. Sloan has lectured at some of the premier academic institutions including: Columbia University, MIT and Harvard University, Nanjing University, Tokyo University and Keio University, Singapore University and India Institute of Management.

Dr. Dennis Reina is an internationally recognized expert on building trust in organizations. He is co-founder and President of The Reina Trust Building® Institute, Inc. where he leads the Institute's research initiatives and product development. Dr. Reina developed the original Reina Trust & Betrayal Model®, the series of trust-measuring surveys, and many of the Trust Building® tools and resources that the Institute offers.

Dr. Reina is co-author of the award winning, best-selling business books, Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships within Your Organization and Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace: Seven Steps to Renew Confidence, Commitment, and Energy. Dr. Reina has a gift for making the complex dynamics of trust simple, and for bringing them to life in a practical manner. He draws upon his experiences in life, such as wilderness treks and two battles with cancer to bring a deep perspective to the concept of trust. Dr. Reina regularly consults, speaks, and coaches leaders and their people in organizations across the continent.

Dr. Kittie Watson, President and founder of Innolect Inc., is an organizational communication expert and specialist in strategic issues management, leadership transformation, and change implementation. She is listed as one of the top twenty-five most prolific women writers in communication. Former Chair of Communication at Tulane University, Kittie received numerous awards for her research and teaching. Inducted to the International Listening Association's Hall of Fame, Kittie served a past President of the International Listening Association, and the Advisory Board for National Teacher Certification Examination for the Educational Testing Service (ETS). With over 15 books, "Listen Up!" was published in seven languages (St. Martin's Press). She was featured on ABC's 20/20 as a listening expert and in popular publications including: "American Medical News", "Bottom-line Personal", "Money", "Glamour", and "Home Office Computing."

Ed Frauenheim is co-author of A Great Place to Work for All and Reinventing Masculinity. He is the co-founder of the Teal Team, which redefines what is possible to create more powerful, soulful, and purposeful practices in organizations.

Ms. Ruth Shlossman is the Founder and Senior Negotiation Consultant at Castle Negotiations Consulting Group. With over 26 years of experience in the field of negotiation training and research, she has helped thousands of people learn the strategies necessary to become master negotiators. Ms. Shlossman is known for taking the mystery out of negotiating, and demonstrating how easy and surprisingly fun it can be. She works with every level of negotiator, from neophytes to senior executives, teaching practical steps to negotiating everything from scope issues to multi-million dollar mergers.

Her seminars are humorous, highly interactive and fast paced, with a mixture of lectures and practice cases. Companies that have been yielding greater negotiation outcomes following her training include: NASA, Chrysler, US Army, Novo Nordisk, Philips, DTCC, 3M, United Copper, Gillette, ArcelorMittal, BCD Travel, Accenture, and many more.

Dr. Iris Firstenberg is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, UCLA and Adjunct Associate Professor of Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. She teaches courses on problem solving, decision making, and innovative thinking in the psychology department and Anderson MBA programs. In UCLA Anderson Executive Education programs, Dr. Firstenberg has taught for many years and is consistently one of the most highly rated instructors.

Dr. Firstenberg also teaches seminars on creativity and innovation for a wide cross-section of Fortune 500 organizations, including companies in aerospace, software, healthcare, defense, telecommunications, energy, financial services, retail, and pharmaceuticals, as well as government agencies such as NASA.

She is co-author with Moshe Rubinstein of three books: Patterns of Problem Solving (Prentice Hall, 1995); The Minding Organization (John Wiley and Sons, 1999); and her newest book, Extraordinary Outcomes: Shaping an Otherwise Unpredictable Future (John Wiley and Sons, 2014).

Dr. Firstenberg is the recipient of the 2002 UCLA Department of Psychology Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2011 UCLA Extension Distinguished Teaching Award.

Michael Lee Stallard is a leading authority on leadership and teams as they relate to employee and customer engagement. He is the co-founder, president and CEO of E Pluribus Partners, a consulting firm that specializes in helping leaders create "Connection Cultures" to form strong bonds among the management, employees and customers of an organization. Connection Cultures increase employee and customer engagement as well as productivity, profitability, innovation, employee retention and customer loyalty. Clients have included Wachovia, Lockheed Martin, UBS, General Re and several hedge funds.

Prior to founding E Pluribus Partners, Mr. Stallard was a managing director, chief marketing and strategy officer at the U.S. Trust business of Charles Schwab and principal, and chief marketing officer at the global private wealth management business of Morgan Stanley.

Crowned Miss America in 1990, Dr. Debbye Turner Bell is a veterinarian, journalist, minister, and motivational speaker. For 11 years, Turner Bell was a staff correspondent for CBS News. Turner Bell was dubbed The Early Show's resident veterinarian, interviewing President & Mrs. Bush at the White House about the first family's pets. Dr. Turner Bell also reported for the CBS Evening News and hosted a prime time television magazine program called 48 Hours on WE. She has appeared as a guest on numerous television programs including The Late Show with David Letterman, Oprah, and the Today show. Dr. Turner Bell is the author of Courageous Faith: A Lifelong Pursuit of Faith Over Fear.

Joel Garfinkle is recognized as one of the top 50 executive coaches in America. He has over 17 years experience as an executive coach, including such clients as Google, Amazon, Starbucks, Deloitte, Cisco, Oracle, Ritz-Carlton, Citibank and Microsoft. He has been selected to the executive coaching team for the UC Berkeley Executive Leadership Program and is a member of The Alexcel Group - an exclusive alliance of highly experienced executive coaches and talent management consultants in the nation.

Joel is the author of seven books and over 300+ articles on leadership. He has contributed to the book The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching (John Wiley and Sons) and Leader to Leader - the award-winning quarterly journal launched by the Peter F. Drucker Foundation. His most recent book is Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level.

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, aka The Productivity Pro, gives speeches and seminars on sales and leadership productivity. For over 25 years, she's worked with Fortune 1000 clients to reduce inefficiencies, execute more quickly, improve output, and increase profitability. Laura is the author of seven books, including Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends Time.

Dr. Rao is a speaker, former business school professor, and head of The Rao Institute, based out of New York. He created the course Creativity and Personal Mastery (CPM), which is based on ancient traditions that Dr. Rao has adapted for modern-day business executives and corporations. He has taught the program at a number of leading business schools, including Columbia and the London Business School, as well as many international corporations.

He is the author of two books, 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, as well as the creator and narrator of the audio course The Personal Mastery Program. All are bestsellers and have been translated into a number of languages. He has received wide media coverage and acclaim, including features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, The Independent, Time, Financial Times, Fortune, Business Week, The Guardian, and Forbes; he has also been a speaker for TED, Leading@Google, and Thinkers 50 interview. Dr. Rao has been a contributing editor for Forbes and a featured author for many other publications.

Kathy Pearson, Ph.D. is president and founder of Enterprise Learning Solutions. Kathy is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and has served as an adjunct Associate Professor in the Operations and Information Management Department at The Wharton School.

Kathy Pearson's new book, The Perceptive Leader: A Handbook for Leading in an Environment of Uncertainty, provides ten core leadership capabilities to thrive in a VUCA environment.

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger is the author of Emotional Intelligence at Work, Nobody's Perfect, Anger at Work, and The Power of Positive Criticism. He teaches executive education at New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a guest expert on over 300 television and radio shows.

Rick Brandon, Ph. D., is CEO of Brandon Partners, offering flagship workshops on Organizational Savvy and Interpersonal Savvy. His new book is Straight Talk: Influencing Skills for Collaboration and Commitment, which comes after his Wall Street Journal bestselling Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success.

With thirty years of performance improvement experience, Rick has trained tens of thousands at companies worldwide, including scores of Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Peter Krembs is a Fellow, University of Minnesota Executive Development Programs at the Carlson School of Management, and is also on the faculty of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He has over 30 years of experience as a consultant to major US and international corporations in leadership development, strategic planning and as an executive coach. Mr. Krembs specializes in the unique issues found in professional and expert-based cultures, including science, technology, financial services and health care.

Mr. Krembs' clients include: Applied Materials, The Mayo Clinic, Medtronic, Teradyne, and Wellington Management, and he was a faculty member of the GE "Technical Manager Course" in the US, Europe, India and Asia for almost 20 years. Mr. Krembs' essay, Leadership Challenges in Technical and Professional Organizations appears in the book, Leadership in a New Era, edited by John Renesch. He is the co-author of On-The-Level, Performance Communication that Works.

Dr. John Daly is the Liddell Professor in the College of Communication, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Texas Commerce Bancshares Professor of Management at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on topics such as interpersonal communication, organizational behavior, advocacy and persuasion, and customer loyalty. He has won thirteen different teaching awards while at the University of Texas.

Dr. Daly has published more than one hundred scholarly articles, and completed six academic books. He has served as President of the National Communication Association and on the Board of Directors of the International Communication Association and the International Customer Service Association. He is one of 50 scholars in the world who is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. Fellows are recognized for their major scholarly contributions.

Dr. Daly has worked with numerous international clients and has worked with the White House designing and implementing a major customer service initiative as well as with numerous federal, state, and local government units throughout the United States.

Dr. Cory Scheer, Founder and CEO of TrustCentric Consulting, brings over 25 years of leadership experience spanning businesses, non-profits, education, and the military. Holding a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Missouri, he specializes in building trust and improving organizational performance.

Cory is the author of Closing the Trust Gap and co-author of The National Survey on Brand and Trust. He also developed The Complete Guide to Building Organizational Trust, showcasing his dedication to creating reliable people, practices, and policies.

Jason D. Patent, Ph.D., an accomplished leader with 18 years of experience in global leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Founder of JP Global Lead LLC and author of Humanly Possible: A New Model of Leadership for a More Inclusive World. Jason's career includes roles at UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford. He's educated and empowered professionals worldwide and passionately advocates for inclusive environments where all can thrive.

Jason has contributed to prestigious associations and organizations worldwide, including the International Leadership Association, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the European Association for International Education, and the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education.

Dr. Edward Betof is Senior Fellow and an Academic Director at University of Pennsylvania. Previously he was Vice President, Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company). Prior to BD Dr. Betof held senior functional leadership roles at Hoffmann-LaRoche, the Reliance Insurance Companies and Manchester Consulting. He has also held adjunct faculty appointments at the Center for Creative Leadership, Penn State University, Temple University and was a visiting lecturer in high performance leadership for second year MBA students at Columbia School of Business.

Dr. Betofis the author of Leaders as Teachers and lead author of Just Promoted! (McGraw-Hill). He has also contributed to numerous journals and professional publications.

Martin Boroson is emerging as an inventive new voice in the next generation of meditation teachers. He consults to organizations on the applications of a meditative mind to leadership, decision-making, peak performance, and innovation. Martin is an accredited member of the European Association of Psychotherapy, President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork™ International, and a certified facilitator of Laughter Yoga. He has taught his radical new take on meditation in leadership seminars, hospitals, public workshops, and the media, as well as in busy urban train stations, a farmyard, and a cabaret.

Martin is the author of One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go, now published in eight languages. He is also the author of Becoming Me, a modern creation story praised by scientists, psychologists, and leaders of many faiths. Becoming Me has now become an animated short film and is being used in secular and religious schools to teach interfaith understanding. In April 2010, for National Stress Awareness Month, Martin presented a thirty-day series on Oprah.com called "Transform Stress in 30-Days with One-Moment Meditation."

Ron Crossland has been an organizational consultant and educator since 1985. He has helped individuals, teams, and organizations develop better leaders, create more innovation, forge better internal and external relationships, and inspire greater performance. Ron blends science and art, data and philosophy, with theory and practicality to achieve an enviable goal for educators: help leaders find practical applications they can use right away as well as prompt them to reconsider their longer term leadership positions and practices. He received his BS in Electronic Engineering Technology and his MBA from Oklahoma State University.

Mr. Mark Samuel, President and Founder of IMPAQ, is considered a practical visionary by Fortune 500 companies. He has founded the Center for Peaceful Accountability, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing effectiveness and quality of life for communities worldwide. His accountability based performance improvement systems and approach to organizational effectiveness has contributed to benchmark results and sustainability. Mr. Samuel is the author of The Accountability Revolution: Achieve Breakthrough Results in Half the Time!, and has been featured in Fortune magazine as a top authority on the topic of Accountability.

Rick has a thirty year track record of success as a human resource consultant and executive. The focus of Rick's work has been on helping leaders and organizations close the gap between strategy and execution, work effectively in a matrix organization and lead and collaborate in a virtual environment.

Rick has co-authored five books on leadership and organizational effectiveness. His most recent books are Closing the Execution Gap: How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results and Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading From a Distance. He was on the faculty of GE's Management Development Course (MDC) for four years and led a full day session on Making GE's Global Matrix Work.

Dr. Clinton Longenecker is the Stranahan Professor of Leadership and Organizational Excellence in the College of Business Administration at the University of Toledo and has been described by Career Publications as, "one of America's very best executive educators" and "one of the top motivational speakers in the U.S."

Dr.Longenecker's work focuses on leadership, organizational success, and all facets of performance improvement. He has been the recipient of eighteen outstanding teaching and research awards during his academic career and several industry awards including the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2004, The UT Outstanding Researcher Award 2008 and The Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service 2008. He has published over 120 articles and papers in leading academic and professional journals. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, MSNBC, NPR and a wide variety of media outlets.

Dr.Longenecker's best-selling book, Getting Results: Five Absolutes for High Performance describes the best practices of over 2,000 high performance managers and how they achieve outstanding performance. His latest book, Two-Minute Drill: Lessons for Rapid Organizational Improvement from America's Greatest Game,, chronicles the keys to rapid performance improvement from their research on over 1,000 organizational improvement initiatives.

David Posen, M.D. has been a successful international keynote speaker, author and seminar leader for more than two decades. He is the author of three best-selling books: Always Change a Losing Game, Staying Afloat When the Water Gets Rough and, most recently, The Little Book of Stress Relief. He graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1967, and in the mid '80s, began to focus on stress management and lifestyle counseling.

Peter Stark has been inspiring audiences for over fifteen years. He is president of Peter Barron Stark & Associates, and specializes in helping organizations "build a culture where employees love to come to work and customers love to do business." His popular book on negotiation skills, It's Negotiable, was selected as a book of the month by Fortune magazine.

Bob Treadway is the President of Treadway & Associates, a consulting and training organization that focuses on future business environments, strategy and planning methodologies. He has consulted and designed programs for such major organizations as Gillette, Berkshire Hathaway, SBC, American Express, Pfizer, and the Federal Reserve.

Bill Welter is the Managing Director of Adaptive Strategies, Inc., a firm specializing in business education and consulting. He is also a Fellow in Executive Education at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is author of The Prepared Mind of a Leader: Eight Skills Leaders Use to Innovate, Make Decisions, and Solve Problems. He has over 35 years of business, consulting and teaching experience.

Mr. Welter was an Adjunct Lecturer, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University. His consulting experiences range from leading the design of a gear manufacturing operation for a major aerospace company to the facilitation of a global manufacturing strategy for a large pharmaceutical company to helping decision makers in a global restaurant business plot their future.

Dr. Dilip Abayasekara, A.S. is pastor at Catawissa Avenue United Methodist Church. As professional speaker he has delivered keynote speeches, private customized coaching, seminars and workshops in the areas of communication & presentation skills, creative thinking, relationship building, customer service, sales, leadership and spirituality. He is the author of The Path of the Genie - Your Journey to Your Heart's Desire

Neil Staker is the president and founder of Collaborant. He has a Masters of Organizational Behavior degree from BYU and a quarter of a century of experience in organizational development.

Neil is known for his clear, approachable, and interactive speaking style. He has taught communication skills to thousands of people from leading organizations in North America and abroad.

Danny Guillory is the Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Dropbox where he leads a strong team that approaches diversity in a comprehensive way. Prior to this role, Danny served as Head of Global Diversity & Inclusion at Autodesk. For many years he served as CEO of Innovations International, a consulting firm that assists companies globally on leadership, innovation and diversity through assessment, strategic planning, learning and development, and internal communications.