“We turn Experts into Gurus!”

Roger C. Parker is a "32 Million Dollar Author," book coach, and online writing resource. His 38 books have sold 1.6 million copies in 35 languages around the world. About his ‘Looking Good in Print’ the New York Times said, "…the one to buy when you’re buying only one!" Roger has interviewed hundreds of successfully branded authors. He distils his experience in this book and shares what he learns at http://www.PublishedandProfitable.com and on his writing tips blog, http://blog.publishedandprofitable.com.

Cinda Voegtli is Founder and CEO of ProjectConnections.com, an online service with over 300,000 members around the world. She has more than 20 years experience in project and portfolio management, process improvement consulting, line engineering and company management. Over the years Cinda has consulted on project and portfolio management issues to a variety of companies including Tyco Healthcare/Nellcor Mallinckrodt, Mobil Oil, Pacific Bell, Dow Chemical, NASA, Schlumberger, Aviron/MedImmune Vaccines, Hewlett Packard and Lam Research. Cinda writes and speaks widely on practical real-world processes for project and portfolio management.

Sterling Lanier is a CEO Group Chair for Vistage International, the world’s leading CEO membership organization. He helps CEOs become better leaders, make better decisions, and achieve better results through leading monthly meetings for peer groups, individual coaching sessions and expert speaker workshops. Sterling has more than thirty years of CEO leadership and management accomplishments in specialty retailing, manufacturing, software, and financial services. Sterling became a Vistage Chair in 2000 and leads three Vistage groups. He is the author of ‘Eating Your Way Through Tuscany & Umbria’ and ‘Italiane: A Student Reader with Parallel English Text.’

Ambal Balakrishnan, is Co-founder of ClickDocuments. Balakrishnan is a technologist turned marketer. She spent about a decade in the corporate world in various roles–engineering, program management, business development, and strategy and marketing for premium and fast-growing product divisions at Cisco and Telecordia. Most recently, Balakrishnan has been focusing on marketing and positioning of the Cisco Data Center switching businesses with multi-billion dollars in annual revenues.

Balakrishnan received her Masters in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MBA in Marketing, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley, California.

Balakrishnan blogs extensively at Connect the Docs, for ClickDocuments/ClickIdeas, and tweets at @Ambal and @ClickDocuments.

S. Chris Edmonds is a speaker, author, and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. He has co-authored Blanchard’s bestselling book, Leading at A Higher Level, and award-winning culture change process. As Blanchard’s culture expert, he has helped numerous clients create a high performing, values-aligned culture using their proven process. Chris’ blog at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com and his tweets (@scedmonds) have resulted in thousands of followers on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn who look forward to his culture tweets each day.

Brad Beckstead specializes in audits, corporate governance, and internal control design and implementation for smaller public companies. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and is Certified in Risk and Internal Systems Controls (CRISC). Brad is Audit Partner and SOX specialist at L.L. Bradford & Company, CPAs in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the former Managing Partner at Beckstead and Watts, LLP, an audit firm that won a case in 2010 before the Supreme Court against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Brad has trained numerous U.S. and China-based companies on the effective design, implementation, and testing of internal control systems in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He has also conducted training programs for Sun Microsystems during the rollout of their virtual office concept. In 2006, Brad was named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Accountants” by Accounting Today, an accounting trade journal.

Brad created corporate governance, internal control, and accounting policies and procedures templates, which are bundled and sold on his website, SOX404lite.com.

Mitchell Levy, thought leader and publisher of THiNKaha, has successfully founded over fifteen firms and partnerships, is the author of eighteen business books, and is a well-known business consultant, strategist, and educator. Mr. Levy is a frequent media guest and a popular speaker, lecturing on business and management issues throughout the United States and around the world. Mr. Levy has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies and has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues. Today, Mr. Levy’s principal focus is turning corporate experts into recognized thought leaders in their spaces so that their clients come to them.

Kiruba Shankar @Kiruba, CEO of Business Blogging and Director of F5ive Technologies, has 14 years of experience in the Internet space. He lectures at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management and is Ambassador for the TEDx program in India. Curator of Cerbrate, the international event for achievers, professional podcaster and blogger, Kiruba also makes time to author books that elucidate and opine on cutting-edge business strategies.

Mitchell Levy @HappyAbout, corporate visionary, prolific business writer, and acclaimed speaker is CEO of the independent and approachable publishing house Happy About. In a singularly successful career, he has created executive education programs for Silicon Valley universities, served as conference chair for Comdex and spoken at hundreds of forums on e-commerce and business. Particularly in Silicon Valley, Mitchell finds himself frequently called upon for his strategic expertise, big picture thinking and extensive business networks. Mitchell can be reached at 408-257-3000, mlevy@happyabout.info.

Melissa Lamson is a pioneer in the fields of cultural transformation and global business development. Her proprietary Cultural Transformation methodology called Agility, Communication and Transformation, or ACT has helped organizations around the globe create the common values, businesses practices, and behaviors that are the hallmarks of productive and innovative company cultures. Always forthcoming with sharing her experience and expertise, Melissa has authored several books including No Such Thing as Small Talk: 7 Keys to Understanding German Business Culture, and has contributed to journals, magazines, and books.

Melissa has lived in France, Germany, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. In 2008, she was named one of the top 25 female entrepreneurs in Europe and received an award for her work in diversity from the German Ministry of Cultural Affairs. She is regularly invited to speak about cultural transformation to corporations and also teaches courses for executive MBA programs globally. None other than the European Wall Street Journal has called her an award-winning consultant with an award-winning personality!

Timothy Tosta, a partner at Luce Forward in San Francisco, is recognized as one of Californi’s leading land use and environmental attorneys. He is a cancer survivor, a seasoned hospice volunteer, an evocative lecturer and writer, and a certified Integral Coach who guides executives in the legal profession and the business community to live purposeful, balanced, thriving lives. He is the author of the highly acclaimed lecture series, Lessons for the Living and the emotionally evocative hospice writings, Putting Things in Perspective-Stories from a Hospice Volunteer. Tosta has a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law and a BA from Princeton University. His Twitter handle is @TTosta.

Timothy Tosta is one of California’s leading land use and environmental attorneys, a cancer survivor, a seasoned hospice volunteer, an evocative lecturer and writer, and an Integral Coach, working in the legal and business communities, to help his clients live purposeful, thriving lives.

Gaurav Kumar is a well-recognized demand generation expert. He is currently the founder and CEO of Beyond Codes, which offers demand generation, account profiling, and contact discovery services for several high-profile companies in the U.S., Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Under his leadership, Beyond Codes builds aggregate pipelines, worth several hundred million dollars for its clients.

A serial entrepreneur, Kumar is also the founder of Entertainment Ecosystem Inc, one of the leading online radio stations targeted at the South Asian diaspora. He has been associated with various TiE chapters for over 15 years and is currently part of Executive Council of TiE Southern California. He is a sought after speaker on demand generation.

Kumar holds an MBA in General Management. He loves to travel; play golf socially; and spend time with his beautiful 3-year-old daughter, Bani.

Deepika Bajaj is the Senior Director at Working Mother Media, Founder of Invincibelle,LLC, and a social media columnist for ActiveGarage. She blogs at www.deepikabajaj.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/invincibelle.

Joe Heuer, known worldwide as the Rock and Roll Guru, is an entertaining speaker, author, and full-time rocker who shares the nuggets of wisdom he has gleaned from rock and roll with professional audiences throughout this third rock from the sun.

Jarie Bolander (@EnduranceLeader) is an engineer by training, entrepreneur by nature, and leader by endurance. His site, Endurance Leader, combines two of his passions – leadership and endurance athletics. The fundamental premise behind Endurance Leader is that by enduring through hardships, struggles, and setbacks, you can conquer pretty much anything. Jarie knows firsthand about the struggles of athletics and leadership since he has completed twelve triathlons and countless other endurance events. He has also been involved with several start-ups and community groups where his ability to synthesize complex problems into actionable tasks has enabled him to endure and thrive.

Maryann Baumgarten helps leaders engage the talents of their organizations in Silicon Valley and around the world. By working alongside executives for over a decade, Maryann has personally experienced the pain of seeing gifted professionals and brilliant organizational vision fail to align. She provides immense value by bridging this gap with evidence-based solutions and deep expertise in human motivation. Maryann holds an AA in Social Science, a BS in Human Services, an MA in Organizational Management and Development, another MA in Human Development, and a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems.

Lisa Smith has been lighting up Silicon Valley for over a decade. Through event planning and spiritual healing, Lisa creates amazing experiences for individuals and groups that transform and inspire. Her work centers on connecting with the heart and spirit of each individual and business she works with to help facilitate alignment and support the successful execution of any venture they pursue. Lisa has earned a rock solid reputation for moving people past their barriers and into their ideal life.

Christine Ruff is a student of biology who loves to write and travel. Her interests are in continuing her educational career and in living her passion: science! She writes with heart and a willingness to share her experiences. The refreshing perspective she brings to this book draws from her real life experiences.

A familiar name in the corporate thought leader circuit, LinkedIn Diva Lori Ruff–author, speaker, and Christine’s proud mother–has presented more than a thousand (yes!) sessions on topics such as leadership, social networking, fat applications and Internet technologies, customer service, creating a vision, and privacy. As the bestselling author of THINKaha’s #PRIVACY tweet Book01 and co-author of the Rock The World Book Series, Lori is a globally recognized expert. She blogs regularly at IntegratedBlog.com and RockTheWorldBlog.com.

Heather R. Huhman is a career expert and Founder and President of Come Recommended, an exclusive online community connecting the best internship and entry-level job candidates with the best employers. She is also the national entry-level careers columnist for Examiner.com and blogs about career advice at HeatherHuhman.com. Her Twitter handle is @heatherhuhman.

Corporate Consultant and Financial Executive Larry Moseley has, in a stellar 35-year track record, applied his financial acumen within a range of corporate environments, from business startups to large corporations. Along the way, he has had to develop large, complex projects using Excel. He has also had to review and simplify existing projects, experience that shines through in this book. Larry has worked with spreadsheets since they were born. In the early 80′s he taught Lotus123, SuperCalc and Multiplan at local computer stores. Since then, the extensive use of spreadsheets, in all their complexity, has been second nature to him. He has taught Microsoft Office at Heald College and Cost and Management Accounting at Golden State University. Periodically, he shares his expertise through seminars in intermediate and advanced Excel topics. To learn how Larry’s experience can work for you, visit www.lwmcfo.com.

Janet Fouts is a social media coach, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Her books, Social Media Success!, #SOCIALMEDIA PR tweet, and #SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet, draw on over 15 years of experience in online marketing and social media, working in the trenches with businesses of all sizes. In addition to public speaking and her social media coaching practice, Janet is CEO of Tatu Digital Media, a San Jose, California based Inbound Marketing agency.

Industry expert Peter Spielvogel leads the global Product Marketing team for the HP Operations Center (formerly OpenView Operations) product portfolio. Since starting his career twenty-five years ago developing software for financial services companies, he has held marketing, sales, and product management positions at Fortune 500 companies and several startups. Peter is ITIL v3 Foundation certified. He speaks internationally on IT Operations topics, including virtualization, automation, cloud computing, and consolidated operations. His education includes an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BS in Engineering from Princeton University. He is based in Silicon Valley, California.

Jon Haworth leads Product Marketing for the Service and Operations Bridge within the HP Operations Center product portfolio. He has twentyfive years of experience working for HP across a variety of roles including consulting, pre-sales, and marketing. Jon has designed and implemented large-scale infrastructure management solutions for a number of Fortune 1000 enterprises. Jon is an early adopter and continued advocate for ITIL having gained his ITIL v2 Service Manager certifi cation in 1996. He speaks extensively throughout Europe and Asia on the advantages of consolidating IT management. Jon has a BS degree in Computer Sciencefrom Manchester University. He is based outside London in the UK.

Barbara Safani is the owner of Career Solvers, which partners with Fortune 100 companies and individuals to deliver programs focusing on resume development, job search strategies, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation skills, and online identity management.

Kevin Eikenberry is an expert on leadership and learning; a speaker, author, consultant, trainer, and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He consults with organizations of all sizes and speaks to audiences from 50-5000.

Expert in lead generation, Jim McAvoy has helped his clients secure an astonishing $60 million of incremental revenue! Learn more at www.mcavoyleads.com.

With an academic background in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science, Dr. Shree Nanguneri started his career in the field of manufacturing high-performance materials. While working for GE on three continents, he sought four US patents across various applications. Among his achievements one of them included obtaining Eight Sigma status for his innovative response and solution to a challenging situation at Gillette.

At the turn of the millennium, Dr. Shree established Millennium Global Business Solutions, to consult for a wide spectrum of industries. To date, MGBS has trained and coached over 500 professionals across different industries resulting in US $525 million in total direct customer benefits.

Tony Deblauwe is the founder of consulting firm HR4Change. For 15 years Tony has worked in several Silicon Valley high-tech companies managing a variety of HR functions. An awarding-winning author, app developer, and blogger, Tony is quoted in several media sources, including TheLadders, CareerBuilder, Monster.com, and CBS MoneyWatch.

Patrick Reilly is President of Resources in Action, Inc., a firm specializing in executive coaching and consulting. He has worked extensively with leaders in the health care, financial services, technology, and utility sectors for more than 25 years, internationally and in the U.S. His passion is getting leaders into action for success and satisfaction. Patrick works primarily with leaders in transition and senior leadership teams and is an expert in dealing with abrasive leaders.

Carmela Southers, speaker, author, and senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies has built a successful career in virtual work. As an author of Blanchard’s Teaming Virtually, Leading Virtually, and Leading Virtual Teams programs, she is viewed as an expert on helping organizations, leaders, and teams succeed in the world of virtual work. Her clients include American Express, Delta, the Federal Reserve Board, and Freddie Mac. Carmela travels in the US and overseas training, consulting, speaking, and improving the effectiveness of remote leaders, teams, individuals, and organizations.

Laura Lowell draws on her years of experience building some of the world’s biggest brand (IBM, Intel and HP to name a few) and condensed everything she has learned into the pages of #MyBrand Tweet.

Sharyn Fitzpatrick has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing including executive positions with The Learning Company, Knight-Ridder and Sum-Total Systems as well as principal of Marcom Gurus, a high-tech agency she founded in 2000, Her love for education has continued with her taking a leadership role on the College Open Textbooks marketing team.

Ron Snyder is President of Breakthrough-Inc, a sales consultancy that enables companies to accelerate sales by improving sales effectiveness, and Plan2Win Software, providing territory, account and pre-call planning applications that run in SalesForce.com. For over twenty years, Ron has helped companies improve results in competitive, high-value, complex selling environments.

Eric Doner is the founder of Achievement Training Associates, a consulting firm that helps organizations align and leverage people and processes to improve performance. His career spans over twenty-five years of success in sales, marketing and training & development as a corporate executive, management consultant and university instructor.

S. Chris Edmonds is a speaker, author, and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the author of #CORPORATE CULTURE tweet, co-author of Blanchard’s bestselling book, Leading at a Higher Level, and also co-author of Blanchard’s award-winning culture change process. As Blanchard’s culture expert he has helped numerous clients create a high performing, values aligned culture using Blanchard’s proven process. Thousands of his followers on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn look forward to his culture and leadership tweets each day.

Lisa Zigarmi is a Lead Client Service Partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies located in New York City. She works with Fortune 500 companies to build leadership capacity within their ranks and is passionate about creating saner, more effective, more meaning-driven organizations. She is currently researching employee work passion/engagement and helps leaders and organizations to create the conditions (role, organizational, and relational) for their employees to flourish. Lisa has an M.A. in Applied Positive Psychology from The University of Pennsylvania. She is also a certified coach, completing her coach training through The Coaches Training Institute.

Author of multiple books, including 10 Steps to successful Virtual Presentations, 6 Weeks to a Great Webinar and the Connected Manager blog on BNET.com, Wayne also contributes regularly to the Thought Leaders column on www.management-issues.com, the world’s leading management website. Having worked his way up multiple organizations, and with a rich background that includes being as a stand-up comedian, Wayne walks his talk to ensure that corporate America gets its point across.

Lori Ruff, author, speaker and trainer, shows how you can secure your privacy at the individual, group and corporate levels with caution and confidence.

Guy Ralfe has worked on global projects for over a decade. At Starr Specialty Coatings, Guy manages project delivery. He is an active contributor on ActiveGarage.com, a web portal he co-founded to address the fundamental concerns of business.

Himanshu Jhamb thrives on challenges in Software Project Management and has successfully led global teams in industries ranging from Telecommunications to eCommerce. Himanshu is Senior Project Manager for Atypon Systems and co-founder of Active Garage, where he frequently writes about Projects and Project Management.

Tanmay Vora is a Software Quality Management professional based in India, heading the Quality Assurance and Testing business at Gateway TechnoLabs, an offshore software services company based in India. He specializes in quality management and process improvement initiatives and has built independent testing teams from scratch. He blogs extensively at "QAspire-Blog" and tweets as @tnvora.

Cinda Voegtli founded ProjectConnections.com, an online project management know-how source and service that now has more than 300,000 members worldwide. With over 20 years’ of experience in project and portfolio management, process improvement consulting and line engineering, Cinda’s corporate clients include Tyco Healthcare/Nellcor Mallinckrodt, Mobil Oil, Pacific Bell, Dow Chemical, NASA, Schlumberger, Aviron/MedImmune Vaccines, Hewlett Packard, and Lam Research. Cinda writes and speaks widely on practical real-world techniques for project and portfolio management that are organization-appropriate, easy to introduce for fast benefits, and adaptable for effective use on a variety of projects.

Laura Erkeneff is the CEO of Training for Techies, Inc, a training, coaching, and consulting firm that offers a unique approach to developing technical talent. By focusing on integrating her clients’ technical expertise along with leadership and business skills, Laura has established a proven track record for accelerating leadership development in engineering and scientific management teams across multiple industries. Laura is also a faculty member for the American Management Association, where her focus is on training business leaders in strategy implementation. Her professional development coaching groups for women serve corporate clients including Symantec, Charles Schwab, SAP, Genentech and PG&E.

Michael Horton is Vice President for the Australian Chemical, Energy, and Natural Resources division of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), with responsibility for annual revenues of $500 million and a matrix responsibility for 2,000 people. Michael has 28 years’ experience in the Information Technology Industry, 21 years of that in a management capacity, and has been employed at CSC since 1994. During this time, he has held senior management positions in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. Since 2000 he has also completed challenging assignments based in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Maidstone in the UK and San Diego, USA.

Michael holds an Associate Diploma in Applied Science from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, a Master of IT Management from Charles Sturt University in New South Wales and is Project Management Institute (PMI) certified. He is married, with two teenage children, and enjoys surfing, sailing and holidaying at every opportunity.

Janet Fouts is a seasoned entrepreneur, social media coach, author and speaker. She co-founded Tatu Digital Media in 1996 and has been active in online community and web strategy for over fifteen years. She shares her knowledge through her blog at JanetFouts.com and her book, ‘Social Media Success!’ is available on Amazon.

Janet Fouts is a seasoned entrepreneur, social media coach, author and speaker. She co-founded Tatu Digital Media in 1996 and has been active in online community and web strategy for over fifteen years. She shares her knowledge through her blog at JanetFouts.com and her book, ‘Social Media Success!’ is available on Amazon.

Beth Kanter is CEO of Zoetica, a company that serves nonprofits and socially conscious companies with top-tier, online marketing services. In 2009, she was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology and one of Business Week’s ‘Voices of Innovation for Social Media.’ She is the 2009 Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation.

Ronnie Lott is one of the most respected figures in professional sports as well as a coach and catalyst for other athletes who have a heart for making their communities a better place.

Keith Potter is an author, faith-coach and inspirational speaker, committed to empowering champions, rejuvenating marriages and revitalizing organizations.

Karen Bartleson, author of "The Standards Game," a blog focused on the standards arena, has three decades of experience in the computer chip industry and is known for her work in electronic design automation standards.

Marie B. Highby is a leadership coach, college instructor, and communications guru who taught writing at San Jose State University. She is currently active in the open textbook movement and involved with new technologies for teaching and learning. Marie holds an MBA from the Darden School of the University of Virginia and an MA in English from Duke University.

Environment and sustainability consultant, dance teacher, and entrepreneur, Julia C. Schmitt graduated from Stanford with two degrees and a lot of knowledge about the ins and outs of college life gleaned from personal experience, keen observation, mentor advice, and stories from her peers. For years she has successfully mentored college students and tweeted her tidbits of advice as a way to give back.

Terry Lydon, VP Product and Services at Rainmaker Systems, has spent the last 35 years helping customers, partners, and employees learn how to use and become more productive with their company’s product and service offerings. His career experience includes technical support and customer education. Terry was one of the co-founders of ViewCentral, the company that pioneered the Software as a Service Learning Management System.

Mitchell Levy is author of a dozen business books and is CEO of Happy About whose business units focus on physical and ebook publishing (published over 175 titles) and corporate training. He’s created over 70 physical courses at Silicon Valley universities, numerous online courses, and focused on the successful content delivery of over 500 speakers at large-scale conferences. He also sits on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR) a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.

Bill Cushard is Director of Training & Development at Allonhill, a start-up financial services company in Denver, CO, whose mission is to bring transparency and credibility back to the mortgage industry. After earning his MBA at Pepperdine University, Bill spent the next 14 years at start-ups like E*TRADE Financial and the Knowland Group and in large organizations like Accenture and Time Warner Cable, building and leading learning organizations that improved organizational performance. Bill speaks regularly at learning industry conferences and writes a weekly blog post for the Daily Mindflash blog.

Mitchell Levy is author of a dozen business books and is CEO of Happy About whose business units focus on physical and eBook publishing (published over 175 titles) and corporate training. He’s created over 70 physical courses at Silicon Valley universities, numerous online courses, and focused on the successful content delivery of over 500 speakers at large-scale conferences. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR), a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.

Vicki Halsey, PhD is the vice president of applied learning at the Ken Blanchard Companies. Vicki is the author of the bestselling book, Brilliance by Design, and co-author of the bestselling books, The Hamster Revolution and Blanchard’s Leading at a Higher Level. She co-authored Blanchard’s Legendary Service program and its award-winning Situational Leadership���® II eLearning program. Vicki has led leadership and service initiatives at hundreds of Fortune 500 organizations such as Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Nike, Gap, Chick-fil-A, and Procter & Gamble. Visit her at VickiHalsey.com.

S. Chris Edmonds (@scedmonds) is a speaker, author, and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. Chris is the author of #CORPORATE CULTURE tweet, co-author of Blanchard’s bestselling book, Leading at a Higher Level, co-author of #POSITIVITY at WORK tweet, and co-author of Blanchard’s award-winning culture change process. Chris is Blanchard’s culture expert and has helped numerous clients create a high performing, values aligned culture using Blanchard’s proven process. He has thousands of Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn followers who look forward to his culture and leadership tweets each day.

Barbara Safani owns Career Solvers, which partners with Fortune 1000 companies and individuals to deliver career transition programs focusing on resume development, job search strategies, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation skills, and online identity management. A career expert for CNN.com, CareerBuilder, and AOL Jobs, Barbara has been quoted extensively in major media outlets, including CBS, ABC, FOX, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post’, The LA Times, Fortune Magazine, Smart Money Magazine, Money Magazine, Oprah Magazine, and Cosmopolitan. She is the author of Happy About My Resume, #JOBSEARCH tweet, and Winning Negotiation Strategies for Your New Job.

Mitchell Levy is author of a dozen business books and is CEO of Happy About, whose business units focus on physical and ebook publishing (over 175 titles published to date) and corporate training. He has created over 70 physical courses at Silicon Valley universities, numerous online courses, and focused on the successful content delivery of over 500 speakers at large-scale conferences. Mitchell sits on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR) a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.

Michael Prevou, PhD (@mikeprevou) is president and co-founder of Strategic Knowledge Solutions, a leading consulting firm specializing in knowledge management (KM) and learning solutions. Dr. Prevou has authored over 25 articles on knowledge management strategies and solutions, and individual, team, and organizational learning approaches. For the past seven years he has designed and implemented a wide variety of KM strategies and approaches currently used by the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Fortune 500 companies.

Mitchell Levy (@HappyAbout) is author of a dozen business books and is CEO of Happy About, whose business units focus on physical and eBook publishing (over 175 titles published to date) and corporate training. He has created over 70 physical courses at Silicon Valley universities, numerous online courses, and focused on the successful content delivery of over 500 speakers at large-scale conferences. Mitchell sits on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ: RMKR) a leading global provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.

Founder of Blue Apricot Consulting, Caroline Nicholl shares her vision on what it takes to build high-performing teams that fly.

Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in Silicon Valley. He is currently the CEO of Suggestica, Inc and chairman of Jiffle, Inc. He is also involved as a board member, investor and/or advisor in several companies internationally. Setty’s first book was published when he was thirteen. Setty blogs extensively at Life Beyond Code and tweets as @UpbeatNow

Dr. Liz Alexander’s (@DrLizAlexander) gift and passion is helping to leverage an individual, team, or organization’s thought leadership, using the book development process as a catalyst. Liz draws on her 25 years of experience as an international business journalist, broadcaster, marketer, educator, and consultant to help corporate executives and other experts produce critically and commercially successful thought leadership books. She has had a distinguished career in the UK as a speaker and workshop facilitator, working with clients ranging from Cathay Pacific Airways to the British Government’s Appeals Service. She also works part of the year with aspiring business authors in India.

Liz is the author of over a dozen nonfiction books that have reached close to a million readers in 20 countries worldwide. In addition to consulting, coaching, and speaking throughout the United States and India, Liz develops and teaches courses on strategic communications for The University of Texas at Austin’s Professional Development Center. She earned her PhD in Educational Psychology from UT Austin. She can be reached at info@drlizalexander.com.

Craig Badings is passionate about thought leadership, having witnessed firsthand the power this strategy can deliver to brands and individuals. He has spent 25 years consulting to global and local brands about their communication and thought leadership strategies. Today, he speaks and consults on how companies and individuals can employ thought leadership to truly differentiate their brand in the eyes of their target audience.

Over the past six years Craig has conducted intense research on thought leadership and has written extensively on the topic. His book, Brand Stand: Seven Steps to Thought Leadership, is the first thought leadership book to outline a methodology on how to arrive at a thought leadership position.

Craig believes the traditional way of selling has been replaced by content. Facilitated by the "always on" nature of the web, consumers/clients have changed the way they source information on products and services before deciding to purchase. The trust necessary to move forward with purchasing can be determined by quality, thought leading content.

Craig is a director of Sydney-based Cannings Corporate Communications, a member company of the ASX-listed STW Group, Australia’s largest communications services group. Visit his thought leadership blog at www.thoughtleadershipstrategy.net and e-mail him at cbadings@cannings.net.au.

With over two decades of field, research, and policy experience on environmental concerns, Dr. Laurel Standley has worked on sustainability issues long before they became concerns for most people.
Dr. Standley’s research locations include the Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, PA, the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, MA, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware. She has a B.S. in Chemistry from California Polytechnic State University, an M.A. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from Oregon State University. As Principal of Clear Current LLC, she provides cutting edge technical and policy guidance to numerous businesses and government agencies on sustainable water and energy use, water resources, healthy environments, and green alternatives in product manufacturing and use. Dr. Standley lives in California.