Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer has taught seminars and lectured in management development programs for various corporations and universities world wide. He has filled the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Look on the front lines of your business. Standing between you and your profits are those talented, weird-looking, impossible-to-understand under-25-year-olds. And if you're not connecting with them, they are not connecting with your ...

Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer and President Emerita of the Berkana Institute. She has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973 and a dedicated global citizen since her youth. Her ...

As a speaker and facilitator, Sam's role is to motivate, to stimulate, to challenge, to ask questions, to search for answers. The questions which Sam asks, "Why should someone do business with you...rather than someone else?" are the ...

After his flight home was cancelled Richard Rhodes found himself in the middle of Hurricane Katrina. As president of a successful company, Rhodes was determined to adapt and engineer his own escape by using the leadership, diplomatic and organizations skills he had. Since Katrina, Rhodes has developed a best practices guide to help others.

Former correspondent for Fairchild Publications in London and in Washington, D.C., John Byrne is author of Jack: Straight from the Gut. As the executive editor for Business Week magazine, Jack is a leading expert on business, leadership and management. He is the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company magazine.

Author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm , Verne Harnish has served as an advisor to CEOs of emerging growth firms for nineteen years. Verne is founder of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization (YEO) and the Association of Collegiate Entrepeneurs (ACE).

Senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic and known as one of America's top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, Pat Williams has addressed employees from many of the Fortune 500 companies and the Million Dollar Round Table. He has been a featured speaker at two Billy Graham Crusades and two Peter Lowe Success Seminars and has also spoken on many university campuses.

After a successful 25-year career with Southwest, Rita Bailey now consults and speaks to companies and audiences worldwide. During her time as the Director of the University for People, Rita was responsible for the design, development and implementation of Leadership and Personal Development programs for 32,000 employees. Rita is often interviewed and quoted in Harvard Business Review, Business Week and WSJ.

With over forty years experience in engineering of aerospace and civil systems, including thirty years in management, Donna Shirley is President of Managing Creativity. Donna is a well-known manager, educator, consultant and trainer on the management of creative teams and is author of Managing Martians. Donna's career includes former Director of the Science Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle and the manager of the Mars Exploration Program that built the Sojourner.