Dr. Marie Amey-Taylor, Director, Human Resources Department, Learning and Development Division, Temple University, has a rich and varied career history that includes professional experiences as an educator, program administrator, internal and external training and organizational development consultant, group facilitator, theater troupe founder and artistic director, and public speaker. She is co-coordinator of the University’s Leadership Academy and specializes in leadership, management and supervisory skill development and interpersonal skills including diversity, communication, team building and conflict resolution. She holds a doctoral degree in Psycho-Educational Processes/Adult and Organizational Development, College of Education, Temple University. She is also qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Eric Brunner, SPHR is a Manager in the Learning & Development Division of Temple University’s Human Resources Department. He is responsible for designing and delivering many of Temple University’s, competency based Performance Management, Communication, Diversity, Conflict Resolution and policy based Anti Harassment/Anti Discrimination training programs. He is also responsible for coordinating, designing, and delivering Temple’s New Hire Orientation for administration and faculty.

John Castagnini is best known as the creator of the Thank God I . . . book series, seminars, and world community. He is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, and teacher whose original and often iconoclastic thinking has put him at the cutting edge of the personal development industry.

Carl Gaertner earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Michigan State University in 1981. He achieved the Charter Property Casualty Underwriter designation in 1995. He has 22 years of experience applying psychological principles appropriately in business settings. He uses interviewing strategies to reveal the deep decision-making abilities of subject matter experts. The knowledge gained from those interviewed is applied to create applications for knowledge transfer between employees and when turnover of employees occurs. Currently, he is working for an insurance and financial service corporation as a business analyst leading the knowledge management initiative in the systems department.

Jalma Mesnick Marcus RN, BS, MS, CBP, PaRama Practitioner and Certified Access Trainer holds a BS and MS from Boston University, and completed post graduate work in Organizational Systems from MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. A seasoned executive and leadership coach, educator, organizational consultant, entrepreneur, and speaker with more than 35 years of experience, she combines her corporate understanding and skills in complexity science with BodyTalk, Reiki, Shamanic healing, and NLP to measure and improve adaptability and alignment in both individuals and their work environment. She has held faculty positions at Boston College and Villanova University and used her talents as principal and executive in such industries as commercial real estate, advertising, healthcare, architecture, and IT.

John Reddish works with entrepreneurs and other leaders who want to master growth, transition, and succession to get results faster, less painfully, and in ways that work for them. Reddish has served as vice president of the Presidents Association of the American Management Association, with RA Group Advertising, the New York State Nurses Association, IBM, Edison Electric Institute, and the Civil Service Employees Association.

Jim Riordan became conscious that environments can be both healing and highly productive in the early 1970s as a result of teaching yoga. For ten years he designed, manufactured, and installed solariums and skylights transforming residential environments. Extensive research resulted in reducing customer’s energy consumption as much as 50 percent, while improving indoor quality. Then while designing and building 80 custom homes over the next 20 years, he developed the MORE Program and founded Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation. He is passionate about designing and promoting free-enterprise models that are self-regenerative environments. “We only need to understand the principles of nature and apply them.”

Julie Roberts, Ph.D. helps individuals to move into their full potential and overcome obstacles to productivity. She developed CLEAR™ (an energy psychology method) to help individuals remove blocks and move forward in their lives. She teaches graduate courses and conducts workshops that improve leadership skills, and she teaches CLEAR. She is currently helping Women for Women International bring CLEAR to women in Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan. Dr. Roberts has written a how-to book describing CLEAR, and is certified by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. Reach her at www.changeworksinc.com.

Brian Robertson is known internationally for pioneering Holacracy™, an innovative approach to organizational governance and management he developed while leading Ternary Software, an award-winning fast-growth software consulting company he founded in 2001. In 2008 he left his position as CEO of Ternary Software to join HolacracyOne full-time, a new organization he founded to further develop and spread Holacracy beyond Ternary Software. Brian currently spends most of his time with HolacracyOne, where he leads many of the organization’s trainings, outreach programs, and other initiatives, and his writings and speaking engagements provide a voice to the Holacracy movement across the world. He can be reached via www.holacracy.org.

Michael Sussman is the founder of the nonprofit organization, On TrackAmerica (www.ontrackamerica.org), which is helping the North American rail industry and government collaborate across agencies, companies, regions, and stakeholder groups. Mr. Sussman and his consulting company, Strategic Rail Finance (www.strategicrail.com), apply collaborative principles to financing the most challenging situations, creating funding breakthroughs for their clients that incorporate multiple lenders and government entities. Mr. Sussman’s career in railroad finance, government consulting, and multiparty relations is designed to forge new ground in aligning commercial activity and related public policy to support the long-term, best interests of the common good.

Antanas Vainius is a visionary pioneer, inspirational speaker, consultant, educator, and writer whose work is devoted to helping organizations embrace alternative cultures and business models that place human wellbeing and learning at the center of the enterprise. Current projects include gRawnola and Gentle Living, two organizations dedicated to nurturing and empowering the body and restoring the role of imagination and creativity in business.

Dave Wells is a consultant, mentor, and teacher in the field of Business Intelligence (BI). He brings to every endeavor a unique and balanced perspective about the relationships of business and technology. This perspective—refined through a career of more than 35 years that encompassed business and technical roles—helps to align business and information technology in the most effective ways. Contact Dave at dwells@infocentric. org or visit www.visualcv.com/dlwells to keep up-to-date with his BI activities and interests.

Cherry Woodburn is the founder of Borderless Thinking™ LLC, a consulting firm helping businesses break free from business-as-usual thinking to re-invent what they can accomplish in today’s highly competitive marketplace. She’s had her own business for over two decades, providing process consulting and innovative solutions. She writes a monthly column on Innovative Thinking in the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal and was featured in the Special 11th Edition of Mission Possible! along with Stephen Covey and Brian Tracy. Her URL is www.borderlessthinking.com.