About the Contributors

Colonel Bernard Banks is the head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership at the United States Military Academy, West Point. His numerous tactical command and staff positions have included assignments in the continental United States, the Republic of Korea, and the Middle East. Col. Banks has earned numerous awards and decorations, including the Bronze Star Medal and the Department of the Army's General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award. He also holds a PhD in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University. Visit the United States Military Academy website at www.usma.edu.

Lauren Maillian Bias is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of LMB Group, a strategic marketing and branding consultancy where she brings her firsthand knowledge of, expertise in, and passion for marketing to her clients. She is also the founding partner for Gen Y Capital, an early stage venture firm. Before LMB Group, she was the proprietor, creator, and chief operating officer (COO) of Sugarleaf Vineyards, the only African American owned and operated winery in Virginia. She is author of the book The Path Redefined: Getting to the Top on Your Own Terms. Visit her website at www.laurenmbias.com.

Juana Bordas is president of Mestiza Leadership International and founding president/CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. She served as a trustee of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership and the International Leadership Association. She was the first Latina faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership. Bordas is the author of Salsa, Soul, and Spirit—Leadership for a Multicultural Age, which won the 2008 International Latino Book Award for leadership, and The Power of Latino Leadership, which was awarded the 2014 Nautilus Award for best multicultural book and the 2014 International Latino Book Award for leadership. Visit her website at www.mestizaleadership.com.

Adam Braun is a New York Times best-selling author and the founder of Pencils of Promise, an award-winning organization that has broken ground on more than 300 schools around the world. In recent years he has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, named to Wired magazine's 50 People Who Are Changing the World, and selected as one of the World Economic Forum's first 10 Global Shapers. He has also been a featured speaker at the White House, United Nations, and Clinton Global Initiative. He is author of the book The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change. Visit his website at www.adambraun.com.

Jim Collins is one of the greatest thought leaders of his generation. He is a student and teacher of enduring great companies—how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies. He is the author of such business classics as Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great by Choice, and the monograph Good to Great and the Social Sectors. Visit his website at www.jimcollins.com.

Caroline Ghosn is the cofounder and CEO of Levo League, a company that's using technology to mentor and arm its members with the tools needed to build excellence—to develop their talent, make connections, and learn from each other. Launched in 2012 with offices in New York and San Francisco, Levo has engaged more than 9 million professionals and become the largest and fastest-growing Generation Y movement in the workplace. Ghosn was recently named by Fast Company as one of the most creative people in business and by Mashable as a female founder every entrepreneur should know. Visit the Levo League website at www.levo.com.

Kelly Goldsmith joined the marketing faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 2009 and was named a Donald P. Jacobs Scholar. Dr. Goldsmith's research focuses on consumer decision making, specifically examining how consumers' active goals and mind-sets affect their choices. Before joining Kellogg, Dr. Goldsmith obtained her PhD, MPhil and MA from Yale University. Visit the Kellogg School website at www.kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people, and their teams, and he was recognized in 2013 as one of the top 10 most influential business thinkers in the world, and the top-ranked executive coach, by Thinkers50. He is the million-copy-selling author or editor of 34 books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best sellers MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There—a Wall Street Journal number one business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year. His books have been translated into 30 languages and have become best sellers in 12 countries. Visit his website at www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com.

Frances Hesselbein is the founding president of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. She served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton. She is the author of My Life in Leadership: The Journey and Lessons Learned Along the Way, Hesselbein on Leadership, and More Hesselbein on Leadership; coeditor of numerous other books, including Be, Know, Do; and the editor in chief of the award-winning journal Leader to Leader. Visit the Institute's website at www.HesselbeinInstitute.org.

Nadira Hira is an award-winning writer, editor, speaker, television personality, all-around raconteur, and curator of great conversations. A member of Cosmopolitan magazine's Millennial Advisory Board, Hira is the author of the forthcoming Misled: How a Generation of Leaders Lost the Faith (And Just What You'll Need to Get It Back). Learn more about her work at www.nadirahira.com.

Philip Kotler is the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago and the coauthor with Nancy Lee of the book Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Cause. In addition, Dr. Kotler has published more than 100 articles in leading journals, including the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Business Horizons, California Management Review, and the Journal of Marketing. Visit the Kotler Marketing Group website at www.kotlermarketing.com.

Jim Kouzes is the coauthor with Barry Posner of the award-winning and best-selling book The Leadership Challenge, with more than 1 million copies sold. He is also an executive fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. In 2010, Kouzes received the Thought Leadership Award from the Instructional Systems Association, the most prestigious award given by the trade association of training and development industry providers. Visit Kouzes and Posner's website at www.leadershipchallenge.com/home.aspx.

Raghu Krishnamoorthy is responsible for General Electric's (GE) global talent pipeline, learning and development, and the Crotonville leadership development organization throughout the world. From 2009 to 2013, he was vice president, human resources, for GE Aviation, a $20 billion business. Before this, he was the human resources leader for GE Corporate's Commercial and Communications organization, responsible for enhancing the company's global commercial capabilities; he was also a member of GE's commercial council. Visit the GE website at www.ge.com.

Joan Snyder Kuhl has more than 13 years of corporate management experience working in the roles of sales, marketing, organizational effectiveness, training, and development at Eli Lilly and Forest Laboratories and Actavis, Inc. After a decade as a campus speaker, mentor, and coach to thousands of Millennials from around the world, Kuhl launched Why Millennials Matter. Why Millennials Matter is a Generation Y speaking, research, and consulting company based in New York City that focuses on raising employers' awareness about the value of investing in their younger workforce and the Millennial consumer segment. She is an international speaker, author, and board member of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute and the Cosmopolitan magazine Millennial Advisory Board. Visit her website at www.whymillennialsmatter.com.

Kass Lazerow is a serial entrepreneur whose last company, Buddy Media, was acquired by Salesforce.com for $745 million. Before Buddy Media, Lazerow founded GOLF.com, which was sold to Time Inc. in 2006. At GOLF.com, she served as cofounder, president, and chief operating officer, where she helped take the company from an idea to a multimillion-dollar consumer Internet company. Lazerow is an active investor in digital media companies through Lazerow Ventures, an investment fund that has invested in more than 40 technology companies, including Facebook, Tumblr, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Domo, Rebel Mouse, and Namely. Visit her personal website at www.lazerow.com.

Mike Lazerow is a serial entrepreneur whose last company, Buddy Media, was acquired by Salesforce.com for $745 million. He is widely recognized as one of the most innovative leaders in digital media and marketing. His byline has appeared in Fortune, Advertising Age, Dow Jones' AllThingsD, Fast Company, and Inc., among other publications, and he is a frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, the BBC, and other broadcast outlets. Lazerow is an active investor in digital media companies through Lazerow Ventures, an investment fund that has invested in more than 40 technology companies, including Facebook, Tumblr, BuzzFeed, Mashable, Domo, Rebel Mouse, and Namely. Visit his personal website at www.lazerow.com.

Luke Owings most recently worked at the Fullbridge Program, overseeing coaching operations. Owings fell in love with the classroom of the twenty-first century when he was fortunate enough to get a job as a teaching fellow while working on his MBA at Harvard Business School in 2011. He plans to continue exploring it globally throughout the current less structured phase of his career on which he recently embarked. Before his time at Harvard Business School, Owings received his BA in economics from Princeton University and spent his early career in McKinsey's Washington, DC, office. Feel free to reach out to Owings at [email protected].

Michael Radparvar is the cofounder of Holstee, a Brooklyn-based workshop creating products and experiences that help each of us remember what is important. He is the chief storyteller at Holstee, sharing its innovative approach to materials, design, and production with the world. Together with his cofounders, David Radparvar and Fabian Pfortmüller, they have built a values-driven company that has become an iconic brand for its generation. Learn more about Holstee at www.holstee.com.

V. Kasturi Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School and coauthor of Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value and Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy: The Three Disciplines of Channel Management. Until recently the chairman of the marketing department (1998–2002), he is now the cochairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. Visit the Harvard Business School website at www.hbs.edu.

Judith Rodin has served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation since March 2005. A groundbreaking research psychologist, Dr. Rodin was previously the president of the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution, and earlier the provost of Yale University. Dr. Rodin is the author of more than 200 academic articles and has written or cowritten 13 books. She has received 19 honorary doctorate degrees and has been named one of Crain's 50 Most Powerful Women in New York. She has also been recognized as one of Forbes magazine's World's 100 Most Powerful Women three years in a row. Visit the Rockefeller Foundation website at www.rockfound.org.

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