Susan Bernstein helps people transform their careers by taking control of their innate power—whether they're sensitive, emotional, or just plain stuck—and using it to claim the next rung on their personal success ladder. She does this with a blend of MBA sensibilities and 20 years of corporate experience, plus the ability to zero in and support people in their core issues through her Ph.D. in Mind/Body Psychology. “The intellect is great, but it's more of the tool. The driver is really how we want to feel in the world. Our impulses and instincts can help guide us. They're signposts.”

Megan Kent has spent much of her career working for the world’s top advertising agencies. shaping brand strategies for many of the world’s most influential brands (BMW, Coca-Cola, New York Times, Microsoft, Brand USA.) Her passion for understanding people’s relationships with brands drove her to study not only WHAT people think, but HOW. Distilling her learning in this area—combining it with 20+ years in marketing—has led her to create Brain-Friendly Branding® - 8 essential principles for creating brands a brain can love. It’s a proprietary system for helping brands connect more powerfully with people.

Joel Boggess is the go-to guy for clarity, confidence and direction. He’s the guy people call when they’re feeling stuck, under-challenged or overwhelmed. As a syndicated radio host, bestselling author, and life coach, Joel teaches people how to relaunch their lives and start over with confidence. His podcast, ReLaunch, was named by Podcasters’ Paradise as the “Most Inspirational” and “Best Overall” podcast of 2015, and has recently passed the one million listens mark. “One thing I've come to understand is that people want to be challenged. But you’ve got to challenge them in the right way.”

Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she teaches at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and is a consultant and speaker for clients such as Google, Morgan Stanley, and the World Bank. For those making career transitions, she advises, “I am very much an advocate of people doing things in a measured and responsible way, with a clear strategy.”

Kevin Williams comes from upper levels of corporate America and now helps downsized and outsourced individuals become entrepreneurs, finding unique opportunities outside of the standard job market. He owns a master office license of a company that allows him to work directly with executives as a liaison to candidates seeking franchise opportunities. As the world began going digital—and as Kodak was not changing with the times—Kevin knew it was time to leave Kodak. Witnessing major lay-offs and downsizing, he set his sights on helping casualties of the old economy find places as entrepreneurs.

Judy Graybill helps stressed-out stepfamilies to argue less and relax more. As a certified stepfamily coach, speaker, educator, and writer, Judy falls into the 70% of step-couples who split up. Her pain and the heartache of still being in love when her relationship ended propelled her to find answers. Through books, interviews, classes, and spiritual development, she complemented her formal degrees in sociology and psychology. Her clients praise her for giving them “peace of mind”, “empowerment”, and “real world solutions”.

Dr. Paul White is a psychologist, speaker, and consultant who makes work relationships work. Co-author of Rising Above a Toxic Workplace, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, and Sync or Swim, Dr. White’s expertise has been cited in Bloomberg’s Businessweek, Entrepreneur.com, FastCompany, FoxBusiness.com, U.S. News & World Report, Yahoo! Finance, and numerous other publications. His clients include Fortune 250 companies, federal government agencies, international non-profit organizations, numerous medical institutions, and over 250 colleges and universities.

Andreas A. Jones is an international best-selling author, coach, speaker and trainer. Serving in the US Army shaped Andreas’s life and tested his endurance, faith and fortitude. He describes it as “a trial by fire” and remains profoundly grateful for it. Since leaving the Army, he has applied lessons learned there to his career, continuing to learn new ones. He describes how each new job or new position helped him grow into the successful individual he is today. In his coaching and speaking, he shares the core concepts of leadership, integrity, and discipline.

Heather Ann Havenwood is a serial entrepreneur regarded as a top authority on internet marketing and business strategist since marketing her first online business in 1999, and is author of Sexy Boss and The Game of Dating. After multiple corporate jobs Heather realized her true destiny was to be an entrepreneur. Ironically, she was a shy child who needed speech therapy twice a week for several years. “Now I speak, coach, communicate and write. I also failed writing in English class but have published two books!”

Perry Marshall is an author, speaker, engineer, and business consultant in Chicago. With a decade of research, he brings a fresh perspective to the 150-year-old evolution debate. His book, Evolution 2.0, harnesses a communication engineer’s outsider perspective to reveal a century of unrecognized scientific research and discoveries. Drawing on his expertise in digital communications, control systems, acoustics, and e-commerce, Perry brings practical insight to questions about nature and science.

Perry Marshall is an author, speaker, engineer, and business consultant in Chicago. With a decade of research, he brings a fresh perspective to the 150-year-old evolution debate. His book, Evolution 2.0, harnesses a communication engineer’s outsider perspective to reveal a century of unrecognized scientific research and discoveries. Drawing on his expertise in digital communications, control systems, acoustics, and e-commerce, Perry brings practical insight to questions about nature and science.

Anita Bruzzese is an award-winning journalist, specializing in workplace and career issues. Author of two career books, she has appeared on the Today show and been quoted in O, The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, BusinessWeek and USA Today. Her website, 45 Things, was named a top 100 website for women by Forbes magazine. "Good journalistic principles still matter, whatever the medium. There are people online who call themselves journalists who really are not. They’re not following the path that journalists are trained to do – which is to stick to the facts and put out impartial information.”

Dr. Rachel M. Elahee, fondly known as Dr. Rae, is a psychologist, certified professional coach, and author of Choose You!: Reignite Your Passion for Life. An entrepreneur, wife and mother of four, she has a passion for supporting women leading busy lives, inspiring them with practical and tangible skills to achieve greater life satisfaction, professional productivity and peace of mind. Her media appearances include Good Day Atlanta, CBS Radio, NPR Boston, HLN, and US News & World Report. “It's critical to put yourself first because that lays the foundation for everything else that you touch."

Mike Dieterich is the bestselling author of Renew and Sustain, and an award winning producer and filmmaker. As an environmental scientist accredited by Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) with experience in sustainable development, he has managed energy and environmental projects for a range of organizations and corporations. “After building McMansions awhile, seeing environmental issues ‘from the other side of the fence,’ I needed to figure out how to balance the built environment with the environmental science I know, and make a living doing it. So I started my own business.”

Barbara York McDaniel is the author of the bestselling book, “My God is in the Healing Business,” a book filled with amazing true stories of God’s healing grace in her family. An inspirational speaker, a faith coach, she is a national certified personnel consultant, and the former owner of Healthcare Resources of America, an executive search firm. At 30, her life as a wife and mom was turned upside down when her husband told her he wanted a divorce. Dealing with the devastation, she began developing skills in resiliency and a faith that carried her through later health and personal crises.

Geoff Woods, after hearing the Jim Rohn quote—“you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”—set out to surround himself with high level CEOs and successful entrepreneurs. After being mentored by these heavy hitters, he was able to quit his six-figure corporate sales job and go full time as an entrepreneur in less than 10 months. Featured in Entrepreneur.com, Geoff publishes the actual conversations with his mentors on his business podcast, The Mentee.

Jenny Larsen is a master career specialist, global career development facilitator, and owner of 2:10 Consulting, a career coaching practice she founded in 2011 to help individuals find purposeful, satisfying career paths through certified aptitude testing and career development coaching with a holistic approach. She works with clients throughout the U.S., setting them up for success and equipping them to move forward with confidence, so they can live successful lives of purpose and passion. “Aptitude testing had a huge impact on my life to really understand what my natural abilities were.”

Teresa Wallace is the president of Agility Leadership Coaching and the Sunday Serenity Leadership Coach. She works with top performing leaders when new challenges threaten their long track records of success. Teresa uses a three-step process–Aware. Act. Achieve—to help her clients learn new skills to address the new challenges and get their confidence and peak performance back, so they can REST instead STRESS on Sunday nights. The stress leaders feel when their confidence is shaken, it must be addressed to regain their mastery. It can be helpful to have guidance in self-assessment and re-evaluation.

J.V. Crum explains Conscious World Day and interviews the Scholarship Winner and Finalists of the Conscious World Project Competition, who share their visions on how to create a Conscious World and what that means as seen through their eyes. Conscious World Day honors youth around the globe who are doing projects that uplift humanity. The focus of the global event is to highlight young people, aged 18 to 25, who embody the principle of Triple Win – you, others, and society winning together. 

Adam Boyd, a partner at Market Sense, Inc. in Austin, Texas, is a sales and management development expert. He works with owners, CEOs, presidents, VPs of sales and salespeople to help them overachieve in their sales production. Typical clients are frustrated with not hitting forecasts, deals taking too long to close, and insufficient sales pipelines. He also has a passion for coaching football. “The joy comes when we press through our comfort zone, develop skill, and become adept at something. But there's no growth without some discomfort and pain."

Leslie Reichert—hailed as the "Martha Stewart of Green Cleaning"—uses her sparkling personality, sense of humor and contagious passion to encourage her fans and followers to think differently about their cleaning products. “Changing the world one spray bottle at a time," Leslie is a frequent guest on Martha Stewart Living Radio and is Kmart’s Cleaning Expert. Author of The Joy of Green Cleaning, a handbook for DIY cleaners, she works with Dr. Oz, Better Homes and Gardens, Real Simple, Today.com and other national publications. “The work I did earlier in life prepared me for the work I’m doing now.”

Russ Ruffino, founder of Clients on Demand™, helps experts build reliable marketing and sales processes that attract 5-10 new potential clients a day, scaling to six-figures per month. Active in the group almost daily, Russ helps members get their offer, marketing and sales positioned so they can make high ticket sales. It's also a community to network. Russ says it’s not enough to launch a website, dominate social media or kill yourself writing killer blog posts. “People don't give you money so you can have a great business, they give you money so you can solve a problem that they have.”

Hilde Larsen is a certified health and wellness coach and detox specialist, with a passion for life and the power we hold within. Having gone through severe illness, pain and suffering, she is now helping others go from surviving to thriving. She has spent the past 10 years studying health and healing on all levels. Her upcoming five-book series will share her journey "from hell to inspired," and explore detoxification, nature's ability to heal, and raw food living. “Our body is designed to heal and clean itself, but now we need detoxification, and guidelines on what to eat."

Sam Horn, Intrigue Expert and TEDx speaker, helps people create one-of-a-kind communications that scale their impact for good. Her books POP!, Tongue Fu! and Got Your Attention? have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and New York Times, and her speaking clients include major firms. In an age of “Infobesity,” the folks who win the competition are those who can raise their listeners’ eyebrows in seconds. “Using the old approach—telling them what we're going to tell them, then telling them, then reviewing what we just told them—just makes us a bore, chore and a snore. Instead, we engage them!”

Todd Schnick, co-founder of the intrepidNOW Media Network, is a media and business strategist and talk show host and producer. He is a former marketing strategist, national political operative, and lobbyist. Todd has published five books and writes a business and lifestyle column. A distance runner, he lives in Brookhaven, Georgia with his wife Stephanie and family. “Today I'm doing what I want to do. I'm engaged in the things that I want to be doing, and doing them on my terms.” It he can’t honestly say, “Hell, yeah! That would be amazing! Absolutely!” to a new commitment, he just says no.