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Dr. Lois Phillips is a dynamic public speaker whose clients say she “practices what she teaches.” She has interviewed successful speakers which are outlined in her book “Women Seen and Heard: Lessons Learned from Successful Speakers” . She provides expert coaching and training to spokespersons, managers and executives. Dr. Phillips has a special interest in advancing women’s careers, companies, and Board leadership. She has produced conferences on women’s leadership, produced and moderated two television programs about women’s changing roles, co-moderated named “Dialogues” for TV. She is also a popular conference presenter. Dr. Phillips was the founding Executive Director of Antioch University’s Santa Barbara campus, where she worked for 11 years, putting into place a regional institutional advancement campaign to grow the campus. She has won many awards for her community advocacy work, particularly with women and minorities.

Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer. His new book is “Not Everyone Gets a Trophy.” He has been called the new Tom Peters by many who have seen him speak. Bruce was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a management guru and was included in a Financial Times listing of the world's greatest management thinkers. And in January 2009, Bruce was honored to accept Toastmasters International's most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel. This honor is presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership. Past winners have included Marcus Buckingham, Stephen Covey, Zig Ziglar, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Blanchard, and Tom Peters.

Kim S. Cameron is Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Michigan Business School and Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education. Dr. Cameron’s research on organizational effectiveness, virtuousness, and the development of management skills has been published in more than 80 articles. Join us for an energizing discussion on corporate virtuousness and its relationship to industry success.

Now Dr. Martin Seligman, a founder of positive psychology and its leading proponent and practitioner, introduces a revolutionary concept of what happiness really is in his new book FLOURISH: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being (Free Press/April 5, 2011). In a fascinating evolution of thought, Seligman now believes that “well-being, not happiness, is the topic of positive psychology.” Well-being is a richer, more nuanced state in which we cultivate our talents, build deep, lasting relationships, feel pleasure, and contribute meaningfully to the world. In short—we flourish. While happiness remains a significant aspect of well-being, Dr. Seligman places special emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important contributing factors.

As an author of the “You Plan” and speaker, Dr. Woody focuses on the psychology of communication, leadership, and career re-engagement. As a coach and consultant, Dr. Woody works with clients on career development and building management/leadership capacity. Dr. Woody is also the founder of DrWoody.com a dynamic media site dedicated to work-life issues and career entrepreneurialism in the new economy. Dr. Woody also serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the Florida International University Center for Leadership. Dr. Woody served as a management and human resources consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (PwC) and for IBM Business Consulting Services in Washington DC. From 2007 to 2009, Dr. Woody wrote a regular column for Go Jobing magazine on issues around hiring and coaching. Dr. Woody has been quoted in the Miami Herald, Miami Today, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel as an expert on career re-engagement.

Herb Stevenson is President/CEO of the Cleveland Consulting Group, Inc., where he focuses on organizations that recognize that business is more than a problem to be solved. He is going to talk to us about his innovative program of working with Co-Presidents, where the synergy of one plus one equals three. He will describe his process for us which can also help you in your collaboration with peers and partners. Herb has designed and successfully led large system changes including the turnaround of nine failing financial institutions as well as supported executives in massive reorganization planning and implementation processes. He specializes in executive development and succession planning. Herb is on the professional staff/faculty of the post-graduate Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, where he teaches in both the clinical and the organizational centers. He is the chair of the post-graduate faculty of the Executive & Organization Development Becoming an Effective Organizational Intervener.

After a distinguished career with two American orchestras, Roger Nierenberg emerged as a creative force for innovation in the presentation of symphonic music. Roger Nierenberg has created the highly successful experiential learning event, called The Music Paradigm, in which an orchestra is used as a metaphor for any dynamic organization. With executives seated among musicians, Nierenberg leads a series of exercises, carefully crafted to address the sponsoring organization's specific issues. The Music Paradigm provides a creative framework for rethinking leadership style, philosophies, and effectiveness. Since its inception in 1995, The Music Paradigm sessions have been held for more than 150 major companies with over 70 different orchestras. It has been the subject of reports on ABC, CBS, CNN, and PBS and the BBC. Learn about this exciting leadership technique with Maestro Roger Nierenberg.

Join guest Kimberly Rath, president of Talent Plus, with nearly 25 years experience in the human resources field. Demonstrating a strong commitment to others, Rath uses her skills as a leadership management consultant to help clients reach their highest growth potential. She is keenly interested in the selection and retention of talented performers and in organizations building Talent-Based OrganizationsSM. Rath provides executive management consulting and training to organizations worldwide, including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company ( winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award), The Estée Lauder Companies, Mercedes-Benz USA, The Cheesecake Factory, Duty Free Shops and Cadbury Schweppes to name a few. Rath is a captivating and inspiring speaker to leaders and to groups on strength based talent development through the The Science of Talent ®.

Srinivasan Pillay, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pillay is known for bringing brain science to life in the simplest terms that he then translates into recommended action steps that you can take. In his newest book: “Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders” was peer-reviewed by Wharton Business School and was released in March of 2011. Dr. Pillay is widely regarded as a motivational speaker who is able to explain the science behind seemingly non-rational phenomena. Dr. Pillay has been featured in The Boston Globe, Oprah radio (Dr. Laura Berman), Martha Stewart Whole Living, Cosmopolitan, Fox News and CNN. He is able to apply this methodology to the business environment as well, and has been invited to speak on related topics in New York, California, Washington DC, Toronto, Switzerland, Greece and Singapore. Business clients have included The World Bank, Novartis, Genzyme and McKinsey.

Now Dr. Martin Seligman, a founder of positive psychology and its leading proponent and practitioner, introduces a revolutionary concept of what happiness really is in his new book FLOURISH: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being (Free Press/April 5, 2011). In a fascinating evolution of thought, Seligman now believes that “well-being, not happiness, is the topic of positive psychology.” Well-being is a richer, more nuanced state in which we cultivate our talents, build deep, lasting relationships, feel pleasure, and contribute meaningfully to the world. In short—we flourish. While happiness remains a significant aspect of well-being, Dr. Seligman places special emphasis on meaning and purpose as the most important contributing factors.

David Allen is widely recognized as the world’s leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. His twenty-five-year pioneering research and coaching to corporate managers and CEOs of some of America’s most prestigious corporations and institutions has earned him Forbes’ recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the world and Business 2.0 magazine's inclusion in their list of the 50 Who Matter Now. Fast Company Magazine has also called David one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the arena of personal productivity, and his groundbreaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance.

Are you a busy executive who needs more sources of positive energy? The single most important thing you can do to increase your level of health, wealth, and success in your life is to increase your level of happiness. Marci Shimoff, star of The Secret Video and the undisputed expert on the Law of Attraction, shows you how happiness is the shortcut to anything. Tune into Marci to hear about her book “Happy for No Reason” and learn the remarkable secrets to her seven-step process to easily and systematically raise your everyday level of happiness.

Relly the co-host of Leadership Development News and his fifth book Leading with Emotional Intelligence will be the focus of this show. It is published by McGraw-Hill, a 2011 release and out now. It contains over 100 strategies on how to raise the EI for leaders and their teams and includes 7 EI Profiles of leaders in action, EI Hiring questions, EI Star Profile Assessment , the Derailer Detector and the Meeting Menace checklist and much more. Relly has coached CEOs, presidents and their staffs, developed and delivered innovative leadership programs for such organizations as Anheuser-Busch, BMW, EDS, MCI, DreamWorks Animation and Vanguard Health Systems. Relly is known for his practical easy to use tools and is a sought-after speaker and consultant on leadership, emotional intelligence, teambuilding, and executive coaching. Get your FREE EI assessments and action plan at: leadingwithei.com or you can reach him at: www.truenorthleadership.com

Inspirational author and coach M.J. Ryan is one of the creators of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series and the author of AdaptAbility: How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For, This Year I Will….The Happiness Makeover, Attitudes of Gratitude, The Power of Patience, Trusting Yourself, The Giving Heart, and 365 Health and Happiness Boosters, among many other titles. M.J. is the life coach columnist for Health and a contributing editor to Good Housekeeping. She has appeared on “The Today Show”, CNN and hundreds of other programs. Join renowned change expert, M. J Ryan as she shares her secrets for a better, more successful life on today’s show.

Jamie Woolf has over twenty years of experience consulting to business leaders. Based on her work inside dozens of public, non-profit and private organizations, Jamie helps parents apply business “best practices” to enjoy more success at home and at work. She founded The Parent Leader to help mothers and fathers gain the self-awareness and leadership skills to transform their daily parenting challenges into desired results and co-founded Pinehurst Consulting, an organization development and training consulting firm. Join Jamie Woolf the author of Mom-in-Chief: How Wisdom From the Workplace Can Save Your Family From Chaos to learn how to maximize your success at home and at work.

Mark Goulston, M.D. is a business advisor, consultant, trainer and coach trained as a clinical psychiatrist who honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer who increases people’s ability to get through to anyone. He is the author of the recently published and Amazon.com's best selling book, “Just Listen”. Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone He was a professor at UCLA’s internationally renowned Neuropsychiatric Institute for more than twenty years, become a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (the highest award that organization offers) and was named one of America’s Top Psychiatrists for 2004-2005 and again in 2009. He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, and Today.

Kristi Kline is Executive Producer of The Tucson Morning Blend, a live, lifestyle talk show on the ABC affiliate in Arizona. Kristi has worked in media for more than twenty years. She began her career as a NBC network Page at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. She then went onto CNN in Washington D.C. During the George H. Bush era, she field produced for the White House “beat” at CNN, as well as edited for the network. Join Kristi to learn the secrets of success as a “top performer” in the television industry during this episode.

Maggie is a certified life purpose and career coach. After being Director of Learning & Development for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia for several years, she became Martha Stewart Living Radio’s Career Coach on SIRIUS and XM Satellite Radio. Maggie hosts Making a Living with Maggie every Wednesday at 4pm eastern/1pm pacific on SIRIUS 112 and XM 103. Join Maggie to learn how to create your personal vision and mission on today’s program.

Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research and lectures on happiness and human potential have received attention in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR and CNN. When not at Harvard, Shawn travels the world giving talks on positive psychology to Fortune 500 corporations, financial institutions, schools, and non-profit organizations. He is the CEO of Aspirant, a global positive psychology consulting firm which researches positive outliers and helps organizations apply their human potential to discover where success and happiness intersect.

What is the best path to performance? Is it working from strengths, learning an industry or experience? How did he develop his popular program: Creating Coaching Capabilities? Fred Harburg, is a respected consultant, writer, and speaker in leadership and performance coaching. He has served in significant international positions as both an internal and external organizational architect for Fortune 100 companies. “Chief Learning Officer Magazine” profiled Fred’s success as President of Motorola University, which at its peak had over 1000 faculty and staff and operated from 20 campuses around the globe. Join Fred as he shares secrets on how he helps leaders realize critical business strategies and develop talent wherever he goes.