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John Haime is President of LearningLinks Inc. and President of New Edge Performance Inc. and is a world-class performance specialist. John is a leading expert in emotional intelligence as it relates to performance. He is a former world tournament professional golfer and international consultant in the area of performance and emotional intelligence. John Haime created LearningLinks Inc. (www.learninglinks.org), which has unique corporate performance solutions including Mastering the Game: Leadership Effectiveness at Work, In Life and In Golf. He integrates the power of golf, performance and Emotional Intelligence to maximize the potential of leaders and teams. John has delivered programs to Cisco Systems, Nortel, Bell Canada, General Electric, KPMG, Capital One, GlaxoSmithKline and YPO. LearningLinks programs have helped companies worldwide enhance their team, performance and leadership capability. John’s first book,You Are a Contender! was released in December 2009.

Pam Sherman, (AKA)… “The Suburban Outlaw™”, is a “recovering attorney”, an actress, writer, and professor, whose story of ditching her day job to pursue her dream as an actress was featured in People Magazine. Sherman speaks as the Suburban Outlaw about having an EDGE in the best possible way: to Explore Dream Grow and Excite. Pam provides outstanding training and development programs for business leaders all over the world on a variety of topics. Join today’s exciting program to learn Pam’s secret to having a positive EDGE and much more.

IN TODAYS TOUGH ECONOMY, DOES HAPPINESS IN THE WORKPLACE REALLY MATTER? New Research Reveals That People Who Are Happy At Work Are 50% More Productive and 180% Happier With Life Overall Than Their Least Happy Colleagues. “Happiness does matter from both an individual viewpoint and in terms of business sustainability,” Join Jess Pryce Jones in today’s program to learn how you too can learn to engage all your associates to produce the best performance ever!

As a filmmaker, author, professor, and motivational speaker specializing in happiness, Lisa Cypers Kamen is recognized as an expert. Lisa’s acclaimed documentary film, “H-Factor…Where is your Heart?,” explores how various people find, generate, and share happiness. Lisa travels the US presenting “Harvesting Happiness” workshops and seminars to groups such as the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Equinox Fitness, and Motherhood, Inc. As a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California and a participant in Project +, a research project on how happiness can impact the world, Lisa brings her up to date “Happiness” workshops and information - combined with her simple no nonsense, warm and humorous approach to facilitate true joy. Learn more about Lisa’s global work at: www.lisakamen.com, www.harvestinghappiness.com, and www.whatisyourhappiness.com. Join Lisa as she shares personal highlights about leadership, happiness and success in today’s show.

Johanna Dillon is AVP of Field Management/Leadership Development at Bankers Life and Casualty. Johanna manages and directs leadership training and development for over 160 national branches. With 20 years of experience, she coaches executives and high potential leaders across a decentralized networked organization. Learn how a long time industry leader like Bankers Life is maximizing talent through the Bankers Learning Network. How do they stay up to date teaching, educating, and promoting smart people across their national field network while developing an emotional intelligent work force that also works to their strengths? Learn these secrets and more in today’s program.

Lisbeth R. McNabb is CEO and founder of w2wlink.com. After driving high levels of growth as CFO and Strategist for Match.com, Lisbeth McNabb launched a professional women’s content and community website business in 2007. Her professional background includes 20+ years in sales and business development, operations, finance and planning in growth and emerging stage businesses including PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, American Airlines, AT&T and Sodexo. Join entrepreneur and online networking expert Lisbeth McNabb to learn the secrets of success using web based talent engagement systems for executive development, coaching, mentoring and much more.

Hailed as a corporate visionary - launches his newest book “Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently” Internationally renowned and celebrated, Marcus Buckingham is the go-to consultant in his field, a sought after speaker, and a New York Times bestselling author. Challenging accepted and entrenched social theory, Buckingham pioneered a revolutionary concept—that people will be dramatically more effective, successful, and fulfilled when they play to their strongest skills rather than attempting to improve their weaknesses. He calls his research-based technique the “strengths revolution,” and his work has been proven again and again in boardrooms, seminars, and individual’s lives around the world. Join Marcus Buckingham on today’s program to learn more about how you can engage your best life now based on his groundbreaking workshop as featured on Oprah!

Betsy Myers, COO to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign, was tasked with the challenge of building a $103M organization also established the campaign with a business model and customer service mentality and acted as the Chair, Women for Obama. Myers, once the Exec. Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government focused the Center's teaching and research around personal leadership and “being” a fully integrated person. She was President Clinton’s senior adviser on women's issues. Myers was the Director of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the SBA and served as an advocate for 7.8 million women entrepreneurs in our country. She believes that the hardest person we will ever manage is ourselves. Join Betsy Myers as she shares personal highlights about leadership success and her new book in today’s program.

In today’s show we will look at Employee engagement and interview motivation expert Adrian Gostick. Adrian Gostick is the author of several bestselling books on corporate culture, including the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Carrot Principle. He also wrote the bestsellers The Integrity Advantage and The 24-Carrot Manager. His research on employee engagement has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN, “fascinating,” by Fortune magazine and “admirable and startling” by the Wall Street Journal. Adrian’s books have been translated into 20 languages and are sold in more than 50 countries around the world. As a leadership expert, he has appeared on numerous national television programs including NBC’s Today Show and has been quoted in dozens of business publications and magazines. Adrian is Vice President of the Carrot Culture division, the consulting and training arm of the O.C. Tanner Recognition Company.

Noel Tichy is one of the greatest names in leadership. His most recent book is JUDGMENT: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls (with Warren Bennis). Tichy, who was named one of the “Top 10 Management Gurus” by BUSINESSWEEK and BUSINESS 2.0., is the founding editor and chief of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Join Noel Tichy with Dr’s Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler as he shares consulting experiences as a senior partner in Action Learning Associates, with clients including: Best Buy, GE, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz and Royal Dutch Shell.

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.

Tagged by Success Magazine as a One Woman Brand and “Creativity and Innovation Guru”, a leading Serial Entrepreneur by Entrepreneur Magazine and having drawn comparisons to Walt Disney and Benjamin Franklin, Jen Groover's name has quickly become synonymous with innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolution. She has gone from guest-hosting spots on QVC to inking deals with some of the industry’s biggest heavyweights. Although it was Jen’s innovative handbag company the award-winning Butler Bag Company, which launched just over 2 years ago that catapulted her into the spotlight. She also has a vast breadth of knowledge on everything from business issues to education to government policy and with a natural, energetic on-air presence. Jen has already become a regularly featured business and lifestyle expert for such programs as Fox News’ “Strategy Room”, ABC’s “Money Matters”, CBS’ “Early Show”, CNBC’s “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”, and Meredith Corporation’s “Better TV”.

Gayl Murphy has interviewed more 14,000 of the world’s leading celebrities and newsmakers. She’s a veteran Hollywood Correspondent who spent 17-years on the front lines at ABC Radio News, is currently a frequent showbiz reporter for BBC Radio and TV, SKY News, E! Entertainment, AP Radio, ABC Radio Networks, Australian Broadcasting Co., Canadian Broadcasting Co., and she has seen it all—knock-it-out-of-the-park-interviews and unmitigated disasters. And as the author of “Interview Tactics! How to Survive the Media without Getting Clobbered. The Insider’s Guide to Giving a Killer Interview!” she knows what works and what doesn’t and she has been imparting her sage advice to entrepreneurs, authors, experts, rock stars, TV heart-throbs, models and start-up corporate media virgins for the past 10-plus years. Today she will bring her expertise to what leaders need to know about being interviewed by the press and how to communicate with effectiveness to their employees.

Dr. Thompson is currently course director for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces' strategic leadership course at National Defense University. He brings extensive experience to the position having been an educational administrator in three different colleges, as well as having practical experience in leadership and organizational change. Professor Thompson's primary research interest is leadership development in terms of both one's personal development and growth as facilitated by executive development programs. Dr. Thompson holds a bachelors degree in communications from The College of the Ozarks, a masters degree in sociology from Pepperdine University, and a doctorate in human and organizational learning from The George Washington University. Additionally, he is a retired US Air Force colonel. Dr. Thompson will share his research on what are the best practices for developing executives in organizations and how the armed forces train their leaders for the rigors of war.

Dan Siegel is a physician and a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist whose pioneering work on bringing brain science into the practice of psychotherapy has made him a well-known speaker throughout the world. Dr. Siegel is the founding editor of a series of over a dozen books for mental health practitioners in the emerging field of interpersonal neurobiology. He is the author of the The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain, and is a clinical professor at the UCLA school of medicine. He has been asked to present his work on MINDSIGHT to audiences that have included His Holinesses The Dalai Lama and Pope John Paul II as well as judges, policy-makers, therapists, the nation’s public school superintendents and the National Institute of Mental Health. MINDSIGHT: The New Science of Personal Transformation helps harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that can be life-transforming. Come hear about the new science.

Mary Lynne Heldmann is a regular columnist for Working Mother Magazine. She is the author of the Ballantine book, When Words Hurt, How to Keep Criticism From Undermining Your Self Esteem, based on the communication/feedback curricula she developed and taught in numerous Fortune 200 companies. She has been a quest specialist on radio and T.V. including the Oprah Winfrey Show. Join Mary Lynne on today’s program to learn important insights gained in the application of the Achieve Program she has developed with Mark Cunningham.

Betsy Myers, COO to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign, was tasked with the challenge of building a $103M organization also established the campaign with a business model and customer service mentality and acted as the Chair, Women for Obama. Myers, once the Exec. Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government focused the Center's teaching and research around personal leadership and “being” a fully integrated person. She was President Clinton’s senior adviser on women's issues. Myers was the Director of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership at the SBA and served as an advocate for 7.8 million women entrepreneurs in our country. She believes that the hardest person we will ever manage is ourselves. Join Betsy Myers as she shares personal highlights about leadership success and her new book in today’s program.

Join Elaina Spilove, Senior Vice President and leading financial consultant at the newly merged “Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney” venture - The eastwest group @greystone consulting. One of “Barron’s Top 100 Women in Finance”, Elaina manages millions of dollars in assets for municipalities and foundations and today she shares her insights on how financial success can be learned and how you too can apply key strategies in 2010 with a positive mindset and a fresh outlook on your financial future - tough times can be an opportunity to set a new financial direction. Her philosophy – Listen!

Join Leadership Development News hosts as you start off your new year. Drs. Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler will discuss leadership practices they use, executive coaching programs and new innovations from positive psychology and emotional and social intelligence. They will discuss their coaching practices and their plans for the 2010 shows. Dr. Cathy L. Greenberg coaches leading executives and entire companies on the applications of her proven “Happiness=Profit” strategies. Dr. Greenberg is co-founder of the renowned executive consultancy h2c (Happy Companies. Healthy People) and an author of multiple bestsellers and a much-in-demand conference speaker. Dr. Relly Nadler is a master level certified executive coach, psychologist, corporate leadership & team trainer. Dr. Nadler brings his expertise in Emotional Intelligence (EI) to all his keynotes, consulting, coaching and training. Dr. Nadler’s Leaders’ Playbook provides 100’s of tools and strategies to develop star performers.