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. Since 1995, Bruce has worked with tens of thousands of leaders and managers in hundreds of organizations ranging from Aetna to Wal-Mart; from the Army to the YMCA. In recent years, Bruce was named by Management Today as one of the few contemporary figures to stand out as a "management guru" and he was named to the 2009 Thinkers 50 rising star list (the Thinkers 50 is the definitive global ranking of the world's top 50 business thinkers). And on August 13, 2009, Bruce was honored to accept Toastmasters International's most prestigious honor, the Golden Gavel. This honor is annually presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership. In addition, Bruce writes a regular online column for The New York Daily News and his writing appears regularly in human resources, staffing and management journals. His writing has also appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including the Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, HR Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. As well, his work has been the subject of thousands of news stories around the world.

Bruce Tulgan lives in New Haven, Connecticut. His website can be found at www.rainmakerthinking.com.

Patrick Lencioni is president of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in executive team development and organizational effectiveness. As a consultant and executive coach, he has worked with hundreds of senior executives and executive teams in organizations ranging from Fortune 500s and high tech start-ups to universities and non-profits. His clients include Microsoft, Sam's Club, Visa, Charles Schwab, FedEx, New York Life, AT&T, Washington Mutual, Amazon.com, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Willow Creek Association, Southwest Airlines, and the US Military Academy, West Point. Previously, he worked at the management consulting firm Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was VP of Organization Development Patrick Lencioni is also a popular public speaker and has been a columnist and contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as Fast Company, INC Magazine, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Leader to Leader, and Harvard Business Review. He has delivered dozens of keynote addresses on leadership, organizational change, teamwork and corporate culture. He has written five best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Death by Meeting, and Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. He is on numerous advisory boards, and has sat on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Patrick Lencioni lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His organization's website can be found at www.tablegroup.com.

Steven Stein is a clinical psychologist and the founder and CEO of Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS), a leading psychological test-publishing company. He previously held the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and taught in the Psychology Department at York University (Toronto). He is a leading expert on psychological assessment, and has consulted with the Canadian Armed Forces, the U.S. Air Force, FBI, and special units of the Pentagon. He has also worked with numerous corporate clients, including American Express, Air Canada, Coca Cola, CIBC, as well as several professional sports teams. He is the author of Make Your Workplace Great, Emotional Intelligence for Dummies, and co-author of the international bestseller The EQ Edge.

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Kerry A. Bunker is founder and president of Mangrove Leadership Solutions, an executive development firm specializing in improving organizational leadership and performance through senior executive learning and coaching. Prior to forming his current organization, Kerry was senior fellow and manager of the Awareness Program for Executive Excellence (APEX) at the Center for Creative Leadership. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than forty books, chapters, and articles on various aspects of leadership, including an edited book from Jossey-Bass focused on identifying and addressing the gaps in senior executive development (in press), the book Leading with Authenticity in Times of Transition, a Harvard Business Review article entitled “The Young and the Clueless,” and a chapter in The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader Coach entitled “Coaching Leaders Through Change and Transition.” Kerry is an industrial/organizational psychologist with a B.A. degree from the University of Montana, an M.A. from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida.

Jim Kouzes is the Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University and the coauthor with Barry Posner of the internationally award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, now in its 4th edition with over 1.8 million copies sold. Jim and Barry have co-authored over thirty other books as well as the top-selling off-the-shelf leadership assessment in the world, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and in 2009 they were the recipients of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) 2009 Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, presented in recognition of their extensive body of work and the significant impact they have had on learning and performance in the workplace. Jim is not only a highly regarded leadership scholar, The Wall Street Journal has cited him as one of the ten best executive educators in the U.S.

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