Internationally known consultant, speaker, and author, John has worked in 12 countries for some of the most successful organizations in the world. A portion of the profit he earns from Knowledge Capital Consulting underwrites most of the operating costs of Project Be The Change. John is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The University of Iowa where he received the Collegiate Scholar Award the university’s highest academic honor. He went on to receive an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation. John earned an MBA with an International Distinction from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, one of the top 5 business schools in the world. He has been invited to speak to students at numerous schools including University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and Oxford University (UK).

Alan Fine is considered the pioneer of the modern-day coaching movement and is the co-creator of the widely recognized GROW® Model. Alan is a New York Times Bestselling Author, international performance expert, and well-respected business executive and professional athlete coach. He has dedicated the past 35 years to helping people elevate their performance and unlock potential. From the golf course to the boardroom, Alan has worked with many respected athletes and organizations.

Christopher is Chief Executive Officer at TalentKeepers. Chris has over 20 years of experience in the human resources industry, the majority of which has been in the employee engagement, selection, assessment, and retention arena. Chris co-founded TalentKeepers in 2000. Under the direction of Chris, TalentKeepers products have twice been recognized as “Top Training Products of the Year” by Human Resource Executive Magazine for their innovative and effective approach to employee on-boarding, engagement, and retention. He has worked with organizations around the world such as Accenture, AT&T , BMW, Coke, EDS, GE, Kelly Services, Hilton, The Hartford, Sprint, Starwood, UPS & the U.S. Navy.

Prior to co-founding TalentKeepers, Chris was the Vice President of Business Development for AlignMark, a division of The Thomson Corporation, a multi-billion dollar and leading global e-information and solutions company serving the business and professional marketplace. Previously with AlignMark, Chris was the Vice President of Sales. In this capacity, he was responsible for guiding and implementing the Fortune 1000 market place sales strategy as well as leading the direct sales force of AlignMark, and its predecessor organization, Electronic Selection Systems (ESS) Corporation, for six years. Under Chris' leadership, revenues grew from $3M to over $35M with an average operating income of 20%.

Frank Belzer is the VP of Corporate Training at Kurlan & Associates and as such has developed and trained some progressive and fast growth companies in the technology, bio-tech and media space. His work within the Inbound Marketing community and his book Sales Shift – how inbound marketing has turned sales upside down making it more difficult and more lucrative at the same time has led to his being a featured speaker at conferences and trade shows around the world. He has developed recognized best practices for closing the loop on leads, developing a sales process to manage inbound leads properly and is adept at helping sales people adopt an effective and now necessary sales 2.0 approach.

 Frank combines years of successful sales and sales management experience in both B2B and B2C, including 7 years in sales management at Konica Minolta. He excels at building sales teams, mentoring salespeople and sales training and coaching. Frank easily translates his experience into meaningful "real world" advice. He is particularly effective when helping companies develop and/or optimize their sales processes and achieves great results from the development of their sales people.

David is responsible for consulting with clients on people analytics, total rewards and other HR data governance issues. In this role, he consults with clients focused on improving their usage of data, analytics and HR processes in support of their business. He is passionate about manager empowerment and employee engagement through total rewards management.

He has 30 + years of experience in Human Capital Management (HCM), HR, HRIS, talent management, compensation and big data as an analyst, manager, executive, consultant, and entrepreneur. In his previous roles, David was Chief Product Owner for the ADP DataCloud™ and built a consulting group within ADP's Professional Services Organization.

Bill Inman is a 15-year veteran in the human resources industry who has served in executive leadership positions at several of the nation’s largest contingent workforce management and staffing companies. Currently, he is president of Emergent, a Los Angeles based contingent workforce employer and wholly owned subsid-iary of GEP Administrative Services, Inc., which ranks among the largest employers of contingent labor in the U.S.

Bill has positioned his company as an industry game changer, introducing solutions to disrupt the traditional staffing services market. Emergent is radically changing the way companies engage temporary and project-based contingent workers, providing a compliant employment platform that helps companies source their own contingent workforces to reduce their labor costs, minimize their compliance risk and improve their overall workforce productivity. With his leadership and continued innovation, Emergent will continue to grow as a significant player in the contingent workforce marketplace.

Sander Nieuwenhuizen was appointed as Vice President, Recruitment for Shell International in The Haugue, Netherlands in September 2009. In this role Sander has general management responsibility for the global Recruitment organisation that sources all graduate and experienced  hires for Shell worldwide.  He joined Shell in 2007 as VP, HR supporting the global IT function. 

Prior to this, Sander served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Organization for Lafarge S.A., a world leader in construction materials.  He joined Lafarge  in 1999 as SVP, Organization Development to contribute to globalizing and modernizing its management practices.  In this capacity he revamped the leadership development practice and introduced a People review process in the company management cycle. 

Joe Stubblebine is Vice President of Corporate Outreach at Beyond.com. Beyond.com, known as the ‘The Career Network’, focuses on helping people grow and succeed professionally. By connecting job seekers and employers through 70 unique career channels and 3,000 industry and regional communities, they are changing the way job searching is done. In his role, Joe is responsible for the development and execution of corporate outreach initiatives, including speaking engagements, conferences and other communication efforts. Joe is also tasked with the development of career events that offer Beyond.com members the opportunity to connect face-to-face with hiring companies.

Joe has over 14 years of entrepreneurial recruitment products & services experience. Prior to joining Beyond.com, Joe was the Co-Founder and CEO of JobCircle.com, a robust regional career site that served the Tri-State area (PA, NJ, and DE) and was the founder of hired! Magazine, an employment publication in the Greater Philadelphia region. JobCircle.com was acquired by Beyond.com in 2012. Joe has served as an IT consultant & project manager for many notable brands, including Wyeth, Glaxo SmithKline and Hershey Foods. Joe is also an advocate for businesses to embrace social media as a tool to increase sales and engage with employees and customers, and has presented at social, recruitment, and executive leadership events. He has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer "Who’s Who Under 30", "Top Tech" by Computer User magazine, and JobCircle.com held the 11th spot on the Philadelphia INC 100 List in 2002. Joe attended Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Accounting.

Peter Weddle has been the CEO of three HR consulting companies, a Partner in the Hay Group and the recipient of a Federal award for leadership-related research.  Described by The Washington Post as "... a man filled with ingenious ideas," he has authored or edited over two dozen books and been a columnist for the interactive edition of The Wall Street Journal, National Business Employment Weekly and CNN.com.

His most recent books include A Prescription for the Soul: A Historical Novel About Boomers & the American Dream, A Multitude of Hope: A Novel About Rediscovering the American Dream, The Career Fitness Workbook: How to Find, Win & Hang Onto the Job of Your Dreams, The Career Activist Republic and Next Practices: How to Be Better Than Best in Online Recruitment. 

Weddle is also the CEO of TAtech: the Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions.  TAtech is the global trade association for the talent acquisition technology industry.  Collectively, its Members power or operate over 60,000 sites worldwide and provide state-of-the-art products and innovative services for virtually every facet of talent acquisition.

An Airborne Ranger, Weddle is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.  He has attended Oxford University and holds advanced degrees from Middlebury College and Harvard University.

Cory Bouck is the Director of Organizational Development & Learning at Johnsonville Sausage.  He is also an author, keynote speaker, and an expert in building leaders - a reputation he has earned over twenty years of leading in the military, in business, and in politics. He is a graduate of and former leadership instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy and is a former Naval Flight Officer. Cory led brand and event marketing teams at General Mills, Newell-Rubbermaid, and Johnsonville Sausage.  He is also the author of The Lens of Leadership: Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow (2013).