Jay Forte, a former financial executive and corporate educator, now business and motivational speaker, greatness coach and author, is a nationally ranked Thought Leader and President of Humanetrics. Jay guides organizations – their leaders and managers – in how to attract, hire and retain today’s best talent. He coaches individuals in how to reconnect to their talents and passions to achieve extraordinary personal and professional performance.

Jay is the author of Fire Up! Your Employees and Smoke Your Competition (March 2009), The Greatness Zone - Know Yourself, Find Your Fit, Transform The World (October 2010).

Jay is a member of SHRM, ASTD, the National Speakers Association and the Florida Speakers Association. Originally from New England, Jay now lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

As a business strategist, Greg Smith helps executives and business owners accelerate individual and organizational performance and navigate through increasing rates of change. He helps design strategies and processes to grow organizations and implement business initiatives creating clearer direction, increased profitability, stronger executive teams, improved communication and happier and more productive employees. He has written and published over 350 articles and nine books including his latest, Fired Up! Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional Results. The Human Resource Executive magazine selected him as one of the nations’s Top 10 “Rising Stars” in Human Resource Management. Greg has received many awards and honors, but the one he treasures most is his Eagle Scout award.

Shanti has been an innovator in the legal training industry for more than a decade, designing powerful compliance solutions for employers that maximize legal defenses while creating a culture of ethics, inclusion and respect.

Under Shanti’s leadership, ELT has grown to become a dominant player in its field, now servicing more than 2,000 employers around the world, and training more than 5,000,000 employees. In addition to overseeing ELT’s product and business development, Shanti also advises ELT clients regarding strategic risk management initiatives and workplace compliance.

Tony Hsieh is the CEO of online shoe and clothing shop Zappos.com, Inc,. Hsieh joined zappos.com as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO where he helped the company from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune’s annual Best Companies to Work For list. In November 2009, Zappos.com, Inc. was acquired by Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing. Hsieh graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Computer Science. In June 2010, Hsieh published New York Times #1 bestseller Delivering Happiness, a book about his entrepreneurial endeavors.

Michael Burchell, Ed.D. is a consultant, international speaker and author. A corporate vice president at the Great Place to Work® Institute, Inc., he oversees business development of multinational clients across the affiliate network, and supports the Institute’s growth and development world-wide. He also co-owns Great Place to Work® Institute UAE based in Dubai. Prior to joining the Institute, Michael worked at W. L. Gore & Associates, and the University of Massachusetts. Michael received his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and also holds degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Southern California. Michael is the co-author, with Jennifer Robin, of The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters.

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Dr. Adam Bordes is the author of the book Lighten Up, the founder of the Maximizing Health Coaching program, and the creator of the "DEPLOY" method of organizational change. For the last 15 years, Adam has been speaking for companies and organizations of all sizes ranging from local non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies. With his audio programs, online videos, live lectures, and group coaching programs, Dr. Adam Bordes is helping companies save money, create healthier communities, and enhance quality of life.

Eun Y. Kim is the founder of CEO International and has over 25 years of coaching, consulting, and training in the fields of global leadership, executive presence, cross-cultural communication, and change management. Dr. Kim has done extensive work with executives in various industries in Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and helped them develop self and others, and build strategic partnerships across cultures and functions. Having been one of the first women professionals hired by a Korean conglomerate (Hyundai) after college, she has facilitated numerous individual/group coaching sessions for female executives as well. She also worked as a change management consultant at a prestigious US multinational consulting firm.

Bob Kelleher is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and consultant on employee engagement, leadership, and workforce trends. Bob is the author of the bestselling book, LOUDER THAN WORDS: 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results, CREATIVESHIP, A Novel for Evolving Leaders, EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT for Dummies, and I-Engage, Your Personal Engagement Roadmap.   

Bob can be seen or heard on national media (most recently on CNBC, CBS, NBC News, Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune, and has presented to many of the world’s top companies

Bob is also the founder of The Employee Engagement Group, a global survey, products, assessment, consulting firm.  

David Lee, the founder of HumanNatureAtWork.com, helps employers improve employee engagement, customer service, and morale, though his work as a consultant, trainer, and executive coach. He is an internationally recognized authority on organizational and managerial practices that optimize employee performance.

David is the author of Managing Employee Stress and Safety, as well as over sixty articles and book chapters on employee and organizational performance that have been published in North America, Europe, India, Australia, and China.

Much of his work involves taking research into human nature from a wide range of scientific disciplines, and then translating these principles into practical strategies for optimizing individual and organizational performance.

Using the popular TV show The Dog Whisperer as an analogy for the difference understanding human nature makes, David’s work helps leaders and managers become “Employee Whisperers.”

Randy Pennington helps leaders deliver positive results in a world of accelerating uncertainty and change. His clients include many of world’s best-managed companies, associations, government agencies, and universities. Additionally, Randy serves as an adjunct instructor in the Cox Business Leadership Center at Southern Methodist University.

Randy is author of three books: Make Change Work, Results Rule!; and On My Honor, I Will . His ideas have been featured in leading media outlets including CNN, PBS, Fox News, ABC Radio Network, the BBC, Fast Company, and The New York Times. He is a contributor to CIO.com and the Huffington Post.