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Ken Blanchard
The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Ken is a sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, universally characterized as one of the most insightful voices in the business world today, and serves as chief spiritual officer (CSO) of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm.

Published in 2012: Great Leaders Grow

Peter Block
Stewardship

Peter is an author and consultant whose work focuses on empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, and the reconciliation of community. He's the author of several bestselling books and recipient of the Organization Development Network's 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004 he received its first place Members' Choice Award, which recognized Flawless Consulting as the most influential book for OD practitioners over the past 40 years.

Juana Bordas
Published in 2012: Salsa, Soul and Spirit 2nd Ed

Juana is President of Mestiza Leadership International – a company that focuses on leadership, diversity, and organizational change; serves on the board of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership; and is board President of the Circle of Latina Leadership – a program that prepares young and emerging Latina women to advance their community forward. A dynamic national speaker and trainer, Juana weaves leadership, diversity, and community building into a multicultural tapestry.

Juanita Brown
The World Café

Juanita Brown, Ph.D. is co-originator of the World Café and has served as a Senior Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School's Organizational Learning Center (now Society for Organizational Learning), as a Research Affiliate with the Institute for the Future and as a Fellow of the World Business Academy.

Chuck Collins
Published in 2012: 99 to 1

Chuck is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He's an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books on the topic, and co-founded Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation.

Belva Davis
Published in 2012: Never in My Wildest Dreams

As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, and a reporter for almost five decades, Belva triumphed over the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news. Born to a fifteen-year-old Louisiana laundress during the Great Depression, and raised in the overcrowded projects of Oakland, California, Davis suffered abuse, battled rejection, and persevered to achieve a career beyond her imagination.

Elizabeth Doty
The Compromise Trap

Elizabeth is a consultant, coach, and facilitator specializing in how people participate in large organizations while remaining true to themselves and being a positive force. Time in the trenches in a variety of industries, including 11 years in hospitality management, gave her the opportunity to talk with over 400 people about the challenges, victories, and dilemmas of pursuing work they can be proud of. In late 1993 she founded WorkLore, a consulting firm that uses story and systems thinking to help leaders resolve complex operational and leadership issues.

Larry Dressler
Standing in the Fire

Larry is president of Blue Wing Consulting and has designed and facilitated high-stakes meetings in large corporations like Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Starbucks. He has also assisted in important community deliberations involving diverse stakeholders: farm workers in Washington State, homeless artisans on Skid Row in Los Angeles, and indigenous leaders in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Jim Ferrell
Leadership and Self-Deception

Jim is the Managing Partner of the Arbinger Institute, a global training and consulting company that is the world leader in the cause of, and solution for, the problem of self-deception. Arbinger's publications include international bestsellers and its service lines include Leadership & Teambuilding, Conflict Resolution, Accountability Transformation, and Cognitive & Emotional Health.

BJ Gallagher
A Peacock in the Land of Penguins

BJ is a dynamic workshop leader and charismatic keynote speaker, as well as a much published, bestselling author. She conducts seminars for women's groups, as well as professional organizations and corporations. Her topics include: leadership skills for women, male/female communication styles, how to manage your boss, thriving on change, and tapping into the creativity of diversity. BJ writes business books, women's books, and gift books.

Published in 2012: Being Buddha at Work

John Izzo
The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

John is one of North America's most prominent voices on finding more purpose in life and work. He has devoted the past 25 years of his life and career to facilitating deeper conversations about values. work, life, leadership and success. He has worked with thousands of leaders, professionals and front-line colleagues to foster workplaces of excellence, purpose, learning and renewal. His clients have ranged from high tech to high touch, hotels to hospitals, and from government agencies to entrepreneurial start-ups. Drawing on his early work in ministry and thousands of programs on creating "Spirited Workplaces," Izzo challenges people to strive to live their values, connect with each other and to humbly balance achievement with fulfillment.

Published in 2012: Stepping Up!

Bob Johansen
Published in 2012: Leaders Make the Future 2nd Ed

Bob was president and CEO of the Institute for the Future from 1996 to 2004 and is now the IFTF Distinguished Fellow, as well as serving on its board. He's a "ten-year forecaster" who has outlived his forecasts more than three times over. Bob works interactively with top leaders across a wide range of business, government, and nonprofit organizations, and creates video-enhanced immersion experiences in the future for large and small groups.

Sharon Jordan-Evans
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em

Sharon has practiced organizational development for over 20 years, specializing in change management, leadership development, and executive coaching. She was a senior vice president for the Change Management Practice at Drake Beam Morin, one of the world's largest transition firms. Currently, Sharon serves as president of the Jordan Evans Group, works with executive teams, and coaches senior leaders as they strive to improve morale, commitment, and productivity within their companies.

Soren Kaplan
Coming in 2012: Leapfrogging

Soren's passion for breakthrough innovation is exemplified through his diverse experience from leading Hewlett-Packard's innovation and strategy group during the roaring 1990s, to co-founding a web 2.0 collaboration software company, to consulting to start-ups and global companies. As a co-founder and principal of InnovationPoint, he leads strategic initiatives for global organizations in the areas of new product, service and business model innovation. Soren also currently sits on the advisory board of PocketOffice, an early stage start-up focused on mobile solutions for the small business market.

Beverly Kaye
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em

Beverly, president of Beverly Kaye & Associates, Inc., is an organizational consultant with over 20 years of experience in career development, management training, and human resource planning. She is also president of Career Systems International, a career development publishing company.

Coming in 2012: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

David Korten
When Corporations Rule the World

David is co-founder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! A Journal of Positive Futures; founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum; an associate of the International Forum on Globalization; a member of the Club of Rome; and serves on the boards of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economics and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Fran Korten
Published in 2012: This Changes Everything

As publisher of YES! Fran oversees all operations of the magazine, YES! Online, the YES! Education Connection, and YES!! Media and Outreach. She leads a team of people who showcase the visionary ideas and practical actions for creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.

Richard Leider
Coming in 2012: Repacking Your Bags 3rd Ed

A pioneer and leader in the field of coaching, Richard is widely recognized for his leading edge work on helping people discover "the power of purpose." As a speaker and seminar leader, he has taught over 100,000 executives from 50 corporations worldwide. His work received recognition from the Bush Foundation, from which he was awarded a Bush Fellowship to study "purposeful aging." Richard is consistently rated as one of the top executive educators and coaches in the world.

Stewart Levine
Getting to Resolution

Stewart is a lawyer, management consultant, mediator, and trainer. His clients and students include American Express, Caterpillar Corporation, Chevron, ConAgra, General Motors, Oracle, and others. He has been a partner in two law firms and served as Deputy Attorney General for the state of New Jersey.

Franz Metcalf
Published in 2012: Being Buddha at Work

Franz teaches religious studies at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the president of the Western Region of the American Academy of Religion and an active leader in the Forge Institute. A scholar-practitioner of Buddhism, Franz is a review editor for Journal of Global Buddhism and author of scholarly works on Buddhism and psychology. He is a founding member and newsletter editor of the Forge Guild of Spiritual Leaders, and author of four books applying Buddhist wisdom and practice to our hectic everyday lives.

Fredrick Miller
The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity

Frederick develops and implements strategies that increase engagement, team and individual performance and culture alignment with organizations' marketplace needs. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organization Development Network.

Mark Miller
The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Mark began his career working as an hourly team member at Chick-fil-A in 1977. A year later, he joined the corporate staff working in the warehouse and mailroom. Since that time, Mark has held several leadership positions. He has served in Corporate Communications, Field Operations, and Quality & Customer Satisfaction. Today, he is the Vice President, Training & Development. He is also a member of the Operations Council, and the Strategic Planning Team for Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Published in 2012: Great Leaders Grow

Christine Pelosi
Published in 2012: Campaign Boot Camp 2.0

Attorney, author, and activist Christine Pelosi has a lifetime of grassroots experience in politics and public policy. She serves as interim Executive Director of the Young Democrats of America, conducts leadership boot camps for candidates and nonprofits across the country, and teaches the Public Service Leadership Boot Camp for UC Berkeley extension in San Francisco. She also directs the AFSCME PEOPLE/New House PAC Congressional Candidates Boot Camp, which prepares Democrats for Propaganda campaigns, and has helped 23 challengers get elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Christine is also a superdelegate for the Democratic Party.

John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John was recruited by the National Security Agency during his last year at Boston University's School of Business Administration, 1968. In 1971 he joined the international consulting firm of Chas. T. Main as Chief Economist and Director of Economics and Regional Planning. His primary job was to convince Less Developed Countries (LDCs) around the world to accept multibillion dollar loans for infrastructure projects and to see to it that most of this money ended up at U.S. engineering/construction companies. The loans left the recipient countries wallowing in debt and highly vulnerable to outside political and commercial interests.

Perkins resigned his position and founded Independent Power Systems, pioneering technologies that promoted the use of "waste" power plant heat in hydroponic greenhouses and other cogeneration applications. In then sold IPS and founded a nonprofit organization, Dream Change Coalition, which works closely with Amazonian and other indigenous people to help preserve their environments and cultures.

David Shapiro
Coming in 2012: Repacking Your Bags 3rd Ed

David is the Education Director of the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, a non-profit organization that brings philosophy into the lives of young people in schools and community groups.

Laura Stack
Comming in 2012: What to Do When There's Too Much to Do

Laura is a personal productivity expert, author, and professional speaker whose mission is to build high-performance productivity cultures in organizations by creating Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations and the 2011-2012 President of the National Speakers Association. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today's workplaces.

Brian Tracy
Eat That Frog!

Brian is one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. A dynamic and inspiring speaker, he addresses thousands of people each year on the subjects of personal and professional development, including the executives and staff of such firms as IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas, and The Million Dollar Round Table.

Published in 2012: Kiss That Frog!

Bill Treasurer
Courage Goes to Work

Bill is a prolific writer and founder and Chief Encourager at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a Courage Building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously. His insights into courage are based both on his experiences as an organizational development professional and as a daredevil athlete. Bill's work has been featured in over 100 newspapers and he's conducted over 500 corporate workshops designed to strengthen people's leadership skills, improve team performance, accelerate innovation, and help executives behave more courageously.

Sarah van Gelder
Published in 2012: This Changes Everything

As co-founder and Executive Director of Yes! magazine, Sarah leads the framing and development of each issue of Yes! and writes a column introducing each issue. She blogs at Yes!, and Huffington Post, writes articles and does interviews for Yes!, and speaks on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being created. Topics she has covered include the new economy, solutions to climate change, alternatives to prisons, food, water, nuclear disarmament and active peacemaking, education for a better world, and more.

Margaret Wheatley
Leadership in the New Science

Margaret writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She works to create organizations of all types where people are known as the blessing, not the problem, and serves as president of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation serving life-affirming leaders around the world. Margaret has been an organizational consultant for many years, as well as a professor of management in two graduate programs.

Coming in 2012: So Far From Home

Leslie Yerkes
301 Ways to Have Fun at Work

Leslie has been advancing the cause of positive organizational culture for over twenty years, ever since she started The Catalyst Consulting Group with a mission to do "consulting with a conscience." Her interests are many but her vision for a workplace emboldened by empowered, enthusiastic employees and managers is singular. As a consultant, author, thought leader, and keynote speaker, Leslie is "all about deep change and other kinds of daring".

Devora Zack
Networking for People Who Hate Networking

Devora is a nationally recognized expert in the field of leadership development. Her consulting, network strategies, seminars, corporate retreats, coaching, and strategic plans consistently result in improved productivity and morale. Devora consults dozens of diverse organizations in private industry, federal agencies, and the public sector. As program director and re-designer of OPM's prestigious Presidential Management Fellows Orientation, for three years she led an esteemed faculty in dynamic, innovative design, resulting in the highest evaluation feedback in the program's history.

Coming in 2012: Managing for People Who Hate Managing