Cindy Cornell

Cindy Cornell, a leadership and executive coach, came to coaching after an accomplished career in business where she was known for being highly motivated with a strong results orientation. In addition to and perhaps more importantly than helping her coaching clients to achieve measurable results, she helps her clients to lead happier lives.

But who is Cindy, really? She is a mom, best friend, sister, coach, teacher, entrepreneur, business advisor, avid networker, recovered accountant, athlete and volunteer. Her highest values are Integrity, Authenticity, Results, Presence and Fun, and she seeks to surround herself with people who share those ideals. She is an ambassador of both Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back who is deeply committed to the Relationship Masters Academy both as a coach and as someone who has experienced remarkable shifts in her own life resulting from her own personal engagement with RMA principles over the past year. She walks the talk and is enjoying watching her personal and professional networks begin to collide powerfully.

Professionally, she holds the ACC credential from the International Coach Federation and is certified in both Executive and Life Coaching by Results Coaching Systems and New York University. A lifelong learner herself, Cindy is an adjunct member of the coaching faculty at NYU. She is also an accomplished trainer and professional speaker, creating customized content that leaves audiences in productive action.

Her professional focus before becoming a coach was in corporate finance and accounting, operations, project management and sales. She has worked in start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures, Fortune 50 companies, turnarounds and restructurings. Business has taken her around the world including Asia, Europe and the Caribbean and this cross cultural experience and has afforded her the ability to skillfully consider and respect the validity of different points of view. Cindy finds this skill an asset both when dealing with cross functional teams in business and in coaching relationships.

As both an advisor to business leaders and as a coach, she works with her clients to develop meaningful, measurable, stretch goals that are aligned with individual, corporate and team vision and objectives. Cindy believes strongly that her clients have their own answers and that her role is to facilitate their clear articulation and to help identify the path towards goal attainment. Ongoing coaching conversations and meetings measure progress and help to ensure sustainable change through focus on milestones and desired behaviors. She has worked with executives, individuals and teams and also enjoys mentoring new coaches.

Cindy holds a Bachelors of Science in Accounting from Penn State University and a MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University. She has also studied leadership and positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and counseling at Penn State, where she was a resident assistant for 80 women during college.

Founder of The Hoshin Group (www.hoshingroup.com), Cindy lives with her family in Fairfield County, Connecticut. She tweets @cindycornell.

Kim Ann Curtin

Curtin launched The Wall Street Coach (TWSC), the contemporary executive development and coaching firm, to forge strategic partnerships with prominent executives and leaders who want to achieve positive, measurable change within themselves and throughout their organizations. Curtin and her Wall Street Coach team are trusted advisors selected by Wall Street leaders, best‐selling authors and corporate insiders to construct and counsel on revenue expansion projects, branding strategies, and public relations initiatives to create unbridled opportunity, without sacrificing the corporate soul. Executives from Fortune 500 corporations, private equity firms, entrepreneurial ventures and media entities collaborate with Curtin’s team to imbed within corporate culture the multi‐faceted essence that keeps high‐performing employees engaged, driven and profitable well beyond the board room and the financials. The Wall Street Coach is a global firm with locations in New York and London.

Curtin has built The Wall Street Coach by partnering with leaders who see capitalism as the essential fabric of our country and the foundation of our financial turnaround—capitalism is not vile. However, The Wall Street Coach partners with motivated executives and corporate teams with the precise coach to help them design the performance plans that can catapult them professionally while enacting a life balance that can fuel the next phase of corporate, professional and personal growth. The expertly qualified TWSC coaches have decades of experience and credentials in organizational development, sales team management, coaching management, high‐potential talent client advisory issues, time and productivity optimization with a demonstrated history of bringing net results to their clients.

The foundation of Curtin’s background and experience is built from 10+ years in corporate branding consulting within the finance, banking and corporate industries. Curtin’s leadership coaching studies, personal development initiatives and her genuine passion for professional excellence resulted in a multi‐disciplinary coaching curriculum executed by certified coaches.

Understanding the many expectations executives face on a daily basis that can place their need to be capitalistic and conscious in conflict, Curtin’s team of experienced coaches utilize direct and concise methods to quickly uncover and resolve limiting thought patterns and predictable behaviors resulting in dramatic, cohesive results. Curtin and her team work with executives to empower themselves and their workers to participate in their personal growth generating positive effects that expand in the workplace and beyond. The tools utilized by Curtin and The Wall Street Coach team enable clients to answer those bigger questions about worth and meaning while embracing and embodying the essence of capitalism.

Kim Ann Curtin speaks publicly on numerous topics and is a leader in contemporary executive development. In addition to leading her own executive coaching organization, she is a Founding Coach for Keith Ferrazzi’s Relationship Masters Academy, an online learning academy for corporate professionals, entrepreneurs and consultants, and a guest facilitator for Executive Leadership Workshops on Joseph Campbell’s teachings. She has written columns for The Mann Report and Mann on the Street. Curtin has been featured in CNN.Money, Fortune Magazine, Smart Money, USA Today, TheStreet.com and Associated Press, among others. Kim lives in Manhattan.

Kyle Enger

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Keith Ferrazzi

If you want to transform your life, you need the help of others – powerful relationships with people who give you support and access, and push you to exceed your potential.

KEITH FERRAZZI can help: He is the world’s foremost expert in professional relationship development. He has transformed the lives and careers of clients and readers worldwide, bringing 20 years of research and experience to the art and science of business relationship development. His signature focus on success through relationships – a deeply energizing passion – has fueled his own incredible rise to prominence. Both Forbes and Inc. have called him one of the world's most "connected" individuals.

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR
Ferrazzi has won a place as one of the top thought leaders in American business. His first book, Never Eat Alone, redefined networking today. His #1 NY Times bestseller Who’s Got Your Back focuses on lifeline relationships, a narrow category of deep, trusting peer relationships that disproportionately affect our careers and well-being. Ferrazzi has been named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders by Crain's Business, and one of the most creative Americans in Who's Really Who.

DYNAMIC SPEAKER
Ferrazzi moves audiences to action and has been enthusiastically recognized as one the world’s most dynamic, engaging speakers. He has received accolades from an impressively diverse list of listeners: Merill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, the United Nations, Facebook, the World Economic Forum, Kraft, GM, Century 21, AT&T, and Aon, to name a few. Ferrazzi is a frequent contributor to CNN and CNBC, and has been a guest on Larry King Live and Today Show. His writing has appeared in Forbes, Inc., Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.

GRATEFUL SON
Ferrazzi grew up in Latrobe, PA, where his father was a steelworker and his mother a cleaning lady. He and his entire family worked double shifts to send him to the very best prep schools – and ultimately to Yale undergrad and Harvard Business School – imbuing in Ferrazzi a sense of gratitude that has deeply influenced his message: Generosity in relationships as the cornerstone of success.

ENTREPRENEUR AND CORPORATE WUNDERKIND
As founder and chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a research-based consulting and training company, Ferrazzi provides corporate market leaders with strategic consulting and training to improve sales, performance, and team cohesion, with an emphasis on personal transformation. Ferrazzi launched his career as the youngest Chief Marketing Officer in the Fortune 500 at Deloitte Consulting, and was later the CMO at Starwood Hotels.

PASSIONATE ACTIVIST
Ferrazzi’s foundation, Big Task, applies his company’s Accelerated Relationship Development (ARD) curriculum to aid corporate citizenship and education reform. At the annual Big Task Weekend, companies use ARD to create partnerships that benefit national health and wellness. More recently, Ferrazzi has brought the power of relationship mastery to students in pilot programs at Stanford and Beverly Hills High. He is also a weekly participant in his local Meals-on-Wheels organization.

Leah Grant

Leah Grant was among the first 100, and is one of less than 800, coaches around the world to have earned their Master Coach Certification from the International Coach Federation.

Having 14 years of experience as a coach, she's worked with managers and executives from MicroSoft, Disney, JP Morgan, Cisco, Duke University, DreamWorks, Merrill Lynch, University of Wisconsin, Bank of America and more, as well as many entrepreneurs and solopreneurs.

Leah built her initial practice from zero to 32 clients in four months using relationship building techniques in a city where she initially knew only two people.

She is extraordinary at assisting her clients to overcome their obstacles to meeting people, to creating comfortable environments for building relationships, and to developing and implementing strategies for deepening existing connections.

Leah has been published in three books and numerous magazines and is regularly invited to speak. She is also an Neuro-Linguisitic Programming Practitioner, a Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and can conduct 360, DISC and PIAV assessments.

Laila Hajji

Home is Guthrie, Oklahoma where I graduated high school in 2006. Although, I went to 8 different schools by the time I made it to Guthrie in the 7th grade. I have called Austin, TX, Moore, OK and Purcell, OK home to name a few. I spent my last semester at college in Orange County, CA where I student taught at Mission Viejo High School Agricultural Education Academy. I finished my degree in Agricultural Education in May of 2011 and started at Syngenta in June 2011.

I'm passionate about American Agriculture. I hope to help feed more and more people on less and less land. I desire to be a thought leader in the agriculture industry.

With age, I realize that life is not so much about me, but about the people I encounter along the way.

I mentor young people and have a passion for their hearts. Young people all across the country wake up every morning feeling inadequate, awkward, unsure of themselves, and even alone in their desire to fit in and find acceptance by their peers. I desire to share with young people that it is my challenges rather than my successes that build character and cause me to work harder to live my life song.

I simply want to be an influential note in other people's life song.

Jeffrey Kaplan

Dr. Kaplan is a member of the executive management team of Ferrazzi Greenlight consulting, where he leads the Leadership Development and Training practice and manages the Greenlight Research institute. Previously, Jeff worked for the global consulting firm Capgemini, serving as the leader of the firm's marquee alliance with Microsoft Corporation. In the capacity of Microsoft Alliance leader, he managed a $350M account portfolio and was responsible for facilitating interfirm relationships between C-level executives. In addition, Dr. Kaplan developed an advanced technical training curriculum for systems architects and facilitated a formal certification program.

Prior to his work with Capgemini consulting, Jeff headed the sales and marketing effort for an internationally known amusement park and a groundbreaking B2B start-up. In 1989, Kaplan founded the first of four events management and training companies, which he grew into international operations. In partnership with AH Belo Corporation, the parent company of The Dallas Morning News and the flagship ABC affiliate WFAA-TV, he developed a event production company with a $30M media budget. In 1999, Kaplan successfully divested his ownership interests in a private sale. During this time, Dr. Kaplan's event was endorsed by the Texas Congressional delegation and he was quoted as a source in the Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Kaplan has taught graduate and undergraduate business courses at a number of universities and served as the Marketing Department Chair for the University of Phoenix, where he earned a doctorate in organizational leadership. Jeff earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Graziadio Graduate School of Business at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

Jason Owens

Jason Owens first worked with Keith Ferrazzi as an interviewer for Keith's second book, WHO'S GOT YOUR BACK, providing expertise in team selling. Jason later took Keith’s training in New York, giving him a deep knowledge of the RMA program (now myGreenlight) that he leverages today as a coach.

Owens is a degreed electrical engineer. In his role at Thrivent, he helped launch budding entrepreneurs who have chosen to become financial planners, coaching them in both hard and soft sales and management skills. In his most recent side project, a Salesforce.com implementation, Jason traveled 4 days a week to work with advisors in over 18 states.

As a business coach, he likes to focus on helping self-employed individuals improve their self-management and business performance.

Jason and his wife Karen have a four-year old daughter, Fiona, two border collies and a mix.

Karen is currently working under a grant from The Pet-Finder.com Foundation while performing a study at a city owned animal shelter in Charlotte, NC. The aim of the study is to find ways to reduce the amount of time that an animal spends in a shelter before being adopted.

Mitchell York

Mitchell York is a credentialed Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and entrepreneur.

His corporate career spanned 20+ years and included senior executive positions with high-growth companies. He was president of LendingTree.com in its startup phase, creating processes and procedures to help the company position itself for rapid growth and mentoring its management team and work force. Later, he was president of NetCreations Inc. (now ReturnPath), a leading email marketing company, where he built the executive management team and positioned the company for a successful acquisition.

Mitch was the founding publisher of TechWeb, the first technology website to sell advertising, and vice president and founder of the Internet division of CMP Media Inc., an international media company. At CMP for 17 years, Mitch published some of the nation’s largest technology newspapers and magazines. He also was senior vice president of Ziff Davis Media where he published InteractiveWeek, one of the pioneering newspapers covering e-commerce.

In late 2001, Mitch left corporate America to start his own business ventures. Since then, Mitch has worked with hundreds of clients in his coaching practice. Mitch is an executive coach for ClientWise LLC, a training and coaching company in the financial services industry, and a certified career and job-search coach for the leading job- and career-counseling firm, The Five O’Clock Club. He is a certified graduate of CoachU, the world’s largest and most respected coach training institution, and has received the Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation as well and is also a Certified Genos Emotional Intelligence Practitioner.

Mitch’s own entrepreneurial adventure is a fast-growing specialty catering business. He started it by developing a new business model for a franchise that had been in business for more than 25 years. The model he created has blossomed into the most profitable business segment the franchise offers. Mitch has coached and trained hundreds of franchise owners in his best practices.

In 2009, Mitch published a book on entrepreneurship called Franchise: Freedom or Fantasy? – How to Know if a Franchise is Right for You After Your Corporate Career (iUniverse). He is presently working on his second book about entrepreneurship. A former business journalist, Mitch keeps his writing chops in shape by serving as the Entrepreneurs Guide for About.com (entrepreneurs.about.com), one of the largest content sites on the Web.

A frequent speaker to industry groups on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to emotional intelligence to career management, Mitch received an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. with honors in English from Northwestern University.

Mitch lives in Sayville, Long Island, N.Y. He can be reached at 631-403-0343, www.e2ecoaching.com, or mitch @e2ecoaching.com.

Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies.

Chris is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency serving primarily Fortune 100 and 500 clients, and president of Human Business Works, an online education and community company for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs.

Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.

He has 16 years of enterprise telecommunications and wireless experience prior to all this.

Rob Buccino

Formerly EVP, New Business Director for Grey Healthcare Group in New York, where he helped the agency become Agency of the Year (2002) and achieve the best six years of business growth in its history, Rob Buccino is a New Business consultant, communications expert, presentation coach, and strategic leader.

Rob has worked on over 300 new business pitches in the US, Europe, and Australia. He writes frequently for industry publications, and gives speeches and workshops on persuasive presentations, business development, and branding strategy.

Previously Rob was a creative director who led award-winning teams at prestigious advertising and communications agencies (including Sudler & Hennessey, Medicus, and Grey) for over 20 years.

A cum laude psychology graduate of Wesleyan University, he is a member of the International Association of Facilitators and trained in teaching of negotiation skills at the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Olivia Fox Cabane

An expert in the fields of charisma and leadership, Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured at Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT and the United Nations. As a frequent keynote speaker and executive coach to the leadership of Fortune 500 companies, she helps people increase their ability to influence, persuade, and inspire others. From a base of thorough behavioral science, she extracts the most practical tools for business; giving her clients techniques she originally developed for Harvard and MIT.

In addition to being a regular columnist for Forbes, Olivia is often featured in media such as The New York Times, Bloomberg or BusinessWeek; and was recently profiled in The Wall Street Journal. Her course at Berkeley's Business School was so popular that university staff had to guard the entrance to ensure that only admitted students gained entrance.

Olivia has both French and American nationalities and is fluent in 4 languages; she is the youngest person ever to have been appointed Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Government.

Mark Goulston

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 best selling book, “Just Listen” Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone.

Dr. Goulston’s development of those skills started with his education: a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.D. from Boston University, post graduate residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He went on to be a professor at UCLA’s internationally renowned Neuropsychiatric Institute for more than twenty years, became 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 by Washington, D.C. based Consumers’ Research Council of America.

A partial list of companies and organizations he has trained, spoken to, provided executive coaching to or consulted with include: GE, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Hyatt, Accenture, Astra Zenica, Kodak, Federal Express, FBI, Los Angeles District Attorney, White & Case, Seyfarth Shaw.

He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and is the best selling author of four prior books including the international best seller, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, Get Out of Your Own Way at Work…and Help Others Do the Same, is a contributor to Harvard Business, blogs for the Huffington Post, writes the Tribune media syndicated column, Solve Anything with Dr. Mark, column on leadership for FAST COMPANY, Directors Monthly. 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, Today.

Dr. Goulston lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Peter Guber

Peter Guber is the Chairman and CEO of the Mandalay Entertainment Group, which specializes in motion pictures, television, sports entertainment and new media. Over the course of his illustrious forty year career, the films Guber personally produced have earned more than $3 billion worldwide and more than 50 Academy Award nominations, including the Best Picture Oscar for Rain Man. He is a nationally recognized speaker, and can be seen every Sunday morning on American Movie Classics (AMC), as co-host of the critically acclaimed national TV show, Shootout, based on his best selling book, currently in its fifth season and shown in over fifty countries worldwide and on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. Guber is a full professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years.

Allison Hemming

Allison Hemming is the founder and president of The Hired Guns, a new kind of talent agency representing the best of the digital creative class. Creator of the dotcom-meltdown-era Pink Slip Parties, author of “Work It!” and a work-style visionary, Hemming evangelizes on career topics ranging from personal branding to utilizing flexible talent in building the companies of the future.

A recognized authority in career management, Hemming has been regularly featured in The New York Times, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Newsday, CNN, CNBC, Good Morning America, NPR, PBS and many other media outlets.

Kate-Madonna Hindes

Kate-Madonna Hindes is a leader in the PR and Social Marketing world who believes that the human passion behind today’s technology makes anything possible.

With over 7, solid years of marketing and advertising background; including national publications and Fortune 500 companies, she brings national Social Media Training and Director-level Marketing and Consumer Engagement insight. Her recent credits include bookings at Wordcamp Msp 2010, Masters Forum 2010 Seres, 2010 ReBarCamp, MCAD, Social Media Breakfast in Imation Headquarters, 2009 and 2010 National Cancer Conference in Chicago and recent on-air appearances with WCCO and International Radio. Hailed for her resume writing and as a current columnist for national papers, she speaks on the human behind the job search and how to speak one’s true accomplishments.

Tony Hsieh

In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million.

He then joined Zappos as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped them grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazines 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.

His first book, "Delivering Happiness", is available in stores right now. For more information or to order the book go to www.deliveringhappinessbook.com

T.A. McCann

Gist brings your contacts into one place to give you the only full view of your network making it easy to find anyone, anytime. In addition to running Gist, T.A. is also actively involved with TechStars, and h-farm and serves on the advisory boards of Wishpot and Zooppa.

Scott Peltin

Scott Peltin is an internationally renowned coach and presenter on sustainable human performance. Scott has personally coached numerous high performing top-level leaders in Fortune 100 companies to improve their energy, focus, resilience, and effectiveness. Prior to founding Tignum in 2003, Scott worked in the US Fire Service for over 25 years, serving on the front line as a firefighter and captain, and later leading his crews as a battalion and division chief.

Stever Robbins

A businessperson and entrepreneur since the late 1970s, Stever co-founded the early internet success story FTP Software, and has been a part of nine high-tech start-ups, three IPOs, and three acquisitions. He was COO for Building Blocks Interactive, and project manager at Intuit, where he co-led the development of the award-winning Quicken VISA Card.
Stever began developing business leaders as part of Harvard Business School’s “Leadership and Learning” curriculum redesign project and has been an advisor and mentor to senior managers in several high-growth companies. He currently serves as CEO of The Stever Robbins Company, where he coaches executives and high-potential leaders. Stever is also a member of the career coaching staff at Harvard Business School.

The creator of the Pull Leadership concept, Stever has written extensively about leadership in his book It Takes a Lot More than Attitude...to Lead a Stellar Organization and in his monthly Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column.
An angel investor, board member, and advisor to several young companies, Stever has also been a judge for the Harvard Business School Business Plan competition and the Brown University Business Plan competition. He has also served as a mentor for the MIT $50K Competition. He teaches high-school students business as a Junior Achievement mentor.
Stever holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Computer Sciences from MIT. He is a graduate of W. Edward Deming's Total Quality Management program, a Certified Master Trainer Elite of NLP, and a Certified Executive Coach.

Stever has appeared widely in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, ABC News Now, MSNBC, BusinessWeek Online, and Investor's Business Daily. He has written for The Boston Business Journal and Entrepreneur.com, and has a monthly leadership column on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge.

In his spare time, Stever’s hobbies include swing dancing, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, standup comedy, acting, singing, writing, comedy improv, strategy board games, and writing about himself in the third person. He's learning guitar. Buy earplugs.

Tim Sanders

Tim Sanders speaks for strong business relationships, both internal and external. "Get them right," he says, "and you’ll grow your business during good and bad times alike." His relevant point of view makes him one of the most in demand keynote speakers on the conference and convention circuit.

Tim is more than a keynote speaker; his real world experience, research savvy and deep understanding of the human condition make him an indispensable consultant to some of the biggest brands in the world.

His Los Angeles based company, Deeper Media, conducts research on business trends, new media and human behavior.