Fredo Arias–King  is the President of T&R Chemicals, Inc., of Texas and has served as senior advisor on international affairs to Mexico's ruling National Action Party (PAN) and the Vicente Fox presidential campaign. He currently serves as a democratic advisor to the democratic movements in Moldova and Belarus. Fredo has published numerous articles about democratic transition and is the author of two books, most recently, Transiciones a la democracia: Las lecciones de Europa del Este. He is founder of the academic quarterly Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, based in Washington, DC. Fredo holds both an MBA and MA in Russian Studies from Harvard University.

RITA BAILEY  is the Founder and CEO of QVF Partners, Ltd., in Dallas, Texas which partners with organizations and individuals who are committed to creating people-focused cultures. Prior to founding QVF Partners, Rita held numerous leadership roles for 25 years at Southwest Airlines in customer service, sales and marketing, public relations, human resources and as Director of Southwest Airlines University. Rita's focus was to build the people who built Southwest into one of the most successful and profitable democratic airlines in the world. Her mantra: "If you put people first, profits will follow."

DR. LAURANCE DOYLE is a quantum physicist, a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute, and a consultant on stellar spectral classification to the NASA Kepler mission. He is also the President of PlanetQuest, a non-profit corporation that brings planet detection capability to the public via an educational screen-saver and browser. Dr. Doyle has also worked as an engineer with the Voyager spacecrafts in the Space Image Processing Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He s a visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz teaching classes on Life in the Universe, and Light & Optics, has about one hundred refereed papers in the scientific literature and and lectures widely.

RANDY EISEMAN  is CEO of Handango, the leading provider of smartphone content globally. Handango has won numerous awards including being named to the Inc. 500 and being recognized as one of the best companies to work for in America by SHRM and the Great Place to Work Institute and one of the best companies to work for in Texas by The Best Companies Group. Randy was also named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of The Year for 2004. Prior to founding Handango, Randy led the venture capital division of Q Investments, a multi-billion dollar private investment firm and worked as a financial analyst for Goldman, Sachs & Co. Randy also has a strong passion for entrepreneurialism and sustainable business practices and is a member of the Board of Directors of Stagen, a member of Investor's Circle, and a member of the Founders' Circle of FLOW, a non-profit organization created by Whole Food's CEO John Mackey, dedicated to "liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good." In addition, Randy is an active angel investor focused on sustainable business in a variety of industries ranging from financial services to health care. Randy has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Texas, is actively involved in Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is currently serving on the TCU Entrepreneurial Program Advisory Board. Randy lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife, Jennifer, and their son, Aidan.

GEORGE GENDRON  served as the Editor-in-Chief of Inc. Magazine for two decades, guiding the publication from a start-up through its sale to Bertelsmann, the $20 billion media company. Under his direction, Inc. became the world's premiere business magazine for leaders of small- to mid-sized growing businesses. Currently, George is the founder and Director of Clark University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, one of only four university-wide entrepreneurship centers in the country. In 1997 George formed a joint venture with Michael Porter, of the Harvard Business School, to publish the Inner City 100, a ranking of the fastest-growing companies in America's inner cities. His appearances include 20/20, 48 Hours, CNBC, CNN, and National Public Radio. He has also been quoted extensively in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other major publications. He has appeared on the TJFR list of "The 100 Most Influential Business Journalists in America" every year since the list was created, and was named one of the ten most influential magazine journalists in the technology arena in 2001 and 2002. George is currently at work on a book titled "The Art of the New," designed to demystify entrepreneurship and innovation. He is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Kauffman Foundation, the world's largest foundation devoted to fostering entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education in the U.S.

SUSANNE GOLDSTEIN , Founder of The Accelerator, Inc., is an engineer-designer-filmmaker-business strategist who uses people-centric creative-collaboration to help organizations accelerate their ability to change the world. Her diverse Hollywood, software, dot-com and social sector experience provide her with a unique framework for addressing social issues. She specializes in cutting edge technologies, business model innovation, and social networks. Susanne has taught graduate course work in interactive product design at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and is a founding partner in Social Venture Partners - Bay Area, where she led the effort to start an after school program for low-income families in San Francisco. Susanne has deep roots as Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where she is a Center for Public Leadership Fellow, teaches a social enterprise leadership study group and founded Social Enterprise in Action, a social enterprise advocacy group. She also serves on the Kennedy School's Alumni Board of Directors. Susanne volunteers on a Harvard Business School CAP (Community Action Partners) consulting team working on projects for non-profit organizations in Boston and is part of the United Nations of Greater Boston Film Festival host committee. In a former life, she was a movie producer and screenwriter in Hollywood. Susanne holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an A.B. in Theatre and Film Studies, both from Cornell University.

ALEXANDER KJERULF is the Chief Happiness Officer and Founder of Happy At Work based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a self-described ex-geek, radical Renaissance man, and hardest-working slacker. Alex is also the author of the book, Happy Hour is 9 to 5 - How to Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work. Alex's extensive background as a consultant, leader, entrepreneur, and business owner has taught him the importance and the practice of being happy at work. Leaders and employees from companies like IBM, Lego, DaimlerChrysler, Pfizer, PriceWaterhousCoopers and many others - big and small, private and public - are happier at work after using the methods taught Alex. Alex is a skilled and energetic speaker on the subject of happiness at work and why happiness is the major success factor for organizations today.

WENDY LUCAS-BULL  is CEO emeritus of FirstRand Retail, the largest bank in South Africa (which includes First National Bank, WesBank, eBucks, OUTsurance and FirstLink). Wendy is credited with the significant turnaround and growth in performance shown by First National Bank over the previous five years. Wendy transitioned FNB from a command-and-control organization into a democratic one, increasing the bottom-line by 100 percent, raising employee satisfaction to the 90th percentile (from a previously negative score), lowering turnover, and inspiring volunteerism among 10,000 of the 22,000 employees. Previously an international partner at Accenture for 14 years, Wendy is a member of the boards of Eskom, Aveng and Nurcha, a member of the Council of University of South Africa (UNISA) and of the Millennium Labour Council, and a representative for South Africa on the Global Trade and Poverty Forum. Wendy was voted Business Woman of the Year in 1995 and Top Woman in Business in 2004.

KAREEM MAYAN  is a Los Angeles-based technologist who currently works as Director of Product Development at the FOX Interactive Media (FIM) Labs group, which is charged with developing new products and technologies for use at FIM. Prior to FIM Labs, Kareem played significant product development roles in building successful community sites at ESPN.com and FOXSports.com. Kareem also worked for ALS Therapy Development Foundation, helping the small non-profit pioneer a new model of drug testing while searching for a cure for Lou Gehrig's disease. Kareem is also the co-founder of Blue Sky Collaborative, which helps non-profits use the web to raise money and awareness for their cause. A passionate believer in good employee and customer experiences, Kareem is a graduate of Creative Good's Fellows Program, and currently moderates a group of Creative Good Associate Council members who help each other solve business problems. In early 2006, Kareem brought together a community of 85 technologists in LA as a co-organizer of LA's first self-organized "unconference". A Toronto native, Kareem graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a degree in psychology and computer science.

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.,  is an internationally known American/Greek evolution biologist, futurist, author, and business consultant who travels the world speaking on the future course of human social and economic evolution. Elisabet teaches in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute's MBA program on sustainable business in Seattle, and is a fellow of the World Business Academy. She has taught at MIT and the University of Massachusetts; written for the TV science program, Nova/Horizon; organized Earth Celebrations 2000 in Athens, Greece; and has been a UN consultant on indigenous peoples. Dr. Sahtouris has spent much of her life living in Greece and the Peruvian Andes, finding solutions to the world's major social and economic problems in the Earth's ecosystems and indigenous sciences. She has been involved with the World Bank, EPA, Boeing, Siemens, Tokyo Dome Stadium, Australian National Government, Sao Paulo's leading business schools, State of the World Forums (in New York and San Francisco), as well as the World Parliament of Religion in South Africa. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us; and Biology Revisioned (with Willis Harman).

Andrew J. Sherman  is a partner with Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP in the Corporate and Finance Practice and has served as a legal and strategic advisor to dozens of Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of emerging growth companies. Mr. Sherman has represented both U.S. and international clients anywhere from early stage, rapidly growing start-ups, to closely held franchisors and middle market companies, to multi-billion-dollar international conglomerates. Mr. Sherman is the author of 13 books on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth. He is an adjunct professor in the University of Maryland's Masters of Business Administration Program (M.B.A.) and in Georgetown University's M.B.A. Program. Mr. Sherman regularly appears as a guest on media such as CNN, NPR, CBS among others and has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, The New York Times, Business Week, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, Money, and Inc., along with other renowned publications.

BILL TAYLOR  is the Founding Editor of Fast Company magazine and for nearly two decades, as a writer, a speaker, and an entrepreneur, has been setting the idea agenda for business and showcasing the power of business at its best—with a special emphasis on how democratic ideals of distributed leadership and peer-to-peer collaboration can reshape both the marketplace and the workplace. Bill is the co-author of three books on strategy, leadership, and the changing logic of global competition. As cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, he launched a magazine that changed the conversation about the best ways to do business and has won a passionate following around the world. In 2004, in recognition of Fast Company’s impact on business, Taylor was named "Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance" by the American Society of Training and Development. Past winners of this annual award include Jack Welch of General Electric, John Chambers of Cisco Systems, and Fred Smith of FedEx. Prior to launching Fast Company, Bill was associate editor of the Harvard Business Review, where he steered HBR’s coverage of technology, innovation, and the new business models emerging in Silicon Valley, and conducted interviews with some of the world's leading CEOs. Bill is now at work on two projects. He's an adjunct professor at Babson College, where he teaches an MBA course and hosts visiting CEOs in a forum called The Maverick Seminar at Babson College. He's also author of the forthcoming book, Mavericks at Work: Restoring the Promise of Business, Transforming Your Company and Career.

Sanford Wilder  is president, CEO, and CFO of Communico Ltd, a leader in service training and development that has been serving clients for over 24 years. Sandy co-developed the MAGIC Service Culture SystemTM, a proprietary, integrated system of training and consulting that ensures consistently exceptional service. With over 25 years of experience as a consultant, trainer, and coach, Sandy has helped leaders at all levels in Fortune 1000 companies to effectively lead and manage. He has consulted with and trained thousands of people in leadership, coaching, listening, team building, customer relations, presentation skills, selling, writing, and reading. Recently he created and recorded, "The Quiet Work of Leadership", an audio tape/CD/booklet focused on a leader's role in sustaining a culture of world-class leadership and performance. Sandy has a BA in economics from Union College and has conducted graduate work in the fields of organizational development and psychology.