Wendy Palmer is a renowned Bay Area teacher of aikido, somatic awareness and mindfulness. She is a sixth degree black belt in aikido, senior instructor at Aikido of Tamalpais, and the author of several books and a DVD.

Nicholas Hall is the manager of Stanford University Graduate School of Business Behavioral Lab, which explores the effectiveness of behavioral psychology in making culture changes in the workforce. Nick conducts research and consults on worker satisfaction and engagement, and he has been published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Both authors of Resilient Leadership for Turbulent Times. Jerry Patterson is the author of ten nationally recognized books and numerous articles on leadership and resilience. In his more than 30 years of experience as an educator, he has served as a superintendent, and most recently, professor of leadership studies at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Goorge Goens is a consultant with public and private sector organizations on leadership selection, development, and assessment. He has written three books and has published over 55 articles on leadership, change, and education in professional journals and the mass media on leadership.

John Freeman is a book critic and editor, as well as the author of The Tyranny of Email: The Four Thousand Year Journey to your Inbox. Freeman has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently the editor of Granta literary magazine.

Thuy Sindell, Ph.D. is the Founder and Managing Partner at Skyline Group International. She is a three-time author and the founder of two software startups, and has been featured in Business Week, CNN, Forbes, Fortune, NBC, and Washington Post.

Dr. Morgan Camp, M.D. is a board certified family practitioner physician who specializes in personalized Integrative Medicine with a focus on balancing hormones, digestive health, and correcting vitamin and nutritional deficiencies. Tawny Lees, M.B.A. is the COO of  Mariposa Leadership, Inc.

Dave Ancel is a partner at Emergent Solutions. They deliver custom support to leaders and executives to analyze their strategy through effective leadership actions. Dave’s focus is the intersection of strategy and leadership. He has a strong background in interpretive organizational theory and many years of experience leading large scale business transformation efforts.

As President of Resources In Action, Inc., Patrick has worked extensively with executives in the technology, utility, health care and financial industries. He has more than 20 years of experience helping leaders solve the business problems of today while supporting their transformation into the extraordinary leaders of tomorrow.

Milo Sindell is the CEO and founder of Knowledge Genie, a web publishing platform that helps subject-matter experts create, package, and publish what they know into a web application called a Genie, which they can share or sell. He has published three books and numerous articles in the field of employee performance and talent management. These books include: Sink or Swim: New Job. New Boss. 12 Weeks to Get it Right; Job Spa: 12 Weeks to Refresh, Refocus, and Recommit to Your Career; and the upcoming book, The End of Work as You Know It: Eight Strategies to Redefine Work in Your Terms.

WISE TALK September 2009: Andrew Winston is a globally recognized expert on green business and advises some of the world’s leading companies on how to profit from environmental thinking. Andrew is the author of Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top and the coauthor of the bestseller, Green to Gold; writes a weekly column on strategy for Harvard Business Online; and appears frequently in a major national media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week.

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