Jack Canfield, CSP, CPAE, is the co-author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. He is the author and narrator of several bestselling audio and video cassette programs and three other books, including his latest The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal, and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty.

Joe Torre was named the manager of the New York Yankees on November 2, 1995 and led the 1996 Yankees to their first World Series Championship since 1978. He is the only person ever to be named both the MVP and Manager of the Year. In the off season, Torre is most comfortable on stage motivating audiences, explaining the challenges of sport, and stressing the importance of team work.

"Catching what is right in the world and playfully sparking people and businesses to grow toward the extraordinary" describes Joseph Michelli. Featured on the best selling lists of the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek Magazine, and USA Today, Dr. Joseph Michelli is an internationally sought-after speaker, organizational psychologist, and business consultant.

Creator of the Dilbert comic strip and author of several business commentaries, social satires and experimental philosophy books, Scott Adams is a strong believer in affirmations which he credits his career and success with. He is an avid sci-fi fan and has appeared on Babylon 5 and NewsRadio.

The Afterburner Seminars, founded by ace fighter pilot Jim Murphy, provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive, high-energy experience that is custom-tailored to inspire leadership, integrated teamwork and the quick, flexible thinking essential to fighter pilots and business managers alike.

Motivational speaker, trainer, public leader, researcher and author, Marcus Buckingham has trained over 2 million people through his seminars, lectures and books. He focuses on strength-management that suggests any job should be tailored to fit the person rather than the other way around, also known as the "StrengthFinder". He has been featured on PBS and the Today Show.

Author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place, a documentation of his May 2003 experience as a mountain climber forced to amputate his lower right arm with a dull knife in order to free himself after his arm became trapped by a boulder, Aron Ralston's story is one of courage and inspiration.

Award-winning author of NYT bestsellers, the Real Age Makeover books and the YOU series, Dr. Michael Roizen is the chief wellness officer at The Cleveland Clinic. He completed a tour of duty in the public health service and has 165 peer reviewed publications and 100 medical chapters, 14 US patents, started six companies, served on and Chaired a FDA Advisory Committee for 16 years. He is the co-inventor of the drug, Methylnaltrexone.

Peter Sims is a best-selling author and strategic adviser specializing in leadership and innovation. He started a sought-after class on leadership at Stanford Business School, and is author of Little Bets, a forthcoming book from Simon & Schuster: Free Press, about a creative process of experimental innovation that uses little bets to build up to great outcomes.

Author of the global best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida is one of the world's leading public intellectuals on economic competitiveness, demographic trends, and cultural and technological innovation. His latest book, Who's Your City? is a national and international best seller, as well as an Amazon.com book of the month. Florida's ideas on the "creative class," commercial innovation, and regional development have been featured in major ad campaigns from BMW and Apple, and are being used globally to change the way regions and nations do business and transform their economies.