Over the course of his professional career, Ricky Kalmon has hypnotized thousands of people as an aid to their self-improvement. In his work with Fortune 500 companies, Ricky Kalmon has shown executives and employees at all levels how to help themselves break through the negative barriers affecting their lives and bring out the best in themselves.

Co-host of the Style Network's show, Clean House and host of Sports Soup, Matt Iseman is a professional comedian and a licensed physician.

Author and co-author of best-sellers, The Carrot Principle, The 24-Carrot Manager and The Invisible Employee, Chester Elton is a leading expert on leadership. He is senior vice-president of the Carrot Culture Group with the O.C. Tanner Recognition Company.

As the leader of a Massachusetts prison's largest gang, Andre Norman eventually realized that his leadership talents could be used in a more positive way. His story is a fifteen year odyssey that takes him from gang leader to lecturer at Harvard University, realizing that many of the lessons he learned about leadership in prison applied perfectly to business in the outside world. Andre is also passionate about his work with troubled and at-risk youth.

The subject of the Steven Soderbergh-directed feature film, "The Informant" (starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre), Mark was the highest-level executive of a Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower. His story is one of ethics (both business and personal), as well as hope, family, and overcoming extreme adversity.

He has influenced music, fashion, finance, television and film, and is the face of modern philanthropy. Russell Simmons has been instrumental in bringing the influence of hip-hop culture to every facet of business and media. He has produced and managed artists such as the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z and Tupac Shakur.

Jorge Castaneda is the former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2000-2003). He has authored more than a dozen books including Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. He is a regular contributor to newspapers such as Reforma, El Pais, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek magazine.

As the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Heraldo Muñoz is an expert on foreign affairs and the UN. He is an acclaimed author of several books, including A Solitary War, which chronicles the Iraq war and UN Security Council debates.

Bestselling author of Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror, Dr. Hassan Abbas is a former Pakistani government official who served in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1995-1996) and President Pervez Musharraf (1999-2000).

Geoff is Chairman & CEO of ghSMART, the management assessment firm for CEOs and investors, which he founded in 1995. ghSMART's client impact has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Buyouts and CNBC's Squawk Box. Geoff is co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, Who: The A Method for Hiring.