Chasing Wisdom

Keenan’s primary research activities are in the area of supply chain

management, the analysis of alternatives for capital purchases under

conditions of resource scarcity, humanitarian assistance and disaster

response, risk analysis, and resource management in environments that

exhibit high degrees of uncertainty.

Prior to joining the Naval Postgraduate School, Keenan was an operations researcher and principal investigator with The RAND Corporation, a federally-funded research and development center (FFRDC) where he led

studies for the Army, Air Force, and TRANSCOM to improve the effectiveness of logistics, acquisition, and sustainment operations and to develop policy guidance for supply chain operations.

Keenan has several years of experience teaching and developing Master’s students and executives in the U.S. and Europe in principles of supply chain management and manufacturing operations. He has served as an

Intelligence Analyst for the U.S. Customs Service in the area of international money laundering and has worked large litigation cases representing Lloyd’s of London in insurance defense. He was the National Research

Coordinator for Manufacturing Skills Standards as part of an initiative funded by the United States Congress to develop national skill standards for the U.S. industrial manufacturing economic sector. He has advised U.S. and

European firms for several years in the petrochemical, semiconductor, paper and pulp products, and steel industries focusing on enabling corporate strategy by using the supply chain as a competitive weapon.

Keenan holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management, an M.B.A. in Operations and Information Management, and an M.S. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds a B.A. in Religion

with a concentration in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism from Temple University.

Heath joined Insurance Office of America in 1996. He attended Liberty University where he majored in Business Administration and played football for the Liberty University. Heath currently holds the (2-20) Property & Casualty General Lines and (2-18) Life & Health Life (including variable annuity) insurance licenses. Heath has been married to his wife Abby for 11 years and they have a 7 year old son and a 3 year old daughter. Heath’s interests include spending time with his family, working out, running and he is an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Heath is a Member of The Seminole State College Foundation Board, Board of Elders of Grace Church of Longwood, Advisory Board of Lifework Leadership Orlando and President of the IOA Foundation.

John Crossman is President of Crossman & Company, one of the largest retail leasing, management, and investment sales firms in the Southeastern United States. The company manages over 27.1 million square feet of properties located in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. Under John’s leadership, alongside his brother Scott, Crossman & Company has been named one of the “Best Places to Work” by Florida Trend magazine.

John is known notably for his passion for diversity and working with college students. Acting on his passion, John has endowed student scholarships named after his father, the late Reverend Kenneth C. Crossman, at Florida State University as well as Bethune-Cookman University.

In his spare time, he is involved with numerous charitable activities and considers his greatest achievement to be the fact that his wife, Angie, agreed to marry him in 1996. They have two daughters, Claire & Ava.

Betsy has worked for over twenty years as both an internal and external Organizational Development Consultant, including eight at Walt Disney World. At Disney, she gained indispensable knowledge and awareness by working for a Fortune 100 company with a world-class brand, exceptional executives, and 66,000 cast members.

Since starting Accelera, she has had the opportunity and privilege to apply and scale the Disney principles to accelerate change in companies of all sizes and industries including Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Florida Hospital, ASIG, and Fresh Point.

Now, Betsy is at a place in her career where she is deeply passionate about helping others to achieve success by creating healthier workplaces while finding greater personal achievement and significance.

David Burkus is a best-selling author, an award-winning podcaster, and associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University. His latest book, Under New Management, challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don’t work — and reveals what does. He’s delivered keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and the future leaders of the United States Naval Academy. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

Simon is an executive advisor, career mentor, author, and keynote speaker who specializes in helping people harness the power of their own brilliance. He offers practical, boots-on-the-ground strategies to help individuals and organizations leverage their strengths, create meaningful relationships, and stretch themselves to build new skills.

During his experience working in a variety of roles, ranging from a position at a Days Inn in Downtown Atlanta to a leadership role at the Walt Disney World Resort®, Simon has learned first-hand the powerful outcomes that stem from uncovering the brilliance within each individual, and he quotes he is "yet come across a person yet who isn’t brilliant!"

In the midst of a successful career, Bailey shifted his focus to sharing these life-changing strategies for cultivating and leveraging brilliance with people from around the world. Since establishing the Brilliance Institute, he has worked with over 1,000 organizations on six continents and have written seven books, including the latest: Shift Your Brilliance - Harness the Power of You, Inc.

Dr. Snyder got his bachelor degree from the Wichita State University. His Medical degree came from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. After that, Jim did his residency at university hospitals in Kansas and Missouri. Now, he is the medical director and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Central Florida Regional Hospital, and at the Oviedo Free Standing Emergency Room.

Charles Tews is President and Founder of Tews Company. Prior to establishing the firm, Tews spent five years with General Mills/Darden Restaurants working in both financial planning and analysis and Government Relations. Charles is very involved in the Central Florida non profit community having served as Board Chair for The Coalition For The Homeless Of Central Florida and Chair of the Pace Center For Girls. He has also served on the Board of the Orlando Health Foundation and Committee Of 100 of Central Florida. Tews holds a BS in Finance from Florida State University and an MBA from the Gouizueta School of Business at Emory University.

A 4 Time Olympian, 7 Time US Elite National Champion, Hunter Kemper is the most decorated U.S. triathlete in history. A four-time member of the USA Olympic triathlon team, he is one of only two men in the world to qualify for every Olympic triathlon (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012).

Kemper has won seven USA Triathlon Elite National Championships. In 2005, he became the first U.S. male triathlete to finish the season ranked No. 1 in the world and was selected as the U.S Olympic Committee Sportsman of the Year, joining the ranks of Olympic legends such as Michael Phelps and Michael Johnson. That year, he also received the prestigious Jim Thorpe All-Around Award. Other career highlights include earning the gold medal at the Pan Am Games (2003) and gracing the cover of a Wheaties box four times.

Kemper’s stellar career in triathlon is a testament to the power of hard work, determination and perseverance. On more than one occasion, he has battled back from devastating illness or injury – including a shattered elbow and subsequent staph infection that kept him out of action for several months in 2011-12 – to turn in an outstanding race performance when it mattered most. He continues to compete at the highest level of the sport and is eyeing a bid for a record-breaking fifth U.S. Olympic Team berth in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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A devoted family man, Kemper and his wife, Val, are the parents of three young sons and a little girl. His love for kids and his desire to help them achieve their goals is a passion of Hunter's as he looks to his future beyond competitive racing.

Sherry always dreamed about delivering meals to the elderly. Pursuing her dream, she started as an Assistant Director on Meals on Wheels, but her passion quickly led her to being an Executive Director. Little did she know she would become the chief operating officer of an agency that did this. Meals on Wheels, Etc. is a private nonprofit agency serving seniors in Seminole County since 1973. Meals on Wheels, Etc. is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for young and old by providing appetizing and nutritious meals as well as support services for seniors which enable them to maintain their independence and dignity.