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Ben Croft, an award-winning marketer, specializes in the Business and Executive Coaching industry. He is President of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit (WBECS). Ben shares secrets on how to market like a rock star without having to spend like one. Last year, the business and executive coaching industry changed. The WBECS emerged with a simple mission: to dramatically improve the success of business and executive coaches the world over. How? By cutting through the hype and noise of so-called coaching "experts" and introducing the global coaching community to the handful of thought leaders who are truly moving the industry forward. Over 7,000 business and executive coaches from 129 countries joined in. Testimonials poured in from around the globe. WBECS was a resounding success. Learn more by joining Ben as he shares insights to marketing like a rock star.

Steve Jobs had a Superman Syndrome and changed 7 different industries. What if you had superman powers of vision, could see things others couldn't and everyone in your world catered to your special powers? What tall buildings could you leap and what could you accomplish? Drs. Cathy Greenberg and Relly Nadler, the show hosts will look at the complex leadership profile of Steve Jobs where he excelled in EI and what areas he derailed in and people just tolerated. They will also speak about Emotional Intelligence new research and the new EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meet performance.

Her column, The Suburban Outlaw™ can be read in Gannett's Democrat + Chronicle and Rochester Magazine where she also contributes feature articles. Pam's bestseller, The Suburban Outlaw: Tales from the EDGE is available on www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com. Pam Sherman's story of ditching her day job as a lawyer to pursue her dream as an actress was featured in People Magazine. Today she combines her business background as an attorney with her creative skills at the EDGE™: Explore, Dream, Grow & Excite supporting business leaders to use acting skills for communications, business development and passionate leadership. Pam shares insights from her latest EDGE program on how to Speak Like A Thought Leader in your industry by applying your own brand of conviction and courage. After all, being a thought leader has become a critical leadership trait in today's growing world of global experts Pam blogs at www.herrochester.com and www.suburbanoutlaw.com

Dr. Marcia Reynolds has a passion for discovering and sharing how the brain works, especially the brains of today's smart, strong women. Her new book Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction was released in June and reached #1 in Leadership and Management books for women on Amazon. She is the also the author of the book Outsmart Your Brain and has been in many publications including Harvard Communications Newsletter, U.S. Business Review, Cosmopolitan and The New York Times and has appeared on ABC World News. She is also a regular blogger for Huffington Post and Psychology Today. You can watch videos and download the first chapter of Wander Woman at www.WanderWomanBook.com. Reynolds is past president of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was one of the first 25 people to earn the designation of Master Certified Coach (MCC) and was instrumental in designing the certification and accreditation programs for the ICF.

John Haime is President of LearningLinks Inc. and President of New Edge Performance Inc. and is a world-class performance specialist. John is a leading expert in emotional intelligence as it relates to performance. He is a former world tournament professional golfer and international consultant in the area of performance and emotional intelligence. John Haime created LearningLinks Inc. (www.learninglinks.org), which has unique corporate performance solutions including Mastering the Game: Leadership Effectiveness at Work, In Life and In Golf. He integrates the power of golf, performance and Emotional Intelligence to maximize the potential of leaders and teams. John has delivered programs to Cisco Systems, Nortel, Bell Canada, General Electric, KPMG, Capital One, GlaxoSmithKline and YPO. LearningLinks programs have helped companies worldwide enhance their team, performance and leadership capability. John's first book,You Are a Contender! was released in December 2009.

Sharon Jordan-Evans is a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She serves as a prominent speaker for numerous conferences and works with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Boeing, Disney, Lockheed, Cheesecake Factory, Monster, MTV, PBS, Sony, and Universal Studios. She co-authored two Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The first, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, is the world's best-selling employee retention book and has been translated into 20 languages. The second, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work, offers anyone who works easy-to-implement strategies for increasing job satisfaction. Love It, Don't Leave It has been translated into 15 languages. She also serves as a resource for a number of national media, including Business 2.0, Chief Executive, CIO, Harvard Management Update, Working Woman, Investor Business Daily, Business Week and the LA Times.

John O'Neil is currently the President of the Center for Leadership Renewal. He serves on several boards and is a best selling author, speaker, and advisor on leadership issues, providing leadership advisement and development services to senior leaders serving across a wide range of organizations from start-ups to mature enterprises. Today John will share his perspectives on "The Good Life" an innovative executive program which John co-created to help all leaders truly master the "life of their dreams".

Kevin is one of the leaders in the new field of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, which is generating a lot of interest in new findings that have previously been in the black box of the brain. He was recently interviewed by Wall Street Journal about managing the fear in the financial marketplace. He currently is the director of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Kevin's research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other.

Leaders drive engagement, engagement drives productivity and Emotional Intelligence drives leadership. In today's show Cathy and Relly give some of the latest updates about Emotional Intelligence (EI) research and the new Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQi 2.0) assessment. They also will take a deeper dive looking at three of the EI leadership competencies for Decision Making and strategies on how to raise and enhance these competencies. Cathy and Relly will discuss the Emotional Intelligence history, ROI research and the EQi 2.0 assessment. The EQi 2.0 is used to help your leaders better assess, predict and to have more leaders perform in the top 10%. Drs. Greenberg and Nadler use the EQi and other leadership tools in their XCEL (Excellence in Coaching for Executive Leaders) program, their landmark executive leadership and coaching programs, where emotional engagement meets performance.

Dr. TC North is a high-performance executive coach and speaker who accelerates and motivates individuals and organizations to attain their visions and dreams by becoming high performers. Cathy L. Greenberg is a best selling, award-winning author, ICF Certified Coach and abc TV's "First Lady of Happiness". Together they share the secrets of success in their new book, "Fearless Leaders", just one of many titles in their forthcoming hardback and digital Fearless Book Series. Tune in to learn more about the principles for being truly fearless in life, love, business and relationships. It's Emotional Intelligence at it's best.