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Harvey Mackay is author of five New York Times bestsellers. His first two books -- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt -- have been translated into 37 languages and distributed in 80 countries. Both books were New York Times #1 bestsellers and are also listed by the Times among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time. Harvey's latest book is Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You, arrived Feb. 22, 2010. His book We Got Fired! … And It's The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Us (2004) became his third New York Times #1 bestseller. His books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. He also is one of America's most popular and entertaining business speakers, speaking -- on average – once a week to Fortune 500-size companies and associations. Today we will hear Harvey's job search secrets no one else will tell you.

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.

Jonathan pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. He is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people's awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. We will focus on how these discoveries can help leaders today. In 2007 he joined the faculty at UCSB. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals or edited volumes. Dr. Schooler is currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Center for Consciousness Studies..

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.

Pam Sherman, (AKA)… "The Suburban Outlaw™", is a "recovering attorney", an actress, writer, and professor, whose story of ditching her day job to pursue her dream as an actress was featured in People Magazine. Sherman speaks as the Suburban Outlaw about having an EDGE in the best possible way: to Explore Dream Grow and Excite. Pam provides outstanding training and development programs for business leaders all over the world on a variety of topics. Join today's exciting program to learn Pam's secret to having a positive EDGE and much more.

IN TODAYS TOUGH ECONOMY, DOES HAPPINESS IN THE WORKPLACE REALLY MATTER? New Research Reveals That People Who Are Happy At Work Are 50% More Productive and 180% Happier With Life Overall Than Their Least Happy Colleagues. "Happiness does matter from both an individual viewpoint and in terms of business sustainability," Join Jess Pryce Jones in today's program to learn how you too can learn to engage all your associates to produce the best performance ever!

As a filmmaker, author, professor, and motivational speaker specializing in happiness, Lisa Cypers Kamen is recognized as an expert. Lisa's acclaimed documentary film, "H-Factor…Where is your Heart?," explores how various people find, generate, and share happiness. Lisa travels the US presenting "Harvesting Happiness" workshops and seminars to groups such as the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Equinox Fitness, and Motherhood, Inc. As a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California and a participant in Project +, a research project on how happiness can impact the world, Lisa brings her up to date "Happiness" workshops and information - combined with her simple no nonsense, warm and humorous approach to facilitate true joy. Learn more about Lisa's global work at: www.lisakamen.com, www.harvestinghappiness.com, and www.whatisyourhappiness.com. Join Lisa as she shares personal highlights about leadership, happiness and success in today's show.

Lisbeth R. McNabb is CEO and founder of w2wlink.com. After driving high levels of growth as CFO and Strategist for Match.com, Lisbeth McNabb launched a professional women's content and community website business in 2007. Her professional background includes 20+ years in sales and business development, operations, finance and planning in growth and emerging stage businesses including PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, American Airlines, AT&T and Sodexo. Join entrepreneur and online networking expert Lisbeth McNabb to learn the secrets of success using web based talent engagement systems for executive development, coaching, mentoring and much more.

Hailed as a corporate visionary - launches his newest book "Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently" Internationally renowned and celebrated, Marcus Buckingham is the go-to consultant in his field, a sought after speaker, and a New York Times bestselling author. Challenging accepted and entrenched social theory, Buckingham pioneered a revolutionary concept—that people will be dramatically more effective, successful, and fulfilled when they play to their strongest skills rather than attempting to improve their weaknesses. He calls his research-based technique the "strengths revolution," and his work has been proven again and again in boardrooms, seminars, and individual's lives around the world. Join Marcus Buckingham on today's program to learn more about how you can engage your best life now based on his groundbreaking workshop as featured on Oprah!

Betsy Myers, COO to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, was tasked with the challenge of building a $103M organization also established the campaign with a business model and customer service mentality and acted as the Chair, Women for Obama. Myers, once the Exec. Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government focused the Center's teaching and research around personal leadership and "being" a fully integrated person. She was President Clinton's senior adviser on women's issues. Myers was the Director of the Office of Women's Business Ownership at the SBA and served as an advocate for 7.8 million women entrepreneurs in our country. She believes that the hardest person we will ever manage is ourselves. Join Betsy Myers as she shares personal highlights about leadership success and her new book in today's program.