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Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T. Grimes are two award-winning, c-suite executives who together have accumulated 60 plus years of work experience at the highest levels, 60 years of marriage, and raised four successful children. Collectively, they have managed more than 25,000 employees globally.

Paula recently retired as President, Clinical Development at QuintilesIMS and Lisa has served as President & CEO of PurThread Technologies. Although Paula and Lisa were fierce competitors 20 years ago, they eventually formed a friendship and now, as a team, speak to corporations and women’s groups on a number of topics, including Complementing Not Competing, Packing Your Potential, and The Juggling Act.

Paula Brown Stafford is a clinical researcher, business leader, and lecturer. She is a distinguished alumna at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is also an Adjunct Professor. Previously she was president of clinical development at QuintilesIMS, a Fortune 500 company. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband and has two adult children.

Lisa T. Grimes is a business leader, coach and speaker. She has spent most of the last 30 years in healthcare and lifestyle start-ups where she has served as CEO of PurThread Technologies, InSite Clinical Trials and AcSentient. She loves to connect people and often does so through her work with non-profit organizations. She lives in Cary, NC with her husband and has two adult sons.

Together, Paula and Lisa founded Habergeon to help women achieve success, create balance, and experience fulfillment. They are dedicated to giving back and are donating a portion of all proceeds from book sales to some of their favorite charities.

Aaron Keith Hawkins’ mission is to help you recognize that you're capable of succeeding in literally every aspect of your daily life once you adopt success as a lifestyle to life instead of an target to hit.

In addition to being a podcast host of Unbreakable Success podcast, he's a personal performance and relationship coach who works closely with his clients to create transformational changes in their personal lives, relationships and marriages.

His desire is to help everyone find and achieve Unbreakable Success which is what you experience when you're no longer bracing for life's circumstances, because you've decided you're going to learn how to create your own. He believes everyone wants to succeed in their career, in their marriage, as a parent, as an entrepreneur, with their health and personal growth.

Everyone wants to create success and experience days that are consistently aligned with their dreams, your values and the person you want to become. Aaron completed his graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma where he majored in Leadership with a focus on professional coaching. He has served in many capacities during a 23 year career as a law enforcement executive including Training Officer, SWAT Team Leader & Division Commander.

He and his wife of 21 years live in New Jersey with their 11 year old daughter.

Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University.

Andy’s work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education.

His first book, Global Dexterity (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others.

His new book Reach was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences.

Dale’s Purpose is to help people thrive, live their best life, and make the world a better place.

He fulfills his purpose with his wife, Tabbi, by enabling their members, through education and mentorship, to become more, do more, and have more in life through mastery of their time, money and business. After building three successful companies, he’s giving back by helping others learn from his failures and successes in life and business.

He helps others get control of money and time, so they can have more of both through coaching and mentoring which focused on four categories: 1. Money & Debt Freedom 2. Life & Happiness 3. Time & Personal Productivity 4. Business & Higher Income

Together, he and his wife share a wildly important goal of helping 1000 people discover and achieve their Wildly Important Goal by 2020.

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? Matt Miller has the answer and he shares it today in my conversation on the Dr. Jason Brooks Leadership Podcast.

Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before enter- ing the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries. While a top performer in the corporate world, his long term desire was to be his own boss.

A good friend one day mentioned the gum ball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10 year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries.

Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.

Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and soloprenuers get featured on leading podcasts their prospects are already listening to. Then he shows them how to turn listeners into customers.

Tom is author of PODCAST GUEST PROFITS: Grow your business with a targeted interview strategy and founder of Interview Valet, the concierge level booking service. His passion is helping connect leaders with the world in a way that makes an impact for all.

In this noisy digital world, business leaders are continually bombarded with the newest must have tools to reach their goals. As a Navy veteran and an inbound marketing engineer, Tom has a refreshingly different approach. He focuses on time proven strategy, then supercharges them with today’s free tools. An author, speaker, and teacher, Tom helps you get more traffic, leads, and raving customer fans by being interviewed on podcasts.

Dee Ann Turner is Vice President, Sustainability for Chick-fil-A, where she began her career more than 30 years ago. She previously served as the Vice President, Enterprise Social Responsibility for two years, the Vice President, Corporate Talent for three years, the Vice President, Talent for five years and the Vice President, Human Resources for eight years.

She has played an intricate role in growing Chick-fil-A’s unique and highly regarded culture while overseeing recruitment, selection, and retention of corporate staff and the recruitment and selection of Chick-fil-A Franchisees.

Dee Ann’s insightful knowledge and applicable tools to building an incredible and influential company culture are revealed in her book, It’s My Pleasure: The Impact of Extraordinary Talent and A Compelling Culture.

Dee Ann attended Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, Ohio, majoring in Journalism and Christian Education. She later completed her education at Clayton State University in Atlanta with a degree in Management. She received further certifications at Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill, and she completed the prestigious Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Ron Carucci is a seasoned consultant with more than 25 years of experience working with CEOs and senior executives of organizations ranging from Fortune 50s to start-ups in pursuit of transformational change. His consulting has taken him to more than 20 different countries on four continents. He has consulted to some of the world’s most influential CEOs and executives on issues ranging from strategy to organization to leadership.

He has worked extensively in a variety of industries and has led work on several large-scale merger integrations and subsequent culture change initiatives and enterprise-level global organizational redesigns.

Ron has spent the last several years exploring his new passion of ushering in the next generation of leaders, helping organizations connect multigenerational workplaces, and helping emerging leaders discover their unique voice and leadership strengths. He has spoken around the world on numerous topics pertaining to developing leaders of tomorrow.

He is author/co-author of eight books, including the most recent best-selling Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives (Greenleaf 2014) with colleague Eric Hansen, The Value-Creating Consultant (AMACOM, 2000) Relationships That Enable Enterprise Change (Jossey-Bass, 2002), the acclaimed Leadership Divided, What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing (Jossey-Bass, 2006) and its companion Facilitator's and Field Guides, Bridging the Leadership Divide (Jossey-Bass, 2010), Future in-Formation: Choosing a Generative Organizational Life (Outskirts, 2008) with colleague Josh Epperson, and Leadership Stories from Tomorrow (Xulon, 2009).

Mark Deterding has built a reputation as a trusted expert in Servant Leadership. He has successfully led many companies and teams through culture change as the leader of the organization. Now, through Triune Leadership Services, Inc, he has a successful practice that develops cultures of Servant Leadership within organizations and provides coaching to executives and emerging leaders.

As a business leader, consultant, speaker and author of a new book, “Leading Jesus’ Way: Become the Servant Leader God Created You to Be”, he brings an effective blend of actionable process, proven tools and expertise in guiding leaders to implement a culture of Servant Leadership.

Bryan Falchuk is a Certified Personal Trainer and Behavior Change Specialist whose goal is to help people change their lives for the better.

As a public speaker, Inc Magazine contributor, life coach and best selling-author, Bryan spent the first half of his life obese, and much of the second half trying not to be obese again until he discovered the approach to change all that – Do a Day. Using Do A Day, Bryan was able to break from this pattern to live a life of consistent, unending health and wellness, and works to share what he’s learned with others seeking a happier, more complete existence through newbodi.es.

As Bryan says, "people don’t change, lives do". His goal is to help people change their lives. Bryan changed his life while staying true to himself. So can you. Tomorrow is a new Day for all of us. You can wake up and Do it.