Dr. Danny Brassell is affectionately known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.,” Dr. Danny Brassell (www.DannyBrassell.com) has held a variety of titles and worked with leaders from a variety of fields and disciplines, but he has always considered himself first and foremost a teacher. He is a best-selling author of 18 books, including his latest, Misfits and Crackpots. For the past 25 years he has also been a lecturer and professor at a number of universities, including his current position as a faculty advisor for the CalStateTEACH program and distinguished visiting professor at the American University of Cairo. 

A gregarious, sought-after author, speaker, accountability coach and business consultant, Danny is a recognized authority on leadership development, reading, motivation and communication skills and the co-creator of The Reading Habit™, the world’s top reading engagement program, as well as founder of The Lazy Readers’ Book Club™, which provides short book recommendations for busy people. 

Danny’s mission is to empower leaders to transform their personal experiences into powerful business stories that inspire action, drive growth and create lasting impact. Thousands, from school districts to businesses to association conferences, have enjoyed his energetic, interactive and informative presentations. He has spoken to over 3,500 different audiences worldwide. 

The co-founder of The WellCrafted Story Workshop™, he helps individuals, entrepreneurs and organizations around the world leverage speaking on stages as a major client lead source that converts. 

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Clint Padgett is the President and CEO of Project Success Inc., a global leader in project management consulting that for over 30 years has empowered Fortune 500 companies to plan, execute, and deliver complex initiatives across industries. A dynamic thought leader, Clint is also a ForbesBooks author and the host of the popular podcast The Conversation with Clinton M. Padgett, where he explores the intersection of people, leadership, and project success with C-suite executives and renowned authors.

Early in Clint’s career he served as an electrician’s mate aboard an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. This formative experience forged the discipline, resilience, and mission-focused mindset that would come to define his leadership philosophy. Following his military service, he transitioned into technical roles, including serving as a sales equipment engineer at The Coca-Cola Company. Clint holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business—credentials that reflect his rare blend of technical acumen and strategic insight. His people-first, process-driven approach is further shaped by decades of experience leading complex projects around the globe, and by his continued commitment to learning, teaching, and mentoring.

Clint is best known for championing the human side of project management. He believes that successful projects are not driven by charts or software—but by empowered people and real conversations. His methodology emphasizes commitment, clarity, and collaboration in matrixed organizations, helping clients create plans their teams can believe in and deliver on. This philosophy is codified in his two books: The Project Success Method and How Teams Triumph: Managing by Commitment.

Through Project Success Inc., Clint has helped global teams with executing high-stakes, high-visibility projects—including multiple Olympic Games and FIFA World Cups for brands like Coca-Cola—ensuring every objective is met with precision and alignment.

Clint’s insights have been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and numerous industry podcasts and panels. Whether training project managers, consulting senior leadership, or speaking on global stages, Clint brings three decades of experience, candid wisdom, and a relentless drive to help organizations thrive through project excellence.

In this inspiring episode, Dennis Henson shares his journey from a struggling student to a successful entrepreneur and author. Discover the power of daily reading habits, the importance of gratitude, and how small steps can lead to monumental success. Dennis's stories and insights offer a roadmap for personal growth and achieving your dreams. Tune in to learn how to transform your mindset and embrace the habits that lead to a fulfilling life.

Brenda Neckvatal helps the strongest leaders deal with the messiest people—because leadership gets real when emotions get loud, trust gets shaky, and egos start swinging. She’s a three-time bestselling author, an award-winning Human Results expert, and a serial entrepreneur featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc., and US News & World Report.

After 18 years inside six Fortune 500 companies, Brenda transitioned out of traditional HR and into Human Results, where the goal isn’t checking boxes. It’s getting results. Her no-fluff strategies have helped over 1,000 leaders and 700 companies avoid costly mistakes, fix toxic dynamics, and build teams that actually work.

Brenda has spoken on nearly 400 stages, delivering high-impact transformational keynotes that break through the audience’s mental background noise and land with such precision, audiences lean in, lose track of time, and get fully immersed in the message. With 30 years of experience, she’s a trusted mentor in crisis management, group dynamics, and leadership transformation—especially when the stakes are high and the people are difficult.

She also donates 32 weeks a year to The Honor Foundation, helping Navy SEALs and Special Forces veterans navigate the transition to civilian life with purpose and clarity.

When chaos shows up at your door, Brenda is the call you make.

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Lloyd Skinner is the CEO of greyfly.ai and is responsible for leading the company’s board and strategic initiatives. With over 30 years of experience in programme management, he has successfully overseen full life cycle projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds, including major change and transformation efforts. During his time as a programme manager at the BBC, he managed thousands of people and chaired both project-level and senior programme executive board meetings, with his programmes being recognized as best in class.

Lloyd is an evangelist who advocates the potential to revolutionise project management across multiple industries through AI. He is a seasoned speaker and has delivered UK and Global talks at events organised, for example, by APM, BCS, GAPMO and PMI.

In addition to his role at greyfly.ai, Lloyd serves as a non-executive director at companies with a combined turnover of over £15 million, where he chairs board meetings and helps guide the direction of the company. Lloyd has a Master of Science from LSE and is particularly interested in the potential of AI to improve project success.

Scott Morris is the founder and CEO of PropulsionAI. After two decades leading HR for organizations across five industries and two continents, and sizes ranging from startups to enterprise scale companies (15,000+ employees), Scott's now traded his cushy C-suite career for a tech bro vest and the thrill of entrepreneurship.PropulsionAI’s platform helps companies rethink role design & how those roles connect to business outcomes. It creates strategic job descriptions in minutes that focus on outcomes instead of tasks. This leads to better candidates, higher engagement, increased productivity, and lower turnover. Theplatform creates capacity for thinly stretched HR teams by engaging managers directly. While many companies struggle with headcount optimization and talent retention, PropulsionAI is helping leaders at Albertsons, Wisk Aerospace, and the City of Denver make smarter hiring decisions, and improve performance management.

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GREG BENNICK is a world-class speaker, social theorist, and best-selling author whose ideas have inspired tens of thousands of people to take new approaches to eliminatingdistraction, increasing productivity and focus, and aiming towards personal development. His book "Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now," (affiliate link here: https://amzn.to/44eoeOs ) takes a close look at eliminating distractions so that we can bemore productive, be better skilled as leaders, and increase our focus. He engages with audiences in conversations that span borders, appearing on stages in 27 countries (and counting). He is the founder and executive director of aninternational nonprofit in Haiti (onehundredforhaiti.org), which since 2010 has listened to Haitian people to help transform an entire region’s relationshipwith water, education, food, and housing. You can read more about Greg at gregbennick.com and find him amidst your next session of endless scrolling on social media at @gregbennick on Instagram.

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Nick Fewings is a self-proclaimed Teamworkologist who has dedicated over 32 years to studying, improving, and promoting high-performance teamwork. Their passion began after an early failure as an accidental manager, which sparked a deep curiosity about what makes teams effective. Since then, they have worked with hundreds of teams and profiled thousands of individuals across the globe, helping leaders and team members build more positive and productive working environments.

They have spoken at over 500 conferences worldwide, sharing insights on how to foster collaboration, appreciation, and success within teams. [Your Name] is the creator of Team DyNAmics, a model that measures team effectiveness across 16 critical areas. In 2022, they published the international bestseller Team Lead Succeed, recognized as a book of national interest in the UK. In 2024, they co-created Our Team Synergy, a self-guided tool that empowers teams to assess and improve their own performance through actionable insights

Robert J Hunt is "The Accountability Dude" and the co-author of the book "Nobody Cares...until you do." He is a business owner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas area since 2008. Robert is an Executive Coach who runs CEO Groups in DFW since 2013 and he brings that experience and wisdom to help people reach their goals. Robert has been married 27 years to his beautiful wife Kathy, and has two adult children also living in Texas. He is passionate about his faith, his purpose, his family and his quest to help people be their best.

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Shane co-founded and was COO of Acro Media in 1998, a web development company that earned a Mid-Sized Company of the Year award from the local Chamber of Commerce in 2007. Later, with Disney Interactive, he oversaw studio operations, where he led teams to overcome the challenges of multi-studio software development through blending traditional project management and Agile.

He helped found Minga in 2016, serving as VP of Product. Minga is now a successful social platform across many Canadian schools. More recently, Shane worked as the Director of Operations at Komixstream, a startup bringing interactive comic books to the mobile platform.

In early 2020, Shane joined Virtira to challenge and scale its operational capabilities, strengthen team building and implement more robust Lean/Agile methodologies. As COO, he transformed all solution and practice areas, Operations, HR, IT, and the PMO. More recently, Shane’s vast experience in project management, entrepreneurship, and team leadership has made him an in-demand speaker on productivity and engagement.

Shane lives in beautiful Kelowna, British Columbia with his wife, two daughters, and two cats: Pancake and Bagel.
His first book with Forbes Books, The Power of Remote, is co-authored with Cynthia Watson.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-spraggs/Web: https://virtira.caLink to his book The Power of Remote:

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