Michael  Okaty is a partner and business lawyer who focuses on a wide variety of corporate transactions, governance, and counseling. He serves as an advisor and trustee to high-net-worth individuals and families. Mike is founder and former chair of the firm’s Senior Living Industry Team, former vice chair of the firm’s Industry Teams Department and formerly the managing partner for the Orlando office. Mike is presently co-chair of the firm’s Transactions Practice and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.

Mike has experience in a wide variety of corporate law matters, including corporate formation, corporate operations and governance, contract drafting, review and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising and finance transactions for both public and private companies and lenders.

Robert Jordan is the author of  RIGHT LEADER, RIGHT TIME: Discover Your Leadership Style for a Winning Career, which is the executive reader’s one-stop guide to assessing their distinct leadership style and a step-by-step plan for optimizing that style to best suit their business and scale its growth. Robert identified 4 distinct leadership styles and when and where those styles are the most useful. For example:
 
·       Are you an adrenaline junkie who "runs into the fire?" You might be a FIXER
·       Are you a creative that is constantly envisioning new products, innovations and better ways to do things?  You might be an ARTIST
·       Do you excel at managing teams, investors, and other stakeholders with diverse agendas?  You might be a STRATEGIST
·       Are you transaction oriented and focused on the endgame? Do you see the ceiling as something made to break through? You might be a BUILDER

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Craig Jones is a veteran of the venture capital and private equity industries and currently runs the private equity firm TPE Boulder. He has invested extensively in software, healthcare, and business services companies, leading investments in over 60 companies. He is Chairman of Integrated Computer Systems. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of CanSource, DFW Neuro, and Voxco. Mr. Jones is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association and has founded a charter elementary school. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and kids.

Mark C. Crowley provides the roadmap workplace leaders the world over are seeking: How to most successfully and sustainably inspire and manage other human beings in the post-pandemic era.
 
Nearly 50 million workers quit their jobs in the U.S. alone in 2021 - a record number likely to be exceeded in 2022.
 
While we might imagine that an opportunity to earn greater pay is the key driver of this "Great Resignation," research shows two-thirds of the reasons people leave jobs boil down to issues related to their engagement & overall well-being.
 
More specifically, people quit when they feel they aren't valued, respected, appreciated, coached - or cared about personally - by their manager & organization.
 
Thanks in large part to the COVID pandemic, & a global reset of what matters most to people in their lives, human beings have profoundly evolved in what they need & want in exchange for their work.  
 
Consequently, a radical change in employee expectations demands that organizations & managers rapidly pivot by embracing leadership practices that match the moment.
 
The remedy to the Great Resignation is to adopt more humane ways of managing people knowing they inherently lead to infinitely greater engagement not to mention optimal employee performance.
 
In this new & updated version of his seminal & visionary book, Mark C. Crowley draws upon emerging medical & other scientific discoveries which prove it's the heart, not the mind, that drives human motivation & achievement. 
 
While we've long been led to believe that human beings are essentially rational beings ("I think, therefore I am," Descartes famously said), new research shows that feelings & emotions far more often motivate human behavior - & what people care about most & commit themselves to in their lives.
 
In light of this breakthrough understanding, it's become incumbent upon workplace managers to pay great attention to their employees' emotional experience at work - far greater attention than any of us ever believed necessary.  
 
Ironically, most of us were told the heart has no place in workplace management. In fact, most of us were taught that the heart acts like Kryptonite in leadership: it inherently undermines a manager's effectiveness - & lowers performance.
 
What makes this book so remarkable is that it brilliantly contradicts all those traditional beliefs & proves why people naturally & instinctively respond to managers who care about them personally & support their deep human needs.
 
To be absolutely clear, there's nothing soft or weak about the Lead From The Heart philosophy. Instead, it represents the future of workplace management & a roadmap to driving uncommon engagement, productivity & profitability when organizations around the world are wanting it most.
 
Rich with inspiring stories & illuminating research, this book proves that when you lead people with a greater balance of mind & heart, people naturally follow. And, they also excel.

Rich Gannon played 18 years in the NFL where he was the leagues's MVP, a 4X Pro Bowl selection, 2X first team All-Pro, 3X AFC Player of the Year and 2X AFC Offensive Player of the Year. He led the Oakland Raiders to the Super Bowl in 2002. He attended the University of Delaware where he was named Yankee Conference Player of the Year as a senior and honorable mention All-American. 

Matt Doherty of Doherty Coaching Practice played and coached basketball at the University of North Carolina. He started on the 1982 National Championship team with NBA greats Michael Jordan & James Worthy. The program was led by legendary coach Dean Smith. Matt went on to coach college basketball. He was the head coach at Notre Dame before taking over the UNC program. He led the Tar Heels to the 2001 regular season ACC Championship while being named AP National Coach of the Year. Matt is now a consultant while broadcasting games for the ACC Network. 

Since his time at UNC, Coach Doherty worked as the head coach at FAU and SMU in addition to working at ESPN, the Indiana Pacers and the Atlantic 10 Conference.

https://coachmattdoherty.com 

Now in his eighth season as head coach at Sam Houston, K.C. Keeler has taken the Bearkats to places they have never been before, culminating in the program's first-ever FCS national championship in 2020.In his tenure he has directed the Bearkats to a 71-22 record that includes 14 victories over top-10 ranked opponents and 13 wins in NCAA postseason action.

During 27 years as a head football coach, Keeler has produced a record of 243 victories, only 95 losses and 1 tie. His teams at Rowan, Delaware and Sam Houston have combined for 16 NCAA postseason playoff appearances, 10 conference championships and played in 9 national championship games.

His SHSU teams made the playoffs in each of his first 4 seasons at the helm, including FCS semifinals appearances in 2014, 2015 and 2017 along with a pair of Southland Conference championships.

But it was the 2020 season that catapulted the Bearkats, and Keeler, even higher into the upper echelon of FCS programs. Keeler helped direct the Bearkats through the COVID-19 pandemic that pushed the season back to the Spring 2021 semester, and then helped Sam Houston close out a perfect 10-0 record with the program's first-ever title at the FCS level. 

After a win over Monmouth in the opening round, Sam Houston knocked off North Dakota State and James Madison, winners of the last 9 FCS titles, to reach Frisco and the title game. The Kats then took down top-seeded South Dakota State to claim the title. With the win, Keeler became the first coach in FCS history to win FCS championships at multiple institutions, having also won the 2003 title at Delaware. He also passed Jim Tressell for the most FCS playoff wins in the division's history with 25.