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Alexis Neely Alexis Martin Neely is revolutionizing the world of financial and estate planning for families and changing the way Americans think about lawyers as the Personal Family Lawyer you love. After experiencing the impact of a failed estate plan in her own family and then discovering that failed estate plans devastate hundreds of thousands of families each year, Alexis quickly found a solution to this problem and restructured her own law practice, Martin Neely & Associates, to address them and founded .....more»
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| Arthur Goodwin rthur is a relatively new addition to the Center, beginning his work there in 2001. Since that time, he has been active in investigating issues related to novice drivers. Arthur has coordinated several studies of parents and teenagers who are beginning the Graduated Driver License (GDL) program in North Carolina . The goal of this research is to understand how parents approach the process of supervising their teen’s driving, and to find ways to assist parents with this responsibility. Arthur has .....more» UNC Highway Safety Research Center |
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Audrey Nelson Dr. Audrey Nelson is an internationally recognized trainer, key-note speaker, and consultant. She specializes in gender communication, conflict management, dealing with difficult people, communication skills, and sexual harassment/ discrimination.
Dr. Nelson’s professional background includes 10 years teaching in the Dept. of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. For 30 years she has trained and consulted for a wide variety of government and Fortune 50 companies in 48 states, Aus .....more»
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Barbara Strauch Barbara Strauch is deputy science editor of The New York Times in charge of health and medical science. She is the author of two books, “The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain,’’ on the surprising talents of the middle-aged mind, published in April 2010, and “The Primal Teen,’’ on the teenage brain.
Ms. Strauch has been a writer and editor for 35 years, covering everything from City Hall to medicine and space shuttle missions at newspapers in New York, Boston and Houston. As Deputy Science Editor .....more»
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Ben Sherwood Ben Sherwood is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist and executive director of TheSurvivorsClub.org. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as executive producer of ABC’s Good Morning America during
the two most successful seasons in the program’s history. Sherwood guided prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the presidential election of 2004
From 1997 to 2001, Sherwood served as senior broadcast producer and senior producer of NBC Nig .....more»
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Brad Klontz Dr. Brad Klontz is the co-founder of Your Mental Wealth™. He is a clinical psychologist, addictions specialist, consultant, speaker, peak performance coach, researcher, author, and internationally recognized expert in financial psychology. Dr. Klontz was awarded the 2009 Innovative Practice Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association due to his application of psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues and his innovative practice in financial psy .....more»
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Catherine Friend Catherine has been a writer since 1985, when she began working as a contract technical writer in the Twin Cities. In 1990 she left corporate life, started writing for children, and has published six children's books. For ten years Catherine taught adults how to write for children, and gave dozens of presentations to children, teachers, and librarians. In a previous life, Catherine was an economist, and has a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and an M.S. i .....more»
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Christine Fahlund Christine Fahlund received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts and has worked in financial planning for more than 25 years. Before T. Rowe Price hired her in 1995, Fahlund was vice president of business affairs at Shawmut Trust Company; and prior to that, she was vice president of personal trust sales with Bank One Wisconsin Trust Company. Her personal philosophy on investing is: "A well-diversified portfolio with significant exposure to equities is an important compon .....more»
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| Clay Shirky Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC. In addition to his .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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David Schenk David Shenk is the award-winning and national-bestselling author of six books, including The Forgetting ("remarkable" - Los Angeles Times),Data Smog ("indispensable" - New York Times), and The Immortal Game ("superb" - Wall Street Journal). He is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR, and PBS. His new book The Genius in All of Us has been called "a deeply interesting and important book" b .....more»
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David W. Fleming David W. Fleming, M.D., is Director and Health Officer for Public Health - Seattle & King County, a large metropolitan health department with 1900 employees, 39 sites, and a budget of $296 million, serving a resident population of 1.8 million people. Department activities include core prevention programs, environmental health, community oriented primary care, emergency medical services, correctional health services, Public Health preparedness, and community-based public health assessment and pra .....more»
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Douglas Boncosky Doug's book, Create Wealth With Homeownership, was released by DNA Press in November 2009.
Doug is called upon by radio stations across the country to discuss matters regarding homeownership and mortgages. He has been heard on CBS Radio, WBZ Boston with Dan Rea, KNX Los Angeles, WTVN, Columbus, WLW Cincinnati, WGAU Atlanta, WICC Bridgeport, plus more.
My job is to work with you to develop a mortgage plan with ongoing advisory. I am one of a rare group of mortgage professionals who has investe .....more»
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Dr. Brad Spellberg Brad Spellberg is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and is based in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He received his BA in Molecular Cell Biology-Immunology in 1994 from UC Berkeley. He then attended medical school at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he received numerous academic honors, including serving as the UCLA AOA Chapter Co-President, and winning the prestigious Stafford Warren award for the .....more»
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Dr. Leonard Sax After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in biology, Dr. Leonard Sax began the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn in 1986 with a Ph.D. in psychology and the M.D. degree. He went on to do a 3-year residency in family practice at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Since completing that residency in 1989, he has been in full-time clinical practice as a .....more»
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Dr. Nancy Snyderman Dr. Nancy Snyderman joined NBC News as the Chief Medical Editor in September 2006. Her reports appear on "Today," "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Dateline NBC," msnbc and msnbc.com.
Snyderman has reported on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women and has traveled the world extensively, reporting from many of the world's most troubled areas. She is on staff in the Department of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Dr. William Sears Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his "little patients" call him, is the father of eight children as well as the author of over 30 books on childcare. Dr. Bill is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Dr. Bill received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto -- the largest children’s hospital in the world, where he served as associate ward chief of t .....more»
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Frank Sesno Frank Sesno is Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, an Emmy-award winning journalist, and host and creator of Planet Forward, a ground-breaking web-to-television show seen on PBS. He also serves as Director of the Public Affairs Project at the Center for Innovative Media. Sesno’s diverse career spans over 30 years of experience, including 21 years at CNN where Sesno served as White House correspondent, anchor, and Washington Bureau Chief. As a p .....more»
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Geoffrey Cowan For more than 30 years, Geoffrey Cowan has been an important force in almost every facet of the communication world - as a public interest lawyer, academic administrator, best-selling author and award-winning teacher, playwright, television producer, and government official.
From 1996-2007, he served as dean of the USC Annenberg School. In 2006, he was named the inaugural holder of the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the Annenberg School and director of the School's Cent .....more»
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Jaci Rae Jaci Rae Is The Queen of More Green. Known for her frugal, money saving ideas and tasty food, Jaci spends much of her time teaching people how to save money. Jaci is currently pursing her path towards a Masters / PhD in Math and Psychology and is a #1 best-selling author as well as an award-winning singer. Always on the go, Whole Foods named one of Jaci's companies Top Manufacturer in 2007. Jaci and her companies have been featured in Shape, Entrepreneur, Woman's Day, Woman's Health and .....more»
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| James Quiggle James Quiggle is the coalition's director of communications and fomenter of buzz. A 20-year veteran of public relations and journalism, Jim joined the coalition staff in March 2000. He's stirring public outrage and stoking consumer support with outreach campaigns that tell the tale of fraud, wag the tail of reform, and unite society to combat it. He oversees the coalition's outreach strategy, positioning the coalition as one of America's most-trusted authorities on insurance fraud. Jim's awar .....more» Coalition Against Insurance Fraud |
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Jill Bolte Taylor Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who is afilliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indiananapolis, Indiana. As the National Spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Harvard Brain Bank), she travels the country as the Singin' Scientist. She is the Consulting Neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993, she has been an active member of NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) and is cur .....more»
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Joe Piscatella Author Joseph C. Piscatella has been a keen observer of American eating habits since 1977, when emergency open-heart surgery at the age of 32 forced him to recognize the intimate connection between dietary habits and overall health. His successful recovery and determination to make adjustment in his own lifestyle and diet inspired a new career as an active proponent of healthy lifestyle changes. As president of the Institute for Fitness and Health, Inc. in Tacoma, Washington, he lectures extensi .....more»
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John C. Bogel ohn C. Bogle, 77, is Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of Vanguard's Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. He had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, immediately following his graduation from Princeton University, magna cum laude in Economics. He is a graduate of Blair Academy, class of 1947.
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Julia Moulden Julia Moulden coined the phrase “New Radicals” and now helps individuals and organizations find new ways to do good works. She is the author of “We are the New Radicals: A Manifesto for Reinventing Yourself and Saving the World”, published internationally by McGraw-Hill, New York. Her first book, “Green is Gold” (HarperBusiness), was a bestseller about another emerging trend. The first environmental guide for business, it was published in six countries. Her byline has also appeared in a diverse .....more»
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Kate Hanni Kate Hanni was a real estate broker for 17 years. She is also a professional musician in a Motown Band called the Toasted Heads. December 29, 2006 would be the turning point in Kate’s life and career, when thunderstorms diverted her Dallas-bound flight from San Francisco to Austin. Kate and her family were stuck on the tarmac for 9 hours without food, water, or information. Kate turned her anger into advocacy and began the Coalition for an Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights. Kate has appeared .....more»
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Larry Myler Larry Myler is an author, business strategist, and consultant for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. For much of his career he has energized companies with new, concrete methods for reducing expenses and increasing revenues. Larry has been involved in six start-ups, and is acutely aware of the nuances of business that lead to success.
Larry’s new book, Indispensable By Monday, extends his expertise and vision to employees at all levels, teaching them how to add financial va .....more»
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Laurence Kotlikoff Laurence J. Kotlikoff is Professor of Economics at Boston University, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Econometric Society, and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc. Professor Kotlikoff received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1977. From 1977 through 1983 he served on the faculties of economics of the Uni .....more»
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| Lois Fingerhut Lois A. Fingerhut is the Special Assistant for Injury Epidemiology in the Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ms. Fingerhut is the Chair of the International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics, a multinational project, the focus of which is to understand cross-national differences in injury mortality and morbidity. Her research includes analyses of injury data from most NCHS health care and vital sta .....more» |
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Marc Tucker Marc Tucker is President and founder of NCEE. He created the first Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce in 1989, as well as the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce in 2005 and authored the New Commission's report, Tough Choices or Tough Times. A leader of the national standards movement for many years, Tucker co-authored, with Ray Marshall, Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations, co-authored, with Judy Codding, Standards for Our Schools: How t .....more»
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| Margaret Iuculano Margaret Iuculano is a wife, mother, successful entrepreneur and child rights activist. She grew up in San Diego and worked for 15 years in the software consulting industry before purchasing her own software training and consulting company. Margaret served as CEO for 6 years before selling the company. She has been involved in several other entrepreneurial adventures, including designing and opening a wine bar and redeveloping a historic building. Margaret lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is a .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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Mark Courtney Mark Courtney is a a member of the faculty of the University of Washington School of Social Work and Executive Director of Partners for Our Children, a public-private partnership devoted to improving the child welfare system (www.partnersforourchildren.org). His fields of special interest are welfare reform, and child welfare services, such as child protection, foster care, group care, and adoption and professionalization of social work.
Professor Courtney's work has followed the outcomes over t .....more»
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Martin Yate Martin Yate CPC (Hon)*, is an executive career strategist and NY Timesbestseller with over thirty years in the career management field.
This experience spans international headhunting (one of the first technology management headhunters in Silicon Valley), Director of HR for Bell Industries Computer Memory Division in Mountain View California, and Director of Training and Development for the Dunhill Personnel System in New York. He has worked with corporations and associations on four continents .....more»
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Matthew Crawford Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic. Currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia. .....more»
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Paul Hogan Paul and Lori Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care in 1994. The company has grown into the largest senior care business of its kind in the world. In 15 years, it has provided services to more than 500,000 seniors through a network of nearly 900 franchise offices located in the U.S., Puerto Rico and 14 other countries. In 2008, Home Instead provided more than 40 million hours of care to seniors around the world.
Paul is a 1985 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He serves as a f .....more»
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Richard J. Johnson RICHARD JOHNSON, MD, has been a practicing physician and clinical scientist for over a quarter of a century. Previously chief of nephrology and director of renal transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Johnson is now chief of nephrology, hypertension, and transplantation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. .....more»
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Rosemary Gibson Rosemary Gibson is a leader in health care innovation, making cutting-edge improvements in the care of patients and their families for more than twenty years. Gibson's work has included implementing training programs for physicians at 800 hospitals, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Gibson also initiated new standards for the treatment of patients in pain with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer. These standards are now in effect at 18,000 health .....more»
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Roxanne Rivera Roxanne is the president and CEO of the Associated Builders and Contractors of New Mexico. She also serves as New Mexico’s liaison to the National Associated Builders and Contractors in Washington, DC.
Roxanne has been working in the construction industry for decades. In 1981, using a personal savings of $1,200, Rivera co-founded a sole proprietorship construction service business and grew it to a $13 million company that incorporated in 1989. She oversaw all operations and up to 100 employees .....more»
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Sunny Schwartz Sunny Schwartz is a nationally recognized expert in Criminal Justice reform. She has pioneered new policy initiatives for custody-based and reentry programs, as well as alternatives to incarceration. Ms. Schwartz has worked in criminal justice for over 25 years. She was admitted to the California State Bar in 1985. In 1990 Sheriff Michael Hennessey appointed Ms. Schwartz as the Program Administrator for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Ms. Schwartz has directed the design and operation of .....more»
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| Tom Rosenstiel Tom Rosenstiel designed the Project for Excellence in Journalism and directs its activities. He also serves as vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a national conversation among journalists about standards and values. A journalist for more than 20 years, he is a former media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine. He is the editor and principal author of PEJ’s Annual Report on the State .....more» Journalism.org |
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Wes Moore Wes Moore is a youth advocate, Army com bat veteran, promising business leader and author.
Wes graduated Phi Theta Kappa as a commissioned officer from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations. At Johns Hopkins he was honored by the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame. He completed an MLitt in International Relations from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. Wes was a paratroope .....more»
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