[op_liveeditor_element data-style=””][text_block style=”style_1.png” align=”left”]Ken Blanchard is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world. He is the co-author of the iconic bestseller The New One Minute Manager® and more than 60 other books with combined sales of more than 21 million copies translated into more than 42 languages. In 2005 he was inducted into Amazon.com’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time. He is cofounder, with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management consulting and training firm. He is also cofounder with Phil Hodges of Lead Like Jesus, a worldwide organization committed to helping people become servant leaders.[/text_block][/op_liveeditor_element]

[op_liveeditor_element data-style=””][text_block style=”style_1.png” align=”left”]Liz Wiseman is a researcher, executive advisor, and speaker who teaches leaders around the world. She is the author of three best-selling books: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools. Liz is a former executive from Oracle Corporation. She writes regularly for Harvard Business Review and Fortune and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Time. Liz is listed on the biennial Thinkers50 ranking for 2013 and 2015, and named as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world.[/text_block][/op_liveeditor_element]

[op_liveeditor_element data-style=””][text_block style=”style_1.png” align=”left”]Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker and #1 Executive Coach in the World. Dr. Goldsmith is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Both of these books have been recognized by Amazon.com in their list of the 100 Greatest Leadership and Success Books Ever Written. His 36 books have sold over two million copies and been translated into 32 languages. Marshall is one of a select few executive advisors who have been asked to work with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He is the world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.[/text_block][/op_liveeditor_element]

[op_liveeditor_element data-style=””][text_block style=”style_1.png” align=”left”]Peter Senge is a senior lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1999, the Journal of Business Strategy named Senge one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years. The Financial Times named him one of the world’s top management gurus in 2000, and in 2001 BusinessWeek rated Senge one of the top 10 management gurus. He has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change. He studies decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations and the managerial and institutional changes needed to build more sustainable enterprises. Senge’s work articulates a cornerstone position of human values in the workplace: namely, that vision, purpose, reflectiveness, and systems thinking are essential if organizations are to realize their potential. Senge is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the “interdependent development of people and their institutions.” He is the author of the widely acclaimed book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization and the coauthor of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations, and Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education.[/text_block][/op_liveeditor_element]

[op_liveeditor_element data-style=””][text_block style=”style_1.png” align=”left”]Cheryl A. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive and the Former CEO of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc.(November 2007 – March 2017). Her career encompasses over 35 years of experience in brand building, leadership development, operations, and public-company management at companies like Yum Brands, Domino’s Pizza, RJR Nabisco, The Gillette Company and The Procter & Gamble Company. She is a director of Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (PIR) and serves as compensation committee chair. She sits on the advisory board of Procter & Gamble’s franchising venture, Tide Dry Cleaners. She serves on the board of CEO Forum. Cheryl is known for her crisp strategic thinking, a franchisee-focused approach, and superior financial performance. Guided by the servant leadership thinking of Robert Greenleaf, she believes highly caring, collaborative leaders with big ambitions for the enterprise, not themselves, generate the conditions for people to perform their best work. In 2015, Cheryl published an acclaimed book to help leaders implement servant leadership in the marketplace: Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others.[/text_block][/op_liveeditor_element]