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Abundant Leaders and Thinkers

These people are my friends, my mentors, and my inspiration. They personify what it means to have a high AQ. They can help you live into your greatness.

Stephen Fairley

Stephen Fairley is the bestselling author of "Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching". He is President of Today's Leadership Coaching, Inc, one of Chicago's premier executive coaching and training practices. Learn more about Stephen at www.todaysleadership.com.

Keith Ferrazzi

Keith Ferrazzi is the author of the bestselling book, "Never Eat Alone And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship At A Time. He is the founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a marketing and sales consulting company and has been a contributor to Inc., the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. For more information, check out www.nevereatalone.com.

Mary Gallagher

ActionPact Coaching is founded on the principles of collaborative action, personal responsibility and professional achievement. Mary has a unique ability to enlighten clients on how to consistently bring out the best in themselves and in others. When working with business leaders, ActionPact Coaching applies a blend of executive and team coaching, individual and group assessments, and 360° feedback instruments. The goal is always to foresee excellent results while inspiring authentic leadership; enhancing communication and sustained performance from employees.

Before launching ActionPact Coaching in 2001, Mary held talent management and organizational development roles at a variety of venture-backed and Fortune 500 companies. A sought-after leadership expert, she is one of eight executive coaches in the Boston area approved for inclusion in the exclusive on-line resource directories of Inc. and Fast Company.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill brought international attention to the plight of the world's last remaining ancient forests when she climbed 180 feet up a 1000 year-old Redwood tree and refused to come down. Her historic 738-day protest of the environmental destruction caused by clear-cutting ancient redwoods culminated with a negotiated agreement that provided permanent protection for the tree ("Luna") and a nearly 3 acre buffer-zone. Julia is a writer, poet and activist. She is author of the national best seller "The Legacy of Luna" and co-author of "One Makes The Difference", both published by HarperSanFrancisco.

In addition, Julia founded the Circle of Life Organization. For more information, visit www.circleoflife.org.

Chris Hutchinson

Chris Hutchinson loves to work with values-driven organizations - that is, people working to make both a profit and a difference in the world. His role in his company's advisory team is to channel his passion about the power of people and effective leadership as a catalyst to help clients become further energized, more sustainable, and to create truly thriving organizations! There's nothing like the energy unleashed when a group of people realize that they are a team and that they really want to create something together - except maybe when the leaders decide to create an abundant environment within their companies to make the teamwork possible.

To learn more about Chris, visit The Trebuchet Group.

Dr. Ivan Misner

Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chairman of BNI (Business Network Int'l.). He has written eight books, including his New York Times best seller, Masters of Networking and his #1 bestseller, Masters of Success. He is a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur.com and is also Chairman of the Board for the Referral Institute - a referral training company with trainers around the world. Called the "Father of Modern Networking" by Ecademy.com and the "Networking Guru" by Entrepreneur magazine, Dr. Misner is one of the world's leading experts on business networking.

To learn more about Dr. Misner and Business Network International, visit www.bni.com.

Roger Parker

For over 20 years, Roger C. Parker has been advocating design as a strategic marketing tool for non-designers. Through his books, seminars, webinars, and personal coaching, Roger has been helping non-designers profit from the techniques used by professional designers for hundreds of years. His latest book is "Design to Sell: Using Microsoft Publisher to Plan, Write, and Design Great Marketing Pieces". For more information, visit www.newentrepreneur.com.

Soni Pitts

Soni Pitts is a personal coach and professional writer specializing in the LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability) industry, as well as serving as the Assistant Community Coach for CoachVille's Social Capital and Networking Community. When she's not working, she divides her time between her family, her hobbies and her public service interests (currently, she is serving as a board member and resident geek for the local Habitat for Humanity chapter). You can find Soni online at www.sonipitts.com (coaching) or at www.squidoo.com/writelivelihood/, her professional writing headquarters on Squidoo.

Donna Steinhorn

Donna Steinhorn is the President of the Donna Steinhorn Group and Coaching to Success. She is the co-founder of ACE, the Association for Coaching Excellence, and Chief Knowledge Officer of Serendiptious Event Productions, LLC. She is the former Executive Vice President for CoachVille and Dean of the Thomas Leonard Coaching School.

As an Executive, Life and Mentor Coach, Donna coaches Executives, Coaches, High Profile Individuals and Entrepreneurs, and has over 30 years of corporate and business experience. When she's not working with clients, or conducting workshops and teleclasses, Donna is engaged in creating programs, products and conferences. With her multiple roles, she's learned how crucial it is to embrace change and create inspiring, sustainable environments for success. Her humor coupled with her love of innovation and practical approach to life and business has earned her the "title" of Bottom Line Visionary.

Gail H. Stone

Gail H. Stone is a professional speaker, author and coach and the Founder and President of Creative Mastery Coaching, LLC, which offers a variety of empowering programs and products for personal and professional development - based around a powerful 5-step coaching process she developed called Get a Grip and Go®! 5 Simple Steps to Receiving What You Want. In her one-on-one and group coaching programs, she uses this step by step approach to help clients visualize, verbalize and make visible their desired intentions. Her passion and primary focus is showing people how to become "thrivers" - people who thrive and flourish in life despite the circumstances.

Joe Vitale

Joe Vitale, is the author of the international #1 best-seller, The Attractor Factor, the #1 best-seller Life's Missing Instruction Manual, the #1 best-selling e-book Hypnotic Writing, and the #1 best-selling Nightingale-Conant audio program, The Power of Outrageous Marketing, among numerous other works. He is the Founder and President of Hypnotic Marketing, Inc. Check out Joe's site at www.mrfire.com.