GRACE under Pressure John Baldoni

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America and was recently named #8 on the Thinkers50 list for 2021, made up of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world. She is an award-winning author, a regular keynote speaker, and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. A frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Johnson is author of several top-selling books including "Disrupt Yourself" and "Build an A Team." Her latest book is "Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company." She is also the host of the popular Disrupt Yourself podcast. www.whitneyjohnson.com

Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a 2x TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. After interviewing 500 thought leaders on credibility, he created the Credibility Nation community, published a 7-country international bestselling book, delivered a TEDx, created courses, and is working on getting the definition of credibility rewritten in the dictionary. Mitchell Levy is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books. He's provided strategic consulting to hundreds of companies and has been the chairman of a board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty-one years and prior to covid-19, regularly spent four weeks a year in Europe with family and friends. www.mitchelllevy.com   www.credibilitynation.com

Elliott Masie is widely considered as the father of e-learning. His company Masie Innovation has provide online learning to companies around the world. Elliott also leads the Learning COLLABORATIVE, a coalition of 75 global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies. Members include Amazon, Zoom, Bank of America, Subway, The Hartford, and others.Elliott is also a successful Broadway producer of such shows as Kinky Boots, An American in Paris, The Prom, The CHER Show, Anastasia, The Play that Goes Wrong, SpongeBob The Broadway Musical, and, most recently, "Seared” and Mrs. Doubtfire!. Elliott created and hosted the Empathy Concerts each week during the Pandemic, combining business/learning leaders with Broadway Stars, as a free support for our workforces facing the stress and uncertainty of these times. www.masie.com

Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Loveand gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She is the author of “Design the Life You Love.” www.aysebirsel.com

Liz Wiseman is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.  Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter.  Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and in 2019 was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world. Liz is the author of New York Times bestseller “Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter,” “The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools,” and Wall Street Journal bestseller “Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.”  Her newest book is “Impact Players.” www.thewisemangroup.com

Warwick Fairfax is the founder of Crucible Leadership, a philosophical and practical breakthrough in turning business and personal failures into the fuel for igniting a life of significance. He has been hailed by Forbes as offering “compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired by their work, but doesn’t.” HIs new book is "Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance" www.crucibleleadership.com    

Dr. Paul L. Corona is a clinical professor of leadership in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where his teaching and coaching ratings average 96/100. Paul is also the founder of the award-winning Lee's 3 Habits system, which helps motivated professionals and organizations build stronger relationships and achieve greater happiness – and he's the author of The Wisdom of Walk-Ons: 7 Winning Strategies for College, Business and Life. As a Leading Global Coach award winner, Paul was considered for the first Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching & Mentoring Award (the Thinkers50 Awards have been called "the Oscars" of management thinking). During the past 35 years, Paul has transformed himself from a business person into a performance improvement specialist. He previously held various leadership roles in Fortune 500 corporations, a Big 4 accounting and consulting firm, and primary research universities. Most importantly, Paul is a husband, parent and friend. www.paullcorona.com

HUBERT JOLY is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Best Buy and is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. He is also a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren Corporation, a member of the International Advisory Board of HEC Paris, and a Trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Joly has been recognized as one of the top 100 CEOs in the world by the Harvard Business Review, one of the top 30 CEOs in the world by Barron’s and one of the top 10 CEOs in the U.S. by Glassdoor. www.hubertjoly.com

Michelle K. Johnston, Ph.D. serves as the Gaston Chair of Business at Loyola University New Orleans where she teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs in the College of Business. She is an award-winning professor studying leadership and business communication, and her research has shown a clear link between a team’s effective communication and its positive financial performance. She lives in her beloved city of New Orleans, Louisiana, with her daughter, Elizabeth. The Seismic Shift in Leadership is her first book. www.michellekjohnston.com

Niel Golightly is a Senior Counselor at Sard Verbinnen & Company, a global strategic communications firm.  He is also founder and principal of Niel Golightly LLC, a leadership communications and coaching consultancy. Niel has served as Chief Communications Officer at both Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (now Stellantis) and the Boeing Company.  He has also held senior executive roles in global communications, sustainability and energy transition for Ford Motor Company and Shell Oil Company.  He began his career as a U.S. Naval officer and carrier-based pilot. https://www.sardverb.com/who-we-are/our-people/niel-golightly/