Jamie founded Artisan Creative (www.artisancreative.com), in 1996. Jamie, who received his MA from Syracuse Universityin International Relations, has been instrumental indiversifying Artisan’s core business by providing turnkeycreative solutions through local outsourcing, staffing and recruiting for all forms of media delivery from print to web to broadcast.Jamie is a two time Men’s Foil 40+ National Champion in Fencing. Ever the entrepreneur, he executive produced a movie and co-founded the independent comic book publisher, Hyperwerks. Jamie is the current 2008/09 Los Angeles Chapter President of the Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO).

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Her background spans a vast background in corporate international marketing, public relations and public affairs. After an appointment with the first Bush Administration at the US Department of Commerce, she served as the senior regional manager for the National Association of Manufacturers in San Francisco until mid -1999. As head of AvenirMonde, a San Francisco based international public relations and marketing firm, she has represented many clients in the international public affairs and public policy arena including the United States Council for International Business, (USCIB), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Paris), and the California Council for International Trade among others. On the corporate side she has established global marketing distribution channels for firms such as Seagate Technology, LSI Logic and Novell among others.

Franca serves on the board of directors of the International Diplomacy Council, The Big Sur International Marathon, San Francisco Public Relations Roundtable, Citizens for a Better San Francisco and Occhiata Productions, a newly formed charitable Foundation dedicated to supporting arts education in the migrant communities of the Salinas Valley. In 2003 she was selected to be a fellow in the Asia Foundations Freeman Fellowship Program which examined the role of moderate Muslim communities throughout Southeast Asia.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service and completed graduate work in European Union Studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Thomas J. Quinn.

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As a learning and communication architect, he has led Fortune 500 companies through large-scale change. Terrence received an HR Leadership Award from the Asia Pacific Human Resources Congress for his research and the development of the breakthrough communication assessment used in our work. He is also the recipient of Inc. Magazine’s Marketing Master Award.

He represented the US in three US Junior World Championships, at the World University Games, and was an alternate for the 1996 Olympic Team. Terrence was also an NCAA Division I All-American fencer. He was recently inducted into Brandeis University’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He was a 1990 Thomas J. Watson Fellow and conducted a year of independent research on peak performance in elite Hungarian fencers.

He is the author of nine books including : The Strategic Use of Stories in Organizational Communication and Learning, On Cloud Nine: Weathering Many Generations in the Workplace (translated into Korean and Spanish), Stories at Work: Using Stories to Improve Communications and Build Relationships, Once Upon a Time: Using Story-based Activities to Develop Breakthrough Communication Skills, In the Land of Difficult People: 24 Timeless Tales Reveal How to Tame Beasts at Work.

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After a successful career managing and consulting in the wood products industry Ken Lathrop switched gears and started focusing on the people side of business. In 1996 Ken began his second career helping organizations understand how the people factor affects productivity and profitability. Ken became widely know for producing results by connecting teambuilding training to real world organizational goals. In 2002 Ken put together a team of professionals to develop and validate a new personal development assessment and software package. The Hardwired assessment and consulting tools hit the market in late 2003. Since that time over 20,000 people have been profiled. Hardwired clients include Bristol Myers Squibb, Proctor & Gamble, Southwest Airlines, Hugo Boss, Cessna, Lockheed Martin and Weyerhaeuser. In February 2007 Auckland based MyHardwired Ltd. was formed and production began on an entirely new technology for teaching using industry first web applications interactive web tools.

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Dan rowed on seven US National Teams, during that period winning two world bronze medals, a world gold medal, and a Pan American gold medal. In 1988, he competed in the Seoul Olympics in the coxed pair. He has won 11 National Championships in various events. Dan has coached since 1983 at the US Naval Academy, St. Josephs Prep in Philadelphia, Oxford University, Stanford University, Drexel University, Georgetown University, and is now an elite coach at Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia. His remarkable rowing career was recognized in 1997 with his induction into the US Rowing Hall of Fame. Dan is the subject of two books and the movie “True Blue”.

Dan received his BS from the US Naval Academy, MS from Oxford University, and MA in history from Villanova University. He has taught history at the US Naval Academy and Rutgers University, Camden. He is the founder and President of Team Concepts, Inc. (www.TeamConceptsInc.com) providing leadership programs to Fortune 100 clients around the country.

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She began her community work in local organizations in a county of two million people in New York as the public relations director for the Suffolk County Girl Scouts and the President of the Suffolk County League of Women Voters.

Following several years of working on political campaigns at a national and local level, Patricia launched McCrann Public Affairs (MPA). MPA’s business was to help clients weave quickly and successfully through the intricate mazes of government. Patricia became well known for the ability to mobilize grass roots efforts in support of her clients concerns. Additionally, MPA assisted levels of government by forming public/private partnerships with clients such as Palmer Golf Management.While active in the Long Island and New York business community Patricia served on the Small Business Council Steering Committee of the Long Island Association, the New York State Business Council Government Affairs Committee and Worker’s Compensation Committee, the Board of Directors of the Huntington Chamber of Commerce, The Association of Long Island Recycling Officials, Government Affairs Professionals, the New Long Island Partnership, The Suffolk County Women’s Business Enterprise Coalition, the National Association of Women Business Owners and the Board of Directors of Womens Economic Developers of Long Island. Patricia’s sense of community and need to serve led her act as an elected official for two and one half terms in the Village of Huntington Bay. Her life transitioned into an interest in human needs and personal growth and became certified in Acu Yoga, Energy Meditation, Past Life Hypnosis Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy and Brennan Healing Sciences. She is a 2008 graduate of Barbara Brennan School of Healing.

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He is a global expert on the energy industry and a global thought leader, speaker and writer on evolution and adapting to change. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy by the U.S. Secretary of the Navy and was one of 37 distinguished graduates. He was a nuclear engineer and qualified submarine officer in the United States Navy submarine fleet and served on three submarines during the Cold War. In 1986 he joined Exxon and was promoted ten times in nine years. As a crisis leader JD successfully managing an 850-person team and a fleet of 125 ships and aircraft, cleaning over 1,000 miles of Alaskan shoreline after the Valdez oil spill.

In 1995, JD joined Ernst & Young LLP and became a partner managing global energy, chemical and utilities projects, and rising to become the CEO of E&Y Singapore. Over eight years in professional services, JD lead the shared services, outsourcing, supply chain, merger integration and adaptive enterprises service lines. In 2000, he was appointed CEO of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young for South-East Asia. He served as a key advisor for innovation for the Singapore Prime Ministers Office. He has been featured in the Business Times, New Straits Times, Far East Economic Journal, live on CNBC Asia “Power Chiefs” special, Discovery Channel and Channel News Asia as the “IT Person of the Week”. JD was nominated as the CNBC Asian CEO of the year in 2002 and is the recipient of the Presidents awards from both Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil. JD has created, produced and hosted his own reality TV show for entrepreneurs, invented leadership games and is also the host of Global Evolution, which airs on CNN radio and is listened to in all 50 states and over 100 countries.

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Over the span of 14 years, Jennifer gained experience in a wide range of corporate arenas, from mid-sized, privately owned to Fortune 100 companies engaged in a broad array of businesses including wholesale distribution, national retail and global manufacturing. Serving in increasing levels of responsibility in the arenas of inventory, key account and people management, she is also a wife and mother of 4 children.

In addition to her busy family life, Jennifer also enjoys hiking in the mountains surrounding her Bozeman, Montana home, reading, writing, being with her horse and spending quality time discussing the mystery of life with others.

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