Business Matters Guests

[+] Paul Lawrence

[ - ] Paul Lawrence
Paul R. Lawrence is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School and he’s the author of twenty-five books and numerous articles across the entire field of social sciences. His most recent is Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership.
- New Models for Conscious Leadership
- True Values in Business
[+] Peter Kennedy

[ - ] Peter Kennedy
Peter Kennedy

Peter is a Sarasota, Fl. Attorney who is the President of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund Pete works on dairy issues for the Weston A. Price Foundation, particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers. He has represented or assisted in the representation of dairy farmers facing possible state enforcement action in Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. He has helped farmers get started in the business of distributing raw milk and raw milk products in many other states. He has written articles for Wise Traditions Magazine on the interstate ban on raw milk products for human consumption and on the legality of selling raw milk interstate for animal consumption. He compiled the state raw milk laws and state raw milk summaries posted at www.realmilk.com. He is currently working with others to challenge the federal ban on the interstate shipment of raw milk for human consumption.
- The Raw Milk Program
[+] Roger Connors

[ - ] Roger Connors
Roger Connors is a principal and founder of Partners In Leadership, Inc. Over the last twenty years, Partners In Leadership has become a widely respected international leadership and management consulting firm that has implemented consulting and training services in a myriad of organizations ranging in size from small “start-ups” to Fortune 500 companies.

Roger has assisted scores of management teams in successfully Accelerating The Cultural Transition(R) in their organizations to a Culture Of Accountability. He has significant experience in helping management teams facilitate large scale Cultural Transition. In addition, he has worked with numerous management groups to assist them in building teams and in building greater accountability at all levels in the organization.

Roger holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Brigham Young University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Brigham Young University

He is the co-author of the best-selling book, The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual And Organizational Accountability. He is also co-author of Journey To The Emerald City: Achieve A Competitive Edge By Creating A Culture Of Accountability. In 2009, Roger co-wrote, How did that Happen: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way.
- The Accountability of Business
[+] Seth Godin

[ - ] Seth Godin
Seth Godin
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Seth Godin was called “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Business Week. He is a popular public speaker, writes the #1 ranked marketing blog, and has authored ten bestselling books. His most recent is Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. Seth founded Yoyodyne, the industry’s leading interactive direct marketing company.
- How Social Media is Changing the World: Part 1
- Agents of Change
[+] Sharon Astyk

[ - ] Sharon Astyk
Sharon Astyk, Author

Sharon Astyk is a writer, teacher and subsistence farmer, and the author of two books on Peak Oil and Climate Change — Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front and A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil , the latter co-authored with Aaron Newton. Sharon used to run a small, Jewish themed CSA, but is now concentrating on subsistence agriculture, growing food to share and teaching others to grow food.
- The Thanksgiving Show 2010
- The Food Crisis – Abroad and at Home
- The Thanksgiving Show
- The Year Ahead – Resources
- Food Crisis Resources
[+] Sharon Castillo

[ - ] Sharon Castillo
Sharon Castillo – Principal, SB Services Inc.

Sharon Castillo is the founder and principal of SB Services, Inc. Early on in her career Ms. Castillo spent 10 years with a Fortune 500 corporation, entering the world of consulting in the early 80′s. With tenure in several boutique consulting firms, Ms. Castillo founded SB Services, Inc. Ms. Castillo has published numerous articles in industry and trade publications, and has served on both local and national Boards for various non-profit organizations.
- Women Entrepreneur Award Winners
[+] Shawn Boyer

[ - ] Shawn Boyer
strong>Shawn Boyer, Founder & CEO, SnagAJob.com
2008 National Small Business Person of the Year |
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Shawn Boyer founded SnagAJob.com in 1999, and since then, he has taken the company from being a start-up to the nation’s largest part-time and hourly job-posting site. In 2008, Shawn was named the nation’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. That same year, he also saw one of his most ambitious goals for the company come true when SnagAJob.com was named a Best Small & Medium Company to Work for in America by the Great Places to Work Institute.

Prior to starting SnagAJob, this big thinker and passionate leader was actually a transactional attorney for Brown & Wood LLP (now Sidley Austin, LLP) and Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP. He holds a Master of Law in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, a Juris Doctor from Washington & Lee University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the College of William and Mary.

Aside from mowing lawns in middle school, Shawn’s first hourly job was in a retail store in his sophomore year in high school. “From day one, that job taught me that the customer is absolutely the organization’s lifeblood, that they drive the business, and that you need to bend over backwards to wow them.” That same philosophy is embraced throughout SnagAJob.com today.
- The Human Side of Business – Resources
[+] Shelley Stern

[ - ] Shelley Stern
Shelley Stern – Midwest Community Affairs Director, Microsoft

Shelley Stern is community affairs director for the Midwest District, responsible for building community awareness through Microsoft’s Citizenship programs, including grants and software allocations and investing in programs that assist in providing technology education for the disadvantaged. She manages all non profit board relationships, diversity outreach and employee engagement programs for Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and is responsible for Microsoft’s thought leadership programs on Innovation.
- Women Entrepreneur Award Winners
[+] Slava Rubin

[ - ] Slava Rubin
Slava is CEO and co-founder of Indiegogo, the world’s largest global funding platform. Indiegogo.com provides anyone with an idea — from entrepreneurial new business to creative projects to socially conscious causes – the online tools they need to raise money. Since Indiegogo launched in 2008, millions of dollars have been distributed to more than 55,000 campaigns around the world.

Prior to co-founding Indiegogo, Slava was a strategy consultant responsible for leading growth initiatives on behalf of clients such as MasterCard, Goldman Sachs, and FedEx. Slava is also the founder of “Music Against Myeloma,” an annual charity event that raises funds and awareness for cancer research.
- The Business of Crowdfunding
[+] Steve Miranda

[ - ] Steve Miranda
Steve is the Chief Global HR and Content Integration Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Steve is a former HR Vice President at Lucent Technologies where his work took him around the world, including a 3 ½ year assignment as head of Lucent’s HR operations for the Asia Pacific region. SHRM represents more than 250,000 members in over 140 countries and serves the needs of HR professionals and the interests of the HR profession.
- The Job Market of the Future
[+] Steve Pressman

[ - ] Steve Pressman
Steven Pressman, Professor of Economics and Finance, Monmouth University

Steven Pressman also serves as co-editor of the Review of Political Economy, as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of the Eastern Economic Journal, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Basic Income Studies. He has published around 120 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored or edited 13 books, including “Women in the Age of Economic Transformation”, “Economics and Its Discontents”, “A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics”, “Alternative Theories of the State”, “50 Major Economists”, and “Leading Contemporary Economists”. His main areas of research are poverty and income distribution, and government tax and spending policies.

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Poverty: Numbers alone don’t tell the real story
- Measuring and Fighting Poverty
[+] Theresa Marquez

[ - ] Theresa Marquez
Theresa Marquez has been involved in food and farming since the mid 1970s. Wearing a variety of hats throughout the past 35 years, her current job is Chief Marketing Executive for the largest organic farmer cooperative in the United States, CROPP Cooperative, and its brands Organic Valley Family of Farms® and Organic Prairie Family of Farms®. (www.organicvalley.coop, www.organicprairie.com, www.farmers.coop)

CROPP consists of over 1300 small and mid-size family farmers and markets over 200 certified organic products including milk, soy, cheese, butter, spreads, eggs, produce, and meat. Marquez joined the Cooperative in 1995 and has helped to grow the business from $5 million to $527 million in 2008.
[+] Timothy Karr

[ - ] Timothy Karr
Timothy Karr, Campaign Director, FreePress

Timothy Karr manages all online initiatives for Free Press — including SavetheInternet.com, StopBigMedia.com and InternetforEveryone.org. Tim speaks and writes about the state of journalism and the future of the Internet. Before joining Free Press, Tim was executive director of MediaChannel.org and vice president of the Globalvision News Network. He has also worked extensively as an editor, reporter and photojournalist for the Associated Press, Time Inc., the New York Times and Australia Consolidated Press. Tim has been quoted in publications across the country and has been featured as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR and ABC News Radio, among other places. He blogs for The Huffington Post and at MediaCitizen.
- The Business of Fakery
[+] Tom Asacker

[ - ] Tom Asacker
Tom Asacker

Tom Asacker has been teaching and inspiring organizations and entrepreneurs for over 20 years. Tom specializes in marketplace evolution, customer relationships, branding, and innovation. Companies including Procter & Gamble, UPS, Hewlett Packard, and G.E. have called on Tom to shake up their people, fill them with ideas and charge them with inspiration.

Tom is the author of A Little Less Conversation: Connecting with Customers in a Noisy World and A Clear Eye for Branding. He is also author of the soon to be released Opportunity Screams: Unlocking Hearts and Minds in Today’s Idea Economy.
- Love and Heartfullness in Business
- The Toyota Model
[+] Vandana Shiva

[ - ] Vandana Shiva
Dr. Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of many books, including: Water Wars, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.

She founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. This institute is dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our times, in close partnership with local communities and social movements. Vandana Shiva is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, etc.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as anti-globalization movement.

Vandana is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’) “…For placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse.”
- The Business of the Food Supply