Entrepeneurs / Business Tycoons

Jim Hagale, a well known leader in the outdoor retail industry, was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Bass Pro Shops in January 2003 with responsibility for the overall…

For more than 25 years Joanne G. Sujansky, Ph.D., CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), has been helping leaders to increase business growth and profitability by creating and sustaining what she calls…

John Canfield is an experienced business executive and coach who has successfully implemented planning, problem solving, creativity, and innovation processes in a wide variety of teams, organizations, industries, and cultures. John…

In 1983, John Schnatter delivered his last campus pizza, picked up his business degree from Ball State University, and went home to Jeffersonville, Indiana.There, at age 22, he knocked down…

Josh Linkner is the New York Times Bestselling author of “Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity,” named one of the top 10 business books of 2011. Josh…

Kenny J. Anderson has developed a Global leadership program that creates measurable results for organizations and individuals throughout the world. With his Bestselling book, Common Denominators For Success, Anderson focuses…

Larry Burns is on a mission: to reinvent the automobile using nonpolluting hydrogen fuel cells. As the vice president of R&D and strategic planning at GM, he’s one of the…

Libby Sartain has a distinguished 30 year career in human resources having served as the CHRO of both Yahoo! Inc. and Southwest Airlines. In these roles she led significant business…

“Lauren Ogilvie Bosworth” (born September 29, 1986), often referred to simply as “Lo”, is an American television personality best known for her appearances on MTV reality series “Laguna Beach: The…

Author, speaker and Age Wave co-founder Maddy Dychtwald is a leading expert on the changing demographic trends — both generation- and gender-related — shaping the marketplace, the workplace and our…