Shannon Hazel is a recently-retired public school teacher and the author of the upcoming book New Teacher Confidential: What They Didn’t Tell You About Being a Teacher. Over her 25-year career, she was a K-8 teacher, special education specialist and instructional coach for teachers. During that time, she was actively involved in the Elementary Teachers

Michael Kaufman, MSW, PhD, author of Doing Good & Doing Well, has the heart of a helping professional and the head of a business executive. He rose from being an in-the-field social worker to the CEO of one of the largest private education companies in the country. He currently runs the special education management and

Jillian Gibbs, author of The Marketer’s Guide to Creative Production, is a seasoned marketing production consultant, author, award-winning CEO, renowned speaker, and supporter of sustainable production and women in leadership. With over 30 years of experience, she has worked with top brands, guiding their creative production efforts, and helping them achieve impactful results. Gibbs is

Teresa Cain is an award-winning author, entrepreneur, educator, and speaker. She is the bestselling author of Solving Problems in 2 Hours: How to Brainstorm and Create Solutions with Two Hour Design Sprints. With over 16 years’ experience in the field of product management, innovation and UX, she has accelerated roadmap growth and user adoption for

Gerald Rosengarten is a Brooklyn-born serial entrepreneur whose greatest skill is an extraordinary ability to perceive form and structure–and opportunity–from within disorder, including developing products to deal with dyslexia, reimagining real estate, and investing early and heavily in solar energy. Rosengarten’s life of invention has led to substantial commercial success. His first big hit came

Spencer has been creating art and music since he was a young boy. For most of his adult life he was in the music business, recording and producing hundreds of records while working as a technician on over 20,000 pianos, crank phonographs and pump organs. Collecting and working on pianos, he eventually found himself creating