- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- Bill Taylor
Bill Taylor is co-founder and editor of Fast Company Magazine. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College. Taylor received his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and his B.A. from Princeton University
- Claudia Jennings
Claudia Jennings (born Mary Eileen Chesterton on December 20, 1949 in St. Paul, Minnesota - died October 3, 1979 in Malibu, California) was an American model and actress. Claudia Jennings was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month in November 1969 and later Playmate of the Year 1970. Her original pictorial was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Her father was a sales manager and her mother was a college professor.
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- Katharine Mieszkowski
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior writer for Salon.com. In 2004, she reported from India for Salon about the outsourcing of technology jobs. Her commentaries have been featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Living on Earth." A former senior writer for Fast Company magazine, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Magazine, MS. Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and High Country News.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer who has published two novels, "Prep", a tale about a New England prep school, and "The Man of My Dreams", another coming-of-age novel, as well as other short stories. Elizabeth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second of four children (three girls and a boy) of Paul G., an investment adviser, and Elizabeth (Curtis) Sittenfeld, an art history teacher at the Seven Hills School, …
- Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world.
- Max Barry
Max Barry (also Maxx Barry; born March 18, 1973) is a contemporary Australian author. He says about himself that he "put an extra X in his name for Syrup because he thought it was a funny joke about marketing and failed to realize everyone would assume he was a pretentious asshole." He commands a cult following for his entertaining blog and his "funny and clever" books.
- Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy (born Michael Brown on August 3 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American actor. Ealy grew up in the suburban Maryland neighborhood of Stonegate. He attended Springbrook High School and the University of Maryland, College Park. Ealy started his acting career in the late-1990s, appearing in a number of off-Broadway stage productions. Among his first film roles were "Fast Company" and "Kissing Jessica Stein".
- Peter Wronski
Peter Vronsky (Peter Wronski) (born 1956) is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, new media artist and historian. He is the director of several feature films including "Bad Company" ("Fast Company")and "Mondo Moscow"and the author of two recently published books on the history and psychopathology of serial homicide and the creator of a substantial body of formal video and electronic art works.
- Carol Spier
CAROL SPIER (Production Designer) is perhaps best known for her longtime association with director David Cronenberg. Her collaborations with Cronenberg include A History of Violence, eXistenz, Crash, M. Butterfly, Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, The Fly, The Dead Zone, Videodrome, Scanners, The Brood and Fast Company as well as two television docudramas for CBC: Scales of Justice .
- Peter Cosco
- Graham Light
- Michael Ouellette
- Gay Warren Gaddis
Gay Warren Gaddis is the founder and president of T3, one of the fastest growing independently owned agencies in the nation with more than $95 million in capitalized billings and the largest privately held agency wholly owned by a woman.
- Joe Trippi
Joe Trippi , Media Communications Consultant, was National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, pioneering the use of online technology to organize what became the largest grassroots movement in the history of presidential politics.
- Scott Kirsner
Scott Kirsner, Editor, CinemaTech / Contributing Writer, Variety: Scott writes for Variety from San Francisco, and has been a contributing writer for Fast Company and Wired since 1997. He edits the blog CinemaTech (http://cinematech.blogspot.com), which focuses on the ways that new technologies are changing the entertainment industry, and is the author of The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers, published in November 2006.
- Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. Johanna intermittently publishes The Pragmatic Manager , an email newsletter, and writes two blogs: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People .
- Keith Ferrazzi
Keith Ferrazzi Bestselling Author, CEO, Connector Keith's interview appears in the introduction of Coaching Into Greatness. Here's an excerpt: Giving is at the heart of this book. [Keith] Ferrazzi has built his life and his business around his relationships and the idea that, "Relationships are like muscles—the more you work them, the bigger and stronger they become." He has what he and I call an abundant attitude about relationships.
- Keith Rosen MCC
About Keith Rosen, MCC - The Executive Sales Coach; Keith Rosen is the executive sales coach that top executives, business owners, and sales professionals call first. As an engaging speaker, Master Coach, and well-known author of many books and articles, Keith is one of the foremost authorities on coaching people to achieve positive change in their attitude and behavior. For his work as a pioneer and leader in the coaching profession, Inc. magazine and Fast Company named Keith one . . .
- Michelle Peluso
Michelle Peluso has a service level agreement with herself: to answer any email that she receives from an employee within 24 hours and to reply directly to all customer emails that land in her inbox, and she is totally committed to Travelocity’s “customer championship” philosophy. Prior to her appointment as Travelocity’s CEO in December 2003, Ms. Peluso served as the company’s chief operating officer and senior vice president of product strategy and distribution.
- John W. Boudreau
John W. Boudreau , Professor & Research Director, University of Southern California John W. Boudreau , Ph.D. , is Professor of Management and Organization, and Research Director of the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California . He is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage.
- Diego Rodriguez
Diego is the voice behind Metacool , one of the leading blogs covering innovation and business. Fast Company magazine calls Metacool “ …a must-read for anyone who wants to incorporate design thinking into their work.” Diego has an MBA with distinction from Harvard and received undergraduate degrees in engineering and humanities from Stanford with honors. He is the recipient of a Good Design Award and holds multiple patents.
- Craig Taylor
Craig spent over five years leading the Disney Institute’s rapid growth in offering some of the most engaging and popular business seminars available, where the term “edutainment” came to life. The Disney Approach to Leadership, to Quality Service, and Human Resource Management – an alliance with the Society for Human Resource Management – are among the programs that gained wide popularity during Craig’s tenure.
- Nick ONeill
- James Champy
James Champy Chairman of Consulting James Champy is chairman of Perot Systems Corporation’s consulting practice and also head of strategy for the company. He is responsible for providing direction and guidance to the company’s team of business and management consultants. Mr. Champy is a leading authority worldwide on the management issues surrounding business reengineering, organizational change, and corporate renewal.
- Corbin Ball
Corbin Ball , CSP, CMP, MS is an international speaker, consultant and writer helping clients worldwide use technology to save time and improve productivity. With 20 years of experience running international technology meetings, he now is a highly acclaimed speaker with the ability to make complex subjects understandable and fun.
- Soren Kaplan
Soren Kaplan is a co-founder of iCohere, a software and consulting organization focused on building collaborative online communities for distributed teams, groups and organizations. Along with the former Dean at John F. Kennedy University, Soren started iCohere to enable people to engage together, online, in more human and purposeful ways.
- David Lidsky
David Lidsky joined Fast Company in March 2004 and currently serves as a senior editor. Lidsky co-edits the front of the book, editing Fast Talk, Next, and the magazine's columnists. He is the co-editor of the magazine's anniversary compilation book, Fast Company's Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business, published by Portfolio.
- Oren Harari
Dr. Harari also penned the 1999 bestseller Leapfrogging the Competition: Five Giant Steps to Becoming A Market Leader , published by Prima. The first edition was rated by Management General as one of the ten best business books of 1997. Both editions received accolades from Colin Powell, Tom Peters, Michael Dell, Bill Marriott, and Target CEO Bob Ulrich, to name a few.
- Wayne Outlaw
Wayne Outlaw , CMC, CSP Wayne Outlaw has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as the "staffing expert" and such publications as Fast Company and Newsweek frequently quote him. As a certified management consultant, he has published more than 200 articles on sales, management and customer service. Mr. Outlaw is President of the management-consulting firm Outlaw Group, Inc., which publishes The Outlaw Report .
- Kevin Cashman
Kevin Cashman is Founder and Chief Executive Coach of LeaderSource, an international leadership development, executive coaching and team effectiveness consultancy. Over the past 20+ years, Mr. Cashman and his team have coached thousands of senior executives and senior teams to enhance performance. He is the founder of the Executive to Leader Institute ® recognized by Fast Company as the “Mayo Clinic” of leadership development for its interdisciplinary approach to executive coaching.
- Matt Dusenberry
But we brought out a massive backlash vote. The couldn't handle a mescaline-eating sheriff who shaved his head and looked like the devil. - Hunter S. Thompson.
- Tony Seba
Tony Seba is an educator, entrepreneur, author, speaker, consultant, and mentor capitalist. He is the author of Winners Take All - The 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy . Tony is a lecturer at Stanford University where he teaches high tech strategy and entrepreneurship. He has created and taught Strategic Marketing of High Technology Products and Innovations , Business and Revenue Models , and Basic Financial Analysis for Entrepreneurship and Strategic Marketing .
- Patricia Seybold
Patricia Seybold CEO, The Patricia Seybold Group For 28 years, Patricia has been a leading consultant and visionary in the area of customer centricity. She is Founder of the Patricia Seybold Group, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in customer-led innovation, customer experience transformation, and customer-centric business/IT strategies.
- Chuck Morris
Chuck graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in graphic design. Prior to founding Morris Creative Group in 1991, Chuck was a founding partner in several marketing firms. During his career at Whittle Communications, he worked closely with editor-in-chief William S. Rukeyser, and was responsible for a digital-printing test project with Kodak that resulted in company-wide changes to publishing processes.
- J Mays
J Mays is Group Vice President, Design at Ford Motor Company. DEARBORN, June 24, 2004 -- Group Vice President, Design at Ford Motor Company J Mays has been singled out as one of five "Masters Who Are Leading The World of Design" by Fast Company magazine. Since 1995, Fast Company has highlighted new business practices and the teams and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business.
- Cortney Rhoads
CORTNEY RHOADS Vice President cortney@walshcom.com Cortney Rhoads joined Walsh Communications as an Account Executive in 2000. Concentrating on media relations and marketing communications she has worked with various clients ranging from management consultants to executive recruiters to technology start-ups.
- Heath
Amateur historian, pedestrian, and media geek.
- Hilleary Hoskinson
Hilleary Hoskinson is a marketing and publishing executive with a 20 year history of architecting highly motivated business and operational teams. His current consulting practice specializes in cultural development, goal setting, communications, functional accountability, and team alignment. He is a co-founder of MVP Performance Institute.