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Matthew Bezdek is a graduate student at Stony Brook University where he conducts research under the direction of Richard Gerrig. Gerrig is a professor of psychology in the Experimental/Cognitive program. The laboratory’s primary research focuses on readers’ experiences of narrative worlds. He considers both the basic cognitive psychological processes that enable readers to understand discourse and the broader consequences of readers’ experiences of being transported to narrative worlds.
Benjamin Bikman, PhD, earned his PhD in bioenergetics and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Duke-National University of Singapore studying metabolic disorders. Currently, his professional focus as a scientist and professor (Brigham Young University) is to better understand the origins and consequences of metabolic disorders, including obesity and diabetes, with a particular emphasis on the role of insulin. He frequently publishes his research in peer-reviewed journals and presents at international science and public meetings.
Drew Binsky, a Phoenix, Arizona native, is one of the youngest people in history to visit all 197 countries in the world. He completed this goal at age 30, and is one of 225 people to do so. He works as a full-time content creator (YouTuber) with an online community of over 10 million, and his videos have garnered more than 5 billion overall views. Drew first got the travel bug after studying abroad in Prague, during his junior year of college. Then, shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he took a job as an English teacher in South Korea, where he lived for two years. During that time, he started a travel blog which evolved into making travel videos on social media. His main goal is to inspire others to travel, because the world is a beautiful place and traveling is the best education that you can have!
Jon Birger is an award-winning magazine writer, a contributor to Fortune, and the author of Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game. A former senior writer at both Fortune and Money, Jon’s work has also appeared in Barron’s, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, New York Magazine, Time, and Washington Post. He was included on AlwaysOn Network’s list of “Power Players in Technology Business Media.” A familiar face and voice on television and radio, Jon has been a guest on ABC’s Good Morning America, BBC World Service, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and Fox News-discussing a wide range of topics from the dating market to the stock market to oil market.
Jason Biro has more than 12 years of lending experience. Unlike a typical corporate executive, Jason works hands-on with homeowners from all backgrounds. Jason is vice president/CFO of Team One Lending, a residential and commercial firm located in Wellington, Fla. He also conducts classes and training for local mortgage brokers. Jason is the exclusive mortgage expert for WFLX Fox 29 News. He lives with his wife in Lake Worth, Fla.
Robert Biswas-Diener is known as the “Indiana Jones” of positive psychology. His studies on culture and happiness have taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya and Israel. He is also a career coach and is program director for Education and Learning for the Center for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP). He lives in Portland, Ore.
Jake Black, a native of Orem, Utah, graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in history. He has spent the last six years contributing to numerous “Smallville” projects, including short stories, DVD features, Web articles and comics. He has published licensed work on “Superman Returns,” WWE, Star Trek and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and has had essays in several academic publications. He is also a prolific comic book writer, having been published by DC, Marvel and several independent companies. Visit jakeblack.com for more.
Alexis Black received her BA in Anthropology and Slavic Studies, and her MA in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Virginia. She is currently working on her PhD in Linguistics at the University of British Columbia.
The Psychology of Twilight
Author of Three Simple Steps, Trevor Blake was founder and CEO of QOL Medial LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company he started in 2002 with a few thousand dollars and sold in 2010 for over 100 million. In 2006 he founded ANU, a unique not-for-profit dedicated to developing low side-effect cancer drugs.
Prior to this, Blake was VP Commercial Development at Ceptyr and Director Commercial Development at Orphan Medical. He has worked in the UK, Europe, and the USA with companies such as Biogen, 3M, and Lipha, and has won many industry awards, including marketing professional of the year.
He has an MBA from Durham University (UK) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal College of Radiotherapy. He is also a graduate of the Royal Naval Academy, Britannia Royal Naval College.
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Suzette Blakemore joined FranklinCovey in 2012 as a Regional Productivity Practice leader where she brings concrete understanding and the productivity challenges facing workforces today. Prior to joining Franklin Covey, Suzette spent over 20 years in the corporate world, moving from a top producing sales person to Executive team member. Suzette has led both Learning Development and Business Development divisions working with thousands of businesses from Fortune 500 companies and small business in the U.S., Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Japan and the UK.
She has led many projects having created over 40 training and development offerings focused on creating successful Sales, Team, Marketing, Operations and Profit strategies while at the same time helping organizations achieve double digit revenue growth despite the economic down-turn. Suzette is a Certified Franchise Executive and holds additional certifications from the Direct Marketing Association, and ASTD. She currently serves as a board member for the EcSell Institute.
