Keith Stern has produced some of the most popular biographical Web sites on the Internet. Since 1997 he has been collaborating with Sir Ian McKellen on the actor’s autobiographical Web site, McKellen.com. He has also produced official Web sites for Lynn Redgrave, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Spinal Tap, the film “Gods and Monsters” and others for movie stars and movies. Stern started in the music business as a musician followed by several years with Warner Bros Records in field promotion, public relations, A&R and IT. In 1979 in Charlotte, N.C., he transformed the Milestone into a showcase punk rock/new wave music venue and in 1981 with Ben Clark, he opened a larger venue, Viceroy Park. As an independent promoter, he produced many early concerts for punk/new wave acts including R.E.M., The Ramones, The Go-Go’s, Iggy Pop, Bow Wow Wow and Joan Jett. His screenplay “Freezing Time” will be filmed in 2009, starring Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, “King Kong”). Keith currently lives in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Steph Stern is a leadership coach and facilitator with a passion for helping people find more purpose and fulfillment in their work and lives. Steph served as a Director and key member of the leadership team at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute for several years. There, Steph worked directly with many organizations, including Google, SAP, Disney, Salesforce, and MIT, to bring mindfulness and emotional intelligence into how people and organizations work. She has more than ten years working with individuals and organizations to develop greater awareness and compassion for themselves and for others. Previously, she worked for more than a decade on environmental policies and programs in both the public and private sector. Steph is a Certified Internal Family Systems practitioner, and holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT and a bachelors from Wellesley. She lives in the Bay Area where she loves to hike and dive into creative projects.
Justin L. Sternberg spent twenty years in Hollywood as a TV writer. When the pandemic hit, he began helping friends tell their stories—to land jobs, win funding, and stand out. What started as a favor turned into a movement. Word spread, CEOs started calling, and soon the dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management invited him to co-create and co-teach the first-ever MBA course in Business Storytelling, which he still teaches today. From there, Sternberg built and led the first storytelling-strategy teams at both Snapchat and Fanatics, bringing Hollywood’s narrative craft into the business world at scale. As an executive, consultant, and professor, he’s worked with leaders around the world to unlock one central truth: your story is your superpower. Your Story Rules is his way of putting those same tools in your hands.
Mark Stevens is a bestselling author; CEO of MSCO, a results-driven management and marketing firm; and a popular media commentator on a host of business matters including marketing, branding, management, and sales. Stevens is known for delivering business insights with blunt truth and unconventional wisdom.
Mark Stevens shook the marketing establishment with his Business Week bestseller, Your Marketing Sucks (Random House/Crown Business, 2003), and redefined the rules of sales with God Is A Salesman. He is the author of 24 business-related books, including the bestsellers: The Big Eight, King Icahn, and Sudden Death: The Rise and Fall of EF Hutton (a Wall Street Journal bestseller and Library Journal “Business Book of the Year”).
Stevens’ incisive understanding of critical business issues is geared toward achieving extraordinary growth and success for his clients. His firm, MSCO, represents a stellar roster of clients. Through integrated marketing campaigns, MSCO focuses on achieving financial results for its clients instead of awards that serve egos. Stevens possesses an innovative and iconoclastic view of the business world.
He is an in-demand speaker at organizations from Siemens, Virgin Air, Nike, and Oracle to the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. A frequent guest commentator, Stevens lends his insights and opinions on a wide variety of topics, from Carl Icahn’s latest moves (Fox Business Channel) to Tom Cruise’s image (Fox News Channel), to “Why Successful Business People Don’t Sleep” (New York Times), and how to “Be a Better Boss in 2007” (Forbes.com).
His wildly successful blog, Unconventional Thinking, is in the top one percent of all published blogs (out of 95 million blogs) and was recently named in the top 10 of all marketing blogs. Stevens is a regular guest blogger for Brandweek.com and the digital PR blogger for PR News Online. More about Mark Stevens can be found at www.MSCO.com.
Greg Stevenson is Professor of Religion and Greek at Rochester College. After writing on archaeology and the Book of Revelation, he decided to spend valuable research time listening to music and watching television. Since then he has written on U2, Christianity and Hollywood, and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” His book Televised Morality: The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated for the Mr. Pointy award by Slayage.
Parker Stevenson is a co-owner and the CEO of Evolved Finance, a unique accounting firm that offers bookkeeping, tax planning, and tax preparation services for online business owners. His journey into finance and authorship has been a strange one. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a business degree in 2004, Parker chased his dream of being a professional musician while also working for an automotive consulting firm in Los Angeles. After his band broke up, he moved back to his home city of San Diego where he began his corporate career at adidas America in their golf division. He would eventually become the Global Commercial Footwear Manager for adidas Golf, only to leave his position in 2014 to help his now business partner, Corey Whitaker, to grow Evolved Finance. Due to his years of financial experience in the online space, Parker has coached and advised hundreds of online businesses, including some of the most well-known online entrepreneurs in the industry. He has also done workshops and given talks to thousands of online business owners all across the world.
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Alison Stine is the author of a poetry chapbook, Lot of my Sister (Kent State University Press, 2001), winner of the Wick Prize. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, Tin House, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Hayden’s Ferry Review and others. Her awards include scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, an Academy of American Poets Prize and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Formerly the Emerging Writer at Gettysburg College, she is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she is completing her first novel.
Robert Stokes is a novelist, playwright and former journalist with Newsweek and Life magazines who served in Army Intelligence in the l960s in West Germany. Stokes is collaborating with Martin Kaiser on a memoir entitled Odyssey of an Eavesdropper: The King of Electronic Countermeasures, to be published by Carroll and Graf in 2005.
A Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, and winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, Eric James Stone has had stories published in Year’s Best SF 15, Analog, Nature, and Kevin J. Anderson’s Blood Lite anthologies of humorous horror, among other venues. Eric is also an assistant editor for Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. His short fiction collection, Rejiggering the Thingamajig and Other Stories, was published by Paper Golem Press in 2011. Eric lives in Utah, and his website can be found at www.ericjamesstone.com.
