Mark Ebner is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of titles including Hollywood, Interrupted, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, and We Have Your Husband.
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Mark Ebner is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of titles including Hollywood, Interrupted, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, and We Have Your Husband.
Mark Ebner is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who is known for his work exposing the cult of Scientology. His books include Hollywood, Interrupted (Wiley & Sons), Off The Deep End (Harper Collins), and Poison Candy (BenBella).
S. Chris Edmonds is an executive consultant and culture coach with The Purposeful Culture Group and The Ken Blanchard Companies who has helped senior leaders create purposeful work cultures. Chris has worked with companies such as V Starr Interiors, World Kitchen, Consolidated Electrical Company, and Time Investment Company. Chris is the author of the Amazon bestsellers The Culture Engine, Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard, and five other books. Included in Inc. Magazine’s 100 Top Leadership Speakers, Chris is an in-demand presenter and was a featured speaker at South by Southwest.
Johanna Edwards is an award-winning journalist and radio/TV producer. Her first novel, The Next Big Thing, debuted on the national bestseller list where it remained for nearly three months. Johanna’s second novel, Your Big Break, was also a bestseller. Johanna lives in Memphis, Tenn., where she is currently at work on her next book.
Leigh H. Edwards is assistant professor of English at Florida State University. Her research on U.S. literature and popular culture has appeared in journals such as Narrative, The Journal of Popular Culture, Feminist Media Studies and Film and History. She is currently completing a book on Cash titled Johnny Cash and American Ambivalence. Other research in media studies includes a book manuscript, Reality TV’s Family Values: Narrative, Ideology, and New Domestic Forms. Recent publications include: “Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television,” in Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture (2007), edited by Sherrie A. Inness; “Chasing the Real: Reality Television and Documentary Forms,” in Docufictions: Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking (2006), edited by Gary D. Rhodes and John Parris Springer; and “‘What a Girl Wants’: Gender Norming on Reality Game Shows” (2004) in Feminist Media Studies. She has forthcoming articles on PBS’s “Frontier House” and frontier mythology, and on interracial romance narratives. A staff writer for PopMatters, an international magazine of cultural criticism published online at popmatters.com, she reviews television and film. She has also published a poem on Cash, “Johnny Cash Ode,” in Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age, Volume VII (Xconnect, print annual, 2005) and in the online journal issue, CrossConnect 23 (September 2005). An eighth-generation Floridian, she earned her B.A. from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania as a National Mellon Fellow.
Lynne Edwards, Ph.D., is associate professor of media and communication studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa. She is the author of several essays about popular culture including “Slaying in Black and White: Kendra as Tragic Mulatta in Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) and “Victims, Villains, and Vixens: Teen Girls and Internet Crime” in Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity (Peter Lang, 2005). Lynne currently is writing The Other Sunnydale: Representations of Blackness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Lexington Books, exp. 2006).
The Honorable Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., is senior counsel in the Government Advocacy and Public Policy practice group at King & Spalding. Having served as Governor, U.S. Congressman, state legislator, and civil litigator, he counsels clients on an array of government matters, with particular expertise in health care, finance and economic development. As Maryland’s first Republican governor in 36 years, Governor Ehrlich launched construction on 123 statewide transportation projects in four years and managed the most successful military base realignment and closure strategy in the nation. He toughened penalties for sex offenders, drunk driving, and witness intimidation and established Maryland’s first Office of Homeland Security. Prior to serving as governor, Congressman Ehrlich won four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In Congress, he served as a member of the House Majority Whip team, wherein he helped pass comprehensive tax relief, greater access to health care, federal education reform, and the first balanced budget in a generation.
He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1986 to 1994, representing Baltimore County.
Prior to running for public office, Ehrlich was associated with the Baltimore law firm of Ober, Kaler, Grimes and Shriver, where he practiced civil litigation for eleven years. He was a founding Member and Partner at the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC in Baltimore.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Princeton University in 1979, where he captained the freshman and varsity football teams, and his Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University in 1982.
Governor Ehrlich is married to Kendel (Sibeski) and they live in Annapolis, Maryland with sons Drew and Josh.
Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has spent 30 years helping organizations and leaders from over 50 countries become more effective. The Global Gurus organization listed him as 22nd on the list of most influential thinkers on leadership. His books include, Remarkable Leadership, From Bud to Boss, The Long-Distance Leader, The Long-Distance Teammate, and The Long-Distance Team.
Scott Eilers, PsyD, LP, a full-time board-certified clinical psychologist and the owner of the North Star Psychological Center. He has fifteen years of experience providing individual and group psychotherapy, mostly to individuals with relatively severe conditions such as bipolar disorder, severe depression, severe anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, anorexia, and bulimia. He’s also the author of For When Everything Is Burning, the host of the podcast The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety, and a regular content creator on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
Henrik Ekelund is the founder and chairman of BTS, a publicly traded global consulting firm that works with more than 150 of the Fortune 500 across six continents, including Microsoft, EY, Samsung, SAP, and Tetra Pak. BTS has offices in four cities in the United States and 32 in total around the world.
He has been honored as Sweden’s Entrepreneur of the Year and is an investor and advisor for a number of start-up and growth companies; so far, eight have gone public or were sold after achieving exceptional growth.
He is also an active member of YPO, which has more than 32,000 members globally, and the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. He has been published in Nature, various US media outlets, and in leading Swedish business media outlets.
Henrik’s passion for economics and public policy began in college. He earned his master of science degree in business and economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he was a leader in the Swedish Conservative Party’s student organization, as well as editor in chief of its magazine.
Henrik is on the board of directors for The Sweden-America Foundation, which focuses on promoting the exchange of scientific, cultural, and practical experiences, and offers fellowships to young Swedish researchers and graduate students.
Though he currently lives in Switzerland with his wife, Anine, Henrik was born in Stockholm and spends much of his time traveling—he has visited more than 110 countries—to explore opportunities for growth for businesses and economies. He is the father of two grown daughters, Olivia and Nikoline, and is an avid mountaineer, skier, and sailor.