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Dino Felluga is an English professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ill. His first book, The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius is forthcoming from the SUNY Press. He is currently working on expanding a Web site (with accompanying book) that introduces critical theory to students and scholars by way of popular culture: www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory.
Traci Fenton is the founder and CEO of WorldBlu, a global leadership education company teaching top leaders and their organizations how to lead with the proven Freedom at Work™ leadership model. Traci is also a globally-recognized keynote speaker, author, and transformational coach to CEOs and top leaders worldwide. Traci is a “Thinkers50 Radar” award winner, received the Game Changer award for “Outstanding Results in Shaping the World,” was named a “World-Changing Woman in Conscious Business,” has been recognized in Inc. magazine as a “Top 50 Leadership Thinker,” and as a Marshall Goldsmith “Top 100 Coach.”
Traci founded WorldBlu in 1997 and has helped spark and lead the global conversation around leading and reinventing workplaces using freedom and organizational democracy rather than fear and control. Traci and her team have helped hundreds of top companies and leaders at world-class organizations such as The WD-40 Company, DaVita, HCL Technologies, Mindvalley, Pandora, Podio, RevAsia, GE Aviation, Zappos, and more in over 100 countries worldwide. Traci developed the groundbreaking Freedom at Work™ leadership model based in part on the WorldBlu 10 Principles of Organizational Democracy as well as numerous mindset, leadership, and organizational design courses, all of which are delivered on BluSpark™, the cutting-edge gamification learning technology she developed.
Traci frequently speaks to top leaders and has spoken at numerous organizations such as Harvard, Yale, Yahoo! and the US Naval Academy, and at worldwide events such as South by Southwest and TEDx. Her work has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, Inc., BusinessWeek, NPR, the BBC, and dozens of other media outlets around the world as well as in over three dozen books. She is the author of the book Freedom at Work: The Leadership Strategy for Transforming Your Life, Your Organization, and Our World.
Dr. Christopher Ferguson is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Department Chair at Stetson University. Dr. Ferguson received his doctorate from the University of Central Florida in clinical psychology. Dr. Ferguson’s clinical work has focused on forensic psychology, including work with inmates, as well as juvenile detention and Child Protective Services assessments.
Since receiving his degree he has published over one hundred book chapters and journal articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he has presented his research at numerous universities and scientific conferences. Along with Dr. Markey, he is internationally recognized as an expert on the topic of violent video game effects. Dr. Ferguson was part of the talks given by Vice President Biden’s task force on gun control following the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, and he also participated in the Institute of Medicine’s hearings on the role of media violence in gun violence in 2013.
Ronald F. Ferguson, PhD, joined the faculty at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1983 and has spent his entire career there using teaching, research and writing to increase the flow of knowledge between the university and the world. An MIT-trained economist who focuses social science research on economic, social, and educational challenges, he co-founded Tripod Education Partners in 2014 and shifted into an adjunct role at the University, where he remains a fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and faculty director of the university-wide Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI). A February 2011 profile of Ron in the New York Times wrote, “There is no one in America who knows more about the gap that Ronald Ferguson.”
Ron’s current focus as AGI director is an initiative titled the Boston Basics. Inspired by the fact that birth-to-three is a critically important period for learning, the Basics Campaign is striving to saturate the entire community with advice and support for the parents of infants and toddlers. Ron holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a PhD from MIT, both in economics. He has been happily married for 38 years and is the father of two adult sons.
Rich Fernandez, Ph.D., is the CEO of SIY Global, a global professional development organization that originated at Google, where it was known as Search Inside Yourself. Rich has dedicated his career to building more purposeful, mindful, and high-performing workplaces. Rich draws on his past experience as Head of Executive Education at Google, as well as senior leadership roles at eBay/PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America. Rich received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. Rich is a poetry and meditation enthusiast and lives in San Francisco, where he finds sources of renewal and inspiration in long hikes on the coast and in the nearby redwood forests.
Jim Ferrell is a bestselling author and founder of Withiii Leadership Center. Prior to founding Withiii, Jim was the longtime managing partner of the Arbinger Institute. He has written multiple blockbuster books, including Leadership and Self-Deception, The Anatomy of Peace, and The Outward Mindset, and his publications have sold many millions of copies around the world. Jim has degrees in economics and philosophy and is a graduate of Yale Law School. Over his nearly three decades as a thought leader working with corporate and governmental leaders, Jim has developed a reputation as one of the world’s great innovators in the areas of leadership, culture change, conflict resolution, communication, and interpersonal connection.
J. R. Fettinger is the webmaster of Spidey Kicks Butt (www.spideykicksbutt.com), and the author of all essays on the site. He lives with his wife Karen and children Rachel and Spencer in Medina, Ohio. He hopes he is closer to the Ben Parker model of fatherhood than the Norman Osborn one, but his kids will have the final say on that.
Sandy Field, Ph.D., is a freelance science writer based in Lewisburg, Pa. She holds a B.S. degree in genetics from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She specializes in continuing medical education, writing in the areas of oncology and infectious disease. Her other passions include science fiction, forensic science, San Francisco Giants baseball, bicycling, Tae Kwon Do and cooking for her family. Visit her Web site at www.fieldscientific.com.
JL Fields is a newspaper writer, magazine columnist, speaker, culinary instructor, lifestyle coach, activist, and radio personality. She is the author of Vegan Pressure Cooking: Delicious Beans, Grains and One-Pot Meals in Minutes, and coauthor of Vegan for Her: The Woman’s Guide to Being Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet. She is also a brand consultant for a variety of national companies. The blogger behind JL Goes Vegan.com, Fields has received culinary training at the Natural Gourmet Institute and the Christina Pirello School of Natural Cooking and Integrative Health Studies. She is a Main Street Vegan Academy-certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator, and a certified Food for Life instructor with Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). She writes and broadcasts from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
R. Douglas Fields, PhD, is a neuroscientist and an international authority on nervous system development and plasticity. He received advanced degrees from UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, UC San Diego, and he held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford and Yale Universities before joining the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland, College Park and an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals and books from his experimental research into how the brain is modified by experience, and the cellular mechanisms of memory. His scientific research has been featured internationally in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, including the National Geographic, ABC News Nightline, andNPR Morning Edition. His research on nervous system plasticity involving non-neuronal cells (glia) in white matter regions of the brain, is recognized as pioneering a new non-synaptic mechanism of nervous system plasticity. In 2004, he founded the scientific journal Neuron Glia Biology, to advance research on interactions between neurons and glia, and he serves on the editorial boards of several neuroscience journals.
In addition to his scientific research, Dr. Fields is author of numerous books and magazine article about the brain written for the general reader, including The Other Brain, about brain cells that communicate without using electricity (glia), and Why We Snap, about the neuroscience of sudden aggression, as well as numerous articles in popular magazines including Outside Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, Time, Undark, Quanta, and on-line columns for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Scientific American, the Society for Neuroscience, BrainFacts, and others, and he is scientific advisor to Scientific American Mind.
