Dave Farrow is listed twice in the Guinness Book of Records for Greatest Memory. He is fun and impactful speaker whose program, The Farrow Method, is an international bestseller, proven effective in a double blind neuroscience study at McGill University. Dave Farrow is the CEO of the successful marketing firm and training business, a digital magazine, and he is the host of the YouTube and podcast series The Brains Behind It. The Farrow Brain Games are an internationally recognized mental sport played worldwide. A man of many interests, Farrow is also an accomplishes designer of a new robotics prototype startup called FarrowBOT and he has a growing real-estate holdings company.
Bill has been a professor, teacher, corporate executive and college dean. He is one of the founders of Mayfair Games, a board and role-play gaming company, and designed award-winning board games and role-playing modules. He more recently produced and designed several computer games. As a book packager, a person who prepares series of books from concept to production for major publishers, his company Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged more than 250 books for every major publisher. Bill began his own novel writing with a juvenile series, Swordquest, for Ace SF in the early ’80s and has written several since. The Fleet science fiction series he edited and contributed to with David Drake has become a classic of military science fiction. He has collaborated on several mystery novels as Quinn Fawcett, including the Authorized Mycroft Holmes and Madame Vernet mysteries. His recent works include Making Contact: A UFO Contact Handbook, and a series of books about great mistakes in history: It Seemed Like a Good Idea, You Did What? and How to Lose a Battle. As an anthologist Bill has edited or co-edited more than fifty anthologies.
John Feal is a native New Yorker and Army veteran who worked as a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero until a disabling injury five days into the cleanup. He lobbied Congress to pass The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, which he subsequently fought to defend and expand in 2015 and 2019 with the help of dozens of his fellow 9/11 responders, post-9/11 illness survivors, and comedian Jon Stewart. He has since gone on to pass 19 pieces of legislation and is working on number 20.
Through the FealGood Foundation, he continues to advocate for the health needs of first responders nationwide. A clip of his appearance on Fox News with Jon Stewart has gone viral. John has spoken at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Princeton University, and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Vanity Fair has covered his story along with NPR, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, all major news networks and many local affiliates nationwide, and two documentaries.
John is a Pat Tilman Foundation Honoree, a recipient of the New York State Liberty Award and the New York State Medal of Honor for Civilians, the Founder & Chairman of the 9/11 Responders Remembered Park, and a kidney donor.
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Brad Federman is an author, a speaker, and a consultant with more than 25 years of corporate experience in leadership, creating employee and customer experiences, building resilient relationships, and promoting collaborative cultures. His background also includes sales, marketing, product development, and operations. He sees his role as, “Inspiring others to discover and live their ‘possible’.” As the founder of PerformancePoint LLC, Brad has worked as a leadership coach, a facilitator, an executive, and an entrepreneur with organizations and their executive leadership in different industries. His leadership coaching clients have included household names such as Nordstrom, FedEx, Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites, Gemini Hospitality, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Hewitt and Associates, Gillette, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., AT&T Wireless, Dow Chemical Company, Nextel, Genentech, Amgen, WellPoint Health Networks, Tyson Foods, Subaru of America, New York Life, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Gulf Bank.
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.
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.
Books by Christopher Ferguson
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.
