Our Authors

David Finkel

Serial entrepreneur David Finkel is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. 

David eats his own cooking which has allowed him the time to start, scale, and sell multiple successful ventures, be on the boards of several other companies, all while holding his working hours to under 40 hours per week and taking 10 weeks of vacation each year. The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, David’s syndicated business articles on inc.com, fastcompany.com, and forbes.com have garnered millions of readers. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. 

Books by David Finkel

Martha Finney

Martha Finney has written, co-authored, and ghost-written 29 books on employee engagement, leadership, career management, and mental health in the workplace. Her book, co-authored with Libby Sartain, about the culture experience at Southwest Airlines, HR From the Heart: Inspiring Stories and Strategies for Building the People Side of Great Business, remains a cherished HR classic today. Her original research into joy in the American workplace has been featured on CNN, NPR, Time magazine,  The San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times.

Books by Martha Finney

Lisa Firestone

Lisa Firestone, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice and the Director of Research and Education at the Glendon Association. She conducts clinical training and research on suicide and violence, including developing The Firestone Assessment of Self-destructive Thoughts (FAST) and The Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT). Dr. Firestone is the coauthor with her father, Dr. Robert Firestone, of Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

Rusty Fischer

A successful freelance ghostwriter for nearly a decade, Rusty Fischer and his clients have been published by Wiley & Sons, Simon & Schuster, Hay House and Kaplan Publishing. Rusty also runs Requested Material (requestedmaterial.blogspot.com), a blog for would-be writers hoping to get published in this challenging marketplace.

Jenna Fischer

Jenna Fischer is best known for playing Pam Beesly for nine seasons on the acclaimed television show The Office, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress and two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Comedy.

After wrapping The Office, Fischer went on to star in the Off-Broadway play Reasons to Be Happy, written and directed by Neil LaBute and co-starring Josh Hamilton, Leslie Bibb, and Fred Weller.

Most recently, Fischer starred along with Rob Lowe and Megan Mullally in the NBC limited series You, Me, and the Apocalypse. She also had a recurring role on NBC’s Mysteries of Laura and made guest star appearances on Fox’s The Grinder and Comedy Central’s Drunk History.

Fischer’s films credits include The Giant Mechanical Man (which she also produced), The Farrelly Brothers’ comedy Hall Pass, Solitary Man, opposite Michael Douglas, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, produced by Judd Apatow, The Promotion, Matt Weiner’s Are You Here, and Blades of Glory opposite Will Ferrell. In 2004, the Screen Actors Guild awarded Fischer with the Emerging Actor Award at the St. Louis Film Festival. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Books by Jenna Fischer

Jacky Fischer

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Jacky Fischer grew up working in a multitude of crazy family businesses. She is quite sure her parents broke every child labor law. In 2003, she dropped out of art school bought her parent’s moving business and grew it from 3 million in annual revenue to over 40 million. Since then, she received her MBA from Rice University. As an expert on what it takes to build a multimillion-dollar brand, Jacky loves helping entrepreneurs skyrocket their businesses through proven and unique growth processes.

Books by Jacky Fischer

David Fishof

David Fishof

David Fishof has earned a reputation as one of the most creative and innovative entertainment producers in the world. He has produced worldwide tours for some of music’s biggest performers. After years of producing rock tours, Fishof got the idea for the one-of-a-kind Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp™. Since 1997, music fans have seen their rock dreams become reality by learning from and jamming with some of the most influential artists in the industry.

Fishof is the author of Putting It on The Line (William Morrow), the bestselling book on sports and entertainment.

Books by David Fishof

Randall Fitzgerald

Randall Fitzgerald

Randall Fitzgerald has been an investigative newspaper and magazine reporter and book author for 37 years. He has written investigative features for Reader’s Digest, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His most recent book is The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health, published in hardcover in 2006 by Penguin/Dutton and in paperback in 2007 by Plume.

Books by Randall Fitzgerald

Matt Fitzgerald

Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed author of many bestselling books on the subject of sports, including Racing Weight, 80/20 Running, and How Bad Do You Want It? An experienced coach, he cofounded 80/20 Endurance, the world’s most popular online provider of training resources for endurance athletes. He also created and directs Dream Run Camp, a Flagstaff, Arizona–based retreat that enables runners of all abilities to experience the elite-athlete lifestyle. In 2021, he founded the Coaches of Color Initiative, which aims to improve diversity in endurance sports through a comprehensive coaching apprenticeship program.

Books by Matt Fitzgerald

Kelli Fitzpatrick

Kelli Fitzpatrick grew up in rural Michigan. Her writing career began when her Star Trek short story “The Sunwalkers” won the 2016 Strange New Worlds contest and was published by Simon and Schuster. She went on to become a contributing writer for the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game from Modiphius Entertainment. She is the author of several short stories in venues like Flash Fiction Online and Still Life, as well as essays at StarTrek.com, Women at Warp, and others. She has worked as an English teacher, served as an editor for the Journal of Popular Culture and the Dunes Review, and has done science writing for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope outreach team and Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative.