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.
Books by Douglas Fields, PhD
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.
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.
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
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 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.
