Ted Fleming is the head of talent development for CVS Health, a Fortune 10 company with more than 300,000 employees. His responsibilities include learning and career development for all employees, executive development, and providing business consulting solutions. Ted has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare, financial services, and education industries as a strategic planner, consultant, business owner, and general manager. He speaks extensively on topics including managing your career, executive presence, driving business results, leadership, creativity, and innovation.
Melanie Fletcher is a woman of simple tastes—she likes to write, preferably for money. Her fiction includes “Star Quality” (Selling Venus, Circlet Press), “Hermaphrodite” (Crossing the Border, Indigo/Gollancz), “Bartok and the Unicorn” (Quantum Muse, July 2002), “The Female of the Species” (Quantum Muse, April 2003) and “A Rose By Any Other Name” (The Four Bubbas of the Apocolypse, Yard Dog Press). She has also produced the chapbooks The Stories That Would Not Die! and Dark Matter—Erotica SF and Fantasy (Belaurient Press).
CT Fletcher was born in the Jim Crow south, rode on the back of the bus in the colored section, and was raised in the ghetto of Compton, California. He survived a childhood of gangs and violent home life to become a six-time world champion weightlifter—and that’s just the beginning.
Erica Florentine is a writer whose work has appeared in outlets including Bustle, TheRichest.com, Thought Catalog, HealthU.com, WebMD, Fitness and Delaware Today magazines, and more. She is the coauthor of The Foundation of a Successful Life.
Books by Erica Florentine
Anthony Flynn graduated from the University of Southern California with a business degree in 2006 and founded YouBar, the world’s first customized nutrition bar company, with his mother, Ava Bise. Flynn has since grown YouBar to seven-digit annual sales and employs 30 people in an 8,000-square-foot facility in downtown Los Angeles. Flynn frequently gives television, radio, newspaper, and magazine interviews about YouBar and food customization. In addition to this, Flynn gives lectures on how customization is changing the food industry, and he consults with companies launching customized food products.
Creator of Strong ON!, and the #IBetYouCantDoThisWorkout Series, Pat Flynn has been a commanding leader in fitness and entrepreneurship since he first stepped onto the scene with his concept of Generalism: being great at many things, not the best at any one. Pat is an award-winning writer, author of five books, trainer of special forces and professional athletes — and those who are neither. He’s consulted some of the largest brands in the fitness industry today and continues to do so in other fields, as well. Further, Pat is an A-T philosopher with a high interest on human happiness.
John “Gucci” Foley is a former lead solo pilot of the Blue Angels and a globally recognized expert in high performance, leadership, and mindset. He has spent over two decades flying and leading in high-pressure environments, where precision, trust, and execution are critical. Today, he works with organizations around the world to help individuals and teams elevate how they show up and perform. He is the founder of the Glad To Be Here® Mindset, a practical approach to building trust, improving performance, and creating a culture of excellence.
Books by John “Gucci” Foley
When she’s not crushing on Ranger, Natasha Fondren keeps her fingers busy playing the roles of writer and pianist in Ohio. Thanks to Lula, she’s learning to look on the bright side, even when disasters strike.
Gary Fong is a globally renowned photographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is the father of “story-booking,” now the industry standard in wedding photography, in which candid shots are arranged in real time to tell a story, as opposed to the archaic method of taking posed, stilted shots. He is also the inventor of the Lightsphere®, a specially colored dome that is held in place over the flash unit of a camera. Before long, more than 200,000 units were sold worldwide, thus creating a multimillion-dollar plastics business. Since inventing the Lightsphere®, Fong has built a veritable cottage industry around variations on the popular product, including The Origami and The Puffer, all of which have become standard equipment used by most wedding photographers worldwide. He is considered one of the most influential photographers and inventors of his generation.
D. C. Fontana has credits as a writer on such diverse television series as “Star Trek,” “Bonanza,” “The Waltons,” “The Streets of San Francisco” and “Dallas.” She has served as story editor on the original “Star Trek” series, “Star Trek Animated,” “Fantastic Journey” and “Logan’s Run,” and as associate producer on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” She has experience in writing children’s shows, science fiction, westerns, action adventure, mysteries, daytime specials, animation and interactive games. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, as well as the Writers’ Guild of America, west, and Writers’ Guild of Canada.
