Our Authors

Sue Hawkes

Sue Hawkes started her first business at age 10, selling door-to-door with her best friend. She’s upgraded her offerings since then, but she’s always been obsessed with helping people and solving problems. Today, she helps high-achievers create winning cultures where accountability thrives—by gracefully tackling the tough stuff head-on and clearing any friction that slows people (and profits) down. Sue is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, Certified Business Coach, CEO of YESS!, and Expert EOS Implementer™. If there’s friction in your company, she’ll help you name it, face it, and solve it—for good. Sue brings the tools and the truth-telling to help you fix your business challenges permanently, without wasting time. She’s the co-author of the most recent EOS Mastery Series book, Issues: Remove Friction, Fast-Track Your Growth, and Ignite Your Greatness, coming in April 2026. In it, she and her co-authors name the things most teams avoid and give you tools to solve whatever is in your way—once and for all. Sue has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., and Entrepreneur, and earned numerous leadership awards for her transformational work with companies across the globe. She’s here to help you stop avoiding what’s hard, lean into what matters, and lead like you mean it—with clarity, purpose, and just enough humor to make it all stick.

Books by Sue Hawkes

Thomas Hayden

Thomas Hayden

Thomas Hayden is a freelance journalist and writer with a special interest in science, medicine and culture. Formerly a staff writer at Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report, his articles and reviews have appeared in more than a dozen publications, including National Geographic, Nature and the Washington Post. He is also the co-author of On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War Story, which was a national bestseller in 2007. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and fellow writer, Erika Check Hayden.

Books by Thomas Hayden

K. Stoddard Hayes

A sci-fi TV junkie since the first season of the original “Star Trek,” K. Stoddard Hayes finally validated her addiction when she sold her first article to Babylon 5 magazine. Since then, she has written about many genre series, including “Stargate: SG-1,” “Buffy” and “Angel,” “Star Trek” and, of course, “Farscape.” She is also the author of Xena, Warrior Princess: The Complete Illustrated Companion. She recently contributed five articles on classic television series to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, including the “Farscape” entry. When not programming her VCR to catch the latest episodes of current TV series, she likes to take her family to the beach or the movies, read comic books and plot to overthrow the male domination of screenwriting.

Shannon Hayes

Shannon Hayes is the chef and CEO of Sap Bush Hollow Farm, LLC. She and three generations of her family raise grassfed & pastured meats, operate Sap Bush Cafe (a farm-to-table and neighbor-to-neighbor experience in the Catskill mountains), as well as vacation rentals, long-term rentals, and an online general store. Hayes is the author of several books, including The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, Long Way on a Little, and Radical Homemakers. She is the host of The Hearth of Sap Bush Hollow podcast, which chronicles and lessons from a life tied to family, community, and the land. Hayes holds a PhD in sustainable agriculture and community development from Cornell University and makes it a life goal to spend a few hours in the woods each day doing nothing except pondering the mysteries of the universe. Hayes lives and works in West Fulton, NY, in the Northern Catskills, where she grew up.

Books by Shannon Hayes

Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes is a comedian and writer. Her first stand-up show was nominated for a Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002. Her first novel, The Great Escape, is published in September 2007, and she writes regularly for The Times. She reviews theater, film, books and television for BBC “Newsnight Review.”

Lifang He

Lifang He has nearly 20 years of experience driving brand strategy, product marketing, and go-to-market excellence for some of the world’s most influential tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, and Ring. From launching iPhones globally to shaping entirely new product categories at Amazon, her career has been defined by building products and brands that scale fast and deliver results. She has earned industry recognition such as a Cannes Lions Grand Prix Award, a Fastest Growing Brands Award, and a Jay Chiat Award for Strategic Excellence. She now leads a consultancy specializing in brand strategy, product innovation, and go-to-market. Visit her website at LifangHe.me.

Books by Lifang He

Dr. Linda Heath

Dr. Linda Heath is a professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, where her teaching and research interests focus on media effects, research methodology, and psychology and law. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in social psychology and her B.A. from the Ohio State University.

Kyle Hebert

Kyle Hebert lives and writes in Lexington, Ky. His fiction has appeared in The Glut, Sexy Stranger and Mitochondria’s First Anthology of Rarities and Loose Ends. He is also the fiction editor for Nougat. His first manuscript for a novel is sitting on an editor’s desk waiting to be read.

Sibylle Hechtel

Sibylle Hechtel received her Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, Irvine. She taught the Biology of Aging at the University of Michigan while researching mitochondrial DNA evolution and later worked as a faculty research fellow at Caltech studying repetitive DNA. After several years of working 60 to 70 hours weekly in labs with no windows, she quit academics to work as a writer. Her work has been published in New Scientist, Red Herring, Reuters Health and others. She wrote a book on rock climbing due out in 2007.

George Hedley

George Hedley

George Hedley owns a $50 million construction and real estate development business as well as HARDHAT Presentations. Over the last five years, as a much-requested popular professional speaker, George speaks 50 times per year to business audiences, conventions, associations and at company meetings. As many as 25,000 people see him present keynote speeches or seminars every year. George is based in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Books by George Hedley