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Shama Hyder is the founder of Zen Media, a full-service online marketing firm that serves clients around the world. Under her leadership, Zen Media has grown to include a team of 30 and serves clients ranging from publicly-held Fortune 500 companies to privately-held small businesses and nonprofit organizations across the globe.
Her websites, ZenMedia.com, Shama.tv, and ShamaHyder.com, have turned into high-traffic destinations for people looking for advice on how to successfully market their businesses online. Companies of all sizes and the media look to Shama to guide them when it comes to the vast world of social media marketing. She has been named one of the 10 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media. An acclaimed international keynote speaker, Shama has shared the speaking stage with the world’s top leaders, including President Obama and the Dalai Lama.
In 2009, Businessweek honored Shama as one of the Top 25 under 25 entrepreneurs in North America. In 2010, Shama won the prestigious Technology Titan Emerging Company CEO award. In 2011 she was named one of the Top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur magazine. Fast Company dubbed her “an online marketing shaman and a millennial master of the universe.” In 2015, she made Forbes’ prestigious 30 under 30 in the marketing and advertising category. In 2016, ShamaTv won a Hermes Gold award for Educational Programming.
Hyder holds a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin.
William J. Ickes, Ph.D., is distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the editor of Empathic Accuracy (1997) and the author of Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel (2003). His research on empathic accuracy has been recognized by three international research awards.
Dr. Nia Imara is an artist and astrophysicist born in Oakland, California. She is a graduate of Kenyon College, received her PhD in astrophysics from UC Berkeley, did her postdoctoral work at Harvard University, and is currently a professor of astronomy at UC Santa Cruz. Her nonprofit organization, Onaketa, provides free STEM tutoring and other educational resources for black and brown youth in the United States and Ghana.
A psychologist and business consultant for more than 25 years, Dr. Tim Irwin has worked in numerous diverse industries with a number of America’s most well-known and respected global companies. He is a frequent speaker on leadership development and other topics related to organizational effectiveness.
He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Run with the Bulls without Getting Trampled and Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership. Irwin has been a frequent contributor to numerous national media outlets, including Fox Business News, Fox & Friends, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and Businessweek.
Alexander J. Ispa-Cowan is a high school student who enjoys playing guitar and piano, working with lasers, electronics and the physical sciences generally, playing soccer, watching “The Simpsons” and its animated competitors, picking up political information from “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart and, sometimes, reading and creative writing.
Alex Jack is founder and president of Planetary Health, Inc.; sponsor of Amberwaves, a grassroots network devoted to promoting whole grains and other natural foods; and codirector of the Macrobiotic Summer Conference. He has helped introduce macrobiotics to China and Russia and has written many books with Michio and Aveline Kushi, including The Cancer Prevention Diet, Diet for a Strong Heart, Aveline Kushi’s Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking, The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, and The Book of Macrobiotics. He also edited the Wheaten Garland editions of Hamlet and As You Like It.
Alex taught macrobiotic philosophy, healthcare, diagnosis, and cooking at Kushi Institute, where he served as executive director and chairman of the faculty. He has presented at the Cardiology Institute in St. Petersburg, the Zen Temple in Beijing, Shakespeare’s New Globe Theatre in London, and the Rosas contemporary dance company in Brussels. He lives in the Berkshires.
Howard Jacobson, PhD, is an online marketing consultant, health educator, and ecological gardener from Durham, N.C. He earned a Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Health Studies degrees from Temple University, and a BA in History from Princeton. Howard cofounded VitruvianWay.com, an online marketing agency, and is a coauthor of Google AdWords For Dummies. When Howard is not chasing groundhogs away from blueberry bushes or wrestling with Google, he relaxes by playing Ultimate Frisbee and campfire songs from the 1960s. His current life goal is to turn the world into a giant food forest.
Andrew Jacono, MD, FACS is a global authority in the field of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery and is often called upon by colleagues and media around the world to provide his expert opinion. As one of New York City’s premiere plastic surgeons, Dr. Jacono is known for his original, advanced approach to non-surgical and minimally invasive facial rejuvenation with flawless, natural-appearing results. He is dual board certified and currently serves as Section Head of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at North Shore University Hospital Manhasset, as well as Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Jacono serves as Director of The New York Center for Facial Plastic & Laser Surgery in New York, New York and Fellowship Director of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Dr. Jacono has presented clinical research and conducted live surgery in front of peer audiences at over 100 plastic surgery meetings and symposiums around the world and has delivered lectures on his innovative facelifting, eyelid lifting, and rhinoplasty techniques at the most prestigious universities in America. He has also published extensively in medical literature, with more than 50 articles appearing in peer-reviewed journals, including Aesthetic Surgery Journal, JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. A Castle Connolly Top Doctor, Dr. Jacono also has been elected as one of America’s Top Plastic Surgeons by the Consumers Research Council of America and Super Doctors. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Anderson, CNBC and CNN and in USA Today, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Departures, Huffington Post, Parade, O, The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire and GQ, among others. In addition to his aesthetic work, Dr. Jacono volunteers for numerous charity organizations aimed at helping children throughout the world with limited medical and financial resources receive surgeries, including cleft lip and palate reconstruction.
