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Justine Larbalestier is a Sydney-born researcher and writer. She has written a radio show about the end of relationships, a short film about the Midas legend, and extensively on American science fiction culture, particularly in the ’40s and ’50s as well as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Her first book is The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction ( Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
Gretchen Moran Laskas is an eighth-generation West Virginian, the setting for her first novel, The Midwife’s Tale. Her young adult novel The Miner’s Daughter, about the coal camps of West Virginia in the Great Depression, will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2007. Her short fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines, including Salt Hill, Pleiades and Mobius, and is included in the anthology American Girls about Town. Laskas now lives in Virginia with her husband and son. The Midwife’s Tale has won Appalachian Book of the Year, the Weatherford Award for Fiction, for outstanding contribution to Appalachia, and has been nominated for Southeastern Booksellers Book of the Year and the Virginia Library Award. It also received a Library Journal starred review and was selected as a “Must Read” by Working Mother Magazine and was a Featured Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club.
Carolina Lasso is the author of The Path to Flourishing, founder of Plenari.co, and the creator of the PlenaMente podcast. She served as the Global Head of Marketing at SIY Global and is a certified Search Inside Yourself teacher. She’s passionate about creating practical tools to help organizations and individuals align with their purpose and flourish, by combining her business background with her experience as a personal development teacher. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and an MBA from New York University, specializing in marketing and finance. She worked as a marketing leader at Google, American Express, and Telemundo/ZGS. Carolina is a certified Life Purpose Coach, speaker, certified mindfulness facilitator, marketing instructor, consultant, and bilingual meditation narrator. She enjoys oil painting, dancing, visiting her family in her native Colombia, and discovering new places around the world.
Paul Laudicina is the founder of the Global Business Policy Council, a specialized strategic advisory services unit within Kearney, to help senior leaders in business, government, and civil society rise to the challenge of navigating in a transformed world. A quarter-century later, the Council is one of the world’s best-known and most highly-regarded private-sector think tanks.
A graduate of the University of Chicago in political science and government, he is the Vice Chancellor of the International Academy of Management and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Paul is also a CEO Coach working with Korn Ferry, the world’s largest executive search, human resources, and leadership development firm, through which he actively mentors a rising generation of CEOs.
Paul has also remained politically active throughout his career. As a close advisor to Joe Biden and the Biden campaign, he was “in the trenches” from the snowy beginning in Iowa as he will be through the 2020 Democratic National Convention as a member of the Platform Committee. When not on an airplane, he divides his time between Scottsdale, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico; his Kearney office in the Washington, DC area; and client sites and podiums across five continents.
Jacqueline Laurita, one of the original cast members on Real Housewives of New Jersey, is a former cosmetologist in Las Vegas turned full-time stay-at-home New Jersey mom. Her husband Chris, brother of Caroline and Dina Manzo, owns a wholesale apparel business. Jacqueline has three children and always puts her family first. As a Warrior Mom, her mission is not only to recover her youngest son, Nicholas, from Autism, but also to help many other families by becoming an active advocate in the Autism community. Aside from spending time with her family, Jacqueline continues her passion and career in the beauty industry as an owner of a beauty Medspa in Oakland, N.J.
Mary Lavoie is a long-time fan of fantasy and science fiction. She works as a technical writer in Provo, Utah, where she lives with her husband Robert and cat Inx.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford spent 20 years in the film and television industries. He is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Symptoms of Withdrawal (2005) and Moments of Clarity (2009).
In recovery for more than 25 years from drug addiction, Lawford campaigns tirelessly on behalf of the recovery community. He presently works with the United Nations, the Canadian Center on Substance Abuse, the White House Office on Drug Control Policy, and the World Health Organization. Lawford holds a Master’s certification in clinical psychology from Harvard Medical School—where he held an academic appointment as a lecturer in psychiatry.
David M. Lawrence has never decided what he will do when (if) he grows up. He is a scientist who teaches geography, meteorology, oceanography and (sometimes) biology at the college level. He is a journalist who covers everything from high school sports to international research in science and medicine. He is a scuba diver looking for a way to make a living on the water. When not consumed with those activities, he looks at his guitars and wonders if he’s too old to become a rock god. (It would help if he could actually play.) He lives in Mechanicsville, Va., with his wife, two children and a menagerie of creatures with legs, scales and fins.
John Lawson, founder of 3rd Power Outlet and ColderIce Media, started his first business while still in high school. Later in life, John discovered how profitable online selling could be, and his company 3PO was born. Just five years later, it brought in $1 million in sales. To date, 3PO’s 300,000-plus transactions have garnered more than $25 million.
Mixergy calls Lawson a “power seller.” American Express hawks him as their “featured businessman.” Startup Nation says he’s the “savviest” in social media, and Small Biz Trends named him “Influencer of the Year.” He is an award-winning social media strategist, spokesperson for several corporations, commercial television personality, and a sought-after keynote speaker and instructor.
