Dr. Debbie MacInnis is a university professor and a globally recognized, multi-award-winning expert on evidence-based customer decision-making and brand strategies, emphasizing brand benefits, execution, and brand growth. Her awards include the University of Southern California Lifetime Achievement Award, a Fellow of the American Marketing Association, and a Fellow of the Association for Consumer Research. Debbie has consulted with many organizations such as Hallmark, Proctor and Gamble, the American Beverage Association, United Talent Agency, and major advertising companies. She has been an expert witness for the Federal Trade Commission and other organizations.
Books by Debbie MacInnis, PhD
Jill MacKay is a 20-year-old student studying zoology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. When she’s not dissecting snails or chasing after birds, she can be found terrorizing literary agents with various unpublished novels. She and her little sister have been tackling Halo on cooperative play since 2002 but have still to complete Halo 2 on Legendary. This is blamed on their aversion to being shot at.
John Mackey is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and visionary of Whole Foods Market. In his 44 years of service as CEO, the natural and organic grocer grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, to 540 stores in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, with annual sales exceeding $22 billion. Mackey co-founded the Conscious Capitalism Movement and co-authored a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling book entitled Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business and follow up, Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity through Business. He is also the co-author of The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevityand The Whole Foods Cookbook: 120 Delicious and Healthy Plant-Centered Recipes. Mackey currently serves on the board of directors for Conscious Capitalism, The Motley Fool, CATO Institute, The Institute for Cultural Evolution, and Students for Liberty and is pursuing his next business venture, Love.Life.
Elle Macpherson is renowned globally as one of the original and iconic supermodels, as well as an acclaimed entrepreneur. Throughout her phenomenal forty-year career, she has connected with people and projects that resonate with her values, forging a path of success and influence.
Today, Elle is an prominent force in the wellness world, a sought-after motivational speaker, and advocate for natural beauty, redefining real beauty as soul deep, not just skin deep. She is the founder and creative director of WelleCo, guiding the brand’s aim to enable and encourage everyone to liberate, appreciate and amplify their unique inner essence through being well, so they feel amazing and live fully. She has two sons, Flynn and Cy, and lives in Miami.
Dario Maestripieri earned his Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1992. He is currently an associate professor of comparative human development and evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago. His research interests focus on the biology of behavior, and in particular on physiological, ecological and evolutionary aspects of primate social behavior. Dr. Maestripieri has published over 130 scientific articles and several books including Primate Psychology (Harvard University Press, 2003) and Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World (The University of Chicago Press, 2007).
David Magee is the author of Dear William: A Father’s Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love and Loss, a Publishers Weekly bestseller, named a Best Book of the South, and featured on CBS Mornings, and other non-fiction books. A changemaker in student and family mental health and substance misuse, he’s creator of The William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi and a frequent motivational speaker, helping others find and keep the joy they want and deserve.
Gregory Maguire is co-director of Children’s Literature New England, Incorporated, and author of books for children and adults, including Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch.
Michael J. Maher, “North America’s Most Referred Real Estate Professional” and founder of the Generosity Generation, is dedicated to helping salespeople earn a better living and live better lives. He rocketed to the top of his profession by earning more than $1 million in his third year of full-time real estate. With the slogan of We’re not #1…YOU are®, the Kansas City Home Team continues to be one of the top real estate companies in Kansas City. Maher is one of the most in-demand speakers on referrals, generosity, marketing, and relationship-building.
Books by Michael J. Maher
Karen Mahoney has been published alongside some of her favourite authors in paranormal anthologies like The Eternal Kiss (2009) and Kiss Me Deadly (2010). She is still in complete shock about this. Her debut YA novel, The Iron Witch, will be published in the US by Flux in February 2011 and makes significant use of journal entries. She is British, but hopes that you do not hold this against her. Please visit her at www.kazmahoney.com.
Lauren Maillian is a serial entrepreneur, named by Essence magazine to the Class of 2013 African-American Shot Callers. She is the Founder and CEO of Luxury Market Branding, a strategic marketing company, and is a Founding Partner at Gen Y Capital Partners, an early stage venture firm focused on investments in mobile and consumer facing technology-enabled companies. At 19, Lauren founded a boutique winery that quickly became an internationally recognized award-winning wine brand, making her the youngest self-made winery owner in the country. She served as the Chief Operating Officer of the company from inception through the brand’s acquisition in 2011.
Lauren often speaks about entrepreneurship, female leadership, marketing, branding, business development, and early stage venture at various conferences and institutions including Harvard, Columbia University, Cornell, and the University of Virginia. She judges the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s (NFTE) business plan competition and the incoming classes of Start-Up Chile, an incubator program in support of entrepreneurship sponsored by the Chilean Government. Lauren is an active adviser to several startups and is a mentor to the Pipeline Fellowship and the Women Innovate Mobile Accelerator. Lauren’s work has been featured in national media outlets including Forbes, American Express OPEN Forum, Fast Company, and Black Enterprise. In 2011, she was recognized at The White House by the Kauffman Foundation as an Empact100 Award honoree, the top 100 entrepreneurs under 30.
