Joel Garfinkle

(Master Certified Coach)

Joel Garfinkle has 20 years’ speaking experience as both a keynote speaker and a corporate trainer (www.joelinspirationalspeaker.com). Joel’s clients include Oracle, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Toyota, NBA, Warner Bros and Nestlé. He has written 7 books and more than 300+ articles on leadership, workplace issues and career advancement. Joel is acknowledged as one of the top-50 executive coaches in U.S. Global Gurus listed him 14th on the list of top-30 global coaching experts. He is a Master Certified Coach (highest accreditation in the profession of coaching from the International Coach Federation). Joel’s speeches and trainings draw on his first-hand experience of working closely with more than 1,800 coaching clients and top executives of these world’s leading companies: Google, Microsoft, Starbucks, Netflix, Deloitte, IBM, NBC Universal and Amazon.

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D.

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is a Professor in the Masters of Professional Studies in Organization Development and Change program and also in the Ph.D. program of Workforce Education and Development at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also President of his own consulting firm, Rothwell & Associates, and has authored, co-authored, edited, or coedited 127 books since 1987. His recent books since 2017 include Organization Development (OD) Interventions: Executing Effective Organizational Change (Routledge, 2021); Virtual Group Coaching: Process Consultation Reimagined (Routledge, 2021); The Essential HR Guide for Small Business and Start-Ups (Society for Human Resource Management, 2020); Increasing Learning and Development’s Impact Through Accreditation (Palgrave, 2020); Workforce Development: Guidelines for Community College Professionals, 2nd ed. (Rowman-Littlefield, 2020); Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2018);  Innovation Leadership (Routledge, 2018), Evaluating Organization Development: How to Ensure and Sustain the Successful Transformation (CRC Press, 2017), Marketing Organization Development Consulting: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants (CRC Press, 2017), Assessment and Diagnosis for Organization Development: Powerful Tools and Perspectives for the OD practitioner (CRC Press, 2017).