Doug Moran

Bestselling and award-winning author, Doug Moran, has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience working in a variety of industries. He has worked for Verizon and Capital One (where he was CIO of the financial services division), and served the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia as deputy secretary of health and human resources, chief operating officer of the department of social services, and telecommunications director. In addition, he has extensive nonprofit volunteer experience. His combination of corporate, government, and volunteer leadership experience gives him a unique perspective on leadership challenges in all of these different fields.

Doug is the author of If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st – Century Leaders. To learn more, visit his website.

John Lewis, Ed.D.

Dr. Lewis is a consultant, speaker, and coach on the topics of Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Leadership. He is a scholar-practitioner who has pioneered business and learning models, found in his books, "The Explanation Age" and "Story Thinking." John has worked for several leading global organizations and his career highlights include launching GPS satellites and being recognized by Gartner with an industry Best Practice paper for a global knowledge management implementation. He earned his doctorate degree in educational psychology from the University of Southern California, with a dissertation focus on mental models and decision making.

John is the author of Story Thinking: Transforming Organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. To learn more, visit his website.