Stanley N. Alpert

Former New York City Chief Environmental Prosecutor and Author of The Birthday Party

Erika Andersen

Founder of Proteus International and Author of Growing Great Employees

Sheila Murray Bethel, PhD

Author of A New Breed of Leader and CEO of Bethel Leadership Institute

R. Dwayne Betts

Author of A Question of Freedom and National Spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice

Chaz Bono

LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of Transition

Caitlin Boyle

Healthy Living Blogger and Author of Operation Beautiful: Transforming the Way You See Yourself...

Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant

Founder and Pastor of The Empowerment Temple

Barbara Corcoran

Founder of The Corcoran Group and Author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your...

Stacy A. Cordery, Ph.D.

Author of Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts

Lisa Delaney

Fitness Expert, Journalist, and Author of Secrets of a Former Fat Girl: How to Drop Two, Four (or...

Zlata Filipovic

Author of the International Bestseller, Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo

Leslie Sokol, PhD, and Marci G. Fox, PhD

Co-authors of Think Confident, Be Confident: A Four-Step Program to Eliminate Doubt and Achieve...

Richard Glaubman

Renowned humanitarian and award-winning co-author of Life Is So Good

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Award-winning NPR Religion Correspondent and Author of Fingerprints of God: The Search for the...

Hill Harper

Bestselling Author of Letters to a Young Brother and "CSI-NY" Star

Jackie Hooper

Author of The Things You Would Have Said

Rabbi Jennifer Krause

The "Rabbi Without Borders" and Author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time

Mark S. Lachs, MD, MPH

Author of What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older

Dr. Denise Lamothe

Expert on Emotional Eating and Author of The Taming of the Chew: A Holistic Guide to Stopping...

Suzanne Braun Levine

Author of How We Love Now and Fifty Is the New Fifty

David T. Levinson

Author of Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins and Founder of Big Sunday

Steve Lopez

Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Tim Madigan

Author of I'm Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers

Susan McCorkindale

Author of 500 Acres and No Place to Hide and Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl

Elissa Montanti

Founder and Director of the Global Medical Relief Fund

Gary W. Moore

Author of Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home

Captain Charles Moore

Author of Plastic Ocean and Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Institute

Greg Mortenson

Founder of the Pennies for Peace Program, Author of Stones into Schools, and Co-author of the #1...

Craig M. Mullaney

Author of The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill

Authors of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides

David Roche

Motivational speaker, humorist, and author of The Bible's Greatest Stories

Geneen Roth

Author of Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations about Food and Money

Tina Sloan

Actress and Author of Changing Shoes: Getting Older—Not Old—with Style, Humor, and Grace

Josh Sundquist

Motivational Speaker, Paralympic Ski Racer, and Bestselling Author of Just Don't Fall

Victoria Sweet

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Prize-winning Historian, and Author of God's Hotel

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

Author of Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On and Sue Ellen’s Girl Ain’t Fat, She Just...

Marshall Ulrich

Successful Entrepreneur, Ultrarunner, Mountaineer, and Motivational Speaker

Laura Vanderkam

Journalist and Author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think and All the Money in the...

Clara Villarosa

Author of Down to Business: The First 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship for Women and Founder of the...

Zach Wahls

LGBT Rights Advocate and Author of My Two Moms

Marc Wallack

Coauthor of Back to Life after a Heart Crisis

Brandon Webb

Retired U.S. Navy SEAL

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture

Ted Williams

Author of A Golden Voice

Greg Witt

Explorer, mountaineer, adventure guide, and author of Ultimate Adventures: A Rough Guide to...

Koren Zailckas

Author of Fury: A Memoir and the International Bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood