Kenneth Blanchard, a popular speaker for national conventions, seminars, and business meetings, is a well known writer, consultant and teacher. His text "Management of Organisational Behaviour: Utilising Human Resources", now in its fourth edition, co-authored with Paul Hersey, is considered standard reading on the subject of management. He has also co-authored "The One Minute Manager" series, which is also standard reading for organisations.

Dr. Blanchard with his wife, Margie, is the founder of a management consulting firm, Blanchard Training and Development, Inc., in San Diego. He also holds the position of professor of leadership and organisational behavior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Blanchard earned his B.A. in government and philosophy from Cornell University, his M.A. in sociology and counseling from Colgate University and his Ph.D. in Administration and Management from Cornell.

Stephen R. Covey is the founder and Chairman of the Board of an organisation devoted to the development of principle-centered leadership. Half of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as thousands of small and mid-size companies, educational institutions, government agencies, and other organizations worldwide count on Dr. Stephen R. Covey and the Covey Leadership Center to help them maximize quality, leadership, service, team building, organizational alignment, and many other strategic corporate initiatives. The mission statement of the organisation reads: "Our Mission is to empower people and organisations to significantly increase their performance capability in order to achieve worthwhile purposes through understanding and living principle- centered leadership."

Ben Zander is the world-renowned conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He expressively teaches in a new and improved style. Ben and his partner Rosamund coach employees, students, teachers, and executives from any position, in any organization, anywhere in the world, to accelerate their pace of interaction, have courage in the face of fear, and enter the dance. Ben Zander, delivers a revolutionary approach for breaking mental barriers that prevent connection with others.

When Mark Victor Hansen speaks, people get up and go feeling self-empowered and much better about themselves. That's the power of that Master Motivator.

With presentations that are full of humour, substance, style and focus on the vital elements of human behaviour that have the biggest impact on personal and professional lives, Mark Victor Hansen is credited with having a profound influence on the attitudes of his audiences, who learn effective strategies for self-empowerment.

Jack Canfield, A pioneer in the self-esteem movement, is considered one of the foremost authorities on self-esteem and peak performance training. A skilled trainer in personal growth skills, organizational development, management effectiveness, holistic education, counselling skills and transpersonal psychology, Jack has been responsible for many a success story in turning around and redefining lives.

Writer Richard Bach was born in Oak Park, Illinois as the grand son of JS Bach the great composer in 1936. He attended Long Beach State College (now California State University, Long Beach) in 1955.

As an Airplane pilot everything concerning airplane was his field, including motion picture stunt pilot, Air Force tactical fighter pilot, an aviation technical writer and flight instructor. Though Aviation was his true passion, he always wanted to write. Since 1959 he had the idea of a bird learning to pass beyond the walls of limitations, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which came through a "Cinerama on my wall". His novels Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The gift of Wings, Nothing by Chance, Biplane, The Bridge across Illusions have inspired many people across the world.