Derek Cheshire

Author of 'Creative Fireworks'
Derek Cheshire is MD of Creative Business Solutions. He has a BSc (Hons), an MBA and serves as Regional Chair of the Association of MBAs. He is a Prince's Trust Mentor, and lectures on Creativity at the University of Bath. As a member of the Mastermind group for the IMD course at the Royal College of Art in the Hague, he spoke at the inaugural Mastermind event in September 2007.

Don Cooke

Author of 'Inside Distributed Teams'
Don Cooke is a Technical Director, mentor, trainer and author. Don has delivered successful technology focused projects, first as an analyst/programmer, then as a mentor, trainer, technical team leader/architect. Don has worked with Powergen, Elf, The National Intervention Board, Reed Personnel, Intrinsic software and SAS Institute.

Donald Jessep

Author of 'Achieving More, Doing Less'
Donald Jessep is a professional speaker, business facilitator and author and is just one generation down from a pioneering New Zealand family ... where physical self sufficiency was required for survival.

Dr. Bruno Cortis

Dr. Bruno Cortis is a Diplomat and fellow of the American Board of Cardiology. His best selling books, Heart and Soul and The Spiritual Heart, have been acclaimed by luminaries such as Doctors Deepak Chopra, Bernie S. Siegel and Larry Dossey. Dr. Cortis has over 76 published articles.

Ed Bernacki

Author of 'Seven Rules for Designing More Innovative Conferences'
Ed Bernacki is a Canadian. An experienced international speaker and author on innovative thinking he created The Idea Factory to help people and organizations be more innovative. His background with Associations is extensive including five years with the Ontario Soccer Association as its Director of Marketing.

Eva Maria

Author of 'You Shut Up! (e-book)'
Eva Maria is our youngest author. Born in Russia in 1990, she moved to New Zealand with her parents, brother and sister in 1996. She is now working towards an International Coaching Certificate.

Extended Disc

Author of 'Extended Disc - Standard Personal Analysis Report'
Extended DISC® Personal Analysis is our most popular tool. It's success is based on it's strong ability to provide information to make better decisions. Too often assessments tell us what we already know: “Oh yes, that’s me”. If a tool only provides information that the user is already aware of, it has very limited value.

Getrude Matshe

Author of 'Born On The Continent '
Getrude Matshe is a master personal and business development coach and life strategist. She is also an African storyteller, a poet, an artist, a self published author, an entrepreneur and the founding director of three successful companies in New Zealand.

Gihan Perera

Author of 'The 7 Fatal Mistakes That Almost Every Business Owner Makes On Their Website'
Gihan Perera is an entrepreneur, business consultant, speaker, mentor, author and interviewer. In 1997, when the Web was young, spam was just a luncheon meat, and Google wasn't even a twinkle in its owners' eyes, Gihan founded First Step Communications, one of Australia's earliest Web design businesses. Since that time, it's grown to include clients in every continent (except Antarctica).

Graham Young

Author of 'The A-Z Of Effective Business Presentations'
Graham Young is a published author, who was written and contributed to a wide range of books and articles. He created and is the Manager of Young Markets (http://www.youngmarkets.co.uk/). Graham started his career as a computer programmer, advanced through systems analysis and project management, working for EMI, Tymshare and McDonnell Douglas.