Wayne is the co-founder and product line manager of the Remote Leadership Institute an organization committed to helping people around the world develop the skills to sell, train, present and lead people and projects using webmeeting, webinar and virtual presentation tools.
His books include "The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership," (co-written with Kevin Eikenberry) "Meet Like You Mean It- a Leader's Guide to Painless and Productive Virtual Meetings" and ASTD (ATD) "10 Steps to Successful Virtual Presentations." His articles appear in print and online including Training and Development Magazine, CBS Business, BNET, The Huffington Post and for over ten years on Management-Issues.com.  We spoke about the almost undeniable "I-told-you-so" moment currently occurring for on-line learning/training, as well as what's working/not working with it.

Paul is a best-selling author who has written, co-written and "ghosted" numerous best-sellers including Customers for Life (with Carl Sewell) that has been translated into 19 differently languages and which continues to sell thousands of copies each month, some 23 years after its initial publication. (It has been updated twice.) A long-time contributor to The New York Times, Paul, is also a contributing editor to both The Conference Board Review (where he also writes a column) and M.I.T.'s Sloan Management Review. We spoke about "creating the future" and innovation, as well as a few pithy side-swipes at working from home during #covid19.

Todd is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, a NYC-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, public speaking, and executive coaching. He is also a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership in the Human Capital Management master's program at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Todd is also a TEDx speaker (“The Power of Visual Thinking”), and the author of "VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life". We talked about "Visualeadership" and it essential role in the covid/postcovid19 world.

As a strategy and change management consultant, Oleg Konovalov is helping companies to diagnose and treat organisational diseases, maintain a strong productive corporate culture, and achieve superior business performance. Oleg is the author of LEADEROLOGY, CORPORATE SUPERPOWER, ORGANISATIONAL ANATOMY and HIDDEN RUSSIA. Oleg sees every organisation as unique and strongly believes that most of his clients’ problems can be solved by shifting patterned paradigms and applying tailor-made solutions.  We talked about the power of empathy and the rewards of positive memories.

Barbara Waxman is the authority on Middlescence and a passionate advocate for aging, wisdom, and thriving in midlife. Her greatest mission is to shift cultural norms around aging, by establishing Middlescence as a new life stage. As one of the only Gerontologist coaches in the United States, Barbara founded Odyssey Group Coaching LLC. We discussed Middlescence and the unique challenges an ageing population faces during #covid19.