Melanie Bell is the Founder of Leaders Who Fiction, an online book club and community that offers a unique way for people to acquire and develop leadership qualities through reading and discussing novels.

On this fast-growing platform, leaders meet on the last Wednesday of each month for intellectual, business-oriented conversations centered around a selected novel.

Melanie is also the Co-Founder of Strategic Piece, where she works with C-suite executives at growth-stage companies to deliver exceptional revenue growth by bringing together their marketing, sales, and service teams around an information-driven customer experience built on the HubSpot platform.

She has been an entrepreneur for almost a decade and witnessed a great deal of what works and doesn't work in leadership and how reading fiction equips leaders with the skills they need to achieve their professional goals.

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Dr. Gail Golden provides strategic advice and coaching to reveal what’s really going on, so leaders can make rapid, accurate decisions to create breakthrough change. Drawing on her unique cross-background perspective, Gail helps senior executives and professionals, executive leadership teams, and organizations hit peak performance. 

As a licensed psychologist and an MBA-holding entrepreneur, Gail understands both the emotions and the economics successful C-suite executives and senior professionals must master. Her unique approach combines sports-influenced tactics of performance coaching with psychology-trained skills of empathy to bring the best out of businesses, leaders, and employees. One of her specialties is helping senior leaders identify and master key interpersonal skills so they can provide top value to their organizations.  

Gail’s book, Curating Your Life, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in April 2020. The book is based on more than two decades of helping leaders of all types maximize their achievements. Curating Your Life is full of advice on how to identify and accomplish your most important goals. Gail’s TEDx talk illustrated and elaborated on how to successfully curate your life.

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Steve Cadigan is a top talent strategist and leadership expert with 30+ years of experience. He famously led LinkedIn’s early hyper-growth phase as its first CHRO, building its world-class company culture from scratch, and scaling the organization from 400 to 4,000 employees.    

As one of the most provocative global thought leaders on the future of work, Steve is hired not only by top companies but by entire countries to help them navigate the talent landscape. His clientele spans all the way from Google, X, Slack, BBC, and Intel, to the City of Lisbon, which hired him to develop the startup incubator Unicorn Factory.    

His award-winning book: WORKQUAKE is considered a game changer for leaders and organizations on the future of work in a post-COVID world. He has also written for Forbes and Inc., will soon be writing for Business Insider, and frequently appears on Bloomberg and CNBC to talk about the evolving nature of work, talent management, the Big Resignation, and successful leadership.  

A sought-after keynote speaker, Steve has delivered commencement addresses at Stanford and University of San Francisco. He is regularly asked for advice by legacy institutions like Harvard, as well as top VCs and management firms including Accenture, Deloitte, and McKinsey.   

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Elliot Kallen is a #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author of DRIVEN: How to Elevate Your Success as an Entrepreneur, a book that provides invaluable insights, lessons, and strategies on how to succeed as a leader and entrepreneur. He has amassed a wealth of leadership experience over four decades running several companies he founded, including Prosperity Financial Group, an investment advisory firm with almost $1B AUM, and A Brighter Day, a nonprofit organization that provides scholarship funds and mental health resources to teens experiencing stress, depression, and suicidal thoughts.

Elliot started Brighter Day in memory of his youngest son, Jake, who committed suicide at 19, and he has grown it to become a renowned national organization, helping 5,000 to 10,000 teens and their families monthly to understand, protect, and sustain their mental health.

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Catherine Allen and Ed Offterdinger are the Co-Founders of AO People Partners, a conscious leadership and people development firm that helps create successful, world-benefiting businesses. They have a combined 50+ years of experience working collaboratively with elite business and nonprofit leaders to successfully scale their business and mission objectives.

Ed helped launch Baker Tilly, now one of the top ten consulting and CPA firms in the US. As AO’s CEO, Catherine writes and speaks regularly on altruistic leadership development.

They co-authored the well-received book Conscious, Capable, and Ready to Contribute: How Employee Development Can Become the Highest Form of Social Contribution.

Ed and Catherine are also active supporters of Conscious Capitalism Inc., a nonprofit organization building a movement of business leaders to improve capitalism into a practice of harmony, prosperity, and compassion. They exemplify their message of giving: Ed has helped raise $12M+ for leukemia and lymphoma research, and Catherine gives her time to organizations like Girl Scouts and Girls, Inc., where she supports activities that guide the next generation of young female leaders.

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Steve Shenbaum is the founder of Game On Nation, a nationally recognized communication firm that employs game dynamics and improvisation to teach high-performance teamwork as well as communication, story-telling, public-speaking and presentation skills. Game On Nation provides authentic and down-to-earth courses, keynotes, and custom training programs that are widely accessible and extremely successful. For over 27 years, Steve and his company have helped people at the highest level of every sphere in the country, including leaders at Fortune 100 companies, college and professional sports teams, all branches of the military, NASA, and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Steve gained notoriety for his early acting career, with featured roles in popular comedy films and shows such as Space Jam, Will & Grace, and American Pie 2. He understands the immense power of positive humor, and his professional success allows access to high-level audiences and clients.

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Aslak De Silva has nearly 20 years of experience as a practitioner and instructor of Han Moo Do martial arts, competing in about 100 full-contact fights and winning the World Championship gold medal in Michigan, USA, in 2000. Martial arts has taught him the importance of leaders being life-long learners and coaching others.

Aslak is the CEO of Selfly Store, where they use the latest developments in loT, machine learning, and AI to offer smart vending machines that make grab-and-go food shopping as easy as using your home fridge.

He was recognized by Chief's Digest as one of the "10 Best CEOs to Watch in 2023" and has been leading teams and companies for 15+ years.

Before becoming CEO at Selfly Store, he was the CEO of Nordic Business Forum, one of the world's biggest business and leadership conferences, with 7K+ attendees annually from 50+ countries and featuring world-class speakers like Barack Obama, George Clooney, and Steve Wozniak.

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Business coach and SEO expert, Luke Van Der Veer is the Founder of Website Rental Coaching (WRC), a digital agency that trains people to earn through the rank-and-rent website business model and find a better work-life balance.

WRC financially empowers clients by teaching them skills in SEO, lead generation, and client sourcing to build high-ranking websites that can be rented to businesses. With WRC’s program, clients have earned passive incomes to match

or even replace their 9-5 salaries.

Luke’s journey as a digital landlord started with his own search for financial independence as an unfulfilled corporate 9-5er. In 10 years, he has built 100+ rank-and-rent websites that generate thousands of high-quality organic business

leads each month across 73 niches.

Besides his 7-figure website rental portfolio, Luke has also acquired local businesses and scaled them for a big exit later. In 2023, he notably purchased Mr. Ding-A-Ling for $1.7M, raising the ice cream company’s valuation to $2.2M in

just a few months.

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Eisha Armstrong is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Vecteris, where she works with B2B companies to productize their services. As part of this work, she advises executives on how to transform their cultures and processes to allow product innovation to flourish. She is the author of the best-selling book Productize: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services into Products as well as the book Fearless: How to Transform a Services Culture and Successfully Productize.

Eisha has more than 25 years of experience launching new data and information service businesses and leading global teams of professionals. Previously, Eisha held senior product leadership positions both with E.W. Scripps, the diversified media company, and with CEB (now Gartner), the pioneer in productizing management consulting services.

During her career, Eisha has spoken at more than 100 leadership development and executive education sessions around the globe. She has also been cited in numerous publications including The Financial Times and The Washington Post and she is a regular guest on podcasts about product management and innovation.

Eisha earned her MBA at the Harvard Business School and her Bachelor of Arts in both Women’s Studies and Economics at the University of Kansas. She lives in Cincinnati with her family. She is also a certified yoga teacher and believes that teaching yoga makes her a better executive.

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Brian Van Korn is the author of HEALTHCARELESS, a true story of a very special man whose life was suddenly and forever changed by a rare disease. Dealing with a severe backache for three days, he was taken to an emergency room. For five grueling months his world, his dignity, his very self was stripped away. Trapped in a system that all too often is not healthcare but healthcareless.

Brian is a rare storyteller with a powerful ability to recall fine details. From the first word to the last, he will take you on an emotional roller coaster ride. His path began in a hell none of us would hope to experience. In the end, it ascends into a tale of triumph and inspiration. This is one man's journey to and from paralysis.

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Watchen Nyanue is the Founder and CEO of I Choose the Ladder, an employee development and retention agency that helps Fortune 500 execs develop and retain their high-performing Black women talent.

She and her team have worked with top companies like Nike, McDonald's, Best Buy, and Walgreens, empowering countless women to conquer imposter syndrome, master work-life balance, and unlock their career potential. 

As a result, the companies have created positive high performance work cultures, achieved reduced employee turnover, lower executive recruitment costs, and benefited from happy and motivated staff.

Watchen was born in Liberia and immigrated to the U.S. in 1991 to escape the war in her country. She has spent the last 15+ years overcoming everyday workplace biases against Black women and immigrants to reach the pinnacle of corporate America. 

Before founding I Choose the Ladder, Watchen was a senior marketing and business development executive at renowned companies like Comedy Central, Hearst Digital, Yahoo!, Johnson Publishing Company, and the 2021 WNBA champions, Chicago Sky.

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