We’re Proud to Partner With These Distinguished Instructors
to Develop Our Organizational Strategies & Methods
Marshall Goldsmith:
A million-selling author or editor of 31 books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There- a WSJ #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year, Goldsmith is recognized as one of the fifteen most influential business thinkers in the world in the global bi-annual study sponsored by The (London) Times and Forbes. The Wall Street Journal recognized him as a top ten executive educators and Forbes recognized him as one of the five most-respected executive coaches. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School and received his Ph.D. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where (in 2010) he was recognized as one of 100 distinguished graduates in the 75-year history of the School
Colonel Arthur J. Athens, USMCR (Ret.):
Currently the Director of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, Colonel Arthur Athens works to advance and enhance the moral development of the nation’s Naval Service leaders and is a member of the Academy’s Senior Leadership Team. He has served as a White House Fellow under President Ronald Regan, as Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, in the U.S. Space Command, instructed at the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, and was the Naval Academy’s first Distinguished Military Professor of Leadership. Colonel Athens earned a bachelor’s degree in Operations Research from Naval Academy and master’s degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School and the Army’s School of Advance Military Studies.
Michael J. Hewitt, Ph.D.:
The Research Director for Exercise Science at Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, Arizona for 20 years, he has written over 15,000 individual exercise prescriptions, and lectures on that topic at the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hewitt has a chapter on prescribing that has been published in all three editions of the clinical textbook Integrative Medicine and has been a frequent keynote speaker for Speaking of Women’s Health, Young Presidents’ Organization, Chief Executives Organization, the International Longevity Center, and the Association of Black Women Physicians. He earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Minnesota and his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Arizona with an emphasis in Body Composition and Aging. As a speaker, Dr. Hewitt has shared the stage with diverse speakers like Dr. Michael Roizen, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and his Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Joe Calloway:
A performance expert who helps people and companies think competitively, improve constantly and act decisively, Calloway is the author of four ground breaking business books including the best-selling Becoming a Category of One. A partner in Engage Consulting Group and a partner in BizVideos.com, a company that produces short business videos for use in meetings and corporate events, he has been inducted into the International Speakers Hall of Fame.
Joe Scarlett:
Scarlett is the retired Chairman of Tractor Supply Company and Founder of the Scarlett Leadership Institute in Nashville. He served in leadership roles at Tractor Supply Company from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 2007. He led the company’s return to profitability through improved customer service and focused product selection as part of a classic leveraged buyout in 1982. He led the successful 1994 effort to take the company public and during his ten plus years as CEO, the company’s revenues quadrupled and the price if its stock increased ten-fold. Scarlett served 20 years on the board of the nation’s largest retail trade organization including four years as its chairman.
Lynne Maynor:
Currently the Director of Leadership & Training for Gaylord Opryland where she leads a team that inspires, encourages and trains the STARS best practices team and a leading orientation for over 3,500 employees, Maynor has been described as the “architect” of the Gaylord culture because she has led teams that were instrumental in developing company values and service basics at Gaylord Opryland, Gaylord Palms, Gaylord Texan and Gaylord National. She joined Gaylord Entertainment Company in January 1986 as part of their Quality Assurance department, since then she’s served in Organization Development, Leadership Development and as the interim director of Gaylord University.