Scudder Fowler

Jim Hohl

Michael Parker

Granville Toogood

Cruger Fowler Jr.

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Paul Charron

Judith E. Glaser

Wesley Poriotis

Col. John Ripley

Joyce M. Roché

David S. Rose

Ken Shelton

Granville Toogood

Dick Wolf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scudder is co-founder and President of Liminal Group. Earlier he led new business development initiatives at Semaphore Partners, the marketing technology arm of $4.5B advertising and communications holding firm, Publicis. Before Semaphore, he managed the New York sales division of a world-leading executive conference company. Scudder serves as an Honorary Chairman and New York representative of the Business Advisory Council, a congressional committee which honored him in 2005 with the National Leadership Award for his dedicated efforts to involve business people in the process of government reform. Scudder sits on the Awards & Speakers Committee for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. Scudder was awarded "Businessman of the Year" by The Business Advisory Council in 2006.

Jim Hohl serves as Vice President of Marketing for Liminal Group. In this capacity, Jim oversees all marketing initiatives for the Consulting, Events, and Library divisions. Jim is also the President of CPS, the exclusive design partner of Liminal Group. Jim started his career in web design and development at the United Nations, where he was responsible for the design and development of the UN’s first web site for children, the UN CyberSchoolBus. From 1997-2002, he served as VP of Technology and later Chief Technology Officer at National Media Technologies, a developer of web site solutions targeting the financial and commercial real estate industries. When NMT was acquired in 2002, Jim was asked to lead the software development of an online compliance management system for multinational financial publisher Wolters Kluwer. Jim holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from Georgetown University.

Michael is the Director of Technology for Liminal Group. With more than ten years of technology consulting experience, Michael has successfully delivered enterprise and interactive solutions to several Fortune 1000 companies. Michael is responsible for the design and support of the technical infrastructure for Liminal Group.

Granville is one of the most experienced and respected authorities in the executive communications industry. He is a co-founder and Principal Faculty Member of Liminal Group, a best-selling author, consultant, seminar leader and speaker who has inspired audiences all over the world. His clients have included more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 CEOs and thousands of executives and managers from other blue-chip companies, including GE, Deloitte & Touche, NBC, Morgan Stanley, Swiss Bank, Philip Morris, UBS, Credit Suisse, NYSE, Northrop Grumman and Citigroup, among others. He is creator of the benchmark Perfect Presentation concept, and author of The Articulate Executive: Learn to Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader, published by McGraw Hill, which set new standards of excellence for corporate and executive communication. He is a former Life Magazine and television reporter who produced The Today Show News, and produced network news programs for NBC and ABC. He is also author of The Inspired Executive: The Art of Leadership, The Creative Executive: How Business Leaders Innovate by Stimulating Passion, Intuition and Creativity, and the recently published, The Articulate Executive in Action: How Leaders Get Things Done.

Cruger is Chief Financial Officer of Liminal Group.

Dr. Brzezinski is a trustee and counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a professor of American foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. He is cochair of the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya. Earlier, he was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; chairman of the Humphrey Foreign Policy Task Force in the 1968 presidential campaign; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Carter. In 1981 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. He was also a member of the President's Chemical Warfare Commission (1985); member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1987-1988); and member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987-1989). In 1988, he was co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force. Dr. Brzezinski received a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University (1949, 1950) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1953). He has been a member of the faculty of Columbia University (1960-1989) and Harvard University (1953-1960). Dr. Brzezinski holds honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Williams College, Fordham University, College of the Holy Cross, Alliance College, the Catholic University of Lublin, Warsaw University, and Vilnius University. Dr. Brzezinski is the recipient of numerous honors and awards.

Mr. Charron is the CEO of Liz Claiborne. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Charron served in various executive capacities at VF Corporation, an apparel manufacturer, including Group Vice President and Executive Vice President, from 1988. Mr. Charron also serves as a director of Campbell Soup Company and on a number of not-for-profit boards, including the National Retail Federation, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the Fair Labor Association, Vital Voices Global Partnership and the Partnership for New York.

Judith Glaser is one of the most innovative and pioneering leadership and culture coaches in the consulting industry. She is the founder of Benchmark Communications, Inc., a firm that focuses on helping CEOs and their teams successfully transform their brand in a world of moving targets. Her clients include: Siemens, Pfizer, Coach, Lipton, VeriSign, Thomson, Novartis, Verizon, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Cendant, Donna Karan International, IBM, MSNBC, Revlon, Exide Technologies, and Clairol, Inc. and Liz Claiborne. Judith is an author and sought-after keynote speaker. She was the contributing editor, and major writer for the Random House Business Dictionary, author of Ultimate Power, A Journey of Transformational Leadership, Discovering The Power of WE, and Creating WE, published by Adams Media April 2005. She served as an Adjunct Professor at Wharton, and was awarded the Benno Curtis Entrepreneur of the Year and Quality Consultant Award. She is currently on the boards of The We Are Family Foundation, WITH (Woman in Transition Helping and Healing), State of the World Address, Positive Media Workshop, and was a founding member of The Executive Woman's Business Forum. She was awarded Business Woman of the Year in New York City in 2004.

Joyce M. Roché is President and Chief Executive Officer of Girls Incorporated, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to empowered girls and an equitable society. Before joining Girls Inc., Roché served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Carson Products Company, and Vice President of Global Marketing at Avon Products, Inc. During her tenure at Carson, an African American personal care company, sales increased over 130 percent. While at Avon, Roché broke new ground, becoming Avon's first African American female vice president, the first African American vice president of marketing, and the company's first vice president of global marketing. Roché has received widespread acclaim for numerous achievements in the business world. Among her many accolades, in 1998 Business Week selected her as one of the "Top Managers to Watch," and in 1997 she was featured on the cover of Fortune Magazine. In 1991 and 1994 respectively, Black Enterprise magazine named Roché one of the "21 Women of Power and Influence in Corporate America" and one of the "40 Most Powerful Black Executives." Roché is a graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans and holds an MBA from Columbia University. She has successfully completed Stanford University's Senior Executive Program and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Dillard University and North Adams State College. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of SBC Communications Inc., Tupperware Corporation, Anheuser-Busch Companies and The May Department Stores Company. She also sits on the Board of Trustees for Dillard University.

David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 entrepreneur described by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of New York's Silicon Alley" and by Crain's New York Business as one of the City's most influential technology executives. He has been honored as a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New York New Media category and profiled by Time magazine in its "Computer as Man of the Year" issue. Mr. Rose is Chairman of New York Angels, the leading early stage investment consortium in New York, and has raised over $75 million in venture and institutional capital for his own technology companies. He was a Founding Member of the New York New Media Association and is a frequent speaker at business schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and NYU. Mr. Rose is CEO of Angelsoft LLC; Chairman of KoolSpan, Inc.; and serves as an active investor in over two dozen early stage companies. Prior to founding AirMedia in 1988, Mr. Rose was co-founder of The Computer Classroom, one of the world's first computer training firms, spent over ten years developing large-scale commercial and residential real estate, and served on the staff of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. A native New Yorker, he has a B.A. from Yale, an M.B.A. from Columbia, and is profiled in Marquis Who's Who In America, In the World and In Science and Industry.

Ken Shelton is the founder of Executive Excellence, a 21-year-old training and publishing firm that features the best in values-based management and principle-centered leadership. He is the author of Beyond Counterfeit Leadership (1997), Real Success (1999), and One-on-One with Stephen R. Covey (2000). He served as writer-editor for Stephen R. Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Principle-Centered Leadership, Walk the Talk with Eric Harvey, Managing People Is Like Herding Cats and Old Dogs, New Tricks with Warren Bennis, Catch People Doing Something Right with Ken Blanchard, Smart Talk with Lou Tice, and Leadership as a Performing Art with USC football coach Pete Carroll. Since 1984, Ken has served as editor and publisher of Leadership Excellence magazine, the world's leading executive advisory newsletter; Personal Excellence, the magazine of self-leadership; Sales and Marketing Excellence, the magazine of market leadership; and a new launch Health and Fitness Excellence. During these past 21 years, Ken has written more than 1,000 articles, interviews, commentaries, and reviews for a variety of business publications; he has also edited and published over 60 books on business ethics, management, and leadership as editor-in-chief of Executive Excellence Publishing.

Granville is one of the most experienced and respected authorities in the executive communications industry. He is a co-founder and Chairman of Liminal Group, a best-selling author, consultant, seminar leader and speaker who has inspired audiences all over the world. His clients have included more than half of the Fortune 100 CEOs and thousands of executives and managers from other blue-chip companies, including GE, Deloitte & Touche, NBC, Morgan Stanley, Swiss Bank, Philip Morris, UBS, Credit Suisse First Boston, NYSE, Northrop Grumman and Citigroup, among others. He is creator of the benchmark Perfect Presentation concept, and author of The Articulate Executive: Learn to Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader , published by McGraw Hill, which set new standards of excellence for corporate and executive communication. He is a former Life Magazine and television reporter who produced The Today Show News, and produced network news programs for NBC and ABC. He is also author of The Inspired Executive: The Art of Leadership, The Creative Executive: How Business Leaders Innovate by Stimulating Passion, Intuition and Creativity, and the soon-to-be published, The Articulate Executive in Action: How Leaders Get Things Done.

Dick Wolf is one of television's most respected drama series creator/producers and is the architect of one of the most successful brands in the history of television - Law & Order. Mr. Wolf has been a creative force in television for more than 25 years, with an illustrious career as a top advertising executive and continuing as one of television's most prolific producer/writers with such series as L.A. Dragnet, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, New York Undercover, Arrest & Trial, South Beach, Feds and Players. Among his feature film credits are the screenplay for the hit Paramount release School Ties, writer and executive producer of Masquerade and writer and producer of No Man's Land. His personal honors include such awards as: the prestigious Award of Excellence from the Banff Television Festival; the 2002 Creative Achievement Award from NATPE; the Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award; the Leadership and Inspiration Award from the Entertainment Industries Council; the Governor's Award by the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; the 1997 achievement award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers, and Directors, the 1998 Television Showman of the Year Award from the Publicist's Guild of America and the 2002 Tribute from the Museum of Television and Radio.

Wesley Poriotis is the co-Founder of Veterans Across America, a national advocacy organization dedicated to working on behalf of America ’s veterans, and to helping them continue their “service to Nation.” Veterans Across America, a nonprofit organization based in New York , is working to create a greater employment demand for our veterans among a broad network of the leaders of American business and other organizations and institutions. Mr. Poriotis is also the Founder and Chairman of The Center for Military and Private Sector Initiatives, Inc. which he established in 1995 after completing a study and report on veterans employment requested by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Poriotis is also the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Wesley, Brown, and Bartle (WB&B), one of America ’s leading management consulting and executive search firms, and the nation’s premier diversity search firm. WB&B has placed executive personnel in over 300 of the “Fortune 500” largest corporations, as well as helped staff executive branch departments, agencies, and commissions for both the Clinton and Bush Administrations. Additionally, Mr. Poriotis has worked closely with the Pentagon, The White House and Corporate Senior Management on issues related to diversity and to the transitioning military.

Colonel John W. Ripley is a revered Marine Corps legend, one of the most decorated Marines of the Vietnam War, and an acclaimed authority on performance under extreme adversity. Col. Ripley, a U.S. Marine combat commander, who also commanded British Royal Marine Commandos in combat, single-handedly blew up the Dong Ha bridge in Vietnam, thus blunting the largest North Vietnamese Army offensive (the 1972 Easter Offensive) of the Vietnam War. His heroic action at Dong Ha Bridge was chosen to memorialize and symbolize the entire history of all Naval Academy graduates who fought in that war, dramatized by a diorama in the Academy's memorial hall entitled, "Ripley at the Bridge." He is the subject of dozens of books and the recipient of a host of honors, including the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two awards of the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars with Combat "V", a Purple Heart and the Cross of Gallantry. He and one other Marine share the distinction of more combat experience than any other active duty Marine. He has held professorships at The Naval Academy, Virginia Military Institute and Oregon State. He served as Director of Marine Corps History and Director of the Marine Corps Historical Center. Col. Ripley has served before the Justice Department and on a Presidential Commision as an expert witness on women in combat. He is regularly asked to testifiy before both Houses of Congress and is called to address the FBI regularly on issues related to the military. A renowned authority on ground combat, he has appeared on national networks FOX, CNBC and CNN and is often quoted in the National Review. He is also a highly sought-after speaker before professional audiences as an expert in combat leadership, high performance and the value of humanities, classics and liberal arts in corporate life.