
Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack Canfield is the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem, achievement motivation, and peak performance. [www.jackcanfield.com]

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post and the author of twelve books. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Seth Godin is a prominent author, blogger and speaker. [www.squidoo.com/linchpin]

Krishna Kaur is the founder of YOGA for Youth, a program that takes yoga, meditation, and stimulating discussions on the philosophy of yoga to urban youth. [www.yogaforyouth.org]

Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]

Leilani Münter is a professional race car driver and an environmental activist who uses her voice in the number one spectator sport in America as a catalyst for change. [www.leilanimunter.com]

By going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed modern slavery's penetration into the global economy. He co-founded Free the Slaves, which has helped to liberate thousands of slaves. [www.freetheslaves.net]

Sophie Chiche, lifebyme.com founder and curator, enjoys asking deep questions and living a life of meaning. Today she's launching Shape House, an urban sweat lodge, a place to melt away fears and fat. [www.shapehousela.com]

Entrepreneur and writer Mastin Kipp founded TheDailyLove.com, which merges pop culture with inspiration, and co-founded The Love Yourself Company, an apparel company that has started a global self-esteem movement. [www.TheDailyLove.com]

Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. [www.lizphair.com]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who address some of the world's most pressing problems. He works energetically for human-rights and in his ministry. [www.tutu.org]

Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a group dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. [www.womenforwomen.org]

Despite his physical challenges, Sean Stephenson has taken a stand for a quality of life that has inspired millions of people around the world. He's a professional speaker, psychotherapist, and author. [www.timetostand.com]

Kia Miller teaches Yoga at Yoga Works in Los Angeles, leads teacher trainings, and runs retreats and workshops on meditation, chakras, pranayam, and mantras, and other practices. [www.kiamiller.com]

Simon Mainwaring is an ex-Nike/Wieden creative, former Worldwide Creative Director at Motorola/Ogilvy, branding/advertising writer, author/speaker/blogger, Australian, idea geek. [www.simonmainwaring.com]

Shannon Bindler is a style editor, life coach, and the co-founder of Get Up Girl, an empowerment company that inspires women to shine. [www.getupgirl.com]

Grammy-nominated art director/designer/photographer Mathieu Bitton has designed over 450 CDs and movie posters. He's a renowned collector of and authority on black films and their soundtracks. [www.candytangerine.com]

Opus Reps founder and agent-producer Jorge Perez travels the world producing photo shoots with great photographers and celebrities. He's also very involved with Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles. www.opusreps.com
fulfillment

I want to touch as many lives as positively as I can while I’m on this earth. That’s the core thought from which everything comes. It guides almost every decision I make.
To me, fulfillment has a profoundly deeper meaning than happiness. When I’m fulfilled, I feel that I matter. I want everyone to be fulfilled, to know that their time here has purpose and meaning, to know that they’re using the gifts they’re blessed with to the fullest and are proud of what they’re doing.
At the core, people want to know that they matter and that someone cares. By letting people know they matter, they have a chance to discover and develop their gifts, to share them toward a common vision, and to be appreciated.
Only ten percent of the people who go to work each day feel they work for a company that cares about them. Why do we bring precious children into the world, raise them, want a good future for them, only for them to have a 90 percent chance that wherever they end up nobody will care about them – they’ll only be a means to someone else’s end?
It’s so easy to reverse that. We have a stewardship responsibility with each person in an organization, to help them have a better life. If, in our organizations, we send people home each day with a sense that they matter, that the organization cares about them, then they have a better chance of living a good life at home. If they live a good life at home, the world becomes a better place for all of us. This is about genuinely caring for the people whose lives we touch. We help each other. And that creates the world we want to live in.
Great leaders are not great managers – just the opposite. Great leaders allow the greatness in their team to show. It’s said that we’ve paid people for their hands for years, when they would’ve given us their heads and their hearts for free if we’d known how to ask. I’ve been in an organization for 40 years and there’s nothing more true than that.
As stewards of each other’s lives, we have the chance to profoundly impact each other, by asking for and offering our heads and our hearts.
– Robert Chapman


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bestselling writer. comedic caregiver. ambulette driver.
Bestselling author Jane Heller's romantic comedy novels entertain readers around the world. Her latest book is nonfiction. You'd Better Not Die or I'll Kill You: A Caregiver's Survival Guide to Keeping You in Good Health and Good Spirits. [www.janeheller.com]
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