PATRICIA ABURDENE, author of Megatrends 2010: the Rise of Conscious Capitalism, is a world-renown speaker, and advocate of corporate transformation. Having won global recognition as co-author of the Megatrends books, she now inspires audiences with a concrete blueprint of how values and consciousness will transform business. She is co-author of New York Times number one bestseller Megatrends 2000, and the best-selling Re-inventing the Corporation with John Naisbitt.

CHARLIE POPECK, president and founding principal of Green Ideas Environmental Building Consultants, is sought after expert in LEED, and is responsible for business development, marketing, educational programs and operations. He has personally trained over 9,000 architects, engineers, contractors, product manufacturers, building owners, and other construction industry professionals about sustainability issues, building products, and material selection.

DAVE SHIRLEY, co-founder of EarthPM has more than 30 years experience in management and project management in the corporate, public, and small business.  He is an adjunct professor for Southern New Hampshire University, teaching a graduate course in Responsible Corporate Leadership and will teach a graduate course in Environmental Issues.

RICH MALTZMAN, co-founder of Earth PM, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988. His project work has included the deployment of video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, and integration of the PMOs of two large merging corporations. As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching.

DEREK NEIGHBORS, a serial entrepreneur, co-founded Gangplank, a collaborative workspace, in 2008 to help encourage local Creatives to explore innovative ideas and create what they are passionate about. A former software engineer, he formed the largest non-profit soccer organization in Arizona, and helped launch Integrum Technologies, a software consulting firm. He serves as the EVP of Development for the Downtown Chandler Community Partnership and is on the steering committee for the Phoenix SCRUM User Group.

WILLIAM CAREY, CEO of Dixon Golf, began this venture manufacturing golf balls for some of the best known names in the golf industry. When he realized that more than 500 million golf balls were being discarded into the environment every year, he decided to do something about it.  He changed his company’s focus to produce the world’s first high performance eco-friendly golf balls

JASON BAER, a social media strategy consultant, author of The Convince & Convert blog, one of the best marketing blogs in the world, is a 100 percent hype-free consultant and speaker, helping leading companies and PR firms harness the awesome power of the social Web. His upcoming book, The Now Revolution will be released in February, 2011.

PATTY VAL LEER, Chief Strategist Officer and leader of NAS Recruitment Communications is a recognized expert in e-recruiting solutions. Patty is responsible for the agency’s social engagement across all channels, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare, Digg, various blogs, and in other communities. NAS clients are from Communications, Healthcare, Military, Retail and Financial industries.

ANDREW SCHORR, , a medical journalist turned entrepreneur, is a talk show host who manages Patient Power, an information resource that features audio recording and transcripts with leading medical experts. He has led more than 2,000 discussions on a wide variety of medical topics.

DANIEL HENDERSON, an entrepreneur and visionary, founded an emerging LED lighting solutions company Relumination, LLC in 2009. The company helps customers save energy, reduce electricity costs, minimize facilities management expenses and decrease their environmental footprint.

JEFFREY RASSAS, founder and managing partner of NotePad Group, is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in funding and corporate turnarounds for start-up ventures across a variety of industries. He recently served as President and CEO of Global Alerts, holding company for Earth911.com and Pets911.com.

COLLEEN CUSICK is the co-founder and current chair of the Green Team for The Johns Hopkins Hospital.  With 30 years of nursing and management experience, including roles in emergency medicine, nursing administration, recruitment, and supply chain, she consults regularly with various manufacturers and leads the Green Team grass roots effort.

DR. JOAN PLISKO is Technical Director of Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (MD H2E). She served as the founding chair of the Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality; started the first Maryland green energy buying collective for her community, and received an EPA award for Environmental Achievement.

DAVE COTTLE, serves as Executive Director Planning, Design and Construction team, for Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He has more than 30 years of construction and engineering industry experience with more than 16 years in the healthcare field.

LIONEL WEEKS, is the Vice President of Facilities at LifeBridge Health, a health care system in Baltimore, and the co-chairman of the Freedom to be Green Committee at LifeBridge Health. he spearheaded a massive LED light replacement project, composting, and installing bi-fuel generators that dramatically reduce the emissions and the need for diesel fuel.

BROWN RUSSELL, is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience in business startups, operations, strategy, raising capital and the public markets. As the former chairman of Matrixx Initiatives, he led the launch of Zicam Cold Remedy, the fastest growing new cold treatment in recent history.

DANI GLASER is the founder of Green Team Spirit, a consulting group that helps businesses, governments and non-profits go green using an interdisciplinary team approach. Green Team Spirit provides a full range of sustainability consulting services including: Project Management, Visioning & Goal Setting, Project Assessment & Strategic Planning, and Implementation and Training.

DR. JENNIE STEPHENS, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark Unibversity, Worcester, and coordinator of the Grad Program in environmental science and policy, is an expert in community engagement in sustainability. Her work has included campus sustainability and how universities could act a as change agents in sustainability.

BROOKE FARRELL, Brooke Betts Farrell, president and a Managing Partner in RecycleMatch, has a rich background in marketing strategy, advertising and business development working with clients such as Shell Oil, Exxon, Goodyear and Coca-Cola. Brooke was most recently Senior Vice President, Brand Director at FKM. She has a BS in Economics and a BS in Government from University of Texas at Austin.

MICHAEL LEE STALLARD, of author of Fired Up Or Burned Out, is a well known speaker on employee and leadership engagement. As president of E Pluribus Partners (a leadership training and consulting firm) he has researched the power of connection that creates a positive bond between people based on rational and emotional factors, and brings this into his recommendation on employee engagement.

MICHAEL MUYOT, President of CRD Analytics, coined the term ‘strategic quantum visioning,’ which describes the art of applied quantitative analysis using visualization tools. His company built a new sustainability index now used by NASDAQ, which tracks some 200 performance metrics to precisely measure sustainability in the marketplace. His company’s SmartView™ platform has increased transparency in corporate sustainability reporting.

PARK HOWELL, owns a mid-sized full-service agency, Park & Co, which is all about creating movements –not just campaigns –that are intended to “ignite the growth of people, products, companies and causes”  He was named the “2010 Advertising Person of the Year,” by the American Advertising Federation – Metro Phoenix, and his agency created the ‘Water – Use It Wisely’ program that has been relevant for more than a decade!

DONNA DIFRANCESCO, a conservation specialist at the City of Mesa’s Environmental & Sustainability Division educates residents about Xeriscape, water conservation, living green and sustainability. She manages the ‘Water – Use It Wisely’ program.

MARTY METRO, Marty Metro Founder and CEO UsedCardboardBoxes.com, had consulting experience from Andersen Consulting, and was an expert in distribution and logistics software. But he exited corporate America to pursue a crazy idea of buying and selling USED moving boxes.  His company today delivers eco-friendly moving kits to any residential address in the US and works with some of the largest companies in the country.

KATHY MILLER, President of Miller Consultants has been advising clients such as Toyota Motor, IBM, Brown-Forman, and Shell Oil, with the leadership and organizational performance challenges. She speaks about Sustainability and Change Management, the challenges of going virtual, and leadership challenges of leadership in Green business.

STAN ALPERT, used to be the Chief of Environmental Litigation officer for the US government, and has investigated, and come down hard on companies that were environmental polluters. In January 1998, he was kidnapped, and published a book on that experience called, Birthday Party.

JOE TURTURICA, is a certified Business Coach with ActionCOACH, named by Entrepreneur magazine as the World’s number one business coaching franchise. Joe advises clients on sales, marketing and advertising, team building and recruitment, systems and business development, and customer service.

CYNDI LAURIN, author of The Rudolph Factor. Remember the story of Seattle’s World Famous Pike Place Fish Market? There were two books on the subject. Laurin documented the actual story of the crew of Pike Place Fish in Catch. Coauthored by crewmembers of the fish market, it described how they transformed themselves from ordinary to great. Her more recent work, The Rudolph Factor, talks of how organizations are sprinkled with brilliant people who could ‘light the way out of the economic storm.’ Co-authored with Craig Morningstar, it centers on Boeing’s spectacular turnaround, and explains the power of leveraging fully engaged employees.

ANDREW NISKER, began his filmmaking carer making documentaries in 1992, He directed the 2007 award winning film Garbage! the Revolution Starts at Home, that has been inspiring audiences to reduce the amount of pollution they create. Andrew teaches part time at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is presently developing a documentary on corporate sustainability programs.

TOM SZAKY, is the founder of TerraCycle, the company that uses non-recyclable waste materials to make affordable, eco-friendly products (the process is  known as ‘upcycling’). TeraCycle’s products are available at major retailers like Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco and Whole Foods Market.  Tom was named ‘The #1 CEO Under Thirty‘ by Inc. magazine in its July 2006 issue.