Jason Edleman is a certified life coach with over 4 years of experience providing coaching to individuals aiming to reach their goals either personally or professionally. ​Jason is certified in Motivational Interviewing, an NLP Master Practitioner, Stephen Ministry care giving, and working towards obtaining the IFC Credential. He has received over 160 hours of training and supervision in coaching and caregiving. Additionally, Jason holds multiple other professional certifications related to proj... moreect management (PMP, CSM) and business strategy (BRMP). Coaching is a part-time passion for Jason. He is an active business leader working in the IT Services industry.

Jason Alba has been a Pluralsight Author since 2012, specializing in soft skills and professional development. He started his IT career as an intern developing tools for a robust intranet. He transitioned to an IT manager at another company where his job included web development as well as other IT functions. After an acquisition Jason became VP and then general manager at a newly formed tech company. He founded and manages JibberJobber.com, a CRM for job seekers. Jason has authored three books.... more He speaks and blogs regularly about soft skills, professional development, and career management. He has a CIS undergraduate and an MBA from Idaho State University.

Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET. Stephen also runs a Software Development and Leadership blog called {Coding in the Trenches} which can be read at http://www.stephenhaunts.com . Stephen also runs a small music ... morelabel and sound design company where he also developed the site and content management system. As well as blogging, and running software teams for large companies, Stephen also runs some open source projects on CodePlex including SafePad - an encrypted text editor, Text Shredder - an encrpyted messaging tool, and Smoke Tester - a post deployment verification testing framework.

Heather Ackmann is an accomplished instructor with a decade of teaching experience, helping students at the high school, college, and adult levels in a variety of topics. Specializing in Microsoft Office computer applications, she is a Microsoft Office Certified Master and holds a degree in English and Secondary Education. While her energetic and easy-to-follow style is ideal for beginners to computer applications, her knowledge, thoroughness, and foresight will satisfy the more proficient us... moreer. In her spare time, she enjoys blogging about her congenital anosmia at www.neversmell.com.

Heather is from Des Moines, Iowa. She grew up there, pursued her bachelors and graduate degrees there and stayed to raise her family. She is a stimulus for change as a mom, consultant, trainer, speaker and volunteer for IIBA(R). For the past 20+ years she's helped teams to identify and solve problems in the financial services, insurance and higher education industries. Projects include new system development, process improvements, COTS implementations, and coaching other business analysts. She d... moreemonstrates excellent analysis practices. Heather is a collaborator and engages people at all levels in organizations. There is no part of the RACI matrix she has not been responsible for! Heather has a BA in Accounting from Grand View College an MBA from Drake University is a Certified Business Analysis Professional a CBAP(R) and is a Certified Scrum Master, CSM. Heather blogs at www.BAsWithoutBorders.com. Follow her on twitter at Heather_MM for BA musings, advice and motivation.

Alice has been leading and supporting high performing teams for over 30 years. Alice is a Senior HR Professional (SPHR) and Culture Strategist. Her experience includes 30 years of leadership holding positions of Regional Director, District Manager, Senior HR Market Manager and Senior Manager Labor & Employee Relations. She is a skilled facilitator and content creator and has pioneered multiple innovative concepts and techniques that enhance leadership effectiveness. She is passionately commit... moreted to her work of helping leaders build diverse and inclusive environments where all individuals and groups are free from prejudice; environments where no one culture, race, belief system, age, or gender is superior to another.

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Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer, and speaker. Currently the CTO of Full Circle Insights, he is the author of numerous books, ebooks, and online courses on various topics (technology and other). His latest book is "Advanced Apex Programming" - advancedapex.com Personal Website http://danappleman.com.

Achiever, Strategic, Responsibility, Learner, Woo (Strengths Finder Top 5), and Servant Leader. Amy began her career as an educator 25 years ago as a graduate student at UC Davis. Teaching college communication courses, she discovered a passion for facilitation and instructional design. She turned down the chance to pursue her PhD to study organizational communication where it happens! Her first job as a computer-based training developer led to developing 1st generation eLearning products at Peo... morepleSoft. These roles kicked off an extensive career designing, consulting, teaching and leading in the evolving world of eLearning. For more than 20 years, Amy has consulted with top global organizations to form expert practices strategic business alignment, learning implementation, continuous learning, and growing learning cultures. As a Pluralsight Author, she loves the chance to deliver practical and relevant content that learners can apply immediately to their professional lives.

She is the Co-founder as well as Strategy Lead of AtoANI (sustainable agriculture) and AtoANI BioPack (biodegradable packaging). She is passionate about Social Innovation and using it to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. With a Chemical Engineering and MBA Degree, her corporate experience in multinational companies involves working on various topics in the areas of Strategy, Digitalization, Innovation, Finance, Material Management, Quality Assurance, Program and Project Managem... moreent. These has enabled her to work with multi-cultural and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization from top management to the operations personnel. She also has freelance experience consulting and creating business plans and digital transformation strategies for startups and enterprises from various countries (Asia, USA, Europe) in the areas of E-commerce, Tourism and Mobile Apps. Outside work, her interests include Food, Books, Movies, Documentaries and Travel.

Lars is an Azure instructor with A Cloud Guru, author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, aspiring Microsoft Azure expert and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with... more Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Audacious Leap, the digital marketing agency I founded has created and run hundreds of projects in dozens of industries ranging from notebook manufacturers in Australia, to bikes in Dublin Ireland, iOS apps and lawyers in Canada, real estate & stationery in the US, tennis supplements in France and business consulting in the Netherlands, I decided to share my experience from both successful and not-so-successful campaigns in the form of a series of marketing courses. All my courses are based on e... morexperience in the real world and are not read from a book. You will get in minutes the essence of 10+ years of online marketing experience.

Passionate about Business Intelligence and delivering knowledge and insight to support better decisions. An advocate of Self-Service Reporting and Analytics and a Data Visualisation evangelist. Andi has delivered face to face Business Intelligence training to many industries, covering topics such as Report Design, Semantic Layer, Dimensional modeling and Data Visualisation. Andi has led many Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence development projects and is well versed in taking complex an... mored chaotic data and turning it into something simple and easy to understand. Andi is a keen cyclist and amateur cook and lives with his wife in Southern Spain.

Milena Pajic has more than a two-decade-long career in the IT industry, leading distributed teams and managing projects on the international level. Software developer by education, she dug deep into the code, earned significant hands-on experience, and learned the rules of the game. She has been heavily involved in building teams on the basis of self-organization and cross-functionality, spreading her knowledge, and investing in education. Milena is a Master of Computer Science, PMP Certified Pr... moreofessional, Certified Business Analyst, Professional Scrum Master, and Kanban Management Professional. Besides, strong organizational skills led Milena to COO and General Manager positions. She is also a frequent speaker at technical conferences. Milena loves to immerse herself in puzzles and riddles and unlock doors in Escape rooms all around Europe.

Casey has experience leading projects, analyzing challenges, and designing solutions in many fields, including healthcare, digital media, mobile app development and education. He's always in pursuit of new knowledge and loves to share what he learns along the way with others. To inquire about speaking engagements or consulting opportunities, and to learn more about his other ventures, visit http://CaseyAyers.com

Dragana is an Agile Consultant and founder at Adaptive, passionate about empowering teams and organizations to succeed. For more than a decade, she has been helping global software teams and various companies to implement Agile and other organizational practices, deliver successful projects and create software products. Over that time, she has been acting in different technical and leadership roles. Master of Computer Science by education, Dragana is also PSM 1, PSM 2, PSM 3, Prince 2, ITIL, A... moreSL certified. In addition, she is an active member of different Agile communities, an author of blog diaryofscrum.com and a lifelong learner. In her free time, she loves spending time with her family, traveling and having a good laugh with positive and inspiring people.