Susan Whitcomb is the founder and president of The Academies, including Career Coach Academy, Job Search Academy & Leadership Coach Academy. With more than two decades of experience as an author and speaker, Susan motivates her audiences to tap into the awareness, attitudes, and action plans that cause a life-changing shift from stagnant or stuck to unstoppable. Susan is co-author of The Twitter Job Search Guide and author of Job Search Magic, Interview Magic, and Resume Magic. Her book, 30-Day Job Promotion: Build a Powerful Promotion Plan in a Month, is part of JIST’s popular Help-in-a-Hurry series. Susan has been a career columnist and featured chat guest for numerous media outlets.

William is the Founder of Reach Personal Branding, the #1 provider of personal branding services to Fortune 500 companies and leading universities. He also serves as Chief Content Officer for Beyond B-School. William is a regular presenter at top tier graduate schools of business, including Harvard, Duke, NYU, Berkeley, Wharton, University of Michigan, UCLA and Cornell, and he lectures and consults for executives at top corporations, such as Johnson and Johnson, Price Waterhouse, Sheraton, Microsoft, Disney, Ogilvy, and J.P. Morgan. William is the co-author of Ditch, Dare, Do: Stand Out By Building Your Brand, a guidebook with the tools managers need to differentiate themselves from their peers and thrive in today’s job market.

Ross Macpherson is the President of Career Quest, an executive resume writing and career marketing business, and a recognized expert in advanced career strategies – the strategies that have consistently put his client's miles ahead of their competition. Macpherson is a Certified Personal Branding Strategist, Certified Interview and Job Search Coach, and is recognized as one of the best resume writers in North America. Ross has 15 years of experience in career development and specializes in the senior and executive markets with clients throughout the U.S. and Canada and overseas.

Kate Paine helps executives and entrepreneurs stand out online so they become a recognized authority in their marketplace and a respected asset to their company and clients. Kate uses her journalism and marketing skills to tease out her clients’ personal stories and position them as experts or thought leaders both online and off. Discovering an individual's story makes her expertise uncommon in the world of online personal promotion. She speaks at national marketing and writing conferences. and teaches LinkedIn for corporate sales training retreats.

Ross Macpherson is the President of Career Quest, an executive resume writing and career marketing business, and a recognized expert in advanced career strategies – the strategies that have consistently put his client's miles ahead of their competition. Macpherson is a Certified Personal Branding Strategist, Certified Interview and Job Search Coach, and is recognized as one of the best resume writers in North America. Ross has 15 years of experience in career development and specializes in the senior and executive markets with clients throughout the U.S. and Canada and overseas.

Viveka is known internationally as the “LinkedIn Networking Expert.” Author of “LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour A Day” for John Wiley & Sons, she is also a regular source on LinkedIn for prestigious news outlets such as Forbes, Money Magazine, Mashable.com, Ragan.com, SocialMediaExamainer.com, CNN and The Miami Herald. Viveka is the host of the biggest LinkedIn chat on Twitter: #LinkedInChat (Recently quoted by Mashable as one of the top 10 business blogs) and co-moderator of LinkedStrategies, the largest LinkedIn strategy group on LinkedIn. She is constantly learning, sharing and transferring social media skills and strategies to her tribe. She has over 29,000 first-level connections and a network of over 31 million people on LinkedIn, and 52,000+ followers on Twitter. Her seminars, webinars, and workshops have taught and trained well over 100,000 people. For the past three years, Viveka has been named by Forbes as one of the 20 Most Influential Women in Social Media.

Darrell Gurney is a 25+ year recruiter and career advisor who coaches professionals at all levels to make profitable career transitions or to create thriving businesses. Conferring with a career-coaching firm right out of business school, Darrell used a “backdoor” job search method to meet with seven CFOs of the top Hollywood entertainment studios, landing an international financial position with MGM/United Artists Pictures. Darrell has since taken his knowledge of effective networking and developed a way to share it with others. Darrell is also the author of Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest.

Nathan is an award-winning author, executive search professional responsible for the "Where-and-How-To-Find qualified candidates" strategies for national search engagements, and career consultant. In addition to his Of Counsel work at Ballinger | Leafblad, Nathan works with candidates themselves, helping them deconstruct and reconstruct entire career-histories and Resumes, and building candidates' online LinkedIn presence from a hiring perspective. He is a frequent speaker on Networking and Using LinkedIn to Bring the Job Hunt to You.