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Maarten Asser leads the team at Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Intercultural Management Consulting in the United States, based in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Asser uses his experience and expertise to show decision-makers how careful management of cultural differences can create better relationships and team building, and lead directly to improved business performance. He has taught at various international business schools, including the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, IPADE in Mexico, Harvard Business School, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. His list of international clients includes General Motors, Rockwell Automation, Dow Corning, Telenor, Goldman Sachs, Dow Chemical Company, Cable & Wireless, HSBC, PGS, ING, and Tredegar, with whom he has worked closely to develop programs on integration, globalization, vision, values, and corporate identity. Mr. Asser graduated from the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, with a degree in international organizations and has an MBA in innovation, strategy, information and technology from Theseus International Management Institute in France. He is a co-author of the book 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner (McGraw-Hill, 2001).

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is a distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine and a world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international health-care revolution that recognizes the role of meaning, and the spiritual dimensions of life, as an integral part of health and healing. Graduating magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1967, Dr. Borysenko earned her doctorate in Medical Sciences from the Harvard Medical School, where she completed post-doctoral training in cancer cell biology. Her first faculty position was at the Tufts University College of Medicine in Boston. Under the tutelage of Herbert Benson, M.D., who first identified the relaxation response and brought meditation into medicine, she was awarded a Medical Foundation Fellowship and completed her third post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology. In the early 1980's Dr. Borysenko co-founded a Mind/Body clinic with Dr. Benson and Dr. Ilan Kutz, became licensed as a psychologist, and was appointed instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Her years of clinical experience and research culminated in the 1987 publication of the New York Times best seller, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, which sold over 400,000 copies. The 20th anniversary edition, newly revised, was published in 2007. Author or co-author of 13 other books and numerous audio and video programs, including the Public Television special Inner Peace for Busy People, she is the Founding Partner of Mind/Body Health Sciences, located in Boulder, Colorado.

Vijay Govindarajan, Ph.D., is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and Director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is also the Faculty Director for the Tuck Global Leadership 2020 Program. Professor Govindarajan's area of expertise is strategy, with particular emphasis on strategic innovation, industry transformation, and global strategy and organization. Professional credits include: Outstanding Faculty, named by Business Week in its "Guide to Best B-Schools"; Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, named by Business Week; and Outstanding Teacher of the Year, voted by MBA students. Professor Govindarajan received both his MBA and his doctorate from the Harvard Business School and was awarded the Robert Bowne Prize for the best thesis proposal.

Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D., is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams.  He is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches.  He served as a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, International and American Red Cross leaders-where he was a National Volunteer of the Year. Marshall's twenty-four books include: The Leader of the Future (a Business Week best-seller), Coaching for Leadership and the upcoming Succession: Are You Ready? (in the Harvard Business Memo to the CEO series).  His newest book What Got You Here Won't Get You There is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman award for Best Business Book of the Year.  It has been translated into 23 languages and is a listed best seller in six different countries. Dr. Goldsmith's Ph.D. is from UCLA.  He teaches executive education at Dartmouth's Tuck School and frequently speaks at leading business schools.  He is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources (America's top HR honor) and his work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field.  In 2006 Alliant International University honored Marshall by naming their schools of business and organizational studies- the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management.

Matthew J. Slaughter, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He joined the Tuck faculty in 2002. He is also currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. In recent years he has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund, a Consultant at the World Bank and the U.S. Department of Labor, and a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Slaughter's area of expertise is the economics and politics of globalization. Much of his recent work has focused on the global operations of multinational firms, in particular how knowledge is created and shared within these firms and how their cross-border production arrangements are structured.