Leading Conversations

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Mike Dooley, author of the New York Times bestseller Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams and Manifesting Change: It’s That Easy. He was one of the featured teachers in the international phenomenon, The Secret. Mike is a former PriceWaterhouseCoopers international tax consultant, turned entrepreneur. He founded a philosophical Adventurers Club and tours th...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Christine Hibbard, an educator, clinical psychotherapist & psychophysiologist, & has been a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. Dr. Hibbard has spent the last 10 years working with post-war trauma in Kosovo, Israel, Syria & Uganda. She is co-founder of the Uganda Kisiizi Malaria & Healthcare Project; & on faculty at the University of Colorado Medical School,...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dianne Morrison of MorrisonMcNabb, with more than twenty-five years experience in transformational leadership & business development. She works with entrepreneurs who are growing companies & reinventing themselves & their businesses to be effective in the new economy and achieve extraordinary results. What matters for the successful future of business leaders? Mastering th...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Chip Conley,CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second largest boutique hotelier in America. Chip is author of PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow and The Rebel Rules: Daring To Be Yourself In Business. Known as a leader with a heart, and a self-proclaimed Abraham Maslow nut Chip has applied the theory of Self-Actualization to growing a succe...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Deirdre Hade, a visionary leader in the ancient arts of the wisdom traditions. She founded Radiance Healing and the Sir Edward and Lady Annalee Porter Center for Radiance, a center dedicated to bringing together world leaders in political visionary thought…to dialogue and create new solutions to heal our world by incorporating peaceful strategy, implementing visionary idea...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Craig and Patricia Neal co-founders of The Heartland Circle and co-authors of The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings, Gatherings, and Conversations. Heartland Circle was born from Craig’s early “awakening to a greater purpose” at the 1963 March on Washington, and from Patricia’s vision for creating a global community of new leaders. Craig & Patricia are com...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Marci Shimoff, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, & an expert on happiness, success, & unconditional love. In her new book, Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love Marci tells us there is a new paradigm for love. It is not conditional. It does not depend on another’s view of your value. And it is...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Bob Johansen, former President & CEO of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), currently Distinguished Fellow for IFTF, & is an award-winning author. His most recent is Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World. Today’s businesses & organizations are operating in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, & ambiguity accordi...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Rajni Bakshi an economic journalist & author of Bazaars, Conversations & Freedom: for a market culture beyond greed & fear. Since 1985 Rajni has made a home in the fertile ground between journalism and activism - chronicling struggles for more humane and ecologically sound ways of life. Since 2000 she has listened to a wide range of innovators, in the realm of business, po...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Block award winning author, thought leader, and consultant to corporate, government, and community organizations in the realm of empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, & the reconciliation of community. Peter’s many books include The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters, the 2002 Independent Book Publisher Business Breakthrough Book of the Year; and...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Jack Canfield, best-selling author, speaker, and a leading expert on developing self-esteem and peak performance. Jack is the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul®, a series of inspirational anthologies that has sold more than 100 million books since its inception. Known as America's #1 Success Coach, Jack has authored multiple books, including The Success Principle...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Jeff Klein, CEO of Cause Alliance Marketing where he designs and facilitates collaborative cause-related marketing programs. He wrote his book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living, to support conscious entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, leaders, and change agents at work. My intention with Working for Good is to provide a meaningful context and essential...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Richard Leider, founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, and ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 5 most respected [executive] coaches with thirty years experience in coaching people to live and work on purpose. He is a best-selling author of Repacking Your Bags and Claiming Your Place At The Fire. How do we find our place in the world? Richard Leider says “it is not a p...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Peter Block award winning author, thought leader, and consultant to corporate, government, and community organizations in the realm of empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, & the reconciliation of community. Peter’s many books include The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters, the 2002 Independent Book Publisher Business Breakthrough Book of the Year; and...

Cheryl welcomes Jerilyn Brusseau, a cook, baker, restaurateur, businesswoman, humanitarian and cultural diplomat. She is founder of PeaceTable and co-founder of PeaceTrees Vietnam. Her story begins in her grandmother’s kitchen and takes her globetrotting in the spirit of peace and diplomacy. Jerilyn passionately advocates warm-hearted, soul-connected food as the most common language spoken around...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of Lefkoe Institute; co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Guide to Effective Parenting and founder & President of the Possibilities of Parenting Center. Shelly helps businesspeople increase their personal productivity while reducing stress, improve their relationships with colleagues, and transform their family lives with The Lefkoe Method. She...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dr. Michael Kimmel, researcher & leading expert in the field of men & masculinity; Professor of Sociology at SUNY, & author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Michael Kimmel says he is a feminist- he believes in gender equality and social justice. “What so few men understand is that if women win, men win because gender equality is just as good for men as...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Terces & Matthew Engelhart, restaurateurs, organic farmers, teachers, & authors of Sacred Commerce: Business As A Path of Awakening. The Engelhart’s are known for their raw foods eateries, Café Gratitude, as their experiment in a business model called Sacred Commerce. They don’t see themselves as in the restaurant business, but in the transformation business. They believe...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Howard Martin, EVP of HeartMath, & co-author of The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence. Who knew…our heart has a brain. Doc Childre, founder of Institute of HeartMath, sees it this way: Heart: we think of the physical heart, & qualities such as wisdom, love, compassion, courage & strengt...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Lynne Twist — global activist, fundraiser, consultant & author. She is Founder of Soul of Money Institute, author of The Soul of Money & co-founder of Pachamama Alliance. Rooted in a profound encounter with the Achuar people in a remote region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Pachamama Alliance seeks to change the dream of the modern world & bring forth an environmentally sustain...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Morty Lefkoe, President & Founder of The Lefkoe Institute, & author of Re-create Your Life: Transforming Yourself and Your World. Twenty-five years ago Morty discovered a way to help people make permanent changes in their emotions and behavior. He created a series of psychological processes (The Lefkoe Method) resulting in profound personal & organizational change, quickly...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, & CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer & author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. Since 1983, Gary has overseen Stonyfield’s phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school to its current $366 million in annual sales. Consistently producing great-tasting p...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Anthony Cortese, ScD, President & Co-founder (with Senator John Kerry & Teresa Heinz Kerry) of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization with a mission to make healthy, just, & sustainable action a foundation of all learning & practice in higher education. Anthony implores us to imagine a future where all generations achieve good health, economic security, social fairness &...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Anat Baniel, founder of the Anat Baniel Method.(sm) Anat, a clinical psychologist, dancer, author, healer & teacher has established an international reputation as one of the world's leading authorities on human vitality. Her book, Move Into Life: The Nine Essentials For Lifelong Vitality, offers a revolutionary approach to accessing the power of our brains to create new pa...

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Dennis Genpo Merzel- roshi, Zen Master & founder of the Kanzeon International Sangha. He has authored books including Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way and The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way. In 1971 Merzel had his first awakening experience. He spent a year alone in the mountains of California. He decided to dedicate his life to understa...