Dr. David Knighton has achieved the highest standards in his several careers as a doctor, researcher and academic. While at medical school at the University of Illinois, he worked on cancer research at Harvard Medical School. His subsequent work in general surgery, trauma surgery and vascular surgery formed a foundation for his groundbreaking advances in wound care. He founded the Wound Healing Clinic at the University of Minnesota in 1987 which became a prototype for such clinics across the country. His research successes encompass many patents and hundreds of papers and articles for scholarly journals.

David Knighton M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.A., is one of the world’s leading authorities on wound healing; a visionary medical researcher who has worked with C. Everett Koop, Judah Folkman, Thomas Hunt, and other giants in the field; and a highly successful inventor and entrepreneur. His discoveries have generated over a billion dollars in revenue, and he has put most of his own share of this revenue into further research and discovery. For ten years, he ran the Wound Healing and Limb Salvage Clinic at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, which specialized in healing patients who had been declared unhealable by other doctors. David taught and did research at the U. of Minnesota from 1984 to 1998.
David has spoken to hundreds of groups—from social workers to spiritual leaders to college students to physicians—on the topic of healing. He has published hundreds of short pieces in general-interest publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Science, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Christianity Today, as well as 100+ articles in medical journals such as Lancet, Annals of Surgery, and Cell and Tissue Research. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Florence.

Dr. Georgianna Donadio has been a pioneer in the field of behavioral health working with health care professionals and patients to change behaviors and improve health.  Author of  Changing Behavior: Immediately Transform Your Relationships with Easy-to-Learn, Proven Communication  Skills.  She is a popular blogger for Huffington Post and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s TeenDailyStrength,  and her expertise has been showcased in hundreds of print, online,radio and TV interviews including on Oprah.com, WebMD, CNN News,  and TODAY/MSNBC among others.

Until recently she hosted a nationally syndicated cable TV show, Woman to Woman® which explored all topics of interest to women with a special focus on relationships. As a long-time proponent of the important role nurses play in
health care, she is one of only six American Florence Nightingale Scholars.

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As a Promotional Wordsmith & Personal Scribe, Alexandra Franzen channels entrepreneurial LOVE into unforgettable language—the kind that inspires an immediate “YES.” Her deep listening translates into a wide ripple effect as she is able to grasp and articulate the essential truth and intentions of entrepreneurs from all walks of life. In here own words, she describes her work as Dialectic. Eclectic. and Electric with the ability to help others break their own sound barriers. Her love of life and contagious enthusiasm is a the back drop on truly innovative creativity.
Alexandra has also worked as an on-air promotional coordinator for the largest public radio network in the nation, a grant-funded researcher with Occidental College, and a cocktail waitress & cigarette salesgirl at a boutique casino on the southern tip of New Zealand. Hers is the powerful storytelling that instigates the ripples of life that change who we are.

Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, WHIP SMART (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press), about her career as a professional dominatrix, which Kirkus Reviews said, “Expertly captures grace within depravity.” She has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Anderson Cooper’s daytime show, and the cover of the New York Post, among many other national publications. Her writing has been published and anthologized widely, in venues such as Glamour, Hunger Mountain, Salon, Dissent, The Southeast Review, ReDivider, The Brooklyn Rail, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Bitch Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, and on The Nervous Breakdown , where she regularly blogs. For five years, she has co-curated and hosted the popular Mixer Reading and Music Series at Cake Shop in Manhattan. The recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, she has taught writing at SUNY Purchase College, The New School, NYU, and Sarah Lawrence, and is currently Assistant Professor at Utica College. A 2010 & 2011 MacDowell Colony fellow, she speaks widely, and splits her time between Brooklyn and Clinton, NY. She is currently at work on a novel.

For over 18 years Donna Fisher has been teaching people the art and skill of communicating and connecting. Her books, Power Networking, People Power, and Professional Networking for Dummies have been translated into 5 languages, recommended by Time Magazine and used as textbooks in universities. Her newest book, Switched-On-Networking, is co-authored with Dr. Jerry Teplitz and includes information on how to use brain optimization processes to balance your brain for networking ease and effectiveness.Donna shows professionals how to communicate and connect to create powerful teams, marketplace visibility and new opportunities. She is a Certified Instructor for the Language of Mastery program based on the book “Conscious Language”.

Dr. Jerry Teplitz, also a best-selling author, is known as “an expert in Brain Performance Optimization”. Jerry has spent more than three decades teaching revolutionary techniques that quite literally switch-on the mind to achieve full potential through optimum brain performance by using movement exercises called Brain Gym®. As a professional speaker, he has spoken to over one million people and has been honored by his peers in the National Speakers Association by receiving the “Certified Speaking Professional” designation. Jerry was recently awarded Best-in-Business by the Small Business Commerce Assoc. which honors only the Top 5% in the country. He is the author of six books, including Switched-On Living, Brain Gym for Business, and his two latest books are Managing Your Stress in Difficult Times and, of course, Switched-On Selling: Balance your Brain for Sales Success.

Anya Shekina is an Intimate Passionate Love coach, Tantra Teacher and Sexual Health Consultant. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Masters In Education, specializing in Adult Education and Counseling.  She has been a private Tantric coach for approximately 15 years and a relationship counselor for 20 years.  She is also an accomplished workshop leader in the area of intimacy and Tantra.   She and her husband Steven Vogue, have been in, what they have termed, an Evolutionary Relationship for over 4 years.  Anya Shekina, together with her husband, is currently writing two books on this topic.  They are also producing related products on Tantra, sustaining romantic love and sexual turn-on in long term relationships, and sexual health.  She and Steven will soon be presenting a teleseminar and webinar series for couples who want coaching – whether they are in the early days of their relationship or have been together a long time. She has two meetup groups in San Diego, California, where she lives.  She also has a radio show on Intimate Passionate Love on SexTalkRadioNetwork.com.

Deborah Roffman is a teacher, sex educator and author of Sex & Sensibility: The Thinking Parent’s Guide to Talking Sense About Sex. Her work has been featured in most of the nation’s major newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Washington Times. She has been interviewed on Nightline by Ted Koppel, by Bryant Gumble and other interviewers on the CBS Early Show, and has also appeared on the O’Reilly Factor. In 2003, she was the featured expert―and helped shape―a highly acclaimed segment on teen sexuality with John Stossel for 20/20. Her radio credits include multiple appearances on the Diane Rehm Show and Talk of the Nation, and she also appears (it runs several times a year) in the acclaimed HBO documentary for parents entitled, “Middle School Confessions.” She has provided background for a variety of stories on ABC News, and for 60 Minutes.

What is most remarkable about Ms. Roffman’s work is her ability to speak the language of common ground around topics often fraught with controversy and conflict. With uncommon good sense and unshakable commitment to core, universal values, hers is the voice that most often cuts through the rhetoric, the politics, and the false polarities that keep adults focused on their needs and interests, rather than squarely on children. She also understands that the issue at stake is parenting, not politics. The proof lies in her wide appeal to parents of all political stripes, religions, and backgrounds, and the national recognition she has received from such seemingly diverse groups as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (the coveted Mary Lee Tatum Apple Award) and the National Federation of Republican Women (Favorite Teacher Award).

Rachel A. Sussman, author of the Break-Up Bible is a licensed psychotherapist and is the founder of Sussman Counseling, a psychotherapy practice specializing in treating couples and individuals with relationship dilemmas. She is an official relationship expert forCosmopolitan, Destination Maternity and Celebuzz.com  and has appeared on the Today show, the CBS Early Show, Martha Stewart LivingRadio among others.   She holds a BA from Emerson College and a master’s from NYU.

Dr. Marty Klein is a California psychotherapist, sex therapist, and international lecturer in sexuality and public policy. He has been an expert witness or invited plaintiff in many important state and federal obscenity and anti-censorship cases. His landmark book America’s War On Sex, with a foreword by the ACLU’s Nadine Strossen, was honored as Book of the Year by AASECT.

Marty is frequently quoted by the popular press, including The New Yorker, The New York Times and on TV’s 20/20 and Nightline. He is outspoken about many popular and clinical ideas about sexuality, decrying psychology’s gender stereotypes, medicine’s sex-negativity, and what he calls “the Oprah-ization of relationships.” He is the country’s best-known critic of the concept of “sex addiction.” Marty’s latest book is Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex–And How to Get It. Psychology Today magazine raves “Read this book if you want to improve your sex life.” Sign up for Marty’s newsletter is www.SexualIntelligence.org.