Jack Chapman is the author of Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1000 a Minute, the "bible" of salary negotiations. Jack has personally assisted over 2,000 individuals to advance their careers by a new job or promotion, and has influenced countless others through his many seminars, lectures, TV and radio appearances, newspaper columns, and courses

Jack is a specialist in all matters of salary and raise negotiations. He has coached negotiations for hourly workers, professional, technical, managerial candidates, all the way to helping executives add hundreds of thousands of dollars to their compensation package.

Jack now runs his own private career consulting and telecoaching business called Lucrative Careers, Inc. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Visit Jack's website: www.salarynegotiations.com.

Debra Feldman is the JobWhiz. She’s the original personal job search agent and premier Career Matchmaker – an authentic innovator in the career management field being the first to aggressively represent candidates to prospective employers that they choose to meet. She personally arranges introductions to decision makers at target companies sparing busy candidates from dealing with gatekeepers which expedites a swifter, smoother landing for senior level executives seeking to switch careers or ascend into a new challenge within their field.

In addition to her international private practice, Ms. Feldman’s a popular author writing regular columns ("Hidden Job Market Secrets") for recognized leaders including 6FigureJobs, Monster, Dice, Vault, IEEE, WetFeet, AICPA, FEI, FENG, TENG, Experience/eProNet and others. Debra is an honors graduate of Columbia University.

Jeffrey Fox is an accomplished consultant, popular speaker and the acclaimed author of a series of hard-hitting international business best-sellers, including: How To Become A Rainmaker, How to Become CEO, How to Become a Great Boss, How to Become a Marketing Superstar, Don't Send A Resume, How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business, The Dollarization Discipline.

Jeffrey Fox is the founder and President of Fox & Company, Inc., a marketing consulting firm that specializes in marketing strategy development, innovation enhancement, selling skills training, branding, and various applications of a proprietary value-selling methodology called dollarization.

Jeffrey is the winner of “Sales & Marketing Management” magazine's Outstanding Marketer Award; winner of the American Marketing Association's Outstanding Marketer in Connecticut; and the National Industrial Distributors award as the Nation's Best Industrial Marketer. He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study that is rated one of the top 100 case studies, and is thought to be the most widely taught marketing case in the world. Jeffrey graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Brian Jud has extensive job-search experience on both sides of the interview desk. He is an experienced job-hunter, author, speaker and television host.

Brian was laid off his job in 1990 after 20 years in corporate marketing, at which time he started a new career as an author. Since then, Brian has written and published seven books that are distributed internationally, among which are Coping With Unemployment, Help Wanted: Inquire Within and the best-selling book Job Search 101. And he is the author, narrator and producer of the video program The Art of Interviewing. Brian also wrote and published a series of pocket-sized booklets on job-search topics that are distributed to colleges internationally.

Brian is the host of the television series Job Search 101 that has aired over one hundred shows. He was on the founding board of CREW and conducted hundreds of workshops and presentations for people seeking re-employment during the early 1990s. He is currently the co-facilitator of the re-employment group in Avon, Connecticut.

Lawler Kang recently finished his first book ‘PASSION AT WORK: How to Find Work You Love and Live in the Time of Your Life’, to be published by Prentice Hall late fall 2005. He started his career helping to grow the US subsidiary of a Japanese chemical firm from $2 to $40 million in five years. He also simultaneously started an import firm out of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. While in graduate school, he founded an internet start up.

Lawler’s passions then led him to a strategy-consulting firm, an Internet incubator, and then to Scient, the leading force in e-Business consulting whose market cap peaked at $9 billion. He worked as an Engagement Manager in the business unit dealing with venture-funded start ups and was then was put in charge of growing and running Scient’s Northeastern presence as Managing Director of Operations. Most recently, Lawler served in roles such as COO, General Manager and VP of Sales & Marketing in successfully turning around three (out of four) technology-related firms.

Lawler earned his BA in International Studies from Vassar College and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on Entrepreneurial Management.

Tom Maier has spent the last 11 years as an executive responsible for the Network Division of a $200 million telecommunications company. His expertise has also been drawn from experience working in large plants of a major consumer product manufacturing company and very small plant locations within the chemical industry. In each case he helped the local management in all aspects of their business which ultimately increased their profitability. He also spent several years working for a $100 million estate which was comprised of many small businesses from hotels and concrete plants to radio stations.

Tom is the principal for Action International in Connecticut. Action International is the number 1 business coaching company for small and medium size businesses in the world. The combination of his experience and the support and programs within Action give him the ability to help businesses grow their profits and develop systems to give owners more quality free time in their life. Action provides many practical proven methods to grow profits, and a network of over 300 coaches worldwide

Nanette Miner, Ed.D., is the founder of and senior consultant for, The Training Doctor, LLC. In her role Nanette is responsible for The Training Doctor’s leadership in the areas of learning strategies and systems, performance support, instructional design and the measurement of learning and development’s impact on business results.

She has also written dozens of articles and has authored or co-authored a number of books. In 2005 her book, The Accidental Trainer, will be released by Pfeiffer. Nanette, has a doctorate in adult learning theory, a master's in training and organizational development, and a bachelor's in business & communications.

Suzanne Mulvehill , MBA is the president and founder of Profit Strategies and the award-winning author of Employee to Entrepreneur, the book that has helped thousands develop the emotional endurance they need to succeed. She hosts the nationally listened to radio show, The Entrepreneur Hour, where entrepreneurs and experts share their success secrets. Suzanne combined her personal experience of becoming an entrepreneur with her professional experience of counseling more than 500 entrepreneurs and discovered that emotional skills were just as important as business skills.

Suzanne received her master’s degree in business administration and her bachelor’s degree in social work from Florida Atlantic University. She served a three-year term on the board of Florida Atlantic University’s Alumni Association. She is the past vice president of the Women Helping Women Help Themselves Foundation and the past-president of the Women in Business Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.

Tune into The Entrepreneur Hour, Monday's noon-1:00pm. (www.theentrepreneurhour.com)

David Niven, Ph.D., is the internationally bestselling author of The 100 Simple Secrets of Great Relationships and the 100 Simple Secrets series. The series, providing unique, scientifically-based advice, has been translated into more than 25 languages and has more than 1 million copies in print. David is a psychologist and social scientist and teaches at Florida Atlantic University.

His advice is not based on one persons unique experiences or opinions, but offers for the first time the research of noted scientists studying the lives and loves of average americans. David's work and data have been developed from more then a thousand studies on relationships.

Chuck Oakes Beginning his career has a male model, stage and television actor, Chuck now provides coaching and consulting services to individuals and corporations. He provides assistance to individuals experiencing job loss and to corporations preparing for the changing workplace of tomorrow. Recognized as an expert in recruiting and job transition, Chuck has been an Advisor to The President's Council on Hiring the Disabled and his articles have appeared in the publications and/or websites of USA Today, The Progressive Grocer and the American Management Association.

Chuck is now embarking into the aging of America and its ramifications on employment, communities and families. His latest book, "Making Your Home Senior-Friendly", addresses the aging of America and how caregivers and family members can best support aging loved ones. He is now a member of the Communications Committee of the United Nations.

With a background on stage and in television, Chuck's presentations are lively, informative and entertaining. In his spare time, he captures the Spirit of the Old West with his video and digital cameras. His photographs of ghost towns and historic railroads have been in travel publications, retail outlets and restaurants. Get more information by visiting Chuck's site: www.chuckoakes.com

Dave Parise is a recognized leader in the fitness industry. On the cutting edge of exercise today, Mr. Parise has been noted as one of the "Top 15 Trainers" in the United States and across Canada by the Association for Fitness Professionals, I.D.E.A. Parise has 19 years of experience in Human Performance and Exercise Science. Born and raised in Hamden, CT, he began his career as a body builder and personal trainer.

Over the past nineteen years, Parise completed numerous advanced level certifications including the National Academy of Sports Medicine, American Council on Exercise, and The Association of Fitness Professionals. Parise’s publications for Status CT, Better Health Magazine, I.D.E.A. National Magazine, and the Personal Trainers Industry Magazine has educated professionals and the general population. Featured in Connecticut Magazine, The New York Times, Golf Digest, his expertise was also spotlighted on WTNH-TV Channel 8: "Dave Parise’s Corporate Health Tip of the Week."

You can visit Dave's site for more information: www.resultsplus.com

BJ Thomas is a spirited and driven leader, with an extensive background in the human services industry. A sub-contractor for Career T.E.A.M.’s consulting division, she has her hands in many aspects of the business. Working closely with the company’s CEO, she is responsible for new business development and staff/agency training.

In her quest for achieving excellence in every area of life, BJ’s personal philosophy is: “Failure is impossible, and not an option. BJ’s passion is in transforming lives and developing creative and innovative methods for motivating and infusing soft skills into disadvantaged, at-risk, and hard-to-reach youth. Of such importance is this mission, that she closes each day with this thought: “Was that my very best effort?”